§ Mr. WillisTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his answer of 14 December 1998,Official Report, columns 385–88, if he will list the values of the bids made by local education authorities before 20 November 1998 for capital expenditure to meet the Government's class size pledge. [70281]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisThe values of applications for capital funding to meet the class sizes pledge are listed in the following table by local education authority. These figures refer to the 1999–2000 bidding round.
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Applications for capital funding to reduce infant class sizes: 1999–2000 £ Local Education Authority Grant applied for Barking and Dagenham 1,021,950 Barnet 75,280 Barnsley 903,398 Bath and North East Somerset 699,773 Bedfordshire 1,982,910 Bexley 176,000 Birmingham 1,817,919 Blackburn 956,063 Blackpool 1,018,480 Bolton 1,650,877 Bournemouth 4,145,060 Bracknell Forest 511,985 Bradford — Brent 74,116 Brighton and Hove 1,343,140 Bristol, City of 17,137,900 Bromley 1,307,750 Buckinghamshire 2,379,512 Bury 187,014 Calderdale 383,040 Cambridgeshire 936,968 Camden 177,660 Cheshire 1,847,270 City of London — Cornwall 2,451,424 Coventry 375,237 Croydon 1,719,140 Cumbria 1,061,200 Darlington 354,468 Derby City 847,369 Derbyshire 14,646,713 Devon 838,741 Doncaster 702,320 Dorset 745,674 Dudley 1,001,566 Durham 2,131,524 Ealing 720,000 East Riding of Yorkshire 2,475,600 East Sussex 1,154,895 Enfield 1,130,631 Essex 2,074,491 273W
Applications for capital funding to reduce infant class sizes: 1999–2000 £ Local Education Authority Grant applied for Gateshead 27,000 Gloucestershire 1,536,092 Greenwich 319,641 Hackney — Halton 360,000 Hammersmith and Fulham — Hampshire 1,422,390 Haringey — Harrow — Hartlepool 213,625 Havering 305,257 Herefordshire 1,560,742 Hertfordshire 1,059,636 Hillingdon 1,140,800 Hounslow 712,247 Isle of Wight 983,156 Isles of Scilly — Islington — Kensington and Chelsea — Kent 2,939,900 Kingston upon Hull 488,911 Kingston upon Thames 5,172,532 Kirklees 1,778,839 Knowsley 77,784 Lambeth 1,237,999 Lancashire 4,643,666 Leeds 1,442,077 Leicester City 805,207 Leicestershire 1,022,431 Lewisham — Lincolnshire 947,600 Liverpool 395,115 Luton 795,000 Manchester 602,412 Medway Towns 434,769 Meiton 2,225,845 Middlesbrough — Milton Keynes 1,655,500 Newcastle upon Tyne 820,230 Newham 987,500 Norfolk 1,298,079 North East Lincolnshire 684,275 North Lincolnshire 220,036 North Somerset 350,875 North Tyneside 454,537 North Yorkshire 5,325,000 Northamptonshire 1,297,585 Northumberland 1,404,162 Nottingham City 497,382 Nottinghamshire 4,172,246 Oldham 1,722,164 Oxfordshire 3,535,063 Peterborough 1,612,494 Plymouth — Poole 492,330 Portsmouth 1,163,659 Reading 424,837 Redbridge 1,576,000 Redcar and Cleveland 402,000 Richmond Upon Thames 1,690,345 Rochdale 888,260 Rotherham 2,985,060 Rutland — Salford 336,772 Sandwell 294,467 Sefton 918,283 Sheffield 54,000 Shropshire 265,000 Slough 918,120 Solihull 1,545,500 Somerset 2,799,840 South Gloucestershire 1,790,718 South Tyneside —.
Applications for capital funding to reduce infant class sizes: 1999–2000 £ Local Education Authority Grant applied for Southampton 204,333 Southend on Sea 1,293,700 Southwark 1,242,500 St. Helens 1,152,256 Staffordshire 1,255,580 Stockport 2,064,682 Stockton on Tees 258,200 Stoke on Trent 1,859,575 Suffolk 1,000,500 Sunderland 292,980 Surrey 1,316,980 Sutton 421,525 Swindon — Tameside 1,378,675 Telford and Wrekin 116,580 Thurrock 452,798 Torbay 1,801,628 Tower Hamlets — Trafford 526,663 Wakefield 1,234,946 Walsall 690,854 Waltham Forest 825,280 Wandsworth 249,375 Warrington 1,996,116 Warwickshire 478,859 West Berkshire 1,574,513 West Sussex 1,348,275 Westminster — Wigan 1,244,728 Wiltshire 1,439,440 Windsor and Maidenhead 519,600 Wirral 938,966 Wokingham 1,083,470 Wolverhampton 1,710,044 Worcestershire 1,304,523 York, City of 434,730 Grant Maintained Schools 4,007,398 National Totals 192,118,323