§ Mr. WillisTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will make a statement on the arrangements for the distribution of the additional funds for education announced in the recent local government settlement, indicating how much each local authority will receive and what conditions will be attached to the receipt of such funds. [111046]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisMy right hon. Friend confirmed in a letter of 31 January 2000 to all council leaders that the extra £50 million grant for education will be paid as a special grant to authorities on condition that it is used for education and added to schools' delegated budgets. It will be distributed among authorities according to their numbers of schools and pupils, following the same pattern as the school improvement grant for 2000–01. My right hon. Friend will want to see prior confirmation that an authority has increased its education budget by the increase for 2000–01 in its education standard spending assessment before making a decision on the release of its share of the £50 million special grant. The table sets out the amount each authority can expect to receive.
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£000 Local education authority Share of £50 million grant City of London 4 Camden 155 Greenwich 273 Hackney 191 Hammersmith 131 Islington 193 Kensington and Chelsea 70 Lambeth 204 Lewisham 234 Southwark 262 Tower Hamlets 280 Wandsworth 193 694W
£ Local education authority Share of £50 million grant Westminster 128 Barking 174 Barnet 276 Bexley 212 Brent 253 Bromley 246 Croydon 323 Ealing 265 Enfield 275 Haringey 250 Harrow 155 Havering 212 Hillingdon 249 Hounslow 229 Kingston upon Thames 117 Merton 134 Newham 316 Redbridge 205 Richmond upon Thames 117 Sutton 174 Waltham Forest 231 Birmingham 1,034 Coventry 282 Dudley 309 Sandwell 386 Solihull 205 Walsall 320 Wolverhampton 294 Knowsley 196 Liverpool 543 St. Helens 172 Sefton 275 Wirral 303 Bolton 276 Bury 176 Manchester 552 Oldham 253 Rochdale 215 Salford 237 Stockport 303 Tameside 251 Trafford 208 Wigan 294 Barnsley 212 Doncaster 296 Rotherham 311 Sheffield 530 Bradford 525 Calderdale 244 Kirklees 437 Leeds 642 Wakefield 326 Gateshead 209 Newcastle upon Tyne 243 North Tyneside 182 South Tyneside 181 Sunderland 323 Isles of Scilly 8 Bath and North East Somerset 162 City of Bristol 380 North Somerset 186 South Gloucestershire 237 Hartlepool 91 Middlesbrough 160 Redcar and Cleveland 147 Stockton-on-Tees 184 Kingston-upon-Hull 269 East Riding of Yorkshire 308 North East Lincolnshire 191 North Lincolnshire 162 North Yorkshire 634 York 150 Bedfordshire 412
£000 Local education authority Share of £50 million grant Luton 187 Buckinghamshire 481 Milton Keynes 234 Derbyshire 864 Derby 220 Dorset 343 Poole 105 Bournemouth 120 Durham 541 Darlington 99 East Sussex 398 Brighton and Hove 202 Hampshire 1,246 Portsmouth 161 Southampton 219 Leicestershire 565 Leicester 349 Rutland 47 Staffordshire 816 Stoke-on-Trent 282 Wiltshire 449 Swindon 177 Bracknell Forest 89 Windsor and Maidenhead 124 West Berkshire 161 Reading 129 Slough 129 Wokingham 143 Cambridgeshire 488 Peterborough 169 Cheshire 676 Halton 137 Warrington 192 Devon 654 Plymouth 264 Torbay 104 Essex 1,382 Southend-on-Sea 157 Thurrock 162 Herefordshire 200 Worcestershire 518 Kent 1,463 Medway Towns 291 Lancashire 1,208 Blackburn with Darwen 188 Blackpool 119 Nottinghamshire 746 Nottingham City 325 Shropshire 283 Wrekin, The 163 Cornwall 483 Cumbria 571 Gloucestershire 572 Hertfordshire 1,083 Isle of Wight 129 Lincolnshire 675 Norfolk 787 Northamptonshire 655 Northumberland 358 Oxfordshire 647 Somerset 478 Suffolk 645 Surrey 876 Warwickshire 487 West Sussex 625
§ Mr. WillisTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what criteria he attaches to the award of grants available following the announcement of additional funding for education in the recent local government settlement. [111145]
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§ Ms Estelle MorrisMy right hon. Friend will want to see prior confirmation that the whole of an authority's increase in its education standard spending assessment has been passed on to its education budget before he takes decisions on the release of that authority's share of the £50 million special grant. Local education authorities will be required to include their share of the £50 million special grant in their schools' delegated budgets.