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Benefits, Lewisham
Ms Ruddock : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many people are registered as self-employed in the London borough of Lewisham ; and what estimate he has of the number claiming (a) sickness benefit, (b) invalidity benefit, (c) severe disability allowance, (d) family credit and (e) housing benefit.
Mr. Hague : The information requested is not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Teenage Lone Parents
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to his answer of 25 October, Official Report, column 504, on what statistical analysis he has based his policy towards teenage lone parents claiming one-parent benefit ; and if he will now make it his policy to collect details of the number of such parents.
Mr. Burt : One-parent benefit is an increase of child benefit which is available to all lone parents who fulfil the qualifying conditions, regardless of age. Statistical information on the ages of lone parent income support recipients is contained in the Annual Statistical Enquiry. In addition, further information on teenage lone parents is available through a number of surveys and research projects commissioned by the Department, but very detailed tabulations are not always available due to small sample sizes and prohibitive costs.
EDUCATION
Student Grants
Mr. Campbell-Savours : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what discussions he has had with the university vice chancellors on the level of student grants.
Mr. Boswell : My right hon. Friend and I last met the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals on Monday 25 October. We had a useful and interesting exchange of views on a number of current issues in higher education.
Sex Education
Mr. Thurnham : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what procedures are being adopted to monitor the numbers of parents exercising their right to withdraw
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their children from sex education lessons ; to what extent these procedures will be based on the precedent created by the parental right of withdrawal of children from religious education ; how many parents exercised this right in 1992 in relation to religious education ; and if he will make a statement.Mr. Forth : My right hon. Friend will look to the Office of Standards in Education (OFSTED) to monitor and advise on the quality and effectiveness of sex education, as part of OFSTED's overall responsibilities for school inspections. We have no plans separately to monitor centrally the extent to which parents choose to withdraw their children from sex education. This information is not collected centrally in relation to religious education and collective worship.
Mr. Thurnham : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what is the target date for the implementation of the parental right to withdraw children from sex education ; what is the timetable for consultation on the departmental guidelines relating to sex education ; which groups and individuals will be consulted ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Forth : The new arrangements for sex education introduced under section 241 of the Education Act 1993, including the parental right of withdrawal, will come into effect from the start of the autumn term 1994. We plan to issue detailed guidance to schools next spring about these arrangements, in the light of responses to the consultative draft which will issue shortly to local authority associations, local education authorities and other interested parties.
Discretionary Awards
Mr. Byers : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what was the annual expenditure or discretionary awards by each local education authority in 1978-79, 1990-91 and 1991-92 at current prices and at 1978-79 prices.
Mr. Boswell : Data on expenditure for the academic year 1978-79 for each local education authority are not held centrally. The earliest year for which data for each authority are available is 1983-84. The information for 1983-84, 1990-91 and 1991-92 is included in the table, which shows expenditure in both current prices for those years and also 1983-84 prices.
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Expenditure on discretionary awards (£000 in current and 1983-84 prices<3>
1983-84 1990-91 1991-92
|Current prices|Current prices|1983-84 prices|Current prices|1983-84 prices
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City of London |<1>- |205.9 |139.1 |25.5 |16.0
Camden |- |n/a |n/a |746.9 |469.9
Greenwich |- |353.7 |239.0 |770.4 |484.8
Hackney |- |1,166.3 |788.0 |1,275.2 |802.4
Hammersmith and Fulham |- |3,043.2 |2,056.2 |728.5 |458.4
Islington |- |57.0 |38.5 |1,088.8 |685.1
Kensington and Chelsea |- |452.9 |306.0 |683.7 |430.2
Lambeth |- |984.7 |665.3 |572.5 |360.2
Lewisham |- |808.2 |5486.1 |1,058.8 |666.2
Southwark |- |709.1 |479.1 |795.2 |500.4
Tower Hamlets |- |860.9 |581.7 |550.2 |346.2
Wandsworth |- |3,676.5 |2,484.1 |<2>n/a |n/a
City of Westminster |- |244.0 |164.9 |1,221.2 |768.4
ILEA/LRB<4> |13,637.4 |6,254.8 |4,226.2 |- |-
Barking |231.0 |248.5 |167..9 |453.8 |285.6
Barnet |788.6 |497.5 |336.1 |866.3 |545.1
Bexley |410.0 |397.6 |268.9.0 |420.6 |264.7
Haringey |587.5 |105.8 |71.5 |0.0 |0.0
Harrow |346.6 |371.7 |251.2 |138.4 |87.1
Havering |399.7 |626.7 |423.5 |662.5 |416.9
Hillingdon |437.8 |327.8 |221.5 |386.7 |243.3
Hounslow |260.8 |349.8 |236.3 |105.1 |66.1
Kingston-upon-Thames |148.3 |435.9 |294.5 |730.4 |459.5
Merton |130.5 |487.2 |329.2 |420.7 |264.7
Newham |372.3 |886.3 |598.9 |1,021.8 |642.9
Redbridge |396.6 |907.7 |613.3 |633.5 |398.6
Richmond-upon-Thames |366.6 |617.4 |417.1 |1,058.1 |665.8
Sutton |283.1 |348.4 |235.4 |475.5 |299.2
Waltham Forest |510.2 |909.7 |614.7 |1,003.3 |631.3
Birmingham |975.8 |2,708.9 |1,830.3 |2,925.3 |1,840.7
Coventry |591.5 |731.3 |494.1 |728.7 |458.5
Dudley |484.6 |673.0 |454.7 |698.2 |439.3
Sandwell |322.2 |897.8 |606.6 |1,010.9 |636.1
Solihull |147.0 |356.1 |240.6 |424.6 |267.1
Walsall |329.4 |1,608.5 |1,086.8 |2,265.5 |1,425.5
Wolverhampton |0.0 |279.2 |188.7 |180.2 |113.4
Knowsley |921.3 |1,179.2 |796.8 |1,498.4 |942.8
Liverpool |1,518.3 |6,025.8 |4,071.5 |5,064.2 |3,186.4
St. Helens |508.7 |710.1 |479.8 |834.9 |525.3
Sefton |313.9 |1,209.8 |817.4 |1,237.7 |778.8
Wirral |1,330.6 |1,709.1 |1,154.8 |2,021.4 |1,271.9
Bolton |703.1 |1,381.8 |933.7 |1,048.8 |659.9
Bury |585.1 |982.4 |663.8 |1,183.2 |744.5
Manchester |1,413.0 |2,020.5 |1,365.2 |2,174.9 |1,368.5
Oldham |398.1 |808.2 |546.1 |740.8 |466.1
Rochdale |442.3 |821.5 |555.1 |975.0 |613.5
Salford |670.5 |577.1 |389.9 |390.4 |245.6
Stockport |779.9 |856.7 |578.8 |923.9 |581.3
Tameside |380.7 |465.0 |314.2 |532.0 |334.8
Trafford |172.6 |0.0 |0.0 |748.9 |471.2
Wigan |705.6 |680.5 |459.8 |614.3 |386.5
Barnsley |412.8 |1,387.1 |937.2 |945.6 |595.0
Doncaster |505.5 |869.6 |587.5 |878.1 |552.5
Rotherham |493.8 |861.2 |581.9 |1,264.4 |795.6
Sheffield |2,040.8 |2,403.3 |1,623.8 |2,166.7 |1,363.3
Bradford |1,582.7 |1,942.0 |1,312.2 |2,115.2 |1,330.9
Calderdale |349.7 |547.7 |370.1 |453.8 |285.6
Kirklees |1,356.1 |2,953.0 |1,995.3 |2,563.8 |1,613.2
Leeds |1,113.5 |2,501.4 |1,690.1 |2,899.3 |1,824.3
Wakefield |638.9 |1,236.5 |835.4 |1,319.6 |830.3
Gateshead |198.0 |710.6 |480.1 |639.0 |402.1
Newcastle-upon-Tyne |736.7 |1,011.0 |683.1 |1,010.4 |635.8
North Tyneside |631.1 |932.0 |629.7 |1,213.9 |763.8
South Tyneside |245.2 |471.7 |318.7 |531.9 |334.7
Sunderland |774.8 |n/a |n/a |1,094.6 |688.7
Avon |2,456.5 |n/a |n/a |5,750.1 |3,618.0
Bedfordshire |933.3 |1,214.6 |820.7 |1,252.9 |788.3
Berkshire |1,402.9 |n/a |n/a |1,962.7 |1,234.9
Buckinghamshire |927.4 |1,257.0 |849.3 |997.7 |627.7
Cambridgeshire |990.5 |1,774.0 |1,198.7 |1,641.0 |1,032.5
Cheshire |2,452.0 |5,730.2 |3,871.8 |7,372.5 |4,638.9
Cleveland |1,382.4 |2,141.9 |1,447.2 |2,698.3 |1,697.8
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly |1,060.3 |2,474.9 |1,672.2 |3,116.7 |1,961.0
Cumbria |1,841.5 |3,882.2 |2,623.1 |6,824.2 |4,293.9
Derbyshire |2,201.5 |4,789.9 |3,236.5 |5,052.1 |3,178.8
Devon |3,008.1 |5,148.4 |3,478.6 |6,664.6 |4,193.4
Dorset |1,836.5 |3,332.9 |2,252.0 |4,767.4 |2,999.7
Durham |1,016.0 |1,879.7 |1,270.1 |3,274.2 |2,060.2
East Sussex |1,918.1 |1,282.2 |866.4 |1,620.7 |1,019.8
Essex |4,066.1 |6,364.8 |4,300.6 |7,581.4 |4,770.3
Gloucestershire |2,000.4 |2,828.5 |1,911.2 |3,166.0 |1,992.1
Hampshire |4,818.4 |6,468.5 |4,370.6 |5,987.4 |3,767.3
Hereford and Worcester |1,063.9 |1,456.5 |984.1 |1,770.1 |1,113.7
Hertfordshire |2,096.2 |3,412.3 |2,305.6 |3,158.6 |1,987.4
Humberside |2,798.0 |5,336.0 |3,605.4 |6,175.8 |3,885.9
Isle of Wight |315.0 |367.0 |248.0 |523.5 |329.4
Kent |5,017.6 |5,799.1 |3,918.3 |6,398.5 |4,026.0
Lancashire |4,110.7 |9,764.9 |6,597.9 |14,419.2 |9,072.7
Leicestershire |2,494.3 |5,791.1 |3,912.9 |6,906.9 |4,345.9
Lincolnshire |1,382.8 |1,776.4 |1,200.3 |2,202.5 |1,385.9
Norfolk |1,465.0 |2,881.4 |1,946.9 |3,296.1 |2,073.9
North Yorkshire |3,385.0 |8,668.8 |5,857.3 |9,005.5 |5,666.4
Northamptonshire |912.3 |1,605.0 |1,084.5 |1,555.7 |978.9
Northumberland |864.9 |2,256.8 |1,524.9 |2,446.2 |1,539.2
Nottinghamshire |1,672.9 |3,012.7 |2,035.6 |2,532.2 |1,593.3
Oxfordshire |629.4 |1,255.4 |848.3 |1,249.5 |786.2
Shropshire |1,047.8 |1,721.1 |1,162.9 |2,280.1 |1,434.7
Somerset |791.4 |1,705.8 |1,152.5 |1,319.2 |830.1
Staffordshire |1,422.4 |1,754.0 |1,185.2 |1,943.0 |1,222.6
Suffolk |1,626.2 |3,059.8 |2,067.4 |3,348.7 |2,107.0
Surrey |1,621.2 |1,963.6 |1,326.7 |2,492.1 |1,563.1
Warwickshire |1,209.8 |1,136.9 |768.2 |625.1 |393.3
West Sussex |862.3 |1,419.6 |959.2 |705.5 |443.9
Wiltshire |1,150.6 |1,764.9 |1,192.5 |2,042.0 |1,284.8
Clywd |973.0 |1,948.7 |1,316.7 |4,348.8 |2,736.3
Dyfed |1,227.9 |2,445.1 |1,652.1 |2,159.2 |1,358.6
Gwent |1,744.2 |827.1 |558.9 |1,089.7 |685.7
Gwynedd |714.8 |1,059.8 |716.1 |1,384.4 |871.1
Mid-Glamorgan |402.4 |1,480.0 |1,000.0 |4,462.6 |2,808.0
Powys |597.1 |947.3 |640.1 |1,127.2 |709.3
South Glamorgan |1,063.0 |1,508.0 |1,018.9 |1,511.3 |950.9
West Glamorgan |865.0 |1,039.1 |702.1 |1,318.6 |829.7
|------- |------- |------- |------- |-------
All English and Welsh LEAs<5> |127,932.4 |209,325.9 |141,436.4 |239,696.3 |150,819.7
<1> Not applicable.
<2> n/a LEAs unable to provide appropriate information.
<3> Using March 1993 GDP deflator.
<4> ILBs took over responsibility from ILEA for most awards in 1990-91; some awards were made by the London Residuary
Body.
<5> Total expenditure is grossed to compensate both for complete non-returners and partial returners and does not
necessarily represent sum of constituent data.
Student Loans
Mrs. Ann Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) what is the projected cost of the student loans scheme for each financial year from 1992-93 to 2022-23 ;
(2) during which financial year he currently expects the student loans scheme to break even.
Mr. Boswell : The student loans scheme produced public expenditure savings, when compared to previous policies, in the first year ot its operation, 1990-91.
Actual United Kingdom expenditure on student loans in 1992-93--net of gross repayments--was £230 million (£183 million in 1990 prices). The table attached gives projections of net United Kingdom expenditure on loans in each financial year from 1993-94 to 2022-23.
Projected net expenditure on student loans scheme United Kingdom, £ million 1990 prices Year |Cost -------------------- 1993-94 |222 1994-95 |271 1995-96 |305 1996-97 |338 1997-98 |393 1998-99 |473 1999-2000 |579 2000-2001 |685 2001-2002 |724 2002-2003 |723 2003-2004 |716 2004-2005 |713 2005-2006 |709 2006-2007 |709 2007-2008 |698 2008-2009 |678 2009-2010 |628 2010-2011 |580 2011-2012 |524 2012-2013 |494 2013-2014 |465 2014-2015 |442 2015-2016 |422 2016-2017 |402 2017-2018 |384 2018-2019 |369 2019-2020 |355 2020-2021 |344 2021-2022 |329 2022-2023 |316 Notes: 1. Figures are for total United Kingdom outlay on student loans, net of repayments of principal and interest. 2. Underlying assumptions are consistent with the projections of net expenditure on loans in England and Wales for 1993-94 to 1995-96 set out in Cm 2210.
Mrs. Ann Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what plans he has to abolish the student loans scheme.
Advertising
Mrs. Ann Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many copies of the booklet entitled "Technology Colleges : Schools for the Future" were printed ; what fee was paid for editorial services on the
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booklet ; what was the fee paid to Graphic Impressions of London for the design ; what was the total cost of the printing ; and what was the cost of the addition of the spot ultra-violet dried gloss varnish on the cover half-tone and title text.Mr. Robin Squire : Initially, 15,000 copies of the booklet were printed. In response to demand from schools and others, a further 10, 000 copies were printed. No fees were paid for external editorial services. The fee paid to Graphic Impressions of London for the design is commercial in confidence, as is the cost of printing and the spot ultra-violet varnish. The total cost including mailing was less than £1 per copy.
Mrs. Ann Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what was the actual expenditure in the financial year 1992-93 by his Department on (a) television advertising, (b) radio advertising, (c) newspaper advertising and (d) other promotional material ; and what is his latest estimate for for 1993-94.
Mr. Boswell : The actual expenditure figures for advertising and other promotional materials by the Department for the financial year 1992- 93 and the latest estimate for 1993-94 are given in the table.
£000s
|1992-93 |1993-94 (estimate)
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Television advertising |0 |0
Radio advertising |0 |29.2
Newspaper advertising |1,086.4 |1,105.8
Other promotional material |5,800.1 |7,639.6
Schools Inspection
Mrs. Ann Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what assessment he has made of the standards of probity with which the new tendering arrangements for schools inspection are being conducted.
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Mr. Robin Squire : The arrangements for inspecting schools under the Education (Schools) Act 1992 are a matter for Ofsted. I have asked Professor Sutherland to write to the hon. Member.
Local Education Authorities
Mrs. Ann Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what further plans he has to remove responsibilities for education provision from local education authorities in addition to those announced already or which have been the subject of existing legislation.
Mr. Robin Squire : My right hon. Friend has no such plans at present.
Books
Mrs. Ann Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what was the total spent by each local education authority on (a) primary school books, (b) secondary school books, (c) other books, (d) the total book expenditure on schools and (e) the total expenditure on books for each of the financial years 1987-88 until 1992-93.
Mr. Forth : The information is not available in the form requested. Information on local education authorities' spending on books and equipment in primary (including nursery) schools and secondary schools from 1989-90 to 1991-92, the latest year for which figures are available, is shown in the tables. Figures for 1987-88 and 1988-89 are not readily available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
The tables give information on books and equipment both separately and combined. This is because LEAs do not distinguish on a consistent basis between the two headings in their returns of expenditure due to differing local accounting practices. The figures shown for expenditure on books alone therefore do not provide a sound basis for comparisons between LEAs.
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(£000's)
1989-90 1989-90 1990-91 1990-91 1991-92 1991-92
Expenditure on books |Text and library |Education equipment |Books and equipment |Text and library |Education equipment |Books and equipment |Text and library |Education equipment |Books and equipment
and equipment in |books |stationery and |books |stationery and |books |stationery and
1989-90 to 1991-92 |materials |materials |materials
by LEA in
nursery/primary
schools
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ILEA |2,457 |7,838 |10,295 |- |- |- |- |- |-
Corporation of London |41 |15 |56 |2 |4 |6 |6 |5 |11
Camden |- |- |- |253 |285 |538 |122 |515 |637
Greenwich |- |- |- |194 |741 |935 |189 |229 |418
Hackney |- |- |- |0 |15 |15 |270 |408 |678
Hammersmith and Fulham |- |- |- |77 |409 |486 |100 |363 |463
Islington |- |- |- |179 |435 |614 |231 |855 |1,086
Kensington and Chelsea |- |- |- |145 |397 |542 |201 |519 |720
Lambeth |- |- |- |211 |185 |396 |208 |106 |314
Lewisham |- |- |- |153 |413 |566 |134 |161 |295
Southwark |- |- |- |0 |973 |973 |0 |1,068 |1,068
Tower Hamlets |- |- |- |307 |1,217 |1,524 |347 |1,396 |1,743
Wandsworth |- |- |- |166 |1,303 |1,469 |239 |969 |1,208
City of Westminster |- |- |- |103 |444 |547 |144 |752 |896
Barking |184 |737 |921 |150 |546 |696 |237 |572 |809
Barnet |287 |561 |848 |293 |591 |884 |392 |860 |1,252
Bexley |88 |479 |567 |78 |579 |657 |92 |685 |777
Brent |0 |1,009 |1,009 |0 |719 |719 |109 |993 |1,102
Bromley |212 |656 |868 |205 |571 |776 |246 |607 |853
Croydon |269 |745 |1,014 |239 |1,022 |1,261 |260 |1,010 |1,270
Ealing |114 |854 |968 |81 |939 |1,020 |64 |1,192 |1,256
Enfield |172 |540 |712 |134 |965 |1,099 |179 |782 |961
Haringey |203 |837 |1,040 |158 |81 |239 |172 |81 |253
Harrow |152 |628 |780 |189 |1,086 |1,275 |288 |1134 |1,422
Havering |0 |770 |770 |0 |832 |832 |0 |1,097 |1,097
Hillingdon |233 |464 |697 |305 |515 |820 |383 |402 |785
Hounslow |166 |523 |689 |142 |694 |836 |184 |1,060 |1,244
Kingston upon Thames |101 |501 |602 |109 |369 |478 |94 |472 |566
Merton |210 |403 |613 |19 |681 |700 |5 |619 |624
Newham |229 |630 |859 |216 |552 |768 |349 |1,109 |1,458
Redbridge |246 |577 |823 |251 |908 |1,159 |297 |1,009 |1,306
Richmond upon Thames |89 |352 |441 |70 |376 |446 |93 |575 |668
Sutton |165 |276 |441 |188 |249 |437 |209 |340 |549
Waltham Forest |90 |599 |689 |54 |354 |408 |118 |479 |597
Birmingham |680 |2,609 |3,289 |1,555 |4,812 |6,367 |1,088 |2,242 |3,330
Coventry |58 |921 |979 |227 |572 |799 |287 |901 |1,188
Dudley |0 |856 |856 |247 |718 |965 |294 |677 |971
Sandwell |73 |888 |961 |78 |106 |184 |84 |366 |450
Solihull |18 |526 |544 |269 |531 |800 |0 |917 |917
Walsall |5 |542 |547 |172 |1,031 |1,203 |38 |1,143 |1,181
Wolverhampton |161 |454 |615 |156 |92 |248 |259 |887 |1,146
Knowsley |173 |400 |573 |165 |451 |616 |237 |788 |1,025
Liverpool |125 |920 |1,045 |359 |987 |1,346 |325 |1,182 |1,507
St. Helens |126 |581 |707 |79 |267 |346 |147 |544 |691
Sefton |192 |605 |797 |192 |44 |236 |231 |823 |1,054
Wirral |262 |1,306 |1,568 |239 |1,030 |1,269 |171 |665 |836
Bolton |263 |772 |1,035 |183 |852 |1,035 |226 |1,231 |1,457
Bury |144 |457 |601 |149 |384 |533 |142 |474 |616
Manchester |101 |842 |943 |151 |1,197 |1,348 |596 |1,544 |2,140
Oldham |137 |625 |762 |5 |1,160 |1,165 |210 |964 |1,174
Rochdale |172 |561 |733 |187 |468 |655 |204 |636 |840
Salford |4 |762 |766 |31 |680 |711 |67 |828 |895
Stockport |259 |650 |909 |290 |1,127 |1,417 |179 |1,386 |1,565
Tameside |243 |609 |852 |236 |528 |764 |252 |576 |828
Trafford |143 |655 |798 |156 |630 |786 |211 |876 |1,087
Wigan |46 |877 |923 |42 |914 |956 |44 |1,382 |1,426
Barnsley |102 |475 |577 |179 |475 |654 |317 |974 |1,291
Doncaster |199 |388 |587 |102 |202 |304 |0 |0 |0
Rotherham |174 |612 |786 |141 |438 |579 |265 |601 |866
Sheffield |229 |874 |1,103 |197 |934 |1,131 |447 |1,366 |1,813
Bradford |0 |1,367 |1,367 |0 |1,232 |1,232 |0 |1,777 |1,777
Calderdale |172 |461 |633 |173 |776 |949 |320 |979 |1,299
Kirklees |226 |676 |902 |284 |684 |968 |336 |910 |1,246
Leeds |118 |221 |339 |371 |1,121 |1,492 |480 |1,702 |2,182
Wakefield |398 |644 |1,042 |227 |557 |784 |353 |891 |1,244
Gateshead |94 |442 |536 |2 |589 |591 |2 |994 |996
Newcastle upon Tyne |620 |326 |946 |552 |131 |683 |141 |822 |963
North Tyneside |137 |318 |455 |212 |317 |529 |168 |339 |507
South Tyneside |105 |322 |427 |56 |401 |457 |123 |486 |609
Sunderland |162 |592 |754 |201 |1,021 |1,222 |96 |2,248 |2,344
Isles of Scilly |1 |7 |8 |2 |12 |14 |2 |13 |15
Avon |779 |1,615 |2,394 |127 |2,930 |3,057 |15 |4,515 |4,530
Bedfordshire |365 |799 |1,164 |562 |1,155 |1,717 |642 |1,783 |2,425
Berkshire |791 |925 |1,716 |895 |2,167 |3,062 |808 |3,303 |4,111
Buckinghamshire |956 |1,688 |2,644 |1,012 |1,905 |2,917 |1,068 |2,135 |3,203
Cambridgeshire |669 |1,764 |2,433 |656 |1,667 |2,323 |977 |2,134 |3,111
Cheshire |767 |1,572 |2,339 |1,199 |1,957 |3,156 |1,409 |2,952 |4,361
Cleveland |58 |1,679 |1,737 |433 |654 |1,087 |552 |1,987 |2,539
Cornwall |466 |984 |1,450 |215 |948 |1,163 |313 |1,089 |1,402
Cumbria |529 |855 |1,384 |250 |753 |1,003 |451 |945 |1,396
Derbyshire |379 |2,833 |3,212 |109 |3,028 |3,137 |2 |3,074 |3,076
Devon |1,100 |2,006 |3,106 |1,362 |1,827 |3,189 |1,734 |3,897 |5,631
Dorset |259 |1,586 |1,845 |547 |1,801 |2,348 |717 |1,849 |2,566
Durham |457 |1,679 |2,136 |453 |1,741 |2,194 |816 |2,247 |3,063
East Sussex |453 |1,084 |1,537 |542 |1,414 |1,956 |931 |2,337 |3,268
Essex |1,237 |3,903 |5,140 |943 |2,977 |3,920 |1,230 |5,184 |6,414
Gloucestershire |535 |1,163 |1,698 |445 |1,419 |1,864 |369 |1,637 |2,006
Hampshire |293 |3,912 |4,205 |332 |4,059 |4,391 |368 |10,290 |10,658
Hereford and Worcester |564 |1,178 |1,742 |446 |3,916 |4,362 |932 |2,480 |3,412
Hertfordshire |1,304 |2,536 |3,840 |1,461 |2,889 |4,350 |1,139 |468 |1,607
Humberside |829 |1,871 |2,700 |2,610 |753 |3,363 |4,152 |1,842 |5,994
Isle of Wight |83 |142 |225 |86 |185 |271 |112 |299 |411
Kent |559 |2,487 |3,046 |4,501 |0 |4,501 |1,135 |5,759 |6,894
Lancashire |1,471 |3,976 |5,447 |1,559 |4,058 |5,617 |2,237 |5,171 |7,408
Leicestershire |1,000 |2,823 |3,823 |1,184 |2,981 |4,165 |1,554 |4,671 |6,225
Lincolnshire |591 |262 |853 |631 |1,431 |2,062 |954 |2,289 |3,243
Norfolk |546 |1,571 |2,117 |425 |1,831 |2,256 |825 |2,032 |2,857
North Yorkshire |331 |1,867 |2,198 |368 |1,863 |2,231 |618 |2,713 |3,331
Northamptonshire |431 |1,765 |2,196 |494 |2,187 |2,681 |686 |2,468 |3,154
Northumberland |208 |461 |669 |245 |494 |739 |241 |697 |938
Nottinghamshire |963 |2,127 |3,090 |1,028 |2,027 |3,055 |1,368 |3,266 |4,634
Oxfordshire |320 |1,333 |1,653 |351 |1,353 |1,704 |275 |2,006 |2,281
Shropshire |352 |1,080 |1,432 |386 |1,243 |1,629 |553 |1,644 |2,197
Somerset |242 |1,389 |1,631 |1,019 |1,321 |2,340 |941 |1,059 |2,000
Staffordshire |407 |2,923 |3,330 |864 |2,920 |3,784 |940 |3,649 |4,589
Suffolk |398 |1,635 |2,033 |305 |1,608 |1,913 |106 |6,569 |6,675
Surrey |418 |703 |1,121 |461 |1,069 |1,530 |592 |4,303 |4,895
Warwickshire |403 |751 |1,154 |364 |913 |1,277 |240 |994 |1,234
West Sussex |698 |2,394 |3,092 |557 |2,369 |2,926 |488 |2,736 |3,224
Wiltshire |1,394 |687 |2,081 |485 |2,032 |2,517 |711 |2,289 |3,000
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Total |35,435 |111,145 |146,580 |42,450 |118,766 |161,216 |47,505 |168,320 |215,825
Notes:
1. n/a indicates that the LEA has no secondary schools.
2. Doncaster LEA submitted a nil return on books and equipment on their expenditure returns to the DoE for 1991-92.
3. Figures are derived from LEAs' returns of their spending to the Department of the Environment.
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(£000's)
1989-90 1989-90 1990-91 1990-91 1991-92 1991-92
Expenditure on books |Text and library |Education equipment |Books and equipment |Text and library |Education equipment |Books and equipment |Text and library |Education equipment |Books and equipment
and equipment in |books |stationery and |books |stationery and |books |stationery and
1989-90 to 1991-92 |materials |materials |materials
by LEA in
nursery/primary
schools
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ILEA |2,457 |7,838 |10,295 |- |- |- |- |- |-
Corporation of London |41 |15 |56 |2 |4 |6 |6 |5 |11
Camden |- |- |- |253 |285 |538 |122 |515 |637
Greenwich |- |- |- |194 |741 |935 |189 |229 |418
Hackney |- |- |- |0 |15 |15 |270 |408 |678
Hammersmith and Fulham |- |- |- |77 |409 |486 |100 |363 |463
Islington |- |- |- |179 |435 |614 |231 |855 |1,086
Kensington and Chelsea |- |- |- |145 |397 |542 |201 |519 |720
Lambeth |- |- |- |211 |185 |396 |208 |106 |314
Lewisham |- |- |- |153 |413 |566 |134 |161 |295
Southwark |- |- |- |0 |973 |973 |0 |1,068 |1,068
Tower Hamlets |- |- |- |307 |1,217 |1,524 |347 |1,396 |1,743
Wandsworth |- |- |- |166 |1,303 |1,469 |239 |969 |1,208
City of Westminster |- |- |- |103 |444 |547 |144 |752 |896
Barking |184 |737 |921 |150 |546 |696 |237 |572 |809
Barnet |287 |561 |848 |293 |591 |884 |392 |860 |1,252
Bexley |88 |479 |567 |78 |579 |657 |92 |685 |777
Brent |0 |1,009 |1,009 |0 |719 |719 |109 |993 |1,102
Bromley |212 |656 |868 |205 |571 |776 |246 |607 |853
Croydon |269 |745 |1,014 |239 |1,022 |1,261 |260 |1,010 |1,270
Ealing |114 |854 |968 |81 |939 |1,020 |64 |1,192 |1,256
Enfield |172 |540 |712 |134 |965 |1,099 |179 |782 |961
Haringey |203 |837 |1,040 |158 |81 |239 |172 |81 |253
Harrow |152 |628 |780 |189 |1,086 |1,275 |288 |1134 |1,422
Havering |0 |770 |770 |0 |832 |832 |0 |1,097 |1,097
Hillingdon |233 |464 |697 |305 |515 |820 |383 |402 |785
Hounslow |166 |523 |689 |142 |694 |836 |184 |1,060 |1,244
Kingston upon Thames |101 |501 |602 |109 |369 |478 |94 |472 |566
Merton |210 |403 |613 |19 |681 |700 |5 |619 |624
Newham |229 |630 |859 |216 |552 |768 |349 |1,109 |1,458
Redbridge |246 |577 |823 |251 |908 |1,159 |297 |1,009 |1,306
Richmond upon Thames |89 |352 |441 |70 |376 |446 |93 |575 |668
Sutton |165 |276 |441 |188 |249 |437 |209 |340 |549
Waltham Forest |90 |599 |689 |54 |354 |408 |118 |479 |597
Birmingham |680 |2,609 |3,289 |1,555 |4,812 |6,367 |1,088 |2,242 |3,330
Coventry |58 |921 |979 |227 |572 |799 |287 |901 |1,188
Dudley |0 |856 |856 |247 |718 |965 |294 |677 |971
Sandwell |73 |888 |961 |78 |106 |184 |84 |366 |450
Solihull |18 |526 |544 |269 |531 |800 |0 |917 |917
Walsall |5 |542 |547 |172 |1,031 |1,203 |38 |1,143 |1,181
Wolverhampton |161 |454 |615 |156 |92 |248 |259 |887 |1,146
Knowsley |173 |400 |573 |165 |451 |616 |237 |788 |1,025
Liverpool |125 |920 |1,045 |359 |987 |1,346 |325 |1,182 |1,507
St. Helens |126 |581 |707 |79 |267 |346 |147 |544 |691
Sefton |192 |605 |797 |192 |44 |236 |231 |823 |1,054
Wirral |262 |1,306 |1,568 |239 |1,030 |1,269 |171 |665 |836
Bolton |263 |772 |1,035 |183 |852 |1,035 |226 |1,231 |1,457
Bury |144 |457 |601 |149 |384 |533 |142 |474 |616
Manchester |101 |842 |943 |151 |1,197 |1,348 |596 |1,544 |2,140
Oldham |137 |625 |762 |5 |1,160 |1,165 |210 |964 |1,174
Rochdale |172 |561 |733 |187 |468 |655 |204 |636 |840
Salford |4 |762 |766 |31 |680 |711 |67 |828 |895
Stockport |259 |650 |909 |290 |1,127 |1,417 |179 |1,386 |1,565
Tameside |243 |609 |852 |236 |528 |764 |252 |576 |828
Trafford |143 |655 |798 |156 |630 |786 |211 |876 |1,087
Wigan |46 |877 |923 |42 |914 |956 |44 |1,382 |1,426
Barnsley |102 |475 |577 |179 |475 |654 |317 |974 |1,291
Doncaster |199 |388 |587 |102 |202 |304 |0 |0 |0
Rotherham |174 |612 |786 |141 |438 |579 |265 |601 |866
Sheffield |229 |874 |1,103 |197 |934 |1,131 |447 |1,366 |1,813
Bradford |0 |1,367 |1,367 |0 |1,232 |1,232 |0 |1,777 |1,777
Calderdale |172 |461 |633 |173 |776 |949 |320 |979 |1,299
Kirklees |226 |676 |902 |284 |684 |968 |336 |910 |1,246
Leeds |118 |221 |339 |371 |1,121 |1,492 |480 |1,702 |2,182
Wakefield |398 |644 |1,042 |227 |557 |784 |353 |891 |1,244
Gateshead |94 |442 |536 |2 |589 |591 |2 |994 |996
Newcastle upon Tyne |620 |326 |946 |552 |131 |683 |141 |822 |963
North Tyneside |137 |318 |455 |212 |317 |529 |168 |339 |507
South Tyneside |105 |322 |427 |56 |401 |457 |123 |486 |609
Sunderland |162 |592 |754 |201 |1,021 |1,222 |96 |2,248 |2,344
Isles of Scilly |1 |7 |8 |2 |12 |14 |2 |13 |15
Avon |779 |1,615 |2,394 |127 |2,930 |3,057 |15 |4,515 |4,530
Bedfordshire |365 |799 |1,164 |562 |1,155 |1,717 |642 |1,783 |2,425
Berkshire |791 |925 |1,716 |895 |2,167 |3,062 |808 |3,303 |4,111
Buckinghamshire |956 |1,688 |2,644 |1,012 |1,905 |2,917 |1,068 |2,135 |3,203
Cambridgeshire |669 |1,764 |2,433 |656 |1,667 |2,323 |977 |2,134 |3,111
Cheshire |767 |1,572 |2,339 |1,199 |1,957 |3,156 |1,409 |2,952 |4,361
Cleveland |58 |1,679 |1,737 |433 |654 |1,087 |552 |1,987 |2,539
Cornwall |466 |984 |1,450 |215 |948 |1,163 |313 |1,089 |1,402
Cumbria |529 |855 |1,384 |250 |753 |1,003 |451 |945 |1,396
Derbyshire |379 |2,833 |3,212 |109 |3,028 |3,137 |2 |3,074 |3,076
Devon |1,100 |2,006 |3,106 |1,362 |1,827 |3,189 |1,734 |3,897 |5,631
Dorset |259 |1,586 |1,845 |547 |1,801 |2,348 |717 |1,849 |2,566
Durham |457 |1,679 |2,136 |453 |1,741 |2,194 |816 |2,247 |3,063
East Sussex |453 |1,084 |1,537 |542 |1,414 |1,956 |931 |2,337 |3,268
Essex |1,237 |3,903 |5,140 |943 |2,977 |3,920 |1,230 |5,184 |6,414
Gloucestershire |535 |1,163 |1,698 |445 |1,419 |1,864 |369 |1,637 |2,006
Hampshire |293 |3,912 |4,205 |332 |4,059 |4,391 |368 |10,290 |10,658
Hereford and Worcester |564 |1,178 |1,742 |446 |3,916 |4,362 |932 |2,480 |3,412
Hertfordshire |1,304 |2,536 |3,840 |1,461 |2,889 |4,350 |1,139 |468 |1,607
Humberside |829 |1,871 |2,700 |2,610 |753 |3,363 |4,152 |1,842 |5,994
Isle of Wight |83 |142 |225 |86 |185 |271 |112 |299 |411
Kent |559 |2,487 |3,046 |4,501 |0 |4,501 |1,135 |5,759 |6,894
Lancashire |1,471 |3,976 |5,447 |1,559 |4,058 |5,617 |2,237 |5,171 |7,408
Leicestershire |1,000 |2,823 |3,823 |1,184 |2,981 |4,165 |1,554 |4,671 |6,225
Lincolnshire |591 |262 |853 |631 |1,431 |2,062 |954 |2,289 |3,243
Norfolk |546 |1,571 |2,117 |425 |1,831 |2,256 |825 |2,032 |2,857
North Yorkshire |331 |1,867 |2,198 |368 |1,863 |2,231 |618 |2,713 |3,331
Northamptonshire |431 |1,765 |2,196 |494 |2,187 |2,681 |686 |2,468 |3,154
Northumberland |208 |461 |669 |245 |494 |739 |241 |697 |938
Nottinghamshire |963 |2,127 |3,090 |1,028 |2,027 |3,055 |1,368 |3,266 |4,634
Oxfordshire |320 |1,333 |1,653 |351 |1,353 |1,704 |275 |2,006 |2,281
Shropshire |352 |1,080 |1,432 |386 |1,243 |1,629 |553 |1,644 |2,197
Somerset |242 |1,389 |1,631 |1,019 |1,321 |2,340 |941 |1,059 |2,000
Staffordshire |407 |2,923 |3,330 |864 |2,920 |3,784 |940 |3,649 |4,589
Suffolk |398 |1,635 |2,033 |305 |1,608 |1,913 |106 |6,569 |6,675
Surrey |418 |703 |1,121 |461 |1,069 |1,530 |592 |4,303 |4,895
Warwickshire |403 |751 |1,154 |364 |913 |1,277 |240 |994 |1,234
West Sussex |698 |2,394 |3,092 |557 |2,369 |2,926 |488 |2,736 |3,224
Wiltshire |1,394 |687 |2,081 |485 |2,032 |2,517 |711 |2,289 |3,000
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Total |35,435 |111,145 |146,580 |42,450 |118,766 |161,216 |47,505 |168,320 |215,825
Notes:
1. n/a indicates that the LEA has no secondary schools.
2. Doncaster LEA submitted a nil return on books and equipment on their expenditure returns to the DoE for 1991-92.
3. Figures are derived from LEAs' returns of their spending to the Department of the Environment.
Mrs. Ann Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list the amount spent on books by each local education authority (a) per primary school pupil, (b) per secondary school pupil and (c) per school pupil.
Mr. Forth : Information on local education authorities' spending per pupil on books and equipment in primary (including nursery) schools and secondary schools in
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1991-92, the latest year for which figures are available, is shown in the table. The table gives information on books and equipment both separately and combined. This is because LEAs do not distinguish on a consistent basis between the two headings in their returns of expenditure due to differing local accounting practices. The figures shown for expenditure on books alone therefore do not provide a sound basis for comparisons between LEAs.Column 405
1991-92 Unit cost per FTE pupil (£)
Text and library Equipment, Combined books
books stationery and and equipment
materials
|(a) Nursery and|(b) Secondary |(c) Total |(a) Nursery and|(b) Secondary |(c) Total |(a) Nursery and|(b) Secondary |(c) Total
|primary schools|schools |primary schools|schools |primary schools|schools
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Corporation of London |28 |n/a |28 |24 |n/a |24 |52 |n/a |52
Camden |12 |22 |17 |50 |71 |60 |62 |92 |77
Greenwich |9 |14 |11 |11 |22 |16 |21 |36 |27
Hackney |17 |20 |18 |26 |27 |26 |43 |47 |44
Hammersmith and Fulham |11 |2 |8 |41 |62 |48 |52 |64 |56
Islington |16 |18 |17 |60 |75 |65 |76 |93 |82
Kensington and Chelsea |32 |44 |36 |83 |178 |114 |115 |221 |149
Lambeth |11 |15 |12 |6 |15 |8 |17 |30 |20
Lewisham |7 |8 |8 |8 |24 |14 |15 |32 |22
Southwark |0 |0 |0 |54 |82 |63 |54 |82 |63
Tower Hamlets |18 |20 |18 |71 |89 |77 |89 |109 |96
Wandsworth |15 |20 |16 |60 |115 |78 |74 |136 |94
City of Westminster |16 |7 |12 |85 |105 |94 |101 |112 |106
Barking |16 |32 |23 |40 |82 |56 |56 |114 |78
Barnet |17 |24 |20 |38 |79 |55 |55 |103 |75
Bexley |5 |26 |14 |39 |87 |60 |44 |112 |75
Brent |5 |15 |8 |47 |93 |62 |52 |107 |71
Bromley |13 |27 |18 |31 |77 |48 |43 |104 |66
Croydon |10 |21 |14 |40 |69 |51 |51 |90 |65
Ealing |2 |18 |7 |45 |81 |56 |48 |99 |63
Enfield |8 |15 |11 |36 |64 |48 |44 |80 |60
Haringey |10 |4 |8 |5 |7 |5 |14 |11 |13
Harrow |16 |19 |17 |62 |110 |76 |77 |129 |93
Havering |0 |0 |0 |59 |122 |88 |59 |122 |88
Hillingdon |21 |24 |22 |22 |57 |33 |43 |81 |55
Hounslow |10 |17 |13 |59 |88 |71 |69 |106 |85
Kingston upon Thames |10 |18 |13 |49 |94 |68 |59 |113 |82
Merton |0 |1 |1 |46 |71 |55 |47 |72 |56
Newham |15 |26 |19 |49 |73 |58 |64 |99 |77
Redbridge |17 |31 |23 |57 |98 |75 |74 |129 |98
Richmond upon Thames |10 |16 |12 |60 |72 |65 |70 |88 |78
Sutton |18 |17 |17 |29 |50 |37 |46 |67 |55
Waltham Forest |6 |13 |9 |26 |54 |37 |33 |67 |46
Birmingham |10 |17 |13 |21 |69 |38 |32 |86 |51
Coventry |10 |13 |11 |32 |50 |39 |42 |63 |50
Dudley |11 |13 |12 |25 |40 |31 |36 |54 |43
Sandwell |3 |1 |2 |12 |16 |14 |15 |17 |16
Solihull |0 |0 |0 |50 |101 |72 |50 |101 |72
Walsall |1 |14 |7 |43 |82 |59 |45 |96 |66
Wolverhampton |11 |18 |14 |39 |77 |53 |50 |95 |67
Knowsley |14 |15 |14 |46 |105 |66 |60 |120 |81
Liverpool |7 |9 |8 |25 |50 |34 |32 |59 |41
St. Helens |9 |4 |7 |32 |67 |47 |41 |70 |54
Sefton |9 |18 |13 |32 |84 |54 |41 |102 |66
Wirral |6 |16 |10 |22 |64 |40 |28 |81 |50
Bolton |9 |0 |5 |47 |100 |68 |56 |100 |73
Bury |9 |10 |9 |30 |51 |38 |39 |61 |48
Manchester |13 |16 |14 |34 |73 |48 |48 |88 |62
Oldham |9 |13 |11 |41 |59 |49 |50 |72 |59
Rochdale |10 |12 |10 |30 |64 |43 |40 |76 |53
Salford |3 |9 |5 |36 |64 |46 |39 |73 |51
47 |85 |61 |58 |90 |70
Wigan |2 |2 |2 |48 |96 |68 |50 |98 |70
Barnsley |16 |15 |16 |49 |73 |58 |65 |88 |74
Doncaster |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
Rotherham |11 |14 |13 |26 |37 |31 |37 |52 |43
Sheffield |10 |17 |13 |31 |66 |44 |42 |83 |56
Bradford |0 |0 |0 |48 |68 |59 |48 |68 |59
Calderdale |17 |19 |18 |53 |56 |54 |70 |74 |72
Kirklees |10 |4 |7 |27 |7 |18 |37 |10 |26
Leeds |9 |15 |12 |33 |45 |39 |42 |60 |51
Wakefield |13 |16 |14 |33 |62 |46 |46 |78 |60
Gateshead |0 |0 |0 |58 |106 |77 |58 |106 |77
Newcastle upon Tyne |6 |8 |7 |37 |76 |54 |44 |84 |61
North Tyneside |11 |20 |15 |22 |56 |39 |33 |76 |55
South Tyneside |8 |14 |10 |32 |54 |40 |40 |67 |50
Sunderland |3 |4 |4 |77 |110 |90 |81 |114 |94
Isles of Scilly |12 |9 |11 |77 |0 |46 |88 |9 |57
Avon |0 |1 |0 |58 |103 |76 |59 |104 |77
Bedfordshire |16 |26 |21 |45 |80 |64 |62 |106 |85
Berkshire |14 |13 |13 |56 |116 |80 |69 |129 |94
Buckinghamshire |18 |21 |19 |36 |64 |46 |54 |86 |65
Cambridgeshire |17 |18 |17 |37 |78 |54 |55 |96 |72
Cheshire |16 |20 |18 |34 |64 |47 |51 |84 |65
Cleveland |9 |18 |13 |33 |76 |50 |42 |94 |63
Cornwall |8 |17 |12 |29 |55 |40 |37 |72 |52
Cumbria |11 |16 |13 |23 |42 |31 |34 |59 |44
Derbyshire |0 |0 |0 |39 |97 |63 |39 |98 |63
Devon |23 |25 |24 |51 |72 |60 |74 |97 |84
Dorset |17 |22 |20 |44 |85 |63 |62 |107 |83
Durham |15 |19 |16 |41 |86 |59 |56 |105 |76
East Sussex |20 |27 |23 |50 |80 |62 |69 |107 |85
Essex |10 |23 |16 |43 |87 |63 |54 |110 |79
Gloucestershire |9 |18 |13 |39 |66 |50 |48 |84 |63
Hampshire |3 |7 |4 |82 |103 |90 |85 |109 |94
Hereford and Worcester |20 |23 |21 |53 |81 |67 |73 |104 |89
Hertfordshire |15 |11 |13 |6 |19 |12 |21 |30 |25
Humberside |52 |78 |63 |23 |39 |30 |76 |117 |93
Isle of Wight |16 |18 |17 |43 |72 |60 |59 |90 |77
Kent |9 |19 |14 |48 |76 |60 |57 |95 |74
Lancashire |18 |16 |17 |41 |84 |58 |59 |99 |75
Leicestershire |20 |24 |22 |61 |112 |83 |81 |136 |105
Lincolnshire |20 |25 |22 |49 |107 |72 |69 |133 |94
Norfolk |14 |27 |19 |34 |55 |42 |48 |82 |61
North Yorkshire |11 |10 |11 |49 |99 |71 |60 |109 |82
Northamptonshire |14 |21 |18 |51 |95 |71 |65 |116 |89
Northumberland |12 |20 |17 |35 |46 |42 |48 |66 |58
Nottinghamshire |16 |24 |19 |39 |85 |59 |56 |108 |78
Oxfordshire |7 |20 |13 |51 |81 |65 |58 |101 |78
Shropshire |16 |25 |20 |49 |100 |71 |65 |126 |91
Somerset |28 |14 |21 |31 |38 |34 |59 |52 |56
Staffordshire |10 |18 |14 |40 |92 |62 |51 |110 |76
Suffolk |3 |2 |2 |160 |163 |162 |162 |165 |164
Surrey |8 |15 |10 |58 |88 |69 |66 |103 |79
Warwickshire |5 |24 |12 |22 |59 |35 |28 |83 |47
West Sussex |10 |17 |13 |54 |63 |58 |64 |80 |71
Wiltshire |16 |5 |11 |52 |88 |67 |68 |93 |78
Notes:
1. n/a indicates that the LEA has no secondary schools.
2. Doncaster LEA submitted a nil return on books and equipment on their expenditure returns to the DoE.
3. Figures are derived from LEAs' returns of their spending to the Department of the Environment and of their pupil numbers to the Department for Education.
Middle School (Lowestoft)
Mr. David Porter : To ask the Secretary of State for Education when he expects to announce a decision on Suffolk county council's application to build a fourth middle school for north Lowestoft.
Mr. Robin Squire : Suffolk's proposals are currently under consideration. My right hon. Friend will announce a decision on them as soon as possible.
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School Libraries
Mr. Fisher : To ask the Secretary of State for Education whether he will list the local education authorities (a) who fund school library service, (b) who subcontract school libraries services to an outside organisation and (c) who have no school library service.
Mr. Forth : The Department does not keep this information centrally.
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Opting Out (Nottinghamshire)
Mr. Tipping : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what complaints he has received from parents in Nottinghamshire about the conduct of the county council during the opting out process of schools.
Mr. Robin Squire : My right hon. Friend has not received any complaints from parents about the conduct of Nottinghamshire county council in relation to ballots for grant-maintained status since the Department's exchange of correspondence with the Director of Education about information circulated in connection with the ballots at Eastwood comprehensive school and George Spencer school at the end of last year.
Child Protection
Mr. Hinchliffe : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what steps he intends to take to ensure that schools are able to send teachers for training in child protection matters.
Mr. Robin Squire : Schools are already able to send teachers for training in child protection matters.
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Repairs and Maintenance
Mr. Straw : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what estimate he makes, and from what source, of the cost of the backlog of the repairs and maintenance of schools in England.
Mr. Forth : An estimate based on the 1986 survey of school buildings suggested that some £2 billion at 1990 prices was required to remedy deficiencies in school buildings. Over £4.5 billion will have been spent on schools since, including the current financial year, much of it in meeting the deficiencies identified.
Capital Allocations
Mr. Henderson : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what was the regional total of capital allocations for education to the local authorities in England for (a) 1979-80, (b) 1982-83, (c) 1985-86 and (d) each year since 1988-89 for each standard English region.
Mr. Forth [holding answer 28 October 1993] : Figures for 1979 -80 are not available. The table gives figures for the other years as requested.
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Region |1990-91|1991-92|1992-93|1993-94 ----------------------------------------------------------------- South East |191,185|225,893|244,759|185,615 South West |60,886 |48,854 |60,990 |47,695 East Anglia |24,528 |21,794 |30,990 |20,328 West Midlands |50,707 |61,351 |62,733 |41,391 East Midlands |45,933 |54,921 |52,953 |42,183 Northwest |102,502|112,214|115,492|72,187 Yorkshire and Humberside |51,383 |66,368 |88,896 |59,511 Northern |31,674 |39,809 |46,912 |38,032 Notes: 1. Tables are in £000s and in cash terms. 2. Tables represent combined totals of: (a) voluntary aided and special agreement schools-approved levels of governors' expenditure eligible for 85 per cent. grant (there are no VA schools in the Scilly Isles); (b) LEA capital allocations and, from 1990-91, Annual Capital Guidelines, together with Supplementary Credit Approvals (SCAs). 3. Allocations for self-governing (GM) schools are not included. 4. Figures for 1979-80 are not available. 5. Figures for 1993-94 include SCAs issued up to 3 November 1993. 6. Figures prior to 1993-94 include allocations for FE/sixth form colleges. 7. The following groups of LEAs have been used to define regions: South East: City of London, Inner London Boroughs, Outer London Boroughs, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Essex, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey, West Sussex; South West: Avon, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire, Isles of Scilly; East Anglia: Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk; West Midlands: Hereford and Worcester, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall, Wolverhampton; East Midlands: Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire; North West: Cheshire, Lancashire, Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, Knowsley, Liverpool, St. Helens, Sefton, Wirral; Yorkshire and Humberside: Humberside, North Yorkshire, Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield, Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds, Wakefield; Northern: Cleveland, Cumbria, Durham, Northumberland, Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Sunderland.
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Region |1990-91|1991-92|1992-93|1993-94 ----------------------------------------------------------------- South East |191,185|225,893|244,759|185,615 South West |60,886 |48,854 |60,990 |47,695 East Anglia |24,528 |21,794 |30,990 |20,328 West Midlands |50,707 |61,351 |62,733 |41,391 East Midlands |45,933 |54,921 |52,953 |42,183 Northwest |102,502|112,214|115,492|72,187 Yorkshire and Humberside |51,383 |66,368 |88,896 |59,511 Northern |31,674 |39,809 |46,912 |38,032 Notes: 1. Tables are in £000s and in cash terms. 2. Tables represent combined totals of: (a) voluntary aided and special agreement schools-approved levels of governors' expenditure eligible for 85 per cent. grant (there are no VA schools in the Scilly Isles); (b) LEA capital allocations and, from 1990-91, Annual Capital Guidelines, together with Supplementary Credit Approvals (SCAs). 3. Allocations for self-governing (GM) schools are not included. 4. Figures for 1979-80 are not available. 5. Figures for 1993-94 include SCAs issued up to 3 November 1993. 6. Figures prior to 1993-94 include allocations for FE/sixth form colleges. 7. The following groups of LEAs have been used to define regions: South East: City of London, Inner London Boroughs, Outer London Boroughs, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Essex, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey, West Sussex; South West: Avon, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire, Isles of Scilly; East Anglia: Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk; West Midlands: Hereford and Worcester, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall, Wolverhampton; East Midlands: Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire; North West: Cheshire, Lancashire, Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, Knowsley, Liverpool, St. Helens, Sefton, Wirral; Yorkshire and Humberside: Humberside, North Yorkshire, Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield, Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds, Wakefield; Northern: Cleveland, Cumbria, Durham, Northumberland, Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Sunderland.
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Mr. Henderson : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what was the national total of capital allocations for education to local authorities in England for (a) 1979-80, (b) 1982-83, (c) 1985-86 and (d) each year since 1988-89 ; and if he will give the breakdown of the total between (i) non-metropolitan district councils, (ii) county councils, (iii) metropolitan district councils, (iv) London boroughs and (v) the City of London.
Mr. Forth [holding answer 28 October 1993] : Figures for 1979 -80 are not available. The table gives figures for the other years as requested.
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Capital allocations by type of authority
(£ thousands)
|1982-83|1985-86|1988-89|1989-90|1990-91|1991-92|1992-93|1993-94
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(i) Non-metropolitan district councils<1> |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
(ii) County councils |212,200|208,070|253,953|242,373|321,970|361,380|406,358|301,306
(iii) Metropolitan district councils |103,967|88,896 |128,710|110,262|146,430|178,176|196,631|122,987
(iv) London boroughs |50,120 |53,255 |59,335 |52,049 |90,396 |91,647 |100,736|82,649
(v) City of London |- |- |- |- |0 |2 |0 |0
National Total |366,287|350,221|441,998|404,684|558,797|631,205|703,725|506,941
<1> Allocations are not made to non-metropolitan district councils.
Notes:
1. Tables are in £ thousands and in cash terms.
2. Tables represent combined totals of:
(a) Voluntary aided and special agreement schools-approved levels of governors' expenditure eligible for 85 per
cent. grant (there are no VA schools in the Scilly Isles);
(b) LEA capital allocations and, from 1990-91, Annual Capital Guidelines, together with Supplementary Credit
Approvals (SCAs).
3. Allocations for self-governing (GM) schools are not included.
4. Figures for 1979-80 are not available.
5. Figures for 1993-94 include SCAs issued up to 3 November 1993.
6. Figures prior to 1993-94 include allocations for FE/sixth form colleges.
7. Figures for the City of London (v) prior to 1990-91 are included in the total for London boroughs (iv).
Mr. Henderson : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what was the capital allocation for education for each local authority in England for (a) 1979-80, (b) 1982-83, (c) 1985-86 and (d) each year since 1988-89.
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Mr. Forth [holding answer 28 October 1993] : Figures for 1979 -80 are not available. The table gives figures for the other years as requested.
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Capital allocations by LEA (£000s)
LEA Name |1982-83 |1985-86 |1988-89 |1989-90
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City of London |- |- |- |-
London Borough of Camden |- |- |- |-
London Borough of Greenwich |- |- |- |-
London Borough of Hackney |- |- |- |-
Hammersmith and Fulham |- |- |- |-
London Borough of Islington |- |- |- |-
Kensington and Chelsea |- |- |- |-
London Borough of Lambeth |- |- |- |-
London Borough of Lewisham |- |- |- |-
London Borough of Southwark |- |- |- |-
London Borough of Tower Hamlets |- |- |- |-
London Borough of Wandsworth |- |- |- |-
London Borough of Westminster |- |- |- |-
ILEA |18,926 |18,557 |20,106 |14,324
London Borough of Barking |3,126 |967 |1,654 |245
London Borough of Barnet |3,864 |4,974 |3,109 |2,388
London Borough of Bexley |761 |546 |1,851 |1,087
London Borough of Brent |2,124 |1,937 |2,999 |982
London Borough of Bromley |1,065 |839 |433 |668
London Borough of Croydon |382 |2,215 |1,635 |1,008
London Borough of Ealing |2,002 |2,792 |2,145 |552
London Borough of Enfield |538 |1,586 |1,701 |1,978
London Borough of Haringey |3,253 |2,070 |2,580 |2,606
London Borough of Harrow |598 |844 |1,668 |700
London Borough of Havering |414 |347 |762 |2,199
London Borough of Hillingdon |1,779 |588 |1,268 |950
London Borough of Hounslow |2,287 |2,390 |1,268 |529
London Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames |1,990 |2,202 |1,695 |337
London Borough of Merton |733 |2,395 |1,023 |5,543
London Borough of Newham |2,501 |2,583 |3,246 |3,605
London Borough of Redbridge |1,124 |2,025 |3,779 |2,603
London Borough Richmond-upon-Thames |659 |379 |277 |898
London Borough of Sutton |233 |659 |627 |817
London Borough of Waltham Forest |1,761 |2,360 |5,509 |8,030
Birmingham |10,603 |4,765 |6,392 |7,210
Coventry |4,116 |3,164 |6,308 |3,242
Dudley |2,803 |3,337 |2,230 |3,707
Sandwell |1,682 |1,939 |1,148 |2,138
Solihull |750 |717 |1,338 |1,169
Walsall |3,306 |1,354 |998 |983
Wovlerhampton |3,224 |2,377 |2,090 |528
Knowsley |809 |1,413 |2,351 |2,268
Liverpool |6,490 |6,950 |3,528 |2,667
St. Helens |3,794 |1,890 |4,094 |5,415
Sefton |1,713 |1,723 |2,018 |2,400
Wirral |3,197 |1,631 |2,640 |4,642
Bolton |3,369 |1,148 |4,844 |1,536
Bury |856 |843 |1,519 |1,826
Manchester |4,228 |9,552 |12,199 |6,610
Oldham |1,186 |1,087 |5,185 |4,088
Rochdale |2,475 |1,927 |3,452 |3,364
Salford |1,491 |1,680 |4,445 |4,096
Stockport |1,540 |1,680 |2,928 |1,564
Wigan |4,885 |2,094 |3,893 |1,879
Tameside |1,879 |605 |806 |776
Trafford |676 |1,634 |476 |2,911
Barnsley |703 |1,090 |487 |270
Doncaster |1,664 |519 |506 |692
Rotherham |2,051 |527 |1,127 |840
Sheffield |4,990 |3,912 |8,187 |5,364
Bradford |5,226 |8,619 |11,158 |8,807
Calderdale |1,028 |981 |3,619 |2,882
Kirklees |4,492 |4,134 |1,726 |813
Leeds |7,327 |3,355 |5,036 |8,339
Wakefield |2,762 |1,563 |3,643 |3,365
Gateshead |567 |1,440 |2,977 |1,841
Newcastle-U-Tyne |2,200 |1,934 |4,619 |2,149
North Tyneside |1,127 |2,664 |2,758 |2,351
South Tyneside |1,931 |1,524 |2,793 |3,572
Sunderland |2,827 |3,124 |5,192 |3,958
Isles of Scilly |- |- |139 |149
Avon |6,886 |4,342 |4,713 |4,587
Bedfordshire |4,314 |1,665 |1,630 |2,022
Berkshire |6,522 |8,002 |6,059 |7,000
Buckinghamshire |7,372 |5,989 |8,469 |7,797
Cambridgeshire |5,656 |4,474 |4,659 |6,050
Cheshire |7,220 |5,872 |5,406 |5,076
Cleveland |7,987 |4,693 |3,945 |5,527
Cornwall |5,353 |3,495 |6,558 |7,216
Cumbria |1,919 |4,331 |5,287 |7,312
Derbyshire |9,066 |7,614 |12,232 |12,070
Devon |9,028 |7,877 |9,053 |14,403
Dorset |6,136 |5,600 |5,473 |4,167
Durham |2,456 |3,443 |1,565 |2,179
East Sussex |5,191 |5,785 |11,906 |10,088
Essex |7,750 |12,146 |21,748 |17,231
Gloucestershire |3,205 |5,618 |5,838 |7,152
Hampshire |10,005 |12,404 |16,838 |8,867
Hereford and Worcester |2,631 |2,273 |3,258 |3,104
Hertfordshire |3,728 |6,169 |6,332 |5,505
Humberside |8,127 |4,158 |9,506 |7,640
Isle of Wight |493 |1,253 |2,502 |1,928
Kent |7,816 |5,516 |7,974 |9,544
Lancashire |10,394 |17,400 |16,892 |18,398
Leicestershire |8,979 |8,546 |9,223 |7,245
Lincolnshire |4,477 |4,342 |4,519 |3,026
Norfolk |6,039 |3,247 |4,274 |4,177
North Yorkshire |2,618 |5,688 |4,037 |2,318
Northamptonshire |5,126 |4,536 |3,322 |4,066
Northumberland |2,466 |1,294 |1,133 |1,283
Nottinghamshire |5,538 |3,443 |3,671 |3,452
Oxfordshire |4,320 |3,763 |5,355 |3,822
Shropshire |3,557 |4,208 |4,874 |5,063
Somerset |3,090 |1,273 |3,323 |4,594
Staffordshire |9,266 |9,956 |8,424 |5,749
Suffolk |3,743 |4,035 |7,260 |6,318
Surrey |4,902 |4,433 |6,519 |8,146
Warwickshire |1,723 |1,948 |2,090 |2,360
West Sussex |2,435 |3,699 |4,697 |2,805
Wiltshire |4,666 |3,540 |3,250 |2,937
City of London |0 |2 |0 |0
London Borough of Camden |2,518 |1,111 |2,653 |507
London Borough of Greenwich |1,649 |712 |1,198 |1,647
London Borough of Hackney |1,161 |2,187 |2,669 |3,164
Hammersmith and Fulham |1,499 |3,261 |4,756 |1,889
London Borough of Islington |417 |1,183 |1,345 |665
Kensington and Chelsea |6,920 |4,486 |4,507 |3,625
London Borough Lambeth |991 |1,222 |2,127 |1,823
London Borough of Lewisham |1,434 |2,577 |3,052 |1,685
London Borough of Southwark |2,615 |2,119 |3,435 |3,684
London Borough of Tower Hamlets |18,261 |19,637 |13,685 |12,440
London Borough of Wandsworth |1,303 |1,423 |2,857 |2,310
London Borough of Westminster |575 |948 |1,007 |1,164
ILEA
London Borough of Barking |2,425 |2,528 |1,326 |949
London Borough of Barnet |1,800 |1,852 |2,395 |3,914
London Borough of Bexley |1,679 |2,196 |3,492 |2,443
London Borough of Brent |1,081 |1,268 |1,941 |1,681
London Borough of Bromley |1,764 |3,854 |2,671 |2,353
London Borough of Croydon |2,127 |3,865 |4,205 |1,413
London Borough of Ealing |982 |1,548 |4,038 |6,387
London Borough of Enfield |1,659 |2,273 |4,117 |3,139
London Borough of Haringey |3,468 |2,246 |1,872 |2,944
London Borough of Harrow |1,073 |1,057 |3,795 |4,078
London Borough of Havering |6,238 |2,092 |2,196 |1,060
London Borough of Hillingdon |1,372 |1,025 |1,819 |1,652
London Borough of Houslow |539 |1,569 |4,135 |4,918
London Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames |294 |1,303 |686 |838
London Borough of Merton |4,057 |1,727 |1,806 |990
London Borough of Newham |6,461 |8,721 |6,420 |1,509
London Borough of Redbridge |1,891 |868 |1,720 |2,790
London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames |1,895 |1,149 |613 |491
London Borough of Sutton |3,586 |5,718 |3,945 |1,396
London Borough of Waltham Forest |6,661 |3,924 |4,253 |3,099
Birmingham |11,666 |12,196 |13,325 |8,852
Coventry |2,882 |3,549 |6,122 |1,740
Dudley |5,415 |11,514 |10,627 |2,098
Sandwell |1,823 |1,460 |2,054 |2,720
Solihull |2,752 |1,938 |1,542 |2,729
Walsall |1,419 |1,410 |1,285 |1,115
Wolverhampton |936 |2,128 |3,119 |3,418
Knowsley |2,249 |1,744 |2,769 |1,397
Liverpool |14,229 |10,256 |11,439 |8,639
St. Helens |5,194 |5,002 |2,630 |1,035
Sefton |5,703 |5,958 |5,374 |2,940
Wirral |3,658 |4,010 |2,866 |2,139
Bolton |939 |1,335 |2,993 |664
Bury |1,456 |1,828 |1,485 |1,223
Manchester |4,391 |6,314 |10,985 |9,165
Oldham |6,126 |8,696 |4,115 |2,972
Rochdale |4,947 |8,567 |9,076 |1,254
Salford |4,288 |7,126 |2,988
Stockport |1,972 |2,210 |2,001 |1,085
Wigan |5,077 |8,570 |5,966 |2,507
Tameside |1,490 |2,029 |3,506 |1,987
Trafford |9,740 |4,398 |3,195 |1,703
Barnsley |1,933 |1,053 |2,970 |2,883
Doncaster |1,075 |556 |910 |974
Rotherham |1,589 |1,284 |3,040 |1,730
Sheffield |2,948 |1,798 |6,951 |2,346
Bradford |10,881 |10,485 |11,405 |7,246
Calderdale |1,718 |2,105 |2,328 |1,379
Kirklees |1,360 |4,015 |6,525 |6,783
Leeds |10,653 |28,660 |29,775 |10,160
Wakefield |5,539 |2,645 |6,691 |11,780
Gateshead |1,139 |2,904 |2,074 |1,385
Newcastle-upon-Tyne |2,161 |4,130 |3,326 |2,075
North Tyneside |2,730 |1,105 |2,778 |4,473
South Tyneside |1,945 |2,009 |2,286 |958
Sunderland |2,409 |3,188 |6,111 |4,733
Isles of Scilly |221 |66 |116 |40
Avon |7,964 |5,564 |5,368 |5,954
Bedfordshire |2,424 |2,666 |5,040 |3,408
Berkshire |4,938 |4,025 |6,110 |4,631
Buckinghamshire |7,207 |9,914 |9,564 |7,964
Cambridgeshire |13,287 |8,615 |15,151 |8,072
Cheshire |7,550 |7,254 |12,229 |13,348
Cleveland |4,929 |3,377 |5,430 |5,192
Cornwall |7,723 |7,215 |9,534 |3,069
Cumbria |8,584 |10,788 |13,015 |10,097
Derbyshire |15,875 |22,219 |18,187 |14,374
Devon |13,449 |8,659 |13,679 |11,527
Dorset |8,700 |6,590 |8,043 |8,739
Durham |5,201 |7,629 |8,661 |6,618
East Sussex |10,338 |17,826 |19,277 |11,942
Essex |14,424 |23,220 |22,304 |12,466
Gloucestershire |8,840 |7,671 |9,367 |9,979
Hampshire |16,989 |18,443 |16,009 |11,538
Hereford and Worcester |7,329 |8,130 |5,756 |3,307
Hertfordshire |6,728 |8,180 |8,546 |4,986
Humberside |9,512 |8,417 |10,406 |7,326
Isle of Wight |1,999 |2,473 |2,100 |1,983
Kent |18,966 |26,610 |28,409 |18,144
Lancashire |23,494 |26,916 |31,875 |17,428
Leicestershire |11,613 |8,440 |10,040 |7,046
Lincolnshire |7,512 |10,292 |13,366 |11,616
Norfolk |3,064 |2,845 |3,667 |4,531
North Yorkshire |4,174 |5,350 |7,894 |6,905
Northamptonshire |6,182 |8,668 |5,142 |5,878
Northumberland |2,576 |4,681 |3,231 |2,501
Nottinghamshire |4,752 |5,302 |6,217 |3,269
Oxfordshire |5,671 |9,127 |8,784 |4,309
Shropshire |6,439 |6,820 |4,655 |4,554
Somerset |6,966 |7,048 |8,485 |5,636
Staffordshire |7,443 |9,623 |11,220 |8,095
Suffolk |8,177 |10,334 |12,172 |7,725
Surrey |4,947 |6,377 |13,376 |16,869
Warwickshire |2,604 |2,583 |3,028 |2,765
West Sussex |6,160 |5,383 |4,504 |4,725
Wiltshire |7,023 |6,041 |6,398 |2,752
Notes:
1. Tables are in £000s and in cash terms.
2. Tables represent combined totals of:
a. voluntary aided and special agreement schools-approved levels of governors'
expenditure eligible for 85 per cent. grant (there are no VA schools in the Scilly
Isles);
b. LEA capital allocations and, from 1990-91, Annual Capital Guidelines, together
with Supplementary Credit Approvals (SCAs).
3. Allocations for self-governing (GM) schools are not included.
4. Figures for 1979-80 are not available.
5. Figures for 1993-94 include SCAs issued up to 3 November 1993.
6. Figures prior to 1993-94 include allocations for FE/sixth form colleges.
PRIME MINISTER
Nuclear Testing
Mr. Home Robertson : To ask the Prime Minister what plans the Government have to declare a moratorium on British nuclear testing.
The Prime Minister : We have no such plans, but we have made it clear that we will carry out no nuclear tests while the United States moratorium continues.
Mr. Home Robertson : To ask the Prime Minister what discussion he has had with the Government of the United States of America on making representations to the Government of China with a view to dissuading them from conducting an underground nuclear test ; and what action he took as a result.
The Prime Minister : The United States Government informed us in September of their intention to seek to dissuade China from conducting a nuclear test. In the
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event, the Chinese conducted a test on 5 October. We have expressed our regret at this, given the background of restraint on testing by the other nuclear powers.Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Mr. Home Robertson : To ask the Prime Minister what discussions he has had with the United States Government on the prospects for concluding a comprehensive test ban treaty by 1996 ; and what plans the Government have to announce a date by which they hope such a treaty may be concluded.
The Prime Minister : In our exchanges with the United States Government on approaches to a comprehensive test ban treaty (CTBT), the time scale for concluding such a treaty is one of a number of issues we have discussed. We do not believe that setting a deadline for the treaty's conclusion will necessarily help the conduct of negotiations.
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Cyprus
Dr. Spink : To ask the Prime Minister if he will raise at the United Nations Security Council the continued Turkish occupation of northern Cyprus ; and if he will make a statement.
The Prime Minister : We hope that direct talks between the parties, under the auspices of the United Nations Secretary-General, will resume after next month's elections in northern Cyprus. We stand ready, together with other Security Council members, to consider alternative ways to promote the effective implementation of United Nations resolutions on Cyprus should there be no further progress by the time of Mr. Boutros Ghali's next report.
Engagements
Sir Peter Tapsell : To ask the Prime Minister if he will list his official engagements for Thursday 4 November.
The Prime Minister : This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. In addition to my duties in this House, I shall be having further meetings later today.
Agency for Health and Safety
Mr. Marlow : To ask the Prime Minister what are the costs and benefits to the United Kingdom in financial and administrative terms of the establishment of the Agency for Health and Safety.
The Prime Minister : It is too early to say, but we believe that the agency should be beneficial if it can facilitate the use of risk assessment as a basis for prioritising commission proposals ; if it can avoid duplication of research ; and if it can contribute to more consistent standards of enforcement.
Northern Ireland
Mr. Winnick : To ask the Prime Minister in what circumstances the Government would recommend a referendum in the United Kingdom over constitutional proposals for Northern Ireland based on an agreement reached with the Government of the Irish Republic.
The Prime Minister : The Government are fully committed to seeking a comprehensive political settlement with the four main Northern Ireland constitutional parties and the Irish Government, which addresses all three main relationships : those within Northern Ireland ; those within the island of Ireland ; and those between the British and Irish Governments. The Government believe that the best way forward lies with the talks process and the question of how any such agreement is subsequently endorsed is a matter for discussion between all the participants in this process.
European Monetary Union
Mr. Marlow : To ask the Prime Minister what is meant by the full use of EMU as set out in the presidency conclusions.
The Prime Minister : The presidency conclusions of the European Council on 29 October recorded all member
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states' commitment to the full implementation of the second stage of economic and monetary union. In addition to the establishment of the European Monetary Institute, this will mean strengthened co-operation between member states on their economic and monetary policies to facilitate economic convergence.Maastricht
Mr. Marlow : To ask the Prime Minister how the mechanisms for co- ordinating economic policies laid down in the Maastricht treaty will strengthen the process of convergence with the aim of returning to growth and reducing unemployment.
The Prime Minister : The provisions in the Maastricht treaty relating to multilateral surveillance of member states' economic policies and the excessive deficits procedure will enable the Council to monitor progress with economic convergence. The Council's discussions on these issues will inform national Governments as they frame their economic policies.
Policy Unit
Mr. Alan Williams : To ask the Prime Minister how many Central Policy Review Staff staff were absorbed into the No. 10 policy unit in 1983 -84 ; at what cost ; and what was the cost of the policy unit in that year and at the latest available date.
The Prime Minister [holding answer 1 November 1993] : Two staff were absorbed into the No. 10 policy unit from the Central Policy Review Staff ; the cost involved was negligible.
The cost of the policy unit in 1983-84 was £154,923 and the estimated cost for 1993-94 is £615,000. Both figures include the costs of unit members and secretarial support staff.
National Portrait Gallery
Mr. Frank Field : To ask the Prime Minister how many nominations he received in appointing the new director of the national portrait gallery ; and to what extent the views of trustees were presented to him.
The Prime Minister [holding answer 3 November 1993] : As is required by law, the board of trustees of the national portrait gallery submitted to me for my approval their proposal for the new director of the gallery. In the knowledge that the trustees had conducted an open competition for the post, I was content to approve their choice of appointee on the basis of their recommendation.
EMPLOYMENT
Restart Programmes
Mr. Cousins : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list contractors approved for the running of restart programmes and the number of places they are contracted for in the current financial year ; and what is the standard length of contract periods for such courses.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : Responsibility for the subject of the question has been delegated to the Employment Service Agency under its chief executive. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
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Letter from Mr. M. Fogden to Mr. Jim Cousins, dated 4 November 1993As the Employment Service is an Executive Agency, the Secretary of State asked me to write to you direct to respond to your Parliamentary Question to him about Restart Courses. This is something which falls within the responsibilities delegated to me as Chief Executive of the Agency.
Restart Courses aim to help those people who have been unemployed for a long time and are having the most difficulty in getting back to work. Attending a course complements regular job search by providing people with the opportunity to explore all the options open to them and give them confidence to take the next step back to work. They normally last a week.
We currently have around 180 Restart course contracts with organisations from the public, private and voluntary sectors. These contracts are normally awarded as a result of a full competitive tendering exercise. Full details about each contract are held locally by the Area Manager who awarded the contract. I attach a list of contractors which was last compiled in April 1993.
Contracts normally run for 2 years. In some cases contracts may be either extended or shortened where changes to the programme are anticipated. In the current financial year we aim to provide up to 140,000 Restart Course places.
I hope this is helpful.
As decided by the Administration Committee of the House of Commons, Chief Executive replies to written Parliamentary Questions will now be published in the Official Report. I will also place a copy of this letter in the Library of the House.
Accents
Park House
63 Park Street
Bridgend
CF31 4AX
Advantage Enterprises
290 Stanton Road
Stanton
Burton on Trent
DE15 9SQ
Aintree training Services
Merseyside Centre for the Deaf
Queens Drive
West Derby
Liverpool
L13 OAR
London Connection
12 Adelaide Street
London WC2
Aintree Training Services
44 Eastgate
Leeds
LS2 1AA
Al-Falah
Richmond Road
Bradford
BD7 1DR
Alan Honnor Associates Ltd.
2 The Square
Wimbourne Dorset
BH21 1JA
Apex Trust
Northfield School
Tinkes Farm Road
Birmingham
B31 1RR
Arrow training
School Hill Trading Estate
Chepstow
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