HC Deb 15 May 2003 vol 405 c425W
Mr. Campbell

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much public funding has been allocated for capital expenditure projects to the maintained and controlled education sectors in Northern Ireland in the last five years. [112350]

Jane Kennedy

The amount of public funding allocated for major capital projects1 and for capital projects under my Department's Specialist Accommodation Programme, to improve facilities in Science, Technology and Design and ICT, over the last five years is as follows:

£ million
1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04
Controlled Schools Sector 29 35 73 72 139
Maintained Schools Sector2 25 27 67 55 29
1 Funding announced in March preceding the financial year.
2 Includes Catholic Maintained Schools and Irish Medium schools but excludes Voluntary Grammar Schools and Grant Maintained Integrated schools