To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families whether funding for the increased number of school repairs to help create jobs under the Government's plans to create up to 100,000 new jobs through public works will come from the budget of the Building Schools for the Future programme. (248735)

Generally, repairs are of a revenue nature and are financed by revenue funding.

Local authorities are being offered an advance of capital funding from the financial year 2010-11 to 2009-10 to (a) make capital improvements at an earlier date, and (b) support local jobs. The advances of capital funding will be made from allocations devolved to local authorities, also voluntary aided schools, and in some instances from primary capital funding. A tentative estimate of the number of jobs that will be created in 2009-10 is 10,000. The Building Schools for the Future programme is unaffected.

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what estimate he has made of the number of jobs that will be created by increased funding for school repairs in (a) 2009, (b) 2010 and (c) 2011 under the Government’s plans to create up to 100,000 new jobs through public works; and what proportion of those jobs he estimates will go to British workers. (248748)

Generally, repairs are of a revenue nature and are financed by revenue funding.

Local authorities are being offered an advance of capital funding from the financial year 2010-11 to 2009-10 to (a) make capital improvements at an earlier date (b) support local jobs. The advances will be repaid in 2010-11 by way of a corresponding reduction in funding, and will not affect total allocations in the spending review period 2008-09 to 2010-11. A tentative estimate of the number of jobs that will be created in 2009-10 is 10,000. There are no estimates on the number of jobs that will go to British workers.

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what plans he has to increase capital expenditure on a school repairs programme as part of the Government's plans to create up to 100,000 new jobs through public works. (248751)

Generally, repairs are of a revenue nature and are financed by revenue funding.

Local authorities are being offered an advance of capital funding from the financial year 2010-11 to 2009-10 to (a) make capital improvements at an earlier date (b) support local jobs. The advances will be repaid in 2010-11 by way of a corresponding reduction in funding, and will not affect total allocations in the spending review period 2008-09 to 2010-11. A tentative estimate of the number of jobs that will be created in 2009-10 is 10,000.

Planned capital allocations during this period amount to some £21.9 billion, and include some of the largest school building programmes ever undertaken.