Departments: Westminster City Council Ms Buck To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills which grants for which his Department is responsible have been made to Westminster city council since 1997-98; and what the value was of each grant. Alan Johnson The grants made to Westminster city council in each year since 1997-98 by this Department, as recorded by the council in the Communities and Local Government Revenue Outturn (RO) returns, are as follows. ------------------------------------------------------------------ | |£000 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |1997-98 | | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Standards Fund |545 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Section 11 (Ethnic Minorities) Grant (excluding SRB) 1363| | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |1998-99 | | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Standards Fund |809 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Under-5s Specific Grant |460 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Ethnic Minorities Achievement Grant |1,539 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |1999-2000 | | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Standards Fund |1,879 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Nursery Education Grant for four-year-olds |64 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Ethnic Minorities Achievement Grant |1,398 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |2000-01 | | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Standards Fund |3,650 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Nursery Education Grant for four-year-olds |47 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Provision for three-year-olds |30 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Ethnic Minorities Achievement Grant |1,249 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Sure Start |2 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Child Care and Early Years |360 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |2001-02 | | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Standards Fund |7,478 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Teachers Pay Reform |867 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |School Standards Grant |1,469 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Child Care and Early Years |678 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |2002-03 | | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Standards Fund |9,555 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Nursery Education for three-year-olds |915 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Teachers Pay Reform |1,083 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |School Standards Grant |1,540 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Child Care and Early Years |593 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |2003-04 | | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Child care |865 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Excellence in Cities |1,065 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |School Standards |1,967 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Standards Fund |8,223 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Teachers' Pay Reform |2,073 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Children's Services |5,706 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |2004-05 | | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Adoption Support and Guardianship Special Orders |189 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Choice Protects |246 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |General Sure Start Grant |15 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Education Actions Zones |10 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Excellence in Cities |1,119 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Safeguarding Children |739 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |School Standards |2,125 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Standards Fund |8,472 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Teachers' Pay Reform/Threshold |2,415 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Teenage Pregnancy Local Implementation |65 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |2005-06 | | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Adoption Support and Guardianship Special Orders |314 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Choice Protects |530 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |General Sure Start Grant |3,877 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Change Fund |43 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Safeguarding Children |862 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |School Standards |2,286 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Standards Fund |10,465| ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Teachers' Pay Reform/Threshold |2,402 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Transforming Youth Work Development Fund |17 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Teenage Pregnancy Local Implementation |115 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |2006-07 | | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Children's Services |901 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |General Sure Start Grant |2,366 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Standards Fund - School Standards Grant |2,420 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Standards Fund—Other |8,725 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Teenage Pregnancy Local Implementation |140 | ------------------------------------------------------------------ This table sets out the specific grants inside aggregate external finance (AEF) (i.e. revenue grants paid for councils' core services) paid to Westminster and exclude grant outside AEF such as capital grants, funding for local authorities' housing management responsibilities, European funding; or where authorities are simply one of the recipients of funding paid towards an area. Revenue support grant and other elements of formula grant (such as redistributed business rates and police grant) have also been excluded. Revenue outturn data have been used from 1997/98 to 2005/06 (the last year available) and Revenue Account (RA) data have been used for 2006-07. Dedicated schools grant (DSG) started in 2006/07 and this has been recorded by Westminster council on their RA return. However, it has been excluded from the above table as prior to 2006-07 this funding was part of RSG, and the question excludes the funding from RSG. The Department can confirm that £86,014 of DSG was paid to Westminster in 2006/07. There are a number of smaller grants included in an ‘Other’ category on the revenue returns submitted by local authorities. It is possible that there may be some DfES grants within this category, but it is not possible to identify these separately within the return.