HC Deb 05 June 1998 vol 313 cc399-401W
Dr. Cable

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many applications were submitted under the Government's proposals for co-operation between maintained and private schools; and what was the success rate for proposals submitted by(a) local education authorities and (b) the independent sector. [44139]

Mr. Byers

We received 294 applications; we are supporting 48 projects. Each application had to involve at least one maintained and one independent school and specify a lead organisation. Five successful projects currently involve LEAs, and in one of those the LEA is

raw data to HESA (by 30 September), HESA to finalise the data (by 1 December) and then compile and publish the volume.

acting as the lead organisation. The information requested is set out in the table:

Lead organisation Number of applications Number of successful applications Percentage of successful applications
Maintained school 179 38 21
Independent school 89 8 9
Local education authority 12 1 8
Other1 14 1 7
Total 294 48 16.3
1 Other' lead organisations are organisations that are not a school or a local education authority, e.g. universities, charitable trusts, and associations of schools.