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Classroom Violence

Mr. Steinberg: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many teachers have been subjected to violence in the classroom in each year since 1990. [9259]

Mr. Robin Squire: This information is not available centrally.

Office for Standards in Education

Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will give a breakdown of the Ofsted budget for 1996-97; and if she will make a statement. [9556]

Mr. Robin Squire: This is a matter for Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools, who heads the Office for Standards in Education. I have asked Mr. Chris Woodhead to write to the hon. Member.

Training for Work

Mr. Pickthall: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what considerations led the Government office for the north-west and the Employment Service not to consult training providers for their views in compiling the north-west training for work study. [9703]

Mr. Paice: The study was designed to identify how training and enterprise councils and the Employment Service could work together more effectively to enhance the take-up of training for work opportunities. It is a highly focused study and there was insufficient time available for another study involving training providers or interviews of TFW participants.

The results were subsequently discussed at a workshop that involved a number of training providers and their views have been taken into account by TECs, the ES and the Government office in managing TFW.

Education Budget (Metropolitan Counties)

Mrs. Peacock: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list the percentage of each of the metropolitan counties' education budget which is spent on (a) schools and (b) on non-school expenditure together with the amount of money this represents per school pupil in each case. [8882]

Mr. Robin Squire: The following table shows for each metropolitan county local education authority the percentage of net recurrent expenditure spent in

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1993-94, the latest year for which figures are available, on: (a) pre-primary, primary, secondary and special schools; and (b) other education services, including education other than at school, adult education, continuing education, discretionary awards, youth and other

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community services, service strategy and regulation and education support services. The table also shows the amount spent per pupil, although in the case of non- schools expenditure school pupils are not the principal clients and the figures are not therefore meaningful.

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Expenditure on Education and its cost per pupil--Metropolitan LEAsNet recurrent expenditure 1993-94

	Pre-primary/primary secondary and special		Non-school
	Percentage of expenditure (a)	Cost per pupil	Percentage of expenditure (b)	Cost per pupil
Birmingham	95	2,313	5	112
Coventry	90	2,319	10	248
Dudley	90	1,950	10	210
Sandwell	94	2,241	6	152
Solihull	94	1,939	6	121
Walsall	89	2,103	11	247
Wolverhampton	91	2,313	9	215
Knowsley	91	2,393	9	239
Liverpool	93	2,260	7	182
St. Helens	96	2,270	4	87
Sefton	96	2,102	4	86
Wirral	93	2,210	7	176
Bolton	94	2,074	6	130
Bury	93	2,084	7	146
Manchester	94	2,531	6	150
Oldham	94	2,110	6	143
Rochdale	92	2,130	8	182
Salford	94	2,107	6	127
Stockport	89	1,954	11	247
Tameside	93	1,975	7	139
Trafford	96	2,095	4	93
Wigan	96	2,093	4	77
Barnsley	94	2,090	6	143
Doncaster	97	2,236	3	79
Rotherham	94	2,187	6	134
Sheffield	90	2,161	10	230
Bradford	96	2,276	4	90
Calderdale	92	2,049	8	169
Kirklees	91	2,225	9	222
Leeds	91	2,115	9	197
Wakefield	96	2,124	4	98
Gateshead	86	2,167	14	346
Newcastle upon Tyne	89	2,250	11	271
North Tyneside'	94	2,104	6	123
South Tyneside	89	1,950	11	241
Sunderland	95	2,045	5	118
Total	93	2,179	7	161

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Teachers

Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many teachers are employed in each local education authority (a) currently (b) in 1979, (c) in 1985 and (d) in 1990; and if she will make a statement. [8676]

Mr. Robin Squire: The full-time equivalent numbers of teachers employed in each local authority area in the maintained--including grant-maintained--nursery, primary and secondary sector in January 1995 are shown in the following table. The table excludes staff in sixth form colleges which transferred to the further education sector on 1 April 1993.

Information for the years 1979, 1985 and 1990 include sixth form colleges and are contained in the Department of Education and Science "Pupil/Teacher Ratios in each

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Local Education Authority in England", statistical bulletins 17/79, 6/86 and 5/91, copies of which have been placed in the Library.

Full-time equivalent teachers employed by local education authorities and grant-maintained schools in the nursery, primary and secondary(4) sectorEnglandJanuary 1995

Local education authority area	FTE of teachers
Corporation of London	16
Camden	1,346
Greenwich	1,939
Hackney	1,429
Hammersmith and Fulham	941
Islington	1,360
Kensington and Chelsea	674
Lambeth	1,680
Lewisham	1,863
Southwark	1,687
Tower Hamlets	2,250
Wandsworth	1,561
Westminster	1,121
Barking and Dagenham	1,446
Barnet	2,638
Bexley	1,836
Brent	1,971
Bromley	2,181
Croydon	2,409
Ealing	2,097
Enfield	2,358
Haringey	1,730
Harrow	1,576
Havering	1,891
Hillingdon	1,870
Hounslow	1,890
Kingston upon Thames	1,057
Merton	1,269
Newham	1,968
Redbridge	1,937
Richmond upon Thames	1,052
Sutton	1,354
Waltham Forest	1,706
Birmingham	9,366
Coventry	2,657
Dudley	2,576
Sandwell	2,689
Solihull	1,845
Walsall	2,560
Wolverhampton	2,377
Knowsley	1,446
Liverpool	4,194
St. Helens	1,635
Sefton	2,546
Wirral	2,927
Bolton	2,467
Bury	1,420
Manchester	3,587
Oldham	2,202
Rochdale	1,819
Salford	1,821
Stockport	2,185
Tameside	1,842
Trafford	1,694
Wigan	2,754
Barnsley	1,704
Doncaster	2,703
Rotherham	2,440
Sheffield	3,719
Bradford	4,779
Calderdale	1,769
Kirklees	3,373
Leeds	5,759
Wakefield	2,704
Gateshead	1,715
Newcastle upon Tyne	2,104
North Tyneside	1,639
South Tyneside	1,340
Sunderland	2,728
Isles of Scilly	26
Avon	7,677
Bedfordshire	5,008
Berkshire	6,171
Buckinghamshire	5,310
Cambridge	5,573
Cheshire	8,013
Cleveland	5,189
Cornwall	3,675
Cumbria	4,016
Derbyshire	7,555
Devon	7,437
Dorset	4,393
Durham	5,117
East Sussex	4,899
Essex	11,771
Gloucestershire	4,258
Hampshire	11,871
Hereford and Worcester	5,329
Hertfordshire	8,725
Humberside	7,394
Isle of Wight	999
Kent	12,552
Lancashire	12,088
Leicestershire	7,810
Lincolnshire	4,877
Norfolk	5,898
North Yorkshire	5,774
Northamptonshire	5,624
Northumberland	2,672
Nottinghamshire	8,354
Oxfordshire	4,426
Shropshire	3,384
Somerset	3,665
Staffordshire	8,245
Suffolk	5,466
Surrey	6,529
Warwickshire	4,027
West Sussex	5,230
Wiltshire	4,698
England	392,910

(4) Excluding sixth form colleges which transferred to the new FE sector on 1 April 1993.

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Delegated Legislation

Mr. Hutton: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many of the powers to make statutory instruments exercisable by the Secretary of State under primary legislation enacted since 1979 are subject to (a) the negative and (b) the affirmative resolution procedure. [9585]

Mr. Robin Squire: This information cannot be supplied other than at disproportionate cost, but the overwhelming majority of statutory instruments which are subject to parliamentary procedure are subject to the negative procedure.

Employment Advertisements (Age Limit)

Mr. Winnick: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what her Department's policy towards banning an upper age limit in employment advertisements. [9724]

Mrs. Gillan: The Department remains committed to the elimination of upper age limits in job advertisements. Age discrimination makes no business sense and that is why the Government's campaign for older workers continues to emphasise this to employers. Increasing numbers of employers are responding to the message and are recruiting people on the basis of ability and skill and

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not age. The Department has produced a series of publications aimed at employers and older workers as part of a co-ordinated campaign.

The campaign's latest publication, "Age Works", encourages recruitment agencies and employment businesses to oppose age discrimination in the selection and recruitment of older workers in their job vacancies. Another publication to be published later this year targets the recruitment advertising industry.

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