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Mr. Llwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what criteria are normally employed by her Department when considering applications by secondary schools for the re-instatement of sixth forms; and if she will make a statement.
Mr. Boswell: When deciding proposals for the addition of sixth forms, my right hon. Friend has regard to the criteria published in the circular on the supply of school places issued last November. These criteria address issues of choice, and diversity, need, quality and cost- effectiveness.
Mrs. Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what representations she has received concerning access to Chalfont community college.
Mr. Robin Squire: None. This matter is being considered by the Education Assets Board.
Ms Hodge: To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) what is the level of staff turnover in private day nursery schools; (2) what information she has on the ratio of staff to children in private day nursery schools; and if she will list the available data by geographical area.
Mr. Bowis: I have been asked to reply.
Information on staffing of private day nursery schools is not available centrally.
Ms Hodge: To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) what is the number of private nursery school places in each local education authority area:
(2) how many registered child minders there are by local education authority area.
Mr. Bowis: I have been asked to reply.
Day care facilities for children aged under eight are registered by local authority social services departments.
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Figures for child minders are published in "Children's Day Care Facilities at 31 March 1993, England", copies of which are available in the Library.Information held centrally does not separately identify nursery schools registered under the Children Act 1989. Where nursery facilities are part of schools with five or more children of compulsory school age, information on pupil numbers is published by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education.
Mr. Harry Greenway: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will name the schools, together with their local education authorities with (a) the highest and (b) the lowest percentage of the education budget assigned to school governors; and if she will make a statement.
Mr. Robin Squire: Information on the overall proportion of the potential schools budget retained by local education authorities, rather than that delegated to schools, is contained in the answer which I gave on 17 October 1994 to my hon. Friend the Member for Billericay (Mrs. Gorman), Official Report , columns 27 36 . This proportion depends on the local management of schools scheme for the LEA concerned. The total call made be each school on the general schools budget of an LEA depends on the use a school makes of centrally funded services as well as the size of its delegated budget, and data on this are not collected by the Department.
Mr. Tony Lloyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how much was spent per (a) primary and (b) secondary pupil in each LEA in England and on average in England as a whole in the most recent year for which figures are available in cash terms and in 1992 93 prices.
Mr. Robin Squire: The table shows LEA expenditure per pupil on pre- primary and primary pupils combined, and on secondary pupils in 1992 93, the latest year for which outturn figures are available. Equivalent information on grant-maintained schools is not available.
Unit cost net institutional expenditure 1992-93 at 1992-93 prices (includes LMS balances) |Nursery/primary|Secondary |£ |£ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Corporation of London |3,063 |0 Camden |2,067 |2,726 Greenwich |2,058 |2,497 Hackney |2,144 |3,014 Hammersmith and Fulham |2,335 |3,105 Islington |2,377 |n/a Kensington and Chelsea |2,230 |3,061 Lambeth |2,183 |2,800 Lewisham |1,896 |2,534 Southwark |1,846 |2,506 Tower Hamlets |2,398 |3,352 Wandsworth |2,141 |3,212 City of Westminster |2,292 |2,486 Barking |1,730 |2,347 Barnet |1,841 |2,615 Bexley |1,415 |2,121 Brent |1,740 |2,425 Bromley |1,578 |2,377 Croydon |1,728 |2,369 Ealing |1,855 |2,784 Enfield |1,577 |2,267 Haringey |2,102 |2,897 Harrow |1,870 |2,614 Havering |1,563 |2,364 Hillingdon |1,714 |2,686 Hounslow |1,973 |2,419 Kingston upon Thames |1,748 |2,663 Merton |1,907 |2,679 Newham |1,709 |2,629 Redbridge |1,663 |2,337 Richmond upon Thames |1,863 |2,285 Sutton |1,522 |2,036 Waltham Forest |1,626 |2,454 Birmingham |1,457 |2,341 Coventry |1,435 |2,382 Dudley |1,489 |2,072 Sandwell |1,645 |2,340 Solihull |1,599 |2,223 Walsall |1,468 |2,216 Wolverhampton |1,589 |2,407 Knowsley |1,487 |2,298 Liverpool |1,489 |2,375 St. Helens |1,557 |2,357 Sefton |1,499 |2,232 Wirral |1,448 |2,418 Bolton |1,526 |2,280 Bury |1,408 |1,970 Manchester |1,555 |2,426 Oldham |1,774 |2,474 Rochdale |1,384 |2,182 Salford |1,339 |2,113 Stockport |1,510 |2,288 Tameside |1,469 |2,170 Trafford |1,416 |2,279 Wigan |1,375 |2,286 Barnsley |1,525 |2,151 Doncaster |1,437 |2,182 Rotherham |1,631 |2,285 Sheffield |1,636 |2,212 Bradford |1,828 |1,822 Calderdale |1,549 |2,163 Kirklees |1,523 |2,200 Leeds |1,420 |2,397 Wakefield |1,482 |2,073 Gateshead |1,668 |2,283 Newcastle upon Tyne |1,737 |2,133 North Tyneside |1,513 |2,219 South Tyneside |1,477 |2,197 Sunderland |1,495 |2,137 Isles of Scilly |2,345 |5,040 Avon |1,523 |2,277 Bedfordshire |1,603 |2,170 Berkshire |1,589 |2,227 Buckinghamshire |1,429 |2,118 Cambridgeshire |1,579 |2,243 Cheshire |1,321 |2,072 Cleveland |1,574 |2,515 Cornwall |1,507 |2,132 Cumbria |1,637 |2,306 Derbyshire |1,576 |2,310 Devon |1,529 |2,164 Dorset |1,507 |2,097 Durham |1,535 |2,064 East Sussex |1,558 |2,233 Essex |1,610 |2,138 Gloucestershire |1,687 |2,203 Hampshire |1,578 |2,248 Hereford and Worcester |1,609 |2,116 Hertfordshire |1,616 |2,263 Humberside |1,522 |2,228 Isle of Wight |1,584 |2,081 Kent |1,380 |1,999 Lancashire |1,632 |2,320 Leicestershire |1,443 |2,219 Lincolnshire |1,429 |2,174 Norfolk |1,555 |2,177 North Yorkshire |1,581 |2,260 Northamptonshire |1,384 |2,093 Northumberland |1,394 |1,871 Nottinghamshire |1,575 |2,346 Oxfordshire |1,776 |2,212 Shropshire |1,590 |2,509 Somerset |1,506 |2,220 Staffordshire |1,463 |2,088 Suffolk |1,944 |2,393 Surrey |1,577 |2,293 Warwickshire |1,517 |2,126 West Sussex |1,468 |2,125 Wiltshire |1,593 |2,268 Total |1,583 |2,256
Mr. Devlin: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will list local education authorities in England in rank order by the proportion of the potential schools budget held back in the most recent year for which figures are available.
Mr. Robin Squire: Information on the percentage of the potential schools budget retained centrally for 1994 95 by each English LEA was included in the answer which I gave on 17 October 1994 to the hon. Member for Billericay (Mrs. Gorman) Official Report , columns 27 36. The figures there given are rearranged in rank order in the table.
Percentage of PSB not delegated 1994-95 (in rank order) Local Education |1994-95 |Rank Number Authority |Per cent. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dudley |7.5 |1. Islington* |7.5 |2. Hertfordshire |8.7 |3. Solihull |9.6 |4. Croydon |9.9 |5. Berkshire |10.0 |6. Brent |10.0 |7. Leeds |10.1 |8. Waltham Forest |10.2 |9. Stockport |10.7 |10. Northamptonshire |10.7 |11. Greenwich* |10.8 |12. Knowsley |10.9 |13. Manchester |11.0 |14. Bedfordshire |11.0 |15. Richmond |11.1 |16. Northumberland |11.1 |17. Harrow |11.2 |18. Wolverhampton |11.3 |19. Oxfordhisre |11.3 |20. Cheshire |11.3 |21. Rochdale |11.3 |22. Westminster |11.5 |23. Merton |11.7 |24. Havering |11.7 |25. Hereford/Worcester |11.7 |26. Bury |11.7 |27. Staffordshire |12.1 |28. Sunderland |12.1 |29. Enfield |12.1 |30. Norfolk |12.2 |31. Devon |12.2 |32. Salford |12.2 |33. Calderdale |12.3 |34. Walsall |12.3 |35. Bexley |12.4 |36. Suffolk |12.4 |37. West Sussex |12.9 |38. Cornwall |12.9 |39. Coventry |12.9 |40. Redbridge |13.0 |41. Sefton |13.0 |42. City of London* |13.0 |43. Hammersmith/Fulham* |13.0 |44. Wigan |13.1 |45. North Yorkshire |13.1 |46. Surrey |13.1 |47. Isle of Wight |13.1 |48. Lincolnshire |13.2 |49. Birmingham |13.2 |50. Oldham |13.2 |51. Nottinghamshire |13.3 |52. Hillingdon |13.4 |53. Dorset |13.4 |54. Trafford |13.4 |55. Barnet |13.4 |56. Hampshire |13.4 |57. Bradford |13.5 |58. Cumbria |13.5 |59. Liverpool |13.5 |60. Sandwell |13.5 |61. South Tyneside |13.5 |62. Bromley |13.6 |63. Gloucestershire |13.6 |64. Leicestershire |13.6 |65. Wirral |13.7 |66. Isles of Scilly |13.7 |67. East Sussex |13.8 |68. Cambridgeshire |13.8 |69. Rotherham |13.8 |70. Somerset |13.8 |71. Tower Hamlets |13.8 |72. Ealing |13.9 |73. Southwark* |13.9 |74. Gateshead |13.9 |75. Wiltshire |14.0 |76. Durham |14.0 |77. Sutton |14.0 |78. Hounslow |14.0 |79. Tameside |14.1 |80. Essex |14.1 |81. North Tyneside |14.1 |82. Humberside |14.1 |83. Kensington/Chelsea* |14.2 |84. Warwickshire |14.3 |85. Avon |14.4 |86. Cleveland |14.4 |87. St. Helens |14.5 |88. Kingston |14.5 |89. Newcastle |14.6 |90. Shropshire |14.6 |91. Wakefield |14.6 |92. Barking/Dagenham |14.7 |93. Lancashire |14.7 |94. Kent |14.8 |95. Buckinghamshire |14.9 |96. Haringey |14.9 |97. Sheffield |15.0 |98. Barnsley |15.0 |99. Bolton |15.0 |100. Derbyshire |15.0 |101. Doncaster |15.0 |102. Newham |15.0 |103. Lewisham* |15.4 |104. Lambeth* |15.8 |105. Kirklees |15.8 |106. Hackney* |16.5 |107. Camden* |17.0 |108. Wandsworth* |17.7 |109. Notes: 1. The figures have been derived from budget statements published by local education authorities under section 42 of the Education Reform Act in respect of the financial year 1994-95, and received by the Department prior to 17 October 1994. The percentages have been rounded in the the Table to one decimal place. 2. In the case of the inner London authorities (other than Westminster), the introduction of Local Management of Schools was deferred until April 1992, and the delegation requirements applicable to these authorities (marked * in the Table) differ from those applicable elsewhere.
Mr. Devlin: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many (a) teachers and (b) administrators are employed by local education authorities in England according to the latest figures; and if he will list in rank order the ratio of teachers to administrators for each local education authority in England.
Mr. Robin Squire: I will write to my hon. Friend as soon as possible.
Ms Hodge: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what are the qualifications required for staff working in state nursery schools.
Mr. Forth: The Education (Teachers) Regulations 1993, as amended, require that those employed as teachers at maintained schools shall be qualified teachers as defined in those regulations. There are certain limited exceptions to this rule, also set out in the regulations.
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There are no statutory requirements governing the qualifications of staff employed in other roles in maintained nursery schools.Ms Hodge: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what percentage of registered disabled children get a place at a nursery school or in a nursery class in a primary school.
Mr. Forth: This information is not available centrally.
Ms Hodge: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what percentage of children with special educational needs as defined by the Children Act 1989 get a place at (a) nursery school and (b) nursery class in a primary school.
Mr. Forth: Figures for children in need as defined under section 17(10) of the Children Act 1989 are not collected centrally. In 1994, 319 children with a statement of special educational need maintained by the local education authority under section 168 of the Education Act 1993 attended a maintained nursery school, representing 0.6 per cent. of the total maintained nursery population. The numbers of children with statements of special educational needs attending a nursery class in a primary school are not available.
Ms Hodge: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what is the total level of public expenditure on education for children under school age in (a) Denmark, (b) France and (c) the United Kingdom; what this sum is in each country per child under school age; what this sum is as a percentage of the national gross domestic product; and what this sum is as a percentage of public spending overall in the country concerned.
Mr. Forth: International comparisons of public expenditure on pre- primary education are difficult to make because of the need to ensure consistent definitions across countries. The latest available estimates based on information published by UNESCO and OECD are shown in the table.
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Expenditure on pre-primary education: 1991 |Public current |Public current |Public current |expenditure<1> on |expenditure<1> on |expenditure<1> on |Public |pre-primary |pre-primary |expenditure<2> |pre-primary |per pupil in |education as a |education as a |education (US |pre-primary |percentage of gross|percentage of total |$Million<3> |education (US $<3>)|domestic product |public expenditure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Denmark |144 |4,736 |0.2 |0.3 France |5,619 |2,163 |0.5 |1.1 United Kingdom |1,754 |2,223 |0.2 |0.4 Sources Education at a Glance, OECD, December 1993. UNESCO Statistical Yearbooks 1993 and 1994 editions. Notes <1> Excludes capital expenditure and loan charges. <2> Includes capital expenditure and loan charges. <3> Adjusted to US dollars using Purchasing Power Parities published by OECD.
Ms Hodge: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what assessment she has made of the level of staff turnover in public day nursery schools.
Mr. Forth: In maintained nursery schools in England in 1991 92, the turnover of full-time qualified teachers
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was 14.4 per cent. Information on turnover rates of other staff is not collected centrally.Mr. Devlin: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what proportion of the standard spending assessment is
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being spent and what proportion of the education budget is being retained for administration, in rank order, in each English county, accordingly to the latest figures.Mr. Robin Squire: There is no separate allowance within standard spending assessments for administration; it is for each local education authority to decide what proportion of its education budget to use for administration costs. The table shows, for each LEA in England, expenditure on service strategy and regulation, management and administration and the inspection and advisory service, as a proportion of total LEA expenditure, in 1992 93, the latest year for which outturn figures are available.
LEA expenditure on administration<1> as a proportion of total expenditure, 1992-93 LEA Rank number |Percentage of total |expenditure on |administration ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 Corporation of London |15.4 2 Lewisham |13.4 3 Bexley |10.9 4 Hammersmith and Fulham |9.2 5 Greenwich |9.0 6 Croydon |8.8 7 Kensington and Chelsea |8.6 8 Kent |8.0 9 Waltham Forest |7.9 10 Southwark |7.9 11 Lambeth |7.9 12 Sutton |7.9 13 Northamptonshire |7.8 14 Salford |7.6 15 Coventry |7.6 16 Tower Hamlets |7.4 17 Isle of Wight |7.2 18 City of Westminster |7.2 19 South Tyneside |7.1 20 Wandsworth |7.0 21 Buckinghamshire |6.9 22 Enfield |6.7 23 Barking |6.6 24 Camden |6.4 25 Somerset |6.3 26 Merton |5.9 27 Knowsley |5.9 28 Islington |5.9 29 Kirklees |5.7 30 Northumberland |5.7 31 Oldham |5.6 32 Ealing |5.6 33 Redbridge |5.6 34 Hackney |5.5 35 Haringey |5.5 36 Warwickshire |5.4 37 Kingston upon Thames |5.4 38 Cumbria |5.4 39 Wiltshire |5.2 40 Cornwall |5.2 41 Hillingdon |5.1 42 Barnsley |5.1 43 Solihull |5.1 44 Bromley |5.1 45 Suffolk |5.0 46 Dudley |5.0 47 Berkshire |4.8 48 Bury |4.8 49 Gateshead |4.6 50 Harrow |4.6 51 Dorset |4.5 52 Hampshire |4.5 53 Lincolnshire |4.4 54 Leeds |4.4 55 Manchester |4.4 56 Newham |4.3 57 Avon |4.3 58 East Sussex |4.3 59 Newcastle upon Tyne |4.3 60 Barnet |4.2 61 Calderdale |4.2 62 Hertfordshire |4.2 63 Birmingham |4.2 64 Norfolk |4.2 65 Sefton |4.1 66 Sandwell |4.1 67 Cheshire |3.9 68 Bedfordshire |3.9 69 Essex |3.9 70 Sheffield |3.9 71 Nottinghamshire |3.9 72 West Sussex |3.8 73 Bolton |3.8 74 Wirral |3.8 75 Shropshire |3.8 76 Cambridgeshire |3.7 77 Derbyshire |3.7 78 Gloucestershire |3.6 79 Havering |3.6 80 Rotherham |3.6 81 Sunderland |3.6 82 Richmond upon Thames |3.4 83 Wolverhampton |3.4 84 Rochdale |3.3 85 Liverpool |3.3 86 Hounslow |3.3 87 Wakefield |3.3 88 Tameside |3.3 89 Brent |3.3 90 Stockport |3.3 91 Hereford and Worcester |3.1 92 North Yorkshire |3.0 93 Surrey |3.0 94 Durham |3.0 95 Bradford |3.0 96 Doncaster |3.0 97 Devon |3.0 98 Isles of Scilly |2.8 99 Staffordshire |2.7 100 St. Helens |2.7 101 Wigan |2.7 102 Oxfordshire |2.6 103 Walsall |2.5 104 Humberside |2.4 105 Leicestershire |2.4 106 Cleveland |2.2 107 Trafford |2.1 108 North Tyneside |1.8 109 Lancashire |1.7 Total |4.5 <1> Administration covers Service Strategy and Regulation, Management and Administration and the Inspection and Advisory Service.
Sir Ivan Lawrence: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what would have been the increase required to remove the effect of inflation from central Government payments to Staffordshire local education authority in each of the past 10 years.
Mr. Robin Squire: The annual rate of inflation for the last 10 years is set out in the table, but it is not possible to state what would be the increase required to remove the effect of inflation from central Government payments to Staffordshire local education authority because of
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annual changes in authorities' relative need to spend. The underlying increases in inflation rates are:|Inflation percentage --------------------------------------------------------------- 1984-85 to 1985-86 |5.5 1985-86 to 1986-87 |3.0 1986-87 to 1987-88 |5.3 1987-88 to 1988-89 |6.7 1988-89 to 1989-90 |7.0 1989-90 to 1990-91 |8.0 1990-91 to 1991-92 |6.3 1991-92 to 1992-93 |4.0 1992-93 to 1993-94 |3.1 1993-94 to 1994-95 |2.0 1994-95 to 1995-96 |3.3
Mr. Devlin: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will list the most recent percentage available of under fives in maintained nursery and primary schools in the north-east of England by individual local authority area; and what the percentages were in 1978.
Mr. Robin Squire: Information on pupils under five being taught in maintained nursery schools in each local education authority in north-east England in 1978 and 1994 is shown in the table.
Percentage of children under five in maintained nursery and primary schools for each LEA in North East England<1> Position at January Local Education |1978 |1994 Authority -------------------------------------------------------------------- Cleveland |55 |90 Durham |58 |77 Gateshead |51 |68 Newcastle upon Tyne |61 |72 North Tyneside |62 |87 Northumberland |41 |71 South Tyneside |64 |86 Sunderland |58 |74 <1> Excludes pupils who became 5 years of age by 1 January.
Mr Colvin: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what is the value of reserves held on deposit on current account by state schools in England and Wales.
Mr. Robin Squire: In respect of England, information on the cumulative net balances recorded in local education authorities' LMS outturn statements for the financial year 1993 94 is contained in the answers which I gave to the hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth (Mr. Pawsey) on 19 and 27 January, Official Report , columns 641 43 and 410 11 respectively. The Department does not collect information which would indicate the extent to which these balances are held in schools' own current bank accounts.
Information regarding the financial balances held by
grant-maintained schools in England is held by the Funding Agency for Schools, and I have asked its chairman to write to the hon. Member. The funding of LEA and grant-maintained schools in Wales is the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.
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