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) the transitional grant as a percentage of the protected funding.

holding answer 25 January 2002

The information requested for the financial years 1999–2000 and 2000–01 is set out in tables, copies of which have been placed in the Library. Comprehensive figures for the financial year 2001–02 are not yet available.