HC Deb 20 December 1989 vol 164 cc251-6W
Mr. Baldry

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement on capital expenditure on schools and further education establishments in 1990–91, including the voluntary aided sector.

Mr. MacGregor: Local education authorities have today been informed of their annual capital guidelines for 1990–91, and of the allocations for capital spending by he governors of voluntary-aided and special agreement schools in their areas. These figures amount to a big increase in local authorities' borrowing power for education capital expenditure and in grant for the governors of voluntary aided schools.

Annual capital guidelines (ACGs) for education under the new system of local authority finance will total £485 million compared with allocations of £352 million in 1989–90 under the old system; £410 million is available for schools, £65 million for further and higher education and £10 million for other educational services. In 1988–89 allocations for schools totalled £318 million and those for colleges totalled £34 million while allocations for other educational services were included on the larger "other services" block distributed by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment.

Within the schools sector I have given priority to new projects designed to: provide new school places in areas of population growth implement cost-effective schemes to remove surplus places and continue remedying deficiencies in existing school buildings.

I have therefore distributed £76.5 million to allow more new projects to be added to the special programme of school improvements started two years ago. This represents a four and a half times increase over the sum so distributed last year.

Within the further and higher education sector I have given priority to new major building projects, where the ACGs allow for nearly 90 per cent. of local authorities' requirements. Allocations for minor works and for equipment each exceed £6 million.

The ACGs are not grants and do not themselves give authorities the power to borrow money for capital purposes. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment will issue credit approvals to each authority which will give authorisation to borrow. ACGs include a small element in respect of spending from capital receipts on top of the spending that can be financed by borrowing. In addition authorities will be able to spend further sums from capital receipts and from their revenue budgets if they so choose. Local authority expenditure, including that on loan charges resulting from capital expenditure, is assisted by central Government through revenue support grant.

I am also announcing increased allocations for spending on building projects by the governors of aided and special agreement schools. I have authorised 59 new starts for major projects with first year costs in 1990–91 totalling £12.9 million, and minor work totalling £5.4 million, an increase in new work overall of 17 per cent. on last year. In addition, I have accepted more than twice as many projects as last year on to the design list to enable detailed costed plans to be drawn up. I pay direct grant aid on this work of 85 per cent.

Lists of annual capital guidelines and allocations to individual local authorities, together with lists of major new projects at voluntary aided schools accepted for a start in 1990–91, are as follows:

Column 1 Column 21 Column 32
Local Education Authority £000s £000s
Barking and Dagenham 485 1,940
Barnet 888 912
Bexley 1,242 437
Brent 687 394
Bromley 1,684 80
Croydon 1,061 1,066
Ealing 889 93
Enfield 1,315 344
Haringey 1,132 2,336
Harrow 1,073 0
Havering 5,881 357
Hillingdon 1,140 232
Hounslow 539 0
Kingston upon Thames 268 26
Merton 3,608 449
Newham 5,572 0
Redbridge 1,577 314
Richmond Upon Thames 1,390 505
Sutton 2,974 612
Waltham Forest 6,661 0
City of London 0 0
Camden 1,421 1,097
Westminster 380 110
Greenwich 3,849 0
Hackney 2,605 71
Hammersmith and Fulham 1,047 452
Islington 1,079 38
Kensington and Chelsea 2,145 4,775
Lambeth 1,480 411
Lewisham 1,232 52
Southwark 5,429 1,186
Wandsworth 1,677 26
Tower Hamlets 7,778 632
Birmingham 10,494 1,172
Coventry 1,962 453
Dudley 3,608 632
Sandwell 1,647 176
Solihull 1,511 1,191
Walsall 1,369 50
Wolverhampton 783 0
Knowsley 2,080 169
Liverpool 9,742 4,487
St. Helens 5,066 128
Sefton 4,176 1,527
Wirral 3,354 304
Bolton 802 137
Bury 815 641
Manchester 3,062 744
Oldham 3,429 184
Rochdale 4,078 669
Salford 3,899 327
Stockport 1,300 472
Tameside 1,410 20
Trafford 9,448 292
Wigan 4,378 699
Barnsley 1,883 0
Donaster 860 215
Rotherham 1,589 0
Sheffield 2,428 120
Bradford 9,731 1,150
Calderdale 1,514 204
Kirklees 1,216 144
Leeds 2,562 7,107
Wakefield 5,394 145
Gateshead 1,082 57

Column 1 Column 21 Column 31
Local Education Authority £000s £000s
Newcastle upon Tyne 1,564 597
North Tyneside 1,265 835
South Tyneside 1,894 51
Sunderland 1,883 6
Isles of Scilly 221 0
Avon 5,653 2,311
Bedfordshire 2,409 15
Berkshire 4,500 438
Buckinghamshire 4,544 763
Cambridgeshire 13,229 58
Cheshire 5,814 1,736
Cleveland 3,329 0
Cornwall 6,522 1,201
Cumbria 7,930 654
Derbyshire 14,653 1,132
Devon 12,984 465
Dorset 3,853 4,847
Durham 4,924 277
East Sussex 8,613 1,725
Essex 13,895 529
Gloucestershire 7,917 923
Hampshire 13,325 3,664
Hereford and Worcester 6,248 1,081
Hertfordshire 6,526 202
Humberside 9,004 508
Isle of Wight 1,912 87
Kent 16,210 2,756
Lancashire 18,524 4,970
Leicestershire 11,154 459
Lincolnshire 7,387 125
Norfolk 2,880 184
North Yorkshire 4,105 69
Northamptonshire 6,182 0
Northumberland 1,961 194
Nottinghamshire 3,716 1,036
Oxfordshire 3,751 1,920
Shropshire 6,319 120
Somerset 4,837 1,562
Staffordshire 6,375 1,068
Suffolk 7,921 256
Surrey 3,718 819
Warwickshire 1,507 1,097
West Sussex 3,633 2,527
Wiltshire 6,256 767
1Annual capital guideline.
2 Capital expenditure by the governors of aided and special agreement schools.

Voluntary aided and special agreement schools 1990–91. Major named projects

LEA and schools

Camden

  • St. Mary's, Kilburn

Hammersmith and Fulham

  • Sacred Heart

Kensington and Chelsea

  • Sion Manning Roman Catholic

Barnet

  • St. Agnes Roman Catholic Primary

Bromley

  • Chislehurst

Enfield

  • St. Georges Church of England, Freezywater

Merton

  • St. John Fisher Roman Catholic Primary

Richmond upon Thames

  • Holy Trinity

Coventry

  • Blue Coat School Church of England

Knowsley

  • St. John Fisher Roman Catholic
  • St. Aidan's Roman Catholic Primary, Huyton

Liverpool

  • St. John Almond

Sefton

    255
  • Much Woolton Roman Catholic PM0
  • Salesian (Savio) Phase IV
  • St. Luke's Roman Catholic Halsall
  • St. John Stone/Ainsdale Roman Catholic

Doncaster

  • Hatfield Travis Church of England

Salford

  • St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary

Stockport

  • St. Peter's Roman Catholic Primary

Wigan

  • Tyldesley Boothtown Holy Family Roman Catholic Primary

Sunderland

  • St. Michael's Primary

Bradford

  • Baildon Church of England

Leeds

  • Christ the King Roman Catholic
  • Holy Family Roman Catholic
  • St. Francis Roman Catholic
  • Sacred Heart Roman Catholic
  • Holy Name Roman Catholic
  • Our Lady of Good Counsel Roman Catholic

Avon

  • St. Stephen's Church of England Primary

Berkshire

  • English Martyrs Roman Catholic, Reading

Buckinghamshire

  • St. Paul's Roman Catholic Secondary

Cheshire

  • Westbrook Church of England
  • Marton Whitegate Church of England Primary
  • Prestbury Church of England Primary

Cumbria

  • Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Primary, Barrow

Devon

  • Cuthbert Mayne Phase II

Dorset

  • St. Clement and St. John Church of England

Essex

  • Bishop Wilson (New School) Springfield
  • Dovercourt All Saints Church of England

Gloucestershire

  • St. Mary Roman Catholic, Gloucester
  • Ann Cam Church of England Primary, Dymock

Hampshire

  • Hedge End Roman Catholic Primary (New School)
  • St. Anne's Roman Catholic Primary

Hereford and Worcester

  • Blessed Edward Oldcorne St. Paul's Church of England Primary, Hereford

Hertfordshire

  • St. Clement Danes, Chorley Wood

Kent

  • St. George's, Sheerness
  • Ashford St. Mary's Phase II

Lancashire

  • St. Helens Church of England Primary, Overton
  • St. Albans Roman Catholic, Blackburn
  • Christ Church Church of England, Lancaster

St. John's, Church of England Primary, Nelson

Nottinghamshire

  • St. Philip Neri Roman Catholic Primary, Mansfield

Oxfordshire

  • Blessed George Napier Roman CB0

Somerset

  • New Church of England School
  • St. Augustine's of Canterbury, Taunton

Staffordshire

  • St. Thomas' Church of England Primary
  • St. Peter's Roman Catholic, Cobridge

Suffolk

  • St. James Church of England Middle

VOLUNTARILY AIDED AND SPECIAL AGREEMENT SCHOOLS DESIGN LIST 1990–91

LEA and Schools

Bexley

  • St. Stephen's Roman Catholic Primary

Bolton

    256
  • St. Joseph's High

Bury

  • Bury Church of England High

Manchester

  • St. Andrew's Church of England High—Phase 2
  • Our Lady's High

Sefton

  • St. Monica's Bootle

Newcastle

  • St. Paul's Church of England Primary

Bedfordshire

  • Heath Church of England Lower

Cheshire

  • Hartford St. Nicholas
  • Middlewich St. Mary's Roman Catholic Primary

Cumbria

  • St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Junior

Devon

  • Plympton Roman Catholic Primary

Dorset

  • St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary
  • Poole St. Peter's Roman Catholic
  • Bournemouth

Durham

  • Tudhoe St. Charles Roman Catholic

Kent

  • Judd School

Lancashire

  • Chorley St. Gregory's Roman Catholic Primary
  • Poulton Le Fylde, Barnes High

Leicestershire

  • Coalville St. Claire's Roman Catholic Primary

North Yorkshire

  • St. Peter's Roman Catholic Primary

Scarborough

  • St. Aidan's Church of England High—Phase 2

Somerset

  • St. Dubricus Church of England
  • Porlock
  • Long Sutton Church of England
  • Chewton Mendip Church of England Primary

Staffordshire

  • St. Mark's Church of England Primary

Surrey

  • Salesian Roman Catholic High

Warwickshire

  • St. Paul's Church of England
  • Leamington Spa

Liverpool

  • Broughton Hall Roman Catholic

Cambridgeshire

  • King's School, Peterborough

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