HC Deb 17 February 1994 vol 237 cc934-5W
Mr. Corbyn

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what representations he has received concerning the changing of the spending formula in section 11.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

I have been asked to reply.

We have received many representations from local authorities and associations, teacher unions, ethnic minority communities and other interested parties about the reductions in section 11 funding which we regret it has been necessary to make. Among these, there has been widespread support for the approach, which we have announced we are adopting from 1994–95, of paying grant in the form of an annual budget to each grant recipient, instead of as a fixed percentage of actual costs.