§ Mr. St. AubynTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what assessment he has made of the impact of increases in the Standards Fund on the equitable distribution of funding for schools in addition to the funding of schools via the standard spending assessment for education. [117133]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisNone. The Standards Fund enables the targeting of funds on specific programmes, areas or schools, to support the Government's drive to raise standards. Local education authorities are required to devolve around 75 per cent. of the Standards Fund to schools. In addition, all maintained schools will receive a share of the additional funding through the £50 million School Standards Grant and the £290 million School Budget Support Grant. Both of these special grants are fully funded by the Government and are only for schools.