HC Deb 26 April 2004 vol 420 cc807-9W
Mr. Kaufman

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) how much funding each school in Manchester, Gorton has received from the New Deal for Schools; [167445]

(2) how much public funding has been spent on repairing schools in Manchester Gorton in each year since 1997. [167454]

Mr. Miliband

Table A shows the schools in the Manchester Gorton constituency that benefited from investment through the New Deal for Schools (NDS) programme, which ran between 1997–98 and 2000–01.

Since 2001 the majority of capital support has been allocated to schools and local education authorities by formula, and they decide how to invest it in line with their asset management plans. The Department does not, therefore, have complete information about capital investment at constituency level. Table B sets out the capital support made by the Department to Manchester Local Education Authority since 1997–98, in total and by programme (including all allocations through NDS mentioned in table A)

Table B: Capital Allocations to Manchester Local Education Authority
£000
1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04
Seed Challenge 264 297 521 517
Specialist Schools 300 200
Staff Workspace 99 216
Supplementary Credit Approvals 250 771 1,029 909 441 1,881
Supplementary NDS for VA Schools 235 43
Targeted Capital Funding 2,140
Teaching Environments for the future 970
Voluntary Aided School Grant 1,302 1,351 897 911 4,002 4,309
Total 9,096 12,434 5,986 22,844 23,337 21,337 57,394

To date we have allocated £30.3 million capital funding for 2004–05 and 2005–06.