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Student Grants
Mr. Beith: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will make a statement on the treatment of the child of (a) a co-habiting couple and (b) a married couple in identical financial circumstances when assessment is made of student grant entitlement on the standard scale.
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Mr. Boswell: Under the Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations the assessment of a married student's requirements for the maintenance of his dependants compared with one in identical personal financial circumstances who is cohabiting may vary according to the number of dependants and any income these may have.
Mr. Beith: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will make a statement on the definition of residual income on page 33 of "Student Grants and Loans: A Brief Guide for Higher Education Students 1994 95" as being income after tax and allowances are taken off.
Mr. Boswell: The definition of residual income on page 33 of "Student Grants and Loans: a Brief Guide for Higher Education Students 1994 95" was inaccurate. An erratum slip was issued to all local education authorities immediately after publication. It explained that the correct description of the calculation of residual income appears on page 29 of the booklet. Reprints of the booklet did not include the incorrect definition.
Governors
Mr. Tony Banks: To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) how many additional governors she has appointed; and at which schools;
(2) how many additional governors she has appointed to grant-maintained schools; if she will list the schools; and what has been the total cost to date of such appointments.
Mr. Robin Squire: By virtue of section 67 of the Education Act 1993, which re-enacts section 53(6) of the Education Reform Act 1988, the Secretary of State has the power in certain circumstances to appoint additional governors to grant-maintained schools only. Four such appointments have been made, all to Stratford grant-maintained school. There has been no cost to the Department.
Stuart Spencer Consultants
Mr. Byers: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many contracts her Department or Government agencies responsible to her Department have entered into with Spencer Stuart consultants in the last two years.
Market Testing
Mr. Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what is her current calculation of the costs of preparation for market testing in her Department in terms of (a) payments to consultants and (b) other costs.
Mr. Boswell: The figures requested are £280,000 on consultancy fees in support of the Department's market testing programme and £184,000 on departmental support costs up to the end of June 1994.
Secondary Schools
Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will list for each local education authority area, (a) the total number of secondary schools, (b) how many of these are, or if grant-maintained, were, (i) county, (ii) voluntary aided, (iii) special agreement and (iv) voluntary controlled, (c) how many have held parental
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ballots on grant-maintained status, (d) how many are operating as grant-maintained schools and (e) what percentage of pupils are in grant-maintained schools.Mr. Robin Squire: The information requested cannot be collated in the time available. I shall write to the hon. Member as soon as it is ready.
Teachers (Pay)
Mr. McLoughlin: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will list the pay scales for head teachers in primary and secondary schools.
Mr. Robin Squire: The pay spine for headteachers and deputy headteachers is as follows:
|Annual Salary from
|1 April 1994
Spine Point |£
---------------------------------------------------------
1 |23,055
2 |23,430
3 |23,811
4 |24,186
5 |24,567
6 |24,942
7 |25,323
8 |25,695
9 |26,079
10 |26,457
11 |26,832
12 |27,210
13 |27,585
14 |27,969
15 |28,344
16 |28,722
17 |29,097
18 |29,481
19 |29,856
20 |30,234
21 |30,741
22 |31,239
23 |31,743
24 |32,250
25 |32,754
26 |33,255
27 |33,759
28 |34,266
29 |34,770
30 |35,403
31 |36,030
32 |36,657
33 |37,287
34 |37,923
35 |38,550
36 |39,180
37 |39,810
38 |40,692
39 |41,571
40 |42,456
41 |43,335
42 |44,214
43 |45,102
44 |45,981
45 |46,860
46 |47,745
47 |48,627
48 |49,509
49 |50,391
50 |51,270
51 |52,152
Further details may be found in the school teachers' pay and conditions document 1994, or Department for
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Education circular 7/94, copies of which have been placed in the Library.Mr. McLoughlin: To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) if she will list the pay scales of teachers in primary schools; (2) if she will list the pay scales of teachers in secondary schools.
Mr. Robin Squire: Qualified teachers other than head teachers or deputy head teachers in both primary and secondary schools are paid on a single 18-point pay spine. The values of the 18 points are as follows:
|Annual Salary
|From 1 May 1994
Spine Point |£
------------------------------------------------
0 |11,571
1 |12,264
2 |12,999
3 |13,779
4 |14,607
5 |15,480
6 |16,410
7 |17,394
8 |18,438
9 |19,614
10 |20,832
11 |22,068
12 |23,832
13 |25,419
14 |27,450
15 |28,683
16 |29,976
17 |31,323
Further details may be found in the school teachers' pay and conditions document 1994, or the Department for Education circular, No. 7/94, copies of which have been placed in the Library.
Health Education
Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if her Department is sending a delegate to the European seminar on health education and HIV/AIDS prevention in schools on 3 November in Rome; and what was the basis for her decision.
Mr. Forth: The Department will not be represented directly. Officials have requested conference papers and arranged for United Kingdom delegates who are attending to report back on the proceedings.
Public Investment Projects
Mr. Betts: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will list those public investment projects within her Department's responsibility which have attracted private capital and which have been commenced since November 1993.
Mr. Robin Squire: The Department for Education is not directly responsible for the disbursement of grants to educational institutions except for allocations to voluntary aided and special agreement schools, technology colleges and to city technology colleges. Information on voluntary aided and special agreement schools is held on a financial year basis only and cannot be adapted to the form requested. The list of projects for technology colleges and city technology colleges is as follows:
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Technology CollegesAldersley High School, Wolveerhampton
All Hallows RC High School, Preston, Lancashire
All Saints Catholic School, Barking and Dagenham
Applemore Technology School, Southampton
Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School, Rossendale, Lancashire Baines School, Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire
Belper School, Derbyshire
Bexley-Erith Technical High School for Boys, Bexley
Bishop Stopford VA School, Northamptonshire
Central Technology College, Gloucester
Chalvedon School, Basildon, Essex
Chatham Grammar School for Girls, Chatham, Kent
Collingwood School, Camberley, Surrey
The Cornwallis School, Maidstone, Kent
Deacon's School, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Deanery High School, Wigan
Denefield School, Reading, Berkshire
George Spencer School, Nottingham
Glyn School, Epsom, Surrey
Harraby School, Carlisle, Cumbria
Herschel Grammar School, Slough, Berkshire
Highbury School, Salisbury, Wiltshire
Hugh Christie School, Tonbridge, Kent
John Kelly Boys Community School, Neasden, Brent
John Kelly Girls Community School, Neasden, Brant
Kemnal Technology College, Sidcup, Bromley
The Kings School Grantham, Lincolnshire
Lancaster Royal Grammar School, Lancashire
Lincoln School of Science and Technology, Lincolnshire
Lodge Park School, Corby, Northamptonshire
Lynn Grove GM High School, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Mill Hill County High School, Barnet
New Wellington School, Altrincham, Cheshire
Northampton School for Boys, Northamptonshire
The Philip Morant School, Colchester, Essex
Prospect School, Reading, Berkshire
Rastrick High School, Brighouse, West Yorkshire
Ravens Wood School for Boys, Bromley
Saffron Walden County High School, Essex
Sale Moor School, Sale, Cheshire
Sawtry Community College, Cambridgeshire
Senacre Technology School, Maidstone, Kent
Small Heath School, Birmingham
Soham Village College, Cambridgeshire
St. Aidan's Church of England VA High School, Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire
St. Alban's Catholic High School, Ipswich, Suffolk
St. Bonaventure's School, Newham
St. George's Technology School, Sleaford, Lincolnshire
St. Peter's Collegiate Church of England School, Wolverhampton St. Thomas More School, Blaydon, Tyne and Wear
City Technology Colleges
ADT College, Wandsworth, London
BRIT School, Croydon, Surrey
Mr. Betts: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how much private capital has been invested in public investment projects within her Department's responsibility since the 1992 autumn statement.
Mr. Robin Squire: The information requested is not held centrally. The Department keeps records of voluntary aided capital projects all of which have a private component of at least 15 per cent. City technology colleges also receive a large element of private capital input. In both cases we are not able to determine the time the investment was made. Responsibility for other public
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funded education facilities rests with the funding councils and individual local education authorities.Universities (Extremist Groups)
Mr. Spellar: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what representations she has received regarding the disruption to university life from the activities of extremist groups.
Mr. Boswell: None, on this specific point.
Physical Education
Ms Hoey: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what percentage of primary school teachers have qualifications in physical education; and what plans there are to increase this number.
Mr. Robin Squire: I will write to the hon. Member.
Ms Hoey: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what percentage of primary school children receive swimming lessons every school week.
Mr. Forth: The national curriculum specifies that all children should be able to swim 25 m by the age of 11. It is for individual schools to decide how and when to provide swimming lessons in order to meet this requirement and their own priorities for swimming. The information on the percentage of children receiving swimming lessons each week is not collected centrally.
Ms Hoey: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what co- ordination he has with other Government Departments in order to facilitate the teaching of team sports in schools.
Mr. Forth: The Government are currently considering ways of enhancing the position of team sports in schools. An announcement will be made in due course. All interested Departments are contributing to the review.
Business and Technology Education Council
Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what was the expenditure on administration in 1993 94 of the Business and Technology Education Council.
Mr. Boswell: The Business and Technology Education
Council--BTEC--was established in 1983 to combine and develop the work of the former business education
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council--BEC--and technician education council--TEC. On 1 October 1993, BTEC ceased to be a non-departmental public body, becoming fully independent. Consequently, its financial arrangements are no longer the responsibility of Secretary of State and now rest with BTEC itself.Primary Schools
Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will list for each local education authority area, (a) the total number of primary schools, (b) how many of these are, or if grant-maintained, were (i) county, (ii) voluntary aided, (iii) special agreement and (iv) voluntary controlled, (c) how many have held parental ballots on grant- maintained status, (d) how many are operating as grant-maintained schools and (e) what percentage of pupils are in grant-maintained schools.
Mr. Robin Squire: The information requested cannot be collated in the time available. I shall write to the hon. Member as soon as it is ready.
Education, Support and Training Programme
Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what is the total value of the grants for education, support and training programme agreed for 1994 95, the value of items which will be wholly or partially delegated to schools, the value of items which must be retained centrally by local education authorities for the provision of services to schools and the value of her Department's grant contribution in each case.
Mr. Robin Squire: The GEST programme for 1994 95 supports LEA expenditure of £270.6 million. The Department pays grant on this expenditure at the rate of 60 per cent. for all grants, except one of £3 million for articled teachers' bursaries which is paid at the rate of 100 per cent. The total grant payable by the Department is £163.6 million.
Of this total, £100.5 million LEA expenditure--£60.3 million DFE grant--must be devolved to schools. LEAs are encouraged to devolve much of the remainder of the programme to school level where this is appropriate.
The only grants which may not be devolved to school level are those for special education needs parent partnership schemes--£3.7 million expenditure, £2.2 million grant--and part of the grant for national curriculum assessment arrangements.
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