To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is his estimate of the 1991–92 cost to public funds of the education of a pupil in a local authority secondary school and in a secondary school which has opted out of local authority control.

The funding of grant-maintained schools comprises a number of elements. The largest element, annual maintenance grant (AMG), broadly reflects the recurrent funds which the former maintaining local education authority of the school would have deployed in support of the school had it remained local education authority-maintained. Other grants to grant-maintained schools reflect the types of provision which local education authority schools receive in cash or in kind.