§ Mr. ButcherTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Wyre Forest (Mr. Coombs) of 12 February,Official Report, columns 437–38, if he will list all local education authorities in England in rank order of central administration expenditure on education per secondary pupil per year, starting with the highest spending authority.
§ Mr. FallonExpenditure for central administration is collected only as a single figure for all education services. That figure is not allocated to individual sectors of the education service, so expenditure attributable to a single sector such as secondary schools is not available.
§ Mr. ButcherTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Wyre Forest (Mr. Coombs) of 12 February,Official Report, columns 437–38, if he will list all education authorities in England in rank order of total combined expenditure per secondary pupil per year on school meals, central administration, debt charges or revenue contributions to capital outlay.
§ Mr. FallonExpenditure figures for the central services identified in the question are collected only as single totals for all education services. The figures are not allocated to individual sectors of the education service, so expenditure attributable to a single sector such as secondary schools is not available.
§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what additional(a) loan sanction and (b) grant has been granted to Doncaster local education authority for education purposes for (i) the current financial year (ii) the last financial year and (iii) for the year 1992–93.
§ Mr. FallonDetails of the annual capital guidelinesACGs—and the educational grants made to Doncaster for 1990–91 and 1991–92 are set out in the table. Grants and ACGs for 1992–93 have not yet been determined.
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£ thousands 1990–91 1991–92 (a) Annual Capital Guidelines ACGs 860.0 375.0 (b) Grants VA capital allocations1 345.0 145.0 ESGs2 1,272.0 —
1990–91 1991–92 LEATGs3 1,417.0 — GEST4 — 2,715.0 Travellers5 58.1 60.9 Section 116 17.8 22.0 Notes:
1 The figures represent planned expenditure by the Governors of voluntary aided or special agreement schools. Grant is paid up to a maximum of 85 per cent on such expenditure.
2 ESG—Education Support Grants.
3 LEATGS—LEA Training Grants Scheme
4 GEST—Grants in Education Support and Training. This incorporates the ESG and LEATGs schemes.
5 The figures represent approved expenditure. Grant aid is paid at the rate of 75 per cent.
6 Grant under Section 11 of the Local Government Act is administered by the Home Office. Grant is paid at the rate of 75 per cent. on approved salary costs. The figure for 1991–92 is a provisional estimate.
Urban programme grant is allocated to local authorities for economic, environmental, social and housing projects. Doncaster received £2 million in each of 1990–91 and 1991–92. Detailed statistics are not available to isolate the education component from the total urban programme grant.
§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the total amount of moneys that his Department has allocated to Doncaster local education authority for the maintenance and repair of school buildings for the current financial year; and what was the amount for the last financial year.
§ Mr. FallonThe Government do not allocate to LEAs separately identified recurrent funds for repairs and maintenance: it is for each authority and, under local management, its schools, to determine what proportion of the total recurrent funds available to them to allocate for that purpose.
As far as capital works on school buildings is concerned, Doncaster local education authority has been given an education annual capital guideline—ACG—of £375,000 for 1991–92 to contribute towards capital spending in schools. The authority is free to spend its overall capital resources as it chooses, and can supplement its annual capital guidelines from capital receipts and other sources of funding, including its revenue budget. The LEA also received an allocation of £145,000 for projects at voluntary aided—VA—and special agreement—SA—schools.
For 1990–91 Doncaster received an ACG of £860,000—of which £780,000 was for schools, and an allocation for VA and SA schools of £345,000.