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Requests from Requests from other
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|Number of |Number of |Number waiting at |Number waiting at
Quarter ending |requests received |assessments carried|end of Quarter |the end of Quarter
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March 1994 |156 |126 |167 |297
June 1994 |177 |94 |218 |313
September 1994 |142 |166 |237 |400
December 1994 |177 |145 |216 |364
Total 1994 |652 |531 |- |-
Mr. Mallon: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps he proposes to take to reduce the length of time taken to process occupational therapy reports in connection with Northern Ireland Housing Executive grant applications.
Mr. Moss: The health and social services boards have developed close working links with the Northern Ireland Housing Executive and are exploring how the time taken to produce occupational therapy reports can be reduced. As a result, it has recently been agreed that some public sector minor adaptations can be processed directly by the Housing Executive freeing up time for occupational therapists to process other cases more speedily.
The Department of Health and Social Services will publish a charter for community services next month. The charter will set standards for getting occupational therapy assessments for housing adaptations under way and for completion within agreed time scales. Each board will be asked to produce an action plan to achieve the targets.
Mr. Mallon: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many (a) full-time and (b) part-time occupational therapists are employed in the Newry and Mourne unit of management; and how many are currently not at work due to (i) sickness or (ii) other leave.
Mr. Moss: There are 16 full-time and no part-time occupational therapists employed by Newry and Mourne health and social services trust. One member of staff is currently not at work for a reason other than sickness.
Mr. Mallon: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps he proposes to take to increase the number of occupational therapists stationed in the Southern health board area.
Mr. Moss: It is the responsibility of individual provider units and trusts to decide, in the light of available resources, on the number of occupational therapists
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required to provide the level of services which health and social services boards have agreed to purchase for their resident population.Housing Executive
Mr. Mallon: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will list the outstanding Housing Executive grant applications in Newry district 1 and Newry district 2 that were received in each month since March 1993 for (a) renovations, (b) improvements, (c) disabled facilities and (d) replacements.
Mr. Moss: This is an operational matter for the Northern Ireland Housing Executive and I have been advised by its chief executive that the information requested is not immediately available.
I have arranged for the chief executive to write to the hon. Gentleman once the information is available.
Arthur Andersen
Mr. Nicholas Winterton: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what (a) was and (b) is his policy in respect of giving additional work to Arthur Andersen following the collapse of the Delorean Motor Car Co. and what is the current annual total of fees paid to the consultancy arm of Arthur Andersen for work commissioned by his Department.
Sir John Wheeler [holding answer 15 February 1995]: I regret that I am unable to answer my hon. Friend's question other than by saying that the details of the arrangements made between Government and Arthur Andersen are not available on grounds of commercial confidentiality.
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NATIONAL HERITAGE
National Lottery
Mr. Barry Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage what is his estimate of the amount of cash earned weekly by Camelot from its work in the national lottery; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Alton: To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage what requirement he will place on Camelot to declare its profitability, inclusive of charges for supplies and services, achieved through the operation of the national lottery.
Mr. Dorrell: There are matters for the Director-General of the National Lottery. I have therefore asked him to write to the hon. Members, placing copies of his letters in the Library of the House.
Mrs. Anne Winterton: To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage, pursuant to his answer of 1st February, Official Report , columns 674 75 , if his estimate of the operating profit of the National Lottery in its first weeks of operation included services provided to the national lottery by investors in Camelot and charged for at a profit; what statutory provisions govern the disclosure of such services; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Dorrell [holding answer 15 February 1995]: This is a matter for the Director-General of the National Lottery. I have therefore asked him to write to the hon. Member, placing copies of his letter in the Library of the House.
EDUCATION
Pupil Numbers
Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will list, for each local education authority, the predicted change in pupil numbers for 1995 96.
Mr. Forth: I refer the hon. Member to the reply that I gave to the hon. Member for Wallsend (Mr. Byers) on 10 February 1995, Official Report, column 438 .
Class Sizes
Ms Estelle Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Education pursuant to her answer of 14 February, what assessment she has made of external research into the effect of class sizes on (a) pupil progress and (b) attainment levels; and if she will list the main research documents her Department has evaluated in this respect.
Mr. Robin Squire: The Department has taken account of relevant research including that summarised in Professor Mortimore's recent paper. There is no evidence from the accumulated research that marginal reductions in class size result in changes in pupils' performance.
Educational Standards
Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what assessment she has made in respect of the merits of (a) standard assessment tasks and (b) league tables in respect of raising educational standards.
Mr. Forth: The Office for Standards in Education continues to confirm that national curriculum assessment
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is helping to raise standards. Performance tables provide parents and others with comparative data about the achievements of institutions, and encourage individual schools and colleges to consider how standards might be improved in the future.Sixth Forms
Ms Estelle Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many sixth forms there were in the (a) maintained sector and (b) grant- maintained sector in each of the last five years.
Mr. Robin Squire: The table gives the number of sixth forms catering for the 16 to 18 age group in each of the last five years in (a) local education authority maintained and (b) grant-maintained schools.
Year |LEA maintained |Grant-maintained -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1989 |1989 |0 1990 |1926 |14 1991 |1830 |41 1992 |1733 |98 1993 |1587 |188 1994 |1377 |371
Surplus Places
Mr. Kilfoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what are the current number and percentages of surplus places in each local education authority; and if she will list those local authorities, in rank order according to the proportion of surplus places in (a) secondary schools (b) primary schools (c) special schools and (d) grant-maintained schools.
Mr. Robin Squire: The information is given in the tables. Data on special schools and on surplus places in the 286 grant-maintained schools in stage 1 authorities are not available.
The figures give the position in January 1994. In most cases, surpluses will have fallen from these levels as a result of pupil population growth. In addition, a number of authorities have implemented rationalisation proposals and further reduced their surplus capacity.
Table 1: Surplus places by local authority area in rank
order
(excluding GM schools in stage 1 authorities)
January 1994
Primary
(see note 1) Actual surplus
LEA |Number |Percentage
--------------------------------------------------------
Wandsworth |6,111 |30
Isles of Scilly |67 |27
Gateshead |4,887 |23
Northumberland |4,960 |21
Liverpool |11,436 |21
Doncaster |6,632 |20
Staffordshire |21,456 |20
Lambeth |4,060 |20
Sunderland |6,104 |18
Southwark |3,980 |18
North Tyneside |3,020 |18
Wigan |5,734 |17
Knowsley |3,277 |17
Ealing |4,358 |17
Buckinghamshire |11,457 |17
Wolverhampton |4,412 |17
Oxfordshire |8,237 |17
Hammersmith |1,591 |16
Newscastle upon Tyne |3,704 |16
Coventry |5,133 |16
Hertfordshire |14,517 |16
Bedfordshire |7,272 |15
Warwickshire |7,966 |15
Salford |3,681 |15
Cheshire |14,860 |15
Leeds |10,425 |15
Wiltshire |7,604 |14
Sheffield |6,696 |14
North Yorkshire |9,048 |14
Nottinghamshire |13,457 |14
Cumbria |6,104 |14
Durham |8,368 |14
Newham |3,631 |14
Calderdale |2,722 |13
Gloucestershire |6,234 |13
Lincolnshire |7,434 |<1>13
Wirral |4,398 |13
Rotherham |3,423 |13
Humberside |11,612 |13
Walsall |3,556 |13
Wakefield |3,924 |13
Cambridgeshire |7,978 |13
Derbyshire |10,637 |13
Hampshire |18,287 |13
Essex |17,814 |<1>12
Shropshire |4,902 |12
Solihull |2,443 |12
Manchester |5,657 |12
Hillingdon |2,464 |<1>12
Kensington |722 |12
East Sussex |6,671 |12
Hackney |2,046 |12
Cleveland |7,426 |12
St. Helens |1,985 |12
West Sussex |6,951 |12
Hereford and Worcester |6,505 |11
Dudley |3,352 |11
Norfolk |7,383 |11
South Tyneside |1,710 |11
Surrey |8,483 |11
Brent |2,291 |11
Kent |14,638 |11
Sefton |2,884 |11
Bradford |4,099 |11
Greenwich |2,220 |11
Islington |1.630 |10
Corporation of London |22 |10
Devon |9,032 |10
Leicestershire |8,082 |10
Suffolk |4,559 |10
Lancashire |12,398 |9
Berkshire |5,946 |9
Stockport |2,448 |9
Croydon |2,442 |9
Oldham |2,152 |9
Avon |7,342 |9
Bexley |1,799 |9
Northamptonshire |4,410 |9
Hounslow |1,656 |9
Sutton |1,110 |9
Havering |1,817 |9
Birmingham |8,983 |9
Bolton |2,187 |9
Rochdale |1,709 |8
Trafford |1,562 |8
Merton |1,100 |8
Kirklees |2,714 |8
Cornwall |3,005 |8
Dorset |3,242 |7
Tower Hamlets |1,522 |7
Waltham Forest |1,422 |7
Barnsley |1,496 |7
Barnet |1,598 |7
Tameside |1,464 |7
Haringey |1,240 |7
Westminster |621 |7
Bromley |1,442 |7
Somerset |2,487 |7
Sandwell |1,857 |7
Barking |975 |7
Richmond upon Thames |686 |6
Bury |848 |6
Harrow |998 |5
Lewisham |999 |5
Kingston upon Thames |503 |5
Isle of Wight |384 |5
Enfield |1,013 |5
Camden |325 |3
Redbridge |406 |2
Total |540,729 |12
<1> Stage two for planning purposes.
1. Primary figures show surplus after taking account of
any summer entry.
2. Stage 1 = less than 10 per cent. of pupils in the GM
sector.
Stage 2 = between 10 per cent. and 75 per cent. of
pupils in the GM sector.
Stage 3 = 75 per cent. or more pupils in the GM sector.
Secondary Actual Surplus
LEA |Number |Percentage
--------------------------------------------------------
Isles of Scilly |223 |65
Manchester |12,294 |36
Lambeth |3,142 |<1>33
Hammersmith |2,606 |<1>31
Nottinghamshire |20,327 |25
Salford |3,375 |23
Doncaster |6,439 |23
Hackney |2,132 |23
Liverpool |7,687 |22
Warwickshire |6,607 |<1>21
Newcastle upon Tyne |4,421 |21
Wandsworth |2,308 |<1>21
Southwark |2,296 |<1>20
Wakefield |4,728 |19
Gateshead |2,695 |19
Wolverhampton |3,638 |<1>19
Islington |1,656 |19
Cleveland |8,276 |19
Sheffield |5,612 |18
Kensington |712 |<1>18
Avon |11,596 |18
Coventry |4,236 |18
Greenwich |3,038 |18
South Tyneside |2,076 |18
North Tyneside |3,101 |18
Durham |8,144 |18
Wirral |4,064 |18
Sefton |3,956 |18
Newham |2,794 |17
Rochdale |2,436 |17
Merton |1,488 |17
Tower Hamlets |2,239 |17
Barnsley |2,611 |17
Bedfordshire |9,021 |<1>17
Hertfordshire |13,552 |<1>17
Cumbria |6,169 |<1>17
Shropshire |4,947 |<1>17
Sandwell |3,445 |16
Oxfordshire |6,858 |16
Humberside |10,912 |16
Knowsley |1,635 |16
St. Helens |2,245 |16
Derbyshire |10,782 |<1>16
Essex |18,008 |<1>16
Brent |2,383 |<2>16
Walsall |3,565 |<1>16
Hereford and Worcester |7,851 |15
Leicestershire |10,076 |15
Kent |18,000 |<1>15
Birmingham |11,330 |<1>15
Trafford |2,067 |<1>15
Wiltshire |5,812 |<1>14
Berkshire |7,754 |<1>14
Calderdale |2,221 |<1>14
Haringey |1,515 |14
Rotherham |2,875 |14
Wigan |2,969 |14
Havering |2,284 |<1>13
Bradford |6,914 |<1>13
Lancashire |11,754 |13
Lewisham |1,587 |13
West Sussex |6,051 |13
Leeds |6,358 |13
Waltham Forest |1,737 |<1>13
North Yorkshire |6,304 |13
Stockport |2,209 |12
Bexley |2,005 |<1>12
Tameside |1,737 |<1>12
Kirklees |3,160 |12
Westminster |938 |12
Cheshire |7,983 |12
Lincolnshire |4,864 |<1>12
Hampshire |10,114 |<1>12
Surrey |5,407 |<1>11
Somerset |3,486 |11
Suffolk |6,000 |11
Bolton |2,000 |<1>11
Northamptonshire |5,423 |<1>11
Sunderland |2,408 |11
Dudley |2,218 |<1>11
Croydon |1,716 |<1>11
Northumberland |3,333 |11
East Sussex |3,783 |10
Kingston upon Thames |843 |<1>10
Isle of Wight |1,093 |10
Barnet |1,947 |<1>10
Gloucestershire |3,417 |<1>10
Camden |1,047 |<1>9
Enfield |1,781 |<1>9
Norfolk |4,041 |<1>9
Dorset |3,964 |<1>9
Hillingdon |1,336 |<2>9
Bury |947 |9
Cornwall |2,601 |8
Buckinghamshire |3,231 |<1>8
Solihull |1,144 |8
Ealing |1,056 |<1>7
Staffordshire |4,919 |7
Devon |4,160 |7
Oldham |1,145 |7
Cambridgeshire |2,837 |<1>7
Redbridge |835 |6
Bromley |891 |<1>5
Richmond upon Thames |288 |4
Harrow |278 |4
Sutton |367 |<1>3
Barking |307 |3
Hounslow |435 |<1>3
Corporation of London |- |-
Total |475,628 |14
<1> Stage two for planning purposes.
<2> Stage three for planning purposes.:
1. Primary figures show surplus after taking account of
any summer entry.
2. Stage 1 = less than 10 per cent. of pupils in the GM
sector.
Stage 2 = between 10 per cent. and 75 per cent. of
pupils in the GM sector.
Stage 3 = 75 per cent. or more pupils in the GM sector.
Table 2: Surplus places in GM schools, by LEA area and in rank order, in stage 2 and 3 authorities Primary LEA |Surplus |Percentage ---------------------------------------------- Lincolnshire |673 |10 Essex |2,060 |9 Hillingdon |124 |4 1. Includes schools which became grant-maintained on or before 1 April 1994 2. The percentage column shows the actual number of surplus places as a proportion of total capacity within the GM sector.
Secondary LEA |Surplus |Percentage ------------------------------------------------------ Warwickshire |1,239 |21 Cumbria |2,288 |18 Brent |1,988 |17 Lambeth |676 |17 Wandsworth |1,179 |15 Berkshire |1,277 |15 Essex |11,090 |14 Kingston upon Thames |440 |14 Walsall |892 |14 Bolton |401 |13 Wolverhampton |360 |13 Hertfordshire |3,067 |13 Kent |7,303 |13 Southwark |389 |12 Croydon |725 |11 Wiltshire |1,653 |11 Derbyshire |1,711 |10 Trafford |356 |10 Surrey |1,285 |10 Lincolnshire |1,733 |10 Northamptonshire |961 |9 Bedfordshire |895 |9 Birmingham |1,534 |9 Calderdale |615 |9 Gloucestershire |1,906 |8 Dorset |810 |8 Hampshire |1,280 |8 Barnet |745 |7 Dudley |327 |7 Enfield |378 |6 Hillingdon |776 |6 Cambridgeshire |997 |6 Bromley |684 |6 Norfolk |512 |6 Buckinghamshire |487 |5 Bradford |231 |5 Ealing |272 |4 Bexley |134 |4 Shropshire |127 |3 Hounslow |63 |3 Sutton |192 |3 Waltham Forest |40 |2 Tameside |28 |1 Havering |18 |0 Camden |6 |0 Hammersmith |0 |0 Kensington |0 |0 1. Includes schools which became grant-maintained on or before 1 April 1994 2. The percentage column shows the actual number of surplus places as a proportion of total capacity within the GM sector.
Mr. Kilfoyle: To ask the Secretary of State how many orders have been issued in the last 12 months to (a) local education authorities and (b) the Funding Agency for Schools requiring the elimination of surplus places in (i) secondary schools and (ii) primary schools; and to whom those orders were issued.
Mr. Robin Squire: No orders have yet been made under section 232 of the Education Act 1993. My officials are consulting a number of local education authorities and, where those LEAs share responsibility for the supply of places, the Funding Agency for Schools, about the extent to which surplus within the LEA area might be removed. In the light of the outcome of these consultations, my right hon. Friend will consider whether in any case an order would be appropriate.
Private Education
Ms Hodge: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what is her Department's latest estimate of the number of children under the age of five years who are educated privately in the United Kingdom, and what information she has on the current average cost of such education for a half-day session.
Mr. Forth: In 1992 93, there were over 50,000 pupils aged under five in independent schools in the United Kingdom.
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Information on the average cost per session of such education is not available. Figures published by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys in "Day care services for Children", copies of which are in the Library, indicate that in 1990 the average termly cost to parents in England of sending a child aged under five to independent infant or primary school full-time was £650.Ms Hodge: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what is her estimate of the total level of expenditure on private education for children under the age of five years in the United Kingdom, and what this amount is per head of children under the age of five years who are privately educated.
Mr. Forth: An estimate is not available. Information on expenditure on private education is not collected.
Nursery Education
Mr. Kilfoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many three and four-year-old children currently attend (a) maintained nursery schools and (b) nursery classes in maintained primary schools.
Mr. Forth: In England in January 1994, there were 52,262 pupils under five years of age in maintained nursery schools and 294,331 pupils in nursery classes in maintained primary schools.
Ms Hodge: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what is the current ratio of staff to children in state nursery schools.
Mr. Forth: In January 1994, the pupil--staff ratio in maintained nursery schools in England was 8.9:1.
Ms Hodge: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what percentage of children under the age of five years has (a) a full-time and (b) part-time place in (i) reception classes in schools, (ii) nursery classes in schools and (iii) nursery schools by local education authority area.
Mr. Forth: Information on pupils aged under five being taught in maintained nursery and primary schools in each local education authority area in England in January 1994 is shown in the table.
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Percentage of children under five in maintained nursery schools and primary schools in each
LEA in England<1>
January 1994
Nursery schools Primary schools
2Infant classes2
|Full-time|Part-time|Full-time|Part-time|Full-time|Part-time
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Camden |1.0 |0.8 |11.4 |12.2 |23.6 |0.0
Greenwich |4.8 |5.0 |4.1 |33.4 |14.7 |0.1
Hackney |1.0 |1.7 |12.4 |22.7 |13.7 |0.0
Hammersmith and Fulham |7.3 |8.1 |12.6 |15.7 |14.2 |0.3
Islington |3.2 |3.7 |20.3 |11.9 |29.2 |0.3
Kensington and Chelsea |5.0 |2.5 |11.9 |6.3 |11.3 |0.6
Lambeth |2.7 |3.7 |7.9 |19.7 |14.2 |0.6
Lewisham |1.4 |1.9 |5.2 |28.5 |14.4 |1.1
Southwark |2.8 |4.9 |8.8 |26.6 |29.5 |0.0
Tower Hamlets |7.4 |4.8 |22.8 |18.0 |30.7 |0.0
Wandsworth |1.7 |1.6 |12.6 |20.2 |26.4 |-<4>
Westminster |1.4 |3.6 |10.9 |14.9 |12.7 |0.3
Barking and Dagenham |0.0 |0.0 |0.4 |40.1 |33.3 |0.0
Barnet |0.2 |6.4 |0.1 |24.6 |25.2 |1.0
Bexley |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |22.5 |17.3 |0.2
Brent |2.6 |0.6 |9.8 |25.1 |30.1 |0.0
Bromley |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |2.2 |31.0 |-<4>
Croydon |0.0 |4.9 |-<4> |11.5 |30.1 |0.1
Ealing |0.2 |5.2 |0.1 |39.2 |28.5 |0.1
Enfield |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |22.7 |30.7 |0.3
Haringey |2.9 |1.2 |7.8 |34.3 |29.6 |0.0
Harrow |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |19.2 |30.6 |-<4>
Havering |0.0 |0.0 |0.2 |8.3 |16.8 |17.7
Hillingdon |0.0 |1.8 |0.0 |44.7 |0.7 |0.9
Hounslow |0.0 |0.0 |2.1 |41.0 |28.6 |0.0
Kingston upon Thames |1.7 |4.4 |0.3 |26.7 |13.4 |14.4
Merton |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |54.5 |16.7 |3.9
Newham |1.1 |10.8 |1.2 |44.7 |0.1 |0.0
Redbridge |0.0 |0.0 |0.7 |18.8 |18.5 |1.7
Richmond upon Thames |0.2 |1.4 |0.0 |18.3 |0.8 |23.3
Sutton |0.0 |5.2 |0.0 |34.6 |0.8 |0.0
Waltham Forest |0.6 |4.2 |1.6 |32.8 |14.7 |0.2
Birmingham |2.8 |4.8 |6.4 |20.6 |31.7 |-<4>
Coventry |0.3 |2.0 |0.8 |22.1 |32.8 |-<4>
Dudley |0.1 |0.7 |1.2 |34.0 |33.3 |0.0
Sandwell |1.3 |1.3 |1.7 |51.6 |34.1 |0.1
Solihull |0.0 |0.0 |0,.0 |34.9 |35.6 |0.0
Walsall |1.2 |9.8 |0.6 |47.7 |33.1 |-<4>
Wolverhampton |0.0 |11.6 |-<4> |42.0 |31.1 |0.0
Knowsley |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |55.4 |32.8 |0.2
Liverpool |1.7 |2.9 |3.8 |43.3 |35.7 |0.0
St. Helens |0.1 |1.5 |-<4> |33.8 |32.5 |0.0
Sefton |-<4> |4.0 |-<4> |27.9 |31.5 |0.1
Wirral |0.1 |3.4 |-<4> |21.4 |31.6 |0.0
Bolton |0.3 |6.4 |4.6 |29.1 |31.6 |0.0
Bury |1.1 |2.0 |3.3 |23.7 |31.1 |0
Manchester |3.0 |1.2 |30.5 |20.9 |17.4 |0.1
Oldham |0.0 |0.0 |13.7 |22.9 |33.5 |0.0
Rochdale |0.8 |13.4 |1.6 |17.2 |31.2 |-<4>
Salford |7.2 |8.2 |26.8 |13.5 |31.9 |0.0
Stockport |1.1 |11.1 |0.0 |13.8 |31.4 |-<4>
Tameside |0.0 |5.3 |0.1 |33.9 |33.6 |0.0
Trafford |0.0 |0.0 |-<4> |38.1 |30.5 |-<4>
Wigan |-<4> |2.2 |0.0 |22.8 |31.8 |0.3
Barnsley |0.0 |3.0 |0.0 |46.5 |16.6 |0.2
Doncaster |0.0 |0.0 |0.8 |41.3 |32.3 |-<4>
Rotherham |0.0 |5.5 |1.7 |37.5 |14.9 |0.0
Sheffield |1.0 |5.5 |1.8 |35.6 |15.9 |2.9
Bradford |1.3 |2.2 |1.2 |38.3 |25.6 |1.6
Calderdale |0.0 |0.0 |5.0 |29.1 |33.4 |0.0
Kirklees |0.0 |5.3 |0.0 |36.0 |31.1 |-<4>
Leeds |0.0 |0.5 |0.6 |43.7 |29.9 |0.2
Wakefield |0.0 |5.4 |0.5 |47.8 |17.5 |1.2
Gateshead |0.1 |1.1 |0.1 |34.7 |31.8 |-<4>
Newcastle upon Tyne |8.5 |0.4 |11.2 |22.2 |29.9 |0.0
North Tyneside |0.8 |3.9 |1.3 |48.0 |33.0 |0.0
South Tyneside |0.4 |9.8 |0.4 |43.2 |31.8 |0.0
Sunderland |0.5 |12.2 |-<4> |28.5 |32.8 |0.1
Avon |2.8 |4.4 |1.0 |13.0 |31.3 |-<4>
Bedfordshire |2.1 |7.1 |3.1 |21.5 |11.1 |4.6
Berkshire |0.6 |9.4 |0.5 |19.2 |2.7 |0.3
Buckinghamshire |0.0 |3.1 |0.0 |11.9 |5.5 |11.5
Cambridgeshire |0.1 |3.8 |-<4> |7.9 |30.6 |0.4
Cheshire |0.1 |3.1 |0.1 |17.7 |31.9 |-<4>
Cleveland |0.0 |0.8 |-<4> |56.5 |32.4 |-<4>
Cornwall<2> |0.2 |0.8 |-<4> |13.1 |15.8 |14.6
Cumbria |0.0 |6.5 |0.0 |18.2 |31.6 |0.1
Derbyshire |0.6 |5.6 |1.4 |30.9 |16.2 |5.7
Devon |0.2 |1.0 |0.6 |9.2 |15.9 |0.4
Dorset |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |5.5 |7.1 |24.3
Durham |0.3 |16.1 |0.1 |29.2 |31.1 |-<4>
East Sussex |0.0 |1.7 |0.0 |7.5 |14.6 |15.3
Essex |0.0 |0.7 |0.2 |5.3 |15.7 |0.4
Gloucestershire |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |31.9 |0.1
Hampshire |-<4> |0.7 |0.1 |3.9 |22.1 |8.9
Hereford and Worcester |0.0 |0.0 |0.7 |6.4 |15.1 |0.1
Hertfordshire |0.2 |6.2 |0.1 |26.0 |16.0 |2.0
Humberside |0.8 |4.1 |2.9 |31.0 |22.9 |0.1
Isle of Wight |0.0 |0.0 |0.1 |6.3 |32.8 |0.0
Kent |0.0 |0.2 |0.0 |4.7 |23.4 |7.9
Lancashire |0.2 |9.1 |-<4> |11.3 |32.6 |-<4>
Leicestershire |0.0 |0.2 |6.5 |14.1 |15.2 |2.3
Lincolnshire |0.4 |1.3 |0.3 |7.9 |32.8 |-<4>
Norfolk |-<4> |2.1 |0.0 |2.6 |19.9 |9.7
North Yorkshire |-<4> |2.2 |0.7 |18.5 |25.9 |1.5
Northampton |0.0 |3.6 |0.2 |13.6 |32.6 |-<4>
Northumberland |0.5 |1.2 |0.3 |37.7 |30.8 |0.2
Nottinghamshire |-<4> |2.2 |0.8 |45.7 |7.2 |0.7
Oxfordshire |0.3 |7.2 |0.4 |10.9 |4.6 |2.2
Shropshire |0.0 |1.6 |0.0 |16.3 |16.1 |2.2
Somerset |0.0 |0.0 |0.3 |3.7 |31.9 |0.8
Staffordshire |2.6 |4.9 |5.2 |11.5 |31.4 |0.2
Suffolk |0.0 |0.5 |-<4> |16.4 |14.3 |0.2
Surrey |0.3 |1.3 |-<4> |9.4 |16.5 |1.8
Warwickshire |0.0 |5.9 |0.7 |10.3 |32.2 |-<4>
West Sussex |0.1 |2.6 |0.0 |3.4 |15.8 |0.3
Wiltshire |0.0 |0.0 |-<4> |3.5 |19.2 |0.8
England<2> <3> |0.7 |3.3 |2.1 |20.4 |22.9 |2.2
<1> Excludes pupils who became five years of age by 1 January 1994.
<2> Includes Isles of Scilly.
<3> Includes Corporation of London
<4> Less than 0.05.
Teacher Qualifications
Ms Hodge: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what information is held by her Department on (a) the total number of staff and (b) the proportion of staff working in state nursery schools who hold each relevant qualification.
Mr. Forth: In January 1994, there were some 3,600 full-time equivalent staff working in maintained nursery schools. Of these, 1, 575 were qualified teachers.
Examination Results
Mr. Devlin: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will list all local education authorities in England in rank order showing the proportion of school leavers with five or more GCSE results at grade A to C.
Mr. Robin Squire: Information on school leavers is no longer collected by the Department. The table lists the percentage of 15-year-old pupils achieving five or more GCSE Grades A to C in each local education authority in England in rank order for 1994.
Percentage of 15 year old pupils achieving 5 or more
GCSE grades A to C in England, 1994
School performance tables 1994
|Percentage|Rank
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Isles of Scilly |68.0 |1
Sutton |52.9 |2
Kingston upon Thames |51.6 |3
Barnet |51.1 |4
West Sussex |50.4 |5
Richmond upon Thames |50.0 |6
Buckinghamshire |49.4 |7
Dorset |49.3 |8
Bromley |49.2 |9
North Yorkshire |49.0 |10
Stockport |48.6 |11
Harrow |48.4 |12
Berkshire |48.2 |13
Solihull |48.0 |14
Surrey |47.8 |15
Hertfordshire |47.6 |16
Somerset |47.4 |17
Shropshire |47.3 |18
Cheshire |47.0 |19
Redbridge |46.5 |20
Gloucestershire |46.3 |21
Oxfordshire |46.3 |21
Cornwall |46.0 |23
Bury |45.6 |24
Wiltshire |45.5 |25
Sefton |45.1 |26
Hampshire |44.3 |27
Trafford |44.1 |28
Suffolk |44.1 |28
Hereford and Worcester |43.8 |30
Cumbria |43.4 |31
East Sussex |43.3 |32
Cambridgeshire |43.3 |32
England Average |43.3 |32
Devon |42.9 |35
Lincolnshire |42.6 |36
Warwickshire |42.6 |36
Havering |42.5 |38
Bolton |41.9 |39
Wigan |41.7 |40
Dudley |41.4 |40
Essex |41.4 |40
Northumberland |41.3 |43
North Tyneside |41.2 |44
Lancashire |41.1 |45
Derbyshire |40.9 |46
Camden |40.6 |47
Isle of Wight |40.5 |48
Enfield |40.4 |49
Kent |40.4 |49
Bexley |40.3 |51
Hounslow |40.3 |51
Bedfordshire |40.3 |51
Avon |40.1 |54
Norfolk |40.1 |54
Wirral |39.7 |56
Leicestershire |39.3 |57
Northamptonshire |38.9 |58
Staffordshire |38.1 |59
Hillingdon |37.7 |60
Kirklees |37.3 |61
Croydon |37.2 |62
Calderdale |36.8 |63
Leeds |36.2 |64
Sheffield |35.6 |65
Wakefield |35.6 |65
St. Helens |35.5 |67
South Tyneside |35.5 |67
Brent |34.9 |69
Rotherham |34.8 |70
Cleveland |34.8 |70
Nottinghamshire |34.6 |72
Durham |34.6 |72
Kensington and Chelsea |34.5 |74
Coventry |34.3 |75
Tameside |34.2 |76
Humberside |33.8 |77
Doncaster |33.7 |78
Gateshead |33.6 |79
Merton |33.4 |80
Walsall |32.3 |81
Rochdale |32.3 |81
Ealing |32.2 |83
Oldham |32.1 |84
Hammersmith and Fulham |31.9 |85
Birmingham |30.4 |86
Newcastle upon Tyne |30.3 |87
Waltham Forest |30.1 |88
Sunderland |30.0 |89
Barnsley |29.8 |90
Wolverhampton |29.6 |91
Wandsworth |29.1 |92
Salford |29.1 |92
Haringey |28.4 |94
Barking and Dagenham |27.6 |95
Sandwell |27.3 |96
Lewisham |21.1 |97
Greenwich |27.0 |98
Bradford |26.7 |99
Westminster |25.1 |100
Liverpool |25.0 |101
Manchester |23.2 |102
Newham |23.0 |103
Hackney |22.7 |104
Lambeth |22.0 |105
Islington |21.9 |106
Knowsley |21.3 |107
Tower Hamlets |18.7 |108
Southwark |18.3 |109
Underspending
Mr. David Porter: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the numbers of primary and secondary schools and the amount involved where underspending of the budget has occurred in 1994: and if she will make a statement on the level of teaching staff in those schools.
Mr. Robin Squire: Information on the cumulative net balances recorded in local education authorities' local management of schools outturn statements for 1993 94 is contained in the answers which I gave my hon. Friend the
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Member for Rugby and Kenilworth (Mr. Pawsey) on 19 and 27 January, Official Report, column 641 43 and column 410 11 respectively. The Department has made no estimate of the number of schools whose expenditure in that year fell short of their budget shares for the year. Where schools have delegated budgets, it is for their governing bodies to consider what level of staffing is appropriate and affordable.Local Education Authorities
Mr. Tipping: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will list the capital allocation as a percentage of the bid for each local education authority for 1995 96.
Mr. Robin Squire: The information requested is given in the table, covering schools annual capital guidelines for English LEAs in 1995 96.
|Total ACG for |ACG as
LEA |1995-96 |percentage of bid
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Barking |1,899 |26
Barnet |1,408 |16
Bexley |1,420 |31
Brent |179 |4
Bromley |1,335 |17
Croydon |1,860 |17
Ealing |891 |2
Enfield |3,234 |20
Haringey |2,713 |18
Harrow |1,644 |13
Havering |199 |2
Hillingdon |475 |5
Hounslow |2,035 |14
Kingston |487 |8
Merton |681 |7
Newham |829 |5
Redbridge |5,132 |86
Richmond |121 |2
Sutton |1,660 |27
Waltham |2,028 |16
City |0 |0
Camden |570 |10
Westminster |40 |5
Greenwich |487 |4
Hackney |241 |3
Hammersmith |91 |3
Islington |207 |2
Kensington |67 |2
Lambeth |389 |3
Lewisham |1,540 |7
Southwark |740 |12
Wandsworth |2,994 |29
Tower Hamlets |12,131 |55
Birmingham |9,210 |23
Coventry |3,587 |63
Dudley |499 |8
Sandwell |275 |3
Solihull |1,805 |35
Walsall |430 |6
Wolverham |1,087 |9
Knowsley |935 |6
Liverpool |4,576 |25
St. Helens |1,236 |20
Sefton |1,698 |38
Wirral |1,912 |26
Bolton |884 |15
Bury |557 |18
Manchester |17,190 |30
Oldham |1,660 |18
Rochdale |301 |3
Salford |5,625 |26
Stockport |736 |20
Tameside |2,403 |53
Trafford |575 |8
Wigan |2,066 |23
Barnsley |3,314 |62
Doncaster |536 |6
Rotherham |267 |6
Sheffield |4,177 |10
Bradford |5,076 |12
Calderdale |2,193 |37
Kirklees |1,455 |15
Leeds |2,081 |7
Wakefield |8,704 |31
Gateshead |1,306 |21
Newcastle |3,093 |12
North Tyneside |1,520 |19
South Tyneside |827 |14
Sunderland |4,159 |41
Isle of Scilly |37 |100
Avon |9,318 |37
Bedfordshire |1,455 |13
Berkshire |1,961 |13
Bucks |9,245 |36
Cambridge |6,669 |25
Cheshire |6,657 |21
Cleveland |6,051 |57
Cornwall |3,719 |23
Cumbria |4,105 |16
Derbyshire |4,031 |11
Devon |11,627 |34
Dorset |3,340 |14
Durham |3,545 |7
East Sussex |15,026 |43
Essex |9,668 |13
Gloucester |10,611 |23
Hampshire |14,762 |44
Hereford and Worcester |6,865 |44
Hertford |1,109 |7
Humberside |4,994 |25
Isle of Wight |4,693 |46
Kent |21,248 |31
Lancashire |8,105 |20
Leicester |3,845 |40
Lincoln |9,867 |61
Norfolk |3,122 |18
North Yorkshire |3,647 |11
Northampton |3,454 |20
Northumber |1,499 |29
Notts |1,677 |9
Oxfordshire |6,767 |22
Shropshire |7,423 |75
Somerset |2,608 |22
Staffs |1,291 |5
Suffolk |7,676 |38
Surrey |5,545 |24
Warwick |1,074 |6
West Sussex |2,400 |13
Wiltshire |2,786 |36
Students
Mr. Pickthall: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the correlation between student drop-out rates in higher education and student poverty.
Mr. Boswell: Information about the reasons for student drop-out is not collected centrally. Since 1990, total support available to students has increased in real terms. The Government have also provided access funds to help
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students in particular need. There is no evidence of widespread student poverty.Mr. Pickthall: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will list for each local education authority (a) the total number of discretionary awards, schedules 1 and 2, (b) the total value of those awards and (c) the average value of each award, for (i) 1992 93 and (ii) 1993 94.
Mr. Boswell: The information requested for 1992 93 is published in tables 7 to 12 of "Statistics of Education, Student Support Volume 1992 93" copies of which are in the Library. Tables 7 to 9 show data for section 1(6) awards and section 2 awards in higher education; tables 10 to 12 show data for section 2 awards in further education. Returns made to the Department by local education authorities about discretionary awards for the academic year 1993 94 are being received now. Information at LEA level will not be available for publication until this summer.
Schools, Suffolk
Mr. David Porter: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how much money is held in reserve by schools in Suffolk.
Mr. Robin Squire: At the end of the financial year 1993 94, £13.5 million net.
Grant-maintained Schools
Mr. Andrew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) what are the total balances currently held by grant-maintained schools;
(2) what procedure is involved in authorising overspending in respect of grant-maintained schools which have incurred a deficit; (3) if she will list the grant-maintained schools which have currently accumulated deficits, giving in each case the size of the deficit.
Mr. Robin Squire: Information on, and policy relating to, balances and deficits of grant-maintained schools are a matter for the Funding Agency for Schools. I have asked its chairman to write to the hon. Member.
DUCHY OF LANCASTER
Realising our Potential Awards"
Mr. Battle: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will place in the Library a full itemised list of all 239 "Realising our Potential Awards" funded projects, together with the amount of Government financial support.
Mr. Robert G. Hughes: A full itemised list of all ROPA projects awarded to date and the associated amount of Government financial support has been placed in the Library.
Government Consultation Documents
Mr. Soley: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many HMSO Government consultation
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documents have had to be reprinted because demand outstripped supply.Mr. Robert G. Hughes: Since 1 January 1994, HMSO has published 41 consultative documents. At no time were stocks exhausted, but two publications were reprinted in anticipation of continuing public demand.
Information Super-highway
Mr. Allen: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what use the Government are making of the information super-highway; and how it can be used to make citizens charter data more readily available.
Mr. Robert G. Hughes: The CCTA Government information service enables Government Departments and agencies to make information freely and widely available over the Internet. Eighteen Departments have information available already, and most others have plans to use the service. There have been more than half a million requests for information over a four- month period. We also use the Internet to broaden the scope of consultation through consultative open groups. The CCTA Government information service already includes a web page for the citizens charter unit, and the full text of 16 charters. The remaining charters will be made available shortly.
AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
Milk
Mr. Redmond: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what action he is taking to stop farmers dumping milk on the land on economic grounds.
Mr. Jack: We have seen reports that some farmers who anticipate having to pay super levy are disposing of their surplus milk by dumping it on their land. However, the arrangements which the Government have provided for milk producers to buy, sell or lease milk quota to meet their individual business needs are an alternative way for farmers to avoid the payment of super levy.
Mr. Alex Carlile: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will take steps to ensue that dairy farmers are assisted by the efficient completion of is annual activities by the intervention board; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Jack: The intervention board is responsible under the common agriculture policy arrangements for supporting and managing a range of measures in the dairy sector including the operation of the milk quotas register. I am confident that it is able to discharge these responsibilities in and efficient and timely manner.
Mr. Alex Carlile: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what measures are taken by his Department in cases where this is evidence of the illegal movement of milk.
Mr. Jack: The intervention board is currently investigating information it has received concerning irregularities in connection with the trade in milk. If there is evidence of such irregularities, those involved would run the risk of heavy fines, payment or super levy on undeclared sales of milk and, possibly imprisonment.
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Hunting
Mr. Ron Davies: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will place in the Library current copies of the permission to hunt in respect of those hunts licensed to hunt the New forest, together with details of any special considerations imposed.
Mr. Jack: Copies of the current permits have been placed in the Library of the House. The permits include details of the conditions imposed.
Arctic Fox Farms
Mr. Morley: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many Arctic fox fur farms there have been, by region, in each of the last five years in England and Wales.
Mrs. Browning: I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to him by my predecessor the hon. Member for Crawley (Mr. Soames) on 20 July 1994, Official Report , column 346 .
Deer
Mr. Denham: To ask the Minister of Agriculture Fisheries and Food what role is played by Forestry Commission employees in identifying the whereabouts of deer or any other activities in support of deer hunting in the New forest.
Mr. Jack: The Forestry Commission keeper selects the animal to be hunted on each occasion. The animals selected are those which would have been culled by the Commission during its normal management operations.
Mr. Denham: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (1) if he will place in the Library a copy of the report of the Forestry Commission's keeper in the killing of a deer by the New forest buckhounds on 13 January;
(2) if he will place in the Library a copy of the report of the inspection of the carcase of the deer killed in Dames Slough enclosure in the New forest on 13 January.
Mr. Jack: A copy of the duty keeper's report on the hunt by the New forest buckhounds on 13 January has been placed in the Library of the House. The duty keeper does not prepare a separate report of his inspection of the carcase. He would have recorded the details in his report if he had found that the animal had sustained injuries which indicated that the hunt had not been conducted in accordance with the conditions set out in the licence.
Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowance
Mr. Alex Carlile: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what account of the cost of fencing hill land is made in assessing the level of the hill livestock compensatory allowance each year; what formula is used in this assessment; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Jack: Decisions on the rates of hill livestock compensatory allowances are taken in the light of the autumn review of economic conditions in the hills and uplands. The source of the economic data used in the review is the farm business survey in which costs of fencing are taken into account in calculating the various measures of income.
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Animal Welfare
Mr. Morley: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (1) what evidence he has of infringements of directive 74/577 in other European Community states; and if he will list the countries involved since 1990;
(2) what instructions he has given to his veterinary department for checking that (a) journey times for farm animals to be exported from the United Kingdom are properly completed, (b) that such animals are fit to travel and (c) animals being exported to Greece are being sent to abattoirs which comply with the European Community directive protecting the animal's welfare at slaughter; how many times since January 1993 his veterinary department has failed to follow these instructions; what steps he has taken to ensure in that future failures will be avoided; and if he will make a statement; (3) what measures he is taking to ensure that British animals being exported for slaughter to Greece are killed in accordance with legislation designated to ensure humane slaughter;
(4) what representations he has made to the Greek Agriculture Minister regarding the slaughter of British sheep in Greek abattoirs; what was the outcome; and if he will make a statement;
(5) if he will list the abattoirs in Greece used to kill British sheep over the last three years;
(6) what discussions he has had with the RSPCA over the export of British sheep and pigs to Greece for slaughter, and if he will make a statement;
(7) when he expects to receive a reply to his letter to Mr. Franz Fischler on the subject of Greek slaughter practices; and if he will place a copy of the reply in the Library;
(8) what information he has on the compliance with the EC welfare at slaughter standards of the Tripolis abattoir in Greece in respect of British sheep sent there in July and August 1994; if their hauliers conformed to all welfare during transport regulations; and if he will make a statement.
Mrs. Browning [holding answer 17 February 1995]: The Welfare of Animals during Transport Order 1994, as amended, requires journey plans to be completed for farm animals being consigned from the United Kingdom to another member state, and to be signed and returned to the relevant divisional veterinary officer when the journey has been completed. All such animals also require a health certificate, completed by a local veterinary inspector stating that the animals are fit to travel; officials are fully instructed in the application of the rules,
From contacts with the RSPCA, it has emerged that there is no evidence that sheep or pigs originating in the United Kingdom travelled to the slaughterhouses which featured in the society's recent report and video, I have written to both the EC Agriculture Commissioner and the Greek Minister urging them to take action on the quite appalling scenes of cruelty depicted in the RSPCA video. Enforcement of the EC legislation both on the welfare of animals during transport and at slaughter is the responsibility of the competent authorities in the member states. The European Commission is responsible for overseeing the application of EC miles across the European Union. It is MAFF Minister's practice to bring any apparent infringements of directive 74/577 to the
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