HC Deb 08 July 1999 vol 334 cc631-2W
26. Mr. Todd

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what steps he is taking to increase the equality of funding between pupils in different parts of England. [88992]

Ms Estelle Morris

Over the next three years we will be reviewing the methodology for calculating Education Standard Spending Assessments to improve the fairness of the current formula and to try to find long-term solutions to the problems we inherited.