§ Mr. Ron Daviesasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he has any plans to increase the capital expenditure allocations for further education and higher education; and if his Department has any information relating to past and projected future local education authority, supplementary spending out of their own capital receipts.
§ Mr. WaldenAll the resources available for capital allocations to local education authorities for 1987–88 in England for further and higher education have been distributed. The level of allocations for 1988–89 will be decided later this year. Information about local authorities' supplementary spending is available from their annual returns of outturn capital expenditure. The provisional figure for further and higher education in100W 1985–86 is £133 million, £53 million more than the sum allocated for that year. For local authority capital expenditure on education as a whole, the gross outturn for 1986–87 is estimated to be £529 million, £232 million more than the sum allocated for that year. For all local authorities the available spending power from capital receipts in 1987–88 is estimated to be £2.8 billion, a higher figure than in 1986–87.