§ Sir T. Beamishasked the Minister of Education what is the estimated contribution from rates towards the cost of United Kingdom education in all its forms; and what relation this bears to the total estimated cost of such education in the financial year 1963–64, showing in both 182W instances the current and capital costs separately.
§ Mr. ChatawayThe official estimates of public expenditure on education in Great Britain in 1963–64 amount to £1,131 million.
It is not possible to allocate specific sums of general grant to education or therefore to say precisely how much educational expenditure falls on the rates. If, however, one were to assume that the overall percentages of general grant applied to each of the relevant local government services, the rates could be deemed to contribute £311 million out of total current expenditure of £954 million (i.e., 33.7 per cent.) and £40 million out of total expenditure relating to capital provision of £177 million (i.e., 22.9 per cent.).