HC Deb 22 July 1997 vol 298 cc521-2W
Mr. Fitzpatrick

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will be taking into account factors relating to economic and social deprivation when assessing the improvement in performance that schools need to make in order to be eligible for a share of the £1.3 billion set aside for capital funding to deal with their disrepair; and how these factors will be weighted in the analysis. [9010]

Mr. Byers

I refer my hon. Friend to the reply I gave him on 17 July,Official Report, column 308.