HC Deb 26 February 2002 vol 380 c1220W
Mr. Webb

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list for(a) Sure Start and (b) employment zones (i) the amount budgeted and (ii) the total expended in each financial year for the planned lifetime of each initiative. [35281]

Yvette Cooper

For Sure Start, the budgeted expenditure for 1999–2000 to 2003–04 is as follows:

£ million
Budget
1999–2000 84
2000–01 184
2001–02 1184
2002–03 449
2003–04 499
1 £100 million of end year flexibility also available

Sure Start's budget for 2004–05 and beyond is currently under consideration as part of Spending Review 2002. Final outturn figures are available for 1999–2000, when the total outturn was £7 million and for 2000–01, when the total outturn was £43 million. Employment Zones are the responsibility of the Department for Work and Pensions; I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 23 November 2001, Official Report, column 538W.

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