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School Administration
Mr. David Nicholson : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what representations he has had about the administrative burden placed on head teachers (a) under
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current grant-maintained school arrangements and (b) under current local management of schools arrangements ; and if he will make a statement.Mr. Forth : The feedback I have received suggests that head teachers welcome the greater flexibility which the new arrangements bring and the increased responsibilities they now have. Managing budgets should not place an unacceptable burden on head teachers' time.
Grant-maintained Schools
Mr. David Nicholson : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will make a statement on the current initiatives and reforms being undertaken by grant-maintained schools for raising education standards ; and what legal obstacles exist which would prevent non-grant-maintained schools from undertaking similar initiatives and reforms.
Mr. Forth : The National Curriculum and assessment provisions together with the new arrangements for school inspections are designed to raise standards in all maintained schools. GM schools enjoy greater flexibility to channel expenditure away from administration and into teaching. The Government believe that this, coupled with an increased sense of independence and ownership, gives GM school heads and governors additional opportunities to raise standards.
Mr. David Nicholson : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what figures he has for the average pupil-teacher ratio during 1991-92 for schools which had achieved grant-maintained status by 1 April 1991.
Mr. Forth : The figures requested by my hon. Friend are not yet available. We hope to be able to publish figures in the spring. Recently published figures show that, in January 1991, when 50 secondary schools were GM, there were 36,450 pupils and 2,385 full-time equivalent teachers at GM schools, which gives a pupil-teacher ratio of 15.3.
Mr. Fatchett : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what is (a) the total number of ballots held on grant-maintained status, (b) in how many the proportion of parents voting yes has been more than 50 per cent. of the number of parents eligible to vote, (c) in how many the margin between the percentage voting yes and that voting no has been 60:40 or closer and (d) how many of those in (b) and (c) have been approved for grant-maintained status.
Mr. Forth : The information requested by the hon. Member is as follows :
(a) There have been 504 ballots on grant-maintained status. (b) In 200 of these the proportion of parents voting yes has been more than 50 per cent. of the number of parents eligible to vote. (c) In 56 the margin between those voting yes and those voting no has been 60:40 or closer.
(d) 132 of the schools detailed at (b) and 44 of the schools detailed at (c) have been approved or are currently minded to approve.
Mr. Fatchett : To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many ballots on grant-maintained status have been conducted over or during a school holiday period ; and how many ballots have been held during each school term since September 1988.
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Mr. Forth : The dates of school holidays vary from institution to institution. The information requested is not therefore held centrally. However, out of a total of 504 ballots on GM status to date, five have closed in the month of August.Mr. David Nicholson : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list (a) the number of schools in each education authority which have obtained grant-maintained status and (b) the number of such applications which he is still considering.
Mr. Forth : The information requested is as follows :
(a)
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The table includes 217 schools that are operating as GM ; 56 that have been approved but are not yet open ; and two that are "minded to approve" for GM status.
(b)
There are 39 applications still under consideration.
Music
Mr. Steinberg : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will give an estimate of the number of school hours devoted to music in state schools and the total number of music teachers for each year since 1981 ; and if he will make a statement on the future of music teaching in state schools.
Mr. Forth : Information is not available in the form requested. A primary school staffing survey was undertaken in 1987 and secondary school staffing surveys in 1984 and in 1988. These surveys indicated that there were 15,200 full-time teachers with a post A-level qualification in music in maintained nursery and primary schools in England in 1987. In maintained secondary schools in England, there were 9,300 music teachers in 1984, and 7,100 music teachers in 1988. In maintained primary schools in 1987, 4.8 per cent. of time in junior classes was devoted to music. In maintained secondary schools in England in 1988, the proportion of pupil periods devoted to music varied by year group as follows :
3
Year group |Percentage of
|pupil periods
|devoted to music
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7 |5.1
8 |4.5
9 |3.4
10 |0.9
11 |0.7
12-13 |0.8
A further secondary schools staffing survey was undertaken in 1992. It is hoped to publish the findings early in 1993.
The introduction from autumn 1992 of statutory attainment targets and programmes of study for music will provide a rigorous and challenging framework for the teaching of music in maintained schools, within which aspirations and standards will be raised and the range of skills, knowledge and understanding widened.
European Year of the Elderly
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what plans he has for his Department to celebrate in 1993, the European Year of the Elderly ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Forman : I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to him by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister on 13 July 1992, at columns 430-31.
Primary Schools (Funding)
Mr. David Nicholson : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what representations he has received over the funding arrangements for primary schools, in connection with developments in the curriculum and teaching methods ; and if he will make a statement.
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Mr. Forth : My right hon. Friend has received a number of representations commenting on the report, "Curriculum Organisation and Classroom Practice in Primary Schools", and in particular on the issue raised in the report of the current disparity between levels of funding for pupils at the upper end of primary education and pupils at the lower end of secondary education.This is a matter for local education authorities, which may themselves suggest amendments to the age-weighted allowances in their formulae for the distribution of resources under local management of schools. I am glad to say that some authorities are examining this question, and I would encourage more to do so.
Student Rents
Mr. Llew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what are the average rents paid by students in Wales, both on and off campus.
Mr. Forman : Information about the average cost of student accommodation in university institutions in Wales is set out in the table. This information is taken from the results of a survey carried out by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals based on data provided by individual institutions. Comparable information for other institutions in the higher education sector and institutions in the further education sector is not collected centrally.
Academic year 1991-92 |Cost per week £
|exclusive of all
meals
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Undergraduates
University halls of residence |27.90
Other university owned accommodation |27.65
Other non-university owned accommodation |30.45
Postgraduates
University halls of residence |27.40
Other university owned accommodation |27.20
Other non-university owned accommodation |30.05
School Buildings
Sir Malcolm Thornton : To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many primary and secondary schools in England and Wales were built before (a) 1914, (b) 1939 and (c) 1960 ; and what estimate his Department has made of renovation costs to modernise such schools.
Mr. Forth : "A Study of School Building", a report by an interdepartmental group of the Department of Education and Science and the Welsh Office, assisted by local government officers using information from a school building survey of maintained schools, was published by HMSO in 1977 and gives the latest information on the age of the school building stock. On the basis of a 10 per cent. survey of primary and secondary schools in England and 10 per cent. of primary schools and 20 per cent. of secondary schools in Wales, there were in 1976 8,300 schools built before 1903, 10,200 schools built before 1918 and 12,600 schools built before 1946. A further 10,600 schools were built between 1946 and 1976, in which one third of the places were completed by 1960.
The survey of school buildings published by the Department in 1987, based upon a survey of one in 30 county and voluntary controlled primary and one in six
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secondary schools in England only, reported estimated national costs, at November 1986 prices, of about £2,000 million to bring buildings up to a defined standard for 1991 projected pupil numbers. Some of these costs will have been met from recurrent expenditure and from capital investment on county, controlled and aided schools of £3,300 million since the survey.Student Grants
Mr. Llew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what is the value of a mandatory student grant for 1992-93 ; and what was the value in 1972-73 at current prices.
Mr. Forman : The basic mandatory grant for students living away from the parental home and studying outside London in the academic year 1992-93 will be £2,265. Students in those circumstances will be able to take out loans from the Student Loans Company of up to £715, making a total of £2,980. In 1972-73 the value of the corresponding mandatory grant was £2,723 at 1991-92 prices.
School Examination Results
Mr. Byers : To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) how many responses were received to his Department's letter of 10 January consulting on the further implications of the parents charter ; and how many of these responses were in favour of his Department analysing data and publishing performance tables in schools' comparative examination performance ;
(2) to whom the work to analyse and produce comparative tables of school examination results has been contracted out ;
(3) what estimate has been made of the cost of centrally managing the task of analysing and publishing comparative tables of school examination results ; and what provision was made for this expenditure in the original estimate of his Department.
Mr. Forth : Ninety-five responses were received to the consultation letter on the phased implementation of parents charter proposals. The consultation letter did not propose that the Department should itself undertake the task of producing comparative tables of schools' examination performance ; that decision was taken in the light of the consultation responses.
Information respecting departmental contracts is normally treated as commercial in confidence.
We estimate that some £650,000 will be required to compile, publish and distribute the comparative tables this year. The money will be found from within the Department's existing allocation.
Mr. Byers : To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) how provisions of the Data Protection Act 1984 have been taken into account in determining the method by which information will be obtained in order to produce comparative tables of school examination results ;
(2) by what legal authority he will be given access to personal machine- readable data being held by examination boards of individual candidates' examination results in order to produce comparative tables of school examination results.
Mr. Forth : The terms under which both the Department for Education and the examining bodies are
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registered under the Data Protection Act allow for the examining bodies to pass examination results data to the Department for the purpose of calculating and publishing aggregate examination results, as has been done in recent years. The comparative tables themselves will consist of aggregated data only for each school.Mr. Byers : To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) how a late regrading of an individual's examination paper will be taken into account in the publication of comparative tables of school examination results ;
(2) what account the comparative tables he intends to publish on school examination performance will take of the differential performance of boys and girls.
Mr. Forth : All examinations data relating to pupils registered at a particular school will be sent to that school in October for checking. Schools will therefore have an opportunity to notify the contractor preparing the tables of any changes to grades on appeal which are known by the time of the deadline for return of the information.
The comparative tables will not distinguish between the performance of boys and girls. Examinations data in school prospectuses will, however, continue to show results of boys and girls separately, alongside national averages.
Public Appointments
Mr. Dobson : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list any public appointments by his Department since 1987 which have involved people from organisations criticised in published reports by Department of Trade and Industry inspectors.
Mr. Forman : The information is not held centrally in the form requested. My Department takes all relevant factors into account when considering such appointments.
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Assisted Places Scheme
Ms. Armstrong : To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many people are employed on the management of the assisted places scheme.
Mr. Forth : A total of 7.7 full-time equivalent staff are directly engaged in the management of the assisted places scheme in the current financial year.
Ms. Armstrong : To ask the Secretary of State for Education how much has been spent on the assisted places scheme and for how many pupils for each year since 1989, in cash and constant prices.
Mr. Forth : The information requested is shown in the following table and relates to England only :
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|1989-90|27,008 |56.5
1990-91 |26,740 |63.4 |67.2
1991-92 |27,641 |78.9 |78.9
<1> The real terms series has been
derived on the basis of the GDP
deflator assumptions published in the
Budget with the most recent year as the
price base.
Ms. Armstrong : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list the schools involved in the assisted places scheme, with (a) the total number of pupils on rolls and (b) the number of assisted pupils, and the percentage which (b) bears to (a) in each school for the latest year which figures are available.
Mr. Forth : The information is as follows. The latest year for which complete details are available is the academic year--AY--1990-91.
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Assisted places scheme: numbers of pupils in APS schools in AY 1990-91
School name |Number of
|pupils on roll
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Abbey school, Reading |920
Abingdon school |730
Ackworth school, Pontefract |460
Aldenham school, Elstree |370
Alice Ottley school, Worcester |670
Alleyns school, Dulwich |920
Ardingley college, Haywards Heath |480
Arnold school, Blackpool |800
Ashford school, Kent |700
Ashville college |670
Austin Friars school |310
Bancrofts school, Woodford |710
Barnard Castle school |610
Bath high school GPDST |590
Batley grammar school |630
Bedales school, Petersfield |410
Bedford group:
Bedford high school |1,030
Bedford modern school |1,200
Bedford school |1,120
Dame Alice Harpur school |1,030
Belvedere school GPDST Liverpool |550
Berkhamsted school |800
Berkhamsted school for girls |560
Birkenhead high school GPDST |950
Birkenhead school |990
Bishops Stortford college |360
Blackheath high school GPDST |570
Bloxham school, Banbury |370
Bolton school (Boys) |1,000
Bolton school (Girls) |1,100
Bootham school, York |320
Bradfield college, Reading |530
Bradford girls grammar |900
Bradford grammar school |1,150
Brentwood school |1,080
Brighton and Hove high school GPDST |740
Brighton college |500
Bristol Cathedral school |460
Bristol grammar school |1,200
Bromley high school GPDST |690
Bromsgrove school, Worcestershire |560
Bruton school for girls |580
Burgess Hill school for girls |580
Bury grammar school (Boys) |750
Bury grammar school (Girls) |1,120
Canford school, Wimborne |530
Carmel college, Wallingford |290
Casterton school, Cumbria |380
Caterham school |720
Central Newcastle high school GPDST |780
Charterhouse, near Godalming |700
Cheadle Hulme school |1,000
Cheltenham ladies college |840
Chigwell school |620
Christs hospital |830
Churchers college, Petersfield |460
City of London school |850
City of London school for girls |660
City of London Freemans school, Ashtead |650
Clifton college, Bristol |700
Clifton high school, Bristol |750
Colfes school, London SE12 |860
Colstons school, Bristol |340
Colstons girls school |660
Coventry school, Bablake |2,750
Cranleigh school |570
Croham Hurst school, Croydon |590
Croydon high school, GPDST |1,040
Culford school, Bury St. Edmunds |710
Dame Allans boys school, Newcastle upon Tyne |440
Dame Allans girls school |420
Dauntseys school, Devizes |590
Denstone college, Uttoxeter |360
Derby high school |500
Douai school, Reading |300
Dover college |310
Downe House school, Newbury |460
Dulwich college |1,430
Durham school |380
Edgbaston C of E college for girls |470
Edgehill college, Bideford |500
Ellerslie school, Worcestershire |250
Ellesmere college |370
Eltham college, London SE9 |700
Emanuel school, London SW11 |760
Epsom college |650
Exeter school |680
Farnborough hill school |520
Felixstowe college |320
Felsted school, Dunmow |500
Forest school, London E17 |450
Framlingham college |680
Francis Holland school, London NW1 |360
Friends school, Saffron Walden |270
Giggleswick school, Settle |300
Godolphin school, Salisbury |320
Godolphin and Latymer school, London W6 |700
Greshams school, Norfolk |480
Guildford High school for girls |580
Haberdashers Askes school, Elstree |1,300
Haberdashers Askes schools for girls, Elstree |1,100
Haileybury and Imperial Service college |690
Hampton school |870
Harrogate college |400
Headington school, Oxford |680
Hereford Cathedral school |600
Highgate school |300
Hipperholme grammar school |370
Holy Child school |370
Hulme grammar, boys, Oldham |860
Hulme grammar, girls, Oldham |590
Hurstpierpoint college, Hassocks |570
Hymers college, Hull |870
Ipswich high school GPDST |600
Ipswich school |630
James Allens girls school |850
John Lyons school, Harrow |490
Kent college, Canterbury |650
Kimbolton schools, Cambridge |690
King Edwards school at Bath |690
King Edwards school, Birmingham |780
King Edward VI High school, Birmingham |560
King Edward VII school, Lytham |650
King Edward VI school, Norwich |760
King Edward VI school, Southampton |940
King Edwards school, Witley |520
Kings college school, Wimbledon |650
Kings high school for girls, Warwick |990
Kingsley school |550
Kings school, Bruton |330
Kings school, Chester |560
Kings school, Macclesfield |1,040
Kings school, Rochester |440
Kings school, Tynemouth |910
Kings, school, Worcester |860
Kingston grammar school |570
Kingswood school, Bath |480
Kirkham grammar school |510
Lady Eleanor Holles school, Hampton |810
La Sagesse convent school, Newcastle upon Tyne |340
Latymer upper school, London W6 |1,030
Laxton school |150
Leeds girls high school |950
Leeds grammar school |1,180
Leicester grammar school |550
Leighton park school, Reading |360
Leys school, Cambridge |380
Liverpool college |700
Lord Wandsworth college, Basingstoke |440
Loreto convent grammar school, Altrincham |820
Loughborough grammar |880
Loughborough high school |520
Magdalen college school, Oxford |500
Malvern college group |600
Manchester grammar school |1,460
Manchester high school |970
Marist convent senior school, Ascot |500
Maynard school, Exeter |530
Merchant Taylors, Liverpool |770
Merchant Taylors girls, Liverpool |810
Merchant Taylors, Northwood |700
Mill Hill school |540
Monkton Combe school, Bath |340
Mount Carmel school, Cheshire |590
Mount St. Marys college, Nr. Sheffield |280
Mount school, York |290
Newcastle under Lyme school, Staffordshire |1,350
Newcastle upon Tyne church high school |610
Northampton high school |770
North London collegiate school, Edgware |850
Norwich high school GPDST |840
Nottingham girls high school GPDST |1,050
Nottingham high school |830
Notting Hill and Ealing high GPDST |770
Oakham school, Rutland |986
Old Palace school, Croydon |760
Oxford high school GPDST |650
Pangbourne college, Reading |330
Perse school for boys, Cambridge |490
Perse school for girls |710
Plymouth college |700
Pocklington school, near York |710
Polam hall school, Darlington |470
Portsmouth grammar school |1,020
Portsmouth high school GPDST |670
Prior park college, Bath |390
Putney high school GPDST |830
Queen Elizabeth grammar, Blackburn |1,200
Queen Elizabeth grammar, Wakefield |980
Queen Elizabeth hospital school, Bristol |480
Queen Mary school, Lytham |700
Queens college Taunton |610
Queens college, London W1 |400
Queens school, Chester |580
Ratcliffe college, Leicestershire |420
Redland high school, Bristol |630
Red Maids school, Bristol |480
Reeds school, Cobham |350
Reigate grammar school |870
Rendcomb college, Cirencester |280
Repton school, near Derby |560
Rossall school, Fleetwood |480
Royal grammar school, Guildford |800
Royal grammar school, Newcastle upon Tyne |1,130
Royal grammar school, Worcester |870
Ryde school |620
St. Albans school |670
St. Albans high school for girls |690
St. Ambrose college, Altrincham |640
St. Anselms college, Birkenhead |850
St. Bedes college, Manchester |870
St. Bees school, Cumbria |370
St. Benedicts school, Ealing |590
St. Catherines school, Bramley |620
St. Dunstans college, Catford |830
St. Edmunds college, Ware |460
St. Edwards college, Liverpool |850
St. Felix school, Southwold |360
St. Georges college, Weybridge |600
St. Helens school, Northwood |880
St. Johns college, Southsea |860
St. Johns school, Leatherhead |460
St. Josephs college, Ipswich |740
St. Josephs convent, Reading |530
St. Josephs college, Stoke-on-Trent |480
St. Lawrence college, Ramsgate |360
St. Margarets school, Bushey |460
St. Margarets school, Exeter |450
St. Marys college, Crosby |800
St. Marys convent, Cambridge |550
St. Marys hall, Brighton |390
St. Maurs convent, Weybridge |470
St. Pauls school, Barnes |640
St. Pauls girls school, Hammersmith |630
St. Peters school, York |480
St. Swithuns school, Winchester |410
Salesian college, Farnborough |450
Scarborough college |390
School of St. Helen and St. Katherine, Abingdon |520
School of St. Mary and St. Anne |270
Sedbergh school |680
Sevenoaks school, Kent |920
Sheffield high school GPDST |680
Shrewsbury high school GPDST |570
Silcoates school |570
Sir William Perkins school, Chertsey |490
Solihull school |980
South Hampstead high school GPDST |670
Stafford independent grammar school |290
Stamford school |950
Stamford high school |1,010
Stockport grammar school |1,270
Stoneyhurst college, near Blackburn |430
Stowe school, near Buckingham |610
Streatham Hill and Clapham high GPDST |500
Surbiton high school |600
Sutton high school GPDST |820
Sutton Valence school, near Maidstone |410
Sydenham high school GPDST |650
Talbot Heath school, Bournemouth |600
Taunton school |590
Teesside high school |540
Tonbridge school |660
Tormead school, Guildford |550
Trent college, Derbyshire |610
Trinity school of John Whitgift, Croydon |800
Truro school |860
Truro high school |500
University College school, London NW3 |770
Upton Hall Convent school |600
Ursuline Convent school, Kent |330
Ursuline high school, Ilford |410
Wakefield high school |760
Walthamstow Hall, Sevenoaks |530
Warwick school |990
Wellingborough school |830
Wellington college, Berkshire |830
Wellington school, Somerset |800
Wells Cathedral school |590
West Buckland school, Barnstaple |530
Westholme school, Blackburn |950
Westminster school |600
Whitgift school, Croydon |900
William Hulme grammar school, Manchester |790
Wimbledon high school GPDST |700
Winchester college |660
Wisbech grammar school |600
Withington girls school, Manchester |560
Wolverhampton grammar school |640
Woodbridge school, Suffolk |540
Woodhouse Grove school, Bradford |410
Worksop college, Nottingham |390
Wrekin college |380
Wycliffe college, Stonehouse |330
Yarm school, Cleveland |420
|Average proportion 13.08
<1> Numbers of pupils on roll are rounded to the nearest 10 pupils.
<2> Numbers of Assisted Pupils at start of school year 1990-91.
Ms. Armstrong : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list, for each year since 1989, the number of assisted places available, the number taken up and the percentage of those taken up which were free places.
Mr. Forth : The information is given in the following table :
School year |Places |Places |Percentage of
|available |taken up | free places
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1989-90 |33,280 |27,008 |31
1990-91 |33,289 |26,740 |32
1991-92 |33,296 |27,641 |35
Ms. Armstrong : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what was the average cost per pupil of an assisted place for each year since 1989.
Mr. Forth : The average cost of an assisted place in the academic year 1989-90 and the two following years was £2,364, £2,691 and £3, 100 respectively.
Ms. Armstrong : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what plans he has for placing the management of the assisted places scheme in private hands ; and if he will make a statement.
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Mr. Forth : I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Wrexham (Dr. Marek) on 1 July 1992, at column 570.
Residential Properties
Ms. Ruddock : To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many residential properties in the London borough of Lewisham are owned by his Department ; if he will publish a list of such residential properties which are currently empty, giving the type of accomodation available, the length of time each property has been vacant, and the intended future use.
Departmental Staff
Mr. Steen : To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many staff his Department currently employs ; what are the total personnel costs ; and what were the staffing levels and personnel costs in 1970.
Mr. Forman : The Department currently employs 2,723 civil servants. This figure includes 385 Her Majesty's inspectors of whom the majority together with their support staff will transfer to the office of Her Majesty's chief inspector--OHMCI--which is to be constituted as a
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separate non-ministerial department from 1 September. The figure also includes 323 civil servants based in the Teachers Pensions Agency. The total net running costs for the DFE and OHMCI for 1992-93 are expected to be in the region of £103 million.On 1 July 1970 the Department employed 3,195 civil servants. The total net running costs for 1969-70 were £6,549,000.
Departmental Advisers
Mr. Dobson : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list any advisers retained by his Department since 1987 who have been criticised in published reports by Department of Trade and Industry inspectors.
Mr. Forman : None of the advisers retained by this Department has been criticised in reports by DTI inspectors published since 1982.
Schools Branch 4
Mr. Fatchett : To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many staff are now employed in schools branch 4, division B ; and what was the cost of this branch in 1990-91 and 1991-92 and the budgeted cost for 1992- 93.
Mr. Forth : As of 13 July, there were 69 civil servants employed in schools branch 4 division B. The running costs of the division for the years in question is as follows :
|£
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1990-91 outturn |372,000
1991-92 outturn |706,000
1992-93 budget |1,375,000
Surplus School Places
Mr. Fatchett : To ask the Secretary of State for Education for each year from 1986 what has been the number of surplus school places proposed to be removed as a result of local education authority reorganisation plans (a) submitted to the Secretary of State and (b) (i) approved by the Secretary of State and (ii) rejected by the Secretary of State as a consequence of a parallel proposal for grant-maintained status.
Mr. Forth : The information requested is as follows :
(
|(a)<1> |(b)(i)<1>
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1986 |74,691 |62,828
1987 |54,951 |45,326
1988 |56,474 |27,170
1989 |57,297 |41,831
1990 |157,735 |145,748
1991 |101,605 |79,814
<1> These figures include proposals
determined by LEAs.
To date, 43 proposals have been rejected where there was an associated grant-maintained application, but it is not possible to say without disproportionate cost how many places would have been removed.
Admission Limits, Birmingham
Mr. Rooker : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list the primary schools in Birmingham where his Department has increased the admission limit
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for September ; if he will detail how many will have class sizes above 30 pupils as a result ; and if he will make a statement.Mr. Forth : From September 1992 all primary schools will be required to admit children up to their "standard number", a minimum admission number designed to reflect the capacity of the school. We are aware that certain primary schools in Birmingham will have higher admission numbers in 1992 than in 1991 as a result of this requirement, by virtue of the fact that proposals by Birmingham LEA to reduce the standard numbers for these schools have been rejected by my right hon. Friend. These schools are listed in the table. The proposals to reduce the standard numbers at these schools were rejected in each case either because the school is already accommodating the total number of pupils implied by the existing standard number or because the standard number has been set on the basis of a simple assessment of the school's physical capacity. This assessment assumes that a maximum of 30 pupils can be accommodated in each standard size classroom with an appropriately smaller number in smaller rooms.
Actual class sizes reflect decisions about staffing levels by individual schools, taken in the light of the resources available to them. The average pupil teacher ratio in Birmingham in 1990-91 was 23.5 : 1, slightly higher than the national average. The total budget for education set by Birmingham LEA for 1992-93 is £52 million less than the total allowed for by the Government under the standard spending assessment mechanism.
School |Admission limit |Standard number
|September 1991 |(minimum number of
|admissions for
|September 1992)
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Adderley JI School |60 |68
Anglesey Infant School |90 |91
Anglesey Junior School |90 |96
Arden JI School |60 |74
Aston Tower JI School |60 |61
Barford JI School |60 |62
Bellfield Junior School |60 |70
Billesley Junior School |90 |92
Birches Green Infant
School |60 |61
Birches Green Junior
School |60 |62
Blakesley Hall JI School |90 |92
Broadmeadow Infant
School |90 |98
Brownmead JI School |30 |32
Calshot Infant School |60 |69
Calshot Junior School |60 |65
Chilcote JI School |60 |69
Christchurch CE JI
School |30 |33
City Road JI School |60 |64
Colmers Farm Infant
School |60 |64
Colmers Farm Junior
School |60 |64
Colmore Infant School |90 |91
Colmore Junior School |90 |92
Conway JI School |60 |63
Cottesbrooke Junior
School |90 |93
Elms Farm JI School |30 |61
Erdington Hall JI School |60 |64
Firs Infant School |60 |67
Firs Junior School |60 |62
Great Barr JI School |60 |69
Green Meadow JI School |60 |64
Grendon JI School |60 |61
Grove Infant School |90 |105
Hall Green Infant School |90 |93
Harborne Junior School |90 |91
Hawthorn JI School |30 |32
James Watt Infant
School |60 |61
James Watt Junior
School |60 |65
Leigh JI School |60 |64
Manor Park JI School |60 |76
Mapledene Junior School |60 |68
Marlborough Junior
School |90 |110
Meadows JI School |60 |65
Moseley CE JI School |30 |34
Nelson JI School |30 |33
Nonsuch JI School |60 |62
Northfield Manor JI
School |60 |62
Park Hill JI School |60 |70
Percy Shurmer JI School |60 |64
Perry Beeches Infant
School |90 |109
Prince Albert JI School |90 |99
Raddlebarn JI School |60 |61
Rednal Hill Infant
School |90 |101
Shaw Hill JI School |60 |73
Shirestone JI School |60 |66
Springfield Junior School |90 |110
Stechford JI School |30 |32
Stirchley JI School |30 |32
Timberley JI School |60 |72
Twickenham JI School |60 |65
Wattville Junior School |90 |109
West Heath Infant
School |90 |98
West Heath Junior
School |90 |100
Westminster Infant
School |60 |86
Westminster Junior
School |60 |89
Wheelers Lane Junior
School |90 |93
Wilkes Green Junior
School |90 |96
Woodthorpe JI School |30 |32
Wychall Farm Infant
School |60 |68
Yardley Junior School |90 |93
Yew Tree JI School |60 |62
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|Number of |Per cent. of
|RDPs |total staff
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1989 |66.0 |2.6
1990 |65.5 |2.6
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Table 1
|Net institutional
expenditure per<1>Number of schools which have balloted on
Local education authority secondary pupil<2>grant maintained status<3>
|1989-90 (£) |Secondary |Primary
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Inner London |2,745 |12 |7
Waltham Forest |2,490 |1 |0
Ealing |2,345 |8 |2
Newham |2,310 |1 |0
Brent |2,225 |4 |0
Barking |2,200 |0 |0
Coventry |2,180 |0 |0
Salford |2,140 |0 |0
Kingston Upon Thames |2,120 |1 |0
Sandwell |2,115 |2 |0
Liverpool |2,110 |2 |0
Knowsley |2,105 |1 |0
Rochdale |2,050 |2 |1
Hillingdon |2,010 |10 |2
South Tyneside |2,010 |0 |0
Wigan |2,000 |1 |0
Walsall |1,995 |6 |1
Havering |1,990 |1 |0
Newcastle Upon Tyne |1,980 |0 |0
Harrow |1,975 |1 |0
Wirral |1,975 |1 |0
Derbyshire |1,975 |6 |4
Wolverhampton |1,975 |2 |1
St. Helens |1,970 |0 |0
Bromley |1,955 |13 |2
Dudley |1,955 |3 |0
Nottinghamshire |1,955 |3 |0
Barnet |1,945 |2 |1
Croydon |1,935 |2 |0
Merton |1,925 |0 |0
Trafford |1,920 |1 |0
Sheffield |1,920 |2 |5
Cleveland |1,915 |0 |0
Hertfordshire |1,900 |10 |5
Leicestershire |1,900 |3 |0
Gateshead |1,865 |1 |0
Stockport |1,860 |0 |0
Bury |1,860 |0 |0
Shropshire |1,855 |1 |2
Redbridge |1,855 |1 |0
Buckinghamshire |1,850 |4 |3
Cumbria |1,845 |6 |3
Sunderland |1,845 |0 |0
Sutton |1,840 |5 |0
Bolton |1,840 |1 |1
Solihull |1,835 |2 |1
Tameside |1,835 |2 |0
Birmingham |1,835 |5 |0
Bexley |1,820 |1 |2
Lancashire |1,820 |10 |1
Suffolk |1,820 |0 |0
Enfield |1,815 |0 |0
Bedfordshire |1,815 |3 |1
Oxfordshire |1,810 |1 |0
Rotherham |1,810 |0 |0
Kirklees |1,810 |3 |2
Norfolk |1,810 |11 |12
Doncaster |1,805 |1 |0
Essex |1,800 |33 |9
Avon |1,800 |2 |1
Barnsley |1,795 |2 |1
Richmond upon Thames |1,790 |0 |0
Hampshire |1,790 |8 |9
Staffordshire |1,790 |2 |0
Warwickshire |1,770 |7 |0
East Sussex |1,765 |0 |0
Oldham |1,765 |1 |0
North Yorkshire |1,760 |1 |1
Humberside |1,760 |1 |1
West Sussex |1,745 |1 |0
Somerset |1,745 |1 |2
Gloucestershire |1,735 |22 |1
Berkshire |1,735 |9 |3
Durham |1,735 |1 |0
Cheshire |1,725 |5 |3
Sefton |1,715 |0 |0
Leeds |1,715 |0 |0
Devon |1,710 |4 |1
Cornwall (including Scilly Isles) |1,700 |0 |1
Wiltshire |1,700 |4 |1
Northamptonshire |1,685 |13 |4
Lincolnshire |1,680 |21 |7
Surrey |1,675 |10 |10
Calderdale |1,665 |2 |1
Northumberland |1,645 |0 |0
Cambridgeshire |1,640 |7 |8
Hereford and Worcester |1,635 |1 |0
Dorset |1,635 |11 |1
Bradford |1,635 |1 |0
Isle of Wight |1,575 |0 |0
Kent |1,570 |44 |6
North Tyneside |n/a |0 |0
Hounslow |n/a |0 |0
Wakefield |n/a |0 |1
Manchester |n/a |0 |0
Haringey |n/a |0 |0
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Table 2
Net institutional <3>Number of schools which voted to apply for
|expenditure<1>per |grant maintained status
|secondary pupil<2>
|1989-90
LEA |£ |Secondary |Primary
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Inner London |2,745 |9 |5
Waltham Forest |2,490 |1 |0
Ealing |2,345 |6 |2
Newham |2,310 |1 |0
Brent |2,225 |3 |0
Barking |2,200 |0 |0
Coventry |2,180 |0 |0
Salford |2,140 |0 |0
Kingston Upon Thames |2,120 |1 |0
Sandwell |2,115 |1 |0
Liverpool |2,110 |1 |0
Knowsley |2,105 |0 |0
Rochdale |2,050 |0 |1
Hillingdon |2,010 |10 |2
South Tyneside |2,010 |0 |0
Wigan |2,000 |1 |0
Walsall |1,995 |2 |0
Havering |1,990 |0 |0
Newcastle Upon Tyne |1,980 |0 |0
Harrow |1,975 |0 |0
Wirral |1,975 |1 |0
Derbyshire |1,975 |3 |2
Wolverhampton |1,975 |2 |0
St. Helens |1,970 |0 |0
Bromley |1,955 |12 |2
Dudley |1,955 |2 |0
Nottinghamshire |1,955 |1 |0
Barnet |1,945 |2 |0
Croydon |1,935 |1 |0
Merton |1,925 |0 |0
Trafford |1,920 |0 |0
Sheffield |1,920 |1 |4
Cleveland |1,915 |0 |0
Leicestershire |1,900 |2 |0
Gateshead |1,865 |0 |0
Stockport |1,860 |0 |0
Bury |1,860 |0 |0
Shropshire |1,855 |1 |2
Redbridge |1,855 |0 |0
Buckinghamshire |1,850 |4 |2
Cumbria |1,845 |6 |3
Sunderland |1,845 |0 |0
Sutton |1,840 |5 |0
Bolton |1,840 |1 |1
Solihull |1,835 |1 |1
Tameside |1,835 |1 |0
Birmingham |1,835 |4 |0
Bexley |1,820 |0 |2
Lancashire |1,820 |6 |1
Suffolk |1,820 |0 |0
Enfield |1,815 |0 |0
Bedfordshire |1,815 |2 |1
Oxfordshire |1,810 |0 |0
Rotherham |1,810 |0 |0
Kirklees |1,810 |3 |0
Norfolk |1,810 |8 |10
Doncaster |1,805 |0 |0
Essex |1,800 |30 |7
Avon |1,800 |2 |0
Barnsley |1,795 |0 |1
Richmond Upon Thames |1,790 |0 |0
Hampshire |1,790 |6 |7
Staffordshire |1,790 |1 |0
Warwickshire |1,770 |6 |0
East Sussex |1,765 |0 |0
Oldham |1,765 |0 |0
North Yorkshire |1,760 |0 |0
Humberside |1,760 |0 |1
West Sussex |1,745 |0 |0
Somerset |1,745 |1 |1
Gloucestershire |1,735 |16 |1
Berkshire |1,735 |9 |3
Durham |1,735 |0 |0
Cheshire |1,725 |1 |3
Sefton |1,715 |0 |0
Leeds |1,715 |0 |0
Devon |1,710 |2 |0
Cornwall including Scilly |1,700 |0 |1
Wiltshire |1,700 |3 |1
Northamptonshire |1,685 |10 |3
Lincolnshire |1,680 |21 |5
Surrey |1,675 |10 |8
Calderdale |1,665 |2 |1
Northumberland |1,645 |0 |0
Cambridgeshire |1,640 |5 |7
Hereford and Worcester |1,635 |0 |0
Dorset |1,635 |11 |0
Bradford |1,635 |1 |0
Isle of Wight |1,575 |0 |0
Kent |1,570 |40 |5
North Tyneside |n/a |0 |0
Hounslow |n/a |0 |0
Wakefield |n/a |0 |1
Manchester |n/a |0 |0
Haringey |n/a |0 |0
<1> Net institutional expenditure covers spending on salaries and wages, recurrent premises costs, books and equipment,
and certain other supplies and services. It excludes spending on LEA administration, home to school transport, school
meals and financing costs
of capital expenditure.
<2> Per pupil expenditure figures are derived from LEAs returns of their spending to the Department of the Environment
and their pupil numbers to the Department for Education. Figures are for 1989-90, the latest year for which actual
spending information is available.
<3> Figures include all ballots on grant-maintained status up to 13 July 1992.
<4> n/a indicates that a return was not received from the LEA.
Disabled Employees
Mrs. Roche : To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to his answer to the hon. and learned Member for Leicester, West (Mr. Janner) of 30 June 1992, Official Report, columns 452-53, how many and what proportion of his Department's employees were registered disabled in 1989 and 1990.
Mr. Forman : The number and percentage of the Department's full-time equivalent staff who were registered disabled on 1 June in 1989 and 1990 were :
Table file CW920714.033 not available
There were other staff in the Department with disabilities who chose not to register and are not therefore included in the figures.
Local Education Authorities
Mr. Fatchett : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list local education authorities in rank order of expenditure per pupil on secondary education for the last year for which figures are available, giving in each case (a) the number of (i) secondary and (ii) primary schools which have held ballots on grant-maintained status and (b) the number of (i) secondary and (ii) primary schools which have voted to apply for grant-maintained status.
Mr. Forth : The tables rank LEAs by school based spending per secondary pupil in 1989-90, the latest year for which information on actual spending is available. Table 1 lists the number of secondary and primary schools per LEA which have held ballots on
grant-maintained status and table 2 lists the number which have voted for grant-maintained status.
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University Staff (Pay Agreement)
Ms. Janet Anderson : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will ratify the 1992 pay agreement between the Committee of Vice- Chancellors and Principals and the Association of University Teachers ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Forman : The proposal for a pay settlement for university academic staff, made by the parties to committee A of the negotiating machinery, will be considered at a meeting of committee B--which includes officials from my Department--on Thursday 16 July. It would not be appropriate for the Government to comment on the proposal in advance of that meeting.
Access Funds
Mr. John Bowis : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what resources will be available for the access funds in 1992-93.
Mr. Forman : A total of £26.2 million will be available for the access funds in Great Britain for the 1992-93 academic year. My Department's share will be £23.37 million. This sum is being allocated between the three access funds ; allocations for the 1991-92 academic year are shown in parenthesis :
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|£ million|£ million
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Undergraduate Fund |13.27 |(13.00)
Postgraduate Fund |5.90 |(5.84)
Further Education Fund |4.20 |(4.17)
Visits
Mr. Harris : To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many education establishments he, the Minister of State and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary, the hon. Member for Mid-Worcestershire (Mr. Forth), have visited since 9th April.
Mr. Patten : I, my noble Friend the Minister of State and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, my hon. Friend the Member for Mid- Worcestershire (Mr. Forth) have visited the following schools so far during our periods in office :
17 primary schools, including one middle school ;
22secondary schools, including three grant-maintained schools ; Two special schools ;
Three CTCs ; and
One sixth form college.
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