To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what was the average number of applications for places at grant-maintained schools in the current and in the last year.

This information is not available centrally.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science, what changes he is planning to make in the funding of grant-maintained schools.

We are currently consulting about proposed changes for 1992–93, including the calculation of the amount of grant which grant-maintained schools receive in recompense for the money which LEAs spend centrally on items such as administration.