§ Mr. ThorntonTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will provide estimates showing for each financial year from 1978–79 to 1989–90 the capital spending allocations for(a) local education authorities and (b) voluntary-aided and special schools.
§ Mr. Alan Howarth[pursuant to his reply, 21 December 1989, column 351]: In my earlier reply, the figures for capital grants paid to voluntary-aided and special agreement schools were given, from 1982–83 to 1989–90, as gross amounts including the governing bodies' 15 per cent. contribution. The adjusted table shows the level of net DES capital grants to these schools:
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£ million 1978–79 16.4 1979–80 20.3 1980–81 22.1
£ million 1981–82 24.0 1982–83 22.3 1983–84 19.0 1984–85 24.7 1985–86 31.0 1986–87 28.3 1987–88 31.6 1988–89 42.8 1989–90 55.5 Notes:
1. Capital grants are paid at the rate of 85 per cent. of gross expenditure: the balance of 15 per cent. is met by governing bodies.
2. From 1978–79 to 1981–82 capital grants were subsumed within a single building grant which included repairs and maintenance. The figures for this period in the table are estimates based on an apportionment of the building grant using the average ratio between capital and repairs during 1982–83 and 1985–86.