§ Mr. OatenTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list by spending initiative for each local education authority in Hampshire(a) the number and value of funding bids submitted to his Department and (b) the number and value of grants made by his Department from (i) the Standards Fund, (ii) Class Size Reduction funds and (iii) other sources of direct funding for schools since May 1997. [115966]
§ Ms Estelle Morris[holding answer 23 March 2000]: Tables are today being placed in the Library showing the figures requested for each financial year since May 1997 for Hampshire county council, Portsmouth city council and Southampton county council. For the Standards Fund only, the number and value of the grants are shown in the tables. The number and value of bids under the Standards
537WFund cannot be disaggregated for each year without incurring disproportionate cost. Allocations are made via a combination of applications from local authorities and formulae based on School Census data. For Class Size Reduction revenue grant, funding levels were agreed with authorities based on their implementation plans.