Recruitment and Retention Fund

HC Deb 03 December 2001 vol 376 c87W

Chris Grayling

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills for what reason the recruitment and retention fund is limited to two financial years. [19340]

Mr. Timms

Funding of £35 million for the recruitment and retention fund was made available in April and we said that there would be at least that available next year. No decisions have been made concerning the future of the fund.

Chris Grayling

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what criteria were used to allocate the recruitment and retention fund. [19377]

Mr. Timms

The fund was allocated on the basis of vacancy data from the annual census of vacancies conducted each January averaged over the three years 1998–2000.