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Dept for Education and Employment

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Mr. Trickett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the cash resources paid to schools, by phase, in (a) Hemsworth constituency and (b) Wakefield district in each financial year since 2 May 1997; and if he will list the schools that benefited and indicate the sum in each case. [153005] Ms Estelle Morris: The first table shows amounts payable to schools for School Standards Grant and devolved capital allocations in the financial year 2000-01. Neither grant was payable before that year. The amounts payable by phase are as follows: £ _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Nursery Primary Secondary Special PRU Hemsworth School Standards Grant -- 279,000 320,000 30,000 3,000 Devolved capital -- 440,319 296,664 22,052 5,476 Wakefield School Standards Grant 15,000 1,005,000 780,000 135,000 6,000 Devolved capital 15,543 1,563,764 720,064 103,054 11,135 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. The following table shows funding allocations for Wakefield LEA since 1997-98 for Standard Spending Assessment, Standards Fund (including class size grant from 1999-2000) and NDS capital: £ million _________________________________________________________________________________________________. SSA Standards Fund NDS 1997-98 111.5 2.960 0.600 1998-99 122.9 5.045 1.924 1999-2000 129.0 7.503 2.382 2000-01 135.5 12.466 4.422 2001-02 141.0 {1}12.156 {2}1.997 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Allocation not finalised and likely to increase {2} NDS Condition and NDS Devolved Formula; not related to NDS4 in 2000-01 The amounts payable to each school for School Standards Grant and devolved capital are contained in tables, copies of which have been placed in the Library. The increase in funding in Wakefield LEA between 1997-98 and 2000-01 is £340 per pupil in real terms.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

365 c154-5W; 153005

Session

2000-01

Subjects

Finance Education Schools Wakefield Hemsworth

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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