Friend expects to make a decision when he has received the authority's response to that letter. The information requested is not available centrally, but my right hon. Aggregated local education authority returns will be submitted to the Department annually from June 1991. Her Majesty's inspectors, in the course of their normal programme of inspecting independent schools, are monitoring the schools' intentions with regard to adopting this and the extent to which they are implementing it. My right hon.
Friend is pleased that many are choosing to do so.
There were 75 applications of which 47 were alpha- rated. The number of applications to be funded has not yet been determined. The accommodation needs of students from abroad, as of home students, are a matter for the institutions they are attending. In need of refurbishment. The current negotiations are being carried forward as speedily as possible, but no timetable has been set for their completion.