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Further Education Funding

Mr. Bryan Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment on what date she received the Further Education Funding Council's claim for additional grant in aid for demand-led element enrolments for colleges exceeding their growth targets. [14625]

Mr. Paice: Further to my reply of 3 February, Official Report, column 460, the Department received the latest claim on 4 February.

Mr. Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment when she last made a statement on the availability of demand-led funding for colleges exceeding their growth targets. [14624]

Mr. Paice: On behalf of my right hon. Friend, I wrote to the Further Education Funding Council for England and

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to all further education colleges in England about demand-led funding on 5 February. I am placing a copy of my letter in the Library.

Mr. Rooker: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how much of the demand-led element of funding for further education has been used as core funding in the most recent financial year. [14698]

Mr. Paice: None. The £82 million additional grant in aid that the Department is making available in the current financial year to the Further Education Funding Council for England for it to pay colleges for demand-led funding is additional to the original provision for further education set out in the estimates for financial year 1996-97.

Mr. Rooker: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how much of the demand-led element of funding for further education was consolidated into college targets for 1993-94. [14699]

Mr. Paice: Within the Department's planned provision for financial year 1993-94, the Department made available to the Further Education Funding Council for England £152,500,000 for demand-led funding including in college's enrolment targets.

Financial year 1993-94 was the first year of the sector's existence. During that year, £152,500,000 was paid to colleges for demand-led funding included in colleges' enrolment targets. This sum was found within the planned provision for further education and did not require additional resources.

Mr. Rooker: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what assessment she has made of the effect on financial control in further education of moving college accounting to a year end of 31 July while maintaining a year end of 31 March for her Department's transfers to the funding council; and if she will make a statement on how the demand-led element of funding is affected by using two different year end dates.[14700]

Mr. Paice: Further education colleges have used a 1 August to 31 July financial year since the creation of the further education sector, with the exception of its first financial year which ran from 1 April 1993 to 31 July 1994. The Further Education Funding Council for England takes account of the difference in the Government and college financial years in determining its spending plans and in making payments to colleges. Demand-led funding is paid to colleges in February, April and July each year. The timing of those payments is not affected by the year end dates and I have made it clear to all colleges that demand-led payments due to them for contractual commitments for the academic year 1996-97 entered into on or before 28 January 1997 will be made under existing arrangements.

Mr. Rooker: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if the vote incorporating the demand-led element of further education funding is cash limited. [14701]

Mr. Paice: The vote incorporating the demand-led element of further education funding is not cash limited.

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Moral Values

Mr. Sheerman: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what steps she is taking to promote moral values within the educational system.[14695]

Mrs. Gillan: My right hon. Friend expects to receive advice from the School Curriculum and Assessment Authority later this month on the recommendations of its national forum for values in education and the community.

Scouts and Guides (Funding)

Mr. Chris Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will provide public funding to support (a) the Scout Association and (b) the Girl Guides; and if she will make a statement. [14997]

Mr. Paice: Both the Scout Association and the Girl Guides receive funding through the Department's scheme of grants for national voluntary youth organisations. The current scheme runs from 1996-99. For 1997-98, £3.05 million had been allocated for grants under the scheme including £125,000 for the Scout Association and £40,855 for the Girl Guides. All grants are for approved programmes of work designed to promote the personal and social education of young people.

Mr. Sweeney: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) what is (a) the average sum per pupil and (b) the average percentage of the general schools budget, allotted by each local education authority in the current financial year for (i) mandatory exceptions from delegation, (ii) discretionary exceptions outside the potential schools budget, (iii) discretionary exceptions within the potential schools budget and (iv) the aggregated schools budget; [10401]

(2) what is (a) the average sum per pupil and (b) the average percentage of the general schools budget, allotted by each local education authority in the current financial year for discretionary exceptions outside the potential schools budget and which is (i) delegated and (ii) not delegated to schools; [10400]

(3) what is (a) the average sum per pupil and (b) the average percentage of the general schools budget, allotted by each local education authority in the current financial year for (i) money allocated to schools via age-weighted pupil units, (ii) premature retirement compensation, (iii) school transport, (iv) statementing and support for statemented pupils and (v) school meals (net of income).[10402]

Mr. Robin Squire [pursuant to his reply, 13 January 1997, c. 75-84]: The following table corrects the figures previously given in the columns showing the amount per pupil allocated through discretionary exceptions within the potential schools budget, the percentage of the general schools budget allocated through mandatory exceptions and the percentage of the GSB allocated through the cost of statements.

Amounts per pupil and percentage of GSB--section 122 1996-97

LEA	Aggregated schools budget		Discretionary exceptions outside the PSB		Discretionary exceptions within the PSB		Mandatory exceptions
	£ per pupil	Percentage of GSB	£ per pupil	Percentage of GSB	£ per pupil	Percentage of GSB	£ per pupil	Percentage of GSB
Barking/Dagenham	2,031	60.8	213	6.4	144	4.3	952	28.5
Barnet	1,994	67.3	236	8.0	171	5.8	561	18.9
Barnsley	1,512	70.9	193	9.1	179	8.4	248	11.6
Bath and North-east Somerset	1,926	77.1	220	8.8	161	6.5	190	7.6
Bedfordshire	1,771	73.6	145	6.0	205	8.5	167	6.9
Berkshire	1,825	76.8	128	5.4	109	4.6	314	13.2
Bexley	1,718	73.5	152	6.5	144	6.2	323	13.8
Birmingham	1,971	77.1	187	7.3	214	8.4	184	7.2
Bolton	1,694	74.6	219	9.7	201	8.8	156	6.9
Bradford	1,684	64.8	193	7.4	220	8.5	502	19.3
Brent	2,042	71.0	115	4.0	183	6.4	534	18.6
Bristol	2,113	78.7	216	8.0	157	5.9	199	7.4
Bromley	1,689	71.1	256	10.8	99	4.2	332	14.0
Buckinghamshire	1,704	68.6	210	8.4	136	5.5	437	17.6
Bury	1,762	78.2	143	6.4	221	9.8	127	5.6
Calderdale	1,636	69.5	200	8.5	166	7.1	353	15.0
Cambridgeshire	1,670	67.6	196	7.9	180	7.3	423	17.1
Camden	2,530	63.6	338	8.5	186	4.7	924	23.2
Cheshire	1,784	77.0	171	7.4	158	6.8	203	8.7
Cornwall	1,730	69.8	229	9.3	174	7.0	345	13.9
Corporation of London	3,196	66.9	360	7.5	439	9.2	780	16.3
Coventry	1,934	76.4	193	7.6	131	5.2	272	10.8
Croydon	1,934	72.3	184	6.9	225	8.4	332	12.4
Cumbria	1,780	73.9	169	7.0	198	8.2	263	10.9
Derbyshire	1,551	70.7	187	8.5	228	10.4	226	10.3
Devon	1,765	75.6	170	7.3	192	8.2	206	8.8
Doncaster	1,795	71.9	247	9.9	182	7.3	273	10.9
Dorset	1,610	73.0	185	8.4	132	6.0	278	12.6
Dudley	1,752	81.6	71	3.3	152	7.1	171	8.0
Durham	1,681	74.1	217	9.6	181	8.0	190	8.4
Ealing	2,019	76.5	213	8.1	262	9.9	146	5.5
East Riding	1,854	77.4	215	9.0	230	9.6	97	4.0
East Sussex	1,840	74.2	203	8.2	187	7.5	250	10.1
Enfield	1,916	68.5	208	7.4	158	5.7	514	18.4
Essex	1,751	75.5	192	8.3	180	7.8	195	8.4
Gateshead	1,806	66.5	275	10.1	149	5.5	488	17.9
Gloucestershire	1,640	73.3	157	7.0	121	5.4	318	14.2
Greenwich	2,357	78.6	173	5.8	220	7.3	250	8.3
Hackney	2,355	68.8	280	8.2	405	11.8	382	11.2
Hammersmith/Fulham	2,505	73.5	241	7.1	390	11.4	273	8.0
Hampshire	1,872	76.9	183	7.5	144	5.9	235	9.7
Haringey	2,134	64.9	336	10.2	243	7.4	573	17.4
Harrow	2,096	77.1	231	8.5	75	2.8	316	11.6
Hartlepool	1,685	76.7	207	9.4	158	7.2	146	6.7
Havering	1,894	83.6	161	7.1	90	4.0	120	5.3
Hereford/Worcester	1,724	75.0	186	8.1	120	5.2	268	11.6
Hertfordshire	1,891	79.1	128	5.4	170	7.1	200	8.4
Hillingdon	1,915	72.5	208	7.9	134	5.1	385	14.6
Hounslow	2,061	72.9	229	8.1	138	4.9	400	14.2
Hull	1,735	77.4	196	8.8	202	9.0	109	4.9
Isle of Wight	1,757	76.4	199	8.6	148	6.5	195	8.5
Isles of Scilly	3,289	76.9	234	5.5	281	6.6	473	11.1
Islington	2,313	68.1	150	4.4	194	5.7	741	21.8
Kensington/Chelsea	2,804	72.6	288	7.5	229	5.9	539	14.0
Kent	1,753	74.4	217	9.2	119	5.1	267	11.3
Kingston	1,926	80.3	195	8.1	83	3.5	195	8.1
Kirklees	1,693	73.5	210	9.1	177	7.7	222	9.7
Knowsley	1,885	77.5	139	5.7	204	8.4	203	8.4
Lambeth	2,361	66.1	339	9.5	297	8.3	574	16.1
Lancashire	1,736	73.1	217	9.2	201	8.4	221	9.3
Leeds	1,840	72.2	124	4.9	167	6.5	419	16.4
Leicestershire	1,750	76.2	238	10.4	176	7.7	131	5.7
Lewisham	2,285	78.6	248	8.5	236	8.1	140	4.8
Lincolnshire	1,815	75.1	218	9.0	128	5.3	254	10.5
Liverpool	1,824	76.3	143	6.0	185	7.7	238	10.0
Manchester	1,837	71.2	164	6.4	235	9.1	346	13.4
Merton	1,933	63.7	222	7.3	77	2.5	802	26.4
Middlesbrough	1,761	66.8	239	9.1	183	6.9	451	17.1
North east Lincolnshire	1,801	77.4	203	8.7	218	9.4	105	4.5
Newcastle	1,855	74.6	229	9.2	201	8.1	201	8.1
Newham	1,855	68.4	324	11.9	190	7.0	344	12.7
Norfolk	1,846	72.0	178	6.9	222	8.7	317	12.4
North Lincolnshire	1,813	75.2	228	9.5	242	10.0	129	5.3
North Somerset	1,891	77.4	220	9.0	158	6.5	173	7.1
North Tyneside	1,769	73.2	154	6.4	183	7.6	312	12.9
North Yorkshire	1,828	79.2	191	8.3	181	7.8	108	4.7
Northamptonshire	1,770	74.9	136	5.7	124	5.2	334	14.1
Northumberland	1,739	75.3	170	7.4	229	9.9	172	7.4
Nottinghamshire	1,588	73.9	198	9.2	196	9.1	168	7.8
Oldham	1,811	77.9	185	7.9	190	8.2	138	5.9
Oxfordshire	1,798	70.5	156	6.1	151	5.9	446	17.5
Redbridge	1,959	75.2	172	6.6	129	4.9	346	13.3
Redcar and Cleveland	1,741	76.5	217	9.5	165	7.3	151	6.6
Richmond	2,032	81.3	194	7.8	55	2.2	217	8.7
Rochdale	1,701	76.2	122	5.4	201	9.0	210	9.4
Rotherham	1,732	78.0	201	9.1	134	6.0	153	6.9
Salford	1,775	66.3	184	6.9	191	7.1	528	19.7
Sandwell	1,692	75.2	206	9.1	141	6.3	211	9.4
Sefton	1,821	74.7	217	8.9	154	6.3	244	10.0
Sheffield	1,690	72.8	243	10.5	189	8.1	198	8.5
Shropshire	1,718	71.2	153	6.3	214	8.9	327	13.6
Solihull	1,834	81.8	109	4.9	161	7.2	137	6.1
Somerset	1,769	77.9	171	7.5	113	5.0	219	9.7
South Gloucestershire	1,863	74.0	212	8.4	172	6.8	271	10.8
South Tyneside	1,668	74.8	208	9.3	143	6.4	209	9.4
Southwark	2,255	71.9	269	8.6	299	9.5	313	10.0
St. Helens	1,821	77.1	204	8.6	201	8.5	136	5.7
Staffordshire	1,675	77.5	126	5.8	171	7.9	189	8.7
Stockport	1,801	74.4	174	7.2	150	6.2	294	12.2
Stockton on Tees	1,790	78.7	189	8.3	205	9.0	88	3.9
Suffolk	1,879	79.4	150	6.4	166	7.0	170	7.2
Sunderland	1,819	77.5	119	5.1	148	6.3	261	11.1
Surrey	1,860	72.0	195	7.6	226	8.7	302	11.7
Sutton	1,896	66.7	179	6.3	174	6.1	592	20.8
Tameside	1,556	66.8	175	7.5	165	7.1	433	18.6
Tower Hamlets	2,241	65.4	262	7.6	252	7.4	672	19.6
Trafford	1,556	72.7	202	9.4	147	6.9	236	11.0
Wakefield	1,586	62.0	232	9.1	184	7.2	556	21.7
Walsall	1,758	78.9	197	8.9	84	3.7	190	8.5
Waltham Forest	2,160	73.8	139	4.8	255	8.7	374	12.8
Wandsworth	2,313	72.7	272	8.5	243	7.6	355	11.2
Warwickshire	1,713	66.6	194	7.6	185	7.2	480	18.7
West Sussex	1,795	77.4	218	9.4	139	6.0	167	7.2
Westminster	2,351	71.7	278	8.5	215	6.5	435	13.3
Wigan	1,892	77.7	146	6.0	179	7.4	217	8.9
Wiltshire	1,713	73.5	191	8.2	246	10.6	180	7.7
Wirral	1,780	75.3	182	7.7	184	7.8	219	9.3
Wolverhampton	1,756	74.9	149	6.4	162	6.9	283	12.1
York	1,718	78.6	213	9.8	119	5.4	136	6.2

The information in this table has been derived from financial statements produced under the section 122 of the Education Act 1996 (formerly section 42 of the Education Reform Act 1988), incorporating LEA's changes to their statements notified to the Department by 31 December 1996.

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LEA	Premature retirement compensation		Home to school transport		Cost of statements		School meals (net of income)
	£ per pupil	Percentage of GSB	£ per pupil	Percentage of GSB	£ per pupil	Percentage of GSB	£ per pupil	Percentage of GSB
Barking/Dagenham	16	0.5	27	0.8	74	2.2	71	2.1
Barnet	13	0.4	60	2.0	75	2.5	39	1.3
Barnsley	19	0.9	16	0.8	88	4.1	78	3.7
Bath and North-east Somerset	44	1.8	80	3.2	68	2.7	39	1.6
Bedfordshire	22	0.9	65	2.7	19	0.8	65	2.7
Berkshire	10	0.4	57	2.4	15	0.6	25	1.1
Bexley	5	0.2	25	1.1	51	2.2	43	1.9
Birmingham	23	0.9	49	1.9	41	1.6	94	3.7
Bolton	20	0.9	35	1.5	83	3.6	59	2.6
Bradford	38	1.4	39	1.5	81	3.1	101	3.9
Brent	42	1.5	59	2.0	18	0.6	70	2.4
Bristol	41	1.5	46	1.7	2.4	0.9	70	2.6
Bromley	6	0.3	36	1.5	100	4.2	40	1.7
Buckinghamshire	15	0.6	82	3.3	36	1.4	17	0.7
Bury	38	1.7	23	1.0	18	0.8	93	4.1
Calderdale	25	1.1	20	0.9	88	3.7	61	2.6
Cambridgeshire	22	0.9	61	2.5	90	3.6	45	1.8
Camden	7	0.2	54	1.3	63	1.6	88	2.2
Cheshire	22	0.9	57	2.4	40	1.7	17	0.7
Cornwall	19	0.8	60	2.4	120	4.8	49	2.0
Corporation of London	19	0.4	5	0.1	0	0.0	313	6.6
Coventry	26	1.0	29	1.1	33	1.3	67	2.6
Croydon	10	0.4	51	1.9	50	1.9	51	1.9
Cumbria	46	1.9	62	2.6	72	3.0	42	1.7
Derbyshire	22	1.0	48	2.2	93	4.2	87	4.0
Devon	28	1.2	89	3.8	61	2.6	40	1.7
Doncaster	27	1.1	24	0.9	96	3.8	53	2.1
Dorset	16	0.7	73	3.3	43	1.9	25	1.2
Dudley	18	0.8	28	1.3	11	0.5	54	2.5
Durham	23	1.0	61	2.7	83	3.7	51	2.2
Ealing	20	0.8	77	2.9	66	2.5	77	2.9
East Riding	25	1.1	85	3.6	6	0.3	58	2.4
East Sussex	9	0.4	51	2.1	36	1.5	58	2.4
Enfield	19	0.7	29	1.0	70	2.5	65	2.3
Essex	6	0.3	76	3.3	87	3.7	34	1.5
Gateshead	35	1.3	27	1.0	32	1.2	76	2.8
Gloucestershire	22	1.0	71	3.2	72	3.2	30	1.3
Greenwich	4	0.1	52	1.7	9	0.3	98	3.3
Hackney	17	0.5	93	2.7	55	1.6	133	3.9
Hammersmith/Fulham	11	0.3	97	2.8	67	2.0	161	4.7
Hampshire	13	0.5	47	1.9	24	1.0	39	1.6
Haringey	19	0.6	34	1.0	15	0.4	106	3.2
Harrow	12	0.4	32	1.2	74	2.7	26	1.0
Hartlepool	23	1.0	28	1.3	16	0.7	70	3.2
Havering	12	0.5	23	1.0	61	2.7	25	1.1
Hereford/Worcester	9	0.4	73	3.2	76	3.3	16	0.7
Hertfordshire	14	0.6	59	2.5	68	2.9	17	0.7
Hillingdon	15	0.6	92	3.5	21	0.8	0	0.0
Hounslow	9	0.3	37	1.3	40	1.4	52	1.9
Hull	30	1.3	44	2.0	7	0.3	83	3.7
Isle of Wight	10	0.4	58	2.5	70	3.1	56	2.4
Isles of Scilly	78	1.8	74	1.7	207	4.8	102	2.4
Islington	0	0.0	51	1.5	42	1.2	74	2.2
Kensington/Chelsea	16	0.4	7	0.2	69	1.8	146	3.8
Kent	13	0.5	72	3.1	72	3.1	35	1.5
Kingston	22	0.9	35	1.5	72	3.0	22	0.9
Kirklees	21	0.9	35	1.5	64	2.8	56	2.4
Knowsley	29	1.2	36	1.5	14	0.6	98	4.0
Lambeth	4	0.1	71	2.0	168	4.7	131	3.7
Lancashire	31	1.3	56	2.3	107	4.5	53	2.3
Leeds	22	0.9	31	1.2	20	0.8	53	2.1
Leicestershire	14	0.6	64	2.8	85	3.7	42	1.8
Lewisham	5	0.2	35	1.2	65	2.2	104	3.6
Lincolnshire	23	1.0	95	3.9	69	2.8	14	0.6
Liverpool	34	1.4	34	1.4	36	1.5	88	3.7
Manchester	50	1.9	40	1.6	8	0.3	119	4.6
Merton	27	0.9	35	1.1	88	2.9	3	0.1
Middlesbrough	11	0.4	22	0.8	17	0.7	71	2.7
North-east Lincolnshire	41	1.8	32	1.4	12	0.5	78	3.4
Newcastle	0	0.0	23	0.9	52	2.1	111	4.5
Newham	26	1.0	33	1.2	105	3.9	88	3.2
Norfolk	18	0.7	95	3.7	73	2.8	48	1.9
North Lincolnshire	34	1.4	66	2.7	4	0.2	69	2.8
North Somerset	40	1.6	81	3.3	72	3.0	40	1.7
North Tyneside	35	1.4	23	1.0	63	2.6	78	3.2
North Yorkshire	11	0.5	111	4.8	47	2.0	20	0.9
Northamptonshire	11	0.5	53	2.3	19	0.8	28	1.2
Northumberland	40	1.7	80	3.5	64	2.8	39	1.7
Nottinghamshire	45	2.1	36	1.7	12	0.6	56	2.6
Oldham	17	0.7	17	0.7	16	0.7	72	3.1
Oxfordshire	42	1.6	79	3.1	63	2.5	37	1.5
Redbridge	13	0.5	56	2.2	19	0.7	32	1.2
Redcar and Cleveland	24	1.0	34	1.5	29	1.3	61	2.7
Richmond	10	0.4	27	1.1	73	2.9	0	0.0
Rochdale	25	1.1	26	1.1	36	1.6	102	4.6
Rotherham	13	0.6	29	1.3	31	1.4	51	2.3
Salford	34	1.3	46	1.7	42	1.6	85	3.2
Sandwell	11	0.5	37	1.6	31	1.4	61	2.7
Sefton	26	1.1	28	1.1	40	1.7	71	2.9
Sheffield	40	1.7	35	1.5	78	3.4	75	3.2
Shropshire	28	1.2	90	3.7	41	1.7	36	1.5
Solihull	18	0.8	31	1.4	47	2.1	31	1.4
Somerset	17	0.7	72	3.2	80	3.5	27	1.2
South Gloucestershire	35	1.4	54	2.1	67	2.7	69	2.8
South Tyneside	25	1.1	16	0.7	16	0.7	74	3.3
Southwark	10	0.3	87	2.8	65	2.1	118	3.8
St. Helens	44	1.9	54	2.3	71	3.0	60	2.5
Staffordshire	27	1.3	47	2.2	48	2.2	40	1.8
Southport	14	0.6	24	1.0	66	2.7	56	2.3
Stockton-on-Tees	5	0.2	30	1.3	24	1.1	60	2.6
Suffolk	13	0.6	78	3.3	45	1.9	21	0.9
Sunderland	10	0.4	26	1.1	38	1.6	59	2.5
Surrey	18	0.7	98	3.8	71	2.7	28	1.1
Sutton	6	0.2	45	1.6	27	1.0	46	1.6
Tameside	27	1.2	34	1.5	50	2.2	24	1.0
Tower Hamlets	21	0.6	48	1.4	82	2.4	135	3.9
Trafford	19	0.9	34	1.6	49	2.3	48	2.2
Wakefield	20	0.8	31	1.2	61	2.4	79	3.1
Walsall	30	1.3	20	0.9	34	1.5	55	2.5
Waltham Forest	20	0.7	43	1.5	4	0.1	73	2.5
Wandsworth	14	0.4	82	26	107	3.4	72	2.3
Warwickshire	35	1.4	68	2.6	23	0.9	43	1.7
West Sussex	3	0.1	53	2.3	40	1.7	30	1.3
Westminster	15	0.5	27	0.8	77	2.3	113	3.5
Wigan	46	1.9	32	1.3	24	1.0	53	2.2
Wiltshire	21	0.9	113	4.9	52	2.2	48	2.0
Wirral	45	1.9	53	2.2	40	1.7	67	2.8
Wolverhampton	50	2.2	35	1.5	22	1.0	75	3.2
York	10	0.5	45	2.1	55	2.5	33	1.5

The information in this table has been derived from financial statements produced under the section 122 of the Education Act 1996 (formerly section 42 of the Education Reform Act 1988), incorporating LEA's changes to their statements notified to the Department by 31 December 1996.

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