§ Mr. PatnickTo ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) if she will list the proportion of the ASB retained by the local education authorities of the metropolitan cities for each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement;
(2) how much each metropolitan city retained on the non-schools section of their aggregated schools budget for 1995–96; and if she will make a statement.
§ Mr. Robin SquireThe aggregated schools budget represents, by definition, that part of a local education 593W authority's general schools budget which is distributed to the schools themselves.
Information on the percentage of the general schools budget, and the potential schools budget; retained centrally by each local education authority for 1994–95 and previous years is contained in the answer which I gave on 17 October 1994 to the hon. Member for Billericay (Mrs. Gorman) Official Report, columns 27–36. No corresponding information in relation to 1995–96 is yet available.