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Local Government Finance
Norman Lamb: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what account he has taken of the extra cost of providing services in rural areas in the local government formula grant review. [80929]
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Mr. Raynsford: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to my honourable friend the Member for Brigg and Goole (Mr. Cawsey) on 4 November 2002, Official Report, column 49W.
Mr. Leigh: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what account he has taken of the cost of providing services in rural areas in the local government formula grant review. [80389]
Mr. Raynsford: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to my honourable friend the Member for Brigg and Goole (Mr. Cawsey) on 4 November 2002, Official Report, column 49W.
Mr. Leigh: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what assessment he has made of rural deprivation in the local government formula grant review. [80390]
Mr. Raynsford: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to my honourable friend the Member for Brigg and Goole (Mr. Cawsey) on 4 November 2002, Official Report, column 52W.
Mr. Leigh: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what impact changes in the local government formula grant will have on public services in West Lincolnshire. [80391]
Mr. Raynsford: We will announce the new system for distributing formula grant, including detailed grant allocations for individual authorities, at the time of the provisional local government finance settlement which we expect to be around the start of December. Once the Government has allocated its grant, decisions about budgets and services are primarily for local councils to make. However, we have already guaranteed that no authority will face a cut in grant next year on a like for like basis, and we hope to do better than that when we announce the actual floors and ceilings scheme as part of the provisional settlement.
Mr. Leigh: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what research was done by his Department into the impact of dispersal and settlement patterns on the cost of providing services in rural areas as part of the local government formula grant review. [80392]
Mr. Raynsford: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to my honourable friend the Member for Brigg and Goole (Mr. Cawsey) on 4 November 2002, Official Report, columns 49–50W.
Norman Lamb: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of rural deprivation in the local government formula grant review. [80930]
Mr. Raynsford: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to my honourable friend the Member for Brigg and Goole (Mr. Cawsey) on 4 November 2002, Official Report, column 52W.
Neighbourhood Renewal
Mr. Edward Davey: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the estimated (a) date, (b) cost to his Department and (c) cost to other Government bodies is of the incorporation of the neighbourhood wardens and street wardens into a new Neighbourhood Renewal Unit funding channel. [81703]
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Mrs. Roche: The incorporation of the neighbourhood and street wardens into a new Neighbourhood Renewal funding stream is already under way. There will be no cost to the office of the Deputy Prime Minister or other Government departments. Indeed, a single wardens funding stream should help to streamline and simplify arrangements both for grant recipients and those administering the programmes.
Prisoners (Housing Resettlement)
Lynne Jones: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when he will be responding to the Social Exclusion Unit's recommendations on prisoners' housing resettlement needs in their report on reducing re-offending by ex-prisoners. [81041]
Mrs. Roche: I refer my hon. Friend to the answer given to my right hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Withington (Mr. Bradley) on 24 October 2002, Official Report, column 495W.
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister is awaiting the production of the Reducing Re-Offending Action Plan. It will work closely to influence cross-cutting solutions to impact on prisoners' housing resettlement needs before and after release.
EDUCATION
Class Sizes
Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much was spent through the Standards Fund in 2001–02 by each local education authority on class size reduction. [81083]
Mr. Miliband: In 2001–02 just over #156 million revenue and #23 million capital grant was allocated to local education authorities, to reduce infant class sizes for five, six and seven-year-olds to 30 or fewer.
The following table sets out how much grant was allocated to each local education authority.
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