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Information Leaks
Mr. Malcolm Bruce: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many leak inquiries in Government Departments there have been since 1990; what is the estimated cost of these inquiries; and how many individuals have been reprimanded or prosecuted as a result of these inquiries. [34253]
Mr. Freeman: It is not the practice of the Government to give information on such matters.
Mr. Malcolm Bruce: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to his answer of 28 June, Official Report , column 713 , what considerations led to his refusal to supply the requested information in relation to Government leak inquiries; and if he will make a statement. [34352]
Mr. Freeman: It has not been the practice of the Government to disclose the details of leak inquiries.
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EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
School Pupils (Expenditure)
Sir Harold Walker: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what was the unit cost per pupil in each local education authority in 1993 94 for (a) nursery/primary and (b) secondary pupils. [34328]
Mr. Robin Squire: The table sets out for each LEA in England the net institutional expenditure per pupil in LEA-maintained nursery/primary and secondary schools.
|Nursery/
Cost per pupil-Net |Primary |Secondary
institutional
expenditure |1993-94 |1993-94
|£ |£
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Corporation of London |3,587 |0
Camden |2,047 |2,716
Greenwich |2,009 |2,583
Hackney |1,958 |2,617
Hammersmith and Fulham |2,534 |3,329
Islington |2,719 |3,005
Kensington and Chelsea |2,394 |3,266
Lambeth |2,666 |3,296
Lewisham |2,058 |2,614
Southwark |1,806 |2,421
Tower Hamlets |2,656 |3,157
Wandsworth |2,139 |2,795
City of Westminster |2,592 |2,739
Barking |1,790 |2,355
Barnet |2,006 |2,952
Bexley |1,573 |2,341
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 |1,913 |2,439
Havering |1,636 |2,290
Hillingdon |1,804 |2,670
Hounslow |1,784 |2,282
Kingston upon Thames |1,728 |2,284
Merton |1,853 |2,463
Newham |1,708 |2,563
Redbridge |1,640 |2,526
Richmond upon Thames |1,794 |2,280
Sutton |1,639 |1,978
Waltham Forest |1,821 |2,526
Birmingham |1,572 |2,330
Coventry |1,684 |2,469
Dudley |1,490 |2,098
Sandwell |1,681 |2,349
Solihull |1,574 |2,217
Walsall |1,672 |2,281
Wolverhampton |1,357 |2,300
Knowsley |1,485 |2,243
Liverpool |1,586 |2,613
St. Helens |1,605 |2,315
Sefton |1,448 |2,204
Wirral |1,552 |2,299
Bolton |1,581 |2,119
Bury |1,432 |1,979
Manchester |1,547 |2,328
Oldham |1,645 |2,278
Rochdale |1,307 |1,974
Salford |1,505 |2,215
Stockport |1,466 |2,310
Tameside |1,442 |2,095
Trafford |1,428 |2,156
Wigan |1,437 |2,141
Barnsley |1,539 |2,101
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 |1,577 |2,150
Gateshead |1,664 |2,252
Newcastle upon Tyne |1,697 |2,187
North Tyneside |1,469 |1,995
South Tyneside |1,463 |1,948
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 |1,534 |1,956
Cheshire |1,483 |2,106
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 |1,617 |2,038
Hertfordshire |1,664 |2,245
Humberside |1,621 |2,257
Isle of Wight |1,598 |2,027
Kent |1,397 |2,079
Lancashire |1,669 |2,347
Leicestershire |1,629 |2,263
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
Total |1,630 |2,245
Deputy Prime Minister
Mr. Winnick: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what will be the involvement of the Deputy Prime Minister in the work of her Department. [34035]
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Mrs. Gillian Shephard: I refer the hon. Member to the answer the Prime Minister gave to the hon. Member for Pembroke (Mr. Ainger), on 11 July, Official Report, columns 496 97.
Departmental Ministers and Their Responsibilities
Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if she will list the members of her Front-Bench team and their responsibilities. [34039]
Mrs. Gillian Shephard: Ministerial responsibilities within the Department for Education and Employment are as follows:
Secretary of State Gillian Shephard has overall responsibility for the Department and its policies. In particular, she will have responsibility for the public expenditure survey and pay in the education sector.
Minister of State Eric Forth is responsible for the jobseeker's allowance; employment policy and benefit issues; labour market statistics; higher education: including content and quality, structure and funding, building programmes, and Higher Education Funding Council matters; the private finance initiative in higher education; student support, overseas students, and other student issues; European Union and international issues and the careers service/education.
Minister of State Lord Henley is responsible for the school curriculum and assessment; examinations and qualifications including GCSE, GCE A-Level, NVQs GNVQs and the review of 16 to 19 qualifications; performance tables; the Employment Service; education-industry links; special education in schools; people with disabilities; special needs training; and school transport. He is designated departmental Minister responsible for the citizen's charter; next steps; general legal questions and departmental purchasing.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Robin Squire is responsible for pre- school education; grant-maintained schools borrowing legislation; school effectiveness and action on failing schools; the common funding formula and the national funding formula; the private finance initiative in schools; local management of schools and school governor matters; teacher matters including training and supply, teachers' misconduct, the Teacher Training Agency, appraisal, pensions and the Teachers' Pensions Agency. He is also responsible for grants for education support and training; truancy, discipline and attendance; IT in schools and new technologies; departmental management issues; environmental and energy issues and research.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State James Paice has responsibility for post-16 issues including post-16 school organisation; further education, including content and quality, structure and funding, building programmes, and Further Education Funding Council matters; the Youth Service; adult learning/training; the private finance initiative in FE; training strategy and infrastructure and training and enterprise councils. He also has responsibility for regional government offices; regional and urban policy; inner cities and the single regeneration budget and section 11 matters.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Cheryl Gillian has responsibility for the development and implementation of the policy of choice and diversity in schools; GM school casework; five to 16 school reorganisations and admissions policies; city technology colleges; technology colleges and other specialist schools; independent schools; the assisted places schemes; school meals and schools capital issues. She also has responsibility for women's issues, older workers and equal opportunities.
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Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment which of the former Department of Employment's responsibilities her Department has now taken on; and which Minister is in charge of each area of responsibility. [34044]
Mrs. Shephard: Ministerial responsibilities within the Department for Education and Employment are as follows. Those areas of work which were previously the responsibility of the former Department of Employment are shown in bold type.
Secretary of State Gillian Shephard has overall responsibility for the Department and its policies. In particular she will have responsibility for the public expenditure survey and pay in the education sector.
Minister of State Eric Forth is responsible for the Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA); employment policy and benefit issues; labour market statistics; higher education, including content and quality, structure and funding, building programmes, and Higher Education Funding Council matters; the private finance initiative in higher education; student support, overseas students, and other student issues; European Union and international issues and the Careers service/education.
Minister of State Lord Henley is responsible for the school curriculum and assessment; examinations and qualifications including GCSE, GCE A-Level, NVQs , GNVQs and the review of 16 to 19 qualifications; performance tables; the Employment Service; education-industry links; special education in schools; people with disabilities; special needs training; and school transport. He is designated departmental Minister responsible for the citizens charter; next steps; general legal questions and departmental purchasing.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Robin Squire is responsible for pre- school education; grant-maintained schools borrowing legislation; school effectiveness and action on failing schools; the common funding formula and the national funding formula; the private finance initiative in schools; local management of schools and school governor matters; teacher matters including training and supply, teachers' misconduct, the Teacher Training Agency, appraisal, pensions and the Teachers' Pensions Agency. He is also responsible for grants for education support and training; truancy, discipline and attendance; IT in schools and new technologies; departmental management issues; environmental and energy issues and research.
Pariliamentary Under-Secretary of State James Paice Paice has responsibility for post-16 issues including post-16 school organisation; further education, including content and quality, structure and funding, building programmes, and Further Education Funding Council matters; the Youth Service; adult learning/training ; the private finance initiative in FE; training strategy and infrastructure and training and enterprise councils. He also has responsibility for regional Government offices; regional and urban policy; inner cities and the single regeneration budget and section 11 matters.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Cheryl Gillan has responsibility for the development and implementation of the policy of choice and diversity in schools; GM school casework; five to 16 school reorganisations and admissions policies; city technology colleges; technology colleges and other specialist schools; independent schools; the assisted places scheme; school meals and schools capital issues. She also has responsibility for women's issues, older workers and equal opportunities.
I am taking steps to ensure the effective integration of functions within the new Department as quickly as possible. I have today written to education and training organisations inviting comments on an initial statement of aims and objectives for the new Department. This will provide a framework for bringing together all the policies
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and programmes designed to educate and train young people and adults and help unemployed people into work.I have also invited urgent comments on proposals for the grouping of work within the Department, so that a top management structure can be put in place within the next few weeks.
I have placed a copy of my letter to education and training bodies, with the statement of aims and objectives and the proposed top management structure, in the Library of the House.
Special Needs (Legal Action)
Mr. Boateng: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment on what authority the Treasury Counsel in the case of Emma Van de Velde v. Special Needs Tribunal--case number C01670/95--are seeking to establish that children should no longer be allowed to be parties to legal actions brought on their behalf against the decisions of local education authorities. [34247]
Mr. Forth: Appeals against decisions of the special educational needs tribunal are governed by the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1992. That Act requires that the only persons who can appeal against a decision of the tribunal are the parties before the tribunal. The Education Act 1993, and the Special Educational Needs Tribunal Regulations 1994, make it clear that the parties before the tribunal are the parent and the local education authority.
Hackney Downs School
Mr. Hawkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will make a statement about Hackney Downs school. [34838]
Mr. Robin Squire: Hackney Downs school was inspected and found to be failing to provide an acceptable standard of education in August 1994. Hackney education authority then announced its intention to publish notices to cease to maintain the school from the end of July 1995. However, the authority voted at a full council meeting on 28 June 1995, against the professional advice of its officers, to withdraw these notices.
The resulting uncertainty has further weakened the school's position. The last Ofsted monitoring report noted that, although there had been some progress, GCSE results remained well below local and national levels, the standards achieved in lessons were inconsistent, pupil attendance was poor and a significant number of pupils displayed an unsatisfactory attitude to work. Meanwhile, pupil numbers have fallen to below 250.
In these circumstances, my right hon. Friend is concerned that the LEA and governors may not be able to implement their action plans effectively. She has, therefore, today sent a letter to the director of education of Hackney education authority and the chairman of governors of Hackney Downs school stating that she is minded to create an education association and to transfer control of the school to that education association with effect from 1 September 1995. My right hon. Friend has invited comments on this proposal by Monday 24 July and will announce their decision shortly after that.
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Speech Therapy
Mr. Campbell-Savours: To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) what is the cost to each local authority in the United Kingdom of speech therapy services to children in schools; [33505]
(2) which local authorities in the United Kingdom make a contribution towards the cost of speech therapy services to school children; [33507]
(3) how many speech therapy posts providing services to school children are being supported by each local authority in England and Wales. [33508]
Mr. Paice: This information is not collected centrally. The code of practice on the identification and assessment of special educational needs provides guidance to schools and local authorities in England and Wales. It explains that the prime responsibility for the provision of speech therapy services to children rests with the NHS, and states that schools, LEAs and the NHS should co-operate closely in meeting the needs of children with communication problems.
Mr. Campbell-Savours: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what surveys have been undertaken by her Department, associated bodies or sponsored organisations into the incidence of difficulties with speech in the case of children in each county in the United Kingdom.
Mr. Paice: Neither this Department nor any associated body has undertaken or funded such a survey. The Department, in collaboration with the Department of Health, is, however, funding the National Foundation for Educational Research to look at examples of good practice in the delivery of speech therapy to children.
Technology Grants
Mr. Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will list the schools that have been awarded technology grants since the scheme was introduced together with the amount awarded. [32470]
Mr. Robin Squire: The technology colleges scheme was launched in September 1993, with the first schools designated to start operating as technology colleges from September 1994. The 85 schools which have been designated as technology colleges are in the following list. Each school receives a one-off capital grant of £100,000, plus additional recurrent annual funding of £100 per pupil to help implement its development plan. Capital and recurrent support awarded to these schools in 1994 95 and 1995 96 totals some £20 million. The schools are also benefiting from private and charitable sector sponsorship totalling over £8 million.
Designated Technology Colleges
Aldersley High School, Wolverhampton
All Hallows Catholic School, Hampshire
All Hallows RC High School, Lancashire
All Saints Catholic School, Barking & Dagenham
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Applemore Technology School, HampshireArchbishop Temple School, Lancashire
Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School, Lancashire
Baines School, Lancashire
Banbury School, Oxfordshire
Belper School, Derbyshire
Bexley-Erith Technical High School for Boys, Bexley
Bishop Stopford VA School, Northamptonshire
Budmouth School, Dorset
Cardinal Wiseman RC High School, Ealing
Central Technology College, Gloucestershire
The Chalfonts Community College, Buckinghamshire
Chalvedon School, Essex
Chatham Grammar School for Girls, Kent
Cirencester Deer Park School, Gloucestershire
Collingwood College, Surrey
The Cornwallis School, Kent
Cowes High School, Isle of Wight
Deacon's School, Cambridgeshire
Deanery High School, Wigan
Denefield School, Berkshire
Ercall Wood School, Shropshire
Fallibroome High School, Cheshire
George Spencer School, Nottinghamshire
Glyn School, Surrey
Greenwood Dale School, Nottinghamshire
Hanson School, Bradford
Hartshill GM School, Warwickshire
Heathside School, Surrey
Herschel Grammar School, Berkshire
Hugh Christies School, Kent
John Kelly Boys' Community School, Brent
John Kelly Girls' Community School, Brent
Kemnal Technology College, Bromley
King Solomon High School, Redbridge
The Kings School, Lincolnshire
Knowles Hill School, Devon
Lancaster Girls' Grammar School, Lancashire
Lancaster Royal Grammar School, Lancashire
The Latymer School, Enfield
Lincoln School of Science and Technology, Lincolnshire
Lodge Park School, Northamptonshire
Lynn Grove High School, Norfolk
The Merrill Community School, Derbyshire
Mill Hill County High School, Barnet
Moseley Park GM School, Wolverhampton
New Wellington School, Trafford
Norham Community High School, North Tyneside
North Cumbria Technology College, Cumbria
Northampton School for Boys, Northamptonshire
Notre Dame School, Sheffield
Ossett School, Wakefield
The Philip Morant School, Essex
Prospect School, Berkshire
Prudhoe County High School, Northumberland
Rastrick High School, Calderdale
Ravens Wood School for Boys, Bromley
Reading School, Berkshire
Reddish Vale School, Stockport
Saffron Walden County High School, Essex
St. Aidan's C of E High School, Lancashire
St. Alban's Catholic High School, Suffolk
St. Angela's Ursuline Convent School, Newham
Saint Bonaventure's School, Newham
St. George's Technology School, Lincolnshire
St. James's C of E School, Bolton
St. John's RC Comprehensive School, Durham
St. Peter's Collegiate School, Wolverhampton
St. Thomas More School, Gateshead
Sale Moor School, Trafford
Sawston Village College, Cambridgeshire
Sawtry Community College, Cambridgeshire
Senacre Technology School, Kent
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