§ Mr. EvansTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the areas of responsibility within his Department which have seen the largest real-terms increase in spending since 1 May 1997; and if he will make a statement on the outcomes. [59458]
§ Mr. MudieThe areas which have seen the greatest increases in spending in real terms between 1996–97 and the plans for the current financial year are: schools capital (including the New Deal for Schools); specialist schools; local government education standard spending; and the new programmes on class size reduction; on literacy and the National Grid for Learning within the Standards Fund; and the New Deals within the Welfare to Work programme.