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Accountancy Contracts

Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many contracts were let by her Department and agencies for which she is responsible to (a) PWC Consulting or PricewaterhouseCoopers, (b) Ernst and Young, (c) Deloitte and Touche, (d) KPMG and (e) Andersen for consultancy services for the financial years (i) 1997–98, (ii) 1998–99, (iii) 1999–2000, (iv) 2000–01 and (v) 2001 to the latest date for which figures are available, indicating the remuneration in each case. [33846]

Mr. Ivan Lewis: This information could be supplied only at disproportionate cost.

Departmental Underspend

Mr. Syms: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the total underspend in her Department was on (a) capital and (b) non-capital expenditure in each financial year since May 1997. [34029]

Estelle Morris [holding answer 7 February 2002]: The split into capital and non-capital is shown in the table.

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£ million

Year	Current underspend	Capital underspend	Total underspend
2000–01	343	1,111	1,454
1999–2000	129	699	828
1998–99	55	604	659
1997–98	25	335	360

The total underspends for 1998–99, 1999–2000 and 2000–01 are calculated against the departmental expenditure limits (including programmes funded from the windfall tax), whereas the underspend for 1997–98 is calculated against the old control total.

Since 1998–99 Departments have been allowed to carry forward any DEL budget provision that is not spent in one year into the following year. More limited end year flexibility applied before this date. The change in carry forward has enabled the Department to better manage its resources and the Secretary of State uses this mechanism to deploy resources under her control where they are most needed and to ensure spending is profiled to maximise value for money.

Study Leave

Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if the results of the statistical impact of "Right to Time Off for Study" for 16 to 17-year-olds have been published. [34094]

Mr. Ivan Lewis: No. This information is not collected centrally.

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Departmental Publications

Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the publications issued by her Department in each of the last four years; and what the (a) circulation, (b) cost and (c) purpose of each was. [34203]

Mr. Ivan Lewis: It is not possible to list each new publication issued by the Department since 1997 without disproportionate expense. Within the Department's advertising and publicity budget, the total spend on publications since April 1997 is £8 million, broken down as follows:

	£ million
1997–98	2.1
1997–99	0.8
1999–2000	2.8
2000–01	2.3

The figures do not include spending by the Department's agencies.

New Schools

Ms Shipley: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to her answer of 4 February 2002, Official Report, column 720W, how much capital funding was provided for new school places in each education authority since 1997. [34656]

John Healey: We do not hold information in the form requested before 1998–99. The allocation of borrowing approvals to local education authorities for the provision of new school places from 1998–99 until 2002–03 is shown in the table. Local education authorities will be able to confirm actual investment in the provision of school places.

Capital funding for new school places£000

Local education authority	1998–99	1999–200	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	Total
Barking and Dagenham	632	530	0	2,274	0	3,436
Barnet	1,196	0	0	0	0	1,196
Barnsley	79	0	0	0	0	79
Bath and North East Somerset	120	0	528	1,340	1,943	3,931
Bedfordshire	1,731	2,547	1,981	7,278	1,323	14,860
Bexley	3,259	2,175	2,110	4,404	0	11,948
Birmingham	110	0	0	0	1,379	1,489
Blackburn with Darwen	0	0	0	0	45	45
Blackpool	0	5,291	1,397	4,230	0	10,918
Bolton	1,088	913	591	0	0	2,592
Bournemouth	751	1,472	0	0	0	2,223
Brent	0	1,070	3,010	0	1,658	5,738
Brighton and Hove	1,876	3,316	0	765	951	6,908
Bromley	0	1,198	0	0	0	1,198
Buckinghamshire	4,579	5,372	2,490	1,822	4,203	18,466
Bury	0	4,198	0	0	0	4,198
Calderdale	930	0	1,238	341	1,086	3,595
Cambridgeshire	4,614	6,792	8,563	9,648	12,358	41,975
Camden	496	290	806	0	500	2,092
Cheshire	2,332	2,707	5,018	1,685	2,925	14,667
Cornwall	3,217	6,793	6,579	6,557	5,922	29,068
Croydon	351	1,070	0	2,871	0	4,292
Cumbria	1,844	2,764	3,388	3,420	2,142	13,558
Derby	993	532	0	1,629	291	3,445
Derbyshire	476	1,728	1,079	2,683	7,054	13,020
Devon	3,682	7,526	4,648	16,563	23,246	55,665
Doncaster	0	2,002	0	141	0	2,143
Dorset	1,460	586	2,624	2,063	2,108	8,841
Dudley	321	2,266	1,736	0	0	4,323
Durham	0	0	765	0	0	765
Ealing	502	1,614	0	932	1,649	4,697
East Riding of Yorkshire	4,148	9,087	3,333	1,239	6,459	24,266
East Sussex	3,139	2,208	4,172	4,113	10,949	24,581
Enfield	5,347	0	0	5,589	18,998	29,934
Essex	4,182	6,661	10,462	11,782	7,608	40,695
Gloucestershire	2,109	7,767	12,942	5,159	7,501	35,478
Hackney	3,205	0	0	5,001	0	8,206
Halton	0	506	100	0	0	606
Hampshire	2,037	7,885	5,661	8,699	11,210	35,492
Haringey	2,100	2,141	2,210	7,647	10,458	24,556
Havering	0	0	0	3,303	0	3,303
Herefordshire	1,490	3,083	58	570	2,054	7,255
Hertfordshire	2,165	1,779	3,675	4,345	6,589	18,553
Hillingdon	1,068	0	6,644	0	2,651	10,363
Hounslow	1,419	0	0	0	648	2,067
Isle of Wight	1,930	3,955	3,497	2,399	3,379	15,160
Kent	1,043	11,664	16,639	21,971	41,915	93,232
Kirklees	953	563	2,476	2,019	816	6,827
Knowsley	1,228	0	0	1,086	0	2,314
Lancashire	1,130	3,367	2,656	235	801	8,189
Leeds	405	1,814	2,639	1,804	1,210	7,872
Leicestershire	1,419	3,693	911	4,033	1,333	11,389
Lewisham	0	0	0	0	10,201	10,201
Lincolnshire	1,311	6,746	11,208	5,496	1,551	26,312
Luton	0	0	0	0	1,935	1,935
Manchester	0	0	0	0	1,572	1,572
Medway	0	851	9,842	4,832	7,990	23,515
Milton Keynes	7,758	4,074	1,604	8,263	0	21,699
Newcastle upon Tyne	314	0	0	0	0	314
Newham	4,468	3,750	1,887	899	13,154	24,158
Norfolk	3,039	3,209	7,729	5,761	10,012	29,750
North Lincolnshire	0	0	226	390	209	825
North Somerset	1,336	0	1,582	0	992	3,910
North Tyneside	229	734	1,605	1,232	0	3,800
North Yorkshire	2,395	3,926	5,552	5,952	8,017	25,842
Northamptonshire	3,266	4,563	6,350	2,561	7,299	24,039
Northumberland	359	957	280	900	0	2,496
Nottinghamshire	332	0	0	1,059	2,301	3,692
Oldham	1,008	0	0	0	0	1,008
Oxfordshire	5,945	4,036	5,048	9,055	9,254	33,338
Peterborough	0	1,855	0	460	0	2,315
Plymouth	0	0	0	0	6,987	6,987
Poole	0	0	0	0	290	290
Portsmouth	537	838	0	0	0	1,375
Reading	376	0	3,400	0	0	3,776
Redbridge	27	4,761	3,123	580	0	8,491
Richmond upon Thames	2,945	0	0	0	0	2,945
Rotherham	608	675	0	5,510	608	7,401
Salford	0	0	0	0	2,292	2,292
Sandwell	0	986	0	0	0	986
Sefton	0	459	578	643	1,280	2,960
Sheffield	209	1,624	2,954	0	0	4,787
Shropshire	1,157	1,135	2,438	2,132	279	7,141
Slough	0	0	110	576	197	883
Solihull	2,089	1,829	2,441	4,886	0	11,245
Somerset	430	1,349	4,262	3,142	1,345	10,528
South Gloucestershire	929	2,716	4,671	2,949	1,126	12,391
Southampton	451	2,315	1,164	0	0	3,930
Southend-on-Sea	0	0	3,577	1,441	1,440	6,458
Southwark	0	0	0	785	0	785
Staffordshire	1,753	10,690	10,867	6,382	2,100	31,792
Stockport	149	2,166	4,594	0	0	6,909
Stoke-on-Trent	0	0	1,213	2,185	0	3,398
Suffolk	3,659	8,500	7,892	8,013	11,765	39,829
Sunderland	0	0	1,800	152	0	1,952
Surrey	1,236	90	12,093	7,451	11,720	32,590
Sutton	2,228	2,208	5,768	0	4,661	14,865
Swindon	653	0	0	0	19,074	19,727
Tameside	259	298	187	0	0	744
Telford and Wrekin	909	1,340	2,716	902	7,731	13,598
Thurrock	42	1,079	5,023	0	0	6,144
Torbay	1,504	1,286	1,477	645	0	4,912
Trafford	239	548	4,203	0	0	4,990
Wakefield	0	4,677	607	0	0	5,284
Walsall	0	353	0	0	602	955
Waltham Forest	1,527	948	0	1,108	1,826	5,409
Wandsworth	426	1,481	0	0	0	1,907
Warrington	211	623	4,451	2,643	1,764	9,692
Warwickshire	1,662	1,542	832	838	918	5,792
West Berkshire	633	0	2,206	0	2,102	4,941
West Sussex	1,260	2,386	1,253	3,278	7,467	15,644
Westminster	0	0	0	0	3,700	3,700
Wigan	0	4,137	885	0	8,426	13,448
Wiltshire	2,629	646	2,822	4,312	2,133	12,542
Windsor and Maidenhead	909	0	0	341	0	1,250
Wokingham	415	1,154	4,168	1,999	747	8,483
Wolverhampton	0	0	343	0	0	343
Worcestershire	2,988	7,575	2,574	3,125	4,422	20,684
York	5	0	0	0	90	95
Total	143,970	238,040	286,231	274,518	386,941	1,329,700

Note:

These figures show new allocations of basic need funding for additional school places. This funding is delivered over three years in a 35 per cent./50 per cent./15 per cent. split. The figures do not, therefore, correspond to the funding received by local education authorities in these years

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