HC Deb 17 June 2004 vol 422 cc1061-2W
Ms Walley

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much capital funding was made available through private finance initiative projects for(a) primary school and (b) secondary school buildings in Stoke-on-Trent North in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. [177628]

Mr. Miliband

There is a private finance initiative project in Stoke-on-Trent which provides energy, energy management and repair and maintenance work to all 122 maintained schools in the Local Education Authority. The contract was signed in November 2000 with Transform Schools (Stoke) and was supported by £93 million PFI credits. Of the £93 million PFI credits, £13.4 million were made available for the primary school buildings and £7.7 million for the secondary school buildings in the Stoke-on-Trent North constituency.