§ Mr. KaufmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will update all the information printed in her answers of 27 November 1995,Official Report, column 445, and 30 November 1995, Official Report, columns 854–55, regarding assisted places provision and finance in three named schools in the Manchester, Gorton constituency. [36481]
§ Mrs. GillanActual expenditure on the assisted places scheme in the 1995–96 financial year was £104.76 million. Provision for 1996–97, when the expansion of the scheme begins, is £117 million.
The figures relating to the three named schools in the Manchester, Gorton constituency remain unchanged from those given on 27 and 30 November 1995 for the current academic year 1995–96, pending receipt of the schools' final claims.
The numbers of assisted pupils at each school in the forthcoming academic year 1996–97, and the amounts spent on them, will depend on parental demand and take-up of places. Under the expansion programme, Manchester grammar school has been allocated 10 additional entry places, Manchester high school for girls, 10 such places, and William Hulme's grammar school, 30 such places.
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