§ Mrs. MayTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will set out, for each local education authority in England for 2000–01, the amount of standards fund grant(a) contribution received from central Government, (b) contributed by the local education authority, (c) devolved directly to schools and (d) spent centrally by the local education authority in total. [142488]
§ Ms Estelle Morris[holding answer 13 December 2000]: Nationally, the DfEE is providing £1,741 million in grant for the Standards Fund this year, and local 26W education authorities are contributing £604 million. At least 75 per cent. of all Standards Fund grants must be devolved to schools.
Tables showing the contributions made by DfEE and local education authorities, on an individual local education authority level, split between revenue and capital grants, have been placed in House of Commons Library.
Figures on the precise level of Standards Fund grant which individual local education authorities have devolved to schools, and have held centrally, are not available. The LEA comparative table of budgeted expenditure, published on 29 June, shows each local education authority's level of delegated funding, including devolved Standards Fund grant. A copy of the table has been placed in the House of Commons Library.
§ Mrs. Anne CampbellTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how much money was paid to Cambridgeshire schools through the Standards Fund in each year since 1997–98. [142871]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisThe following table shows payments made to, or to be made, to Cambridgeshire County Council from the Standards Fund in 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–2000 and 2000–01. The figure for 1999–2000 is provisional, subject to audit. The figure for 2000–2001 is the total grant currently expected to be paid to Cambridgeshire this financial year. The figures include all grants paid through the Standards Fund payment system, excluding New Deal for Schools Capital, which is not part of the Standards Fund programme. The amount actually paid to schools will depend on local expenditure decisions by schools and the local authority.
Standard Fund payments to Cambridgeshire County Council £ 1997–98 2,599,357 1998–99 3,374,197 1999–2000 5,365,139 2000–01 14,881,499