HC Deb 14 June 1999 vol 333 cc63-4W
Mr. Luff

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will investigate the impact on school budgets in Worcestershire of the proposed increase in water charges. [86871]

Ms Estelle Morris

Under schedule three of the Financing of Maintained Schools Regulations 1999, local education authorities (LEAs) are free to determine factors—based on either actual or estimated costs—for the delegation of funds to schools for charges for water and sewage via budget shares. It is therefore a matter for Worcestershire LEA to devise such factors within its formula.