§ Dr. David ClarkTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what the annual increase has been in the Standards Fund since 1996; and how much of the Standards Fund has been spent in(a) South Shields constituency and (b) the borough of South Tyneside in each year since then. [152766]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisThe following table shows the annual cash increase in the Standards Fund since 1996–97:
£ million Year Total allocations Increase on previous year DfEE contribution Increase on previous year 1996–97 265 14 163 12 1997–98 320 55 211 48 1998–99 620 300 395 184 1999–2000 1,260 640 862 467 2000–01 2,490 1,230 1,913 1,051 Note:
The total allocation figures include both Government and local authority contributions.
Figures for the amount of grant spent in an individual constituency cannot be provided, but the following table
£ million 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–01 2000–01 2001–02 SSA 59.0 59.5 65.7 68.8 71.8 73.6 Grants 0.7 3.0 1.4 3.0 6.5 7.7 Of which: Standards Fund1 0.7 0.9 1.1 2.0 4.1 4.9 Class Size Reduction Grant — — — 0.2 0.3 0.4 Education Action Zones — — 0.3 0.8 0.9 — Nursery Vouchers Grant — 2.1 — — — — £50 million Special Grant LEAs — — — — 0.2 0.5 School Standards (Special) Grant — — — — 1.0 1.9 Capital 1.5 1.5 2.5 3.4 5.6 n/a 1 DfEE contributions only. Figures for 2001–02 are provisional. In the Budget on 7 March, national increases of £100 million for School Standards Grant and devolved New Deal for Schools Capital were announced. South Tyneside will benefit from these increases; the precise allocations are being calculated, and have not been included in the table above.
§ Dr. David ClarkTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how much direct grant was received by each school in the South Shields constituency for the 2000–01 financial year; and what his estimate is for each school in 2001–02. [152781]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisThe following table shows the School Standards Grant payable to each school in 2000–01. No estimate by individual school is yet available for 2001–02. However a typical primary school will receive £24,000 in 2001–02 compared with £9,000 in 2000–01; and a typical secondary school, £70,000 compared with £40,000 in 2000–01.
436Wshows the Standards Fund grant spent in South Tyneside local education authority since 1996–97. The figures include all grants paid through the Standards Fund payment system excluding New Deal for School capital, which is not part of the Standards Fund programme.
Amount of Standards Fund spent in the borough of South Tyneside £ million Year Total expenditure DfEE contribution 1996–97 1.1 0.7 1997–98 1.4 1.0 1998–99 2.4 1.5 1999–2000 4.0 2.8 2000–01 9.5 7.3 Notes:
1. The total expenditure figures include both Government and local authority contributions
2. The figures for 1996–97, 1997–98, 1998–99 and 1999–2000 are audited outturn expenditure figures.
3. The figures for 2000–01 are the total expenditure currently expected to be incurred in this financial year.
§ Dr. David ClarkTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the funding allocations, by scheme, to South Tyneside Local Education Authority in each year since 1996; and what his estimates are for the 2001–02 financial year. [152780]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisI refer my right hon. Friend to the letter sent to him by the Secretary of State on 16 February. The total funding for South Tyneside local education authority since 1996–97 is set out:
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£ 000 School name Amount of grant Elizabeth Diamond Nursery School 3 Wharfedale Drive Nursery School 3 Cleadon Park Nursery School 3 Chuter Edge Behavioural Support Unit 3 Hadrian Primary School 9 Ridgeway Primary School 9 Downhill Infants' and Nursery School 6 Harton Infants' School 9 Laygate School 9 Mortimer Primary School 9 Mowbray Junior Mixed School 9 Marine Park Junior Mixed Infant and Nursery School 6 Stanhope Junior Mixed and Infants School 9 Westoe Infants' School 9 Biddick Hall Junior School 9 Temple Park Junior School 9 Highfield Infants' School 6
£ 000 School name Amount of grant Temple Park Infants' School 6 Biddick Hall Infants' School 9 Monkton Junior School 9 Monkton Infants' School 6 Ashley Primary School 9 Harton Junior School 9 Cheviot Junior School 9 Lord Blyton Primary School 9 Albert Elliott Primary School 9 All Saints' CofE Junior School 6 All Saints CofE Infants' School 3 St. Mary's CofE Voluntary Aided Primary School 9 St. Bede's RC Voluntary Aided Primary School, South Shields 9 St. Gregory's RC Voluntary Aided Primary School 9 SS Peter and Paul RC Voluntary Aided Primary School 9 St. Oswald's RC Voluntary Aided Primary School 9 Harton School 50 Mortimer Comprehensive School 40 Brinkburn School 40 King George V School 40 St. Wilfrid's RC Voluntary Aided Comprehensive School 40 438W
New Deal for Schools—allocations for schools in the South Shields constituency Year/School Project Total allocations (£) 1997–98 Included within an LEA wide package: Roof repairs 1 536,000 Biddick Hall Infants Highfields Infants Brinkburn Comprehensive Harton Junior Harton Junior IT development Mortimer Comprehensive 1998–99 All Saints CE Junior Replacement of electrical wiring 42,500 Biddick Hall Infants Replacement of electrical wiring 53,100 Margaret Sutton Special Replacement of electrical wiring 53,100 Harton Comprehensive Replacement of electrical wiring 84,600 Monkton County Infants Replacement of electrical wiring 63,400 Monkton Junior Replacement of electrical wiring 42,500 St. Mary's CE Junior Replacement of electrical wiring 51,685 St. Peter and Paul RC Primary Replacement of electrical wiring 63,300 Temple Park Infants Replacement of electrical wiring 38,000 Mortimer Comprehensive Improvement of ventilation 25,500 Cheviot Junior Renewal of obsolete firm alarm 75,000 Cleadon Park Nursery Renewal of obsolete firm alarm 5,250 Downhill Infants Renewal of obsolete firm alarm 5,250 Harton Comprehensive Renewal of obsolete firm alarm 85,600 Laygate School Renewal of obsolete firm alarm 41,200 Ridgeway Junior Renewal of obsolete firm alarm 31,650 Temple Park Infants Renewal of obsolete firm alarm 13,700 Brinkburn Comprehensive Installation of safer emergency lighting 32,300 Harton Comprehensive Installation of safer emergency lighting 42,500 King George V School Installation of safer emergency lighting 34,000 Laygate School Installation of safer emergency lighting 24,650 Mortimer Comprehensive Installation of safer emergency lighting 47,600 St. Wilfred's RC Comprehensive Installation of safer emergency lighting 26,800 Bamburgh Special Fire precautions 17,000 1999–2000 Included within a 16 school package: Bamburgh School Boiler/Heating distribution replacement 2718,309 Cheviot Junior Downhill Infants and Nursery Harton Infants Harton Junior Stanhope Primary
£ 000 School name Amount of grant Bamburgh School 15 Margaret Sutton School 15
§ Dr. David ClarkTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the amount of capital funding made available to schools in the South Shields constituency through the New Deal for Schools since May 1997. [152782]
§ Jacqui SmithThe following table shows those schools, in the South Shields constituency, which have benefited from investment through the New Deal for Schools programme, which commenced in 1997–98. These allocations formed part of the £5.5 million investment made in schools in the South Tyneside local education authority under the New Deal for Schools programme between 1997–98 and 2000–01. In total, in those four years, some £13 million of funding for capital investment has been allocated for schools in South Tyneside local education authority. 439W
New Deal for schools—allocations for schools in the South Shields constituency Year/School Project Total allocation (£) Included within a 16 school package: All Saints CE Junior Flat roof finishing 2438,990 Bamburgh School Brinkburn Comprehensive Cheviot Junior Cleadon Park Nursery Lord Blyton Primary Margaret Sutton Special Marine Park Junior, Infant and Nursery Ridgeway Primary Wharfedale Drive Nursery Brinkburn Comprehensive Food technology room refurbishment 97,325 2000–01 Ridgeway Primary Ridgeway family support centre 753,431 St. Gregory's RC Primary Replacement extension 211,119 Hadrian Primary Electrical rewire and flat roof renewal project 22,019 Marine Park Primary Emergency lighting and flat roof renewal 20,249 Included in a 4 school package: King George V School Boiler and heating distribution replacement 2560,387 Stanhope Primary Included in a 4 school package: Margaret Sutton Special Re-roofing 2178,664 Wharfedale Drive Nursery 1 Local education authorities were not required to specify individual project costs for phase 1 of the NDS programme, so the amount shown is the total allocation in that year to the LEA. South Tyeside LEA holds project level information. 2 Allocations made to package projects covering more than one school. South Tyneside local education authority will be able to advise the value of projects at schools which benefited from these allocations.
§ Dr. David ClarkTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what percentage of its local schools' budget South Tyneside Council has delegated to schools in each year since 1996. [152784]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisThe information requested is set out in the table. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has set a target for all local education authorities to delegate 85 per cent. of their local schools budget in 2001–02.
Financial year Percentage of schools" budget delegated 1996–97 78.8 1997–98 78.1 1998–99 78.6 1999–2000 80.5 2000–01 83.3 440W
Table A: Central Government capital investment in schools in South Tyneside local education authority £000 Funding Stream 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 Basic Credit Approvals 618 571 148 314 424 Supplementary Credit Approvals 556 253 34 786 350 Grant to Voluntary Aided Schools 34 94 94 136 326 Schools Renewal Challenge Fund 307 — — — — New Deal for Schools — 536 1,675 1,270 2,058 School Security Grant — 45 56 56 56 Energy Efficiency Initiative — — 67 — — Key Stage 1 Class Size Initiative — — — — 74 National Grid for Learning Grant — — 364 488 543 Assistance with Asset Management Plans — — — 22 — Seed Challenge Funding — — — — 129 Note:
For 1998–99 and previous years, the figures represent the percentage of South Tyneside's General Schools Budget (adjusted mainly to exclude capital expenditure and capital financing costs) delegated to schools in accordance with the LEA's school funding formula.
§ Dr. David ClarkTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what the capital investment in schools in South Tyneside local education authority was from 1996 to 1999(a) in total and (b) by funding stream; and what his forecast is for the next three years. [152786]
§ Jacqui SmithTable A shows the capital allocations made to South Tyneside local education authority, by funding stream, from 1996–97 to 2000–01. Table B shows the forecast investment for the South Tyneside local education authority over the next three years.
Nationally, capital investment in school buildings has tripled from £683 million a year in 1996–97 to over £2 billion in 2000–01. It will be £3.5 billion in 2003–04, including grant, credit approvals and Private Finance Initiative credits. There will be central Government investment of £8.5 billion in school buildings in total from 2001–02 to 2003–04. 441W
Table A: Central capital investment in schools in South Tyneside local education authority £000 Funding Stream 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 Devolved Formula Capital for Schools — — — — 1,174 Renewal of School Laboratories — — — — 126 Schools Access Initiative Grant 5 — 18 — — Nursery Provision — — — — 59 Early Excellence Centre Grant — — — 319 321 Total 1,520 1,499 2,456 3,391 5,640
Table B: Forecast investment in South Tyneside local education authority £000 Funding Stream 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 Basic Credit Approvals 185 1— 1— Grant to Voluntary Aided Schools 167 1— 1— Private Finance Initiative Credits — 1— 1— New Deal for Schools Devolved Formula 649 873 1,680 New Deal for Schools Condition Funding 477 1,367 1,733 Seed Challenge Funding 142 226 226 Renewal of School Laboratories 126 1— 1— School Access Initiative 232 1— 1— Total 1,978 2,466 3,639 1 Future years' allocations shown in the above table are those already announced as being attributable to South Tyneside local education authority. In addition to the amounts shown above, schools in the Authority will also benefit from a share of other programmes where allocations have not yet been made. These include over £1 billion of credit approvals, mainly to provide new pupil places; £440 million of grant to governors of Voluntary Aided schools; £555 million funding through the NDS Modernisation programme; £170 million worth of funding under the Schools Access Initiative and additional New Deal for Schools Devolved Formula announced in the Budget on 7 March of £300 million in total over the next three years.
This funding will be augmented by capital receipts and other contributions from local education authority sources, and the contribution which governors of Voluntary Aided schools make to their building work. In addition, around £1.6 billion is available nationally through Private Finance Initiative Credits for projects which will sign in 2002–03 and 2003–04.
Funding specifically ring fenced for the renewal of school laboratories and secondary learning support units is ending in 2001–02. Local authorities will be able to prioritise their other increased funding for this purpose, if they wish.