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Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many (a) consultation documents, (b) regulations, (c) revised and corrected regulations, (d) guidance notes, (e) requests for statistical information in addition to form 618G and (f) letters from Ministers, were sent to local education authorities by his Department between April 1996 and April 1997. [118277]
Jacqui Smith [holding answer 7 April 2000]: Between April 1996 and April 1997 this Department sent local education authorities the following:
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Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many (a) consultation documents, (b) regulations, (c) revised or corrected regulations, (d) guidance notes, (e) requests for statistical information in addition to form 7 and (f) letters from Ministers, were sent to schools by his Department between April 1996 and April 1997. [118278]
Jacqui Smith [holding answer 7 April 2000]: Since April 1996 this Department has sent schools the following:
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Note:
Regulations are not sent to schools
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Teachers (Training Grants)
Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what factors underlay his decision to exclude Independent School Council schools from the ICT Training Grants scheme for teachers. [118659]
Mr. Wills: National Lottery funding for ICT training is not available to teachers in the independent sector because of the need to maintain a viable programme within the limited Lottery money available. The basis on which the New Opportunities Fund funds the training programme was set out in their Policy Directions, copies of which are available in the Libraries of both Houses. The Department is currently exploring ways in which the independent and state sector can work together in order to spread good practice in the use of ICT training.
Church Schools
Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what plans he has to amend the regulations governing the criteria under which church schools can veto school closure plans proposed by local education authorities. [119252]
Ms Estelle Morris: Under Schedule 6 to the School Standards and Framework Act 1998, School Organisation Committees and Adjudicators are required to have regard to any guidance given by the Secretary of State when deciding whether or not to approve statutory proposals for changes to schools. The guidance on statutory proposals says that, in deciding proposals to close or reduce the capacity of denominational schools, care should be taken to consider the effect that this will have on the balance of denominational and non-denominational provision. Where the local School Organisation Committee cannot reach a unanimous decision on a proposal, it is passed to a schools Adjudicator to decide. The guidance also says that, where the relevant Church group on the School Organisation Committee has voted against the closure of a denominational school, the Adjudicator should not take a decision that will, when taken with any other related changes, reduce the proportion of such denominational places within an LEA area. We have no plans to amend this aspect of the guidance.
Capital Allocations (Cleethorpes)
Shona McIsaac: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what has been the total
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capital allocation since May 1997 to each school in Cleethorpes constituency; and if he will break down these capital allocations by category. [119469]
Jacqui Smith: The information requested is contained in the table.
| School | Category of allocation | £000 |
|---|---|---|
| Barton St. Peter's Primary | New Deal for Schools | 22 |
| Baysgarth | Schools Access Initiative | 30 |
| Baysgarth | New Deal for Schools | 89 |
| Baysgarth(12) | Surplus Place Removal | 72 |
| Bowmandale Primary | Schools Access Initiative | 6 |
| Bowmandale Primary | New Deal for Schools | 8 |
| Castledyke Primary | New Deal for Schools | 54 |
| Coomb Briggs Primary | Class Sizes | 127 |
| Coomb Briggs | New Deal for Schools | 134 |
| East Halton Primary | New Deal for Schools | 33 |
| Eastfield Infants(12) | Surplus Place Removal | 11 |
| Eastfield Junior(12) | Surplus Place Removal | 11 |
| Elliston Infants | Class Sizes | 245 |
| Enfield Primary | Class Sizes | 75 |
| Enfield Primary | Schools Access Initiative | 3 |
| Enfield Primary | New Deal for Schools | 56 |
| Goxhill Primary | Class Sizes | 70 |
| Healing Comprehensive | New Deal for Schools | 182 |
| Healing Primary | Class Sizes | 81 |
| Healing Primary | Schools Access Initiative | 2 |
| Healing Primary | New Deal for Schools | 222 |
| Humberston CE Primary | Class Sizes | 56 |
| Humberston Secondary | New Deal for Schools | 10 |
| Humberston Secondary | Energy Management | 13 |
| Humberston Cloverfields | Class Sizes | 65 |
| Humberston Park | New Deal for Schools | 21 |
| Immingham Comprehensive | New Deal for Schools | 11 |
| Immingham Comprehensive(12) | Surplus Place Removal | 72 |
| Immingham St. Andrews Junior(12) | Surplus Place Removal | 24 |
| Killinholme Primary | New Deal for Schools | 49 |
| Kirmington CE Primary | New Deal for Schools | 26 |
| Lindsey | New Deal for Schools | 182 |
| Matthew Humberstone Comprehensive | Schools Access Initiative | 34 |
| Matthew Humberstone Comprehensive | New Deal for Schools | 646 |
| Middlethorpe Primary | New Deal for Schools | 19 |
| New Waltham Primary | Class Sizes | 66 |
| New Waltham Primary | New Deal for Schools | 6 |
| Pelam Infants(12) | Surplus Place Removal | 12 |
| Queen Mary Avenue Infants | Class Sizes | 86 |
| Queen Mary Avenue Infants | New Deal for Schools | 182 |
| Reynolds Infants | Class Sizes | 65 |
| Signhills Infants | Class Sizes | 67 |
| Signhills Junior | New Deal for Schools | 130 |
| St. Joseph's RC Primary | Voluntary Aided Grant | 128 |
| St. Nicholas Primary | New Deal for Schools | 64 |
| St. Peter's CE Primary | Schools Access Initiative | 3 |
| Stanford Primary | Class Sizes | 65 |
| Stanford Primary | New Deal for Schools | 78 |
| The Leas Infants | Class Sizes | 81 |
| The Leas Infants | Schools Access Initiative | 2 |
| The Leas Junior | New Deal for Schools | 39 |
| Wooton CE Primary | Voluntary Aided Grant | 84 |
(12) Although credit approval was allocated in respect of projects to remove surplus places from schools in the Cleethorpes constituency, the local education authorities (LEAs) are not obliged to use the credit approval for those schools.
Note:
Other capital allocations have been made to the LEAs covered by the Cleethorpes constituency, but it is for the LEAs to decide which schools will benefit from the use of those allocations.
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