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Turner Paintings (Government Offices)

33. Mr. Archer : To ask the Minister for the Arts how many Turner paintings are currently hanging in Government offices.

Mr. Renton : There are currently four paintings by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) hanging in Government offices. They are : A Quiet Ruin

Italian Landscape with Tower

Waves Breaking against the Wind

Sunset

These four paintings are on temporary loan from the Tate gallery, London, to the Prime Minister's office, 10 Downing street, 1991. The loan was negotiated in 1989.

Black Arts Organisations

Mr. Boateng : To ask the Minister for the Arts how many black arts organisations based in London he has visited since his appointment.

Mr. Renton : I have visited two black arts organisations based in London since my appointment, the Black Theatre Co-operative in March and the Temba theatre company in April.

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EDUCATION AND SCIENCE

Secondary School Teachers

Mr. Pawsey : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he has received a copy of the interim report produced by the university of Warwick on the workloads of secondary school teachers ; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Eggar : My right hon. and learned Friend is grateful to the Assistant Masters and Mistresses Association for sending him a copy of this interim report. He has made it clear that he holds the commitment and professionalism of teachers in high regard and he has already taken steps to minimise the burdens which the implementation of our education reforms has placed upon them. This includes stemming the flow of paperwork to schools.

Citizenship Studies

Mr. Ian Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what progress has been made in the study of citizenship in schools ; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Atkins : The National Curriculum Council issued advice to schools, "Curriculum Guidance 8 : Education for Citizenship", last November. The document offers guidance to schools on planning and implementing a programme of education for citizenship and illustrates how the topic can be integrated with other elements of the curriculum. It is for individual schools, in the light of this guidance, to determine their own approaches to the teaching of citizenship.

Halifax Schools

Mrs. Mahon : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the capital allocation for buildings for North Halifax high and Crossley Heath schools, Halifax.

Mr. Eggar : Both these schools will receive grant calculated for capital expenditure by reference to the number of pupils on roll. For 1991- 92 the allocation for North Halifax high school is £25,100 and for Crossley Heath school is £25,300. Both schools have also bid for support for specified capital projects. Those bids are being considered.

Grove Road Schools, Tring

Mr. Robert B. Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will indicate the budget which would be available to the governors of Grove Road junior and infants schools, Tring, for the current year on the basis the schools were a joint and grant-maintained school.

Mr. Eggar : Hertfordshire local education authority's financial delegation scheme allocates £212,916 and £161,095 respectively to Grove Road junior and infants schools. Should these schools achieve grant- maintained status they would receive those amounts plus an additional 16 per cent. to help meet costs previously borne by the LEA and a further sum reflecting LEA subsidies for school meals. They would also be eligible for other grants available to grant-maintained schools.

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Research and Development

Mr. Dykes : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will give the figures of public funding for research and development by higher education establishments in the United Kingdom in the years from 1979-80 to 1989-90.

Mr. Alan Howarth : The estimated public funding for scientific research and development in the universities through the University Grants Committee and the Universities Funding Council is as follows :

Financial   |£ million            

year                                

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1979-80     |359                    

1980-81     |441                    

1981-82     |484                    

1982-83     |535                    

1983-84     |551                    

1984-85     |564                    

1985-86     |609                    

1986-87     |655                    

1987-88     |695                    

1988-89     |725                    

1989-90     |785                    

Comparable figures are not available for other higher education institutions.

Doctors (Pay Parity)

Mr. Nicholas Winterton : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) what steps he is taking to ensure continuing parity of pay between clinical academic staff and national health service doctors ;

(2) what steps he has taken to ensure that the Committee of Vice- Chancellors and Principals has available sufficient funds to continue parity of pay between clinical academic staff and national health service doctors.

Mr. Alan Howarth : It is for the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals, as the representatives of university employers, to settle the pay levels of clinical and other academic staff within the aggregate resources available. The Government remain committed to the principle that universities will not be given less favourable treatment than the hospital and community health service in any decisions to provide additional funds to meet extra costs arising from the annual recommendations of the Doctors and Dentists Review Body on NHS doctors' pay.

Stratford Grant-Maintained School

Mr. Tony Banks : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many teachers are currently employed at Stratford grant- maintained school ; and what is the proportion of teachers to pupils.

Mr. Eggar : These are matters for the governing body of the school. The information is not held centrally.

Mr. Tony Banks : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what will be the level of annual maintenance grant for Stratford grant-maintained school for 1991-92 ; and what will be the cost per pupil at (a) Stratford grant-maintained school, (b) on average for national allocations to grant-maintained schools and (c) on average at non grant- maintained schools.

Mr. Eggar : The level of annual maintenance grant for Stratford grant-maintained school for 1991-92 has not

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been finalised. The proposed figure, issued to the school and to Newham local education authority for comment, is £1,551,435. The 1991-92 data on average allocations to grant- maintained schools, and collated data on non grant-maintained schools taken from local education authorities' published local management of schools budget statements, are not yet available.

Mr. Tony Banks : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the total number of pupils at Stratford grant-maintained school now ; and what was the figure before grant-maintained status was achieved.

Mr. Eggar : I understand that as of 10 May 1991 the school had 289 pupils on roll. It achieved grant-maintained status when it was incorporated as grant maintained on 1 April 1991. The last annual pupil number count carried out at the school while it was in local education authority control was for January 1991. The LEA reported that the school at that time had 393 pupils on roll.

Mr. Tony Banks : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what information he has on the projected roll and spread of A-level courses in the sixth form at Stratford grant-maintained school for the next academic year.

Mr. Eggar : These are matters for the governing body of the school. The information is not held centrally.

Grant-maintained Schools

Mr. Speed : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the schools which have applied to his Department to transfer to grant-maintained status.

Mr. Eggar : I will list the schools under three categories : (i) those whose applications for GM status we have approved ; (ii) those whose applications for GM status we have rejected ; (iii) those that have published proposals on which decisions are pending.

(i)

Adams' Grammar School, Newport

Audenshaw High School, Thameside

Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School. Rossendale

Bankfield High School, Widnes

Baverstock Grant-Maintained School, Kings Heath

Beaconsfield High School

Beechen Cliff School, Bath

Bingley Grammar School

Bishopshalt School, Hillingdon

Bournemouth Grammar School

Bridgewater Hall School, Milton Keynes

Brindley Hall School, Milton Keynes

Bullers Wood School for Girls, Chislehurst

Burgate School, Fordingbridge

Caistor School

Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, Kensington

Carre's Grammar School, Sleaford

Castle Hall Grant-Maintained School, Mirfield

Chalvedon School, Basildon

Claremont High School, Kenton

Clitheroe Royal Grammar School

Colyton Grammar School, Colyford

Crossley Heath School, Halifax

Ecclesbourne School, Duffield

Francis Bacon School, St. Albans

Great Barr School

Guildford County School

Handsworth Grammar School for Boys

Hardley Secondary School, Fawley

Heckmondwike Grammar School

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Hendon School

King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth

Kingsley Park Middle School, Northampton

Kingswood School, Corby

Kirkbie Kendal School, Kendal

Lancaster Girls Grammar School

Lancaster Royal Grammar School

London Nautical School, Blackfriars

London Oratory School, Hammersmith

Long Field High School, Melton Mowbray

Marling School, Stroud

Moseley Park School, Wolverhampton

Netherthorpe School, Stavely

Newbold Grange High School, Rugby

Nonsuch High School for Girls, Cheam

North Halifax High School, Illingworth

Oldfield School, Bath

Old Swinford Hospital, Stourbridge

Pate's Grammar School, Cheltenham

Queen Elizabeth's GM Grammar School, Alford

Queen Elizabeth's GM School for Boys, Barnet

Queensbury School, Dunstable

Reading School

Ribston Hall High School, Gloucester

Rickmansworth School

Sexey's School, Bruton

Skegness Grammar School

Small Heath School

Southfield School for Girls, Kettering

Southlands School, Reading

St. Augustine RC School, Trowbridge

St. Bartholomew's School, Newbury

St. Francis Xavier's College, Woolton

St. George's School, Sleaford

St. James' CE School, Farnworth

Stratford School, Forest Gate

Stroud High School

The Cornwallis School, Linton

The Grammar School for Girls, Wilmington, near Dartford The Kings School Grantham

The Maplesden Noakes School, Maidstone

Watford Boys Grammar School

Westcliff High School for Boys, Essex

Wilmington Grammar School for Boys, Dartford

Wilsons School, Wallington

Wolverhampton High School for Girls

Woodroffe School, Lyme Regis

Wymondham College, Morley

minded for approval.

(ii)

Blessed Hugh More RC Secondary School, Grantham

Castlemount School, Dover

Southpark High School, Lincolnshire

Ramsden School for Girls, Orpington

Sir James Altham School, Watford

Foster's Grammar School for Boys, Sherborne

Lord Digby's Grammar School for Girls, Sherborne

Hindley Park High School, Wigan

Kettering Boy's School

The Longlands School, Stourbridge

Simon Digby Comprehensive School, Chelmsly Wood

Highwood School, Nailsworth

Walsingham School

(iii)

Appledore C.E. Primary School, Ashford

Arley Primary School, Northwhich

Arnewood School, New Milton

Bourne Primary School

Cliffe Woods Middle School, Rochester

Collingwood School, Camberley

Coopers School, Chislehurst

Copland Community School, Wembley

Dartford Grammar School, West Hill

Drayton Manor High School, Hanwell

Ellerdine Primary School, Shropshire

Foster's Boys Grammar School, Yeovil

Graveney School, Wandsworth

Greenway Comprehensive School, Uxbridge

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