Education News: Pupil expenditure - Brown's spending plans arestalled

20 June 2006

Work to deliver Chancellor Gordon Brown's goal of spending as much on state school children as is spent on private school pupils has not yet begun, a top civil servant revealed last week.

MPs last week quizzed David Bell, the permanent secretary of theDepartment for Education and Skills, about the plan. He said Brown'sgoal was a "fair aspiration" but admitted no specific work on it wasunder way.

"The department's future plans are tied up with the comprehensivespending review," he told MPs on the Education and Skills SelectCommittee.

In last March's budget, Brown said his objective was to bring spendingon state pupils up to the level in private schools (Children Now, 29March-4 April).

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