To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much was made available to (a) North East Lincolnshire and (b) North Lincolnshire education authority via the standards fund in each year since 1997. [124162]

The following table shows the Standards Fund grant for North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire since 1997. The figures include Government grant only, they do not include local authority contributions to the Standards Fund.

Standards Fund Grant Allocated to North East Lincolnshire
£ million
	Recurrent Grant	Capital Grant	Total Standards Fund Grant	Education Standards Spending Assessment
1997–98	0.6	0.0	0.6	64.4
1998–99	0.9	0.9	1.8	70.1
1999–2000	2.2	0.4	2.6	73.0
2000–01	4.6	2.9	7.5	77.3
2001–02	5.4	4.9	10.3	79.8
2002–03	5.9	6.8	12.7	81.4
2003–04	5.4	5.0	10.4	188.6
1Education Formula Funding Share (EFSS). This includes the transfer of class size grant and Nursery Education grant. The equivalent figure on the same basis for 2002–2003 would be £85.1 million.

The recurrent grant figure for 2002–2003 includes class size grant of £0.61 million. The funding for class size grant is distributed via the Education Formula Spending Shares (EFSS) in 2003–04. On a like for like basis North East Lincolnshire has received an increase in EFSS per pupil of 3.9 per cent.

Standards Fund Grant Allocated to North Lincolnshire
£ million
	Recurrent Grant	Capital Grant	Total Standards Fund Grant	Education Standards Spending Assessment
1997–98	0.7	0.0	0.7	56.5
1998–99	1.6	0.6	2.2	61.9
1999–2000	2.9	0.4	3.3	65.0
2000–01	4.7	2.3	7.0	67.8
2001–02	5.0	6.2	11.2	69.9
2002–03	5.1	5.2	10.3	72.3
2003–04	5.0	3.8	8.9	180.4
1 Education Formula Funding Share (EFSS). This includes the transfer of Class Size grant and Nursery Education Grant. The equivalent figure on the same basis for 2002–2003 would be £76.2 million.

The recurrent grant figure for 2002–03 includes class size grant of £0.84 million. The funding for class size grant is distributed via the Education Formula Spending Shares (EFSS) in 2003–04. On a like for like basis North Lincolnshire has received an increase in EFSS per pupil of 4.7 per cent.