Education and Skills written question – answered at on 27 February 2006.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the estimated costs are to (a) her Department and (b) Government agencies of the establishment of each children's trust, broken down by (i) pathfinder trusts and (ii) non-pathfinder trusts.
holding answer
The Department has paid grants to pathfinder authorities amounting to £9.1 million over the three years 2003–06 to help with the establishment of children's trusts. Non-pathfinder local authorities received unhypothocated funding of £15 million from my Department's local authority Change Fund grant in 2004–06 to help them fund various projects, including establishing their children's trusts arrangements. Information on the costs to other Government agencies is not available.
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