EDUCATION FUNDING

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Motion text

That this House believes that, following the Government's education reforms, particularly the move towards local management and the introduction of grant maintained schools, there is now a compelling case for education funds to be provided directly from central government.

The first 6 Members who have signed to support the motion are the sponsors. The primary sponsor is generally the person who tabled the motion and has responsibility for it. The date shown is when the Member signed the motion.

Ulster Unionist Party

7 February 1991

East Antrim

In addition to the sponsors, the following Members have signed to support the motion.

Littleborough and Saddleworth

South West Cambridgeshire

Ulster Popular Unionist Party

Mates, Lt Col Michael

Conservative

1 February 1991

East Hampshire

McNair-Wilson, Sir Patrick

Torridge and West Devon

Page, Mr Richard

Conservative

1 February 1991

South West Hertfordshire

Peacock, Mrs Elizabeth

Rhodes James, Sir Robert

Hornsey and Wood Green

Temple-Morris, Mr Peter

Thornton, Sir Malcolm

Hertford and Stortford

Winterton, Sir Nicholas

There are no withdrawn signatures for this motion.

Amendments (1)

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EDUCATION FUNDING (Amendment 1)

at end add 'that the same applies to police, fire, social services and other obligations laid on local authorities by central government: further believes that the case for requiring local authorities to raise their own expenditure is now outdated; recommends that local authority expenditure be wholly funded by central government, thus eradicating the costs of raising money and so making all funding to local authorities available for spending; believes that creating an acceptable formula for funding local government would be no more complex than the Rate Support Grant formula of yesteryear or the Standard Spending Assessment currently on the Statute Book; feels that providing a fixed annual sum of money for each local authority would increase accountability by transparently relating local authority expenditure to their known income, thus enabling them to justify to their electorates how they spend a fixed annual sum; and invites the Secretary of State for the Environment earnestly to seek political consensus for this scheme, with the proviso that local authorities be granted powers locally to raise an additional rate, if they so wish and subject to electoral approval, up to an agreed percentage of the allocated sum as described above.'.

Robert Adley

Conservative, Christchurch

signature

EDM 396A1: tabled on 12 February 1991

EDM (Early Day Motion) 396: tabled on 01 February 1991

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Amendments (1)