§ Mr. WillisTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his answer of 10 February 1999,Official Report, columns 271–73, if he will list by local education authority for the present and previous rounds of bidding for capital grants for class size reductions (a) the total value of bids and (b) the total value of capital expenditure grants made; and what is the total budget allocated by the Government for (i) capital and (ii) revenue expenditure on class size reductions. [72559]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisThe total budget allocated for (i) capital and (ii) revenue expenditure on class size reductions is as follows:
£million Financial year Capital budget Revenue budget 1998–99 45 22 1999–2000 80 80 2000–01 60 160 2001–02 20 160 Details of the present round of bidding were given in my answer of 10 February 1999, Official Report, columns 271–73. No grants have yet been made. The values of the applications for capital funding for 1998–99 are set out in the following table. Capital grants to reduce class sizes in 1998–99 were announced on 3 July 1998 and are included in tables that have been placed in the Library.
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Applications for capital funding to reduce infant class sizes: 1998–99 Local education authority Grant applied for Barking & Dagenham 153,350 Barnet 322,200 Barnsley — Bath & North East Somerset 718,932 Bedfordshire 833,683 Bexley 974,000 Birmingham — Blackburn 483,472 Blackpool 449,500 Bolton 522,125 Bournemouth 1,100,000 Bracknell 502,430 Bradford 561,150 Brent — Brighton & Hove 488,000 Bristol 360,207 Bromley 1,340,790 Buckinghamshire 389,875 Bury 1,231,351 Calderdale 533,606 Cambridgeshire 656,860 Camden — Cheshire 1,289,775 City of London —
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Applications for capital funding to reduce infant class sizes: 1998–99 Local education authority Grant applied for Cornwall 728,440 Coventry 40,000 Croydon 369,140 Cumbria 113,188 Darlington 214,580 Derby 1,121,373 Derbyshire 2,441,563 Devon 1,035,439 Doncaster 221,400 Dorset 353,562 Dudley 1,054,000 Durham 219,638 Ealing 140,000 East Riding of Yorkshire 179,868 East Sussex 825,000 Enfield 640,000 Essex 856,211 Gateshead 234,567 Gloucestershire 275,412 Greenwich 100,000 Hackney — Halton 413,000 Hammersmith & Fulham — Hampshire 1,174,605 Haringey — Harrow — Hartlepool 68,600 Havering 76,840 Herefordshire 65,438 Hertfordshire 1,220,505 Hillingdon 1,065,223 Hounslow 256,000 Isle of Wight 474,000 Isles of Scilly — Islington — Kensington & Chelsea — Kent 3,087,794 Kingston upon Hull — Kingston upon Thames 11,352,000 Kirklees 1,252,193 Knowsley 178,000 Lambeth 888,415 Lancashire 1,808,982 Leeds 857,100 Leicester City 215,398 Leicestershire 920,441 Lewisham — Lincolnshire 495,372 Liverpool 497,675 Luton 127,500 Manchester 1,118,494 Medway 842,910 Merton — Middlesbrough 246,738 Milton Keynes 302,936 Newbury — Newcastle upon Tyne 431,419 Newham 518,500 Norfolk 613,000 North East Lincolnshire 535,813 North Lincolnshire 537,196 North Somerset 516,542 North Tyneside 590,277 North Yorkshire 539,000 Northamptonshire 326,291 Northumberland 364,200 Nottingham City 748,760 Nottinghamshire 922,055 Oldham 1,530,538 Oxfordshire 1,338,741 Peterborough — Plymouth —
Applications for capital funding to reduce infant class sizes: 1998–99 Local education authority Grant applied for Poole 1,122,558 Portsmouth 671,900 Reading 105,075 Redbridge 645,000 Redcar & Cleveland 252,757 Richmond Upon Thames 880,000 Rochdale 427,275 Rotherham 818,500 Rutland — Salford 206,311 Sandwell 2,675,720 Sefton 747,447 Sheffield — Shropshire 768,200 Slough 250,000 Solihull 1,803,794 Somerset 396,276 South Gloucestershire 1,297,834 South Tyneside — Southampton — Southend on Sea 204,700 Southwark 68,825 St. Helens 1,003,875 Staffordshire 510,000 Stockport 627,310 Stockton on Tees 403,565 Stoke on Trent 353,813 Suffolk — Sunderland 138,970 Surrey 686,825 Sutton 573,641 Swindon 707,745 Tameside — Telford and Wrekin 404,446 Thurrock 80,000 Torbay 281,714 Tower Hamlets — Trafford 548,560 Wakefield 907,295 Walsall 532,321 Waltham Forest — Wandworth 187,600 Warrington 364,322 Warwickshire 423,300 West Sussex 1,197,500 Westminster — Wigan 1,026,191 Wiltshire 695,565 Windsor & Maidenhead 121,611 Wirral 288,231 Wokingham 1,217,269 Wolverhampton 384,302 Worcestershire 1,034,500 York, City of 304,272 Grant Maintained Schools 1,279,661 National Totals 92,219,751