HC Deb 02 November 1992 vol 213 cc14-5W
Mr. Dafis

To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will make it his policy to provide ring-fenced funding to grant-maintained schools to cover the cost of educating children with special educational needs who have not received statements from their local education authority.

Mr. Forth

The Education Reform Act places a duty on the governors of every grant-maintained school to use their best endeavours to secure the special educational provision that any individual pupil might require. It is for the governors to decide how to allocate the funds available to them in order to fufil this duty.

Mr. Andrew Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what information he is collecting on the money spent by local education authorities to publicise GCSE and A-level examination results.

Mr. Forth

Local education authorities have been required to publish information about their schools' examination results in school prospectuses since 1981. No information is collected about the cost to them of so doing. My right hon. Friend is himself responsible for the compilation and publication of the comparative tables of school examination results which will be issued later this month.