Clause 39 - Determination of specified budgets of LEA
Education Bill
4:45 pm
Mr Stephen Timms (Minister of State (School Standards), Department for Education and Skills; East Ham, Labour)
I just want to make a point that I perhaps should have made earlier. In clause 42 we are looking at the introduction of consistent financial reporting, which will allow us to benchmark in a way that has not been possible in the past, and to compare the amounts that are being spent in different schools on different things. I do not accept the hon. Gentleman's earlier description of a black hole.