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Nursery Vouchers

Ms Estelle Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) Office for Standards in Education how many inspections of providers under phase 1 of the nursery voucher scheme took place in September; [40391]

(2) what estimate she has made of how long it will take to complete Ofsted inspection of all the participating providers the Government predict will take part in phase 2 of the nursery voucher scheme at the current rate of inspection; [40387]

(3) how many Ofsted inspections of providers under phase 1 of the nursery voucher scheme Ofsted plans to undertake (a) between October and the end of December and (b) between the end of December and the end of March 1997; [40382]

(4) What estimate she has made of how many providers will require follow-up inspection based on completed Ofsted inspections of providers under phase 1 of the nursery voucher scheme and what is the planned timetable for follow-up inspections; [40392]

(5) how many Ofsted inspectors have been trained to carry out inspection of providers under phase 1 of the nursery voucher scheme; and how many of these were previously primary inspectors; [40384]

(6) what are the minimum qualifications required for Ofsted inspectors of providers under the nursery voucher scheme; and what training is given to qualify Ofsted inspectors to undertake inspection of providers under the nursery voucher scheme. [40388]

Mr. Robin Squire: These are matters 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.

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City and Guilds Courses

Mr. Corbett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what course replaced City and Guilds course 7790 in media techniques after its equivalent status was withdraw in December 1995. [40413]

Mr. Paice: A number of national vocational qualifications in the same occupational area as City and Guilds 7790 in media techniques (journalism and radio) have been accredited by NCVQ. The NVQ titles are broadcast journalism; newspaper journalism (graphics journalism); newspaper journalism (production journalism); newspaper journalism (writing); periodical journalism (subbing); periodical journalism (writing); periodical production; advertisement production. These NVQs are the approved outcomes for trainees now entering youth programmes and training for work following the change of status of City and Guilds 7790 on 31 December 1995.

Assisted Places

Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what was the (a) actual spending and (b) budgeted provision on the assisted places scheme in the academic year 1995-96; how many schools participated; how many assisted places were available; how many were taken up; and what percentage of the pupils in the schools involved were on assisted places. [40544]

Mrs. Gillan: Expenditure information is not available on an academic year basis. In the last financial year 1995-96, actual spending on the assisted places scheme in England was £104.762 million. Provision in the original Supply estimates was £104.413 million. There were 293 participating schools offering 33,906 assisted places, fo which 29,917 were taken up. Just over 14 per cent. of all pupils in the participating schools held assisted places in academic year 1995-96.

GCSE Scores

Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what was the average GCSE point score, where A*=7, for English language and mathematics for (a) girls and (b) boys in the maintained sector in (i) 1994, (ii) 1995 and (iii) 1996. [40546]

Mr. Paice: The average GCSE point scores for English and mathematics in the maintained sector in England where A*=7 are as follows:

	1994		1995
	Girls	Boys	Girls	Boys
English	4.4	3.7	4.4	3.6
Mathematics	3.6	3.5	3.5	3.4

The figures for 1996 are not yet available.

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Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many and what percentage of total school leavers in the maintained sector failed to attain five GCSEs at grades A to C in 1996 (a) in total and (b) broken down according to gender. [40547]

Mr. Paice: This information is not available.

School Ballots

Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many (a) schools, (b) primary schools and (c) secondary schools there were in 1995-96 in England and Wales and in each country;

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how many schools (i) held ballots to decide whether or not to opt out of local education authority control and (ii) decided to opt out of local education authority control in 1995-96; and if she will calculate (i) and (ii) as a percentage of (a), (b) and (c) for each country and for England and Wales. [40592]

Mr. Forth: Information on the number of primary and secondary schools in England and the proportion whose governing bodies have given parents an opportunity to vote in a ballot on grant-maintained status is given in the following table.

Education in Wales is the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.

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Total number of schools and number of parental ballots between 1 September 1995 and 31 August 1996

LEA area	(a) All schools
	Total number of schools	Total ballots held	Ballot percentage	Yes ballot results	Yes ballot percentage
Barking and Dagenham	61	0	0.0	0	0.0
Barnet	99	2	2.0	1	1.0
Barnsley	104	0	0.0	0	0.0
Bath and NE Somerset	80	0	0.0	0	0.0
Bedfordshire	273	4	1.5	1	0.4
Berkshire	312	4	1.3	3	1.0
Bexley	72	0	0.0	0	0.0
Birmingham	391	1	0.3	0	0.0
Bolton	117	0	0.0	0	0.0
Bradford	234	0	0.0	0	0.0
Brent	57	0	0.0	0	0.0
Bromley	75	3	4.0	2	2.7
Buckinghamshire	310	2	0.6	2	0.6
Bury	83	0	0.0	0	0.0
Calderdale	91	1	1.1	1	1.1
Cambridge	286	3	1.0	2	0.7
Camden	51	0	0.0	0	0.0
Cheshire	491	1	0.2	0	0.0
City of Bristol	154	0	0.0	0	0.0
City of Kingston upon Hull	96	0	0.0	0	0.0
Cornwall	277	1	0.4	1	0.4
Corporation of London	1	0	0.0	0	0.0
Coventry	108	0	0.0	0	0.0
Croydon	106	0	0.0	0	0.0
Cumbria	301	0	0.0	0	0.0
Derbyshire	481	2	0.4	0	0.0
Devon	494	2	0.4	0	0.0
Doncaster	139	0	0.0	0	0.0
Dorset	240	4	1.7	3	1.3
Dudley	98	0	0.0	0	0.0
Durham	334	1	0.3	0	0.0
Ealing	69	0	0.0	0	0.0
East Riding of Yorkshire	149	1	0.7	0	0.0
East Sussex	253	2	0.8	0	0.0
Enfield	77	0	0.0	0	0.0
Essex	536	5	0.9	4	0.7
Gateshead	93	0	0.0	0	0.0
Gloucestershire	249	1	0.4	0	0.0
Greenwich	88	0	0.0	0	0.0
Hackney	67	0	0.0	0	0.0
Hammersmith and Fulham	44	0	0.0	0	0.0
Hampshire	629	0	0.0	0	0.0
Haringey	85	1	1.2	0	0.0
Harrow	63	0	0.0	0	0.0
Hartlepool	36	0	0.0	0	0.0
Havering	85	0	0.0	0	0.0
Hereford and Worcester	352	3	0.9	3	0.9
Hertfordshire	477	0	0.0	0	0.0
Hillingdon	63	0	0.0	0	0.0
Hounslow	76	0	0.0	0	0.0
Isle of Wight	67	0	0.0	0	0.0
Isles of Scilly	5	1	20.0	0	0.0
Islington	65	0	0.0	0	0.0
Kensington and Chelsea	27	0	0.0	0	0.0
Kent	597	2	0.3	1	0.2
Kingston upon Thames	41	1	2.4	1	2.4
Kirklees	186	0	0.0	0	0.0
Knowsley	73	0	0.0	0	0.0
Lambeth	72	1	1.4	0	0.0
Lancashire	690	6	0.9	1	0.1
Leeds	289	0	0.0	0	0.0
Leicestershire	407	4	1.0	3	0.7
Lewisham	82	0	0.0	0	0.0
Lincolnshire	296	1	0.3	1	0.3
Liverpool	201	1	0.5	1	0.5
Manchester	195	1	0.5	0	0.0
Merton	59	0	0.0	0	0.0
Middlesbrough	60	0	0.0	0	0.0
Newcastle upon Tyne	100	0	0.0	0	0.0
Newham	77	0	0.0	0	0.0
Norfolk	412	1	0.2	1	0.2
North East Lincolnshire	77	0	0.0	0	0.0
North Lincolnshire	85	0	0.0	0	0.0
North Tyneside	77	0	0.0	0	0.0
North West Somerset	79	0	0.0	0	0.0
North Yorkshire	375	2	0.5	0	0.0
Northamptonshire	308	3	1.0	2	0.6
Northumberland	204	1	0.5	1	0.5
Nottinghamshire	499	1	0.2	1	0.2
Oldham	117	0	0.0	0	0.0
Oxfordshire	282	0	0.0	0	0.0
Redbridge	68	0	0.0	0	0.0
Redcar and Cleveland	67	0	0.0	0	0.0
Richmond upon Thames	47	0	0.0	0	0.0
Rochdale	82	0	0.0	0	0.0
Rotherham	132	0	0.0	0	0.0
Salford	104	0	0.0	0	0.0
Sandwell	129	1	0.8	0	0.0
Sefton	115	0	0.0	0	0.0
Sheffield	165	2	1.2	0	0.0
Shropshire	238	0	0.0	0	0.0
Solihull	82	1	1.2	0	0.0
Somerset	259	0	0.0	0	0.0
South Gloucestershire	112	0	0.0	0	0.0
South Tyneside	69	0	0.0	0	0.0
Southwark	77	1	1.3	1	1.3
St. Helens	74	0	0.0	0	0.0
Staffordshire	485	1	0.2	1	0.2
Stockport	121	0	0.0	0	0.0
Stockton on Tees	80	0	0.0	0	0.0
Suffolk	334	0	0.0	0	0.0
Sunderland	116	0	0.0	0	0.0
Surrey	347	4	1.2	3	0.9
Sutton	46	0	0.0	0	0.0
Tameside	95	0	0.0	0	0.0
Tower Hamlets	90	1	1.1	0	0.0
Trafford	88	1	1.1	1	1.1
Wakefield	159	1	0.6	1	0.6
Walsall	113	2	1.8	2	1.8
Waltham Forest	76	1	1.3	0	0.0
Wandsworth	61	6	9.8	4	6.6
Warwickshire	259	5	1.9	4	1.5
West Sussex	287	2	0.7	0	0.0
Westminster	49	1	2.0	0	0.0
Wigan	138	0	0.0	0	0.0
Wiltshire	300	7	2.3	5	1.7
Wirral	123	0	0.0	0	0.0
Wolverhampton	112	1	0.9	0	0.0
York	74	0	0.0	0	0.0
England	20,984	108	0.5	58	0.3

The number of schools is derived from January 1996 DFEE schools census. Grant-maintained, independent and special schools are excluded from the table.

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LEA area	(b) Primary schools
	Number of primary schools	Total ballots held	Ballot percentage	Yes ballot results	Yes ballot percentage
Barking and Dagenham	53	0	0.0	0	0.0
Barnet	88	1	1.1	1	1.1
Barnsley	90	0	0.0	0	0.0
Bath and NE Somerset	69	0	0.0	0	0.0
Bedfordshire	214	3	1.4	1	0.5
Berkshire	266	3	1.1	2	0.8
Bexley	61	0	0.0	0	0.0
Birmingham	329	0	0.0	0	0.0
Bolton	104	0	0.0	0	0.0
Bradford	157	0	0.0	0	0.0
Brent	55	0	0.0	0	0.0
Bromley	72	1	1.4	0	0.0
Buckinghamshire	276	2	0.7	2	0.7
Bury	69	0	0.0	0	0.0
Calderdale	85	1	1.2	1	1.2
Cambridge	258	0	0.0	0	0.0
Camden	42	0	0.0	0	0.0
Cheshire	427	0	0.0	0	0.0
City of Bristol	132	0	0.0	0	0.0
City of Kingston upon Hull	80	0	0.0	0	0.0
Cornwall	246	1	0.4	1	0.4
Corporation of London	1	0	0.0	0	0.0
Coventry	89	0	0.0	0	0.0
Croydon	95	0	0.0	0	0.0
Cumbria	274	0	0.0	0	0.0
Derbyshire	437	2	0.5	0	0.0
Devon	438	0	0.0	0	0.0
Doncaster	113	0	0.0	0	0.0
Dorset	194	2	1.0	2	1.0
Dudley	82	0	0.0	0	0.0
Durham	291	0	0.0	0	0.0
Ealing	62	0	0.0	0	0.0
East Riding of Yorkshire	131	1	0.8	0	0.0
East Sussex	218	1	0.5	0	0.0
Enfield	66	0	0.0	0	0.0
Essex	502	4	0.8	3	0.6
Gateshead	80	0	0.0	0	0.0
Gloucesteshire	236	1	0.4	0	0.0
Greenwich	73	0	0.0	0	0.0
Hackney	58	0	0.0	0	0.0
Hammersmith and Fulham	37	0	0.0	0	0.0
Hampshire	553	0	0.0	0	0.0
Haringey	76	0	0.0	0	0.0
Harrow	54	0	0.0	0	0.0
Hartlepool	30	0	0.0	0	0.0
Havering	71	0	0.0	0	0.0
Hereford and Worcester	282	3	1.1	3	1.1
Hertfordshire	416	0	0.0	0	0.0
Hillingdon	60	0	0.0	0	0.0
Hounslow	64	0	0.0	0	0.0
Isle of Wight	46	0	0.0	0	0.0
Isles of Scilly	4	0	0.0	0	0.0
Islington	56	0	0.0	0	0.0
Kensington and Chelsea	24	0	0.0	0	0.0
Kent	538	1	0.2	1	0.2
Kingston upon Thames	35	0	0.0	0	0.0
Kirklees	156	0	0.0	0	0.0
Knowsley	63	0	0.0	0	0.0
Lambeth	68	1	1.5	0	0.0
Lancashire	592	3	0.5	1	0.2
Leeds	244	0	0.0	0	0.0
Leicestershire	333	1	0.3	1	0.3
Lewisham	69	0	0.0	0	0.0
Lincolnshire	260	1	0.4	1	0.4
Liverpool	171	0	0.0	0	0.0
Manchester	167	0	0.0	0	0.0
Merton	49	0	0.0	0	0.0
Middlesbrough	49	0	0.0	0	0.0
Newcastle upon Tyne	79	0	0.0	0	0.0
Newham	64	0	0.0	0	0.0
Norfolk	373	1	0.3	1	0.3
North East Lincolnshire	65	0	0.0	0	0.0
North Lincolnshire	71	0	0.0	0	0.0
North Tyneside	67	0	0.0	0	0.0
North West Somerset	57	0	0.0	0	0.0
North Yorkshire	328	1	0.3	0	0.0
Northamptonshire	257	3	1.2	2	0.8
Northumberland	144	1	0.7	1	0.7
Nottinghamshire	422	0	0.0	0	0.0
Oldham	102	0	0.0	0	0.0
Oxfordshire	238	0	0.0	0	0.0
Redbridge	54	0	0.0	0	0.0
Redcar and Cleveland	54	0	0.0	0	0.0
Richmond upon Thames	39	0	0.0	0	0.0
Rochdale	70	0	0.0	0	0.0
Rotherham	115	0	0.0	0	0.0
Salford	87	0	0.0	0	0.0
Sandwell	111	1	0.9	0	0.0
Sefton	93	0	0.0	0	0.0
Sheffield	140	2	1.4	0	0.0
Shropshire	209	0	0.0	0	0.0
Solihull	69	1	1.4	0	0.0
Somerset	222	0	0.0	0	0.0
South Gloucestershire	98	0	0.0	0	0.0
South Tyneside	58	0	0.0	0	0.0
Southwark	68	1	1.5	1	1.5
St. Helens	62	0	0.0	0	0.0
Staffordshire	405	1	0.2	1	0.2
Stockport	107	0	0.0	0	0.0
Stockton on Tees	66	0	0.0	0	0.0
Suffolk	256	0	0.0	0	0.0
Sunderland	99	0	0.0	0	0.0
Surrey	312	3	1.0	3	1.0
Sutton	40	0	0.0	0	0.0
Tameside	80	0	0.0	0	0.0
Tower Hamlets	76	0	0.0	0	0.0
Trafford	77	0	0.0	0	0.0
Wakefield	130	0	0.0	0	0.0
Walsall	100	2	2.0	2	2.0
Waltham Forest	62	1	1.6	0	0.0
Wandsworth	58	6	10.3	4	6.9
Warwickshire	230	5	2.2	4	1.7
West Sussex	246	1	0.4	0	0.0
Westminster	41	1	2.4	0	0.0
Wigan	117	0	0.0	0	0.0
Wiltshire	273	6	2.2	4	1.5
Wirral	104	0	0.0	0	0.0
Wolverhampton	95	0	0.0	0	0.0
York	62	0	0.0	0	0.0
England	18,032	70	0.4	43	0.2

The number of schools is derived from January 1996 DFEE schools census. Grant-maintained, independent and special schools are excluded from the table.

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LEA area	(c) Secondary schools
	Number of secondary schools	Total ballots held	Ballot percentage	Yes ballot results	Yes ballot percentage
Barking and Dagenham	8	0	0.0	0	0.0
Barnet	11	1	9.1	0	0.0
Barnsley	14	0	0.0	0	0.0
Bath and NE Somerset	11	0	0.0	0	0.0
Bedfordshire	59	1	1.7	0	0.0
Berkshire	46	1	2.2	1	2.2
Bexley	11	0	0.0	0	0.0
Birmingham	62	1	1.6	0	0.0
Bolton	13	0	0.0	0	0.0
Bradford	77	0	0.0	0	0.0
Brent	2	0	0.0	0	0.0
Bromley	3	2	66.7	2	66.7
Buckinghamshire	34	0	0.0	0	0.0
Bury	14	0	0.0	0	0.0
Calderdale	6	0	0.0	0	0.0
Cambridge	28	3	10.7	2	7.1
Camden	9	0	0.0	0	0.0
Cheshire	64	1	1.6	0	0.0
City of Bristol	22	0	0.0	0	0.0
City of Kingston upon Hull	16	0	0.0	0	0.0
Cornwall	31	0	0.0	0	0.0
Corporation of London	0	0	0.0	0	0.0
Coventry	19	0	0.0	0	0.0
Croydon	11	0	0.0	0	0.0
Cumbria	27	0	0.0	0	0.0
Derbyshire	44	0	0.0	0	0.0
Devon	56	2	3.6	0	0.0
Doncaster	26	0	0.0	0	0.0
Dorset	46	2	4.3	1	2.2
Dudley	16	0	0.0	0	0.0
Durham	43	1	2.3	0	0.0
Ealing	7	0	0.0	0	0.0
East Riding of Yorkshire	18	0	0.0	0	0.0
East Sussex	35	1	2.9	0	0.0
Enfield	11	0	0.0	0	0.0
Essex	34	1	2.9	1	2.9
Gateshead	13	0	0.0	0	0.0
Gloucestershire	13	0	0.0	0	0.0
Greenwich	15	0	0.0	0	0.0
Hackney	9	0	0.0	0	0.0
Hammersmith and Fulham	7	0	0.0	0	0.0
Hampshire	76	0	0.0	0	0.0
Haringey	9	1	11.1	0	0.0
Harrow	9	0	0.0	0	0.0
Hartlepool	6	0	0.0	0	0.0
Havering	14	0	0.0	0	0.0
Hereford and Worcester	70	0	0.0	0	0.0
Hertfordshire	61	0	0.0	0	0.0
Hillingdon	3	0	0.0	0	0.0
Hounslow	12	0	0.0	0	0.0
Isle of Wight	21	0	0.0	0	0.0
Isles of Scilly	1	1	100.0	0	0.0
Islington	9	0	0.0	0	0.0
Kensington and Chelsea	3	0	0.0	0	0.0
Kent	59	1	1.7	0	0.0
Kingston upon Thames	6	1	16.7	1	16.7
Kirklees	30	0	0.0	0	0.0
Knowsley	10	0	0.0	0	0.0
Lambeth	4	0	0.0	0	0.0
Lancashire	98	3	3.1	0	0.0
Leeds	45	0	0.0	0	0.0
Leicestershire	74	3	4.1	2	2.7
Lewisham	13	0	0.0	0	0.0
Lincolnshire	36	0	0.0	0	0.0
Liverpool	30	1	3.3	1	3.3
Manchester	28	1	3.6	0	0.0
Merton	10	0	0.0	0	0.0
Middlesbrough	11	0	0.0	0	0.0
Newcastle upon Tyne	21	0	0.0	0	0.0
Newham	13	0	0.0	0	0.0
Norfolk	39	0	0.0	0	0.0
North East Lincolnshire	12	0	0.0	0	0.0
North Lincolnshire	14	0	0.0	0	0.0
North Tyneside	10	0	0.0	0	0.0
North West Somerset	22	0	0.0	0	0.0
North Yorkshire	47	1	2.1	0	0.0
Northamptonshire	51	0	0.0	0	0.0
Northumberland	60	0	0.0	0	0.0
Nottinghamshire	77	1	1.3	1	1.3
Oldham	15	0	0.0	0	0.0
Oxfordshire	44	0	0.0	0	0.0
Redbridge	14	0	0.0	0	0.0
Redcar and Cleveland	13	0	0.0	0	0.0
Richmond upon Thames	8	0	0.0	0	0.0
Rochdale	12	0	0.0	0	0.0
Rotherham	17	0	0.0	0	0.0
Salford	17	0	0.0	0	0.0
Sandwell	18	0	0.0	0	0.0
Sefton	22	0	0.0	0	0.0
Sheffield	25	0	0.0	0	0.0
Shropshire	29	0	0.0	0	0.0
Solihull	13	0	0.0	0	0.0
Somerset	37	0	0.0	0	0.0
South Gloucestershire	14	0	0.0	0	0.0
South Tyneside	11	0	0.0	0	0.0
Southwark	9	0	0.0	0	0.0
St. Helens	12	0	0.0	0	0.0
Staffordshire	80	0	0.0	0	0.0
Stockport	14	0	0.0	0	0.0
Stockton on Tees	14	0	0.0	0	0.0
Suffolk	78	0	0.0	0	0.0
Sunderland	17	0	0.0	0	0.0
Surrey	35	1	2.9	0	0.0
Sutton	6	0	0.0	0	0.0
Tameside	15	0	0.0	0	0.0
Tower Hamlets	14	1	7.1	0	0.0
Trafford	11	1	9.1	1	9.1
Wakefield	29	1	3.4	1	3.4
Walsall	13	0	0.0	0	0.0
Waltham Forest	14	0	0.0	0	0.0
Wandsworth	3	0	0.0	0	0.0
Warwickshire	29	0	0.0	0	0.0
West Sussex	41	1	2.4	0	0.0
Westminster	8	0	0.0	0	0.0
Wigan	21	0	0.0	0	0.0
Wiltshire	27	1	3.7	1	3.7
Wirral	19	0	0.0	0	0.0
Wolverhampton	17	1	5.9	0	0.0
York	12	0	0.0	0	0.0
England	2,952	38	1.3	15	0.5

The number of schools is derived from January 1996 DFEE schools census. Grant-maintained, independent and special schools are excluded from the table.

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14 Oct 1996 : Column: 737

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