The Schools Minister, Charles Clarke, has given details of assistance to be given to local authorities in England to push ahead with the project, which plans to connect every school to the Internet and to provide online information and support for teachers.

Every local authority in England is to receive support for the Grid

The minister is allocating £105m between local authorities, part of the £700m announced for the project by the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, in November. The money will help schools to get faster Internet connections and to develop online teaching materials.

Every council will receive a share, ranging from £74,000 for Rutland to £4m for Birmingham. Four local authorities which have put forward "inventive or high quality proposals" will be given "pathfinder" status, which will lead to extra support for developing the grid.

These new pathfinders, Greenwich, Somerset, Stoke-on-Trent and Telford, are added to those already selected, Birmingham, Bradford, Cumbria, Dudley, Kent and Staffordshire.

The funding, Mr Clarke said, would "enable more schools to obtain the technical infrastructure they need to get wired up to the Grid" and would take another step nearer towards the government's target to connect all schools to the Internet by 2002.

"The Grid is already providing curriculum support and teacher materials. We expect to see a substantial increase in the availability of learning resources on the Grid over the next year, including more resources targeted at young learners."

"The Grid has enormous potential for driving up standards and for delivering material which is of immediate, practical and immediate use to schools," the minister said.

The allocation for each local authority in England is:

Barking and Dagenham £484,638
Barnet £562,500
Barnsley £429,757
Bath & NE Somerset £227,901
Bedfordshire £830,250
Bexley £488,360
Birmingham £4,000,000
Blackburn £449,871
Blackpool £376,443
Bolton £607,500
Bournemouth £187,500
Bracknell Forest £260,459
Bradford £1,600,000
Brent £358,131
Brighton & Hove £502,500
Bromley £536,027
Buckinghamshire £1,125,000
Bury £359,433
Calderdale £509,857
Cambridgeshire £911,606
Camden £383,667
Cheshire £982,500
City of Bristol £1,229,091
City of Kingston-upon-Hull £750,000
City of London £10,000
Cornwall £651,147
Coventry £1,013,313
Croydon £343,968
Cumbria £1,500,000
Darlington £185,947
Derby City £468,667
Derbyshire £637,500
Devon £1,212,754
Doncaster £338,596
Dorset £675,000
Dudley £2,000,000
Durham £2,032,695
Ealing £371,250
East Riding of Yorkshire £637,500
East Sussex £675,000
Enfield £273,482
Essex £1,723,500
Gateshead £337,500
Gloucestershire £586,032
Greenwich £520,000
Hackney £444,000
Halton £358,131
Hammersmith & Fulham £300,000
Hampshire £1,562,752
Haringey £358,131
Harrow £448,152
Hartlepool £195,344
Havering £285,202
Herefordshire £195,000
Hertfordshire £1,717,500
Hillingdon £325,573
Hounslow £364,642
Isle of Wight £399,921
Isles of Scilly £17,400
Islington £381,000
Kensington & Chelsea £221,883
Kent £4,200,000
Kingston upon Thames £206,250
Kirklees £787,500
Knowsley £612,789
Lambeth £520,766
Lancashire £1,627,867
Leeds £1,350,000
Leicester City £455,803
Leicestershire £900,000
Lewisham £450,000
Lincolnshire £1,887,402
Liverpool £1,050,000
Luton £325,573
Manchester £1,410,000
Medway Towns £750,000
Merton £325,573
Middlesbrough £325,573
Milton Keynes £325,573
Newcastle upon Tyne £885,204
Newham £806,909
Norfolk £1,500,000
North East Lincolnshire £390,000
North Lincolnshire £150,000
North Somerset £213,305
North Tyneside £669,000
North Yorkshire £681,230
Northamptonshire £1,125,000
Northumberland £525,000
Nottingham City £403,208
Nottinghamshire £1,302,294
Oldham £651,147
Oxfordshire £1,050,000
Peterborough £264,691
Plymouth £830,450
Poole £179,065
Portsmouth £357,480
Reading £338,585
Redbridge £582,470
Redcar and Cleveland £545,733
Richmond upon Thames £259,800
Rochdale £354,000
Rotherham £390,688
Rutland £74,095
Salford £520,917
Sandwell £366,270
Sefton £813,934
Sheffield £900,000
Shropshire £622,035
Slough £284,000
Solihull £299,528
Somerset £2,200,000
South Gloucestershire £453,849
South Tyneside £488,360
Southampton £292,500
Southend-on-Sea £300,161
Southwark £624,981
St Helens £546,536
Staffordshire £3,000,000
Stockport £851,651
Stockton-on-Tees £620,726
Stoke-on-Trent £1,000,000
Suffolk £975,000
Sunderland £390,688
Surrey £2,250,000
Sutton £337,437
Tameside £300,000
Telford and Wrekin £1,950,000
Thamesdown (Swindon) £227,901
Thurrock £205,111
Torbay £262,500
Tower Hamlets £450,000
Trafford £525,000
Wakefield £750,000
Walsall £511,801
Waltham Forest £450,000
Wandsworth £454,553
Warrington £465,000
Warwickshire £1,122,141
West Berkshire £260,459
West Sussex £750,000
Westminster £258,750
Wigan £675,000
Wiltshire £716,262
Windsor and Maidenhead £300,000
Wirral £468,826
Wokingham £212,925
Wolverhampton £423,245
Worcestershire £900,000
York £260,459