Special Grants

HC Deb 25 June 2002 vol 387 cc832-3W

Ian Lucas

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what extra funding to schools in England she has provided in the form of special grants outside the SSA from 1999 to the present; how much has been provided; and for what purposes. [63602]

Mr. Miliband

The following table shows the Department's special grants paid under section 88B of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 from 1999–2000 to 2002–03. The table does not include specific grants provided by the Department such as the Standards Fund.

£000
	1999–2000	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03
School Standards Grant	—	293,219	631,307	645,027
School Budget Support Grant	—	50,000	—	—
Education Budget Support Grant	—	—	52,394	—
Teachers Pay Grants	—	276,573	479,275	120,835
GM Transitional Grants	7,376	21,010	10,335	33
Post-Sixteen Budget Support Grant	—	—	—	20,100

Notes:

1 2002–03 figures are provisional estimates/payments made to date and, as such, are likely to change.

2. Figures are in cash terms.