To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish the amount of specific funds that have not been allocated to local education authorities for the training of educational psychologists out of the sum which was made available.

The local education authority training grants scheme—LEATGS—for 1990–91 included support for up to £2·8 million of expenditure on the initial training of educational psychologists. Local authorities have requested and been allocated support for spending of some £2·5 million on such training.