---

Grant-maintained Schools (Devon)

Mr. Jamieson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list for each grant-maintained school in Devon (a) the amount of carry-forward in their budgets from 1995-96 to 1996-97 and (b) the amounts of special purposes VAT grant which each school received. [37868]

Mr. Robin Squire: These matters are now the responsibility of the Funding Agency for Schools. I have asked the chairman of the agency to arrange for a reply to be sent to the hon. Member.

22 Jul 1996 : Column: 60

Schools (Parents' Choice)

Mr. Byers: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what was the total number of appeals made by parents against the non-admission of their child to the school of their choice in 1994-95; how many appeals were considered by a statutory committee; and, of these, how many were (i) rejected and (ii) found in the parents' favour. [38576]

Mrs. Gillan: The available information is shown in the table:

Number

Total appeals lodged(21)	54,427
Appeals heard by a statutory committee(22)	38,032
Appeals rejected	23,169
Appeals found in parents' favour	14,839

(21) Includes appeals which were withdrawn by parents or settled to mutual satisfaction before reaching a statutory committee.

(22) Includes appeals heard by a statutory committee for which a decision was still to be made at the end of the academic year.

Class Sizes

Mr. Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what was (a) the average class size and (b) the pupil-teacher ratio in (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools in North Yorkshire in 1978-79, 1992-93 and 1995-96. [38872]

Mr. Robin Squire: The available information is shown in the table:

Average class size(23) and pupil-teacher ratios in maintained primary and secondary schools in North Yorkshire local education authority area: 1979, 1993 and 1995Position in January each year

	Pupil-teacher ratios		Average class sizes (23)
	Primary	Secondary	Primary	Secondary
1979	22.5	17.1	24.6	20.8
1993	22.6	15.8	25.4	20.3
1995	23.3	16.3	26.2	20.7

(23) Average size of single teacher classes as taught during a single selected period on the census day.

Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what is the number and percentage of primary school children in classes of 31 or more, per local education authority and nationally, in (a) maintained schools, (b) grant-maintained schools, (c) independent schools and (d) in total for the maintained sector. [38864]

Mr. Squire: The latest available information for all maintained and GM schools is shown in the table. Information on class sizes in independent schools is not collected centrally. Information for LEA-maintained schools is not given to avoid disclosure of information for individual GM schools, through deduction.

Authority area inNumber and percentage

	All maintained		Of which
	Pupils	Percentage(24)	Pupils	Percentage(24)
Corporation of London	(25)--	(25)--	n/a	n/a
Camden	605	6.7	n/a	n/a
Greenwich	2,555	14.5	(25)--	(25)--
Hackney	569	4.0	(25)--	(25)--
Hammersmith and Fulham	1,294	16.6	n/a	n/a
Islington	1,055	8.1	n/a	n/a
Kensington and Chelsea	221	4.5	(25)--	(25)--
Lambeth	540	3.4	190	10.9
Lewisham	1,192	6.4	(25)--	(25)--
Southwark	2,483	12.7	221	14.3
Tower Hamlets	778	5.1	n/a	n/a
Wandsworth	1,459	10.3	(25)--	(25)--
Westminster	646	9.4	n/a	n/a
Barking	1,317	8.7	n/a	n/a
Barnet	2,291	10.9	(25)--	(25)--
Bexley	7,834	39.2	434	63.9
Brent	2,444	13.0	164	22.5
Bromley	11,596	51.8	1,035	45.5
Croydon	5,973	23.7	611	42.5
Ealing	4,137	19.2	0	0.0
Enfield	8,192	39.7	(25)--	(25)--
Haringey	1,045	6.0	n/a	n/a
Harrow	4,152	25.5	n/a	n/a
Havering	4,662	24.1	n/a	n/a
Hillingdon	4,833	26.4	406	13.9
Hounslow	5,691	34.1	n/a	n/a
Kingston upon Thames	6,216	64.0	(25)--	(25)--
Merton	3,299	26.2	n/a	n/a
Newham	2,680	11.3	n/a	n/a
Redbridge	8,337	51.5	n/a	n/a
Richmond upon Thames	2,040	20.4	n/a	n/a
Sutton	4,328	35.7	392	51.8
Waltham Forest	3,330	18.8	n/a	n/a
Birmingham	28,251	29.2	923	53.9
Coventry	7,875	29.4	n/a	n/a
Dudley	6,935	28.5	(25)--	(25)--
Sandwell	10,815	39.1	n/a	n/a
Solihull	7,506	40.3	(25)--	(25)--
Walsall	6,428	27.9	(25)--	(25)--
Wolverhampton	5,846	26.8	n/a	n/a
Knowsley	6,300	34.7	n/a	n/a
Liverpool	12,541	27.0	n/a	n/a
St. Helens	5,507	37.4	n/a	n/a
Sefton	8,793	35.1	n/a	n/a
Wirral	6,076	20.7	n/a	n/a
Bolton	10,366	45.9	(25)--	(25)--
Bury	6,434	41.1	(25)--	(25)--
Manchester	10,211	24.2	n/a	n/a
Oldham	8,823	41.0	n/a	n/a
Rochdale	8,102	41.8	924	56.9
Salford	6,975	30.8	n/a	n/a
Stockport	7,858	31.8	n/a	n/a
Tameside	11,291	51.8	n/a	n/a
Trafford	9,689	51.1	n/a	n/a
Wigan	11,375	42.7	n/a	n/a
Barnsley	6,201	30.9	n/a	n/a
Doncaster	8,338	31.7	n/a	n/a
Rotherham	3,269	14.4	n/a	n/a
Sheffield	11,119	28.3	317	23.5
Bradford	10,707	32.4	448	28.9
Calderdale	5,666	30.9	393	32.1
Kirklees	12,290	38.2	n/a	n/a
Leeds	21,245	35.1	(25)--	(25)--
Wakefield	10,544	37.8	n/a	n/a
Gateshead	2,237	13.2	n/a	n/a
Newcastle upon Tyne	6,744	33.1	n/a	n/a
North Tyneside	4,930	32.7	n/a	n/a
South Tyneside	3,618	24.7	n/a	n/a
Sunderland	3,601	13.5	n/a	n/a
Isles of Scilly	0	0.0	n/a	n/a
Avon	26,919	34.5	n/a	n/a
Bedfordshire	10,328	26.7	276	42.1
Berkshire	15,605	26.8	299	13.7
Buckinghamshire	21,248	35.6	785	30.4
Cambridgeshire	14,946	26.8	31	1.6
Cheshire	30,315	35.5	201	39.1
Cleveland	13,859	23.7	n/a	n/a
Cornwall	14,004	35.6	n/a	n/a
Cumbria	11,452	29.0	814	28.0
Derbyshire	32,959	42.7	757	36.5
Devon	23,659	29.8	(25)--	(25)--
Dorset	18,038	42.8	(25)--	(25)--
Durham	15,455	29.5	n/a	n/a
East Sussex	19,691	40.8	n/a	n/a
Essex	31,875	25.8	7,213	35.6
Gloucestershire	11,595	26.7	1,073	23.2
Hampshire	43,976	33.9	963	25.3
Hereford and Worcester	10,533	21.8	n/a	n/a
Hertfordshire	23,054	29.0	831	37.2
Humberside	26,842	33.8	39	10.7
Isle of Wight	1,860	26.4	n/a	n/a
Kent	44,208	34.4	2,350	35.0
Lancashire	48,832	40.4	474	59.0
Leicestershire	17,567	23.6	n/a	n/a
Lincolnshire	14,632	29.8	1,547	20.3
Norfolk	12,066	20.5	312	9.3
North Yorkshire	17,758	31.3	(25)--	(25)--
Northamptonshire	10,576	21.9	348	10.8
Northumberland	8,030	41.8	n/a	n/a
Nottinghamshire	23,142	27.8	n/a	n/a
Oxfordshire	6,422	16.4	(25)--	(25)--
Shropshire	9,972	29.0	65	8.5
Somerset	10,776	30.1	136	26.7
Staffordshire	31,147	35.3	0	0.0
Suffolk	6,396	15.1	n/a	n/a
Surrey	12,118	17.7	765	18.1
Warwickshire	13,980	32.9	n/a	n/a
West Sussex	12,879	24.2	(25)--	(25)--
Wiltshire	14,703	31.0	1,093	29.7
England	1,155,715	29.6	28,293	27.9

(24) Number of pupils in.

(25) Figures suppressed.

n/a = not applicable.

22 Jul 1996 : Column: 62

---