§ 20. Mr. BurdenTo ask the Secretary of State for Education what resources will be made available for nursery education provision in the year 1993–94.
§ Mr. ForthThe Government will announce their decision later this year on the total amount of resources, including the share for education, to be made available to local authorities in 1993–94. It will be for individual local authorities to decide how much to spend on the services for which they are responsible, and for authorities and schools to decide how to deploy the expenditure.
§ Sir Thomas ArnoldTo ask the Secretary of State for Education what plans he has to encourage the creation of nursery places.
§ Mr. ForthOver the years 1987 to 1991 the numbers of under-fives attending maintained schools in England increased by nearly 90,000, from 517,000 to 604,000. The local authority grant settlement for 1992–93 allows for an increase in education spending well in excess of inflation. The scale and form of services for under-fives is for local authorities to decide in the light of the settlement.