Chamber
Meeting of the Parliament 03 March 2011
03 Mar 2011 · S3 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
Scottish Executive Question Time
School Buildings (Local Authority Funding)
Finance and Sustainable Growth
The support that is available for school refurbishment and building programmes is, in part, in the school building programme to which I referred in my original answer to Mr Scott, but it is also in the general capital finance that is made available to local authorities.
One of the key elements of the financial settlement that I put in place for local authorities this year was to maintain their proportion of the—I must acknowledge it—reduced capital budget that is available to the Scottish Government at the current level, which, if my memory serves me right, is about 27 per cent.
The school building programme to which I referred in my earlier answer is additional to that 27 per cent that we are investing in local authority stock. Any decisions on school building programmes will be taken in the context of those resources.
One of the key elements of the financial settlement that I put in place for local authorities this year was to maintain their proportion of the—I must acknowledge it—reduced capital budget that is available to the Scottish Government at the current level, which, if my memory serves me right, is about 27 per cent.
The school building programme to which I referred in my earlier answer is additional to that 27 per cent that we are investing in local authority stock. Any decisions on school building programmes will be taken in the context of those resources.
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