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Councillor Peter Peacock

Highland Region

(Independent)

Councillor Clive Sneddon

North East Fife District

(Liberal Democrat)

Wales

Councillor Keith Griffiths

Gwent County Council

(Labour)

Councillor Bill Hughes

Swansea City Council

(Conservative)

Councillor Jill Evans

Rhondda Borough Council

Mid Glamorgan County Council

(Plaid Cymru)

Northern Ireland

Councillor Simpson Gibson

Ards Borough Council

(UDUP)

Alderman Sean Neeson

Mayor of Carrickfergus

(Alliance Party)

EDUCATION

Adult Literacy

Mr. Cormack : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will give details of his Department's planned funding for schemes to improve adult literacy in 1992-93 and 1993-94.

Mr. Boswell : In 1992-93 and 1993-94, the Department for Education has provided £3.751 million and £3.815 million respectively in grant to the adult literacy and basic skills unit for its work on adult literacy and basic skills, including £700,000 in each year for the Basic Skills at Work programme. The Department has also made available a further £250,000 in 1993-94 in support of the new family literacy initiative.

Capital Expenditure

Mr. Henderson : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what was the capital expenditure on education by each local authority in England for (a) 1979-80, (b) 1982-83, (c) 1985-86 and (d) each year since 1988-89.

Mr. Forth : The information requested is in the table.


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Local authority capital expenditure on Education                                               

£000s                                                                                          

LEA                    |1979-80 |1982-83 |1985-86 |1988-89 |1989-90 |1990-91 |1991-92          

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Barking and Dagenham   |1,077   |2,952   |1,785   |2,330   |1,765   |2,073   |7,249            

Barnet                 |1,553   |3,499   |2,909   |5,139   |2,343   |5,255   |2,300            

Bexley                 |1,642   |1,192   |1,883   |3,528   |3,870   |2,666   |2,365            

Brent                  |1,921   |1,478   |n/a     |6,343   |10,644  |6,447   |3,727            

Bromley                |1,310   |1,109   |2,949   |6,873   |6,280   |5,527   |7,215            

Croydon                |514     |1,168   |2,526   |6,770   |15,947  |15,764  |8,439            

Ealing                 |2,165   |2,270   |3,903   |2,208   |5,947   |2,816   |1,926            

Enfield                |1,453   |786     |2,128   |5,287   |7,740   |20,457  |16,146           

Haringey               |2,782   |3,798   |5,166   |4,443   |5,020   |1,339   |2,047            

Harrow                 |775     |1,252   |1,343   |5,447   |5,408   |3,057   |3,538            

Havering               |714     |580     |2,158   |3,752   |5,398   |7,618   |4,848            

Hillingdon             |1,781   |1,856   |2,025   |8,487   |15,324  |4,958   |1,717            

Hounslow               |1,623   |4,891   |2,527   |5,957   |10,260  |5,300   |5,304            

Kingston upon Thames   |944     |1,616   |3,925   |9,012   |2,973   |4,144   |4,213            

Merton                 |972     |768     |n/a     |3,286   |9,273   |10,861  |3,955            

Newham                 |3,939   |3,684   |5,002   |7,316   |10,188  |7,128   |10,662           

Redbridge              |1,689   |919     |2,027   |4,136   |5,900   |5,842   |3,264            

Richmond upon Thames   |1,323   |1,366   |869     |1,221   |2,476   |3,010   |2,946            

Sutton                 |225     |456     |1,934   |3,389   |5,443   |7,536   |7,292            

Waltham Forest         |1,780   |2,828   |2,128   |6,477   |11,853  |6,973   |3,441            

GLC/ILEA               |23,158  |19,232  |33,174  |30,309  |50,780  |-       |-                

Corporation of London  |-       |-       |-       |-       |-       |18,181  |-                

Camden                 |-       |-       |-       |-       |-       |1,256   |2,819            

Westminster            |-       |-       |-       |-       |-       |1,301   |1,848            

Greenwich              |-       |-       |-       |-       |-       |1,909   |1,501            

Hackney                |-       |-       |-       |-       |-       |1,492   |1,203            

Hammersmith & Fulham   |-       |-       |-       |-       |-       |2,169   |2,071            

Islington              |-       |-       |-       |-       |-       |3,872   |1,947            

Kensington & Chelsea   |-       |-       |-       |-       |-       |5,046   |2,798            

Lambeth                |-       |-       |-       |-       |-       |894     |1,587            

Lewisham               |-       |-       |-       |-       |-       |1,522   |1,534            

Southwark              |-       |-       |-       |-       |-       |1,088   |2,159            

Wandsworth             |-       |-       |-       |-       |-       |3,818   |4,306            

Tower Hamlets          |-       |-       |-       |-       |-       |19,602  |17,103           

Birmingham             |6,033   |11,396  |9,880   |5,511   |10,663  |14,121  |14,507           

Coventry               |4,403   |4,423   |8,236   |12,852  |19,705  |11,415  |6,877            

Dudley                 |1,695   |2,505   |4,281   |4,230   |5,549   |4,640   |6,667            

Sandwell               |2,210   |2,059   |3,013   |2,228   |5,703   |4,352   |2,740            

Solihull               |1,182   |810     |816     |2,691   |4,191   |3,275   |3,389            

Walsall                |3,834   |5,237   |2,297   |3,181   |5,712   |2,957   |2,447            

Wolverhampton          |4,933   |3,264   |2,562   |3,907   |3,551   |2,189   |2,631            

Knowsley               |775     |825     |2,205   |1,562   |2,869   |2,885   |1,297            

Liverpool              |3,818   |5,275   |8,697   |10,818  |4,163   |3,371   |2,477            

St. Helens             |2,664   |3,063   |1,812   |2,395   |2,244   |4,530   |7,084            

Sefton                 |1,281   |878     |1,648   |1,909   |3,362   |4,854   |3,636            

Wirral                 |1,478   |3,507   |2,826   |5,285   |3,629   |4,135   |4,630            

Bolton                 |1,552   |4,736   |1,141   |3,403   |4,645   |3,683   |1,530            

Bury                   |3,599   |1,214   |1,053   |1,082   |1,832   |1,324   |1,085            

Manchester             |3,817   |8,41,299|1,882   |2,412   |4,429   |6,579   |4,868            

Stockport              |1,098   |1,808   |1,371   |3,287   |5,464   |3,123   |2,552            

Tameside               |2,237   |2,090   |1,356   |2,738   |2,591   |2,250   |1,949            

Trafford               |728     |664     |1,739   |1,633   |6,795   |11,207  |5,333            

Wigan                  |2,911   |5,456   |2,021   |3,984   |2,369   |3,980   |5,322            

Barnsley               |2,633   |540     |1,068   |1,940   |2,733   |2,011   |1,910            

Doncaster              |1,979   |1,667   |656     |1,269   |1,651   |478     |410              

Rotherham              |2,152   |1,803   |1,172   |3,072   |3,020   |1,976   |1,331            

Sheffield              |2,528   |7,257   |9,125   |21,767  |13,393  |2,128   |6,302            

Bradford               |2,306   |7,105   |10,234  |12,074  |14,388  |10,019  |12,505           

Calderdale             |1,597   |1,066   |1,134   |3,338   |4,845   |2,149   |2,153            

Kirklees               |5,235   |5,902   |7,565   |5,859   |4,752   |4,779   |4,463            

Leeds                  |6,544   |20,039  |10,308  |19,478  |16,468  |10,903  |20,429           

Wakefield              |2,443   |3,174   |2,370   |5,918   |6,237   |4,537   |3,299            

Gateshead              |2,201   |2,241   |1,721   |4,213   |5,753   |4,384   |5,078            

Newcastle upon Tyne    |2,068   |3,602   |3,147   |8,074   |6,086   |2,520   |3,387            

North Tyneside         |1,686   |968     |2,248   |3,176   |1,783   |2,122   |1,963            

South Tyneside         |3,252   |3,809   |3,887   |3,778   |5,912   |4,650   |4,584            

Sunderland             |4,156   |2,922   |3,357   |7,594   |6,512   |4,229   |4,223            

Isles of Scilly        |17      |2       |8       |56      |143     |212     |50               

Avon                   |2,879   |n/a     |6,773   |9,682   |11,049  |10,539  |15,323           

Bedfordshire           |5,207   |2,883   |3,705   |5,460   |7,556   |3,219   |1,872            

Berkshire              |5,900   |8,604   |11,932  |26,090  |20,203  |10,662  |7,357            

Buckinghamshire        |5,902   |6,335   |12,292  |8,606   |12,274  |13,941  |13,312           

Cambridgeshire         |7,980   |6,596   |9,268   |17,128  |22,488  |16,232  |22,713           

Cheshire               |12,069  |8,465   |9,434   |28,455  |24,159  |10,778  |16,465           

Cleveland              |5,582   |9,463   |4,816   |6,877   |6,812   |6,643   |4,954            

Cornwall               |5,646   |5,648   |3,998   |7,386   |9,021   |12,333  |11,435           

Cumbria                |2,232   |2,678   |5,152   |5,913   |9,005   |8,306   |10,100           

Derbyshire             |6,194   |10,447  |9,311   |15,341  |20,754  |16,357  |14,459           

Devon                  |8,351   |10,560  |7,802   |13,322  |20,154  |26,053  |32,599           

Dorset                 |4,253   |6,464   |5,758   |6,481   |6,547   |8,900   |13,195           

Durham                 |4,560   |3,573   |3,503   |4,785   |6,233   |5,822   |7,159            

East Sussex            |3,602   |8,136   |7,361   |13,994  |16,542  |13,937  |17,275           

Essex                  |12,489  |9,471   |12,760  |23,950  |26,260  |19,713  |23,992           

Gloucestershire        |3,678   |3,179   |8,963   |9,211   |10,030  |11,956  |10,569           

Hampshire              |15,238  |12,018  |20,369  |34,210  |30,552  |33,101  |25,013           

Hereford and Worcester |4,665   |4,706   |4,441   |7,315   |9,450   |11,919  |10,656           

Hertfordshire          |5,459   |6,242   |12,587  |21,138  |14,989  |14,040  |14,091           

Humberside             |7,543   |9,835   |7,537   |12,380  |11,427  |10,291  |8,578            

Isle of Wight          |1,588   |931     |1,280   |2,433   |2,021   |2,712   |3,299            

Kent                   |13,601  |8,196   |7,786   |16,121  |19,446  |18,956  |24,964           

Lancashire             |8,281   |13,081  |14,387  |17,383  |19,272  |20,675  |20,255           

Leicestershire         |7,672   |9,166   |11,948  |14,852  |12,998  |13,282  |12,543           

Lincolnshire           |3,633   |6,101   |8,078   |7,894   |7,375   |11,667  |18,463           

Norfolk                |5,555   |6,707   |6,453   |8,213   |7,982   |6,936   |6,152            

North Yorkshire        |6,092   |4,290   |7,403   |9,557   |8,193   |5,586   |5,460            

Northamptonshire       |5,539   |4,883   |6,882   |5,237   |9,484   |4,956   |10,844           

Northumberland         |4,254   |2,442   |1,822   |2,410   |3,102   |2,969   |3,966            

Nottinghamshire        |8,253   |6,827   |5,640   |7,385   |8,563   |6,294   |6,318            

Oxfordshire            |2,837   |4,519   |6,946   |11,034  |11,085  |11,583  |3,524            

Shropshire             |4,157   |2,889   |2,761   |5,274   |5,565   |6,561   |7,384            

Somerset               |4,199   |3,950   |3,690   |5,090   |8,970   |7,777   |5,770            

Staffordshire          |12,976  |11,421  |10,905  |9,532   |11,104  |8,949   |10,160           

Suffolk                |5,920   |4,161   |6,089   |11,684  |10,511  |12,377  |11,109           

Surrey                 |6,547   |9,281   |15,164  |24,982  |26,536  |17,896  |17,366           

Warwickshire           |3,539   |1,804   |2,945   |3,879   |5,339   |5,618   |3,602            

West Sussex            |3,051   |4,310   |10,420  |9,757   |11,882  |17,028  |14,753           

Wiltshire              |3,810   |n/a     |5,782   |4,829   |7,607   |9,483   |10,009           

Note: Details are taken from the Department of the Environment's Capital Payment Return forms, 

and cover expenditure on schools, polytechnics, further education, youth, and other            

educational services.                                                                          

Capital Expenditure

Mr. Henderson : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what was the national total of capital expenditure on education by local authorities in England


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for (a) 1979-80, (b) 1982-83, (c) 1985-86 and (d) each year since 1988-89; and if he will give the breakdown of the total between (i) non-metropolitan district councils, (ii) county councils, (iii) metropolitan district councils, (iv) London boroughs and (v) the City of London.

Mr. Forth : The information requested is in the table.


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Local authority capital expenditure on education by class of authority:                     

£000s                                                                                       

                            |1979-80|1982-83|1985-86|1988-89|1989-90|1990-91|1991-92        

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(i)Non Metropolitan Districts  -     -       -       -       -       -       -              

(ii)County Councils         |241,670|240,264|304,151|455,326|492,683|456,259|477,108        

(iii)Metropolitan Districts |99,007 |134,979|132,002|196,494|217,469|165,569|177,099        

(iv)London Boroughs         |53,340 |57,700 |80,361 |131,710|194,832|172,740|143,470        

(v)City of London           |-      |-      |-      |-      |-      |18,181 |-              

                            |-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------        

Total                       |394,017|432,943|516,514|783,530|904,984|812,749|797,677        

Notes:                                                                                      

1. Details are taken from the Department of the Environment's Capital Payment Return forms, 

and cover expenditure on schools, polytechnics, further education, and other educational    

services.                                                                                   

2. Figures may not match national totals because of non-returns and later adjustments of    

local authority figures.                                                                    

Mr. Henderson : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what was the regional total of capital


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expenditure on education by the local authorities in England for (a) 1979-80, (b) 1982-83, (c) 1985-86 and (d) each year since 1988-89 for each standard English region.

Mr. Forth : The information requested is in the table.


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Local authority capital expenditure on education by economic planning region                 

£000s                                                                                        

                             |1979-80|1982-83|1985-86|1988-89|1989-90|1990-91|1991-92        

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1.  South East               |134,761|138,626|202,963|329,485|394,178|367,709|310,288        

2.  South West               |32,833 |29,803 |42,774 |56,057 |73,521 |87,253 |98,950         

3.  East Anglia              |19,455 |17,464 |21,810 |37,025 |40,981 |35,545 |39,974         

4.  West Midlands            |49,627 |50,514 |52,137 |60,600 |86,532 |75,996 |71,060         

5.  East Midlands            |32,011 |37,424 |41,859 |50,709 |59,174 |52,556 |62,627         

6.  North West               |54,287 |64,736 |66,746 |106,182|112,293|97,188 |102,524        

7.  Yorkshire and Humberside |41,052 |62,678 |58,572 |96,652 |87,107 |54,857 |66,840         

8.  Northern                 |29,991 |31,698 |29,653 |46,820 |51,198 |41,645 |45,414         

                             |----   |----   |----   |----   |----   |----   |----           

Total                        |394,017|432,943|516,514|783,530|904,984|812,749|797,677        


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Pupil-Teacher Ratios

Mr. Hutton : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what is the pupil-teacher ratio in secondary grant-maintained schools and local education authority maintained schools in each local education authority in England and Wales.

Mr. Robin Squire : The information requested for schools in England is shown in the table. Information on schools in Wales is the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.


Pupil: teacher ratios in LEA-maintained and self-governing          

secondary                                                           

schools in each Local Education in England<1>                       

LEA                     Pupil:teacher                               

                        ratios in:                                  

                       |LEA-maintained|Self-governing               

                       |schools<2>    |schools                      

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Corporation of London  |-             |-                            

Camden                 |15.3          |16.7                         

Greenwich              |16.3          |-                            

Hackney                |15.7          |-                            

Hammersmith            |15.5          |15.7                         

Islington              |17.6          |-                            

Kensington and Chelsea |13.1          |15.1                         

Lambeth                |16.4          |16.5                         

Lewisham               |17.2          |-                            

Southwark              |17.5          |16.6                         

Tower Hamlets          |13.8          |16.8                         

Wandsworth             |13.0          |15.4                         

Westminster            |14.7          |-                            

Barking                |16.3          |-                            

Barnet                 |15.4          |14.8                         

Bexley                 |16.7          |16.9                         

Brent                  |13.9          |14.5                         

Bromley                |16.1          |16.3                         

Croydon                |16.0          |16.4                         

Ealing                 |14.8          |16.0                         

Enfield                |15.9          |16.1                         

Haringey               |14.7          |-                            

Harrow                 |16.1          |14.2                         

Havering               |15.7          |16.2                         

Hillingdon             |15.0          |16.2                         

Hounslow               |15.9          |16.9                         

Kingston upon Thames   |15.0          |14.7                         

Merton                 |15.6          |-                            

Newham                 |16.2          |14.3                         

Redbridge              |16.9          |16.7                         

Richmond upon Thames   |16.6          |-                            

Sutton                 |15.7          |16.2                         

Waltham Forest         |15.0          |16.3                         

Birmingham             |16.0          |16.4                         

Coventry               |14.5          |-                            

Dudley                 |15.3          |15.6                         

Sandwell               |15.2          |14.5                         

Solihull               |15.9          |-                            

Walsall                |14.8          |16.2                         

Wolverhampton          |13.8          |15.4                         

Knowsley               |16.6          |14.3                         

Liverpool              |15.4          |14.5                         

St Helens              |15.3          |-                            

Sefton                 |16.0          |-                            

Wirral                 |15.5          |16.0                         

Bolton                 |15.0          |14.9                         

Bury                   |16.3          |-                            

Manchester             |14.3          |-                            

Oldham                 |15.0          |-                            

Rochdale               |15.5          |15.4                         

Salford                |14.8          |-                            

Stockport              |16.0          |-                            

Tameside               |16.3          |16.6                         

Trafford               |15.3          |15.8                         

Wigan                  |15.1          |-                            

Barnsley               |16.2          |-                            

Doncaster              |16.0          |-                            

Rotherham              |15.0          |-                            

Sheffield              |14.9          |16.7                         

Bradford               |16.0          |15.6                         

Calderdale             |15.5          |16.1                         

Kirklees               |15.4          |17.1                         

Leeds                  |15.6          |16.5                         

Wakefield              |16.0          |-                            

Gateshead              |15.3          |-                            

Newcastle upon Tyne    |15.1          |-                            

North Tyneside         |15.5          |-                            

South Tyneside         |16.1          |-                            

Sunderland             |15.5          |-                            

Isles of Scilly        |8.6           |-                            

Avon                   |16.2          |15.9                         

Bedfordshire           |17.3          |16.9                         

Berkshire              |15.9          |14.8                         

Buckinghamshire        |16.4          |15.8                         

Cambridgeshire         |16.3          |17.0                         

Cheshire               |16.4          |16.2                         

Cleveland              |15.9          |-                            

Cornwall               |16.4          |-                            

Cumbria                |15.1          |15.2                         

Derbyshire             |15.0          |15.6                         

Devon                  |16.2          |16.3                         

Dorset                 |16.8          |16.3                         

Durham                 |16.2          |-                            

East Sussex            |16.0          |-                            

Essex                  |16.7          |17.1                         

Gloucestershire        |16.3          |16.4                         

Hampshire              |16.4          |16.7                         

Hereford and Worcester |16.7          |18.0                         

Hertfordshire          |15.8          |16.0                         

Humberside             |16.2          |-                            

Isle of Wight          |16.9          |-                            

Kent                   |17.0          |16.9                         

Lancashire             |16.0          |15.7                         

Leicestershire         |15.6          |17.3                         

Lincolnshire           |15.8          |16.4                         

Norfolk                |15.4          |15.5                         

North Yorkshire        |15.6          |-                            

Northamptonshire       |16.3          |15.6                         

Northumberland         |16.9          |14.8                         

Nottinghamshire        |15.3          |15.1                         

Oxfordshire            |16.7          |-                            

Shropshire             |15.1          |15.9                         

Somerset               |16.3          |11.5                         

Staffordshire          |16.1          |15.7                         

Suffolk                |16.1          |-                            

Surrey                 |16.1          |15.3                         

Warwickshire           |16.2          |16.0                         

West Sussex            |16.6          |-                            

Wiltshire              |15.8          |16.3                         

                                                                    

England                |15.9          |16.2                         

<1> Based on pupil and teacher numbers in schools in January 1992.  

Pupil:teacher ratios for schools which are now self-governing       

appear in the self-governing column of the table.                   

<2> Excluding Sixth Form Colleges.                                  

Grant-maintained Schools

Mrs. Ann Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many representations he has received from hon. Members with regard to the method of auditing of the accounts of grant-maintained schools.

Mr. Robin Squire : We have received six such representations this year, of which five concerned the possibility of a role for the Audit Commission which was considered during the passage of the Education Act 1993.

Mrs. Ann Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Education whether he will list all grant-maintained schools operating at the end of the last financial year stating in each case the extent of any financial surplus or deficit.


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Mr. Robin Squire : This information is available only at disproportionate cost.

Mr. Hutton : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what grants, other than specific purpose grants, are available to grant- maintained schools.

Mr. Robin Squire : The grants, other than special purpose grants, that are available to self-governing schools, are annual maintenance grant and capital grant.

In addition, self-governing schools are eligible to receive section 11 grant from the Home Office, on whose behalf the Department for Education oversees payments to qualifying self-governing schools.

Mr. Hutton : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what were the capital allocations to grant-maintained schools in Cumbria in the financial years 1991-92, 1992-93 and 1993-94.

Mr. Robin Squire : The following self-governing schools in Cumbria have received capital allocations.


School                                                          

                                                                

                                |1991-92|1992-93|1993-94        

                                |£      |£      |£              

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Appleby Grammar School                                          

Formula Allocation              |-      |-      |21,220         

Brampton Junior School                                          

Formula Allocation              |-      |-      |8,925          

Cartmel Priory School                                           

Formula Allocation              |-      |-      |16,740         

Dallam School                                                   

Formula Allocation              |-      |-      |23,940         

Harraby School                                                  

Formula Allocation              |-      |-      |22,200         

Hayton Church of England School                                 

Formula Allocation              |-      |11,760 |-              

Named Projects                  |-      |-      |170,000        

Kirby Stephen School                                            

Formula Allocation              |-      |-      |17,820         

Kirkbie Kendal School                                           

Formula Allocation              |15,900 |27,860 |28,860         

Named Projects                  |-      |-      |950,000        

Queen Elizabeth Grammar School                                  

Formula Allocation              |5,900  |20,080 |21,760         

Named Projects                  |-      |102,000|-              

Scotby CE Primary School                                        

Formula Allocation              |-      |8,440  |-              

St. Aidan's County High School                                  

Formula Allocation              |-      |19,800 |21,420         

Named Projects                  |-      |-      |150,000        

The Queen Katherine School                                      

Formula Allocation              |-      |18,380 |-              

Named Projects                  |-      |-      |50,000         

Trinty School                                                   

Formula Allocation              |-      |43,360 |-              

Named Projects                  |-      |-      |150,000        

                                                |198,000        

Warwick Bridge School                                           

Formula Allocation              |-      |-      |8,493          

Some schools have yet to claim their formula allocation for 1993-94.

Mrs. Ann Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what payments have been made from public funds to heads of

grant-maintained schools to attend conferences, seminars, workshops or meetings on grant-maintained status.


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Mr. Robin Squire : The Department has reimbursed head teachers and governors of grant-maintained schools for expenses they have incurred in connection with their attendance at conferences, seminars, workshops and meetings designed to provide factual information on grant-maintained status.

The total amount of such expenses reimbursed by the Department in financial year 1992-93 was £15,234. The figure for the current financial year up to the end of September is £15,546.

Kirbie Kendal School

Mr. Hutton : To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to his answer of 18 October, Official Report, column 99, what was the purpose of the specific purpose grant (emergency) paid to the Kirbie Kendal school in the last financial year.

Mr. Robin Squire : The grant was paid in respect of expenditure incurred by the school in connection with meeting the needs of a number of pupils with statements of their speical educational needs.

Mrs. Ann Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what (a) contacts his Department has had with and (b) payments it has made to firms of consultants or accountants in respect of the organisation of conferences, seminars or workshops on

grant-maintained status or the provision of advice thereon.

Mr. Robin Squire : The Department has not to date called in consultants or accountants to assist it in, or provide advice on, the organisation of conferences, seminars or workshops desigend to provide factual information on grant-maintained status, and has, therefore, not made payments to any such firms in this respect. The Department does, however, use the services of a number of outside contractors to provide basic support for these events such as secretariat support, venue booking, a mailing service, and the provision of conference equipment.

NATIONAL FINANCE

Overseas Staff and Premises

Mr. Redmond : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the cost for the current financial year of his Department's having (a) premises and (b) personnel overseas ; and what were the comparable figures for (i) 12, (ii) 24, (iii) 36 and (iv) 48 months ago.

Sir John Cope : There is no cost to the Treasury for premises overseas. The cost of locally engaged staff overseas in the current financial year is estimated at £80,000. The cost in 1992-93 was £48, 520, in 1991-92 £73,253, in 1990-91 £73,974, and in 1989-90 the cost was £61,694.

Ministerial Salaries

Mr. Allen : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his answer of 18 October, Official Report, column 14, concerning ministerial salary payments, if he will list each occasion in the last 10 years when payments have been made, giving the amounts in each instance.

Mr. Dorrell : The Parliamentary Pensions Act 1984 introduced severance payments for Ministers and other


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paid office holders in the House of Lords, subject to the conditions set out in the Act. The Ministerial and Other Salaries Order 1991 extended the provision to Commons Ministers and other paid office holders in each House.

Although no composite list is kept, we have identified from our records the following occasions on which severance payments have been authorised since 31 July 1984. In each case, the severance payment would have been equal to three months of the relevant ministerial salary, as provided for by the Act.

Severance Payments--

Date and Ministerial Post 11 September 1984

Minister of State for the Environment

26 March 1985

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Environment

3 September 1985

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

11 September 1986

Minister of State, Environment

Minister of State, Scottish Office

15 June 1987

Minister of State, Foreign Office

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Trade and Industry 23 July 1989

Secretary of State, Trade and Industry

Minister of State, Foreign & Commonwealth Office

24 July 1989

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Energy

25 July 1989

Lord in Waiting

26 July 1989

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office 22 July 1990

Minister of State, Industry

6 September 1990

Minister of State, Scottish Office

3 December 1990

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office 22 May 1991

Chief Whip, House of Lords

31 December 1991

Deputy Chief Whip, House of Lords

11 April 1992

Secretary of State, Defence

Secretary of State, Home Office

Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office

Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords

14 April 1992

Minister of State, Defence

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Education and Science Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Energy

Minister of State, Environment

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Health

Minister of State, Home Office

Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office

Minister for the Arts

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Trade and Industry Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Transport

Financial Secretary to the Treasury

Economic Secretary to the Treasury

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office


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