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56. Clarendon College

57. Doncaster College

58. Dunstable College

59. East Berkshire College

60. East Birmingham College

61. Eastbourne College of Arts and Technology

62. Eastleigh College

63. Evesham College

64. Farnham College

65. Filton College

66. Guildford College

67. Halesowen College

68. Hammersmith and West London College

69. Harrogate College of Arts and Technology

70. Havering College of Further Education

71. Lowestoft College

72. Mackworth College

73. Manchester College of Arts and Technology

74. Mid Kent College

75. Newcastle College

76. Norfolk College

77. Norland College

78. Northampton College

79. Norwich City College

80. Oldham FE College

81. Portsmouth College

82. Rother Valley College

83. Rotherham College of Arts and Technology

84. Shrewsbury College

85. Skelmersdale College

86. Solihull College

87. South Devon College

88. South East Essex COAT

89. South Kent College

90. Southport College

91. Southwark College

92. Stockport College

93. Stoke on Trent College

94. Strode College

95. Suffolk College

96. Totton College

97. East Warwickshire College Rugby

98. West Cheshire College

99. West Kent College

100. Worcester Sixth Form College

101. York College

Other interested bodies

102. The Audrey Wisbey Foundation

103. I CAN

104. Bradford Metropolitan Council

105. Birmingham City Council

106. Buckinghamshire County Council

107. Camden Education Department

108. City and Guilds of London Institute

109. Council For Awards in Children's Care and Education 110. Devon County Council

111. Doncaster Metropolitan Borough

112. Dorset County Council

113. Dudley Local Education Authority

114. Dyslexia Centre

115. Ealing Education Centre

116. Hackney Borough of Education and Leisure

117. Hampshire County Council

118. Harrow Education Services

119. Hertfordshire County Council

120. Hillingdon London Borough

121. John Bald (Literacy and Language Specialist)

122. Leeds Education

123. Manchester City Council

124. Merton Education and Leisure

125. Norfolk County Council INSET Centre

126. Northamptonshire County Council

127. Open School

128. Oxfordshire County Council

129. RSA

130. RNIB

131. Start Educational Services Ltd

132. Sheffield City Council

133. Shropshire County Council

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134. Somerset Education Service

135. South East Surrey Dyslexia Association

136. St. Pius Xth Primary School

137. Tower Hamlets

138. Urban Learning Foundation

139. Wiltshire County Council

140. Borough of Wirral

Nursery Education

Mr. Don Foster : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list those local education authorities which did not spend up to their standard spending assessment for nursery education in 1993-94 ; and by how much.

Mr. Robin Squire : For the purpose of determining standard spending assessments, the education component of standard spending, net of specific grants, is divided into five sub-blocks--under-fives, primary, secondary, 16-plus, and other education. There is no standard spending assessment specifically for nursery education as the under-fives sub-block notionally includes spending on under-fives in primary schools as well as pupils in nursery schools and in nursery classes. Local education authority spending figures are not available in a form comparable to the five sub-blocks.

Mr. Don Foster : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list the total amount of money spent on three and four-year-olds by each local education authority in 1992-93 and 1993-94 and the total increase or decrease in each local education authority.

Mr. Robin Squire : This information is not collected centrally.

Grant for Education Support and Training

Mr. Byers : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what are the national totals under each heading of the GEST programme in 1994-95 ; and what are the amounts under each heading for each local education authority.

Mr. Robin Squire : This information will take some time to collate. I will write to the hon. Member.

Assessment and Testing

Mrs. Ann Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Education which schools are being invited to comment on his proposals for assessment and testing outlined in the letter from the Department of Further Education to selected schools on 1 July 1994.

Mr. Robin Squire : All schools are welcome to comment on my right hon. Friend's proposals for the testing and assessment arrangements of seven, 11 and 14-year-olds next year, which he announced on 1 July. A random sample of 484 maintained schools were specifically invited to do so.

Mrs. Ann Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what is the closing date for responses to the proposals on assessment and testing sent to selected schools on 1 July.

Mr. Robin Squire : The closing date for all responses, from schools and other interested bodies, is 27 July.

Mrs. Ann Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what are his reasons for proposing to end the mandatory external audit of teachers' own assessment of classroom work associated with key stage testing.

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Mr. Robin Squire : My right hon. Friend has proposed the end of the mandatory external audit of teachers' own assessments of the classroom work of seven-year-olds in response to concerns expressed by teachers about the workload involved. Existing co-operative arrangements and the proposed continuing mandatory external audit of teachers' marking of national curriculum tests will provide teachers with a cross-check of their own assessments of their pupils' work.

School Funding

Mrs. Ann Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what action he intends to take to address the disparity of funding between primary and secondary schools.

Mr. Robin Squire : My right hon. Friend will be studying carefully the recommendations in the Education Select Committee's report, "The disparity in funding between primary and secondary schools", published on 13 July 1994. The Government will make a formal response to the Committee in due course. Meanwhile, I note that the Committee's report addresses local authorities among others. Under present arrangements, they have wide discretion to decide the relative levels of funding of their primary and secondary schools.

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