HC Deb 06 March 1998 vol 307 cc800-1W
Mr. Cox

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how much money has been allocated to each London borough education authority in 1997–98 for the repair and modernisation of school buildings. [31658]

Mr. Byers

The table sets out the amount of credit cover and New Deal for Schools (NDS) grant we have allocated to each London borough education authority in 1997–98 to support capital expenditure at local education authority (LEA) maintained schools. NDS grant for 1997–98 was provided for the improvement, renovation or replacement of buildings used for educational purposes and the provision of equipment (including information technology) for educational purposes. This included support to develop a number of local public-private partnerships which we expect will result in substantial additional spending on capital. Credit approvals may be applied to capital spending of all kinds, as may other resources that LEAs have available to them, such as receipts and revenue. We do not collect information centrally about how much LEAs spend on the repair and modernisation of school buildings.

£000
LEA NDS grant 1Credit cover
Barking & Dagenham 210 1,057
Barnet 97 948
Bexley 487 3,573
Brent 461 289
Bromley 251 1,058
Camden 177 119
Croydon 195 1,294
Ealing 123 4,850
Enfield 344 8,172
£000
LEA NDS grant 1Credit cover
Greenwich 306 3,235
Hackney 1,250 818
Hammersmith & Fulham 300 1,554
Haringey 426 4,004
Harrow 88 1,373
Havering 337 245
Hillingdon 310 2,394
Hounslow 341 3,199
Islington 295 381
Kensington & Chelsea 244 109
Kingston 456 3,326
Lambeth 261 758
Lewisham 705 2,297
Merton 360 71
Newham 482 2,942
Redbridge 207 7,730
Richmond 317 153
Southwark 381 1,923
Sutton 602 4,937
Tower Hamlets 928 4,276
Waltham Forest 507 1,228
Wandsworth 135 162
Westminster 312 669
1Allocations under the specialist schools programme are not included