§ Mr. Damian GreenTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what has been spent since 1997 on projects to improve behaviour in schools. [133696]
§ Mr. Ivan LewisFunding for behaviour improvement in schools comes from a wide variety of sources and is aggregated to varying degrees with funding for other activities. It is therefore impossible to give a discrete total. The School Inclusion: Pupil Support grant provided about £560 million in Government grant and LEA contributions between 1999 and 2003. But this gave schools funding to tackle pupil disaffection more widely and was not just for behaviour improvement initiatives.
In 2003–04 the Government will be allocating over £90 million to schools as part of its national behaviour and attendance strategy. This builds on the £50 million provided to targeted schools and LEAs through the Behaviour Improvement Programme in 2002–03.