To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what representations he has received about the criteria for funding Leading Edge Schools; and if he will make a statement. [119231]

My Department has received a small number of letters and phone calls related to the funding criteria for the Leading Edge Programme, most of them general funding inquiries. Each school will receive £60,000 per year to support the development and sharing of innovative teaching practice in partnership with a group of named secondary schools.