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education authority area in Wales ; and how many such pupils have received a statement from their local education authority.Sir Wyn Roberts : There is no specific system of applications for statements of special educational needs. Local education authorities do, however, have a duty to make and maintain statements if, following a formal assessment, they are of the opinion that they should determine the provision to be made for a child.
Information on the number of pupils between five and 18 in school with statements of special educational need for January 1992 is shown in the following table :
|Number
--------------------------------
Clwyd |2,072
Dyfed |1,041
Gwent |1,890
Gwynedd |818
Mid Glamorgan |5,300
Powys |518
South Glamorgan |1,333
West Glamorgan |2,295
|-------
Wales |15,267
Mr. Dafis : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is the average length of time taken between actual application and the granting of special educational needs statements within each local education authority area in Wales.
Sir Wyn Roberts : The information requested is not available. The Welsh Office has issued guidance to local education authorities that the period of time from the initial notification to the authority that an assessment might be necessary to the production of a draft statement should not exceed six months. Our Education Bill proposes legislation to ensure that the assessment procedures are conducted within prescribed time scales.
Mr. Dafis : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what efforts are currently undertaken by his Department to monitor the administration of special educational needs statementing procedures by local education authorities in Wales.
Sir Wyn Roberts : The statutory responsibility for identifying, assessing and making appropriate provision for children with special educational needs rests with local education authorities. If parents are dissatisfied with the decision or actions of the authority, or the special educational provision it has specified, there are rights of complaint and of appeal to my right hon. Friend, or a local appeals committee, as appropriate.
Cadw
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list by grade and number employed, the staffing costs for the year 1991-92 and the estimate for 1992-93, for Cadw (Welsh Historic Monuments).
Sir Wyn Roberts : Responsibility for the subject of the question has been delegated to Cadw : Welsh Historic Monuments Executive Agency under its chief executive, Mr. E. A. J. Carr. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
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Letter from E. Carr to Mr. Martin Redmond, dated 4 November 1992 :As Cadw : Welsh Historic Monuments is an Executive Agency, the Secretary of State for Wales has asked me to write to you direct to respond to your Parliamentary Question to him about the grade and number employed and the staffing
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costs for the year 1991-92 and the estimate for 1992-93 for Cadw : Welsh Historic Monuments. This is something which falls within the responsibilities he has delegated to me as Chief Executive of the Agency.The information you have requested is shown in the table below in which specialist grades have been assimilated into the equivalent administrative grade :
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1991-92 1992-93
Actual Estimate
Grade |Number |Cost |Number |Cost
|£ |£
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Chief Executive |1 |48,907 |1 |53,510
Grade 6 |4 |131,929 |4 |158,520
Grade 7 |8 |225,278 |8 |233,720
Senior Executive |13 |298,568 |13 |327,947
Higher Executive |14 |282,603 |15 |333,404
Executive |31 |376,484 |30 |421,976
Administrative |32 |347,583 |38 |449,136
Custodial |50 |651,599 |51 |649,063
Industrial |99 |920,535 |95 |1,009,845
|-- |----- |-- |-----
|252 |3,283,486|255 |3,637,121
Education Authorities
Mr. Richards : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales (1) what measures are being taken to ensure that education authorities in Wales spend all of their capital allocation for the purpose for which it was intended ;
(2) which Welsh education authorities did not spend their capital allocation during each of the past three years ; and if he will give details of the underspend.
Sir Wyn Roberts : Welsh local education authorities do not receive specific capital allocations for education services. County councils receive resources within their annual basic credit approvals which are unhypothecated to particular services. Spending priorities are a matter for them.
Opencast Mining
Mr. Barry Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales when he expects to announce his decision concerning the opencast mining application at Bannell Bridge, Buckley, Clwyd.
Mr. David Hunt : As soon as possible.
Research and Development
Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what was the total amount spent on research and development by his Department in each of the last five years ; and how much research and development money has been allocated to health and social care research in each instance.
Mr. Gwilym Jones : The information is shown in the following table :
|Total Welsh Office|Of which:
|expenditure on |expenditure on
|research and |health and social
|development |care research
|£ million |£ million
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1987-88 |1.9 |0.4
1988-89 |1.9 |0.4
1989-90 |2.4 |0.5
1990-91 |3.0 |0.5
<1>1991-92 |3.6 |0.5
<1>Provisional.
The figures do not include NHS monies spent on research and development as an integral part of policy evaluation and service development, which are not separately identifiable ; nor do they include research and development supported under the joint England and Wales programme managed by the Department of Health.
River Dee
Mr. Barry Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what measures he proposes to eliminate pollution of River Dee waters ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Gwilym Jones : This is a matter for the National Rivers Authority. The River Dee is a class 1 good quality river, and the authority regularly reviews discharge consent conditions to achieve higher standards where practicable. In addition, it is undertaking a catchment management plan for the Dee estuary to identify existing problems and propose solutions.
Mr. Barry Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make an additional transport supplementary grant allocation to Clwyd county council to enable them to build the new River Dee crossing.
Sir Wyn Roberts : Some £2.75 million has so far been provided towards the cost of the scheme. Clwyd county council's application for further transport grant support is being considered as part of the 1992 public expenditure survey.
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Housing
Mr. Barry Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the availability of housing to rent in Alyn and Deeside ; and if he will make a supplementary housing capital allocation to Alyn and Deeside council for the current year.
Mr. Gwilym Jones : Such an assessment is principally a matter for the local authority acting as enabler, and working in partnership with Housing for Wales, voluntary groups and the private sector. We have no plans to supplement the substantial resources made available to Alyn and Deeside in the current financial year.
Head Injuries
Mr. Llwyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales (1) what is the average annual cost of referrals for psychiatric/psychological counselling for patients referred as a result of head injuries sustained in serious road traffic accidents ;
(2) what was the average annual cost of community care for people disabled due to severe head injuries (a) resulting from road traffic accidents and (b) from all causes.
Mr. Gwilym Jones : The information requested is not collected centrally.
National Parks
Mr. Richards : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what measures will be taken to safeguard the national parks from over-exploitation by commercial enterprises.
Sir Wyn Roberts : Planning policy guidance note 7, "The Countryside and the Rural Economy", stipulates that conservation of the natural beauty of the countryside should be given great weight in planning policies and decisions in the national parks. Moreover, major development in the national parks should not take place save in exceptional circumstances and must be subject to the "most vigorous examination".
Planning Consents
Mr. Dafis : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will issue guidelines to local authorities encouraging the review of all current planning consents.
Epilepsy
Mr. Llwyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how much was spent on medical care and supervision from sufferers from epilepsy in Wales annually between 1989 and 1991.
Mr. Gwilym Jones : The information requested is not collected centrally.
Seven-year-olds Test
Mr. Alex Carlile : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what was the percentage of seven-year-olds in Powys reaching level 2 in the compulsory tests ; what was the comparable average percentage in England ; and if he will make a statement.
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Sir Wyn Roberts : Information on the achievements of
seven-year-olds in the 1992 national curriculum assessments is published by local education authority in table 4 (Aggregated Subject Outcome Scores by LEA), in the Welsh Office publication "National Curriculum Monitor : Key Stage 1 1992 Assessments". A copy is available in the Library of the House. Information on the achievement of pupils in England is the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education.
Student Assessment
Mr. Alex Carlile : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what evaluation he has made of the results of the national curriculum key stage 3 assessment of students in Wales ; and if he will make a statement.
Sir Wyn Roberts : The key stage 3 assessment results arising from this summer's voluntary national pilot exercise in mathematics and science were published at the all-Wales level by the Minister of State on 20 October. Copies of the results were sent to all LEAs in Wales. The results were not published from the much smaller number of schools included in trials of test material in English, Welsh, Welsh second language and technology.
The 1992 pilot and trial assessment arrangements are being evaluated by the School Examinations and Assessment Council in preparation for the introduction of the first statutory assessment of pupils in all these subjects during the summer term 1993.
Hazardous Sites
Mr. Alex Carlile : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many sites in Powys are considered serious environmental or health hazards ; what was the comparable number of sites in 1971 and 1981 ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Gwilym Jones : Surveys of possibly contaminated land in Wales were undertaken on behalf of the Welsh Office in 1982-83 and 1987-88. The 1982-83 survey assessed two sites in Powys as posing a potentially serious environmental or health hazard. The later survey downgraded the risk assessment of both sites and identified no other sites. The Department holds no comparable information for 1971.
TECs
Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what element in the last full year's budget for training and enterprise councils in Wales was top-sliced before the balance was negotiated between individual training and enterprise councils.
Sir Wyn Roberts : For 1992-93, a total of £700,000 was retained for contributions towards developments, systems and initiatives on an England and Wales basis, before negotiations were conducted with TECs in Wales.
Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how much the private sector currently contributes to the funding of training and enterprise councils in each training and enterprise council area in Wales.
Sir Wyn Roberts : The financial arrangements in the contracting chain between Welsh Office, training and enterprise councils, training providers and employers do
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not facilitate estimates of the private sector contribution towards training activities. Direct contributions to TECs are not centrally recorded.Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what proportion of training and enterprise councils' budgets in Wales is allocated for purposes other than direct youth and adult training.
Sir Wyn Roberts : One third of the training and enterprise councils' budgets in 1992-93 is allocated for other purposes, including employment action, enterprise support, local initiatives and TEC administration costs.
Education and Business Partnerships
Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many education and business partnership schemes there are in each training and enterprise council area in Wales.
Sir Wyn Roberts : There is one in each training and enterprise council area except for that covered by the West Wales TEC which has two schemes covering Dyfed and West Glamorgan local education authorities.
Health and Safety
Mr. Dafis : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many (a) prosecutions and (b) enforcement notices occured under the Health and Safety at Work Etc. Act 1974 in Wales in each of the last five years.
Mr. McLoughlin : I have been asked to reply.
The available information is provided in the tables :
Prosecution action taken by the Health and Safety
Executive's
(HSE) factory and agricultural inspectorates<1> for
breaches of
Health and Safety at Work Legislation<2> in Wales
1986-87 to 1990-91
Date of hearing<3> |Number of
|informations
|laid<4>
---------------------------------------------------------
1986-87 |156
1987-88 |167
1988-89 |100
1989-90 |113
<5>1990-91 |137
Enforcement notices issued by HSE's factory and agricultural
inspectorates<1> for breaches of Health and Safety at Work
Legislation<2> in Wales, 1986-87 to 1990-91
Type of notice
Date of issue<3> |Improvement |Deferred prohibition|Immediate |Total
|prohibition
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1986-87 |626 |24 |150 |800
1987-88 |695 |26 |159 |880
1988-89 |661 |14 |220 |895
1989-90 |659 |14 |262 |935
<5>1990-91 |624 |31 |234 |889
<1> Regional analysis of enforcement action taken by other enforcement authorities is not generally available (but see note (
5) below).
<2> All action taken under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and subordinate regulations and other legislation.
<3> Years commencing 1 April.
<4> Number of individual breaches of legislation laid before Magistrates.
<5> Includes action taken by HSE's quarries inspectorate.
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Mr. Dafis : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many full- time equivalent staff specialised in health and safety at work in Wales in each of the last five years ; and what was the ratio of premises per member of staff in each year.
Mr. McLoughlin : I have been asked to reply.
The number of inspectors medical staff and scientists employed by the Health and Safety Executive in Wales was :
|Number
---------------------------
1 April 1988 |67
1 April 1989 |66
1 April 1990 |68
1 April 1991 |70
1 April 1992 |78
Available information about the ratio of premises to full-time equivalent staff is :
|Factory |Agricultural|Quarries
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1989-90 |910:1 |3,110:1 |229:1
1990-91 |784:1 |3,228:1 |192:1
1991-92 |682:1 |3,059:1 |204:1
Services Industry
Mr. Dafis : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many (a) injuries in general and (b) serious injuries have occurred in the services industry sector in Wales in each of the last five years.
Mr. McLoughlin : I have been asked to reply.
Occupational injuries in the services sector in Wales reported to HSE's factory and agricultural inspectorates and to local authorities are provided in the table.
Year<3> |Fatal |Major<4> |Over 3 days<5>|Total ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1986-87 |13 |883 |3,290 |4,186 1987-88 |11 |893 |3,243 |4,147 1988-89 |6 |971 |3,107 |4,084 1989-90 |10 |865 |3,483 |4,358 1990-91<6> |10 |874 |3,296 |4,180 <1> Injuries at work to employees, self-employed persons and members of the public injured as a result of someone else's work activity reported under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations, 1985 (RIDDOR). <2> As defined by Standard Industrial Classification 1980 divisions 6-9. <3> Years commencing 1 April. <4> As defined under RIDDOR. <5> An injury causing incapacity for normal work for more than three days and reportable for employed persons only. <6> Includes reports made to the HSE's quarries inspectorate.
EDUCATION
Education Expenditure
Mr. Whittingdale : To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) what is the expenditure per pupil on primary education for each local education authority in England ;
(2) what is the expenditure per pupil on nursery education for each local education authority in England.
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Mr. Forth : Information on nursery and primary pupils is not collected separately. The latest year for which information on actual expenditure is available is 1990-91. In that year, school-based funding per full-time equivalent pupil in nursery and primary education for each local education authority in England was as given in the table. These figures include unspent balances held by schools at the year end under local management schemes. They do not include the costs of services provided centrally by local education authorities such as home to school transport, school meals, local education authority central administration and financing costs of capital expenditure.
LEA |Net institutional
|funding per pupil
|(£)
---------------------------------------------------------
City |1,950
Camden |1,710
Greenwich |1,720
Hackney |1,900
Hammersmith |1,970
Islington |1,770
Kensington |2,060
Lambeth |1,840
Lewisham |1,710
Southwark |1,850
Tower Hamlets |1,940
Wandsworth |1,820
Westminster |2,110
Barking |1,460
Barnet |1,550
Bexley |1,260
Brent |1,670
Bromley |1,410
Croydon |1,440
Ealing |1,690
Enfield |1,430
Haringey |1,840
Harrow |1,480
Havering |1,290
Hillingdon |1,540
Hounslow |1,510
Kingston-upon Thames |1,430
Merton |1,750
Newham |1,490
Redbridge |1,350
Richmond-upon Thames |1,530
Sutton |1,360
Waltham Forest |1,570
Birmingham |1,260
Coventry |1,300
Dudley |1,230
Sandwell |1,450
Solihull |1,240
Walsall |1,510
Wolverhampton |1,390
Knowsley |1,390
Liverpool |1,290
St. Helens |1,210
Sefton |1,260
Wirral |1,280
Bolton |1,220
Bury |1,190
Manchester |1,320
Oldham |1,370
Rochdale |1,200
Salford |1,270
Stockport |1,260
Tameside |1,320
Trafford |1,170
Wigan |1,140
Barnsley |1,260
Doncaster |1,250
Rotherham |1,340
Sheffield |1,390
Bradford |1,500
Calderdale |1,440
Kirklees |1,300
Leeds |1,430
Wakefield |1,340
Gateshead |1,390
Newcastle upon Tyne |1,520
North Tyneside |1,310
South Tyneside |1,290
Sunderland |1,280
Avon |1,320
Bedfordshire |1,380
Berkshire |1,340
Buckinghamshire |1,320
Cambridgeshire |1,260
Cheshire |1,260
Cleveland |1,230
Cornwall |1,190
Cumbria |1,340
Derbyshire |1,370
Devon |1,310
Dorset |1,290
Durham |1,370
East Sussex |1,240
Essex |1,240
Gloucestershire |1,200
Hampshire |1,260
Herefordshire |1,360
Hertfordshire |1,340
Humberside |1,280
Isle of Wight |1,250
Kent |1,120
Lancashire |1,310
Leicestershire |1,290
Lincolnshire |1,210
Norfolk |1,280
North Yorkshire |1,230
Northamptonshire |1,230
Northumberland |1,320
Nottinghamshire |1,390
Oxfordshire |1,570
Shropshire |1,350
Somerset |1,230
Staffordshire |1,270
Suffolk |1,310
Surrey |1,340
Warwickshire |1,220
West Sussex |1,240
Wiltshire |1,260
Note: Net institutional funding covers the direct costs
in schools of salaries and wages, recurrent premises
costs, books, equipment and other supplies and services,
and unspent balances held by schools at the year end
under local management schemes. Figures are derived from
LEAs' returns of their spending to the Department of the
Environment and of their pupil numbers to the Department
of Education.
Mr. Whittingdale : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what is the expenditure per pupil on post-16 education on transport for each local education authority in England.
Mr. Forth : Information on post-16 pupils is not collected separately from that on other secondary pupils. Separate information is available for home to school transport only. The latest year for which information on actual expenditure is available is 1990-91. In that year, average expenditure on home to school transport per pupil in secondary education for each local education authority (LEA) in England was as given in the table.
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LEA |Expenditure per
|pupil (£)
-----------------------------------------------------
Camden |43
Greenwich |26
Hackney |41
Hammersmith |36
Islington |8
Kensington |0
Lambeth |17
Lewisham |1
Southwark |0
Tower Hamlets |30
Wandsworth |0
Westminster |12
Barking |2
Barnet |18
Bexley |5
Brent |12
Bromley |20
Croydon |0
Ealing |0
Enfield |0
Haringey |8
Harrow |4
Havering |23
Hillingdon |0
Hounslow |9
Kingston-upon-Thames |0
Merton |8
Newham |11
Redbridge |27
Richmond-upon-Thames |6
Sutton |21
Waltham Forest |9
Birmingham |8
Coventry |6
Dudley |10
Sandwell |8
Solihull |15
Walsall |9
Wolverhampton |9
Knowsley |6
Liverpool |14
St. Helens |25
Sefton |0
Wirral |34
Bolton |17
Bury |10
Manchester |2
Oldham |2
Rochdale |13
Salford |6
Stockport |0
Tameside |11
Trafford |18
Wigan |8
Barnsley |7
Doncaster |1
Rotherham |18
Sheffield |2
Bradford |16
Calderdale |36
Kirklees |13
Leeds |12
Wakefield |11
Gateshead |12
Newcastle Upon Tyne |6
North Tyneside |3
South Tyneside |2
Sunderland |4
Avon |47
Bedfordshire |60
Berkshire |44
Buckinghamshire |111
Cambridgeshire |76
Cheshire |44
Cleveland |9
Cornwall |75
Cumbria |79
Derbyshire |47
Devon |114
Dorset |57
Durham |70
East Sussex |35
Essex |70
Gloucestershire |79
Hampshire |45
Herefordshire |46
Hertfordshire |37
Humberside |45
Isle of Wight |58
Kent |71
Lancashire |35
Leicestershire |53
Lincolnshire |70
Norfolk |92
North Yorkshire |94
Northamptonshire |34
Northumberland |61
Nottinghamshire |29
Oxfordshire |76
Shropshire |70
Somerset |77
Staffordshire |54
Suffolk |87
Surrey |60
Warwickshire |66
West Sussex |46
Wiltshire |74
Note:
Figures are derived from LEA's returns of their
spending to the Department of the Environment and of
their pupil numbers to the Department of Education.
Mr. Whittingdale : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what is the expenditure per pupil on secondary education for each local education authority in England.
Mr. Forth : The latest year for which information on actual expenditure is available is 1990-91. In that year, school-based funding per pupil in secondary education for each local education authority (LEA) in England was as given in the table. These figures include unspent balances held by schools at the year end under local management schemes. They do not include the cost of services provided centrally by LEAs such as home to school transport, school meals, LEA central administration and financing costs of capital expenditure.
Net institutional funding per pupil Local education |£ authority ----------------------------------------------------- Camden |2,290 Greenwich |2,390 Hackney |2,710 Hammersmith |2,670 Islington |2,440 Kensington |2,900 Lambeth |2,580 Lewisham |2,430 Southwark |2,350 Tower Hamlets |2,490 Wandsworth |2,520 Westminster |2,580 Barking |2,300 Barnet |2,110 Bexley |1,970 Brent |2,360 Bromley |2,220 Croydon |2,080 Ealing |2,580 Enfield |2,080 Haringey |2,590 Harrow |2,320 Havering |2,140 Hillingdon |2,340 Hounslow |2,080 Kingston-upon-Thames |2,240 Merton |1,990 Newham |2,410 Redbridge |2,120 Richmond-upon-Thames |1,990 Sutton |2,080 Waltham Forest |2,650 Birmingham |2,050 Coventry |2,340 Dudley |2,100 Sandwell |2,300 Solihull |2,080 Walsall |2,260 Wolverhampton |2,120 Knowsley |2,230 Liverpool |2,250 St. Helens |1,960 Sefton |2,030 Wirral |2,110 Bolton |1,990 Bury |1,810 Manchester |2,150 Oldham |1,940 Rochdale |2,140 Salford |2,190 Stockport |2,030 Tameside |1,950 Trafford |2,080 Wigan |2,100 Barnsley |1,820 Doncaster |1,860 Rotherham |1,960 Sheffield |2,150 Bradford |1,780 Calderdale |2,090 Kirklees |1,920 Leeds |1,920 Wakefield |1,940 Gateshead |2,080 Newcastle-upon-Tyne |1,990 North Tyneside |1,940 South Tyneside |2,140 Sunderland |1,930 Avon |1,940 Bedfordshire |1,880 Berkshire |1,950 Buckinghamshire |2,050 Cambridgeshire |1,880 Cheshire |1,950 Cleveland |2,090 Cornwall |1,890 Cumbria |2,030 Derbyshire |2,110 Devon |1,950 Dorset |1,810 Durham |1,900 East Sussex |1,980 Essex |1,950 Gloucestershire |1,910 Hampshire |1,970 Herefordshire |1,840 Hertfordshire |2,070 Humberside |1,910 Isle of Wight |1,760 Kent |1,800 Lancashire |1,950 Leicestershire |2,090 Lincolnshire |1,910 Norfolk |1,990 North Yorkshire |2,020 Northamptonshire |1,800 Northumberland |1,810 Nottinghamshire |2,220 Oxfordshire |2,160 Shropshire |2,100 Somerset |1,850 Staffordshire |1,930 Suffolk |2,020 Surrey |2,100 Warwickshire |1,890 West Sussex |1,910 Wiltshire |1,890 Net institutional funding covers the direct costs in schools of salaries and wages, recurrent premises costs, books, equipment and other supplies and services, and unspent balances held by schools at the year end under local management schemes. Figures are derived from LEAs' returns of their spending to the Department of the Environment and of their pupil numbers to the Department of Education.
Mr. Whittingdale : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what is the expenditure per pupil with special needs for each local education authority in England.
Mr. Forth : The latest year for which information on actual expenditure is available is 1990-91. In that year, direct expenditure per pupil in maintained special schools or receiving education otherwise than at school provided by each local education authority (LEA) in England was as given in the table. Expenditure on pupils with special needs attending primary and secondary schools is not collected separately. The figures do not include costs of services such as child guidance and educational psychology provided centrally by LEAs, nor of home to school transport, school meals, LEA central administratioin and financing costs of capital expenditure, as these costs were not apportioned between services in LEAs' expenditure returns.
LEA |Expenditure per
|pupil
|£
----------------------------------------------------------
Camden |13,230
Greenwich |15,190
Hackney |7,920
Hammersmith |13,590
Islington |11,290
Kensington |15,300
Lambeth |9,120
Lewisham |11,370
Southwark |12,900
Tower Hamlets |11,090
Wandsworth |14,950
Westminster |8,390
Barking |16,800
Barnet |8,590
Bexley |7,330
Brent |11,170
Bromley |8,680
Croydon |6,820
Ealing |8,820
Enfield |10,510
Haringey |9,140
Harrow |14,120
Havering |6,500
Hillingdon |9,340
Hounslow |8,460
Kingston upon Thames |7,520
Merton |9,450
Newham |11,350
Redbridge |7,760
Richmond upon Thames |8,440
Sutton |6,020
Waltham Forest |10,680
Birmingham |8,010
Coventry |9,040
Dudley |7,310
Sandwell |5,600
Solihull |12,080
Walsall |7,630
Wolverhampton |7,030
Knowsley |6,790
Liverpool |5,880
St. Helens |6,340
Sefton |5,370
Wirrall |6,750
Bolton |6,550
Bury |6,130
Manchester |8,670
Oldham |5,990
Rochdale |6,990
Salford |7,800
Stockport |7,140
Tameside |8,250
Trafford |6,550
Wigan |7,070
Barnsley |9,750
Doncaster |4,240
Rotherham |7,260
Sheffield |11,470
Bradford |9,950
Calderdale |6,480
Kirklees |8,200
Leeds |6,380
Wakefield |5,630
Gateshead |8,110
Newcastle upon Tyne |9,430
North Tyneside |8,520
South Tyneside |6,560
Sunderland |5,740
Avon |7,590
Bedfordshire |6,700
Berkshire |6,880
Buckinghamshire |6,450
Cambridgeshire |8,890
Cheshire |9,570
Cleveland |6,390
Cornwall |7,040
Cumbria |9,050
Derbyshire |8,860
Devon |5,590
Dorset |4,960
Durham |8,470
East Sussex |7,650
Essex |7,010
Gloucestershire |7,590
Hampshire |6,250
Hereford & Worcestershire |5,040
Hertfordshire |8,760
Humberside |12,310
Isle of Wight |4,270
Kent |5,360
Lancashire |7,760
Leicestershire |7,940
Lincolnshire |9,250
Norfolk |9,480
North Yorkshire |8,950
Northamptonshire |8,620
Northumberland |7,820
Nottinghamshire |6,310
Oxfordshire |8,420
Shropshire |7,880
Somerset |13,890
Staffordshire |6,720
Suffolk |6,170
Surrey |6,690
Warwickshire |8,120
West Sussex |5,740
Wiltshire |6,610
Note to table
Direct expenditure covers the costs of salaries and wages,
recurrent premises costs, books, equipment and other
supplies and services. Figures are derived from LEA's
returns of their spending to the Department of the
Environment and of their pupil numbers to the Department
of Education.
Special Educational Needs
Mr. Viggers : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what proposals he has to provide funds to continue to allow appropriate pupils to be referred to non-maintained special schools such as those which offer secondary and further education to the hearing impaired.
Mr. Forth : Under the proposals in the Education Bill, local education authorities will retain their responsibilities for identifying and assessing pupils with special educational needs and issuing and maintaining statements as required. They will continue to be funded to meet their statutory duty to make school placements appropriate to individual pupils' special educational needs, including placements in non-maintained special schools.
Grant-maintained Schools
Mr. George Howarth : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what is his policy in respect of an application for grant-maintained status by a school which has balloted in favour of becoming grant-maintained to commence on 1 April 1993, but which has subsequently been found to have overspent its budget under local management of schools so as to be unable to meet its financial commitments.
Mr. Forth : My right hon. Friend takes account of a number of factors when considering an application for grant-maintained status : ability to manage an LMS budget effectively is one. However, we expect local education authorities to monitor their schools' expenditure and to assist their schools to manage their resources in such a way as to ensure that they do not overspend their budget share. Under LMS, governing bodies must live within their means and may not plan on the basis of a deficit budget.
Mr. Nigel Evans : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what percentage of schools are grant-maintained in (a) the north-west of England and (b) the whole of the United Kingdom.
Mr. Forth : As of 3 November, 1.9 per cent. of secondary schools and 0.1 per cent. of primary schools in the north-west have been approved for grant-maintained status. In England as a whole, 7 per cent. of secondary schools, 1.2 per cent. of middle schools and 0.3 per cent. of primary schools have been approved.
My right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Scotland and Wales and my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland have responsibility for grant-maintained schools in those countries.
Mr. Nigel Evans : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what guidelines he has given to the Education Assets Board with regard to the funding and control of facilities that are treated as the responsibility of the school once it becomes grant-maintained.
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Mr. Forth : The Education Assets Board does not deal with matters of funding for facilities. Every grant-maintained school's articles of government state that the occupation and use of school premises shall be under the control of the governing body.
GCSE
Mr. Alex Carlile : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what criteria he used in devising the new compulsory code of practice for the General Certificate of Secondary Education ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Forth : My right hon. Friend has asked the School Examinations and Assessment Council (SEAC) to prepare the code in consultation with the Joint Council for the GCSE. Its purpose will be to increase the transparency of the examining process in order to secure standards and maintain public confidence in the GCSE. It will cover the matters identified in SEAC's advice on quality and standards in the GCSE, published on 20 October.
Student Assessment
Mr. Alex Carlile : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what evaluation he has made of the results of the national curriculum key stage three assessment of students in Britain ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Forth : A national analysis of the results of those schools which participated in the national pilot of the national curriculum assessments of 14-year-olds in England will be published shortly.
Administrative Expenditure
Mr. Nigel Evans : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list, in table form, the percentage of each local education authority's budget spent on administration.
Mr. Forth : The latest year for which information on actual spending is available is 1990-91. The table shows, for each local education authority in England, expenditure on administration expressed as a percentage of its total net recurrent spending on education.
Administration as a percentage of net recurrent spending on education LEA |Per cent. ----------------------------------------- City |10.2 Camden |12.4 Greenwich |12.1 Hackney |14.4 Hammersmith |13.3 Islington |14.3 Kensington |11.5 Lambeth |9.5 Lewisham |11.3 Southwark |6.9 Tower Hamlets |7.3 Wandsworth |12.5 Westminster |9.9 Barking |7.6 Barnet |5.8 Bexley |7.2 Brent |5.5 Bromley |5.7 Croydon |6.1 Ealing |6.2 Enfield |7.0 Haringey |9.6 Harrow |3.0 Havering |6.8 Hillingdon |7.9 Hounslow |5.9 Kingston-upon-Thames |7.0 Merton |7.8 Newham |7.1 Redbridge |5.8 Richmond-upon-Thames |9.4 Sutton |11.5 Waltham Forest |6.7 Birmingham |5.0 Coventry |7.1 Dudley |5.5 Sandwell |4.9 Solihull |4.5 Walsall |4.1 Wolverhampton |5.9 Knowsley |4.2 Liverpool |4.0 St. Helens |6.1 Sefton |5.2 Wirral |3.7 Bolton |6.3 Bury |4.7 Manchester |4.8 Oldham |10.9 Rochdale |3.3 Salford |10.4 Stockport |4.1 Tameside |4.3 Trafford |3.8 Wigan |3.4 Barnsley |4.6 Doncaster |3.5 Rotherham |3.2 Sheffield |4.3 Bradford |4.1 Calderdale |4.8 Kirklees |7.1 Leeds |4.7 Wakefield |3.9 Gateshead |6.1 Newcastle upon Tyne |6.7 North Tyneside |4.3 South Tyneside |4.8 Sunderland |3.3 Avon |5.7 Bedfordshire |4.9 Berkshire |4.6 Buckinghamshire |6.3 Cambridgeshire |6.4 Cheshire |5.1 Cleveland |5.1 Cornwall |5.9 Cumbria |6.4 Derbyshire |4.3 Devon |2.9 Dorset |4.8 Durham |3.0 East Sussex |4.0 Essex |5.3 Gloucestershire |4.9 Hampshire |3.9 Herefordshire |3.9 Hertfordshire |3.7 Humberside |4.1 Isle of Wight |7.6 Kent |5.6 Lancashire |3.4 Leicestershire |3.9 Lincolnshire |5.1 Norfolk |4.8 North Yorkshire |3.8 Northamptonshire |4.5 Northumberland |3.5 Nottinghamshire |4.6 Oxfordshire |6.4 Shropshire |3.4 Somerset |4.6 Staffordshire |4.1 Suffolk |4.7 Surrey |6.8 Warwickshire |5.1 West Sussex |4.3 Wiltshire |3.9 Note: Administration includes net recurrent expenditure on administration of the education department, and costs of central departments recharged to education in accordance with the authority's accounting practice. Net recurrent expenditure includes total expenditure other than capital financing charges, less income other than from Government grants. Information is taken from local authorities' returns of their actual spending to the Department of the Environment.
PRIME MINISTER
Civil Servants
Mr. Mackinlay : To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his answer of 23 October, Official Report, column 389, how many members of the civil service have retired early since the beginning of 1992, on terms comparable to those mentioned in his answer.
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The Prime Minister : These terms are payable to civil servants who are retired early by reason of redundancy or in the public interest. The number shown in Civil Service Statistics (1991 edition, table 7) as leaving for these causes in 1990-91 was 1,582. Figures for 1991-92 will be published on 27 November.
Coal Industry
Mr. Simon Hughes : To ask the Prime Minister what is his response to the petition presented on 23 October to No. 10 Downing street by the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey on behalf of Liberal Democrats calling for a fully independent review of the coal industry before any pits are closed.
The Prime Minister [holding answer 29 October 1992] : My right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade has announced a moratorium until early in the new year on the closure of 21 of the pits proposed for closure by British Coal, unless the work force at a pit concerned agrees otherwise, and a full and wide ranging review of the prospects for these pits. The Government will publish a White Paper early in the new year setting out the results of the review in the context of our energy policy. There will be a full debate in the House of Commons.
British Coal is carrying out the statutory consultation process in relation to the other 10 pits before any closure takes place.
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