To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement on capital allocations for 1992–93 for voluntary-aided schools.
Local Education Authorities have today been informed of their allocations for capital spending by the governors of voluntary aided and special agreement schools in their areas for 1992–93. Overall grant for voluntary aided schools announced in the autumn statement rises from £131·5 million to £151·6 million, an increase of over 15 per cent. A total of £55 million has been set aside for grant aid for expenditure on external repairs, up nearly 16 per cent. on the amount set aside in 1991–92. Grant for capital spending rises from £84 million to £96·6 million, an increase of 15 per cent.I have authorised work to start on 61 major building projects over £250,000, compared with 47 such projects in 1991–92, and 37 in 1990–91. A further 47 such projects have been put on the design list to enable detailed costed plans to be drawn up, compared with 29 such projects in 1991–92.Eight of the projects authorised for a start are to improve technology facilities, and form part of my recently announced technology schools initiative.I am allocating over £19 million in grant which will support £23 million of minor works improvement projects, costing less than £250,000, by formula to each LEA based on the number of pupils in voluntary aided schools in the authority. This is double the amount I was able to allocate for equivalent projects for 1991–92, and is being distributed by formula to all LEAs for the first time. I have also allocated additional funds for 35 specific minor projects to provide new school places or to achieve the removal of surplus places.During the course of the year work has also been approved to start on a further 27 projects which have been the subject of statutory proposals approved since my statement last December.
Voluntary aided and special agreement schools—1992–allocations | |||
Note: | |||
1. Project Category codes as follows: | |||
S—Starts list | MJ—Major work | BN—(New school places) | 1-Approved statutory proposals |
D—Design list | MN—Minor work | SP—Surplus place removal | 2Ex 1991–92 design list |
IR—Improvement or replacement | |||
2. Figures in brackets following named projects represent amount allocated for expenditure in 1992–93 expressed in £ thousands. |
Local education authority | Total allocation | Allocation components | Agreed projects | Project category | New named projects | Project category | ||
1992–93 | Commitments | Minor works improvement | Major and minor projects | ex 1991–92 or earlier design list or approved statutory proposals | major starts and design lists and minor projects | |||
£ thousands | £ thousands | £ thousands | £ thousands | (allocations shown in brackets £ thousands) | (allocations shown in brackets £ thousands) | |||
City of London | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Camden | 1,390 | 335 | 230 | 825 | Maria Fidelis Sec, Somerstown RC S (163) | MN, IR2 | Jewish Free School Sec (662) | S, MJ, IR |
Greenwich | 144 | — | 144 | — | — | — | — | — |
Hackney | 309 | 2 | 152 | 155 | — | — | Hackney Free and Parochial CE S (105) Skinners Company Upper Girls (50) | D, MJ, IR |
Skinners Company Upper Girls (50) | S, MJ, IR | |||||||
Hammersmith and Fulham | 1,822 | 1,670 | 141 | 11 | — | — | Lady Margaret CES (11) | D. MJ. IR |
Islington | 145 | 6 | 139 | — | — | — | — | — |
Kensington and Chelsea | 3,243 | 1,638 | 125 | 1,480 | St. Thomas More RC S (1,480) | S, MJ, IR12 | — | — |
Lambeth | 217 | 4 | 167 | 46 | — | — | St. Luke's CE P (exe nursery) (46) | D, MJ, IR |
Lewisham | 813 | 25 | 187 | 601 | Christ The King VI FM Centre (580) | S. MJ, SP1 | All Saints CE P (21) | D, MJ, IR |
Southwark | 996 | 35 | 236 | 725 | St. Peters CH P (640) | S, MJ, IR2 | St. John's and St. Clement's CE P (85) | D, MJ, IR |
Tower Hamlets | 2,647 | 2,462 | 185 | — | — | — | — | — |
Wandsworth | 178 | — | 139 | 39 | — | — | St. Joseph's RC P (39) | D, MJ, IR |
Westminster | 849 | 43 | 210 | 596 | St. Marylebone CE S (543) | S, MJ, IR2 | St. Georges RC S (53) | D, MJ, IR |
Barking | 482 | 427 | 55 | — | — | — | — | — |
Barnet | 700 | 32 | 305 | 363 | — | — | Hasmonean High J S (300) Christ Church CE S (63) | S, MJ, IR |
Christ Church CE S (63) | D, MJ, BN | |||||||
Bexley | 1,880 | 1,778 | 102 | — | — | — | — | — |
Brent | 219 | 18 | 171 | 30 | — | — | St. Gregory's RC High (30) | S, MJ, IR |
The amount available for allocating to new improvement/replacement projects at voluntary aided schools in 1992–93 is up no less than 114 per cent. on the equivalent figure last year, at £36 million.
The effect of this substantial increase in capital grant available for projects at voluntary aided schools, taken together with the increases of the last five years, which have seen capital grant allocations rise from £32 million in 1987–88 to £96 million for 1992–93—an increase of 300 per cent.—will have enabled work to go ahead at several hundred voluntary aided schools, including many which have been bidding for allocations for many years. The distribution of funds for projects under £250,000 means that all LEAs will be able to embark on a continuing programme of improvements at their voluntary-aided schools—the first time they will have been in a position to do this.
These increases demonstrate the government's continuing determination to improve school buildings and underlines our commitment to the continuing partnership between Church and state in the delivery of education.
The allocations to LEAs, together with a list of the projects authorised to start or on which design work can begin, and a list of projects approved as a result of statutory proposals since last year's announcement together with those projects which form part of the technology schools initiative, follows.
Local education authority
| Total allocation
| Allocation components
| Agreed projects
| Project category
| New named projects
| Project category
| ||
1992–93
| Commitments
| Minor works improvement
| Major and minor projects
| ex 1991–92 or earlier design list or approved statutory proposals
| major starts and design lists and minor projects
| |||
£ thousands
| £ thousands
| £ thousands
| £ thousands
| (allocations shown in brackets £ thousands)
| (allocations shown in brackets £ thousands)
| |||
Bromley | 84 | 1 | 83 | — | — | — | — | — |
Croydon | 1,090 | 561 | 179 | 350 | — | — | Archbishop Tenison CE S (350) | S, MJ, IR |
Ealing | 174 | — | 131 | 43 | — | — | St. Saviour's CE P (43) | D, MJ, IR |
Enfield | 1,260 | 949 | 197 | 114 | — | — | St. George's RC JMI (11) | S, MJ, IR |
Bp Stopford CE S (53) | D, MJ, IR | |||||||
Winchmore Hill, St. Paul's Primary (50) | MN. BN | |||||||
Haringey | 247 | 82 | 138 | 27 | — | — | SS David and Katherine CE S Phase 1 (27) | S, MJ, IR |
Harrow | 121 | — | 94 | 27 | — | — | Wealdstone Salvatorian RC Coll (27) | D, MJ, IR |
Havering | 196 | 50 | 146 | — | — | — | — | — |
Hillingdon | 230 | — | 118 | 112 | — | — | Bishop RamseyCE S(112) | S, MJ, IR |
Hounslow | 968 | 9 | 141 | 818 | St. Mark's RC Sec (818) | S, MJ, IR2 | — | — |
Kingston upon Thames | 146 | — | 96 | 50 | — | — | St. Lukes CE P (50) | D, MJ, IR |
Merton | 131 | 13 | 118 | — | — | — | — | — |
Newham | 484 | 390 | 94 | — | — | — | — | — |
Redbridge | 150 | 16 | 106 | 28 | — | — | Trinity High RC (28) | D, MJ. IR |
Richmond upon Thames | 84 | — | 84 | — | — | — | — | — |
Sutton | 1,770 | 1,686 | 84 | — | — | — | — | — |
Waltham Forest | 57 | — | 57 | — | — | — | — | — |
Birmingham | 1,799 | 859 | 620 | 320 | St. Ambrose Barlow RC P (300) | S MJ IR2 | St. John Wall RC Comp (20) | S MJ IR |
Coventry | 2,910 | 2,725 | 185 | — | — | — | — | — |
Dudley | 903 | 689 | 96 | 118 | Jesson's CE P (26) | D MJ IR1 | Bishop Milner RC S (35) | D MJ IR |
Castle High (Phase III) (57) | D MJ SP1 | |||||||
Sandwell | 62 | — | 62 | — | — | — | — | — |
Solihull | 405 | 41 | 114 | 250 | Berkswell CE Combined (250) | S MJ IR2 | — | — |
Walsall | 137 | — | 137 | — | — | — | — | — |
Wolverhampton | 336 | — | 97 | 239 | Holy Trinity RC P (200) | S MJ IR2 | St. Peter's Collegiate CE S (39) | D MJ IR |
Knowsley | 330 | 25 | 205 | 100 | Huyton CE Inf(70) | MN IR1 | Whiston, St. Leo's Primary (30) | MN SP |
Liverpool | 5,396 | 4,080 | 650 | 666 | St. Lawrence CE P (Phase 2) (250) | S MJ IR1 | St. Francis de Sales RC P (12) | D MJ IR |
St. Finbar's RC P (250) | S MJ SP2 | St. Nicholas Primary (56) | MN SP | |||||
St. Gregory's RC P (103) | S MJ SP2 | |||||||
Cardinal Heenan RC S (195) | S MJ SP12 | |||||||
St. Helens | 1,194 | 980 | 214 | — | — | — | — | — |
Sefton | 2,135 | 1,398 | 326 | 411 | St. Luke's CE P, Halsall (400) | S MJ IR2 | English Martyrs RC P(11) | D MJ IR |
Wirral | 331 | 100 | 181 | 50 | — | — | St. Anne's RC P, Rockferry (50) | S MJ SP |
Bolton | 1,561 | 1,328 | 233 | — | — | — | — | — |
Bury | 434 | 155 | 154 | 125 | Our Lady of Grace RC P (125) | S MJ IR2 | — | — |
Manchester | 1,836 | 1,363 | 439 | 34 | — | — | Xaverian VI Form College (34) | D MJ IR |
Oldham | 671 | 106 | 212 | 353 | Crompton House CE S (300) | S MJ IR2 | Blue Coat CE S (53) | D MJ IR |
Rochdale | 395 | 239 | 156 | — | — | — | — | — |
Salford | 547 | 337 | 181 | 29 | — | — | Broughton Jewish Primary (29) | D MJ IR |
Stockport | 136 | 9 | 127 | — | — | — | — | — |
Tameside | 205 | 47 | 120 | 38 | — | — | St. Thomas More RC S (38) | D MJ IR |
Trafford | 1,709 | 1,571 | 113 | 25 | St. Anne's RC P (25) | MN IR1 | — | — |
Wigan | 1,498 | 749 | 459 | 290 | Sacred Heart RC P (250) | S MJ SP2 | Bryn, Downhall Green Primary (40) | MN SP |
Barnsley | 180 | 23 | 57 | 100 | — | — | St. Michael's RC S(100) | S, MJ, IR |
Doncaster | 95 | — | 95 | — | — | — | — | — |
Rotherham | 105 | 32 | 73 | — | — | — | — | — |
Sheffield | 1,169 | 30 | 103 | 1,036 | All Saints RC S (1,036) | S, MJ, IR2 |
Local education authority
| Total allocation
| Allocation components
| Agreed projects
| Project category
| New named projects
| Project category
| ||
1992–93
| Commitments
| Minor works improvement
| Major and minor projects
| ex 1991–92 or earlier design list or approved statutory proposals
| major starts and design lists and minor projects
| |||
£ thousands
| £ thousands
| £ thousands
| £ thousands
| (allocations shown in brackets £ thousands)
| (allocations shown in brackets £ thousands)
| |||
Bradford | 541 | 298 | 243 | — | — | — | — | — |
Calderdale | 125 | 12 | 113 | — | — | — | — | — |
Kirklees | 917 | 8 | 130 | 779 | St. John Fisher RC High (760) | S. MJ. BN2 | Batley Parish CEP(19) | D, MJ, BN |
Leeds | 5,830 | 5,466 | 364 | — | — | — | — | — |
Wakefield | 351 | 145 | 121 | 85 | Sandal Magna Endowed CE (27) | MN, IR1 | St. Austin's J & I (5) | MN, BN |
St. Mary's CE P (53) | MN, IR1 | |||||||
Gateshead | 271 | 136 | 98 | 37 | — | — | St. Edmund Campion RC S (37) | D, MJ, IR |
Newcastle upon Tyne | 512 | 338 | 146 | 28 | — | — | Sacred Heart RC P (28) | D, MJ, IR |
North Tyneside | 411 | — | 71 | 340 | — | — | St. Thomas More RC S (170) | S, MJ, IR |
WallsendCEP(170) | S, MJ, SP | |||||||
South Tynesidc | 77 | — | 77 | — | — | — | — | — |
Sunderland | 1,129 | 986 | 143 | — | — | — | — | — |
Avon | 292 | 28 | 251 | 13 | — | — | PortburyCE P(13) | S, MJ, IR |
Bedfordshire | 438 | 208 | 188 | 42 | — | — | Cardinal Newman RC High (42) | D, MJ, IR |
Berkshire | 585 | 265 | 243 | 77 | — | — | Windsor. Trinity St. Stephen First (77) | MN SP |
Buckinghamshire | 1,057 | 374 | 153 | 530 | Waddesdon CE S (530) | S, MJ, IR2 | — | — |
Cambridgeshire | 835 | 483 | 152 | 200 | Bury CE P (200) | S, MJ, IR2 | — | — |
Cheshire | 2,902 | 2,180 | 558 | 164 | St. Mary's RC P Middlewich (105) | S, MJ, IR2 | Bunbury. Aldersey Primary (47) | MN, BN |
St. Nicholas RC S, Hartford (12) | D, MJ, BN | |||||||
Cleveland | 1,281 | 704 | 345 | 232 | — | — | Sacred Heart RC P (208) English Martyrs RC S (24) | S, MJ, IR S, MJ. IR |
Cornwall | 262 | 139 | 123 | — | — | — | — | — |
Cumbria | 1,938 | 1,403 | 332 | 203 | — | — | Keswick Sec (143) St. Bernard's RC S. Barrow (60) | D MJ IR D, MJ, SP |
Derbishire | 710 | 459 | 251 | — | — | — | — | — |
Devon | 1,702 | 1,176 | 288 | 238 | — | — | St. Boniface RC P (238) | S, MJ, IR |
Dorset | 3,114 | 2,156 | 292 | 666 | Dorchester Upper (300) | S, MJ, SP1 | St. Edward's RC S (42) | D, MJ, IR |
St. Mark's CE P (208) | S, MJ, BN1 | St. Osmund's CE M (25) | S, MJ, IR | |||||
St. John's CE P (76) | S, MJ, BN1 | |||||||
St. WalburgasRC P(15) | MN BN1 | |||||||
Durham | 1,313 | 1,070 | 243 | — | — | — | — | — |
East Sussex | 873 | 141 | 219 | 513 | — | — | Bp. Bell CE S. Eastbourne (53) | D, MJ, BN |
Cardinal Newham RC Sec (460) | S, MJ, BN | |||||||
Essex | 709 | 41 | 486 | 182 | Bradwell on Sea Endowed CE P (150) | S, MJ, IR1 | Loughton. Davenant Foundation (32) | MN, BN |
Gloucestershire | 1,897 | 1,227 | 203 | 467 | St. Peter's RC High (300) | S, MJ, BN2 | Hardwicke Parochial (150) | MN, BN |
Mitcheldean Endowed (17) | MN, SP | |||||||
Hampshire | 664 | 250 | 334 | 80 | — | — | Milford-on-Sea CE P (80) | MN, BN |
Hereford and Worcester | 1,119 | 551 | 336 | 232 | — | — | St. George's CEP (176) | S, MJ, IR |
Bp. of Hereford Bluecoat CE S (15) | D, MJ, IR | |||||||
Ross on Wye. Lea Primary (20) | MN, BN | |||||||
Evesham. St. Mary's (21) | MN, BN | |||||||
Hertfordshire | 932 | 175 | 584 | 173 | — | — | John F. Kennedy RC S (53) | D, MJ, IR |
St. George's Sec (120) | MN, BN | |||||||
Humberside | 399 | 1 | 158 | 240 | — | — | St. Bede's RC Sec (240) | S, MJ, IR |
Isle of Wight | 141 | 95 | 46 | — | — | — | — | — |
Isles of Scilly | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Kent | 3,048 | 2,154 | 559 | 355 | Bennett Memorial CE S (254) | S, MJ, IR1 | St. George's CE M. Sheerness (81) | D, MJ, IR |
Lancashire | 6,437 | 4,642 | 1,548 | 247 | — | — | St. Joseph's RC P, Barnoldswick (13) | S, MJ, IR |
St. Mary's RC High (88) | D, MJ, SP | |||||||
Sacred Heart RC P(I2) | D, MJ, SP | |||||||
Lytham St. Anne's, Lylham St. Peter's (30) | MN, BN | |||||||
Over Wyre. St. Aidan's High (14) | MN, BN | |||||||
Preston, Fulwood St. Clare's (30) | MN, BN | |||||||
Blackburn, Holy Souls (30) | MN, BN | |||||||
Tarleton, Hesketh with Becconsall (30) | MN, BN |
Local education authority
| Total allocation
| Allocation components
| Agreed projects
| Project category
| New named projects
| Project category
| ||
1992–93
| Commitments
| Minor works improvement
| Major and minor projects
| ex 1991–92 or earlier design list or approved statutory proposals
| major starts and design lists and minor projects
| |||
£ thousands
| £ thousands
| £ thousands
| £ thousands
| (allocations shown in brackets £ thousands)
| (allocations shown in brackets £ thousands)
| |||
Leicestershire | 1,091 | 24 | 217 | 850 | — | — | Sacred Heart RC P (26) | D, MJ, IR |
English Martyrs RC S (824) | S MJ, IR | |||||||
Lincolnshire | 695 | — | 169 | 526 | — | — | Butterwick. Pinchbeck Endowed (80) | MN, BN |
Cowbit Endowed Primary (69) | MN, BN | |||||||
Leadenham Primary (28) | MN, BN | |||||||
Lincoln. Bp. King Primary (108) | MN, BN | |||||||
Partney Primary (32) | MN, BN | |||||||
Spalding Parish Church Primary (60) | MN, BN | |||||||
Spalding Grammar (149) | S MJ, IR | |||||||
Norfolk | 376 | — | 147 | 229 | Archbishop Sancroft CE High (129) | S. MJ, IR1 | Notre Dame RC High (47) | D, MJ, IR |
King's Lynn, Whitefriars Primary (35) | MN, BN | |||||||
Cromer. The Belfry Primary (18) | MN, BN | |||||||
North Yorkshire | 884 | 369 | 257 | 258 | St. Wilfred's RC P (258) | S, MJ, IR | — | — |
Northamptonshire | 599 | — | 187 | 412 | St. David's RC Middle (359) | S, MJ, IR1 | Bp. Stopford CE S. Kettering (53) | D, MJ, IR |
Northumberland | 659 | 198 | 135 | 326 | St. Mary's RC P, Hexham (326) | S, MJ, BN1 | — | — |
Nottinghamshire | 418 | 106 | 312 | — | — | — | — | — |
Oxfordshire | 2,353 | 1,980 | 196 | 177 | Our Lady of Lourdes RC P (157) | S, MJ, IR1 | St. Edburg's CE P, Bicester (20) | D, MJ, SP |
Salop | 126 | 12 | 114 | — | — | — | — | — |
Somerset | 2,597 | 2,173 | 128 | 296 | St. Augustine of Canterbury CE/RC S(l50) | S, MJ, BN1 | — | — |
Trull CE Primary. Taunton (146) | MN, BN1 | — | — | |||||
Staffordshire | 2,107 | 1,456 | 385 | 266 | St. George's RC P, Stoke (100) | S, MJ, IR1 | St. Peter's CE P. Stoke (120) | S, MJ, IR |
St. Peter's CE High Stoke (46) | D, MJ, IR | |||||||
Suffolk | 340 | 183 | 129 | 28 | — | — | S. Lowestoft. St. Mary's Primary (28) | MN, BN |
Surrey | 946 | 362 | 504 | 80 | St. Nicholas CE P (36) | S, MJ, IR1 | St. Peter's RC Comp. Guildford (44) | D, MJ, IR |
Warwickshire | 920 | 672 | 238 | 10 | — | — | St. Francis RC P. Bedworth (10) | S, MJ, IR |
West Sussex | 649 | 335 | 314 | — | — | — | — | — |
Wiltshire | 769 | 596 | 200 | — | — | — | — | — |
TOTALS | 108,073 | 64,895 | 22,993 | 20,185 |
3 V A school statutory proposals approved since December 1990—funds allocated as committed expenditure
LEA and School
- Bedfordshire—St. John Rigby RC
- Bexley—St. Stephen's RC
- Birmingham—Erdington CE
- Bolton—St. Peter's CE, Smithhills Dean
- Cheshire—Newman RC. Warrington
- St. Gregory's, Warrington
- Devon—St. John's RC, Tiverton
- Rockenford CE
- Dorset—Verwood Emmanuel CE
- Enfield—New Jewish Primary School
- Lambeth—Archbishop Sumner
- Lancashire—Burnley Wellfield CE/Meth
- St. John/St. Michael CE
- St. Alban's RC, Blackburn
- Bishop Martin, Skelmersdale
- English Martyrs, Preston
- St. Oswald, Accrington
- St. James, Chorley
- Thornton Cleveleys, St. Teresa's (previously part of St. Bernadette's)
- Lewisham—St. Ursula's
- Liverpool—St. John's RC
- St. Gerard's RC
- Manchester—St. Andrew's CE
- Shropshire—St. Matthew's CE
- Tameside—St. Mary's CE
- Tower Hamlets—Blessed John Roche
- Bishop Challoner
Technology initiative VA projects named to start in 1992–93
Barnsley—St. Michael's Secondary
- Birmingham—St. John Wall Comp, Hansworth
- Brent—St. Gregory's High, Kenton
- Cleveland—English Martyrs, Hartlepool
- Croydon—Archbishop Tenison's
- Hackney—Skinner's Company Upper Girls
- Haringey—St. David and St. Katherine
- Humberside—-St. Bede's, Scunthorpe