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National Lottery Funding (Sandwell)

Mr. Spellar: To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage if she will list the projects within the Metropolitan borough of Sandwell that have received funding from each of the national lottery funds. [33645]

Mr. Sproat: There have been seven awards to date, totalling £4.6 million, made to projects in Sandwell. The information is as follows:

Body	Announced	Recipient	Location	Amount
NLCB	11 June 1996	Sandwell Muslims Organisation	Sandwell	103,122.00
NLCB	20 November 1995	Carers Advice and Resource Establishment, Sandwell	Sandwell	96,200.00
NLCB	11 June 1996	Sandwell Rape Crisis Centre	Sandwell	75,406.14
NLCB	11 June 1996	Sandwell Asian Family Support Service	Sandwell	65,063.00
NLCB	11 June 1996	Great Bridge parents support network	Sandwell	15,000.00
NLCB	19 December 1995	Sandwell voluntary organisations	Sandwell	1,850.00
MC	30 October 1995	Black Country urban forest	Sandwell, Walsall, Dudley and Wolverhampton	4,247,540.00
Total				4,604,181.14

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Royal Parks Constabulary

Mr. Mackinlay: To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage how many officers of the royal parks constabulary were deployed in Trafalgar square during the weekend 15 and 16 June; and what factors underlay their deployment. [33924]

Mr. Sproat [holding answer 21 June 1996]: In all, nine officers on foot and three mounted officers of the royal parks constabulary were deployed on 15 June to assist the Metropolitan police keep order between rival groups of football fans in Trafalgar square. No royal parks constabulary officers were deployed in Trafalagar square on Sunday 16 June.

PRIME MINISTER

Ministerial Visits

Mr. Harvey: To ask the Prime Minister if he will list those parliamentary constituencies he has visited in the last three months on official business and those constituencies he intends to visit in the next three months; and if he will make a statement. [33861]

The Prime Minister: During the last three months I have made official visits to the following constituencies:

Glasgow, Kelvin,
Stirling
Edinburgh Central,
Gordon
Aberdeen North
North Warwickshire
Nuneaton
Rugby and Kenilworth
Warwick and Leamington
Stratford on Avon
Derbyshire South
Cardiff South and Penarth

Details of future visits are not given for security reasons.

Prime Minister's Question Time

Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Prime Minister how much time he devotes to preparing for Prime Minister's questions. [34416]

The Prime Minister: As much as is necessary.

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Engagements

Mr. Harry Greenway: To ask the Prime Minister if he will list his official engagements for Tuesday 25 June. [31444]

Sir Peter Tapsell: To ask the Prime Minister if he will list his official engagements for Tuesday 25 June. [33145]

The Prime Minister: This morning, I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. In addition to my duties in the House, I shall be having further meetings later today.

Animal Feedstuffs

Mr. Hinchliffe: To ask the Prime Minister if he will place in the Library copies of correspondence and minutes of meetings between Mr. John Whitfield, the hon. Member for Dewsbury (Mrs. Taylor) from 1983 to 1987, Prosper De Mulder Ltd. and Government Departments relating to the use of meat and bone products in animal feeds; and if he will make a statement. [34028]

The Prime Minister [holding answer 21 June 1996]: No. It is not normal policy to publish such correspondence. The Government's response to bovine spongiform encephalopathy has from the outset been informed by, and based on, our scientific knowledge of the disease. The Government encourage the publication of research relating to BSE, in particular where it has been funded and commissioned by MAFF. The BSE eradication plan, published by the Government on 31 May and available in the Library of the House, lists all the MAFF commissioned research on BSE to date. I also refer the hon. Member to my statement in the House on 24 June, Official Report, columns 21-24.

EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT

GCSE Results

Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list for each local education authority with more than 10 per cent. of secondary pupils in grant-maintained schools the percentage of 15-year-old pupils achieving five or more general certificate of secondary education passes at grades A to C in (a) grant-maintained comprehensive and (b) local education authority comprehensives banded by the proportion of pupils entitled to free school meals being (i) less than 5 per cent., (ii) 5 to 9 per cent., (iii) 10 to 19 per cent., (iv) 20 to 29 per cent., (v) 30 to 39 per cent. and (vi) more than 40 per cent., stating in each case how many schools contribute to the figure given. [33742]

Mr. Robin Squire: A national breakdown of GCSE performance by grant-maintained and LEA schools analysed by free school meal bands was given in my right hon. Friend's answer of 21 February to the hon. Member for Norwich, North (Mr. Thompson), Official Report, column 217. When the data requested are disaggregated to individual LEA level, many of the resulting figures are very small. This means that they do not provide a reliable

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basis for drawing comparisons, and in a number of cases individual schools' levels of free school meals could be identified, contrary to established practice on the release of information.

Grant-maintained Schools

Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment which grant-maintained schools have been identified in Office for Standards in Education inspection reports as (a) having serious weaknesses and (b) being in need of special measures; and in each case what action has been taken. [33746]

Mr. Robin Squire: The following nine grant-maintained schools in England have been identified by Her Majesty's chief inspector as being in need of special measures:

Ashton St. Peter's school, Bedfordshire
Kelsey Park school, Bromley
Our Lady of Fatima high school, Liverpool
St. Ann's Roman Catholic primary school, Sheffield
St. Hugh's school, Lincolnshire
St. Margaret's special school, Bedfordshire
Southfields school, Kent
Stratford school, Newham
Upbury Manor school, Kent

All of these schools have submitted satisfactory action plans to address the weaknesses identified by HMCI, except St. Margaret's, whose plan is not due to be submitted to the Secretary of State until July. All GM schools are now offered help from the Funding Agency for Schools school improvement unit.

In addition, the Secretary of State has appointed an additional governor at Kelsey Park school and one at St. Hugh's school, and at Stratford school she restructured the governing body by the appointment of five governors.

Stratford school was declared by HMCI in December 1995 to be no longer in need of special measures. Four of the other GM schools have now also received a visit from Ofsted to monitor their progress, and all of these have shown signs of improvement.

Schools having serious weaknesses are not specifically identified as such by registered inspectors.

School Budgets

Ms Estelle Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list for each local education authority in England the cash amount and percentage of the schools' budget spent on administration in 1995-96 and estimated to be so spent in 1996-97.[33976]

Mr. Robin Squire: The information set out in the following table is derived, for both years, from the local management of schools budget statements produced by LEAs. Outturn figures for 1995-96 are not yet available. The cash figures relate to the budget head "management and administration" and have been expressed as percentages of the potential schools budget.

	1996-97		1995-96
	Management and administration	Percentage of PSB	Management and administration	Percentage of PSB
	(£,000)		(£,000)
Avon	(7)--	(7)--	8,510	3.00
Barking/Dagenham	1,237	2.02	1,969	3.35
Barnet	1,487	1.96	1,568	2.21
Barnsley	591	0.96	491	0.83
Bath and North East Somerset	1,539	3.17	(7)--	(7)--
Bedfordshire	2,913	1.91	3,026	2.03
Berkshire	3,627	1.85	3,655	1.95
Bexley	1,852	3.07	1,719	2.98
Birmingham	5,741	1.66	7,999	2.39
Bolton	1,252	1.55	1,158	1.47
Bradford	2,636	1.75	2,672	1.77
Brent	1,361	2.84	1,719	3.74
Bristol	3,445	3.08	(7)--	(7)--
Bromley	1,822	4.14	1,547	3.18
Buckinghamshire	6,488	3.73	6,900	4.07
Bury	1,173	2.16	1,281	2.46
Calderdale	981	2.29	1,010	2.28
Cambridgeshire	2,713	1.70	2,844	1.82
Camden	1,541	2.70	2,223	4.12
Cheshire	4,763	1.58	4,514	1.57
City of London	56	7.36	77	10.38
Cleveland	(7)--	(7)--	5,320	2.83
Cornwall	2,043	1.49	2,036	1.56
Coventry	2,045	1.93	1,952	1.89
Croydon	724	0.95	1,228	1.66
Cumbria	1,495	1.32	1,591	1.46
Derbyshire	2,663	1.20	3,113	1.42
Devon	3,473	1.28	4,563	1.78
Doncaster	2,188	2.13	2,174	2.19
Dorset	3,650	2.52	3,842	2.77
Dudley	775	0.99	1,064	1.43
Durham	3,583	1.98	3,647	2.09
Ealing	2,166	3.03	2,049	2.98
East Riding	3,496	3.63	(7)--	(7)--
East Sussex	2,198	1.16	2,326	1.26
Enfield	2,084	2.57	2,122	2.77
Essex	5,105	1.85	5,677	2.10
Gateshead	1,368	2.16	1,414	2.29
Gloucestershire	1,776	1.92	2,482	2.83
Greenwich	3,422	3.81	3,306	3.74
Hackney	2,119	3.20	2,187	3.40
Hammersmith/Fulham	705	1.79	744	1.94
Hampshire	8,769	2.07	9,703	2.37
Haringey	1,497	1.94	1,492	2.05
Harrow	1,374	2.13	1,773	2.87
Hartlepool	919	3.00	(7)--	(7)--
Havering	1,144	1.75	1,200	1.89
Hereford/Worcester	3,057	1.68	2,828	1.63
Hertfordshire	1,660	0.61	2,215	0.85
Hillingdon	1,874	4.30	1,908	4.59
Hounslow	1,545	2.07	1,530	2.15
Humberside	(7)--	(7)--	8,058	2.88
Hull	1,793	2.18	(7)--	(7)--
Isle of Wight	601	1.62	590	1.67
Isles of Scilly	13	1.44	26	2.66
Islington	2,518	4.24	1,873	3.11
Kensington/Chelsea	1,052	3.92	1,138	4.31
Kent	14,763	4.28	14,437	4.23
Kingston	762	2.31	929	2.95
Kirklees	2,308	1.98	2,806	2.42
Knowsley	1,066	1,88	644	1.19
Lambeth	1,803	3.38	3,241	5.56
Lancashire	5,182	1.25	7,350	1.87
Leeds	2,966	1.34	3,095	1.46
Leicestershire	3,179	1.13	5,925	2.21
Lewisham	1,983	2.41	2,142	2.69
Lincolnshire	2,693	2.05	2,538	1.99
Liverpool	4,602	3.03	4,045	2.67
Manchester	3,944	2.76	3,521	2.50
Merton	735	1.52	922	1.97
Middlesbrough	1,842	3.66	(7)--	(7)--
North East Lincolnshire	1,672	2.98	(7)--	(7)--
Newcastle	2,259	2.70	2,358	2.89
Newham	2,383	2.60	2,082	2.40
Norfolk	2,288	1.22	1,672	0.94
North Lincolnshire	1,684	3.29	(7)--	(7)--
North Somerset	1,684	3.00	(7)--	(7)--
North Tyneside	1,000	1.70	1,095	1.92
North Yorkshire	2,958	1.75	3,942	1.90
Northamptonshire	2,472	1.51	2,333	1.49
Northumberland	2,149	2.25	2,065	2.21
Nottinghamshire	4,498	1.52	7,132	2.40
Oldham	2,007	2.39	1,863	2.30
Oxfordshire	2,052	1.33	2,175	1.44
Redbridge	2,210	2.81	2,094	2.82
Redcar and Cleveland	1,438	2.86	(7)--	(7)--
Richmond	735	1.73	618	1.49
Rochdale	1,228	2.13	1,206	2.16
Rotheram	2,925	3.39	2,821	3.39
Salford	2,100	2.94	2,146	3.10
Sandwell	972	0.98	1,825	1.89
Sefton	3,451	3.61	3,456	3.75
Sheffield	2,722	2.03	2,857	2.23
Shropshire	2,112	1.91	2,174	2.04
Solihull	399	0.59	388	0.60
Somerset	735	0.57	1,216	0.98
South Gloucestershire	2,369	3.07	(7)--	(7)--
South Tyneside	918	1.90	883	1.90
Southwark	2,157	3.06	2,312	3.36
St. Helens	1,205	2.03	1,431	2.46
Staffordshire	3,024	1.03	3,257	1.17
Stockport	1,189	1.45	1,306	1.62
Stockton on Tees	1,926	3.05	(7)--	(7)--
Suffolk	2,402	1.24	2,542	1.37
Sunderland	815	0.85	1,985	2.11
Surrey	4,536	2.10	5,293	2.53
Sutton	1,171	3.10	1,313	3.64
Tameside	1,137	1.87	1,129	1.88
Tower Hamlets	1,861	2.18	1,731	2.03
Trafford	1,215	2.26	1,168	2.21
Wakefield	1,986	2.07	1,830	1.93
Walsall	1,646	2.11	1,611	2.17
Waltham Forest	1,705	2.45	1,618	2.44
Wandsworth	1,738	3.23	2,566	2.68
Warwickshire	2,085	1.61	2,924	2.28
West Sussex	4,092	1.99	4,251	2.15
Westminster	2,191	4.74	1,875	4.18
Wigan	1,510	1.48	1,445	1.45
Wiltshire	2,152	1.69	2,107	1.70
Wirral	1,758	1.73	1,539	1.55
Wolverhampton	1,137	1.49	1,210	1.63
York	1,610	3.46	(7)--	(7)--

(7) "--"is shown in columns for the year that the relevant LEA did not exist.

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