§ Ms. WalleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will visit Ball Green county primary school, Stoke-on-Trent, to discuss resources in schools and funding for delivery of the national curriculum.
§ Mrs. RumboldNo. It is for Staffordshire education authority to determine, and discuss as appropriate with the schools it maintains, the resources allocated to each of them. We are giving specific grant support for the implementation of the national curriculum. This financial year these grants will support £2,344,700 expenditure in Staffordshire. That is in addition to the general rate support grant funding which local authorities receive in support of spending. It is for Staffordshire itself to decide how much in total to allocate to implementation of the national curriculum.