To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what financial support will be available for nursery provision in a primary school with grant-maintained status; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whose responsibility it will be to fund nursery classes attached to primary schools which opt for grant-maintained status.

Funding for nursery provision that forms an integral part of a grant-maintained primary school would be provided, as with other aspects of funding at that school, by the Secretary of State under the relevant Education (Grant-maintained schools) (Finance) Regulations. The financial support available would be related to LEA support for pupils of that age group.