HC Deb 06 February 1996 vol 271 cc131-2W
Mr. Callaghan

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what plans she has to increase her Department's expenditure on primary education programmes in the Greater Manchester area. [13493]

Mr. Robin Squire

Within the programme of grants for education support and training allocations to local education authorities in the Greater Manchester area focused on primary education will increase by £270,000 in 1996–97. Other GEST grants relevant to all schools, and the £43.7 million increase in education standard spending assessments, may also be used to increase spending on primary education if that is these authorities' priority.