HC Deb 15 June 1992 vol 209 cc362-3W
Mr. Riddick

To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will provide a detailed breakdown of the financial implications of the following comprehensive schools in the Colne Valley constituency taking on grant-maintained status(a) Colne Valley high school, (b) Holmfirth high school, (c) Hanley high school and (d) Salendine Nook high school; and how the funding outlined compares with what the schools currently receive from the local education authority.

Mr. Forth

The main recurrent grant for GM schools is annual maintenance grant—AGM. This is set for GM schools in most LEAs at 15 per cent. above their local management of schools entitlement. This standard cash addition helps meet the cost of services previously provided free by the LEA. There is also a smaller addition related to school meal subsidy levels in that LEA.

GM schools are also eligible to receive other grants as follows:

  1. (i) Transitional grants to help meet the transitional costs of schools newly approved for GM status—in 1992–93 secondary schools can receive £30,000 plus £30 per pupil, to maximum of £60,000.
  2. (ii) Special purpose grants to help with a variety of activities. For example the SPG for "development" helps fund in-service training and implementation of the national curriculum and assessment, for which LEAs are funded via the GEST programme. This SPG is paid at a flat rate of £42.50 per pupil. Other SPGs are available to help with VAT, staff restructuring and premises insurance.
  3. (iii) There are two types of capital grant available to GM schools: a formula allocation for the purchase of equipment or small scale capital works; and project allocations for specific capital work. GM schools bid for project allocations and bids are considered in competition.

Mr. Betts

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what amount of capital grant per pupil he has provided to grant-maintained schools in each local education authority for 1992–93 based on the pupil numbers as at 1 April.

Mr. Forth

[holding answer 12 June 1992]: The table lists the capital allocations to GM schools for 1992–93, expressed as an average per pupil figure, based on January 1991 numbers, for GM schools in each LEA area. The relevant number of pupils will rise as schools join the GM sector during the year.

The figures need to be treated with caution. Because of current coverage of GM schools, figures will vary widely depending on the number of GM schools in a LEA area and whether or not a school was successful in the bidding round for capital projects in 1992–93. Bids are looked at in competition with others received from schools across the whole of the country.

Average capital allocations per pupil by former LEA area for GM schools for projects starting in 1992–93
£
Avon 185.68
Barnet 56.96
Bedfordshire 178.31
Berkshire 257.37
Birmingham 281.96
Bolton 34.56
Bradford 296.60
Brent 224.51
Bromley 148.05
Buckinghamshire 284.41
Calderdale 204.55
Cambridgeshire 52.63
Cheshire 63.10
Croydon 147.04
Cumbria 71.54
Derbyshire 493.34
Devon 41.65
Dorset 192.40
Dudley 38.38
Ealing 30.64
Essex 71.89
Gloucestershire 689.11
Hammersmith 28.49
Hampshire 57.56
Hertfordshire 229.89
Hillingdon 215.98
Humberside 122.04
Kensington 35.90
Kent 126.44
Kirklees 229.92
Lambeth 1,299.46
Lancashire 304.53
Leicestershire 337.00
Lincolnshire 149.26
Liverpool 29.86
Newham 45.45
Norfolk 71.03
Northamptonshire 320.20
Rochdale 62.37
Sandwell 131.82
Shropshire 1,070.33
Somerset 46.25
Southwark 429.21
Surrey 136.41
Sutton 210.31
Thameside 33.19
Tower Hamlets 31.48
Waltham Forest 58.88
Wandsworth 286.32
Warwickshire 86.56
Wiltshire 39.84
Wolverhampton 727.55

Notes:

  1. 1. The total includes formula capital allocations to schools for 1992–93 and provision for spending in 1992–93 and 1993–94 on named projects started in 1992–93.
  2. 2. The total does not include spending in 1992–93 on named projects begun in previous years.