§ Mr. FatchettTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science, pursuant to his reply, 31 January,Official Report, column 592, if he will set out (a) in calculating the average central cost component of annual maintenance grant for the existing grant-maintained schools, how many local education authorities were involved and (b) the average value expressed as a percentage of the direct spending commitment of central annual maintenance grant based on returns from local education authorities for which section 42 information is available.
§ Mr. EggarThere are 50 existing grant-maintained schools situated in 34 local education authority areas. The calculation of the average central cost component of annual maintenance grant for 1990–91 was based on budget information from those 34 local education authorities. We have not calculated annual maintenance grant figures for local education authorities where there is no grant-maintained school. It would be disproportionately costly to do so.