§ Ms BuckTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list(a) each category of grant and (b) the amount of each grant paid by his Department to each London borough in (i) 1997–98, (ii) 1998–1999, (iii) 1999–2000 and (iv) 2000–01; and what the projected figure is for 2001–02. [155428]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisI refer my hon. Friend to the letter sent on 16 February from my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State, setting out total funding for Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster local education authorities for the years 1996–97 to 2001–02.
A list of the Department's school education grants and funding allocations paid to each London borough for the last four years and projected grant figures for the current year have been placed in the House of Commons Library.
In the Budget on 7 March, national increases of £100 million for School Standards Grant and devolved New Deal for Schools Capital were announced. London boroughs will benefit from these increases, which are included in the figures placed in the House of Commons Library.
Real terms national recurrent funding per pupil will rise year on year by £200 in 2001–02 and will have risen by around £540 since 1997–98. There will be an average real terms increase in per-pupil funding of around £750 between 1997–98 and 2003–04.