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Works of Art
Mr. Faulds: To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage if, pursuant to her answer of 11 July, Official Report, columns 250-51, relating to export licences for works of art and museum objects temporarily withheld by her, she will provide equivalent information in respect of the final five cases listed as unresolved in her answer of 16 January, Official Report, column 512. [38196]
Mr. Sproat [holding answer 18 July 1996]: The information is as follows:
| Description of item | Valuation (£) | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| A painting The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John, by Fra Bartolommeo (1472-1517) | 14,000,000 | Export licence granted |
| A painting Lord Willoughby de Broke and his family at breakfast, by Johan Zoffany, c. 1766 | 3,500,000 | Export licence granted |
| A lady's secretary by Thomas Chippendale (1718-1779) | 570,000 | Acquired by the National Trust |
| An archive of manuscripts relating to the editing of Principia Mathematica by Sir Isaac Newton, c. 1726 | 400,000 | Export licence granted |
| A collection of architectural drawings for Trentham Hall signed or annotated by Sir Charles Barry and others, 1834-1914 | 75,820 | Acquired by Stoke on Trent City museum |
Mr. Faulds: To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage, pursuant to her answer of 11 July, Official Report, column 250, if the valuations of the works of art listed are equivalent to the figures which have to be offered by a United Kingdom museum or gallery in order to warrant a definitive withholding by her of an export licence, or whether the sums required may be varied; and if she will list the items where the figure may vary indicating the factors underlying the variation. [37805]
Mr. Sproat [holding answer 18 July 1996]: The valuations listed in the answer of 11 July are the fair market prices accepted by Ministers following recommendations made by the reviewing committee on the export of works of art. The principle behind each price is that the vendor should receive a compensating offer from a UK buyer which should not put him in a worse position than had he sold to a foreign buyer. Offers to purchase by a UK museum or gallery must accord with this principle. The listed valuations exclude any value added tax liability, and they may be varied by additional elements including the buyer's premium, the dealer's commission and reasonable conservation costs. They may also be varied by agreement between the parties. My Department is aware that there is a VAT liability to be added to the valuation of the "ideal" bust by Antonio Canova. A private treaty sale may also be negotiated between a vendor and a UK museum or gallery for a figure different from that listed. My Department is aware
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of negotiations for such a sale in the case of the Il Guercino painting "Erminia finding the wounded Tancred".
EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
Grant-maintained Schools
Mr. Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many grant-maintained schools there are in each London borough. [37862]
Mrs. Gillan: The requested information is in the table:
| Borough | Number |
|---|---|
| Barking and Dagenham | 0 |
| Barnet | 12 |
| Bexley | 8 |
| Brent | 16 |
| Bromley | 23 |
| Camden | 3 |
| Corporation of London | 0 |
| Croydon | 12 |
| Ealing | 9 |
| Enfield | 6 |
| Greenwich | 1 |
| Hackney | 1 |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 1 |
| Haringey | 0 |
| Harrow | 1 |
| Havering | 4 |
| Hillingdon | 22 |
| Hounslow | 2 |
| Islington | 0 |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 3 |
| Kingston upon Thames | 5 |
| Lambeth | 16 |
| Lewisham | 1 |
| Merton | 1 |
| Newham | 1 |
| Redbridge | 1 |
| Richmond upon Thames | 0 |
| Southwark | 10 |
| Sutton | 11 |
| Tower Hamlets | 1 |
| Waltham Forest | 4 |
| Wandsworth | 8 |
| Westminster | 0 |
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Education Maintenance Allowance
Mr. Madden: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his answer of 15 July, Official Report, columns 397-99, from which funds allocated by his Department local education authorities award discretionary educational maintenance allowances; on what occasions such allowances have been independently assessed in respect of value for money over the last five years; what conclusions were drawn; and if he will make a statement. [38444]
Mr. Robin Squire: Local authorities pay discretionary educational maintenance allowance from the general funds available to them, including revenue support grant. The Department does not make any specific payments in support of such allowances, although we take account of them in education standard spending assessments.
I am not aware of any assessment in the last five years of the value for money of educational maintenance allowances.
Teacher Training
Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what was the (a) actual number and (b) percentage of unfilled places on initial teacher training courses for each year since 1987-88, including 1996-97 (i) in total and (ii) for (1) maths, (2) english, (3) science, (4) geography, (5) religious education and (6) modern foreign languages. [37865]
Mr. Robin Squire: The number and percentage of unfilled places on initial teacher training courses for the academic years 1988-89 to 1995-96 are given in the table. Data for 1996-97 are not yet available.
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| Numbers | England and Wales | England | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988-89 | 1989-90 | 1990-91 | 1991-92 | 1992-93 | 1993-94 | 1994-95 | 1995-96 | |
| Total | 326 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 632 | 286 |
| Maths | 429 | 395 | 636 | 167 | -- | -- | 300 | 472 |
| English | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Science | 229 | 146 | 410 | -- | -- | 242 | 340 | 608 |
| Geography | 12 | 27 | 51 | -- | -- | -- | 27 | 4 |
| Religious education | 109 | 74 | 136 | 67 | 34 | 54 | 59 | 16 |
| Modern foreign languages | 177 | 211 | 344 | 37 | -- | 123 | 288 | 302 |
Where no number is given, target was met or exceeded.
| England and Wales | England | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988-89 | 1989-90 | 1990-91 | 1991-92 | 1992-93 | 1993-94 | 1994-95 | 1995-96 | |
| Total | 1.6 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2.1 | 1.0 |
| Maths | 27.3 | 25.7 | 36.8 | 9.7 | -- | -- | 13.5 | 20.8 |
| English | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Science | 12.8 | 8.3 | 19.9 | -- | -- | 9.3 | 10.6 | 17.9 |
| Geography | 3.4 | 7.5 | 12.9 | -- | -- | -- | 4.2 | 0.6 |
| Religious education | 29.4 | 19.8 | 35.1 | 16.5 | 8.4 | 12.8 | 11.8 | 3.1 |
| Modern foreign languages | 18.0 | 20.4 | 25.0 | 2.7 | -- | 7.4 | 14.0 | 14.5 |
Where no number is given, target was met or exceeded.
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Teacher Training Agency
Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) how much was spent on administration, separately identifying staff costs in cash and real terms (a) by the Teacher Training Agency in the current year and (b) by the Higher Education Funding Council for England in discharging its teacher training functions in the final year before the transfer of those responsibilities to the Teacher Training Agency; [38334]
- (2) how many (a) full-time equivalent staff have been employed by the Teacher Training Agency in the current year and (b) full-time equivalent staff were employed by the Higher Education Funding Council for England involved in discharging its teacher training functions in the final year before the transfer of those responsibilities to the Teacher Training Agency. [38336]
Mr. Robin Squire: In 1995-96, the latest year for which accounts are available, the Teacher Training Agency, TTA, spent £2.414 million on administration costs, of which £1.303 million was spent on staff costs. The average number of full-time equivalent--FTE--staff employed by the agency in 1995-96 was 42.
The academic year 1993-94 was the last complete year in which the HEFCE had responsibility for the administration of teacher training allocations and quality assessment. The HEFCE estimates its administration costs for the allocation intake targets and funding in respect of teacher training were some £80,000, of which £66,000 relates to staff costs. The FTE of staff involved in work on teacher training in 1993-94 was 2.5.
In addition to developing the functions transferred from the HEFCE, the TTA has taken on tasks which were previously the responsibility of the teaching as a career unit, the Council for the accreditation of Teacher Education and the then Department for Education, as well as a number of new functions under the Education Act 1994.
Mr. Foster:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what assessment she has made of the efficiency of the Teacher Training Agency in discharging its duties under the Education Act 1994. [38333]
Mr. Squire:
The Teacher Training Agency's objectives and targets are published annually in its corporate plan and progress on them is recorded in its annual report. The Department will carry out a financial management survey during the current financial year, in accordance with Cabinet Office guidelines, to consider the agency's system of financial management and control. This will include an examination of performance measures, targets and other indicators of efficiency in accordance with standard practice. The results will be published.
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