§ Mr. StrawTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement on capital allocations for county schools for 1992–93.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeLocal education authorities have today been informed of their annual capital guidelines—ACGs—and supplementary credit approvals—SCAs—for education for 1992–93. These figures again amount to a substantial increase in local education authorities' borrowing power for education capital expenditure. They build further on the increases in the last two years.
Allocations for education capital—in the form of ACGs and SCAs—will total £590 million compared with £538 million in 1991–92, a rise of over 9.5 per cent.
209WA total of £524 million is available for schools—an increase of 11 per cent.—and £66 million for further education.
Within the schools sector I have again given priority to:
- Second and third-year expenditure on work covered by ACGs in earlier years.
- Projects to provide new school places in area s of population growth.
- New projects to implement approved proposals to remove surplus places.
- Making a bigger contribution towards getting rid of deficiencies in existing school buildings and for work needed for the effective delivery of the national curriculum. A total of £148 million is available for such improvements in 1992–93, an increase of 36 per cent. on the equivalent figure for 1991–92.
A total of £15 million of this latter sum, as my hon. Friend the Member for Enfield, North (Mr. Eggar) announced on 4 December, is to be allocated in the form of SCAs to LEAs bidding for their schools to become technology schools as part of the technology schools initiative. The remainder has been distributed to LEAs by formula passed on numbers of pupils and substandard places in schools.
Because of the proposals in the Further and Higher Education Bill currently before Parliament to transfer all sixth-form colleges to the new further education sector, I am also issuing SCAs to LEAs in respect of their capital expenditure at sixth form colleges. This will enable LEAs' expenditure to be separately identified so that they can be recompensed by the proposed funding council for any outstanding debt.
Within the further education sector, my programme includes allocations of £43 million to meet commitments arising from 54 major buildings projects with a total completion value of £150 million. In addition, I have awarded allocations of £14 million for minor works and equipment. This will help colleges to prepare for the reforms proposed in the Further and Higher Education Bill now in Parliament. A further £9 million will be allocated during 1992–93. All allocations for further education will be by SCAs, hypothecated for particular purposes.
My programme and the SCAs announced today do not represent the full total of funds available to LEAs for capital expenditure. Authorities are also able to spend additional sums from capital receipts and from their revenue budgets if they so choose.
The 9.5 per cent. increase in ACGs is well ahead of the rate of inflation and purchasing power is further boosted at a time of lower building tender prices. The figures for 1992–93 represent a 22 per cent. increase over two years and a 93 per cent. increase since 1987–88. For schools alone the figure has doubled since 1987–88. This underlines the Government's continuing commitment to secure improvements to our school buidings.
Lists of ACGs and SCAs allocated to individual local authorities are as follows:
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Capital expenditure 1992–93: Annual capital guidelines and supplementary credit approvals Schools and sixth form colleges 1992–93 Total ACGs and SCAs 1992–93 (£ 000's) Barking 844 844 Barnet 1,059 1,059 Bexley 1,436 1,477 Brent 1,336 1,472 Bromley 2,272 2,337 Croydon 2,220 2,351
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Schools and sixth form colleges 1992–93 Total ACGs and SCAs 1992–93 (£000's) Ealing 2,246 2,626 Enfield 1,994 2,137 Haringey 1,433 1,506 Harrow 2,953 3,057 Havering 908 970 Hillingdon 1,071 1,071 Hounslow 3,128 3,167 Kingston-upon-Thames 289 340 Merton 1,675 1,675 Newham 5,828 5,936 Redbridge 1,167 1,193 Richmond-upon-Thames 452 529 Sutton 2,056 2,108 Waltham Forest 3,694 3,751 City 0 0 Camden 965 1,006 Westminster 158 158 Greenwich 1,011 1,054 Hackney 1,830 1,910 Hammersmith and Fulham 2,882 2,934 Islington 964 1,078 Kensington and Chelsea 1,259 1,264 Lambeth 1,290 1,290 Lewisham 1,959 2,071 Southwark 1,877 2,276 Wandsworth 2,161 2,306 Tower Hamlets 10,135 10,576 Brimingham 10,931 11,456 Coventry 2,276 2,389 Dudley 4,831 9,324 Sandwell 1,444 1,558 Solihull 649 864 Walsall 834 898 Wolverhampton 2,482 2,544 Knowsley 2,077 2,124 Liverpool 5,576 5,831 St. Helens 1,049 1,151 Sefton 3,152 3,179 Wirral 2,213 2,300 Bolton 1,337 1,432 Bury 1,051 1,051 Manchester 8,333 8,810 Oldham 3,136 3,194 Rochdale 3,326 3,326 Salford 2,333 2,391 Stockport 1,396 1,503 Tameside 3,051 3,051 Trafford 1,224 1,490 Wigan 4,224 4,372 Barnsley 1,493 1,594 Doncaster 735 815 Rotherham 2,748 2,855 Sheffield 4,754 4,973 Bradford 8,435 10,208 Calderdale 1,541 1,580 Kirklees 4,071 4,858 Leeds 23,186 23,445 Wakefield 5,755 5,841 Gateshead 1,514 1,567 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 2,430 2,574 North Tyneside 1,686 1,726 South Tyneside 1,522 2,209 Sunderland 3,612 4,267 Isles of Scilly 116 116 Avon 4,269 4,576 Bedfordshrie 3,928 4,041 Berkshire 5,238 5,461 Buckinghamshire 5,289 7,639 Cambridgeshire 7,205 13,957 Cheshire 8,698 8,878 Cleveland 3,801 3,968 Cornwall 5,943 7,910 Cumbria 10,377 10,579 Derbyshire 16,065 16,818 Devon 9,959 11,023 Dorset 4,735 4,929
Schools and sixth form colleges 1992–93 Total ACGs and SCAs 1992–93 (£000's) Durham 7,017 7,364 East Sussex 17,724 17,919 Essex 18,394 20,771 Gloucestershire 6,980 7,294 Hampshire 13,018 14,462 Hereford and Worcester 3,488 4,437 Hertfordshire 5,677 7,016 Humberside 9,253 9,437 Isle of Wight 1,584 1,636 Kent 20,229 24,437 Lancashire 20,465 25,518 Leicestershire 8,376 8,930 Lincolnshire 12,263 12,421 Norfolk 2,811 3,163 North Yorkshire 6,222 6,400 Northamptonshire 4,107 4,319 Northumberland 2,516 2,568 Nottinghamshire 5,737 9,156 Oxfordshire 5,681 5,849 Shropshire 4,110 4,203 Somerset 5,134 5,638 Staffordshire 7,805 9,190 Suffolk 9,169 11,332 Surrey 6,031 6,296 Warwickshire 1,988 2,035 West Sussex 3,693 3,855 Wiltshire 4,137 5,402