National Grid for Learning

HC Deb 08 January 2002 vol 377 cc715-6W

Mr. Bercow

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much National Grid for Learning funding has been granted to schools in the Buckingham constituency in each year since 1997. [23728]

John Healey

National Grid for Learning funding through the Standards Fund commenced in 1998–99. Funding is allocated to local education authorities and information is not kept on a constituency basis. Since 1998 schools in Buckinghamshire have benefited from the following allocations (including match funding from the LEA):

Year	£ million
1998–99	1.25
1999–2000	1.125
2000–01	1.694
2001–02	2.032

Through Buckinghamshire's membership of the South East Grid for Learning consortium, its schools have also benefited from a share of £5,051 million of National Grid for Learning funding allocated in 2000–01 and £6.256 million in 2001–02 to equip them with broadband internet connections.