§ Mr. Ashleyasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what extra resources will be allocated to Staffordshire to assist the education authorities to provide additional places in further education.
§ Mr. OakesAs announced by my right hon. Friend last week, the Government's response to the MSC working party's report "Young People and Work" has two consequences for education. The extra capital and recurrent resources being made available to provide additional places in further education colleges to assist the needs of the young unemployed will be fully reflected in further education building programmes554W and in the 1978–79 and subsequent rate support grant settlements. In addition, the extra resources will be made available to reimburse local education authori-ites for their contributions to the MSC programme of opportunities for young people. The allocation of these resources will be determined locally according to what needs to be provided by the education service to support individual parts of the programme.