To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what funding has been made available to the National Association of Governors and Managers by his Department; and if it is his intention to provide a secretariat for the National Association of Governors and Managers.

The Department contributed £8,000 per annum in 1988–89 and 1989–90 towards the cost of improving NAGM's administration; up to £40,000 is available in the current year in support of longer-term restructuring to enable NAGM to become an effective national organisation. My right hon. and learned Friend will consider any further proposals which are based on a sound business plan designed to move the association as quickly as possible towards self-sufficiency.