§ Mr. SpearingTo ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list the four secondary schools in the maintained sector for which he has most recently approved significant capital expenditure and which are over 90 per cent. full and which occupy new, extended or modified buildings.
§ Mr. ForthWhether schools are 90 per cent full or occupy new, extended or modified buildings are not criteria for capital support. Details of capital grants to voluntary aided and special agreement schools and of local education authorities' annual capital guidelines were placed in the Library following the reply of 17 December 1993 from my hon. Friend the Member for Hornchurch (Mr. Squire) to my hon. Friend the Member for Chelmsford, (Mr. Burns)Official Report, column 946. Copies of press notices of 16 December 1993 and 21 March 1994 announcing capital grants to self-governing, grant-maintained schools were placed in the Library.
§ Mr. SpearingTo ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to his answer of 17 March,Official Report, column 848, concerning cost multipliers for new primary and secondary schools if he will state in arithmetic terms the teaching area standards which he regards as the minimum acceptable in respect of each place in (a) primary schools, (b) secondary schools already in operation and (c) new schools.
§ Mr. ForthThe Education (School Premises) Regulations 1981, as amended, prescribe the minimum overall teaching areas to be provided at maintained schools, according to the number of pupils at the school