§ Mr. RookerTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list the local education authorities which made bids for the new schools renewal challenge fund indicating the number of bids for each LEA and the total value of each LEA bid. [35905]
§ Mrs. GillanNinety-five local education authorities submitted bids for the first tranche of allocations for the new schools renewal challenge fund. The following table lists these authorities, the number of bids submitted by each and the total of credit approvals sought.
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Schools renewal challenge fund: total LEA bids for first tranche 1996–97 LEA Number of SRCF bids Total costs bid for £000 Barnsley 5 4,338 Bath and NE Somerset 5 1,205 Bedfordshire 3 1,388 Berkshire 4 1,620 Bexley 1 1,210 Birmingham 8 8,702 Bolton 5 4,128 Bradford 2 2,895 Buckinghamshire 1 115 Bury 15 1,254 Calderdale 5 735 Cambridgeshire 5 1,655 Cheshire 7 1,520 City of Bristol 6 1,340 City of Kingston upon Hull 4 2,315 Cornwall 1 4,390 Coventry 2 1,502 Croydon 1 2,600 Cumbria 13 234 Derbyshire 2 8,045 Devon 6 564 Doncaster 2 376 Dorset 1 8,200 Dudley 1 3,700 Durham 2 1,881 Ealing 1 5,175 East Sussex 6 1,612 Enfield 3 324 Essex 1 500 Gateshead 2 3,300 Gloucestershire 3 325 Greenwich 14 3,170 Hackney 8 2,379
Schools renewal challenge fund: total LEA bids for first tranche 1996–97 LEA Number of SRCF bids Total costs bid for £000 Hampshire 3 3,724 Haringey 2 1,289 Hartlepool 3 350 Havering 1 500 Hereford and Worcester 2 1,709 Hertfordshire 3 1,788 Hounslow 15 2,825 Isle of Wight 3 1,262 Islington 3 4,099 Kensington and Chelsea 1 30 Kent 4 3,963 Kingston upon Thames 9 2,594 Kirklees 5 946 Lambeth 3 1,063 Lancashire 5 3,218 Leeds 3 2,874 Leicestershire 8 1,896 Lewisham 9 408 Liverpool 4 3,551 Manchester 3 2,642 Merton 3 985 Newcastle upon Tyne 2 8,082 Newham 1 2,304 Northamptonshire 6 4,080 North East Lincolnshire 3 1,283 North Lincolnshire 1 675 North Somerset 1 2,500 North Tyneside l 1,270 Northumberland 5 1,745 North Yorkshire 6 3,137 Nottinghamshire 5 4,904 Oldham 4 850 Redcar and Cleveland 3 958 Richmond upon Thames 1 1,950 Rochdale 6 547 Rotherham 7 2,554 Saint Helen's 4 685 Salford 4 1,676 Sandwell 2 2,881 Sheffield 2 3,281 Shropshire 2 712 Solihull 10 603 Somerset 6 2,086 South Tyneside 10 126 Southwark 1 167 Staffordshire 4 2,232 Stockport 2 165 Suffolk 2 1,100 Sunderland 2 1,450 Surrey 4 3,446 Sutton 1 248 Tower Hamlets 14 3,492 Trafford 1 1,445 Wakefield 7 5,590 Walsall 2 1,425 Waltham Forest 3 2,173 Wandsworth 3 2,065 Westminster 1 250 West Sussex 1 3,500 Wiltshire 9 2,119 Wirral 6 1,170 Wolverhampton 1 500 Where more than one option has been submitted for the same project, the more expensive option only has been included in the above totals.