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Action Zones

Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment which of the first-round education action zones have applied to vary the details of their original bids; and if he will set out the details of such variations. [81144]

Ms Estelle Morris: None so far. Each EAZ submitted a detailed action plan on 31 March 1999. The action plans are currently being assessed and decisions on their approval will be made shortly.

Dr. Kumar: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will make a statement on the time limits on the existence of the education and employment action zones. [80893]

Ms Estelle Morris: Education Action Zones are established for three years in the first instance. Zones which are successfully meeting their aims and targets for raising standards, and can continue to contribute significantly to raising standards, will be extended to five years; some may be extended beyond this.

Employment Action Zones will operate for two years in 14 areas, from April 2000, helping 48,000 long-term unemployed people find and keep work.

Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his answer of 27 January 1999, Official Report, column 293, if he will list the expenditure by his Department, agencies and non- departmental public bodies on (a) market research, (b) conferences, (c) direct mail, (d) advertising and

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publicity, (e) web sites, (f) hospitality, (g) salaries and relevant expenses of administrative staff and (h) external consultants and advisers which is included in the expenditure on education action zones.. [81152]

Ms Estelle Morris: Expenditure, during the financial year 1998-99, was as follows:

	£
(a) Market research	0
(b) Conferences	254,735
(c) Direct mail	3,496
(d) Advertising and publicity	124,825
(e) Website	0
(f) Hospitality	1,200
(g) Central administration costs	539,693
(h) External consultants and advisers	219,202

Single Teacher Classes

Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) what was the average size of single teacher classes for Key Stage One pupils in January 1999 (a) in each local education authority and (b) in total; and what were the corresponding figures in January 1998; [80684]

(2) what was the average size of single teacher classes for Key Stage Two pupils in January 1999 (a) in each local education authority and (b) in total; and what were the corresponding figures in January 1998. [80685]

Ms Estelle Morris [holding answer 15 April 1999]: The information requested is shown in the following table.

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Key stage 1 and 2 classes, average class size of single teacher classes in maintained primary and secondary schools. Local Education Authority areas, January 1998 and 1999

	Key Stage 1		Key Stage 2
	1998	1999 (provisional)	1998	1999 (provisional)
England	27.1	26.5	28.3	28.4
North East	26.9	25.8	27.8	27.6
Hartlepool	27.9	25.7	28.2	28.0
Middlesbrough	26.7	26.0	27.5	27.2
Redcar and Cleveland	26.8	26.1	27.9	27.3
Stockton-on-Tees	26.7	26.0	28.3	27.8
Darlington	29.3	25.9	29.2	28.4
Durham	27.2	29.4	29.1	30.2
Northumberland	27.3	25.9	29.0	28.4
Gateshead	25.8	25.4	26.6	26.9
Newcastle-upon-Tyne	27.4	25.4	27.8	27.7
North Tyneside	27.2	26.5	27.6	27.5
South Tyneside	27.0	25.0	26.7	26.8
Sunderland	25.2	24.7	26.4	26.6
North West and Merseyside	27.5	26.6	28.5	28.6
North West	27.7	26.7	28.7	28.9
Cheshire(9)	26.4	--	28.0	--
Cheshire(10)	--	26.4	--	28.3
Halton	--	24.9	--	27.8
Warrington	--	27.3	--	28.8
Cumbria	25.7	25.0	26.7	26.8
Bolton	28.3	27.8	29.2	29.6
Bury	29.3	25.3	29.7	29.5
Manchester	27.1	26.6	27.9	28.1
Oldham	29.1	28.3	30.1	29.8
Rochdale	28.9	27.8	30.0	29.9
Salford	26.9	25.7	27.5	28.3
Stockport	28.1	27.1	29.1	29.2
Tameside	29.2	27.5	30.2	29.3
Trafford	28.7	27.8	29.3	29.2
Wigan	28.1	26.0	28.3	28.3
Lancashire(9)	28.3	--	29.6	--
Lancashire(10)	--	26.8	--	29.6
Blackburn and Darwen	--	28.4	--	29.7
Blackpool	--	28.7	--	31.1
Merseyside	26.9	26.3	27.6	27.6
Knowsley	27.4	27.2	28.5	28.1
Liverpool	26.7	26.2	27.2	27.0
St. Helens	27.3	26.8	28.2	28.5
Sefton	27.4	26.3	28.3	28.8
Wirral	26.0	25.6	27.0	26.8
Yorkshire and Humber	27.3	26.3	28.9	28.8
East Riding of Yorkshire	28.0	27.0	29.1	29.2
City of Kingston-upon-Hull	28.0	27.0	30.0	29.7
North East Lincolnshire	28.9	27.5	29.4	28.9
North Lincolnshire	28.5	23.9	28.9	28.6
York	26.2	25.4	29.0	28.0
North Yorkshire	25.5	25.0	28.1	28.2
Barnsley	27.6	26.8	30.4	30.1
Doncaster	28.0	27.6	28.4	28.5
Rotherham	25.8	24.8	29.4	28.9
Sheffield	25.9	24.9	27.3	27.3
Bradford	28.4	27.2	29.3	28.6
Calderdale	27.3	26.7	28.8	28.8
Kirklees	28.5	26.7	30.1	30.2
Leeds	27.7	26.9	28.4	28.7
Wakefield	27.4	26.8	29.5	29.3
East Midlands	26.8	25.9	28.9	28.9
Derby	28.5	24.8	30.7	30.9
Derbyshire	28.0	25.9	30.8	30.3
Leicester City	26.5	24.9	27.5	27.3
Rutland	25.4	25.1	26.1	27.0
Leicestershire	25.8	25.4	27.8	28.0
Lincolnshire	26.1	26.2	27.8	28.3
Northamptonshire	27.1	26.8	27.6	27.9
Nottinghamshire(9)	26.8	--	29.9	--
Nottinghamshire(10)	--	26.4	--	29.6
City of Nottingham	--	25.4	--	29.0
West Midlands	27.0	26.1	28.0	28.0
Hereford and Worcester	26.1	--	27.3	--
Herefordshire	--	24.0	--	27.0
Worcestershire	--	26.0	--	28.0
Shropshire(9)	25.2	--	29.1	--
Shropshire(10)	--	24.3	--	29.3
Telford and Wrekin	--	25.8	--	30.1
Stoke	26.7	26.0	27.6	27.5
Staffordshire	26.4	25.7	28.3	28.2
Warwickshire	27.7	26.3	29.2	28.7
Birmingham	27.5	27.2	27.5	27.6
Coventry	27.3	25.2	28.1	28.0
Dudley	26.6	26.6	26.7	26.6
Sandwell	28.4	25.7	29.0	28.9
Solihull	29.1	25.8	27.9	28.6
Walsall	26.3	26.2	28.6	27.7
Wolverhampton	27.7	27.8	26.7	27.4
Eastern	26.4	26.2	28.1	28.2
Luton	27.9	28.2	26.9	26.7
Bedfordshire	26.4	--	27.8	--
Bedfordshire	--	25.9	--	27.4
Peterborough	--	27.1	--	29.4
Cambridgeshire	27.8	27.4	29.3	29.8
Essex(9)	26.6	--	28.6	--
Essex(10)	--	26.5	--	28.7
Southend	--	27.4	--	29.5
Thurrock	--	26.4	--	28.6
Hertfordshire	26.6	26.0	28.0	28.2
Norfolk	26.1	25.8	27.4	27.0
Suffolk	24.1	24.1	26.3	26.3
London	27.2	27.1	27.6	27.7
Inner London	26.4	26.8	26.9	27.1
City of London	25.0	0.0	27.0	27.5
Camden	27.3	27.0	27.4	27.5
Hackney	25.6	26.4	26.2	26.8
Hammersmith and Fulham	24.9	25.6	26.7	26.7
Haringey	27.4	27.7	27.3	27.4
Islington	27.1	27.3	27.7	27.2
Kensington and Chelsea	24.8	24.8	25.8	26.3
Lambeth	26.1	26.6	26.0	26.3
Lewisham	25.9	26.5	26.5	26.9
Newham	27.8	28.0	28.8	28.9
Southwark	26.5	26.6	27.1	27.2
Tower Hamlets	26.8	27.0	27.4	27.3
Wandsworth	25.8	26.3	25.2	25.7
Westminster	22.9	24.5	25.6	26.2
Outer London	27.6	27.3	27.9	28.0
Barking and Dagenham	27.4	27.6	26.5	26.9
Barnet	27.4	27.3	26.3	26.6
Bexley	28.9	27.2	29.5	29.6
Brent	26.2	27.3	26.9	26.5
Bromley	28.5	27.2	29.2	28.6
Croydon	28.2	27.6	28.4	28.4
Ealing	27.5	26.5	27.5	28.1
Enfield	29.2	29.0	29.1	28.9
Greenwich	24.7	25.0	27.1	27.1
Harrow	28.4	28.0	28.2	28.1
Havering	27.8	28.1	28.2	28.3
Hillingdon	27.1	25.3	27.6	27.5
Hounslow	27.3	27.9	26.6	26.6
Kingston-upon-Thames	30.2	30.4	28.5	29.0
Merton	27.4	26.7	28.7	28.0
Redbridge	27.4	27.5	30.0	29.6
Richmond-upon-Thames	28.2	28.3	26.4	26.7
Sutton	27.1	26.5	28.6	29.3
Waltham Forest	26.4	26.6	27.4	27.9
South East	27.1	26.9	28.5	28.5
Berkshire	26.4	--	28.6	--
Bracknell Forest	--	26.5	--	28.5
Windsor and Maidenhead	--	25.5	--	27.6
West Berkshire	--	24.0	--	27.9
Reading	--	25.5	--	28.9
Slough	--	27.6	--	28.1
Wokingham	--	26.6	--	29.3
Milton Keynes	27.4	26.6	27.4	28.1
Buckinghamshire	27.3	26.4	29.7	29.5
Brighton and Hove	28.5	28.0	28.9	29.2
East Sussex	27.3	27.5	29.4	29.9
Portsmouth	27.8	27.5	28.1	28.7
Southampton	27.0	27.0	28.8	28.4
Hampshire	28.0	27.8	28.6	28.6
Isle of Wight	25.7	23.8	27.6	28.3
Kent(9)	27.6	--	29.0	--
Kent(10)	--	27.5	--	28.9
Medway	--	28.0	--	28.5
Oxfordshire	26.0	24.8	29.0	29.2
Surrey	26.7	26.9	26.8	27.1
West Sussex	26.1	26.4	27.8	28.2
South West	27.0	26.4	28.9	29.0
Bath and North East Somerset	26.3	26.4	27.3	28.1
City of Bristol	27.4	27.5	28.1	28.0
North Somerset	27.7	27.4	28.9	29.4
South Gloucestershire	28.3	26.7	29.1	29.1
Cornwall	26.3	26.3	29.0	29.5
Isles of Scilly	16.3	18.0	20.8	18.4
Devon	26.8	--	29.3	--
Devon	--	24.8	--	28.9
City of Plymouth	--	25.6	--	29.0
Torbay	--	26.9	--	30.2
Bournemouth	29.2	29.2	30.2	29.4
Poole	29.9	30.0	29.9	30.3
Dorset	26.2	25.4	28.9	29.0
Gloucestershire	26.8	26.6	28.3	28.6
Somerset	26.7	26.8	29.1	29.5
Swindon	28.5	28.4	30.2	29.6
Wiltshire	25.8	25.9	28.7	28.8

(9) Before Local Government re-organisation of April 1998.

(10) After Local Government re-organisation of April 1998.

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Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list by local education authority (a) how many Key Stage One and Key Stage Two pupils in maintained schools were being educated in the same class in January 1999 and (b) how many pupils were being educated in mixed year group classes in maintained primary schools in January 1999. [80680]

Ms Estelle Morris [holding answer 15 April 1999]: Information about the number of Key Stage One and Key Stage Two pupils who are being educated in the same class is not collected centrally. However, the following table shows the number of mixed Key Stage classes in primary schools in January 1999. This will include some mixed Key Stage Two and Key Stage Three classes. The proportion of pupils in mixed year classes has fallen in primary schools from 27 per cent. in 1998 to 26 per cent. in 1999.

Numbers of pupils educated in mixed key stage and mixed year group classes in maintained primary schools by local education authority area in England (11) January 1999 (12)

	Number of pupils in mixed key stage classes (13)	Number of pupils in mixed year group classes (14)
England	82,514	969,460
North East	4,722	51,723
Hartlepool	548	3,267
Middlesbrough	115	2,818
Redcar and Cleveland	261	4,254
Stockton-on-Tees	188	4,072
Darlington	107	1,803
Durham	1,161	14,282
Northumberland	882	7,036
Gateshead	419	4,136
Newcastle-upon-Tyne	490	4,128
North Tyneside	258	1,580
South Tyneside	51	959
Sunderland	242	3,388
North West and Merseyside	9,856	128,915
North West	8,093	112,735
Cheshire	1,371	21,314
Halton	146	3,843
Warrington	498	3,598
Cumbria	1,361	15,130
Bolton	103	3,530
Bury	121	3,012
Manchester	443	5,660
Oldham	239	4,477
Rochdale	289	4,218
Salford	237	3,918
Stockport	512	4,712
Tameside	294	3,531
Trafford	233	2,777
Wigan	198	3,057
Lancashire	1,985	27,596
Blackburn and Darwen	63	2,082
Blackpool	0	280
Merseyside	1,763	16,180
Knowsley	417	2,656
Liverpool	397	3,725
St. Helens	22	893
Sefton	487	3,060
Wirral	440	5,846
Yorkshire and Humber	8,316	117,745
East Riding of Yorkshire	757	9,371
City of Kingston-Upon-Hull	357	6,856
North East Lincolnshire	283	3,013
North Lincolnshire	103	3,025
York	178	4,505
North Yorkshire	2,467	24,627
Barnsley	663	6,111
Doncaster	255	5,275
Rotherham	290	5,065
Sheffield	48	6,043
Bradford	824	7,784
Calderdale	384	6,751
Kirklees	489	9,411
Leeds	686	12,503
Wakefield	532	7,405
East Midlands	9,200	132,270
Derby	82	5,668
Derbyshire	1,085	24,677
Leicester City	661	5,731
Rutland	81	1,446
Leicestershire	1,283	17,498
Lincolnshire	1,707	23,467
Northamptonshire	1,276	16,286
Nottinghamshire	2,139	27,840
City of Nottingham	886	9,657
West Midlands	7,130	86,431
Herefordshire	517	5,557
Worcestershire	1,109	10,185
Shropshire	1,263	12,608
Telford and Wrekin	168	5,338
Stoke	199	2,726
Staffordshire	1,906	16,022
Warwickshire	873	9,549
Birmingham	528	4,714
Coventry	171	5,974
Dudley	26	2,950
Sandwell	175	3,301
Solihull	62	1,288
Walsall	104	4,209
Wolverhampton	29	2,010
Eastern	11,438	119,498
Luton	80	1,457
Bedfordshire	641	6,756
Cambridgeshire	1,081	17,543
City of Peterborough	305	5,104
Essex	2,693	31,034
Southend	41	1,802
Thurrock	669	4,074
Hertfordshire	1,146	19,326
Norfolk	3,619	17,264
Suffolk	1,163	15,138
Greater London	2,814	47,340
Inner London	1,272	21,258
City of London	0	0
Camden	0	691
Hackney	26	1,627
Hammersmith and Fulham	10	899
Haringey	0	313
Islington	192	1,711
Kensington and Chelsea	29	343
Lambeth	141	2,365
Lewisham	140	1,939
Newham	354	3,011
Southwark	29	3,279
Tower Hamlets	30	2,275
Wandsworth	268	2,255
Westminster	53	550
Outer London	1,542	26,082
Barking and Dagenham	56	749
Barnet	12	1,468
Bexley	73	1,856
Brent	6	1,005
Bromley	58	2,969
Croydon	61	993
Ealing	78	1,336
Enfield	21	1,035
Greenwich	92	3,236
Harrow	55	310
Havering	131	3,525
Hillingdon	85	1,880
Hounslow	31	784
Kingston-upon-Thames	31	493
Merton	263	643
Redbridge	0	843
Richmond-upon-Thames	29	305
Sutton	232	1,207
Waltham Forest	228	1,445
South East	14,485	147,801
Bracknell Forest	89	1,652
Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead	31	3,556
West Berkshire	442	5,299
Reading	159	4,101
Slough	33	567
Wokingham	389	3,862
Milton Keynes	1,000	3,771
Buckinghamshire	985	6,975
Brighton and Hove	436	1,424
East Sussex	662	10,432
Portsmouth	110	1,232
Southampton	104	1,364
Hampshire	2,130	24,000
Isle of Wight	381	1,990
Kent	2,482	28,270
Medway	204	2,876
Oxfordshire	1,946	21,936
Surrey	906	10,197
West Sussex	1,996	14,297
South West	14,553	137,737
Bath and North East Somerset	340	3,482
City of Bristol	196	6,996
North Somerset	179	5,093
South Gloucestershire	518	6,737
Cornwall	2,400	16,994
Isles of Scilly	10	156
Devon	2,803	23,013
City of Plymouth	496	6,193
Torbay	85	1,937
Bournemouth	0	259
Poole	0	269
Dorset	689	7,351
Gloucestershire	2,147	18,422
Somerset	2,188	16,241
Swindon	526	4,901
Wiltshire	1,976	19,693

(11) Classes as taught during a single selected period in each school on the day of the census in January.

(12) Provisional

(13) Includes a small number of pupils in mixed key stage 2 and 3 classes.

(14) Includes pupils in mixed classes of reception age to year group 7.

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