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Education: Kent

Volume 472: debated on Wednesday 20 February 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what funds in the form of (a) revenue payments, (b) capital grants and (c) supported borrowing for which his Department is responsible have been made available to (i) Kent county council, (ii) Thanet district council and (iii) Dover district council in 2007-08. (183060)

The Department does not hold information on funding at district level. However it does collect information on funding allocated to Kent county council. The information on capital, revenue and supported borrowing allocations made by the Department are provided in the following tables. In total £114 million of capital funding (including supported borrowing) and £910 million of revenue funding has been allocated to Kent county council in 2007-08 via schools and children services grants. The figures exclude payments made by non-departmental public bodies which can be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Table A: Revenue funding made available to Kent county council by DCSF in 2007-08

£

Specific Grants

Dedicated Schools Grant

751,848,000

School Standards Grant

32,347,428

School Standards Grant (Personalisation)

9,101,608

School Development Grant

49,441,196

Ethnic Minority Achievement Grant (EMAG)

934,264

Targeted Improvement Grant

512,500

Targeted School Meals Grant

1,369,512

Devolved School Meals Grant

780,284

Extended Schools

1,589,683

Targeted Support for Primary Strategy

4,294,105

Targeted Support for Secondary Strategy

3,598,387

Fresh Start and New Partnerships: Recurrent

231,000

Primary Strategy: Communication, Language and Literacy

50,000

School Improvement Partners

468,864

Music Services

1,129,485

Music at Key Stage 2

631,167

Education Health Partnerships

261,428

Playing for Success

168,750

Choice Advisers

79,351

School Intervention Grant

409,600

Flexible 14 to 19 Partnerships Funding

744,161

Walking to School Initiatives

95,500

General Duty on Sustainable Travel To School

112,865

Extended Rights for Free Travel

141,603

Aimhigher

623,155

Connexions

11,506,441

Care Matters

70,000

General Sure Start Grant Recurrent

23,429,622

Youth Opportunity Fund

734,395

ContactPoint

421,030

Total Specific Grants

897,125,384

DCSF Recurrent Funding routed through Local Area Agreements (LAA)1

Children's Services Grant

4,476,878

Secondary National Strategy—Behaviour and Attendance

183,300

Secondary National Strategy—Central Co-ordination

639,014

Primary National Strategy Central Co-ordination

662,337

Positive Activities for Young People

352,281

School Travel Advisors

189,000

School Development Grant (local authority retained element)

2,867,656

Children's Fund

3,082,807

Teenage Pregnancy

501,000

Total LAA

12,954,273

Total Recurrent funding including LAAs

873,918,169

1Funding routed through the Children and Young Peoples Block of Local Area Agreements, which is paid out by the Department for Communities and Local Government.

Table B: Capital grants made available to Kent county council by DCSF in 2007-08

£

Capital Grants

National Digital Infrastructure

3,351,099

E-Learning Credits

1,390,731

Devolved Formula Capital

24,015,115

School Travel Plan

493,140

Capital Modernisation: Primary

2,333,179

Capital Modernisation: Secondary

2,690,069

Targeted Capital Fund

4,584,400

Building Schools for the Future

12,146,000

Advance of Modernisation Capital Grants

8,372,080

Specialist Schools Capital

1,114,149

Fresh Start and New Partnerships: Capital

962,842

General Sure Start Grant Capital

13,996,797

Youth Capital Fund

635,193

Information Communication Technology: Mobile Technology

305,127

Integrated Children's System Capital

435,000

Total Capital Grants

76,824,921

Table C: Supported borrowing made available to Kent county council by DCSF in 2007-08

£

Grants

Capital Modernisation: Primary

5,444,085

Capital Modernisation: Secondary

6,276,827

New pupil places

22,810,151

Schools Access Initiative

2,466,986

SCE(R) Single Capital Pot (Children's element)

279,000

Total LA Allocation

37,277,049