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Mr. Newton : The Government expect to publish in the autumn, a consultative document which will set out a strategic framework for tackling drug misuses in England.
Early-day Motions
Mr. Pawsey : To ask the Lord President of the Council, what plans there are to reform the early-day motion procedure.
Mr. Newton : I have no plans to do so. The hon. Member may, however, wish to raise the matter with the Procedure Committee.
Mr. Pawsey : To ask the Lord President of the Council, what is the percentage of early-day motions initiated by Opposition Members during the present parliamentary session.
Mr. Newton : Hon. Members other than Conservative party members tabled 88.6 per cent. of the early-day motions tabled in the current Session up to and including Wednesday 6 July.
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|Number
Labour |1,102
Conservative |166
Liberal Democrats |125
Plaid Cymru |34
Scottish National Party |18
Others |15
Total |1,460
This answer is based on motions only, not amendments, and is based on the records in POLIS.
Mr. Pawsey : To ask the Lord President of the Council what is the current average cost of an early-day motion.
Mr. Newton : The total costs associated with the tabling of the 1, 769 early-day motions in 1993 was £2,290,000 giving an average of £1, 295 each.
Mr. Pawsey : To ask the Lord President of the Council, what is the current average number of hon. Members who append their signature to early- day motions.
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Mr. Newton : The average number of signatures appended to early-day motions and amendments to them in the current Session up to and including Wednesday 6 July was 41.6
EDUCATION
Grant-maintained Schools
Mr. Byers : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what is the provisional percentage figure for each local education authority of relevant central spending in financial year 1994-95 in (a) the primary sector and (b) the secondary sector which will form the basis of the financial addition for grant-maintained schools in 1995-96.
Mr. Robin Squire : The Department will be consulting later this year on the arrangements for funding GM schools in 1995-96 on the basis of the local management of schools scheme of the relevant authority.
Mr. Byers : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what is the planned capital expenditure on grant-maintained schools for the financial years 1994-95, 1995-96 and 1996-97 ; what was the actual capital expenditure on grant-maintained schools in 1993-94 ; and if he will give for each year the assured number of grant-maintained schools on which the capital expenditure levels were based.
Mr. Robin Squire : Self-governing schools' capital outturn expenditure for 1993-94 was £87,348,570. Planned capital expenditure on self-governing schools for the financial years 1994-95, 1995-96 and 1996 -97 is as follows :
£ million 1994-95 |1995-96|1996-97 -------------------------------- 115 |251 |358
These figures are published in the Department's annual report, a copy of which is available in the Library. They reflect the additional responsibilities of GM schools and our commitment to setting them up on a sound basis. Our expenditure plans provide for the growth of the GM sector to be maintained.
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Mr. Byers : To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to his answer of 1 July, Official Report, column 752, if he will identify those schools which provided information on grant-maintained status which was the subject of complaints to his Department.
Mr. Robin Squire : The Department has received a total of 16 complaints since January 1993 about the accuracy of information disseminated by governing bodies prior to their schools' ballots on the question of grant-maintained status. The schools concerned are as follows :
Hanson School, Bradford
Peel Brow County Primary School, Bury
Soham Village College, Cambridgeshire
Addey and Stanhope School, Lewisham
Winterton Comprehensive School, Humberside
West Mersea County Primary School, Essex
St. Peter's CE Primary School, Lancashire
Tudor Grange School, Solihull
Cardinal Newman School, Bedfordshire
Anglesey Primary School, Staffordshire
Chatham House School, Kent
Christ Church Middle School, Staffordshire
Greenway School, West Sussex
Padstow School, Nottinghamshire
Prospect School, Berkshire
King David Primary School, Liverpool
All complaints are considered carefully and, where appropriate, follow-up action is taken by the Department.
Mr. Byers : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will give the latest figures for each local education authority and the estimated figures in September 1994 of the number of pupils in (a) local education authority maintained and (b) grant-maintained schools in (i) the primary and (ii) the secondary schools sector; and if he will give the national totals in each sector.
Mr. Robin Squire : Estimates of pupil numbers related to the 930 primary and secondary schools which are currently grant-maintained are shown in the table. These estimates are derived from the Department's January 1993 schools census. The table also shows estimates of pupil numbers including 57 schools which by 20 July had been approved or approved in principle for grant-maintained status from 1 September. Applications for grant-maintained status from 43 more schools are currently being considered by my right hon. Friend.
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Estimated numbers of pupils in maintained primary and secondary schools in September 1994
(figures in brackets include schools approved or approved in principle for GM status by 14 July 1994)
|LEA |GM |LEA |GM
LEA Area |Primary |Primary |Secondary |Secondary
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Corporation of London |214 |0 |0 |0
Camden |10,610 |0 |8,139 |2,340
Greenwich |20,664 |239 |13,956 |0
Hackney |16,590 |87 |7,384 |0
Hammersmith |9,025 |0 |4,747 |1,229
Islington |14,966 |0 |7,037 |0
Kensington and Chelsea |5,762 |530 |2,574 |629
Lambeth | 17,716(17,266) | 1,250(1,700) |2,987 |3,363
Lewisham |20,073 |361 |10,515 |0
Southwark |19,917 |1,265 |6,356 |2,765
Tower Hamlets |20,717 |0 |10,675 |907
Wandsworth |16,699 |515 |2,420 |6,487
Westminster |9,122 |0 |7,358 |0
Barking |15,727 |0 |9,493 |0
Barnet |23,014 |776 |8,580 |9,836
Bexley |17,953 |643 |10,810 |3,581
Brent |21,166 |1,002 |3,010 |9,377
Bromley | 19,298(18,362) | 1,151(2,087) |5,346 |11,342
Croydon | 25,383(24,956) | 836(1,263) | 8,664(6,967) | 5,897(7,594)
Ealing |26,313 |1,217 |6,093 |4,905
Enfield |23,167 |149 |11,814 |5,576
Haringey |19,127 |0 |9,060 |0
Harrow |19,109 |0 |7,482 |483
Havering |19,624 |0 |11,012 |3,813
Hillingdon |17,027 |2,602 |2,248 |11,467
Hounslow |19,339 |0 |11,902 |2,108
Kingston upon Thames |10,215 |191 |4,748 |2,859
Merton |15,224 |0 |7,167 |0
Newham |25,235 |0 |13,019 |556
Redbridge |19,045 |0 |13,839 |1,113
Richmond upon Thames |10,785 |0 |7,447 |0
Sutton |12,033 |799 |4,474 |6,591
Waltham Forest |19,705 |0 |9,134 |1,915
Birmingham |105,289 |1,717 |48,934 |14,621
Coventry |29,692 |0 |18,677 |0
Dudley |27,570 |381 |13,076 |4,458
Sandwell |31,937 |0 | 17,346(16,396) | 658(1,608)
Solihull |19,215 |454 |13,080 |0
Walsall |27,590 |561 | 13,635(12,377) | 5,557(6,815)
Wolverhampton |25,393 |0 |13,427 |2,348
Knowsley |18,647 |0 |8,241 |719
Liverpool |50,716 |0 |27,423 |2,260
St. Helens |17,584 |0 |11,568 |0
Sefton |27,066 |0 |18,583 |0
Wirral |31,344 |0 |18,690 |2,031
Bolton |26,811 |364 |13,878 |2,755
Bury |16,664 |223 |9,967 |0
Manchester |46,948 |0 |21,376 |0
Oldham |24,542 |0 |15,930 |0
Rochdale | 20,131(19,892) | 1,115(1,354) |11,681 |1,053
Salford |22,896 |0 |11,011 |413
Stockport |25,180 |0 |14,819 |0
Tameside |22,934 |0 |10,517 |2,332
Trafford |20,091 |0 |8,490 |2,892
Wigan |29,727 |0 |19,120 |0
Barnsley |21,460 |0 |12,362 |0
Doncaster |29,357 |0 |21,310 |0
Rotherham |24,694 |0 |17,616 |0
Sheffield | 42,764(42,434) | 943(1,273) |24,802 |1,893
Bradford | 39,996(39,103) | 539(1,432) |40,586 |5,080
Calderdale |19,059 |660 |6,795 |6,337
Kirklees |35,978 |0 |23,730 |1,266
Leeds |65,098 |51 |43,268 |1,138
Wakefield |29,434 |0 |20,403 |0
Gateshead |18,353 |0 |11,612 |0
Newcastle upon Tyne |22,545 |0 |16,598 |0
North Tyneside |16,346 |0 |14,175 |212
South Tyneside |15,586 |0 |9,333 |0
Sunderland |29,889 |0 |18,971 |0
Isle of Wight |174 |0 |10,294 |0
Avon |79,059 |0 |52,377 |1,569
Bedfordshire |41,430 |629 |32,245 |8,568
Berkshire |58,242 |2,242 |38,909 |7,389
Buckinghamshire | 59,320(58,976) | 2,126(2,470) |26,167 |9,844
Cambridgeshire |56,515 |1,911 |25,138 |15,109
Cheshire |88,276 |418 |60,415 |2,395
Cleveland |65,058 |0 |35,650 |0
Cornwall |40,128 |0 |28,965 |0
Cumbria |40,211 |2,399 |20,085 |10,617
Derbyshire | 82,261(82,179) | 1,671(1,753) |41,786 |15,275
Devon |79,139 |285 |52,908 |4,571
Dorset |44,367 |415 |30,808 |9,537
Durham |55,779 |0 |37,068 |0
East Sussex |50,300 |0 |33,201 |0
Essex |102,914 |18,774 |28,269 |66,322
Gloucestershire | 40,067(39,025) | 2,820(3,862) | 11,008(10,417) | 21,584(22,175)
Hampshire |125,895 |3,911 |60,436 |15,780
Hereford and Worcester |47,895 |0 |43,288 |3,558
Hertfordshire | 81,073(80,637) | 1,564(2,000) | 46,498(44,968) | 20,565(22,095)
Humberside | 84,091(84,014) | 257(334) |55,202 |0
Isles of Scilly |7,232 |0 |108 |0
Kent | 121,041(119,745) | 4,877(6,173) | 49,626(47,950) | 51,187(52,863)
Lancashire | 128,001(127,770) | 578(809) |75,559 |6,593
Leicestershire |79,549 |0 |55,587 |3,222
Lincolnshire | 42,559(41,907) | 6,219(6,871) | 20,628(20,004) | 16,323(16,947)
Norfolk | 59,402(59,275) | 2,623(2,750) |31,573 |8,608
North Yorkshire |58,165 |0 |43,107 |0
Northamptonshire |47,113 |3,072 |35,159 |9,197
Northumberland |21,566 |0 |28,470 |632
Nottinghamshire |91,370 |0 |60,776 |1,831
Oxfordshire |39,805 |81 |34,189 |0
Shropshire |35,103 |307 |20,383 |4,324
Somerset |34,969 |374 | 27,200(27,017) | 398(581)
Staffordshire | 92,292(92,244) | 49(97) |64,046 |4,298
Suffolk |43,420 |0 |47,215 |0
Surrey | 72,926(72,165) | 3,546(4,307) |28,962 |9,915
Warwickshire |45,715 |0 |19,988 |4,669
West Sussex | 51,813(51,420) | 0(393) |39,154 |0
Wiltshire | 44,148(43,638) | 2,915(3,425) | 20,480(20,197) | 13,216(13,499)
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Total | 4,077,8884,068,614| 84,68493,958 | 2,366,4472,357,655| 504,258513,050
Note: The figures for GM Primary schools exclude part-time pupils.
Mrs. Ann Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list the grant-maintained schools which have applied for a change in the admissions policy giving in each case (a) the date of application, (b) the nature of the change and (c) his decision.
Mr. Robin Squire : The information requested will take some time to collate. I shall write to the hon. Member as soon as possible.
Mr. Don Foster : To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many parents have (a) voted for grant-maintained status and (b) against grant-maintained status; and how many were eligible to vote in GM ballots since 1 January.
Mr. Robin Squire : A total of 107,914 parents have been eligible to vote in the 162 ballots on grant-maintained status that have been held by primary and secondary schools in England since 1 January. Of these 34,364 voted in favour of grant-maintained status, and 36,370 voted against. Fifty -five per cent. of the ballots produced yes votes.
Mrs. Ann Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to his answer of 25 January, Official Report, columns 174-75, what further applications have now been received from grant-maintained schools for capital grant for the financial year 1994-95; what was the level of grant approved in each case; and what amount remains set aside awaiting allocation in the current financial year.
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Mr. Robin Squire : We announced the second tranche of GM capital allocations for 1994-95 on 31 March 1994. A copy of DFE press notice 69/94 listing the allocations have been placed in the Library. Allocations for capital grant received from 1 April onwards are the responsibility of the Funding Agency for Schools. I have asked the chairman of the funding agency to write to the hon. Member.
Mr. Byers : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what balances were held by each grant-maintained school at the end of the 1993- 94 financial year.
Mr. Robin Squire : This matter is now the responsibility of the Funding Agency for Schools. I have asked the chairman of the funding agency to write to the hon. Member.
Mrs. Ann Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to his answer of 24 March, Official Report, column 400, if he will list the grant-maintained schools which have since that date published proposals to make a significant change in the character of the school giving in each case (a) the date of publication, (b) the nature of the proposed change and (c) his decision.
Mr. Robin Squire : The table lists proposals for a significant change of character published by grant-maintained schools since 24 March. None of these have been decided. Following publication of proposals, there is a period of two months during which objections may be made to my right hon. Friend.
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|Date of |Nature of Change
|Publication
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To add Sixth Form
Wiltshire |St. Augustines RC GM Comp School|25 March 1994 |11-16 to 11-18
Birmingham |Ninestiles GM School | 4 April 1994 |11-16 to 11-18
Rochdale |Wardle High School |27 April 1994 |11-16 to 11-18
Dudley |Ellowes Hall GM School |14 May 1994 |11-16 to 11-18
Lambeth |La Retraite RC Girls GM School |10 June 1994 |11-16 to 11-18
Surrey |Heathside School |16 June 1994 |11-16 to 11-18
Norfolk |Cromer GM High School |24 June 1994 |11-16 to 11-18
Cambridgeshire |The Queens School, Wisbech | 8 July 1994 |11-16 to 11-18
To add Nursery
Buckinghamshire |Brookmead GM School |31 March 1994 | 5-12 to 3-12
Surrey |The Manor School | 9 May 1994 | 4-8 to 3-8
Lincolnshire |Washingborough GM School |23 May 1994 | 4-11 to 3-11
Cumbria |St. Pauls CE GM Junior School |25 May 1994 | 7-11 to 3-11<1>
Other change of age range
Berkshire |Herschel GM Grammar School |12 May 1994 |12-18 to 11-18
Berkshire |Langley GM Grammar School |12 May 1994 |12-18 to 11-18
Berkshire |Slough GM Grammar School |12 May 1994 |12-18 to 11-18
Buckinghamshire |Beaconsfield High School |10 June 1994 |12-18 to 11-18
Hammersmith and Fulham |London Oratory School |20 May 1994 |11-18 to 7-18<2>
To introduce selection in whole or part
Lambeth |Dunraven GM School |25 March 1994 |50 per cent. selection
|by ability
Lambeth |Archbishop Tenison GM School |17 June 1994 |100 per cent selection
|by ability
<1> Also for extension of primary age range to cover 5 and 6 years olds.
<2> Also for selection of 20 boys at 7+ each year on musical and general ability.
Special Schools (Portsmouth)
Mr. Don Foster : To ask the Secretary of State for Education when he expects to make a decision on the future of Milton Ford special school, Portsmouth.
Mr. Forth : Hampshire local education authority was notified on 20 July of my right hon. Friend's qualified approval of its proposals involving the discontinuance of Milton Ford special school. The authority may implement the proposals, but final approval is subject to the agreement, approval and completion of building work.
122. Mr. Don Foster : To ask the Secretary of State for Education when he expects to make a decision on the future of Waterside special school, Portsmouth.
Mr. Forth : Hampshire local education authority was notified on 20 July of my right hon. Friend's qualified approval of its statutory proposals involving the redesignation of Waterside special school for secondary age pupils with emotional and behavioural difficulties. The authority may implement the proposals but final approval is subject to the agreement, approval and completion of building work.
16 and 17-year-olds
Mr. Tony Lloyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many 16 and 17-year-olds were in full-time education or training in each quarter since January 1988.
Mr. Boswell : Quarterly counts of numbers in schools and further education colleges are not available. The full-time numbers aged 16 and 17 in England in each academic year are given in the table. The figures include some young people who were in college as part of their youth training.
Thousands
Academic Pupils and
students aged
|16 |17
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1987-88 |349.9|236.8
1988-89 |348.7|256.2
1989-90 |349.2|265.9
1990-91 |357.1|273.1
1991-92 |383.7|294.7
1992-93 |387.5|311.8
1993-94 |389.6|322.1
Source: Annual Schools
Census and the Further
Education Statistical
Record.
Franchise Courses
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many secondary schools are operating courses on a franchise basis from further education colleges.
Mr. Boswell : It is for individual colleges to decide on the best way of delivering provision to respond to the needs of their local communities. Information about the extent that this may be done through franchise arrangements is not collected centrally.
Work Experience
Mr. Don Foster : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what plans he has (a) to ensure the effective provision of work experience in schools and (b) to remove the obligation from schools to inspect work experience placements for health and safety reasons ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Forth : As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Employment announced on 24 May at column 198 the Government are asking training and enterprise councils and their partners to ensure that all pupils in their last year of compulsory education can have at least one week's work experience and will make available an additional £23million over three years to 1997-98 to support this. There is no statutory requirement on schools to inspect work experience placements. The Department for Education recommends that such visits should take place to enable LEAs and schools to meet their common law duty to look after the pupils in their care, and LEAs to meet their duty under the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 to ensure that they do not expose pupils to risks to their health and safety.
Sixth Form Colleges (South Hams and Torbay)
Mr. Steen : To ask the Secretary of State for Education when he will announce which schools in South Hams and Torbay will become sixth form colleges ; and if he will make a statement as to progress.
Mr. Robin Squire : Devon LEA published proposals on 28January 1994 to make a significant change of character to Brixham community college, Paignton community college, Dartmouth community college and Torquay Audley Park school to change the age range from 11-16 to 11-18. The governing body of Cuthbert Mayne school published similar proposals on the same day. A decision on
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the proposals will be made as soon as possible, consistent with a full and careful consideration of the educational issues involved.Special Purpose Grant (Premises)
Mrs. Ann Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what applications have been received for special purpose grant (premises) for 1994-95 ; and what grant has been agreed in each case.
Mr. Robin Squire : These matters are now the responsibility of the Funding Agency for Schools. I have asked the chairman of the funding agency to write to the hon. Member.
Funding Agency for Schools
Mr. Byers : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what is the expected cost of running the meetings of the Funding Agency for Schools board and its committees and sub-committees in 1994-95 ; what is the sum payable to a board member attending a meeting ; and how many board meetings, committees and sub-committees are likely to be held in 1994-95.
Mr. Robin Squire : Arrangements for the funding agency's internal meetings are a matter for the agency itself. Board members, apart from the chairman who receives an annual fee, are entitled to claim a fee of £155 for days on which they are transacting agency business. Members may also claim travel and subsistence expenses incurred on those days.
Mr. Byers : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what are the budgeted running costs of the Funding Agency for Schools in 1994-95 ; what amounts are provided for (a) premises, (b) staffing, (c) travel, (d) entertaining and hospitality and (e) general ; and what are the projected running costs in 1995-96 and 1996-97.
Mr. Robin Squire : The Government's main estimates provide for up to £12 million for the funding agency's running costs in 1994-95. Actual outturn of costs will depend on a number of factors, including growth in the number of grant-maintained schools. The detailed split of the total between different budget heads is a matter for the funding agency. Provision for future years will be decided each year as part of the annual public expenditure survey round.
Construction Courses
Mr. Tony Lloyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what are his estimates of the number of full-time places in construction courses in further education in each academic year for the last 10 years.
Mr. Boswell : The number of places which colleges provide for particular courses is not centrally recorded. Students enrolled on full- time courses in construction, which are defined in standard FE statistics as courses in building, building services and site management, for each of the four years 1989-90 to 1992-93 are as listed in the table. In the academic year 1988-89 the subject groupings and definitions used by the Department were changed. Information on a comparable basis cannot therefore be provided for earlier years.
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Number of full-time enrolments at further
education level on
construction courses for the four years
from 1989-90 to 1992-93
Academic year |Number of
|enrolments
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1989-90 |34,604
1990-91 |30,514
1991-92 |27,369
1992-93 |25,097
Teacher Assistants
Mr. Don Foster : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list those institutions that have submitted bids for the specialist teacher assistants' pilot scheme.
Mr. Robin Squire : My right hon. Friend received 140 bids, from the following institutions :
Higher Education
1. Bath College of Higher Education
2. Bedford College of Higher Education
3. Bishop Grosseteste College of Lincoln
4. Bretton Hall College of the University of Leeds
5. University of Brighton
6. Charlotte Mason College
7. Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education 8. Chester College
9. University of Durham
10. University of Exeter
11. Edge Hill University College
12. University of Greenwich
13. University of Hertfordshire
14. Homerton College
15. University of Huddersfield
16. University of Hull
17. University of Humberside
18. University of London Institute of Education
19. Jews College
20. Kingston University
21. Liverpool Institute of Higher Education
22. Liverpool John Moores University
23. University of Leeds
24. University of Leicester
25. University of East London
26. LSU College
27. University of Luton
28. Manchester Metropolitan University
29. Middlesex University
30. University of Newcastle
31. New College Durham
32. University of Northumbria at Newcastle
33. University of North London
34. North Riding College
35. Nottingham Trent University
36. Open University
37. Oxford Brookes University
38. University of Plymouth
39. Roehampton Institute
40. St. Martin's College Lancaster
41. College of St. Mark and St. John
42. University of Sunderland
43. Westminster College
44. West Sussex Institute of Higher Education
45. University of Wolverhampton
46. Worcester College of Higher Education
Further Education
47. Amersham and Wycombe College
48. Basingstoke College of Technology
49. South Birmingham College
50. Blackpool and the Fylde College
51. Bourneville College of Further Education
52. Bradford and Ilkley Community College
53. Bradford and Ilkley Community College cluster
54. Bridgewater College
55. Chiltern Nursery Training College
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