HC Deb 25 January 1989 vol 145 cc598-9W
Mr. Tony Banks

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will be providing additional financial support to inner London boroughs to maintain the Inner London education authority's residential special schools after transfer in April 1990.

Mrs. Rumbold

It is hoped that detailed decisions about the allocation of responsibility for these schools will be reached shortly. Like other local education authorities, from April 1990, the inner London councils will be operating under the financial arrangements established by the Local Government Finance Act 1988; in this context, the Government are currently consulting the local authority associations about a new simplified needs assessment for education.