HC Deb 29 April 1999 vol 330 cc228-9W
25. Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what steps he is taking to ensure that the additional resources allocated for education are spent on schools. [81540]

Ms Estelle Morris

My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State wrote in January to each English Local Education Authority to urge them to use all of the cash increase in the education SSA to support education services, especially the drive to raise school standards. We are monitoring the formal budget returns of authorities to see whether they have done this.

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