HC Deb 26 January 1977 vol 924 cc626-7W
Mr. Molloy

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if, in view of the specific problems involving immigrant schoolchildren in the London borough of Ealing, she will make further funds available for the educational services there.

Miss Margaret Jackson

Grants under Section 11 of the Local Government Act 1966, are already paid by the Home Office at the rate of 75 per cent. specifically to local authorities. including Ealing, which incur expenditure on staff costs attributable to the difference in language or custom between Commonwealth immigrants and the rest of the community. Also, the wide range of grant aid under the urban programme, from which Ealing has benefited, includes expenditure on the special needs of minority groups.