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Capital Investment: Gloucestershire

Volume 505: debated on Tuesday 2 February 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much capital funding his Department has allocated in respect of Gloucestershire in each year since 1997. (312746)

Schools capital funding allocated by the Department to Gloucestershire in each year since 1997 is set out in the following table.

£ million

1997-98

7.9

1998-99

7.0

1999-2000

12.9

2000-01

26.9

2001-02

26.6

2002-03

32.6

2003-04

35.4

2004-05

45.0

2005-06

34.6

2006-07

69.0

2007-08

42.7

2008-09

36.1

2009-10

53.3

The allocation of £69 million in 2006-07 includes £29.2 million for a One School Pathfinder for the Building Schools for the Future programme. The allocation of £52.8 million in 2009-10 includes £5.9 million brought forward from 2010-11.

Prior to 2004-05, the only capital funding allocation to Gloucestershire for children, families or youth provision other than schools was a grant of £2.3 million in 1999-2000 to develop the local Sure Start local programme up to 2005-06. The allocations from 2004-05 onwards are in the following table.

£ million

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

2007-08

2008-09

2009-10

Sure Start

0.10

1.28

0.75

4.71

3.00

2.16

Facilities for short breaks for disabled children

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.23

0.53

Parental information and support

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.34

0.00

Play facilities

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.53

0.60

Integration of Children’s Services

0.07

0.12

0.11

0.15

0.04

0.04

New Places for 16 to 19 year-olds

0.00

0.00

0.00

7.80

9.40

0.00

Youth facilities

0.00

0.00

0.25

0.28

0.25

0.25