§ David DavisTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much money has been provided through the Raising Standards Fund in each year since the fund began for each maintained school in the East Riding of Yorkshire. [108288]
§ Mr. MilibandThe Standards Fund is paid to local education authorities and most is then devolved to schools. The amount of grant each school receives will depend on decisions made by the authority in consultation with its schools. The following table shows the Standards Fund grant for East Riding of Yorkshire since the Council became a local education authority in 1996–1997. The figures for 2003–04 are the grant allocated to date.
Standards Fund Grant allowed to East Riding of Yorkshire £ Year Revenue Grant Capital Grant Total Grant 1996–97 1,046,700 0 1,046,700 1997–98 1,459,767 0 1,459,767 1998–99 2,341,534 85,000 2,426,534 1999–2000 4,217,082 1,297,275 5,514,357 2000–01 6,824,041 4,151,200 10,975,241 2001–02 8,555,372 6,423,442 14,978,814 2002–03 8,685,748 9,083,498 17,769,246 2003–04 5,872,779 10,846,811 16,719,590 The figures include Government grant only, they do not include local authority contributions to the Standards Fund.
The recurrent figure for 2002–03 includes class size grant of £1.7 million. The funding for class size grant is now distributed via the Education Formula Spending Shares (EFSS). East Riding of Yorkshire received an increase in EFSS per pupil of 4.9 per cent, on alike for like basis.
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§ Mr. MilibandThe information is not available at constituency level.
The table shows occasional teachers as a percentage of the full-time equivalent teachers in the maintained sector in schools on the 17 January 20021.