To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science, pursuant to his answer of 20 January to the hon. Member for Cambridgeshire, South-East, Official Report, columns 36–37, what information is available to enable accurate comparisons of expenditure rates on school transport by local education authorities.

I refer my hon. Friend to the reply I gave my hon. Friend the Member for Isle of Wight (Mr. Field) on 13 December, Official Report, column 559. It set out each local education authority's expenditure on home to school transport in 1989–90 expressed as a percentage of its total net recurrent expenditure on education. No other information is available centrally.