§ Mr. WillisTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list for each of the education initiatives launched since May 1997 and for each financial year, the amount of departmental expenditure which has been identified as additional to that which would have been incurred as part of normal operational activity. [98835]
§ Mr. Wills[holding answer 22 November 1999]: The figures for central government spending on education in England which were published in DfEE's 1999 Departmental Report together with the year on year increases, are in the following table. They do not include Ofsted or local authority expenditure on education.
Year £ million 1996–97 11,266 1997–98 11,642 1998–99 12,054 1999–2000 13,474 2000–01 15,282 2001–02 16,617 Note:
1997–98 does not include the £527 million which was transferred from local to central government spending in that year only for nursery vouchers.
These figures show that, by 2001–02, we will be spending nearly £5.4 billion more from central government resources on education than was spent under the previous administration in 1996–97. This is as a result of the extra £16 billion for total education spending in England over the years 1999–2000, 2000–01 and 2001–02 provided by the Comprehensive Spending Review, and the extra £400 million for England over this period from the Capital Modernisation Fund as announced 138W in the March 1999 Budget. In addition, over £140 million of extra resources have been allocated for capital in English schools as part of the pre-Budget package.
Details of DfEE initiatives launched since May 1997 can be found in the Department's 1998 and 1999 annual reports (Cm 3910 and Cm 4202), copies of which have been laid in the Library.