§ Mrs. Ann TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Education if the meetings of the Funding Agency for Schools and its committees and sub-committees will be open to members of the public; if the reports discussed by496W the agency and its committees and sub-committees will be available to members of the public; and if he will be represented at meetings of the board.
§ Mr. Robin SquireMy right hon. Friend wrote to the chairman of the Funding Agency for Schools, Sir Christopher Benson, on 11 April setting out a framework of accountability for the agency. In that letter he made it clear that it would be for the agency itself to develop a strategy for making itself publicly accountable. My right hon. Friend has chosen not to exercise his right to be represented at board meetings at the present time.
§ Mrs. Ann TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Education which grant-maintained schools, under section 93 of the Education Act 1993, have been transferred from one former maintaining local education authority to another for the purpose of the calculation and recovery of annual maintenance grant by the Funding Agency for 497W Schools; what were the local education authorities in each case; and what was the effect on the annual maintenance grant of each school concerned.
§ Mr. Robin SquireOnly one operating grant-maintained school has been affected by section 93 of the Education Act 1993. All Hallows RC school, formerly maintained by Hampshire local education authority, is located within the boundaries of Surrey. The Funding Agency for Schools is currently considering the basis for the determination of the school's grant for 1994–95.