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Written question asked by Geraldine Smith (Labour) on Wednesday, 15 July 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 20 July 2009. It was answered by Lord Coaker (Labour) on Tuesday, 21 July 2009 on behalf of the Department for Children, Schools and Families.

Education: Morecambe

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much capital expenditure from the public purse there has been in the education sector in Morecambe and Lunesdale constituency since 1997.
Answer

The Department allocates much of its capital resources to local authority areas. Information by constituency is not held centrally. Support for capital investment in schools in Lancashire is shown in the following table.

£ million
Financial year Schools
1997-98 13.3
1998-99 19.5
1999-2000 ¹36.8
2000-01 42.2
2001-02 40.6
2002-03 63.6
2003-04 72.7
2004-05 60.6
2005-06 55.1
2006-07 55.7
2007-08 62.0
2008-09 62.4
2009-10 ²91.8
2010-11 ²57.7
¹ Includes a PFI project of £13.4 million.
² Includes Primary Capital Programme.

In addition, Lancashire has a Building Schools for the Future wave 1 project with an indicative allocation of £77.9 million of conventional funding and £254.3 million of PFI credits.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
496 c1417W; 288445
Session
2008-09
Subjects
Education Lancashire Morecambe
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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