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Mr. Nelson: The number of council tax appeals submitted from the borough of Basingstoke and Deane in (a) 1993 94 and (b) 1994 95, and the numbers outstanding and the percentages settled are as follows. The figures for 1994 1995 are for the period from 1 April 1994 to 28 February 1995, the last date for which statistics are available.
|Appeals |Appeals |Percentage
Year |submitted |outstanding|settled
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1993-94 |2,940 |634 |78
1994-95 |285 |230 |19
VAT
Mr. Matthew Banks: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer from which date the value added tax changes will be introduced which stem from the EC seventh VAT directive and which specifically affect (a) importers of
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works of art, (b) antiques, (c) collectors' pieces and cars and (d) agents. [18578]Mr. Heathcoat-Amory: The provisions in the Finance Bill introducing many of these changes will take effect following Royal Assent, which is a moveable date. I am aware, however, that businesses would find it of assistance to have a firm date by which they should amend their procedures in order to be able to take account of changes. In view of this, it has been decided that the changes which affect importers of certain works of art, antiques, collectors' pieces and cars, and agents who act in their own names will be introduced with effect from 1 June 1995. I am sure that the affected businesses will welcome this decision.
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Software Licences
Mr. Byers: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what amount was paid to Computer Associates for it to transfer software licences to EDS as part of the Inland Revenue's outsourcing programme. [17320]
Sir George Young: [holding answer 30 March 1995]: EDS and Computer Associates have a universal enterprise agreement which allow EDS to use all the Computer Associates products for which the IR had licences. It was not therefore necessary to transfer the IR/Computer Associates software licences to EDS, and nothing was paid to Computer Associates.
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EDUCATION
Teachers
Ms Harman: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will list for each of the past five years, the number of (a) teachers and (b) auxiliary school staff in England who are employed on a temporary basis, also
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expressing the data as a percentage of the total numbers in each respective staff group. [17761]Mr. Robin Squire: The table gives information about types of contract for teachers employed in local authority-maintained schools; this was first collected in 1992. Information collected on non-teaching staff in schools does not distinguish between permanent and temporary staff.
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Teachers employed in local education authority maintained<1> schools in England in the nursery, primary and secondary sector
Full-time Part-time
teachers in regular teachers in regular
service<2> with: service<2> with:
|Fixed term |Fixed term/ |Fixed term |Fixed term/ |Teachers
|or temporary |Permanent |temporary as |or temporary |Permanent |temporary as |employed on an
|contracts |contracts |percentage of total|contracts |contracts |percentage of total|occasional<3> basis
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January 1992 |19,155 |328,085 |5.5 |27,655 |24,462 |53.1 |11,526
January 1993 |18,222 |322,824 |5.3 |27,928 |24,220 |53.6 |11,373
January 1994<4> |18,909 |299,603 |5.9 |25,198 |24,720 |50.5 |11,377
<1> Information for self-governing (GM) schools is not collected.
<2> Teachers in regular service are those employed at the time of the survey on a contract of a month or more.
<3> Occasional teachers are employed for the whole of the survey date on a contract of less than one month.
<4> Excludes sixth form colleges.
Non-teaching Staff
Mr. Win Griffiths: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list by local education authority all categories of non-teaching staff employed (a) in schools and (b) outside schools indicating which are considered to be administrative staff; and what is the ratio to teachers. [17654]
Mr. Robin Squire: The table shows, for each local authority in England, the full-time equivalent numbers of selected categories of non- teaching staff employed in LEA maintained schools. This information is taken from the department's 1994 annual schools' census.
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Information about non-teaching staff employed in the local authority education service is collected by the Local Government management board. This information covers all non-teaching staff whether employed in or outside of schools. This source does not distinguish between staff employed in schools and those employed elsewhere, nor does it separate administration from other staff. Further details of the data available together with data for each local authority were provided in my letters dated 21 March to my hon. Friend the Member for Stockton, South (Mr. Devlin), in answer to his question, Official Report , 21 February column 181 , and to my hon. Friend the member for Blackpool, North (Mr. Elletson) in answer to his question, Official Report , 28 February column 534 . Copies of the letters are available in the Library.Column 911
Full-time equivalent of non-teaching staff<1> in LEA maintained schools in each LEA in England
Education support Administration/Clerical
staff staff
|Nursery |Special needs
LEA |assistants |support staff|Other |Sub total |Secretaries |Bursars |Other |Sub total |Total
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Corporation of
London |2 |<2>- |3 |5 |1 |0 |<2>- |1 |6
Camden |52 |48 |171 |270 |94 |5 |8 |107 |377
Greenwich |126 |26 |232 |385 |124 |11 |33 |168 |553
Hackney |102 |25 |191 |318 |101 |6 |9 |116 |434
Hammersmith |82 |24 |118 |225 |75 |1 |10 |86 |310
Islington |113 |41 |150 |304 |87 |4 |8 |100 |404
Kensington
and Chelsea |61 |19 |82 |162 |41 |2 |14 |57 |218
Lambeth |110 |38 |244 |392 |105 |4 |27 |136 |528
Lewisham |94 |47 |227 |368 |110 |6 |22 |139 |506
Southwark |128 |66 |211 |406 |111 |4 |21 |136 |542
Tower Hamlets |200 |39 |252 |490 |138 |6 |18 |161 |651
Wandsworth |165 |27 |305 |497 |88 |10 |12 |109 |606
Westminster |61 |18 |152 |231 |63 |10 |38 |111 |342
Barking |80 |81 |116 |277 |90 |3 |11 |104 |381
Barnet |94 |100 |234 |428 |105 |13 |14 |132 |560
Bexley |37 |38 |121 |196 |108 |6 |13 |127 |323
Brent |122 |11 |117 |250 |81 |13 |21 |115 |365
Bromley |32 |59 |107 |197 |113 |4 |14 |130 |328
Croydon |131 |54 |272 |456 |146 |4 |35 |186 |642
Ealing |181 |69 |183 |433 |108 |4 |16 |128 |561
Enfield |87 |11 |213 |311 |99 |4 |26 |129 |440
Haringey |209 |33 |207 |448 |107 |4 |9 |121 |569
Harrow |52 |116 |170 |338 |83 |6 |32 |121 |459
Havering |39 |41 |134 |213 |117 |1 |31 |149 |362
Hillingdon |68 |64 |146 |278 |65 |4 |16 |85 |363
Hounslow |156 |39 |164 |359 |99 |8 |46 |152 |511
Kingston upon
Thames |61 |9 |58 |129 |38 |29 |37 |104 |233
Merton |77 |57 |82 |216 |15 |55 |73 |143 |360
Newham |120 |44 |192 |355 |63 |1 |87 |151 |506
Redbridge |48 |25 |192 |265 |131 |10 |48 |190 |455
Richmond upon
Thames |31 |15 |110 |157 |72 |6 |22 |99 |256
Sutton |45 |27 |48 |121 |4 |25 |67 |96 |216
Waltham Forest |91 |26 |279 |396 |120 |7 |47 |173 |569
Birmingham |937 |141 |732 |1811 |534 |30 |37 |601 |2,411
Coventry |295 |26 |220 |541 |178 |16 |56 |250 |791
Dudley |193 |20 |114 |328 |134 |2 |13 |149 |477
Sandwell |328 |33 |177 |538 |203 |2 |14 |220 |757
Solihull |135 |29 |129 |293 |114 |18 |16 |148 |440
Walsall |204 |51 |272 |527 |152 |1 |12 |165 |692
Wolverhampton |245 |23 |152 |420 |144 |6 |8 |158 |578
Knowsley |98 |2 |165 |265 |85 |16 |46 |147 |411
Liverpool |179 |56 |420 |654 |279 |14 |36 |329 |983
St. Helens |126 |65 |146 |338 |95 |10 |8 |112 |450
Sefton |174 |44 |186 |404 |143 |32 |25 |200 |605
Wirral |133 |47 |183 |364 |130 |20 |30 |180 |544
Bolton |189 |24 |109 |323 |127 |12 |6 |144 |467
Bury |113 |53 |80 |246 |81 |2 |2 |85 |331
Manchester |475 |29 |406 |910 |257 |16 |25 |299 |1,209
Oldham |201 |18 |228 |446 |30 |8 |124 |161 |608
Rochdale |146 |14 |95 |255 |114 |19 |15 |148 |403
Salford |240 |26 |131 |397 |117 |18 |17 |152 |548
Stockport |138 |84 |226 |448 |133 |15 |47 |195 |643
Tameside |190 |29 |87 |307 |90 |17 |8 |115 |421
Trafford |62 |26 |84 |171 |88 |9 |8 |105 |276
Wigan |127 |22 |210 |359 |133 |24 |30 |187 |546
Barnsley |95 |197 |146 |439 |88 |14 |31 |133 |572
Doncaster |103 |118 |248 |469 |196 |26 |40 |262 |731
Rotherham |84 |88 |216 |388 |123 |14 |22 |158 |546
Sheffield |296 |50 |344 |689 |208 |28 |76 |312 |1,001
Bradford |372 |428 |493 |1,294 |246 |43 |87 |376 |1,669
Calderdale |95 |96 |181 |371 |91 |3 |3 |97 |468
Kirklees |140 |150 |378 |668 |183 |16 |39 |238 |906
Leeds |456 |547 |509 |1,513 |330 |32 |83 |445 |1,958
Wakefield |178 |124 |213 |515 |175 |23 |30 |228 |743
Gateshead |134 |11 |80 |225 |94 |1 |24 |120 |345
Newcastle upon
Tyne |194 |8 |195 |398 |154 |2 |7 |163 |560
North Tyneside |128 |18 |123 |269 |92 |3 |32 |127 |396
South Tyneside |114 |5 |56 |176 |69 |<2>- |2 |72 |247
Sunderland |235 |45 |187 |467 |154 |0 |9 |163 |630
Isles of Scilly |<2>- |1 |1 |2 |3 |<2>- |<2>- |3 |6
Avon |614 |168 |653 |1,434 |557 |55 |60 |672 |2,107
Bedfordshire |274 |150 |412 |836 |272 |23 |162 |457 |1,294
Berkshire |260 |220 |574 |1,054 |258 |162 |108 |528 |1,582
Buckinghamshire |191 |196 |638 |1,024 |268 |51 |102 |421 |1,445
Cambridgeshire |216 |476 |578 |1,271 |297 |32 |94 |423 |1,694
Cheshire |550 |252 |578 |1,380 |419 |73 |150 |642 |2,022
Cleveland |292 |74 |398 |765 |286 |3 |76 |364 |1,129
Cornwall |115 |452 |414 |981 |196 |12 |102 |310 |1,291
Cumbria |196 |246 |191 |633 |192 |6 |37 |234 |868
Derbyshire |460 |374 |627 |1,462 |369 |44 |111 |523 |1,985
Devon |185 |437 |921 |1,543 |584 |48 |88 |720 |2,264
Dorset |85 |116 |447 |647 |230 |41 |93 |364 |1,011
Durham |323 |204 |301 |829 |307 |10 |7 |323 |1,152
East Sussex |139 |186 |558 |884 |301 |62 |97 |459 |1,343
Essex |143 |406 |831 |1,381 |504 |31 |381 |916 |2,297
Gloucestershire |186 |130 |219 |534 |211 |24 |34 |269 |804
Hampshire |510 |965 |1,370 |2,846 |765 |73 |394 |1,231 |4,077
Hereford and
Worcester |101 |130 |410 |641 |343 |20 |68 |431 |1,073
Hertfordshire |361 |232 |947 |1,541 |546 |85 |73 |704 |2,245
Humberside |407 |290 |670 |1,367 |424 |50 |115 |588 |1,955
Isle of Wight |30 |50 |150 |230 |49 |2 |49 |101 |331
Kent |371 |590 |1,007 |1,968 |745 |38 |89 |872 |2,840
Lancashire |786 |152 |948 |1,886 |632 |110 |161 |902 |2,788
Leicestershire |297 |218 |903 |1,418 |394 |136 |179 |709 |2,127
Lincolnshire |188 |210 |356 |754 |250 |9 |25 |284 |1,038
Norfolk |143 |243 |494 |880 |376 |18 |38 |432 |1,312
North Yorkshire |182 |160 |414 |757 |395 |44 |43 |482 |1,238
Northampton |190 |166 |486 |842 |272 |87 |93 |452 |1,295
Northumberland |159 |70 |119 |348 |180 |10 |10 |200 |548
Nottinghamshire |678 |248 |578 |1,505 |612 |15 |39 |666 |2,171
Oxfordshire |199 |359 |544 |1,101 |280 |74 |61 |414 |1,515
Shropshire |93 |209 |308 |610 |203 |16 |45 |264 |874
Somerset |120 |326 |491 |936 |197 |30 |111 |338 |1,274
Staffordshire |557 |209 |639 |1,406 |488 |15 |252 |755 |2,161
Suffolk |108 |184 |516 |808 |298 |79 |94 |472 |1,279
Surrey |172 |341 |551 |1,064 |392 |142 |210 |744 |1,808
Warwickshire |178 |120 |425 |722 |284 |18 |30 |332 |1,054
West Sussex |130 |198 |694 |1,021 |236 |203 |165 |604 |1,626
Wiltshire |18 |308 |455 |782 |196 |38 |134 |368 |1,149
England |20,820 |14,152 |35,223 |70,195 |22,277 |2,777 |6,127 |31,181 |101,375
<1> Excludes premises related to staff, kitchen/canteen staff and lunchtime supervisors.
<2> Less than 0.5.
Correspondence
Ms Estelle Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she expects to answer the question table by the hon. Member for Birmingham, Yardley for answer on 6 March on the percentage of secondary school children entitled to free school meals. [17753]
Mr. Robin Squire: A reply was sent to the hon. Member on Friday 31 March.
Public Information Telephone Service
Mr. Donohoe: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will make a statement on the public information telephone inquiry lines operated by her Department, in each case stating the costs of establishing, operating and publicising these lines and the number of calls made to them up until this point; when they were established; and what assessment her Department has made of their effectiveness. [17461]
Mr. Forth: A dedicated public inquiry unit was established within the Department's information bureau and library in 1987. With the advent of a new switchboard in 1991 a single number--0171 925 5555--was established to handle public inquiries. In September 1994 a voice processing system with automatic call routing capabilities was added to the telephone line at a cost of £18,477. The unit's annual staffing costs are estimated at £127,000. The telephone number appears on all departmental press releases, in entries in directories and year books and in appropriate departmental publications. No extra costs have been incurred in publicising the number.
It is estimated that 65 per cent. to 70 per cent. of all inquiries are made by telephone. The total number of inquiries handled by the public inquiry unit as a result of telephone calls, letters and personal callers to the
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Department's inquiry room at its headquarters are as follows: 1987: 30,633 (April December only)1988: 51,468
1989: 55,674
1990: 49,553
1991: 58,103
1992: 51,866
1993: 51,327
1994: 63,974
The introduction of the call routing system has increased the effectiveness of the public inquiry unit by enabling telephone callers to be automatically directed to staff able to handle specific queries or to the publication ordering service.
National Youth Agency
Mr. Key: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will withdraw central Government-funded support from the National Youth Agency; and if she will make a statement. [17147]
Mr. Boswell: Central Government grants to the National Youth Agency have already been agreed for 1995 96. Funding from the Department for Education for future years will be decided in the light of the outcome of the policy review of the agency currently taking place.
School Capital Grants
Mr. Byers: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what capital grants were (a) applied for and (b) granted for 1995 96 for each grant- maintained school. [18078]
Mr. Robin Squire: These matters are now the responsibility of the Funding Agency for Schools. I have
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asked the chairman of the funding agency to write to the hon. Member with this information.GCSE
Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will list the GCSE average point scores for (a) each twentieth group and (b) for the cumulative twentieth groups of 15-year-old pupils ranked according to their average point scores for (i) 1993 and (ii) 1994, in respect of (1) all pupil, (2) pupils in the grant-maintained
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sector, (3) pupils in the independent sector, (4) pupils in the whole maintained sector and (5) pupils in the local education authority maintained sector giving the numbers of each group of the whole cohort in each case. [18033]Mr. Forth: The information requested is shown in the table. The total number of pupils are divided into 20 groups of equal size. The cumulative number of pupils in each of the 20 groups and their cumulative average point score are listed in the table. The numbers and average point score of individual groups can be derived from the listed figures.
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GCSE average point scores by each twentieth of the 15 year olds 1993-94 All schools Grant maintained Independent Maintained LEA maintained Average |Average |Average |Average |Average GCSE |Number 15|GCSE |Number 15|GCSE |Number 15|GCSE |Number 15|GCSE |Number 15 points |year olds|points |year olds|points |year olds|points |year olds|points |year olds -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0.0 |26,614 |0.2 |4,303 |0.0 |2,303 |0.0 |24,311 |0.0 |20,008 0.7 |53,227 |3.5 |8,607 |1.8 |4,605 |0.7 |48,622 |0.5 |40,015 2.9 |79,841 |7.3 |12,910 |8.9 |6,908 |3.1 |72,933 |2.0 |60,023 5.4 |106,455 |9.7 |17,214 |16.1 |9,210 |5.8 |97,245 |4.3 |80,031 8.5 |133,068 |12.5 |21,517 |20.4 |11,513 |8.1 |121,556 |7.4 |100,039 11.1 |159,682 |15.9 |25,821 |25.9 |13,815 |9.6 |145,867 |8.9 |120,046 12.8 |186,296 |16.5 |30,124 |27.6 |16,118 |12.5 |170,178 |11.6 |140,054 14.6 |212,909 |18.7 |34,428 |32.6 |18,420 |14.4 |194,489 |13.4 |160,062 16.5 |239,523 |20.9 |38,731 |35.3 |20,723 |16.4 |218,800 |15.4 |180,069 19.8 |266,137 |23.1 |43,035 |34.9 |23,025 |18.4 |243,112 |17.4 |200,077 20.5 |292,750 |23.8 |47,338 |38.2 |25,328 |19.2 |267,423 |18.1 |220,085 22.5 |319,364 |26.2 |51,641 |41.2 |27,630 |21.2 |291,734 |20.1 |240,092 24.5 |345,977 |27.0 |55,945 |41.1 |29,933 |23.2 |316,045 |22.1 |260,100 25.2 |372,591 |29.3 |60,248 |41.2 |32,235 |24.0 |340,356 |22.8 |280,108 27.0 |399,205 |30.0 |64,552 |44.7 |34,538 |25.8 |364,667 |24.6 |300,116 28.7 |425,818 |31.9 |68,855 |45.5 |36,840 |27.4 |388,978 |26.2 |320,123 30.2 |452,432 |33.5 |73,159 |45.3 |39,143 |28.8 |413,290 |27.6 |340,131 31.3 |479,046 |34.7 |77,462 |46.9 |41,445 |29.8 |437,601 |29.4 |360,139 33.0 |505,659 |35.6 |81,766 |48.2 |43,748 |31.8 |461,912 |30.6 |380,146 34.5 |532,273 |37.0 |86,069 |48.6 |46,050 |33.1 |486,223 |32.3 |400,154
GCSE average point scores by each twentieth of the 15 year olds 1992-93 All schools Grant maintained Independent Maintained LEA maintained Average |Average |Average |Average |Average GCSE |Number 15|GCSE |Number 15|GCSE |Number 15|GCSE |Number 15|GCSE |Number 15 points |year olds|points |year olds|points |year olds|points |year olds|points |year olds -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0.0 |26,122 |0.7 |3,540 |0.0 |2,301 |0.0 |23,822 |0.0 |20,282 0.9 |52,245 |3.5 |7,080 |1.8 |4,601 |0.9 |47,644 |0.6 |40,564 2.9 |78,367 |6.2 |10,619 |7.9 |6,902 |3.1 |71,465 |2.5 |60,846 5.4 |104,489 |9.5 |14,159 |14.9 |9,202 |4.9 |95,287 |4.3 |81,128 7.5 |130,612 |12.4 |17,699 |21.1 |11,503 |7.1 |119,109 |6.4 |101,410 10.0 |156,734 |14.2 |21,239 |24.3 |13,804 |9.6 |142,931 |8.8 |121,692 11.6 |182,856 |16.2 |24,779 |28.7 |16,104 |11.3 |166,752 |10.4 |141,974 14.5 |208,979 |18.4 |28,318 |30.6 |18,405 |13.1 |190,574 |12.2 |162,256 16.4 |235,101 |19.1 |31,858 |33.0 |20,705 |15.0 |214,396 |14.0 |182,538 17.0 |261,224 |21.4 |35,398 |35.5 |23,006 |17.0 |238,218 |16.0 |202,820 19.0 |287,346 |23.7 |38,938 |35.1 |25,307 |17.8 |262,039 |17.9 |223,102 21.0 |313,468 |24.5 |42,478 |37.9 |27,607 |19.8 |285,861 |18.7 |243,384 22.9 |339,591 |25.4 |46,017 |40.3 |29,908 |21.7 |309,683 |20.6 |263,666 23.6 |365,713 |27.6 |49,557 |40.0 |32,208 |22.4 |333,505 |22.5 |283,948 25.4 |391,835 |28.2 |53,097 |42.8 |34,509 |24.2 |357,326 |24.2 |304,230 27.0 |417,958 |29.9 |56,637 |43.1 |36,810 |25.8 |381,148 |25.7 |324,512 28.3 |444,080 |31.4 |60,177 |44.0 |39,110 |27.0 |404,970 |26.9 |344,794 30.1 |470,202 |33.4 |63,716 |45.5 |41,411 |28.8 |428,792 |27.0 |365,076 31.4 |496,325 |34.9 |67,256 |47.3 |43,711 |30.4 |452,613 |29.4 |385,358 33.1 |522,447 |35.6 |70,796 |47.4 |46,012 |31.7 |476,435 |31.1 |405,640
Education Means Business"
Mr. Skinner: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what was the cost to his Department of the printing and distributing of the booklet "Education Means Business". [17785]
Mr. Forth: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for North Devon (Mr. Harvey) on 28 March, Official Report , column 572 .
Mr. Hinchliffe: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many copies of "Education Means Business" have been printed; what was the cost of publication excluding distribution; what was the distribution cost; how many copies of "Education Means Business" have been distributed; and if he will identify the nature of recipients. [17841]
Mr. Forth: Fifty thousand copies of "Education Means Business" were printed at a total production cost of £101,000. Twenty-nine thousand copies have been distributed to the business community, colleges, universities, schools and local education authorities at a cost of £18,400.
Grant-maintained Schools
Mr. Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what top-slice percentage was held-back by each local education authority for the administrative services undertaken on behalf of grant-maintained schools for the last year for which figures are available. [17370]
Mr. Robin Squire: Grant-maintained schools are themselves responsible for their own administration. Local education authorities have certain continuing responsibilities for all pupils, whether at grant- maintained or LEA schools. These include home-to-school transport, the education welfare service, and support for pupils with statements of special educational need. The cost of these services in relation to GM school pupils is not collated centrally. However, in the areas where GM secondary schools' budgets are determined by the common funding formula, the percentage of the schools' standard spending assessment attributed to LEA continuing responsibilities in 1995 96 is set out in the table.
|Per cent.
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Barnet |16.36
Brent |18.12
Bromley |16.87
Calderdale |13.55
Cambridgeshire |16.54
Croydon |18.23
Cumbria |16.17
Ealing |23.03
Enfield |18.99
Essex |16.97
Gloucestershire |20.73
Hertfordshire |15.64
Hillingdon |17.42
Kent |17.10
Kingston |18.61
Lambeth |25.62
Lincolnshire |23.90
Surrey |18.30
Sutton |17.26
Walsall |14.52
Wandsworth |23.60
Wiltshire |16.10
Mrs. Gorman: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will calculate how much extra money per pupil would reach schools in each local education authority if all schools in that local education authority were grant-maintained compared with the position in which none is grant- maintained, in the most recent year for which information is available. [17148]
Mr. Robin Squire: The information requested cannot readily be calculated. However, the Government remain committed to ensuring that grant -maintained schools receive funding to reflect their additional responsibilities compared with local education authority schools. In the case of annual maintenance grant, individual secondary LEA schools in authorities in which the common funding formula operates can obtain from the Funding Agency for Schools detailed information on what their budgets for 1995 96 would have been as grant-maintained schools.
Other LEA secondary schools, and all LEA primary schools, can calculate very closely what their budgets for 1995 96 would have been as grant- maintained schools by increasing their budget shares resulting from their LEA's local management of schools scheme by the relevant percentage for central costs, and estimating a level of subsidy for the provision of school meals consistent with the LEA's policy.
Details of this and of the arrangements for special purpose and capital grants to grant-maintained schools are included in the Department's "Grant- Maintained Schools Funding Worksheet," the 1995 96 version of which will be circulated to schools later this month.
Schools Expenditure
Mr. Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what was the unit cost net of institutional expenditure per primary and secondary school pupil for each of local education authority for 1993 94. [17371]
Mr. Robin Squire: Provisional information on net institutional expenditure per pupil in 1993 94 on LEA-maintained schools is shown in the table. Data for some LEAs are not yet available centrally.
Cost per pupil net |Pre-primary institutional |and primary |Secondary expenditure 1993-94 |education |education -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Corporation of London |3,587 |0 Camden |2,047 |2,721 Greenwich |2,009 |2,583 Hackney |- |- Hammersmith |2,534 |3,329 Islington |- |- Kensington and Chelsea |- |- Lambeth |2,666 |3,296 Lewisham |2,058 |2,614 Southwark |1,806 |2,421 Tower Hamlets |- |- Wandsworth |2,139 |2,795 Westminster |2,592 |2,739 Barking |1,790 |2,355 Barnet |2,006 |2,952 Bexley |- |- Brent |1,633 |1,835 Bromley |1,525 |2,280 Croydon |1,793 |2,309 Ealing |1,915 |2,575 Enfield |1,768 |2,531 Haringey |2,236 |3,041 Harrow |- |- Havering |1,636 |2,290 Hillingdon |- |- Hounslow |1,784 |2,282 Kingston upon Thames |1,728 |2,284 Merton |1,853 |2,463 Newham |1,708 |2,563 Redbridge |- |- Richmond upon Thames |1,794 |2,280 Sutton |1,639 |1,978 Waltham Forest |- |- Birmingham |1,678 |2,434 Coventry |1,684 |2,469 Dudley |1,490 |2,098 Sandwell |1,681 |2,349 Solihull |- |- Walsall |1,672 |2,279 Wolverhampton |1,357 |2,300 Knowsley |1,485 |2,243 Liverpool |- |- St. Helens |- |- Sefton |- |- Wirral |1,552 |2,299 Bolton |- |- Bury |- |- Manchester |1,547 |2,328 Oldham |- |- Rochdale |1,307 |1,974 Salford |1,505 |2,215 Stockport |1,466 |2,310 Tameside |- |- Trafford |1,428 |2,156 Wigan |1,437 |2,141 Barnsley |- |- Doncaster |1,425 |2,022 Rotherham |1,723 |2,271 Sheffield |1,573 |2,119 Bradford |1,654 |1,969 Calderdale |1,607 |2,162 Kirklees |1,579 |2,207 Leeds |1,647 |2,164 Wakefield |- |- Gateshead |1,664 |2,252 Newcastle upon Tyne |1,697 |2,187 North Tyneside |1,469 |1,995 South Tyneside |- |- Sunderland |1,509 |2,114 Isles of Scilly |2,401 |4,415 Avon |1,571 |2,288 Bedfordshire |1,639 |2,103 Berkshire |1,592 |2,214 Buckinghamshire |1,735 |2,286 Cambridgeshire |- |- Cheshire |1,604 |2,206 Cleveland |1,461 |2,129 Cornwall |1,535 |2,160 Cumbria |1,667 |2,216 Derbyshire |1,600 |2,214 Devon |1,503 |2,157 Dorset |1,485 |2,065 Durham |1,664 |2,114 East Sussex |1,643 |2,270 Essex |1,724 |2,286 Gloucestershire |1,523 |2,084 Hampshire |1,583 |2,180 Hereford and Worcester |- |- Hertfordshire |- |- Humberside |1,621 |2,257 Isle of Wight |1,598 |2,027 Kent |- |- Lancashire |1,669 |2,347 Leicestershire |1,734 |2,346 Lincolnshire |1,496 |2,322 Norfolk |1,585 |2,309 North Yorkshire |1,555 |2,187 Northamptonshire |1,522 |2,125 Northumberland |1,686 |2,083 Nottinghamshire |1,653 |2,381 Oxfordshire |1,765 |2,191 Shropshire |1,577 |2,354 Somerset |1,583 |2,138 Staffordshire |1,534 |2,078 Suffolk |1,673 |2,190 Surrey |1,701 |2,215 Warwickshire |1,555 |2,420 West Sussex |1,579 |2,467 Wiltshire |1,521 |2,379 - LEA returns are being processed. 0 Corporation of London has no secondary schools.
Advertising
Mrs. Ann Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Eduction if she will list, for 1992 93 and 1993 94, separate figures for the spending by her Department on (a) television advertising, (b) radio advertising, (c) newspaper advertising, (d) other promotion materials and activities, (e) the totals in each year of (a) to (d) and (f) the proportion of (e) that was spent on recruitment advertising; and what are her latest estimates for the years 1994- 95 and 1995 96. [17603]
Mr. Forth: The actual costs for the Department's spend on advertising and other publicity--1992 93 and the estimated costs for 1994 95--are given in the table.
£000
|1992-93 |1993-94 |<1>1994-95
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Television advertising |0 |0 |0
Radio advertising |0 |29.2 |0
Newspaper advertising |1,086.4 |1,413.0 |159.3
Other promotional material
and activities |5,800.1 |8,551.3 |8,360.7
Total |6,886.5 |9,993.5 |8,520.0
<1> Estimate.
The budget for departmental publicity in 1995 96 is estimated at £5,530,000. Decisions on media have yet to be made.
The costs for advertising do not include recruitment advertising. The Department's spend on recruitment and recruitment advertising is set out in the following table.
£000
|1992-93 |<1>1993-94|1994-95
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Recruitment and recruitment
advertising |150.8 |296.5 |218.9
<1> Estimate.
The Department's budget for recruitment and recruitment advertising in 1995 96 is estimated at some £145,000.
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Special Needs (Research)
Mr. Allen: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what research her Department has funded into the differing levels of children with special educational needs in different areas; and if she will make a statement. [17218]
Mr. Forth: No academic research on variations in the incidence of special educational needs has been funded by the Department for Education. The Department has, however, sponsored research into aspects of several types of learning difficulty, although not their incidence.
The Office for Standards in Education also monitors special educational provision and practice in schools throughout the country.
NORTHERN IRELAND
Northern Ireland Police Authority
Mr. Maginnis: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland whether the chairman of the Northern Ireland police authority has communicated directly with individual members of the RUC in respect of his community consultation. [17050]
Sir John Wheeler: I understand that the chairman has written to every serving officer in the regular RUC and the RUC reserve, full-time and part-time, to explain the police authority's community consultation process and its view of the future. He has also written to the civilian staff.
Mr. Maginnis: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what formal invitations to present oral or written evidence to his community consultation the chairman of the Northern Ireland police authority has issued to Northern Ireland's constitutional political parties, the various RUC staff associations, the trade unions, the churches and employers' organisations. [17049]
Sir John Wheeler: I understand that the chairman of the authority has written to each Member of Parliament and each local council in Northern Ireland seeking their written views on the future of policing in the Province, by 2 May 1995. Written views have also been sought from the staff associations and organisations referred to, together with a wide range of community groups. In addition, the authority is in the process of holding a series of informal discussion seminars on policing, at venues throughout Northern Ireland, which all locally elected representatives and
representatives from local businesses, churches, schools, charities and community groups have been invited to attend.
Mr. Maginnis: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what has been the requirement by the chairman of the Northern Ireland police authority in terms of full-time and part-time staff engaged in his community consultation exercise; what has been the total number of man days expended; and whether he is eligible for extra remuneration or allowances in respect of the exercise. [17047]
Sir John Wheeler: I understand that three members of staff within the authority's existing personnel complement have been deployed directly on the community consultation programme. A number of tasks have been undertaken by other authority personnel as part of their existing overall remit. No additional staff have been
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employed by the police authority as a result of the community consultation exercise.It is not possible to calculate precisely how many man hours have been expended on the project to date by all staff in the authority; however, the three units of staff directly employed on the project have expended a total of 67 working days up to 17 March 1995. The chairman does not receive extra remuneration or allowances in respect of the exercise.
Mr. Maginnis: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what information he has received from the chairman of the Northern Ireland police authority on how the evidence given during his community consultation is to be verified, collated and assessed; when the exercise is to be completed; and what is the next stage in the process. [17051]
Sir John Wheeler: The chairman of the authority has kept my officials fully informed about each stage of the consultation process. I understand that the first stage of the consultation process ends on 2 May 1995, by which date all submissions should be received in writing by the authority.
The second stage involves the submissions being examined and, where appropriate, organisations or individuals being invited to expand or explain their submissions in further detail, either in writing or in an oral submission. The second stage should be completed by October or November. However, this stage of the process will be dependent, to a large extent, on the total number of submissions received and their content. Submissions are currently being analysed by authority officials and information is being collated. Once all the submissions have been reviewed, the third stage of the process will be implemented; this will involve preparing a written report for the Chief Constable and the Secretary of State. The authority hopes to issue a report by the end of this year or at the beginning of 1996.
Mr. Maginnis: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what has been the total cost of the various elements in the chairman of the Northern Ireland police authority's community consultation exercise, including all printing, postage, administration and public hearings, up to 17 March. [17048]
Sir John Wheeler: The cost of the community consultation process up to 17 March amounts to £72,012.11, excluding VAT. This does not include staff costs, as the authority did not recruit additional personnel for the exercise.
Anaphylaxis
Rev. Ian Paisley: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many patients in Northern Ireland, have been diagnosed as suffering from food-induced anaphylaxis, peanut allergy. [17013]
Mr. Moss: The information is not available in the form requested. During the year 1993 94, there were 32 admissions to hospital of patients suffering from anaphylactic shock. This figure would include any cases induced by peanut allergy.
Temporary Contracts
Ms Harman: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list for each of the past five years, the number of (a) teachers and (b) auxiliary school staff in
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Northern Ireland who are employed on a temporary basis, also expressing the data as a percentage of the total numbers in each respective staff group. [17764]Mr. Ancram: The information regarding teachers is as follows:
|Teachers employed
|in a temporary |Percentage of total
Year |capacity |teachers
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1993-94 |258 |1.3
1992-93 |205 |1.1
1991-92 |186 |1.0
1990-91 |152 |0.8
1989-90 |154 |0.8
Figures for auxiliary school staff in controlled and maintained schools are available for 1994 95 only and comprised 1,446 temporary staff--29 per cent. of the total.
Information for auxiliary staff in voluntary grammar schools is not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Ms Harman: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list for each of the past five years, the number of NHS staff in Northern Ireland who
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are employed on a temporary basis, breaking the date down into (a) nursing and midwifery staff, (b) medical and dental staff, (c) ambulance staff, (d) ancillary staff and (e) managers and administrative staff, also expressing the data as a percentage of the total numbers in each respective staff group. [17759]Mr. Moss: The information is set out in the following table. Figures for auxiliary school staff in controlled and maintained schools are available for 1994 95 only and comprised 1,446 temporary staff--29 per cent. of the total.
Information for auxiliary staff in voluntary grammar schools is not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Ms Harman: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list for each of the past five years, the number of NHS staff in Northern Ireland who are employed on a temporary basis, breaking the date down into (a) nursing and midwifery staff, (b) medical and dental staff, (c) ambulance staff, (d) ancillary staff and (e) managers and administrative staff, also expressing the data as a percentage of the total numbers in each respective staff group. [17759]
Mr. Moss: The information is set out in the following table.
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Number of NHS staff in N.I who are employed on a temporary basis
September 1990 September 1991 September 1992 September 1993 September 1994
Staff group |Number |Percentage |Number |Percentage |Number |Percentage |Number |Percentage |Number |Percentage
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Nursing and General |1,165 |5.7 |1,314 |6.6 |1,505 |7.7 |1,733 |9.2 |2,121 |11.2
Medical and Dental |394 |18.6 |387 |17.0 |337 |17.0 |334 |13.7 |371 |14.9
Ambulance |18 |3.0 |7 |1.2 |4 |0.7 |1 |0.2 |8 |1.4
Ancillary and General |2,148 |18.3 |2,041 |18.5 |1,588 |16.0 |1,334 |14.4 |1,586 |17.4
Managers and Administrative |919 |12.0 |996 |12.6 |1,034 |11.9 |993 |11.3 |1,110 |12.3
Prisoners (Irish Nationals)
Mr. Madden: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many Irish nationals are serving custodial sentences in Her Majesty's prisons in Northern Ireland; and what obstacles are preventing them from being transferred to prisons in the Irish Republic. [17661]
Sir John Wheeler: This information is not readily available as statistics are not kept on Irish nationals. The information could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Environmentally Sensitive Areas
Mr. Welsh: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what area of Northern Ireland is designated as being environmentally sensitive, how much Government funding is spent annually on environmentally sensitive areas; how this formula is calculated; and if he will make a statement. [17794]
Mr. Ancram: There are five ESAs in Northern Ireland covering 220, 000 hectares or about 20 per cent. of the agricultural land area. Payments covering agreements with participating farmers will build up over the next three years. The financial provision for 1997 98 is £5.104 million which reflects anticipated
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maximum uptake of 65 per cent. of the designated land area. Payment rates reflect income forgone and costs incurred by participating farmers in meeting the requirements of the scheme.HEALTH
Day Care Services
Ms Hodge: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is her Department's latest estimate of the total level of public expenditure on day care services by local authority area for children under the age of five; and what this sum is per child. [16130]
Mr. Bowis: Information on expenditure per child, by authority, is published in "Key Indicators of Local Authority Social Services", copies of which are available in the Library.
The latest available information on total expenditure by local authorities covering 1992 93 on day care, child minding facilities and playgroups will be placed in the Library. These figures do not give an indication of the true level of services in a particular area as such services have historically developed in different ways in different authorities.
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Table: Gross expenditure on daycare services for children
under 5<1>, 1992-93
|Total expenditure
|£000
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Shire Counties
Avon |3,860
Bedfordshire |870
Berkshire |365
Buckinghamshire |800
Cambridgeshire |613
Cheshire |1,247
Cleveland |1,666
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly |104
Cumbria |517
Derbyshire |2,559
Devon |186
Dorset |48
Durham |638
East Sussex |141
Essex |1,874
Gloucestershire |0
Hampshire |355
Hereford and Worcester |580
Hertfordshire |599
Humberside |91
Isle of Wight |31
Kent |109
Lancashire |5,942
Leicestershire |1,840
Lincolnshire |475
Norfolk |137
Northamptonshire |895
Northumberland |199
North Yorkshire |23
Nottinghamshire |3318
Oxfordshire |156
Shropshire |406
Somerset |718
Staffordshire |2,052
Suffolk |254
Surrey |264
Warwickshire |45
West Sussex |182
Wiltshire |0
Metropolitan Districts
Bolton |956
Bury |384
Manchester |11,590
Oldham |28
Rochdale |2,046
Salford |1,472
Stockport |24
Tameside |1,929
Trafford |1,369
Wigan |1,223
Knowsley |224
Liverpool |4,188
St. Helens |181
Sefton |977
Wirral |1,790
Barnsley |29
Doncaster |38
Rotherham |111
Sheffield |1,722
Gateshead |619
Newcastle Upon Tyne |1,749
North Tyneside |1,159
South Tyneside |34
Sunderland |46
Birmingham |10,090
Coventry |1,925
Dudley |168
Sandwell |91
Solihull |0
Walsall |301
Wolverhampton |124
Bradford |2,010
Calderdale |420
Kirklees |971
Leeds |7,134
Wakefield |461
Inner London
Camden |2,917
Greenwich |1,833
Hackney |8,621
Hammersmith |3,273
Islington |3,542
Kensington |2,970
Lambeth |6,463
Lewisham |3,790
Southwark |5,004
Tower Hamlets |2,154
Wandsworth |2,599
Westminster |4,803
City of London |203
Outer London
Barking |899
Barnet |1,856
Bexley |257
Brent |2,985
Bromley |549
Croydon |1,253
Ealing |1,517
Enfield |113
Haringey |4,227
Harrow |463
Havering |726
Hillingdon |985
Hounslow |1,200
Kingston Upon Thames |542
Merton |609
Newham |2,140
Redbridge |79
Richmond Upon Thames |984
Sutton |560
Waltham Forest |1,782
Source:
Revenue Outturn returns for Personal Social Services (RO3).
Note:
<1> The figures may include some expenditure on child minding
for 5-7 year olds.
General Practitioner Working Hours
Mr. Sheerman: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what change there has been in the number of hours worked on average by general practitioners since 1979. [16422]
Mr. Malone: The earliest available information is for 1985 86 and the most recent for 1992 93. Over this period, average general practitioners' working hours increased by 13 per cent., from 34.4 to 38.8 hours a week. Some of this increase is attributable to the reclassification of time spent attending educational courses as general medical services.
If time spent on-call but not working is included, the average commitment has reduced by 5 per cent., from 61.9 hours a week in 1985 86 to 58.8 hours a week in 1992 93.
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