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Youth Training

Mr. Hain: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list for each year since its inception the amount spent or estimated to be spent on youth training at (a) cash prices and (b) 1996-97 prices. [6015]

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Mr. Paice: The information requested is given in the following table:

Year	Expenditure (£ million)	Expenditure at 1995-96 prices (£ million)
1990-91	823.40	(20)979.2
1991-92	746.30	(21)834.1
1992-93	617.00	661.70
1993-94	640.10	667.30
1994-95	647.00	662.70
1995-96 (provisional)	634.70	634.70
1996-97 (planned)	763.50	746.70

(20) Expenditure for 1990-91 is for Great Britain.

(21) Expenditure for 1991-92 is for England and Wales.

Training Schemes

Mr. Hain: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list for the latest year for which statistics are available the average cost of each place on training for work schemes and the total number of people on training for work schemes. [6014]

Mr. Paice: The cost per place in 1995-96 on training for work was £7,300. The total number of participant places was 68,719. This provided for 213,862 opportunities at a cost of £2,400 per opportunity.

Mr. Hain: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list for each year since its inception the amount spent or estimated to be spent on training for work schemes at (a) cash prices and (b) 1996-97 prices. [6013]

Mr. Paice: In April 1993, training for work replaced employment training and employment action. The information requested is given in the following table and relates to the amount in England.

	1993-94 outturn	1994-95 outturn	1995-96 provisional outturn	1996-97 planned
Expenditure (£ million)	760.2	692.7	503.9	485.4
Expenditure at 1995-96 prices
(£ million)	792.5	709.5	503.9	474.7

Departmental Decisions (Appeals)

Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list those administrative decisions of her Department affecting (a) United Kingdom citizens and (b) non-citizens where there is no right of appeal. [6024]

Mr. Robin Squire: This information can be supplied only at disproportionate cost.

School Deficits

Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many primary and secondary schools in each education authority in England (a) are in deficit or (b) are projected to fall into deficit in the current year. [5998]

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Mr. Robin Squire: In relation to the first part of the question, I will write to the hon. Member in the new year when the Department has completed its detailed examination of the local management of schools outturn statements produced by local education authorities for the financial year 1995-96. Information about projected deficits is not collected by the Department

Grant-maintained Schools

Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list the number of grant-maintained schools in each local education authority area in England; and for each local education authority what is the percentage of secondary school children in the grant-maintained sector. [5900]

Mr. Robin Squire: The following table shows the number of primary, secondary and special grant-maintained schools in each local education authority in England, and the proportion of pupils in maintained secondary schools who attend grant-maintained schools.

LEA Area	Number of GM schools	Secondary GM pupil per cent.
Barking	0	0.0
Barnet	12	52.0
Barnsley	0	0.0
Bath and NE Somerset	2	16.1
Bedfordshire	17	21.8
Berkshire	24	21.2
Bexley	8	25.2
Birmingham	22	24.0
Bolton	4	16.5
Bradford	14	11.9
Brent	16	87.5
Bormley	23	93.1
Buckinghamshire	20	26.7
Bury	1	0.0
Calderdale	16	65.5
Cambridgeshire	23	39.6
Camden	3	22.6
Cheshire	8	4.1
City of Bristol	0	0.0
City of Kingston Upon Hull	0	0.0
Cornwall	1	0.0
Corporation of London	0	0.0
Coventry	0	0.0
Croydon	12	51.7
Cumbria	41	38.3
Derbyshire	29	32.3
Devon	8	9.8
Doncaster	1	5.2
Dorset	17	24.4
Dudley	7	26.3
Durham	0	0.0
Ealing	9	46.1
East Riding of Yorkshire	4	0.0
East Sussex	0	0.0
Enfield	6	31.5
Essex	149	71.6
Gateshead	0	0.0
Gloucestershire	50	70.4
Greenwich	1	0.0
Hackney	1	0.0
Hammersmith	1	20.9
Hampshire	32	20.1
Haringey	0	0.0
Harrow	1	6.8
Hartlepool	0	0.0
Havering	4	26.4
Hereford and Worcester	7	7.8
Hertfordshire	40	34.9
Hillingdon	22	84.7
Hounslow	2	14.0
Isle of Wight	0	0.0
Isles of Scilly	0	0.0
Islington	0	0.0
Kensington and Chelsea	3	20.3
Kent	96	56.9
Kingston upon Thames	6	47.4
Kirklees	2	5.7
Knowsley	1	7.7
Lambeth	18	59.4
Lancashire	15	8.4
Leeds	2	2.5
Leicestershire	9	8.0
Lewisham	1	0.0
Lincolnshire	56	48.7
Liverpool	5	10.5
Manchester	1	0.0
Merton	1	10.4
Middlesbrough	0	0.0
Newcastle upon Tyne	0	0.0
Newham	1	4.0
Norfolk	32	23.5
North East Lincolnshire	0	0.0
North Lincolnshire	0	0.0
North Somerset	0	0.0
North Tyneside	1	1.6
North Yorkshire	1	0.0
Northamptonshire	24	21.0
Northumberland	2	2.3
Nottinghamshire	5	3.6
Oldham	0	0.0
Oxfordshire	1	0.0
Redbridge	1	6.9
Redcar and Cleveland	0	0.0
Richmond upon Thames	0	0.0
Rochdale	8	15.8
Rotherham	0	0.0
Salford	1	4.1
Sandwell	2	9.4
Sefton	0	0.0
Sheffield	11	7.4
Shropshire	9	18.6
Solihull	1	0.0
Somerset	6	2.1
South Gloucestershire	0	0.0
South Tyneside	0	0.0
Southwark	11	26.7
St. Helens	0	0.0
Staffordshire	10	6.5
Stockport	0	0.0
Stockton on Tees	0	0.0
Suffolk	0	0.0
Sunderland	0	0.0
Surrey	36	35.1
Sutton	11	58.9
Tameside	3	17.4
Tower Hamlets	1	7.0
Trafford	5	34.1
Wakefield	0	0.0
Walsall	11	36.8
Waltham Forest	4	18.8
Wandsworth	11	74.7
Warwickshire	14	20.2
West Sussex	1	0.0
Westminster	0	0.0
Wigan	0	0.0
Wiltshire	42	45.0
Wirral	4	15.4
Wolverhampton	3	16.1
York	0	0.0
England	1,147	19.2

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Pre-School Provision

Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what was (a) the number and (b) the percentage of three and four-year-olds in pre-school provision in each local eduction authority and nationally in January. [5867]

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Mr. Robin Squire: Information on pupils aged three and four in maintained nursery schools and nursery classes in maintained primary schools in England in January 1996 is shown in the following table.

Pupils aged three and four in maintained nursery schools and nursery classes in maintained primary schools in each Local Education Authority area in England January 1996

	Number of three and four-year-olds	Percentage of population at 31 December 1995
Camden	1,049	25
Greenwich	3,344	50
Hackney	2,242	33
Hammersmith and Fulham	1,731	44
Islington	1,908	37
Kensington and Chelsea	851	27
Lambeth	2,433	31
Lewisham	2,753	37
Southwark	3,065	41
Tower Hamlets	3,345	61
Wandsworth	2,387	33
Westminster	1,246	32
Barking and Dagenham	2,101	46
Barnet	2,544	31
Bexley	1,533	25
Brent	2,600	36
Bromley	183	3
Croydon	2,148	23
Ealing	3,821	46
Enfield	1,682	22
Haringey	2,769	44
Harrow	1,029	19
Havering	552	10
Hillingdon	3,383	50
Hounslow	2,396	40
Kingston upon Thames	1,334	39
Merton	2,711	54
Newham	4,575	52
Redbridge	1,430	22
Richmond upon Thames	863	21
Sutton	1,949	40
Waltham Forest	2,817	39
Birmingham	11,217	35
Coventry	2,085	24
Dudley	3,207	39
Sandwell	4,556	53
Solihull	1,872	37
Walsall	4,388	59
Wolverhampton	3,912	54
Knowsley	2,957	63
Liverpool	6,160	46
St. Helens	1,620	33
Sefton	2,882	40
Wirral	2,251	26
Bolton	3,172	42
Bury	1,625	32
Manchester	7,307	53
Oldham	2,452	37
Rochdale	2,243	35
Salford	3,663	55
Stockport	2,188	29
Tameside	2,596	40
Trafford	2,640	45
Wigan	2,167	25
Barnsley	2,957	47
Doncaster	3,654	44
Rotherham	3,347	47
Sheffield	5,729	42
Bradford	6,550	44
Calderdale	1,945	35
Kirklees	4,475	41
Leeds	8,980	46
Wakefield	4,813	54
Gateshead	1,926	37
Newcastle upon Tyne	2,799	38
North Tyneside	2,671	55
South Tyneside	2,226	55
Sunderland	3,678	44
Avon	5,267	21
Bedfordshire	5,254	32
Berkshire	6,987	32
Buckinghamshire	3,342	18
Cambridgeshire	2,254	12
Cheshire	5,569	22
Cleveland	10,017	63
Cornwall	1,689	15
Cumbria	3,470	28
Derbyshire	9,815	39
Devon	3,153	13
Dorset	800	5
Durham	7,325	47
East Sussex	1,963	12
Essex	3,389	8
Gloucestershire	22	0
Hampshire	2,021	5
Hereford and Worcester	2,179	12
Hertfordshire	9,900	36
Humberside	9,369	39
Isle of Wight	170	6
Kent	2,467	6
Lancashire	8,163	21
Leicestershire	5,090	20
Lincolnshire	2,349	16
Norfolk	1,409	8
North Yorkshire	3,928	22
Northamptonshire	3,332	20
Northumberland	3,112	43
Nottinghamshire	14,125	51
Oxfordshire	3,377	20
Shropshire	2,325	21
Somerset	607	5
Staffordshire	7,336	27
Suffolk	3,306	19
Surrey	3,238	12
Warwickshire	2,108	17
West Sussex	1,281	8
Wiltshire	792	5
England(22)	364,271	28

(22) Includes Corporation of London and Isles of Scilly.

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