Former Labour MP for Brent East
Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for calling me to make my initial contribution in this Chamber. I thank the people of Brent, East for returning me to serve as their Member of Parliament. It is a genuine honour. I have campaigned over many years for regeneration and the role of local government in achieving it. However, I have recently found myself engaged in a different kind of regeneration,...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list by local education authority and for each financial year for which the present grant maintained transitional funding arrangements have been in operation (a) the level of transitional grant payable by the local education authority to former grant maintained schools and (b) the level of grant paid by the Department to the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list by local education authority and for each financial year for which present arrangements have been in operation the former grant maintained schools with protected funding receiving transitional funding of more than 5 per cent. of their protected funding, indicating in each case (a) the level of transitional grant and (b)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will ensure that (a) the grant-maintained protection grant is maintained in 2002–03.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions if he will abolish the council tax benefit subsidy limitation scheme before the 2002–03 settlement.
