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Contracts (DIS)Hilltown Crisp
Bannside Crisp
Draperstown Crisp
Total Cost-- £59,565
Contracts Awarded in Last 12 Months
Contracts (DIS)
Hilltown Crisp
Laganside Corporation Auditors
Consultants Chrichton Roberts
Contracts Awarded 91-92
None
Total Cost-- Nil
Contracts awarded in the last 12 months
None
Total Cost-- Nil
Consultant KPMG
Contracts awarded-- 1991-92
Financial services, market intelligence and prospect management system study
Financial services study
Assessment of future direction of YTP
Mackles
Flexibox
Treelinks
Organisational review of T and E agency
Forest service--options for change
Investment appraisal on Kells and Connor community centre Investment appraisal on Corrymeela community centre
Report on human resource development training needs analysis Grading seminar
Human resource strategy review
Contributions unit customer survey
Personnel review
Human resources development report
Usel consultancy study
Report on the impact on transport infrastructure and services on exporting companies in Northern Ireland
Total Cost-- 255,951
Contracts awarded in last 12 months--
Castlewellan Crisp
Personnel review
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Investment appraisal of residential centre at Ulster American Folk ParkInvestment appraisal of education centre for the National Trust Total Cost- - 16,797
Consultant Leopold Joseph
Contracts awarded-- 1991-92
None
Total Cost-- Nil
Contracts awarded in last --12 months--
Information not available on grounds of commercial confidentiality
EDUCATION
Parents Charter
Mr. Nigel Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what consultations he has had with representatives of parents concerning the parents charter.
Mr. Forth : Surveys commissioned by the Government have shown that most parents would welcome more information about schools. The parents charter explained parents' current rights, and promised improved access to information about the quality of information and the standards achieved in schools. The first set of comparative school performance tables were published last November and have been widely welcomed by parents and others.
Grant-maintained Schools
Mr. O'Hara : To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) to which of the teachers' professional associations the consultation paper on a common funding formula for grant-maintained schools has been sent ;
(2) to which of the teachers' professional associations he intends to send the rest of the series of consultation documents promised in the letter sent out on 18 December 1992 accompanying the consultation document on the common funding formula for grant-maintained schools.
Mr. Forth : The consultation paper which issued on 18 December, on a common funding formula for self-governing
state--grant-maintained--schools, was addressed to local education authorities and self-governing schools. The teachers' professional associations were all sent the relevant press release. Copies of the paper were sent to any association on request. We are happy to add the name of any body or individual to the circulation list for further papers in the CFF series and to receive comments from them.
Teachers
Mr. O'Hara : To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many teachers retired at the statutory age of 60 for women or 65 years for men in each year since 1989-90.
Mr. Forth : The teachers' superannuation scheme provides for retirement benefits to be paid to both men and women once they reach age 60. The table shows the number of women aged 60 and men aged 65 who retired during the financial years 1989-90 to date.
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Year to March |Women |Men -------------------------------------------------------- 1990 |1,346 |513 1991 |1,348 |477 1992 |1,188 |443 <1>1993 |1,236 |393 <1>Provisional.
Mr. O'Hara : To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) how many new teachers entered the profession in each year since 1989-90 ;
(2) how many new teachers are expected to enter the profession in 1993-94.
Mr. Forth : The table shows the number of new entrants to full-time teaching in the maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools sector in England and Wales during 1989-90 and 1990-91. Information for later years is not yet available.
Year to March |Number ------------------------------------------ 1990 |15,300 <1>1991 |16,900 <1>Provisional.
The number of new teachers who enter the profession in future years will depend on the recruitment decisions of employers and governors of schools with delegated budgets.
Mr. O'Hara : To ask the Secretary of State for the Education how many teachers aged over 50 years in maintained schools left the teaching profession (a) with enhanced compensation for redundancy and (b) with basic compensation for redundancy in each year since 1989-90.
Mr. Forth : A complete set of data is not held centrally, but our records indicate that the number of teachers over age 50 who retired prematurely from maintained nursery, primary and secondary and special schools and received enhanced benefits was as follows :
Year to March |Total ------------------------------------------ 1990 |1,365 1991 |1,562 1992 |1,549 <1>1993 |1,900 <1>Provisional.
Data relating to the number of teachers who left the profession with only basic compensation for redundancy are not collected centrally.
Mr. O'Hara : To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) how many teachers were employed in maintained schools in each year since 1988- 89 ;
(2) how many teachers are expected to be employed in maintained schools in 1993-94.
Mr. Forth : The table shows the number of teachers employed in the maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools sector in England each January, including LEA-maintained and self-governing state schools.
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|Full-time equivalent
|teachers
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1989 |397,410
1990 |398,542
1991 |394,945
1992 |394,874
The number of teachers to be employed in LEA maintained and self-governing state schools in 1993-94 will depend on decisions taken by employers and by the governors of schools with delegated budgets.
Mr. O'Hara : To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many teachers in maintained schools left the teaching profession with compensation for redundancy before reaching the age of 50 years in each year since 1989-90.
Mr. Forth : This information is not collected centrally.
Mr. O'Hara : To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many teachers are expected to retire in 1992-93 having attained the age of 60 for women and 65 years for men.
Mr. Forth : In 1992-93, 400 men aged 65 and 1,300 women aged 60 are expected to retire from teaching.
Staff (Working Hours)
Mr. David Porter : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will undertake a survey of all offices and agencies for which he has responsibility to ascertain to what extent staff supplying a service to the public are curtailing their work on a Friday afternoon earlier than other days of the week ; and if he will make a statement on his policy on hours of staff working each week.
Mr. Boswell : Staff in the Department work a total of 41 hours each week in London and 42 hours in Darlington at times designed to enable the office to fulfil its service to the public and to its Ministers. There is no significant difference in hours of attendance between Fridays and other weekdays.
Staff in the Teachers' Pensions Agency are conditioned to 42 hours. The agency has made public in the charterline the hours in which it is open for business. These are 8.30 am to 5 pm on Mondays to Thursdays, and 8.30 am to 4.30 pm on Fridays.
My right hon. Friend is proud of the record of officers in the Department, many of whom voluntarily work long hours to carry out his policies.
Hours of attendance in non-departmental public bodies are a matter for the individual body.
Student Maintenance
Mr. Kirkwood : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what support will be given from public funds towards students' maintenance in the academic year 1993-94.
Mr. Boswell : My right hon. Friend's plans for maintenance provision through mandatory awards and loans for students domiciled in England and Wales are set out in the departmental report (Cm 2210) published last month, a copy of which is in the Library. The rates of
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awards and loans for 1993-94 will be included in regulations to be laid before the House in due course. Support is also available through discretionary awards made by local education authorities and through the access funds.Mr. Kirkwood : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what research has been undertaken to investigate the extent of student financial hardship which has occurred during the current academic year.
Mr. Boswell : The Department has commissioned a survey of full-time undergraduate students' income and expenditure during the academic year 1992-93 including the 1992 summer vacation. The findings should be available later in 1993.
Mr. Kirkwood : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will publish the value of the real level of the student grant for students living away from home and not studying in inner London for the year 1967- 68, at 1993 prices, together with the current maximum basic grant.
Mr. Boswell : The basic mandatory grant for students living away from the parental home and studying outside London in the academic year 1992-93 is £2,265. Students in those circumstances will be able to take out loans of up to £715, making a total of £2,980. In 1967- 68 the value of the corresponding mandatory grant was £2,964 at 1992- 93 prices.
Schools (Ministerial Visits)
Dr. Wright : To ask the Secretary of State for Education which schools in Staffordshire he has visited since becoming Minister ; and on what dates.
Mr. Patten : I have not yet had the opportunity of visiting schools in Staffordshire among the 31 that I have been to since becoming Secretary of State ; however, my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, the hon. Member for Mid-Worcestershire (Mr. Forth), visited the Maple Hayes Hall independent special school on 13 November 1992.
Dr. Wright : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list, with dates, all the visits he has made as Minister to (a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools, identifying whether the school is local education authority maintained, voluntary aided or grant maintained.
Mr. Patten : The information requested is in the table :
Schools visited |Date
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Appleton CE Primary School, Abingdon,
Oxfordshire-LEA |2 October 1992
Dunmore Infants School, Abingdon,
Oxfordshire-LEA |8 May 1992
Greenvale Primary School, Croydon-LEA |2 June 1992
The Hague Primary, Tower Hamlets-VA |8 March 1993
Lyne and Longcross First School, Surrey-
LEA |30 June 1992
St. Edmund's RC Primary, Abingdon,
Oxfordshire-LEA |1 May 1992
St. Peter's CE Primary School, Wootton,
Oxfordshire-LEA |21 September 1992
Thomas Reade Primary School, Abingdon,
Oxfordshire-LEA |10 July 1992
Frideswide Middle School, Oxfordshire-
LEA |8 May 1992
Netherlands Avenue Special School,
Bradford-LEA |13 July 1992
Archbishop Blanch CE High School,
Liverpool-VA |26 January 1993
Archbishop Tennison's CE Secondary
School, Croydon-VA |2 June 1992
Bishop David Brown Secondary School,
Surrey-LEA |30 June 1992
Bishop Thomas RC School, Lambeth-VA |5 March 1993
Cardinal Newman School, Hove, East
Sussex-VA |October 1992
Cockshut Hill Secondary School,
Birmingham-LEA |11 May 1992
Compton Secondary School, Finchley-
LEA |21 October 1992
Culham European School, Oxfordshire-
LEA |7 December 1992
Tesdale Special School, Abingdon,
Oxfordshire-LEA |5 February 1993
Wimbledon College, Merton-VA |4 November 1992
Small Heath GM School, Birmingham-
GM |11 May 1992
Marymount International School, Kingston-
Independent |14 September 1992
Mayville High School, Portsmouth,
Hampshire-Independent |7 July 1992
Mulberry School for Girls, Tower Hamlets-
LEA |8 March 1993
Nottingham High School, Nottinghamshire-
Independent |11 November 1992
Radley College, Oxfordshire-Independent |1 May 1992
School of St. Helan and St. Katherine,
Oxfordshire-Independent |2 October 1992
Mary Hare Grammar School for the Deaf,
Newbury, Berkshire-Non-Maintained
Special School |10 February 1993
Bradford CTC, Bradford |13 July 1992
Djanogly CTC, Nottingham |11 November 1992
Leigh City CTC, Dartford, Kent |17 February 1993
Access Funds
Mr. Kirkwood : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what level of access funds will be made available for the academic year 1993-94.
Mr. Boswell : My right hon. Friend's expenditure plans, as set out in the departmental report (Cm 2210) published last month, include access funds provision for institutions in England of £23.8 million in 1993- 94. A copy of the report is in the Library.
Juvenile Offenders
Mr. Madel : To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the oral statement of 2 March, Official Report, columns 139-43, by the Home Secretary on juvenile offending, which Department or Departments will be responsible for funding the new statutory duty on local education authorities to educate pupils who are not attending school.
Mr. Forth : The new duty will replace existing powers exercisable by local education authorities under section 56 of the Education Act 1944 and section 3 of the Education Act 1981. The Government do not expect this to lead to a significant increase in the costs of local education authorities.
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Nursery Schools, London
Mrs. Bridget Prentice : To ask the Secretary of State for Education which five London boroughs currently have the highest percentage of children under five years registered as attending local authority funded nursery schools.
Mr. Forth : In January 1992, the latest date for which information is available, nine of the 33 boroughs in Greater London had no maintained nursery schools. Of the 24 authorities which did, the five with the highest percentages of under-fives attending maintained nursery schools were : Hammersmith and Fulham, 16 per cent. ; Newham, 12 per cent. ; Tower Hamlets, 11 per cent. ; Greenwich, 10 per cent. ; and Kensington and Chelsea, 9 per cent.
Mrs. Bridget Prentice : To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) what percentage of children aged under five years attended local authority funded nursery schools in London in (a) 1975, (b) 1980, (c) 1985 and (d) 1990 ;
(2) what percentage of children aged under five years in London attend local authority funded nursery schools.
Mr. Forth : In January 1980, 1985, 1990 and 1992--the latest date for which information is available--approximately 5 per cent. of the local population aged three and four attended maintained nursery schools in Greater London. The equivalent figure for January 1975 was approximately 4 per cent.
School Population
Mr. Beggs : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what is the average size of each school population for which each education authority in England is responsible.
Mr. Forth : The average sizes of LEA-maintained primary and secondary schools in each local education authority in England in January 1992 are shown in the table.
Average number of pupils in LEA-maintained primary
and secondary
schools in each local education authority in England
January 1992
LEA |Primary |Secondary
-----------------------------------------------------
City |221 |-
Camden |256 |931
Greenwich |269 |930
Hackney |233 |779
Hammersmith and Fulham |227 |601
Islington |255 |859
Kensington and Chelsea |229 |773
Lambeth |240 |625
Lewisham |271 |752
Southwark |265 |620
Tower Hamlets |272 |774
Wandsworth |242 |764
Westminster |215 |905
Barking |285 |1,146
Barnet |263 |868
Bexley |270 |844
Brent |335 |823
Bromley |254 |907
Croydon |256 |701
Ealing |299 |854
Enfield |327 |985
Haringey |242 |975
Harrow |357 |739
Havering |261 |838
Hillingdon |269 |700
Hounslow |305 |956
Kingston upon Thames |286 |732
Merton |302 |608
Newham |359 |1,004
Redbridge |327 |1,020
Richmond upon Thames |259 |896
Sutton |301 |747
Waltham Forest |315 |659
Birmingham |318 |753
Coventry |267 |957
Dudley |332 |795
Sandwell |281 |749
Solihull |272 |947
Walsall |262 |850
Wolverhampton |234 |768
Knowsley |287 |810
Liverpool |271 |798
St. Helens |240 |946
Sefton |286 |817
Wirral |292 |916
Bolton |251 |977
Bury |229 |691
Manchester |265 |771
Oldham |239 |1,056
Rochdale |276 |896
Salford |255 |621
Stockport |223 |1,002
Tameside |270 |700
Trafford |252 |689
Wigan |239 |855
Barnsley |217 |806
Doncaster |231 |608
Rotherham |210 |996
Sheffield |253 |746
Bradford |240 |511
Calderdale |205 |764
Kirklees |221 |699
Leeds |250 |527
Wakefield |219 |5e3
Gateshead |213 |889
Newcastle upon Tyne |262 |750
North Tyneside |261 |535
South Tyneside |253 |823
Sunderland |279 |1,092
Isles of Scilly |43 |112
Avon |211 |885
Bedfordshire |188 |616
Berkshire |218 |753
Buckinghamshire |212 |750
Cambridgeshire |218 |893
Cheshire |191 |892
Cleveland |320 |744
Cornwall |157 |904
Cumbria |136 |701
Derbyshire |184 |922
Devon |174 |831
Dorset |221 |651
Durham |187 |823
East Sussex |225 |910
Essex |208 |895
Gloucestershire |159 |764
Hampshire |219 |807
Hereford and Worcester |165 |611
Hertfordshire |185 |740
Humberside |233 |905
Isle of Wight |154 |485
Kent |215 |704
Lancashire |210 |757
Leicestershire |238 |732
Lincolnshire |162 |553
Norfolk |154 |742
North Yorkshire |144 |713
Northamptonshire |182 |682
Northumberland |147 |470
Nottinghamshire |212 |723
Oxfordshire |164 |756
Shropshire |160 |684
Somerset |149 |701
Staffordshire |221 |793
Suffolk |167 |608
Surrey |201 |733
Warwickshire |185 |667
West Sussex |208 |918
Wiltshire |152 |753
England |216 |753
Pupils (Religious Allegiance)
Lady Olga Maitland : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will publish the results for each local education authority of the religious allegiance statistics for pupils in maintained schools collected under his Department's circular 16/89, including the religious allegiance figures for pupils aged five to 11 years at the beginning of the school year 1990-91 and the percentage of such pupils in each local education authority of each religious affiliation according to the said circular and those for whom no information is available ; and if he will give the corresponding information for England as a whole.
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