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Miss Kirkbride: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the number of surplus places in each school in Redditch for (a) the current year and (b) the next five years, taking account of school mergers as a result of decisions in the Redditch review. [115414]
Ms Estelle Morris:
The number of surplus places in each school in Redditch for the current year and the forecasts for September 2000 and 2001 are set out in the following table. My Department does not collect information on the levels of surplus places at individual schools for the next five years, and LEAs are not required to produce it. Information provided by Worcestershire in connection with proposals for reorganisation of schools in Redditch, which were approved by the Secretary of State in January, included information about the number of places to be removed at each school. The Secretary of State was satisfied that, while the proposals would remove
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over 2,000 of the 3,000 current surplus places in schools in the area, there would be sufficient places available to allow for parental and denominational choice.
| As at September | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 2000 (17) | 2001 (17) | |
| First Schools | |||
| Arrowcrest First | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Ipsley First | 120 | 131 | 0 |
| New First School | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Claybrook First | 96 | 109 | 0 |
| Icknield First | 23 | 25 | 0 |
| New First School | 0 | 0 | 75 |
| St. John Fisher Catholic First | 96 | 98 | 0 |
| Astwood Bank First | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Batchley First | 14 | 3 | 50 |
| Beoley First | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Feckenham First | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| The Harry Taylor First | 10 | 24 | 25 |
| Holyoakes Field First | 1 | 7 | 15 |
| Marlfield Farm First | 174 | 181 | 45 |
| Moon's Moat First | 76 | 69 | 70 |
| Ravens Bank First | 26 | 45 | 50 |
| Roman Way First | 67 | 65 | 70 |
| St. George's First | 63 | 85 | 10 |
| St. Lukes First | 7 | 10 | 0 |
| St. Stephen's First | 22 | 14 | 5 |
| Tardebigge First | 7 | 9 | 10 |
| Tenacres First | 227 | 229 | 25 |
| The Vaynor First | 47 | 85 | 10 |
| Webheath First | 43 | 40 | 15 |
| Woodrow First | 95 | 85 | 110 |
| St. Thomas More Catholic First | 7 | 10 | 10 |
| Mount Carmel Catholic First | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| Total First Schools | 1,236 | 1,332 | 560 |
| Middle Schools | |||
| Lodge Farm Middle | 63 | 24 | 0 |
| St. Stephen's Middle | 245 | 261 | 0 |
| New Middle | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Moatfield Middle | 133 | 122 | 0 |
| St. Peter's CE Middle | 192 | 208 | 0 |
| New CE VC Middle | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Birchensale Middle | 49 | 30 | 200 |
| Church Hill Middle | 159 | 160 | 180 |
| Dingleside Middle | 103 | 91 | 168 |
| Ridgeway Middle | 72 | 65 | 0 |
| Walkwood CE Middle | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| St. Bede's Catholic Middle | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total Middle Schools | 1,016 | 961 | 398 |
| High Schools | |||
| Bridley Moor High | 73 | 279 | 0 |
| The Abbey High | 566 | 239 | 0 |
| The Ley's High | 383 | 80 | 0 |
| New North High | 0 | 0 | 40 |
| New South High | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| Arrow Vale Community High | 91 | 70 | 145 |
| St. Augustine's Catholic High | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Total High Schools | 1,113 | 1,118 | 210 |
(17) Forecast
Websites
Mr. Maclennan:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the expenditure incurred by his Department, agencies and non- departmental public bodies on (a) the setting up and
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(b) the operation of websites, indicating the cases in which the expenditure has been above that budgeted; and if he will list for each website (i) the topics which have been covered, (ii) the current average number of hits per months and (iii) the estimated expenditure on each website for each of the next three years. [115803]
Mr. Wills:
The central DfEE website covers a very wide range of education and employment information for many key audiences including teachers, head teachers, school governors, students, parents and employers. It has a core programme budget of £160,000 in 1999-2000, and £200,000 in each of the following three years, plus running costs for seven staff.
Total activity for the site is around 400,000 'page impressions' per month.
In addition, we have a number of important projects aimed at bringing on-line a wider range of web based services. The most significant are: development of the National Grid for Learning; the National Childcare Information Service; the Learning and Work Bank project to put vacancy, careers advice and learning opportunities for jobseekers and job changers on the web; the Electronic Communication with Schools project and websites specifically aimed at Standards in schools, Lifelong Learning, the New Deal and the Employment Service.
The number of these projects and non-departmental public bodies' websites coupled with the costs associated with the many people across the Department involved in providing material for websites mean that detailed expenditure figures are not easily obtainable without incurring disproportionate costs.
Dr. Cable:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) how many and what percentage of (a) primary and (b) secondary pupils have statements of special educational needs in each education authority in London and the South East; [115785]
Jacqui Smith:
The following table lists the number and percentage of pupils with statements of special educational needs, on the roll of primary and secondary schools maintained by each local education authority in London and the South East, as at January 1999.
(2) how many and what percentage of (a) primary and (b) secondary pupils who have statements of special needs have statements which are not being fully met in each education authority in London and the South East. [115792]
(18) Not applicable (no schools of this type)
Source:
Annual Schools' Census
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