HC Deb 31 July 1998 vol 317 cc815-6W
Mr. Rooney

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what additional funds have been allocated to the Bradford area since 1 May 1997 over

Project title Contractor Total cost (£)
Perceptions of the Audit Burden Belvedere Associates 5,000
Long term labour market changes and implications for skill requirements Business Strategies Ltd. 7,313.50
Development of HEQED's dissemination strategy Communication Management PR 24,400
Evaluation of the Higher Education Regional Development Fund ECOTEC Research and Consulting 65,540
Evaluation of the 1997 Prospectus projects ECOTEC Research and Consulting 148,000
Progress and retention on Youth Programmes ECOTEC Research and Consulting 15,900
An Evaluation of Careers Service Work with Disaffected Young People (SBU-EORP1 Paying Invoices) ECOTEC Research and Consulting Ltd. 83,833.00
Research on the Role of Informal Learning in the Workplace ECOTEC Research and Consulting Ltd. 47,904.00

and above previous plans listed by (i) capital and (ii) revenue, indicating for each whether they were subject to a bidding process. [53212]

Ms Estelle Morris

Nationally, the Government have provided an additional £835 million for revenue purposes in 1998–99 over and above the previous Administration's plans and an additional £423 million for capital purposes. The table shows the capital and revenue allocations for 1997–98 and 1998–99 for Bradford. The allocations were wholly or partly subject to a bidding process except the education standard spending assessment.

£million
1997–98 1998–99
Revenue Funding
Education SSA 215.6 225.1
GEST/Standards Fund 3.8 5.9
Capital Funding
ACG+SCA 3.6 4.8
New Deal for Schools 1 1.1
New Deal for Schools 2 1.4
Class size reduction 0.2
Outside toilets 0.1
Energy efficiency 0.2

Notes:

1. The 1997–98 Education SSA figure has been adjusted to take account of nursery vouchers

2. The specific grant programme was known as Grants for Education Support and Training (GEST) in 1997–98 and the Standards Fund in 1998–99. The figures relate to the size of the programme and therefore include the LEA contribution as well as the grant

3. Annual Capital Guidelines (ACGs) and Supplementary Credit Approvals (SCAs) represent loan sanction

4. The New Deal for Schools allocations in both 1997–98 and 1998–99 represent new funding over and above previous plans. Funds to reduce class sizes, replace outside toilets and energy efficiency projects are all additional to previous plans