HC Deb 21 March 1997 vol 292 c949W
Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to her letter of 17 March on school budget deficits, if she will list the schools running a budget deficit indicating in each case the amount. [21410]

Mr. Robin Squire

I regret that the effort and cost entailed in compiling such a list would be disproportionate.

Mr. Prentice

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to her letter of 17 March on school budget deficits, what estimate she has made of the number of local education authorities which plan to take back delegated budgets from schools in deficit. [21411]

Mr. Squire

My right hon. Friend has made no such estimate.