HC Deb 27 February 1997 vol 291 c337W
Sir Irvine Patnick

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what funding has been allocated to Sheffield over the planning period for grants for school security measures; and if she will make a statement. [17738]

Mr. Robin Squire

The Government will support extra expenditure of £66 million on school security measures in England over the next three years. This is in addition to spending on security from local education authorities' and schools' normal budgets. The extra funding will be allocated to authorities through the Department's grants for education support and training programme and to grant-maintained schools by the Funding Agency for Schools.

Under the 1997–98 GEST programme, the security grant for Sheffield LEA will support expenditure of £184,900. Grant allocations for future years will be decided in due course.