§ Mr. WillisTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) if she will list for each local education authority the level of protected funding given by the LEA over that given by her Department as transitional funding to former grant maintained schools in each of the years 1998–99 to 2001–02; [28961]
(2) if she will list for each year from 1998–99, the transitional funding made available by her Department to former grant maintained schools in England. [28962]
§ Mr. TimmsThe Department has not itself provided transitional funding for former grant-maintained schools. Such funding was provided in 1998–99 by the Funding Agency for Schools as part of the schools' annual maintenance grants, and has been provided in subsequent years by local education authorities in accordance with regulations made under section 47 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998, with the assistance (in 2000–01 and 2001–02) of a special grant from the Department.