§ 59. Mr. Pavittasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will allocate the necessary resources to local education authorities which have a need for language laboratories for their ethnic minorities.
§ Dr. BoysonThe Government's expenditure plans for 1980–81, as embodied in the 1980–81 rate support grant settlement, allow nationally for per capita standards of provision in primary and secondary schools non-teaching running costs to be 2 per cent higher in real terms than they were last year. Schools non-teaching running costs are the broad expenditure category which covers,inter alia, ancillary staff, books and equipment, including language laboratory equipment.
However, rate support grant is paid as a block grant and it is ultimately for individual local education authorities to determine the pattern of their expenditure both between and within services.