§ Mr. WillisTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what was the total amount of private sector revenue and capital promised to each Education Action Zone in(a) phase I, (b) phase II and (c) the audited accounts for 1998–99 and 1999–2000; and what was the total amount of revenue and capital actually provided by the private sector for each Education Action Zone. [138852]
§ Ms Estelle Morris[holding answer 17 November 2000]: The total amount of private sector sponsorship pledge to all Education Action Zones (EAZs) (including small zones created under the Excellence in Cities initiative) in their first three years of operation is currently £34.8 million. The breakdown of information per large Education Action Zone is published in zone annual accounts once the amounts have been audited and confirmed. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is writing to the hon. Member separately about this, in response to his letter of 1 November.
The audited annual accounts for the first 25 zones for the period 1998–99, ie the first seven months (12 zones) or three months (13 zones) of their existence, confirm that a total amount of over £1.3 million private sector sponsorship was received. The figures for each zone, together with the total pledged figures to date, are contained in the following Table 1.
Details of pledged sponsorship to date for Round 2 zones are contained in the following Table 2. These have not yet been audited or checked against DfEE match funding rules.
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Table 2—round 2 zones Name of zone Start date Pledged sponsorship to date Ashington January 2000 198,600 Barrow-in-Furness January 2000 425,837 Bedford January 2000 1,335,459 Bolton January 2000 188,438 Bridgwater January 2000 138,912 Bristol April 2000 469,500 Camborne, Pool and Redruth January 2000 292,260 Clacton and Harwich January 2000 314,810 Corby January 2000 305,000 Coventry Millennium January 2000 542,480 Derby North April 2000 750,150 Dingle, Toxteth and Granby January 2000 876,000 Downham and Bellingham January 2000 389,746 Dudley December 1999 1,505,482 Easington and Seaham January 2000 208,950 East Cleveland January 2000 670,499 East Manchester December 1999 355,000 Epicenter Leap (Ellesmere Port) January 2000 739,460 Gloucester January 2000 195,350 Great Yarmouth April 2000 611,898 Greenwich September 1999 862,250 Hackney January 2000 415,500 Hamilton Oxford Schools September 1999 975,000 Hastings and St. Leonards January 2000 1,271,640 Heart of Slough January 2000 247,094 Kent/Somerset Virtual December 1999 181,200 Leigh Park (Havant) January 2000 566,270 North East Derbyshire Coalfields December 1999 196,040 North Gillingham January 2000 301,515 North Islington January 2000 1,050,000 North Stockton April 2000 244,800 North West Shropshire April 2000 2,697 Peterlee January 2000 243,370 Preston December 1999 167,280 Rainbow Zone (Stoke-on-Trent) January 2000 447,000 South Bradford January 2000 455,500 South East England Virtual April 2000 405,260 South East Sheffield April 2000 0 Southend December 1999 308,498 Speke Garston January 2000 287,484 Sunderland January 2000 827,650 Telford and Wrekin December 1999 361,603 Wakefield January 2000 189,605 Wednesbury December 1999 556,130 Westminster May 2000 450,000 Withernsea and Southern Holderness January 2000 447,442 Wolverhampton January 2000 868,500 Wythenshawe December 1999 781,814 Total 23,624,973 Audited annual accounts for all 73 zones for the period 1999–2000 are not yet published. The National Audit Office expects to lay the first of these before Parliament in the near future.