§ Mr. JackTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list each item and programme which make up his Department's payments to Lancashire County Council in order to fund their education budget; and which of these items are taken into account in determining the figure for calculating the local schools budget. [144427]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisListed are the Department's programmes & funding allocations made to Lancashire county council in 2000–01.
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£000 Allocation SSA 492,650 Programme School Capital (including Specialist Capital) 44,178 Standards Fund 27,463 School Standards Grant 7,563 School Budget Support Grant 1,208 Grant towards cost of transitional funding for former GM schools 1197 Payments made under Schedule 32 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 35 Nursery Education Grant (3 & 4 year olds) 5,063 Teachers' International Professional Development 41 1 Provisional In general, all non-capital expenditure by local education authorities in respect of primary and secondary education (including expenditure supported by specific or special grants) falls within the scope of the Local Schools Budget, together with certain expenditure on the strategic management of the education service as a whole. The main exceptions to this rule relate to inter-authority recoupment payments and expenditure on non-school and nursery school provision for pupils aged under five, which are excluded from the Local Schools Budget.