§ Mr. Andrew TurnerTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills which categories of expenditure she proposes shall count as(a) schools budget, (b) individual schools budget and (c) local education authority budget for the purposes of implementing the Education Bill; and if she will make a statement. [19464]
§ Mr. TimmsThe exact scope of these budgets will be defined in due course in Regulations, after further consultations. Broadly, however, we expect the schools budget to cover all expenditure for which funding is generally delegated to schools at present, along with most other expenditure relating to the cost of provision for pupils (including expenditure on school meals and out-of-school education, and most expenditure on special educational needs apart from costs relating to the carrying out of statutory assessments and the making of statements). The great majority of the schools budget will have to be delegated to individual schools through the individual schools budget, although LEAs will need to retain funding within the school budget for certain purposes, including out-of-school education and some aspects of special educational needs provision. We expect the schools forum to play a role in determining whether funding for some specified items should be delegated or centrally retained.
The LEA budget will cover those functions which cannot appropriately be carried out except at the level of the LEA. These are likely to include most functions for which funding is currently retained centrally by LEAs under the heads of Strategic Management, School Improvement and Access to Education (including 1201W home-to-school transport). The LEA budget will also include expenditure on LEA functions which do not relate to primary and secondary education.
§ Mr. Andrew TurnerTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) if she will list the aggregate for England of(a) local education authority budgets for education, (b) their local schools budgets, (c) their individual schools budgets and (d) (c) as a percentage of (b), for each year since the implementation of section 46 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998; [19462]
(2) if she will list the aggregate for England of (a) local education authority general schools budgets, (b) their potential schools budgets, (c) their aggregate schools budgets, (d) (c) as a percentage of (b) and (e) (c) as a percentage of (a), for each year from 1996 until the implementation of section 46 of the School Standards and Framework Act. [19463]
§ Mr. TimmsThe information is as follows:
England £ million 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 (a) GSB 16,437 16,711 17,549 (b) PSB 13,435 13,718 14,309 (c) ASB 12,157 12,438 12,966 (d) ASB as percentage of PSB 90.5 90.7 90.6 (e) ASB as percentage of GSB 74.0 74.4 73.9
1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 Total education revenue expenditure 21,290 21,705 23,418 LSB 19,508 20,615 22,292 ISB 15,760 16,845 18,446 ISB as percentage of LSB 80.8 81.7 82.7