HC Deb 23 March 2000 vol 346 c644W
21. Mr. Paterson

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will make a statement on secondary school funding. [114619]

Ms Estelle Morris

In 2000–01 Education Standard Spending has increased by £1.1 billion or 5.4 per cent. An extra £64 million is being made available to local authorities of which £14 million will be used to provide additional support to LEAs in Excellence in Cities areas and £50 million will go to support school budgets generally. In addition, schools will benefit from £500 million extra in Standards Fund grant, and through the New Deal for Schools they will receive an additional £1 billion for school repairs and adaptations. All schools will also benefit from the rescheduling of most of the increase in teachers' pension contributions from April 2000.

Secondary schools will all benefit from these increases in funding.