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Extraditions (Switzerland)

Mr. Luff: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many requests by Her Majesty's Government to the Swiss authorities for the extradition of a Swiss national to the UK have been refused since 1981; and how many UK nationals have been extradited to Switzerland in the same period. [147951]

Mr. Straw: No central record is kept as to the nationality of a person whose extradition has been sought. Statistical information is only available since 1997. Since then, no United Kingdom extradition request to Switzerland has been refused; and 11 fugitives have been surrendered to Switzerland.

EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT

Learning and Skills Councils (Northumberland)

Mr. Beith: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how much is deducted from the budget of Northumberland county council for the funding of learning and skills councils; and what his estimate is of the amount of these funds which will be returned to Northumberland county council or otherwise disbursed within the county of Northumberland. [147161]

Mr. Wicks: There has been no deduction made from the budget of Northumberland county council: its Education SSA will rise by £4.75 million to £139.66 million, an increase of some 3.75 per cent. for 2001-02. From 2000-01 to 2001-02 total funding for education in Northumberland increased by 5.69 per cent. We estimate that Northumberland's share of direct grant in 2001-02 will be £5.09 million. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced on 29 January that he would be making available an extra £52 million in grant to authorities with lower than average increases in their Standard Spending Assessment (SSA) in 2001-02, and who face pressures from the change of responsibility for adult education to the Learning and Skills Council from April. Northumberland local education authority's share of the additional grant will be £1.35 million.

The £142 million being allocated via the Learning and Skills Council means that all authorities have an increase of some 6 per cent. on what they are spending on Adult and Community Learning in 2000-01. For Northumberland, with current spend of £92,000, the provisional Learning and Skills Council allocation for 2001-02 is £98,000.

Within the county of Northumberland, Wansbeck local authority has been allocated £3.1 million over the next three years from the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund distributed by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions.

New Deal

Paddy Ashdown: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will rank each parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom by the latest estimate of the number of people on the New Deal in each, indicating in each case the number of people on each of the four New Deal options; and if he will make a statement. [147315]

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Ms Jowell: The information requested has been placed in the House of Commons Library. Nationally, New Deal has helped almost 270,000 young people into work. Research has shown that the New Deal benefits the labour market because young people leave it better equipped, motivated and more skilled.

University Tuition Fees

Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many students make contributions towards their university education of (a) the full cost, (b) more than £500, and (c) less than £500; and how many make no such contribution. [147535]

Mr. Wicks [holding answer 26 January 2001]: Undergraduates taking their first degree course are expected to make a contribution towards their higher education only if they can afford to do so. From 2001-02, we expect around 50 per cent. of students to make no contribution to tuition fees, as a result of the rise in the income threshold. Over 85 per cent. of mature students do not pay fees. No student pays the full amount of tuition as the maximum fee set amounts to 28 per cent. of the average cost of an undergraduate course.

In 1998-99, the latest year for which data are available, there were 241,000 English and Welsh higher education students liable for fees under the Education (Student Support) Regulations. Of these, 45 per cent. were exempt from making a contribution towards fees, 20 per cent. of students made a partial contribution, and only 35 per cent. were expected to make a full contribution towards fees. Of the 20 per cent. of students making a partial contribution, it is estimated some 58 per cent. paid £500 or less and 42 per cent. paid more than £500.

Computers for Teachers

Mrs. May: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many Key Stage 3 maths teachers will qualify to apply for the second phase of the scheme for £500 subsidy for the purchase of a laptop or personal computer. [147552]

Mr. Wills [holding answer 26 January 2001]: There is £12 million available for the second phase of the Computers for Teachers scheme. These funds will enable a maximum of 17,000 Key Stage 3 mathematics teachers, who register and meet the eligibility criteria, to receive a subsidy of up to £500.

A further £3 million will be available for further education teachers, 4,000 of whom will benefit.

Schoolchildren (Downham Market)

Mrs. Shephard: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what the cost to public funds is of educating and transporting the 25 eligible pupils who were not found places at Downham Market High School in the present academic year. [147866]

Ms Estelle Morris [holding answer 31 January 2001]: Of 26 pupils whose applications for admission to Downham Market High School were turned down in appeals between April 1999 and July 2000, seven have subsequently been admitted to the school. The alternative schools of 14 out of the remaining 19 pupils are known; there is no reason to suppose that the cost of educating

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them at other schools is significantly different, and no extra teaching costs are known to have been directly incurred as a result of their going to other schools.

The education authority is providing support for transport for 12 out of the 26 pupils at a cost of £10,972 per annum. It is not possible to say how this compares with the costs which might have been incurred had all the pupils attended Downham Market High School, because that depends on individual pupil addresses and such hypothetical costs have not been calculated.

Higher Education

Mr. Boswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will make a statement on the situation regarding applications for admission to higher education institutions in autumn 2001. [147867]

Mr. Wicks: The total number of home and overseas students applying for university and college places this year has increased by 0.7 per cent. since the same time last year, according to the latest figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS). There has been a 1.4 per cent. increase in the number of young (under 21) home applicants and an increase of 1.0 per cent. in the number of mature (21 and over) home applicants.

Standards Fund

Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) what the final 2001-02 Standards Fund allocations made to local education authorities are by (a) constituency and (b) region; what the total local education authority contributions were to the Standards Fund for 2001-02, broken down by constituency; and what the total value of the Standards Fund was in 2000-01; [148059]

Ms Estelle Morris [holding answer 31 January 2001]: The table shows, by region, the amounts allocated so far through the Standards Fund to each local education authority for 2001-02, including the local education authorities' contributions. Allocations cannot be given at constituency level. Some allocations remain to be made as they depend on data not yet available. All allocations requiring a local authority contribution have been made. Of the £2,492 million so far allocated, £1,837 million is recurrent and £655 million is for capital spending.

Following the announcement in the pre-Budget statement of an extra £143 million DfEE grant for capital spending this year, the Standards Fund for 2000-01 totals £2,488 million. For 2001-02 the Standards Fund will eventually total around £2,870 million. This is an increase in local education authority contributions of around £150 million (25 per cent.), and an increase of around £230 million (14 per cent.) in DfEE contributions.

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The figures include all grants paid through the Standards Fund, other than New Deal for Schools capital, which is paid through the Standards Fund mechanism but is not considered part of the programme.

Standards Fund 2001-02: Allocations to date for each local education authority by region

£
Local education authorityAllocationsLocal education authority contribution
Eastern Region
Bedfordshire19,865,2576,284,844
Buckinghamshire22,653,4377,034,749
Cambridgeshire21,842,2406,622,654
Essex50,566,35216,178,119
Hertfordshire46,322,68514,956,779
Luton11,538,9204,078,918
Milton Keynes9,894,0583,230,331
Norfolk34,076,75510,973,711
Peterborough City9,140,8233,044,501
Southend-on-Sea6,579,4432,117,434
Suffolk27,483,0229,019,570
Thurrock6,605,5542,160,417
Eastern region total266,568,54685,702,027
Inner London
Camden11,968,7443,746,206
Greenwich16,615,3984,522,537
Hackney15,705,8385,183,890
Hammersmith and Fulham8,681,2482,684,530
Islington12,481,6723,858,322
Kensington and Chelsea6,041,4201,887,280
Lambeth15,049,9944,782,498
Lewisham16,381,0364,812,873
London, City of389,537114,653
Southwark16,235,8844,872,125
Tower Hamlets24,516,4077,963,509
Wandsworth13,591,5514,026,035
Westminster, City of9,582,0823,136,499
Inner London total167,240,81151,590,958
Outer London
Barking and Dagenham10,721,0242,793,094
Barnet12,772,7394,553,502
Bexley9,267,3253,053,043
Brent17,005,9974,979,801
Bromley10,873,2783,427,831
Croydon14,376,0205,225,834
Ealing18,312,9905,723,659
Enfield14,055,4494,767,387
Haringey16,862,9955,217,283
Harrow8,005,2512,732,688
Havering9,279,1402,857,777
Hillingdon10,810,1743,606,122
Hounslow11,845,1914,104,795
Kingston upon Thames5,860,4861,723,197
Merton7,625,8132,500,670
Newham20,117,1465,632,629
Redbridge12,081,9524,174,317
Richmond upon Thames5,636,2771,678,965
Sutton7,090,1642,266,843
Waltham Forest15,803,1564,741,728
Outer London total238,402,56775,761,165
Midlands East
Derby City12,568,9874,171,796
Derbyshire34,423,70610,217,337
Leicester City20,929,7625,891,401
Leicestershire24,278,9657,413,528
Lincolnshire29,137,6039,464,423
Northamptonshire29,661,7189,400,560
Nottingham City20,159,9245,526,930
Nottinghamshire33,304,9469,978,736
Rutland1,902,246603,762
Midlands East total206,367,85762,668,473
Midlands West
Birmingham71,004,67320,296,512
Coventry17,321,8185,996,634
Dudley14,954,4575,262,209
Herefordshire7,559,7632,378,725
Sandwell17,240,3525,622,825
Shropshire11,853,0313,604,954
Solihull10,081,1812,767,660
Staffordshire35,389,02910,742,750
Stoke on Trent17,278,7854,264,493
Telford and The Wrekin9,504,4103,171,341
Walsall15,987,7395,514,368
Warwickshire22,915,8567,177,840
Wolverhampton15,807,5045,667,597
Worcestershire22,268,3047,089,089
Midlands West total289,103,90189,556,998
North West
Blackburn with Darwen10,317,0713,666,886
Blackpool5,959,5691,914,479
Bolton14,524,0604,783,822
Bury8,744,3782,613,302
Cheshire28,723,3258,639,244
Cumbria24,032,2527,815,081
Halton10,003,1792,249,305
Knowsley12,642,2863,398,524
Lancashire56,096,72818,497,946
Liverpool31,129,6738,512,961
Manchester33,828,2149,182,076
Oldham14,403,4925,031,845
Rochdale16,370,2334,178,281
Salford15,632,5133,904,388
Sefton14,829,3904,007,497
St. Helens12,283,2832,765,161
Stockport12,009,8733,567,250
Tameside11,523,4793,787,397
Trafford9,897,9143,230,736
Warrington8,142,9292,582,078
Wigan13,386,4864,228,312
Wirral20,428,8345,091,949
North West total384,909,163113,648,520
Northern
Darlington5,103,9391,583,029
Durham26,306,8588,122,520
Gateshead13,549,0863,007,975
Hartlepool8,354,9061,765,255
Middlesbrough10,418,8102,894,454
Newcastle upon Tyne15,748,5204,425,445
North Tyneside11,581,6292,929,964
Northumberland15,982,6085,066,476
Redcar and Cleveland9,692,4542,366,599
South Tyneside10,857,5782,647,610
Stockton on Tees12,815,3272,918,073
Sunderland18,560,1414,632,967
Northern total158,971,85442,360,367
South East
Bracknell Forest4,163,4161,241,993
Brighton and Hove9,100,7422,606,128
East Sussex17,940,3775,639,959
Hampshire45,513,60113,717,212
Isle of Wight6,388,2401,973,376
Kent55,612,19318,449,586
Medway11,915,8963,893,882
Oxfordshire24,428,4257,918,965
Portsmouth7,810,9672,541,028
Reading6,154,0421,832,982
Slough6,715,0882,430,429
Southampton9,583,7073,264,316
Surrey33,722,00810,841,519
West Berkshire6,808,8212,058,372
West Sussex25,503,5778,067,082
Windsor and Maidenhead5,865,5471,798,962
Wokingham6,270,2491,847,611
South East total283,496,89590,123,402
South West
Bath and North East Somerset7,060,1202,173,004
Bournemouth4,918,0491,547,003
Bristol, City of20,761,6735,206,075
Cornwall21,242,8826,654,170
Devon28,027,2778,657,312
Dorset15,120,7024,583,271
Gloucestershire24,719,5407,554,282
Isles of Scilly464,173129,627
North Somerset7,153,8662,165,746
Plymouth10,685,9613,354,221
Poole4,793,3171,502,079
Somerset21,396,7066,724,594
South Gloucestershire11,025,1233,196,538
Swindon8,825,1012,798,599
Torbay4,871,8021,559,138
Wiltshire19,126,1905,869,802
South West total210,192,48263,675,462
Yorkshire and Humberside
Barnsley10,753,0913,446,744
Bradford41,289,87611,882,707
Calderdale10,495,8773,549,883
Doncaster15,455,7464,723,231
East Riding of Yorkshire14,663,1214,219,414
Kingston upon Hull, City of17,189,9144,153,997
Kirklees22,377,1237,583,934
Leeds41,331,44210,380,803
North East Lincolnshire8,740,6422,673,257
North Lincolnshire8,246,6632,299,437
North Yorkshire26,777,4418,279,660
Rotherham18,127,4874,369,488
Sheffield28,200,0247,435,795
Wakefield16,356,7384,788,380
York, City of7,447,2982,024,698
Yorkshire and Humberside total287,452,81581,811,428
England total2,492,706,891756,898,799

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