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Newly Qualified Teacherss
Mrs. May: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the sums provided in to the standards fund grants allocated to local education authorities for (a) the cost of the 10 per cent. lighter timetable for NQTs and (b) the assessment, monitoring and evaluation of the arrangements for NQTs in (i) 2000-01 and (ii) 2001-02. [147550]
Ms Estelle Morris [holding answer 26 January 2001]: In 2000-01, the costs of the induction of Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs) were met as part of the £290.5 million allocated for school improvement through the standards fund. The exact amount allocated to schools for induction
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purposes was left to local education authorities to decide in consultation with their schools and with reference to guidance issued in relation to the breakdown of the standards fund. For 2001-02, £64.4 million has been specifically allocated for induction for NQTs under the new standards fund arrangements. This includes £5 million for local education authorities to retain centrally for costs relating to assessment, monitoring and evaluation of the induction arrangements, and £59.4 million to be allocated to schools to provide £1,000 per term for each NQT. All figures include both the Government's and local authorities' contributions to the standards fund.
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School Playing Fields
Mr. Peter Ainsworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many school playing fields there were in (a) 1979 and (b) 1997. [147707]
Jacqui Smith [holding answer 29 January 2001]: No data were collected centrally on how many school playing fields there were in either 1979 or 1997. The only data about playing fields under the previous Administration that we are aware of are derived from independent surveys carried out by the Central Council of Physical Recreation. The CCPR published a paper in 1984: "Sports Fields at Risk", which indicated that some 3,630 acres of recreation land recorded on Land Registers were at risk of disposal. A more meaningful way of quantifying the area under threat at that time is to translate it into about 5,000 school playing fields of sports pitch size.
Data to be collected through Asset Management Plans will, in the future, provide a clearer picture of the number of school playing fields throughout England. Once they have been validated, we plan to publish data collected from Asset Management Plans later in the year.
SSAs (Schools)
Mr. Cotter: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what the average per pupil standard spending assessment is in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in (i) England and (ii) north Somerset; and if he will estimate the sums which would be available for education in north Somerset if the average per pupil standard spending assessment for primary and secondary schools in north Somerset were the same as the average for England. [148162]
Ms Estelle Morris: The following table shows the 2001-02 education SSA per primary and secondary pupil for north Somerset and England.
| SSA | North Somerset | England |
|---|---|---|
| Primary per pupil | 2,341 | 2,588 |
| Secondary per pupil | 3,026 | 3,313 |
If north Somerset's SSA per pupil for primary and secondary schools were the same as the national average it is estimated that its 2001-02 education SSA would be £6.3 million higher. Between 1997-98 and 2000-01 funding per pupil in north Somerset has increased by £380 in real terms. In addition to an increase of £3.65 million in education SSA, schools in north Somerset will benefit from an estimated £1.83 million in Direct Grant in 2001-02. The authority will also receive £100,000 as their share of the extra £52 million made available to provide support to help some LEAs manage funding changes in 2001-02. Additionally it is estimated that north Somerset (Weston) Education Action Zone will receive DfEE grants totalling £842,000 in 2001-02 and £692,000 in 2001-02.
Mr. Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list, for each local education authority the (a) primary education SSA per pupil and (b) secondary education SSA per pupil for 2001-02. [148288]
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Ms Estelle Morris: The information requested is contained in the table. In addition to SSAs, authorities and their schools also receive funding through the Standards Fund, Direct Grants, and the recently announced £52 million in additional funding for authorities facing particular pressures--these special and specific grants add £110 at national level to the funding received through SSAs. The overall increase in funding for 2001-02 is over £1.9 billion or 8 per cent. This is equivalent to around £150 per pupil in real terms.
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