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South Eastern Education and Library Board
Mr. Worthington: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland which organisations have supported his proposals to abolish the South Eastern education and library board. [31421]
Mr. Ancram: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 26 June, Official Report , column 471 .
Making Belfast Work
Mr. John D. Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much was spent by Making Belfast Work on administration in the last year, and what proportion of the total budget this represents. [31653]
Mr. Moss: The administrative costs of Making Belfast Work, including nine actions teams, in 1994 95 was £1,510,794. This represents 5.59 per cent. of the total MBW and action team budget for 1994 95.
Animal Diseases
Mr. Morley: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will show, by type, the number of cases of fowl pest in each year since 1985. [32293]
Mr. Ancram: The term fowl pest includes both avian influenza--fowl plague--and Newcastle disease. Avian influenza has never occurred in Northern Ireland. Since 1985, Newcastle disease has been identified only in Northern Ireland in 1991 when six cases occurred.
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Mr. Morley: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many cases of epizootic haemorrhagic virus disease occurred in each year since 1985. [32284]
Mr. Morley: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy occurred in each year since 1985. [32375]
Mr. Ancram: The information is as follows:
1985: 0
1986: 0
1987: 0
1988: 3
1989: 30
1990: 100
1991: 170
1992: 333
1993: 487
1994: 363
1995: 88 (to 16 June)
Mr. Morley: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many cases of African horse sickness occurred in each year since 1985. [32302]
Mr. Morley: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many cases of contagious equine metritis occurred in each year since 1985. [32281]
Mr. Morley: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many cases of rabies there were in each year since 1967. [32290]
Mr. Morley: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many cases of peste des petits ruminants occurred in each year since 1985. [32287]
Integrated Schools
Mr. William Ross: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will give for each integrated school the sums expended on (a) capital expenditure, (b) running costs exclusive of teachers' salaries and (c) other running costs, (i) per school and (ii) per child; and if he will give the figure equivalent to (b) and (c) for (1) maintained, (2) controlled and (3) voluntary schools in (A) the primary and (B) the secondary levels, in the last year for which figures are available. [32434]
Mr. Ancram: Capital expenditure incurred by education and library boards on controlled integrated schools in 1994 95 was as follows:
|£
--------------------------------------------
All Children Together Primary |2,614
Carnhill Primary |64,878
Forge Primary |38,277
Brownlow College |32,799
Capital expenditure approved by my Department for grant purposes in 1994 95 for each grant-maintained integrated school was as follows:
|£
----------------------------------
Primary Schools
Braidside |78,157
Bridge |64,882
Corran |504,717
Enniskillen |30,450
Hazelwood |172,914
Millstrand |36,598
Oakgrove |600,047
Omagh |46,406
Portadown |122,818
Windmill |4,964
Secondary Schools
Hazelwood College |180,993
Lagan College |81,008
The information on running costs is not available in the form requested, but I would refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer I gave the hon. Member for Redcar (Ms Mowlam) on 27 March, Official Report , column 484 .
Peace Process
Mr. Canavan: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what recent discussions he has had about the peace process; and if he will make a statement. [29816]
Sir Patrick Mayhew: I have held bilateral meetings with the Ulster Unionist party and the Alliance party respectively, when there was an explanation of some issues that need to be addressed if there is to be a comprehensive and widely acceptable political settlement.
EDUCATION
Independent Schools
Mr. Byers: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many school age pupils resident in each local education authority area attend independent schools. [31899]
Mr. Robin Squire: The numbers of pupils of compulsory school age in independent schools in each LEA area in England are shown in the table. Information about the LEA area in which pupils are resident is not collected centrally.
Pupils of compulsory school age<1> in
independent schools in each
LEA area in England: January 1994
LEA |Pupils
---------------------------------------
Corporation of London |1,233
Camden |4,516
Greenwich |1,318
Hackney |2,628
Hammersmith |2,771
Islington |194
Kensington and Chelsea |7,454
Lambeth |1,214
Lewisham |2,592
Southwark |4,444
Tower Hamlets |223
Wandsworth |4,301
Westminster |4,170
Barking |0
Barnet |4,345
Bexley |493
Brent |1,634
Bromley |3,844
Croydon |6,898
Ealing |4,693
Enfield |1,000
Haringey |1,812
Harrow |3,609
Havering |528
Hillingdon |2,694
Hounslow |560
Kingston upon Thames |2,463
Merton |2,710
Newham |151
Redbridge |2,902
Richmond upon Thames |5,124
Sutton |1,356
Waltham Forest |1,184
Birmingham |4,772
Coventry |2,036
Dudley |247
Sandwell |104
Solihull |2,360
Walsall |446
Wolverhampton |1,372
Knowsley |0
Liverpool |2,529
St. Helens |554
Sefton |2,935
Wirral |3,623
Bolton |2,121
Bury |1,897
Manchester |4,497
Oldham |1,411
Rochdale |364
Salford |1,503
Stockport |3,812
Tameside |113
Trafford |2,969
Wigan |0
Barnsley |58
Doncaster |601
Rotherham |181
Sheffield |1,849
Bradford |3,624
Calderdale |971
Kirklees |1,448
Leeds |3,881
Wakefield |2,752
Gateshead |1,324
Newcastle upon Tyne |4,309
North Tyneside |822
South Tyneside |48
Sunderland |834
Isles of Scilly |0
Avon |10,781
Bedfordshire |4,725
Berkshire |12,892
Buckinghamshire |6,503
Cambridgeshire |5,372
Cheshire |6,534
Cleveland |2,367
Cornwall |2,095
Cumbria |2,535
Derbyshire |4,313
Devon |8,674
Dorset |6,475
Durham |1,987
East Sussex |9,060
Essex |9,349
Gloucestershire |5,800
Hampshire |15,827
Hereford and Worcester |8,434
Hertfordshire |14,164
Humberside |2,812
Isle of Wight |858
Kent |14,865
Lancashire |7,757
Leicestershire |6,762
Lincolnshire |3,352
Norfolk |5,135
North Yorkshire |6,862
Northamptonshire |5,193
Northumberland |647
Nottinghamshire |5,654
Oxfordshire |9,675
Shropshire |4,695
Somerset |6,973
Staffordshire |4,105
Suffolk |6,430
Surrey |26,273
Warwickshire |4,779
West Sussex |8,272
Wiltshire |4,697
England |421,108
<1> Pupils aged 5 to 15 as at 31
August 1993.
Superhighways for Education"
Mr. Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many copies of her Department's brochure "Superhighways for Education" have been printed; where they have been distributed; and what is the cost of production and distribution. [32533]
Mr. Boswell: Of the total UK printing of the consultation paper "Superhighways for Education", 15,000 copies were for the Department for distribution in England.
Copies have been sent to a range of interests in the higher education, further education and school sectors and local education authorities. Distribution was also undertaken to relevant industrial and commercial bodies including those which submitted evidence to last year's Trade and Industry Select Committee on optical fibre networks.
The cost of production and distribution in England is estimated at some £54,800.
Advertising
Mr. Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what specific advertising campaigns have been undertaken by her Department each year since 1979. [32472]
Mr. Boswell: Listed are the specific advertising campaigns undertaken by the Department for Education since 1990:
(Financial year) 1990 91
Teacher Recruitment Advertising Campaign
Teaching as a Career
Train to Teach in London
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1991 92Teacher Recruitment Advertising Campaign
Parent's Charter
National Curriculum Tests
Business Donations to Schools
Teaching as a Career
1992 93
National Curriculum Tests
Grant-Maintained Schools--Helpline
Performance Tables
School Inspector Recruitment
1993 94
Charters for Further and Higher Education
Grant-Maintained Schools
National Curriculum Tests
1994 95
Private Finance Initiative
Details of advertising campaigns prior to 1990 are not readily available apart from costs which were given in a previous answer to the hon. Member on Tuesday 26 June 1995, Official Report , column 512 .
Standard Assessment Tasks
Mr. Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what was the total cost of (a) marking the standard assessment tests, (b) publishing the results and (c) distributing the results for (i) seven-year-olds, (ii) 11-year-olds and (iii) 14-year-olds in 1994 95 and each academic year since 1989 90. [32471]
Mr. Forth: The tables give the available information relating to seven and 14-year-olds in financial years from 1991 92, the first year in which any pupils were statutorily assessed. The first statutory assessments of 11-year-olds did not take place until 1995.
(a) Marking the standard assessment tests £ million Financial year |1991-92 |1992-93 |1993-94 |1994-95 --------------------------------------------------------------- 7-year-olds |20.04 |29.08 |23.06 |21.6 14-year-olds |- |1.56 |2.28 |1.6
The figures represent the costs of assessment audit; the cost of marking by teachers is not separately identifiable.
(b) Publishing the results of 7 and 14-year-olds (£s) Financial year |1991-92 |1992-93 |1993-94 |1994-95 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 7 and 14-year-olds |29,500 |30,400 |n/a |29,400
(c) Distribution of the results of 7 and 14-year-olds (£s) Financial year |1991-92 |1992-93 |1993-94 |1994-95 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 7 and 14-year-olds |9,300 |15,400 |n/a |11,400
Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what were the number and percentage of three-year-olds in (a) maintained nursery schools and nursery classes, (b) infant classes in primary schools, (c) private or voluntary sector provision and (d) pre-school provision overall, at the latest available date. [32038]
Mr. Forth: Information on three-year-olds in schools in England in January 1994 is shown in the table. Information is not available for the private or voluntary sector.
Pupils aged three years of age in schools in England:
January 1994
|Percentage of
School type |Pupils |population<1>
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Maintained nursery
schools and nursery
classes |265,669 |41
Infant classes in
primary schools |1,285 |<2>-
Independent schools<3> |20,964 |3
All schools<4> |290,458 |45
<1> Full-time and part-time pupils aged three years of age at 31
August 1993, including pupils who became four years of age by 1
January 1994, expressed as a percentage of the estimated
population aged three at 31 August 1993.
<2> Negligible-less than 0.5.
<3> Includes pupils in direct grant nursery schools.
<4> Includes pupils in maintained nursery, primary and special
schools, non-maintained special schools and independent schools.
Mr. Nigel Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what steps she is taking to ensure that the extension of nursery education to all four-year-olds does not lead to a reduction in places currently available to three-year-olds. [31952]
Mr. Forth: My right hon. Friend will shortly announce the details of her policy to provide a pre-school place for all four-year-olds whose parents wish to take it up. She has already made it clear that there will be new money to fund the expansion of places.
Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what is the cost of providing nursery education for (a) all three-year-olds and (b) all four-year-olds whose parents want it. [31976]
Mr. Forth: The aggregate cost would depend on parental preference and on local expenditure, where information is not collected separately for under-fives or for nursery schools.
Ministerial Travel
Mr. George Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will list (a) details of all overseas trips made by her, or ministerial colleagues in her Department, paid for wholly or partly from public funds and (b) the purpose, destination and duration of such overseas trips, which officials accompanied her and the total cost in each case, including that of officials, to public funds for each year since 1992. [32253]
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Mrs. Gillian Shepherd: The destination, duration and purpose of ministerial overseas trips involving public funds since 1992 are listed.
Destination |Duration (days) |Purpose
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Germany |1 |Bilateral meeting
Spain |2 |Bilateral meeting
USA |13 |Fact-finding
Ireland |2 |Bilateral meeting
Belgium |1 |EU Education Council
Norway |2 |Informal OECD meeting
Belgium |2 |EU Education Council
Belgium |1 |EU Youth Council
Pakistan |8 |Commonwealth conference
France |2 |Informal OECD meeting
Russia |3 |EU/Russian conference
Finland |4 |Bilateral meeting
Germany |3 |EU Informal Education Council
Luxembourg |2 |EU Education Council
Luxembourg |2 |EU Youth Council
Bermuda |6 |Women's Association of Bermuda
Netherlands |1 |Informal OECD meeting
Malaysia and Singapore |5 |Education Exports
Greece |3 |EU Informal Education Council
Germany and Italy |5 |Lecture and Presidency of
| European University Institute
Switzerland |2 |Speech at a multilateral symposium
Slovakia |3 |Visiting HE institutions
Belgium |2 |EU Education Council
Germany |3 |Bilateral meeting
USA |4 |Informal OECD meeting and Bilateral meeting
Luxembourg |2 |EU Education Council
Germany |1 |Visit a MOD service school
New Zealand and Canada |17 |Bilateral meeting
Denmark |2 |EU Informal Education Council
France |1 |Informal OECD meeting
Belgium |2 |EU Education Council
France |1 |Informal OECD meeting
Luxembourg |1 |EU Education Council
Switzerland |2 |Education Equipment Conference
France |3 |OECD Science meeting
Mexico | 8 |Education Exports
Total departmental expenditure on foreign travel and foreign subsistence for 1991 92 to 1994 95 is listed:
Financial year |Expenditure £ --------------------------------------------- 1991-92 |371,435 1992-93 |308,158 1993-94 |226,033 1994-95 |156,803
The additional information requested could not be obtained without incurring disproportionate cost.
Retirements and Redundancies
Mr. Nigel Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what was the cost for each local education authority of early retirement and redundancy packages in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
Mr. Robin Squire: Some of the information requested is not readily available. I will write to the hon. Member as soon as possible.
Area Cost Adjustments
Mr. Nigel Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) what factors were taken into account when deciding to include all salaries rather than education salaries in the determination of the area cost adjustment for the education standard spending assessment; [31947]
(2) pursuant to her answer to the hon. Member for Sheffield, Brightside (Mr. Blunkett) on 12 June, Official Report , column 417 , what other expenses are taken into
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account besides salaries and higher rates when calculating area cost adjustment difference percentages; [31977](3) to what percentage of the education standard spending assessment the labour area cost adjustment is applied; and for what reason. [31949]
Mr. Robin Squire: All education staff--teaching and
non-teaching--are members of labour markets which include other employment groups. The general market earning levels of these groups are therefore reflected in the area cost adjustment. London weighting payments and average teachers' salaries do not represent the full costs of providing a standard level of service in London and the south-east. Further costs arise from lower levels of experience, higher vacancy, wastage and turnover rates and non-salary payments. The labour cost adjustment is applied to 80 per cent. of the education SSA since that represents the proportion which is intended to relate to employment costs --both direct and indirect and teaching and non-teaching.
Local Education Authority Expenditure
Mr. Steinberg: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what were the amount and the percentage of its total education budget spent on provision for pupils out of school for each local education authority in each of the last five years. [31825]
Mr. Robin Squire: The table shows LEA expenditure on education other than at school, and as a percentage of total LEA expenditure, for 1993 94, the latest year for which figures are available. Figures disaggregating expenditure on education other than at school were not collected separately before 1993 94.
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Expenditure on education other than at school
|A |B |C
|Gross expenditure on
|education other than|Gross LEA |A as a percentage
|at
1993-94 |school |expenditure |of B
|£000 |£000 |Percentage
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Corporation of London |70 |2,792 |2.5
Camden |2,103 |107,239 |2.0
Greenwich |3,930 |130,387 |3.0
Hackney |94 |130,965 |0.1
Hammersmith |2,959 |87,131 |3.4
Islington |n/a |117,886 |n/a
Kensington and Chelsea |475 |64,095 |0.7
Lambeth |2,272 |147,135 |1.5
Lewisham |1,743 |129,582 |1.3
Southwark |9,295 |130,033 |7.1
Tower Hamlets |1,362 |137,526 |1.0
Wandsworth |4,270 |111,613 |3.8
Westminster |1,977 |95,812 |2.1
Barking |2,566 |71,871 |3.6
Barnet |136 |135,228 |0.1
Bexley |254 |87,566 |0.3
Brent |75 |126,662 |0.1
Bromley |2,559 |90,193 |2.8
Croydon |10,012 |145,168 |6.9
Ealing |2,007 |129,805 |1.5
Enfield |2,589 |122,282 |2.1
Haringey |269 |123,408 |0.2
Harrow |421 |99,083 |0.4
Havering |230 |87,409 |0.3
Hillingdon |164 |77,691 |0.2
Hounslow |176 |105,192 |0.2
Kingston upon Thames |541 |55,558 |1.0
Merton |1,583 |79,806 |2.0
Newham |2,104 |123,745 |1.7
Redbridge |499 |110,514 |0.5
Richmond upon Thames |1,378 |67,346 |2.0
Sutton |643 |61,647 |1.0
Waltham Forest |167 |118,987 |0.1
Birmingham |2,707 |481,936 |0,6
Coventry |676 |155,060 |0.4
Dudley |830 |112,402 |0.7
Sandwell |2,966 |137,676 |2.2
Solihull |781 |90,603 |0.9
Walsall |822 |123,192 |0.7
Wolverhampton |157 |121,781 |0.1
Knowsley |97 |82,913 |0.1
Liverpool |334 |229,160 |0.1
St. Helens |62 |85,062 |0.1
Sefton |258 |128,750 |0.2
Wirral |882 |149,604 |0.6
Bolton |312 |116,752 |0.3
Bury |268 |79,172 |0.3
Manchester |n/a |228,234 |n/a
Oldham |98 |114,020 |0.1
Rochdale |99 |91,563 |0.1
Salford |473 |95,098 |0.5
Stockport |6,328 |116,044 |5.5
Tameside |1,740 |91,012 |1.9
Trafford |191 |86,556 |0.2
Wigan |78 |131,580 |0.1
Barnsley |193 |89,309 |0.2
Doncaster |687 |137,447 |0.5
Rotherham |1,175 |118,246 |1.0
Sheffield |5,449 |198,400 |2.7
Bradford |n/a |236,543 |n/a
Calderdale |348 |79,152 |0.4
Kirklees |1,124 |174,975 |0.6
Leeds |507 |303,660 |0.2
Wakefield |356 |130,009 |0.3
Gateshead |5,864 |88,358 |6.6
Newcastle upon Tyne |3,383 |123,114 |2.7
North Tyneside |1,579 |83,108 |1.9
South Tyneside |2,146 |67,558 |3.2
Sunderland |801 |126,776 |0.6
Isles of Scilly |n/a |1,325 |n/a
Avon |1,421 |395,791 |0.4
Bedfordshire |6,904 |238,055 |2.9
Berkshire |4,113 |286,230 |1.4
Buckinghamshire |934 |272,288 |0.3
Cambridgeshire |2,207 |251,033 |0.9
Cheshire |15,656 |423,757 |3.7
Cleveland |1,111 |256,574 |0.4
Cornwall |2,882 |193,145 |1.5
Cumbria |3,156 |188,098 |1.7
Derbyshire |2,236 |372,067 |0.6
Devon |1,401 |386,425 |0.4
Dorset |705 |219,426 |0.3
Durham |1,333 |256,604 |0.5
East Sussex |521 |256,923 |0.2
Essex |3,158 |498,636 |0.6
Gloucestershire |906 |175,559 |0.5
Hampshire |3,885 |581,475 |0.7
Hereford and Worcester |3,024 |257,975 |1.2
Hertfordshire |935 |412,363 |0.2
Humberside |n/a |403,069 |n/a
Isle of Wight |326 |50,013 |0.7
Kent |31,152 |527,687 |5.9
Lancashire |3,599 |618,913 |0.6
Leicestershire |5,129 |400,635 |1.3
Lincolnshire |9,736 |202,982 |4.8
Norfolk |4,633 |283,294 |1.6
North Yorkshire |435 |290,381 |0.1
Northamptonshire |2,468 |220,838 |1.1
Northumberland |982 |137,770 |0.7
Nottinghamshire |1,119 |445,597 |0.3
Oxfordshire |n/a |229,999 |n/a
Shropshire |409 |169,883 |0.2
Somerset |7,169 |193,130 |3.7
Staffordshire |1,677 |405,148 |0.4
Suffolk |1,379 |255,816 |0.5
Surrey |182 |361,684 |0.1
Warwickshire |324 |201,245 |0.2
West Sussex |593 |270,019 |0.2
Wiltshire |6,563 |218,048 |3.0
Total |237,057 |20,226,082 |1.2
Mr. Nigel Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to her answer to the hon. Member for Sheffield, Brightside, (Mr. Blunkett) of 12 June, Official Report, column 417, if she will list separately for each inner, outer, and fringe London education authority and value per teacher of the London cost weighting allowance and the value of other incentives. [31978]
Mr Robin Squire: A teacher serving in the London area shall receive a London area allowance of:
£1,950 per annum if he is serving in the inner-London area; £1,281 per annum if he is serving in the outer-London area; or £498 per annum if he is serving in the fringe area.
The inner-London area means:
Camden, City of London, Greenwich, Hammersmith and Fulham, Hackney, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth and Westminster and the areas of the London Boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Brent, Ealing, Haringey, Merton and Newham;
The outer-London area means:
Barnet, Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Enfield, Harrow, Havering, Hounslow, Hillingdon, Kingston, Redbridge, Richmond, Sutton, Waltham Forest;
The fringe area means:
in Berkshire: the district of Bracknell, Slough and Windsor and Maidenhead;
in Buckinghamshire: the Districts of South Buckinghamshire and Chiltern;
in Essex: the districts of Basildon, Brentwood, Epping Forest, Harlow and Thurrock;
in Hertfordshire: the districts of Broxbourne, Dacorum, East Hertfordshire, Hertsmere, St. Albans, Three Rivers, Watford and Welwyn Hatfield;
in Kent: the districts of Dartford and Sevenoaks;
in Surrey: the whole county; and
in West Sussex: the district of Crawley;
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