HC Deb 04 May 2004 vol 420 cc1416-7W
Mr. Kilfoyle

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much public funding has been spent on computers for schools in each of the last seven years in (a) Liverpool, (b) Manchester, (c) Leeds and (d) Sheffield. [166962]

Mr. Miliband

Schools in Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield local education authorities have benefited from the funding through the Standards Fund grant for ICT (including match funding from the LEA) as follows:

£
Allocation to:
Liverpool LEA Manchester LEA Leeds LEA Sheffield LEA
1998–99 978,576 983,605 1,700,000 1,200,000
1999–2000 1,050,000 1,410,000 1,350,000 900,000
2000–01 2,096,082 1,861,602 2,986,463 1,899,247
2001–02 2,306,630 2,012,866 3,356,591 2,242,424
2002–03 3,247,326 2,932,949 4,687,707 3,997,782
2003–04 3,229,701 2,880,827 4,762,382 3,078,495
2004–05 4,120,244 3,682,324 6,139,762 3,969,335

Mr. Neil Turner

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much public funding has been spent on computers for schools in Wigan in each of the last seven years. [169289]

Mr. Charles Clarke

My Department does not collect information on school spend on computers at constituency level. However, in the last seven years schools in Wigan LEA have benefited from the following funding through the Standards Fund grant for ICT (including match funding from the LEA).

Allocation to Wigan LEA (£)
1998–99 685,947
1999–2000 675,000
2000–01 1,328,513
2001–02 1,483,483
2002–03 2,141,147
2003–04 2,557,655
2004–05 2,775,768