To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much capital funding was allocated to schools in Somerset in each year from 1988-89 to 2008-09; and if he will make a statement. (269165)

Capital funding allocated to schools in Somerset in each year from 1996-97, the first year in which detailed records are available, to 2008-09, is set out in the following table:

The increases in funding in 1998-99 to 2000-01 are due to the new deal for schools programmes, from 2000-01 the Devolved Formula Capital programme, and from 2004- 05 the Modernisation programme. The spike in 2006-07 largely results from an allocation for maintained boarding schools.