HC Deb 12 June 1990 vol 174 cc169-71W
19. Mr. Bill Michie

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he has received any representations from teachers regarding local management of schools.

64. Mr. Nicholas Brown

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he has received any representations from teachers regarding local management of schools.

Mrs. Rumbold

My right hon. Friend continues to receive representations from individual teachers and from teacher associations. Many of these support the principles of delegated budget management and welcome the opportunities which this will give them.

36. Mr. Hinchliffe

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement on the progress of local management of schools.

75. Mr. Ian Taylor

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement on the progress being made by local education authorities in implementing local management of schools.

80. Mr. John Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement on the progress of local management of schools.

82. Mr. Henderson

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement on the progress of local management of schools.

Mrs. Rumbold

I refer my hon. Friend the Member for Esher (Mr. Taylor) and the hon. Members to the reply that I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham, South (Mr. Brandon-Bravo) on 8 May 1990,Official Report, column 8.

39. Mr. David Davis

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make it his policy to take action against those local authorities that hold back too high a proportion of a school's budget under the new system of local management.

Mrs. Rumbold

All those schemes for the local management of schools which were approved by my right hon. Friend for introduction in April 1990, were approved with the requirement that certain discretionary exceptions totalled less than 10 per cent. of the general schools budget. As with all aspects of LMS, we will be monitoring and reviewing the policy in the light of experience and in the light of LEAs' budget statements made under section 42 of the Education Reform Act.

43. Mr. Patchett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what are his plans to introduce greater flexibility into the local management of schools.

79. Mr. Callaghan

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what are his plans to introduce greater flexibility into the local management of schools.

Mrs. Rumbold

I refer the hon. Members to the reply that I gave to the hon. Member for Carlisle (Mr. Martlew) on 8 May 1990,Official Report, column 11.

52. Mr. Morley

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he has any plans to meet school governors regarding the local management of schools.

76. Mr. Murphy

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he has any plans to meet school governors regarding the local management of schools.

Mrs. Rumbold

My right hon. Friend has no such plans at present.

57. Mr. Franks

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what level of support is being given to Cumbria education authority for local management of schools in the present financial year.

Mrs. Rumbold

Of the £41.1 million of expenditure supported under the education support grant programme for the implementation of local management of schools, including governor training, and the £10.9 million supported through the LEA training grants programme, Cumbria education authority's share is £650,000.

69. Mr. Barry Porter

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what level of grant is being given to Wirral education authority for local management of schools in the current financial year.

Mrs. Rumbold

Of the £41.1 million of expenditure supported in 1990–91 under the education support grant programme for the implementation of local management of schools, including governor training, and the £10.9 million supported through the LEA training grants programme, Wirral education authority's share is £356,400.

83. Mr. Watts

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish the total amount of funding being held back by each local authority in England and Wales under the new system of local management.

Mrs. Rumbold

I refer my hon. Friend to the reply that I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Epping Forest (Mr. Norris) on 5 February 1990,Official Report, column 451.