HC Deb 28 February 1989 vol 148 c147W
78. Ms. Abbott

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make extra capital allocations to inner London boroughs to programme improvements to school buildings; and in the case of Tower Hamlets, if he will provide immediate resources to allow further expansion of the inner London education authority's school building programme.

Mrs. Rumbold

My right hon. Friend has announced the education block capital allocation for the inner London education authority for 1989–90. In making this allocation he took account of expected changes in pupil population, including those in Tower Hamlets. From 1 April 1990. the Government propose new arrangements for local authority capital expenditure; the Local Government and Housing Bill, currently before the House, sets out these arrangements.