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Performance and Assessment

Mr. Hilary Benn: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what assessment he has made of the recent research by David Jesson of the Centre for Performance Evaluation and Resource Management at the University of York; and if he will make a statement. [119922]

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Jacqui Smith: An analysis by the Department's Analytical Services has shown that, broadly speaking on average points scores, the most able 25 per cent. of pupils achieved the same result in selective and non-selective schools.

David Jesson's research is a further contribution to this debate.

Special Schools

Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many (a) primary and (b) secondary special schools have closed since 1995 in each local education authority. [119539]

Jacqui Smith [holding answer 17 April 2000]: The table sets out the number of maintained special schools which have closed in each local education authority area since 1995. It does not include those authorities where no such closures have taken place. It includes closures which have been approved but which have not yet taken place. But the closure of some special schools is usually followed by the opening of others, or by the establishing of special units within mainstream schools.

While there are some special schools which cater for pupils wholly of primary school age, or wholly of secondary school age, there are many others which cover both phases, so it is not possible to split the figures between primary and secondary.

Table of local authorities showing number of special schools approved for closure or closed since 1995

Local education authorityNumber
Avon1
Barking3
Barnet1
Barnsley3
Bedfordshire1
Birmingham5
Blackburn2
Bolton2
Bradford1
Bristol2
Bromley1
Bury1
Cambridgeshire2
Camden4
Cheshire1
Derbyshire4
Durham8
Essex5
Gateshead4
Gloucestershire4
Hackney1
Hampshire2
Haringey1
Harrow2
Hertfordshire4
Islington1
Kingston upon Hull2
Kirklees1
Knowsley2
Lambeth4
Lancashire3
Leeds3
Lewisham1
Liverpool11
Manchester2
Merton1
Newcastle upon Tyne10
Newham6
North Lincolnshire2
North Somerset2
Northumberland2
Nottingham City7
Oldham3
Oxfordshire2
Peterborough1
Rochdale1
Salford3
Sandwell1
Sheffield3
South Gloucestershire2
Southwark1
St. Helens2
Staffordshire2
Stockport4
Sunderland1
Telford and Wrekin4
Tower Hamlets2
Trafford6
Wakefield2
Walsall1
Waltham Forest1
Wandsworth3
Warwickshire5
Westminster1
Wigan5
Wiltshire1
Total185

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Nursery Education

Mrs. May: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how much money has been provided to each local education authority, on a ring-fenced basis, for the provision of nursery places for four-year-olds, since May 1997; and what criteria are used by his Department for the expenditure of that money. [119490]

Ms Hodge [holding answer 17 April 2000]: The following table shows the estimated amount of specific grant this Government have provided to each Local Education Authority, since May 1997, for four-year-old early education places, amounting to £631.2 million.

The criteria for the provision of this funding is set out in the "Requirements of Nursery Education Grant" which is issued to all Local Education Authorities annually. I have placed a copy of this in the Library.

In addition to this specific grant funding, the table also shows the level of funding provided, since April 1997, for the Under Fives Education Standard Spending Assessment (SSA) sub block, which has increased from £1,089 million in 1997-98 to £1,342 million in 2000-01, an increase of £253 million.

£
LEA Number/nameSpecific grant funding for 4 year old places May 1997-March 2000Under Fives SSA sub block From 1997-98 to 2000-01
201 City of London44,239525,635
202 Camden2,447,71026,199,350
203 Greenwich2,773,47834,439,251
204 Hackney2,980,04442,099,645
205 Hammersmith and Fulham1,636,26822,208,333
206 Islington2,114,72232,213,647
207 Kensington and Chelsea1,032,70616,291,874
208 Lambeth3,070,93047,315,973
209 Lewisham3,130,10641,799,656
210 Southwark3,167,62949,295,463
211 Tower Hamlets2,146,90844,930,632
212 Wandsworth3,867,73736,090,382
213 Westminster1,849,56020,979,552
301 Barking and Dagenham1,765,43924,125,654
302 Barnet3,614,33335,006,253
303 Bexley2,606,27924,149,142
304 Brent2,736,49139,619,753
305 Bromley5,100,60429,248,314
306 Croydon6,048,43742,273,609
307 Ealing3,430,66142,080,847
308 Enfield3,445,04036,796,575
309 Haringey2,429,54738,830,346
310 Harrow2,215,04822,798,730
311 Havering2,776,42522,302,298
312 Hillingdon2,672,24423,681,920
313 Hounslow2,013,80528,155,892
314 Kingston-upon-Thames1,668,81411,962,294
315 Merton2,048,95319,245,190
316 Newham3,091,35550,441,093
317 Redbridge3,435,18027,301,291
318 Richmond-upon-Thames2,362,18913,401,432
319 Sutton1,974,01415,210,394
320 Waltham Forest2,554,00633,335,378
330 Birmingham11,783,384139,962,427
331 Coventry3,384,87934,287,990
332 Dudley3,710,88428,815,226
333 Sandwell2,987,29835,453,907
334 Solihull2,397,51719,229,377
335 Walsall2,604,94828,904,993
336 Wolverhampton2,570,80629,114,582
340 Knowsley1,585,87823,661,932
341 Liverpool4,907,92059,188,289
342 St. Helens1,932,17317,927,819
343 Sefton2,947,50326,480,973
344 Wirral4,149,91033,882,113
350 Bolton2,841,65228,236,268
351 Bury2,251,77517,048,891
352 Manchester4,457,69863,455,403
353 Oldham2,619,31926,597,738
354 Rochdale2,254,78825,545,335
355 Salford2,707,01526,462,617
356 Stockport3,484,09525,133,268
357 Tameside2,408,28423,291,539
358 Trafford2,865,58920,312,104
359 Wigan3,433,15628,979,591
370 Barnsley2,187,39120,484,099
371 Doncaster2,977,99331,382,784
372 Rotherham2,912,82924,035,721
373 Sheffield6,057,66347,356,406
380 Bradford5,486,85961,363,771
381 Calderdale1,942,43820,765,966
382 Kirklees4,337,79741,447,454
383 Leeds7,960,88370,718,825
384 Wakefield3,498,07928,404,693
390 Gateshead2,018,41019,314,038
391 Newcastle Upon Tyne2,904,09028,988,668
392 North Tyneside1,873,91118,124,299
393 South Tyneside1,430,23616,268,735
394 Sunderland2,823,35730,647,773
420 Isles of Scilly24,401223,825
800 Bath and North East Somerset2,198,26912,718,586
801 City of Bristol4,179,26739,699,083
802 North Somerset2,598,84313,907,594
803 South Gloucestershire3,442,96121,981,555
805 Hartlepool950,62510,341,339
806 Middlesbrough1,534,15018,459,150
807 Redcar and Cleveland1,400,43715,375,552
808 Stockton on Tees1,898,20019,105,620
810 Kingston Upon Hull2,903,70730,263,632
811 East Riding of Yorkshire3,573,10123,043,212
812 North East Lincolnshire1,809,58036,801,075
813 North Lincolnshire1,602,65714,175,583
815 North Yorkshire6,545,16044,474,348
816 City of York2,026,23213,483,553
820 Bedfordshire5,478,77932,620,541
821 Luton2,362,53223,342,271
825 Buckinghamshire7,145,46036,818,705
826 Milton Keynes3,793,56918,601,327
830 Derbyshire7,882,76856,773,285
831 City of Derby2,631,13724,323,450
835 Dorset5,964,66325,105,447
836 Poole2,198,86910,824,072
837 Bournemouth2,397,71911,566,800
840 Durham4,731,87646,614,569
841 Darlington1,184,11910,096,485
845 East Sussex6,174,64737,623,254
846 Brighton and Hove2,955,12321,053,357
850 Hampshire19,734,237105,388,667
851 Portsmouth2,631,81919,972,766
852 Southampton2,667,16322,898,940
855 Leicestershire8,459,28942,050,808
856 City of Leicester3,376,78437,494,284
857 Rutland431,9852,267,346
860 Staffordshire8,843,72066,060,025
861 Stoke on Trent2,395,67524,933,123
865 Wiltshire7,039,00324,059,879
866 Swindon3,528,04717,156,587
867 Bracknell Forest2,146,2768,643,081
868 Windsor and Maidenhead2,685,86519,969,052
869 West Berkshire1,997,4059,761,799
870 Reading1,579,92712,693,025
871 Slough625,88315,076,047
872 Wokingham3,078,4149,333,372
873 Cambridgeshire7,071,69345,390,961
874 Peterborough2,910,51319,057,525
875 Cheshire11,322,43056,519,961
876 Halton1,244,53014,060,951
877 Warrington4,185,91718,084,822
878 Devon10,254,43749,728,187
879 Plymouth3,874,09522,639,526
880 Torbay1,493,81610,092,027
881 Essex17,727,923110,200,579
882 Southend-on-Sea2,230,03916,388,210
883 Thurrock1,313,65115,127,821
884 Herefordshire2,490,83713,154,133
885 Worcestershire8,782,70441,417,451
886 Kent20,422,401122,161,732
887 Medway Towns (R and G)2,156,17026,508,014
888 Lancashire16,605,957107,804,099
889 Blackburn with Darwen1,297,80319,905,426
890 Blackpool2,076,04914,023,959
891 Nottinghamshire9,647,91353,218,304
892 City of Nottingham2,529,14232,514,913
893 Shropshire4,541,25718,408,566
894 Telford and Wrekin1,392,11214,919,311
908 Cornwall5,728,73935,616,608
909 Cumbria5,010,13442,532,605
916 Gloucestershire8,751,42047,048,781
919 Hertfordshire13,729,33595,207,322
921 Isle of Wight2,118,61610,961,727
925 Lincolnshire5,808,89252,483,372
926 Norfolk9,427,15141,930,030
928 Northamptonshire8,194,92558,586,326
929 Northumberland2,888,32725,987,204
931 Oxfordshire8,959,79542,953,283
933 Somerset7,133,88339,937,579
935 Suffolk9,199,43749,416,913
936 Surrey16,018,86484,705,754
937 Warwickshire6,494,79041,153,322
938 West Sussex12,400,91454,837,210
Total631,196,2664,887,492,000

Note:

Specific grant funding provided in 1997-98 to LEAs that no longer exist have been distributed across the new LEA areas. Where there is more than one new area it has been distributed according to the percentage of funding the new areas received in 1998-99 and 1999-2000.


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