§ Mr. ClappisonTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the additional responsibilities resulting in(a) cost and (b) additional costs which he expects to be met by schools in the period covered by the Comprehensive Spending Review; and what estimate he has made of the total of such costs broken down for (i) primary schools and (ii) secondary schools. [132406]
§ Mr. BlunkettSchools will be responsible for boosting standards of attainment at the relevant Key Stages over the period of the Spending Review. Full details of these additional responsibilities and the extra resources we are making available to help schools meet them will be announced in due course. We have already announced that headteachers in England will be given £540 million in special grants next year as part of an increase in education spending in the UK of nearly £12 billion from 2000–01 851W to 2003–04 and that the Year 2000 Spending Review means a real terms increase of some £370 per pupil over the three years bringing the total to almost £700 per pupil in real terms between 1997–98 and 2003–04.