School Curriculum and Assessment Authority

HC Deb 05 April 1995 vol 257 c1194W

Mr. Don Foster

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what was the cost of establishing the School Curriculum and Assessment Authority. [18602]

Mr. Forth

The estimated total cost of establishing the School Curriculum and Assessment Authority, including the cost of winding up the National Curriculum Council and the School Examinations and Assessment Council, is £4.2 million. These costs will be more than offset by recurrent savings on running costs as a result of replacing two bodies with one. Running costs are estimated at £9.4 million in 1994–95 for SCAA, the first full year of its operation, as against £11.3 million for NCC and SEAC in 1992–93, the last full year of their operation.