HC Deb 08 July 1999 vol 334 cc629-30W
20. Fiona Mactaggart

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will make a statement on the funds passed on to schools by local education authorities in 1999–2000. [88986]

Ms Estelle Morris

I would refer my hon. Friend to the tables which we recently published which show that in 1999–2000 14 authorities passed on less than 90 per cent. of the increase in the education Standard Spending Assessment and a further 20 are passing on less than the full 100 per cent. of the increase. The remaining authorities passed at least 100 per cent. of the increase and in some cases more.

30. Miss McIntosh

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what representations he has received on the tables of English local education authorities schools' budgets. [88996]

Ms Estelle Morris

The feedback that we have received so far from local education authorities on the tables of comparative data has on the whole been positive.

34. Mr. Jack

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list those local authorities not spending the full amount of their central Government funding allocated for schools. [89000]

Ms Estelle Morris

We published tables of local education authority expenditure for the first time on 24 June. They indicated that 34 authorities had increased their education budgets this year by less than 100 per cent. of the increase of their Standard Spending Assessment: full details are in the tables, a copy of which has been placed in the Libraries. The figures were constructed from a comparison between the Local Schools' Budget in 1999–2000 and the General Schools budget in 1998–99, with adjustments and making allowance for authorities' expenditure on non-school items.

35. Mr. Beith

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what representations he has received about the funding of schools in Northumberland; and if he will make a statement. [89001]

Ms Estelle Morris

Since the start of the financial year the Department has received five letters about school funding in Northumberland.

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