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School Councils
Jackie Ballard: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will develop a statutory framework for school councils in both primary and secondary schools. [152281]
Ms Estelle Morris: The Citizenship programme of study, which will become statutory for secondary schools in September 2002, encourages active participation of young people in the democratic life of their school and the wider community. School councils and class councils provide excellent opportunities to fulfil this aim, although within the flexible Citizenship programme, it will be open to schools to decide whether to have a school council.
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To support the schools that decide to introduce a school or class council, the Department has funded School Councils UK to produce a primary schools toolkit, and develop resources for secondary schools to enable teachers and pupils to set up effective structures for pupil participation. The primary toolkit was made available to schools last September and the secondary resource will be made available to schools this summer.
School Buildings (Wandsworth)
Mr. Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what funding has been made available to the London borough of Wandsworth in each year since 1997 for improving school buildings. [152680]
Jacqui Smith: The following table shows the total central Government support for capital investment made in Wandsworth local education authority from 1996-98 to 2000-01. This includes £4.651 million investment through the New Deal for Schools programme.
In January this year, we announced that the New Deal for Schools would be extended over the next three years to 2003-04. Allocations benefiting schools in Wandsworth local education authority announced in January under the New Deal for Schools total £2.827 million over three years. This amount will be increased by the extra funding announced in the Chancellor's Budget Statement on 7 March, and later this year when allocations to local authorities of the new £555 million New Deal for Schools Modernisation programme are announced.
It will be for Wandsworth and its schools, working within guidelines provided by the Department, to allocate this new funding to individual projects.
Nationally, capital investment in school buildings has tripled from £683 million a year in 1996-97 to over £2 billion in 2000-01. It will be £3.5 billion in 2003-04, including grant, credit approvals and Private Finance Initiative credits. There will be central Government investment of £8.5 billion in school buildings in total from 2001-02 to 2003-04.
| £000 | |
|---|---|
| Year | Wandsworth |
| 1997-98 | 861 |
| 1998-99 | 1,897 |
| 1999-2000 | 3,476 |
| 2000-01 | 6,980 |
| Total | 13,214 |
Numeracy and Literacy (South Tyneside)
Dr. David Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will make a statement on trends in numeracy and literacy among children in junior schools in the borough of South Tyneside since 1996. [152765]
Ms Estelle Morris: In the 2000 Key Stage 2 tests, 72 per cent. of South Tyneside's 11-year-olds achieved the expected standard for their age in English, an increase of 16 percentage points since 1996. In mathematics, 74 per cent. of pupils achieved the expected standard, a
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21 percentage point increase since 1996. These results are clear evidence of the success of the national literacy and numeracy strategies.
Education Funding (South Shields and South Tyneside)
Dr. David Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what the annual increase has been in the Standards Fund since 1996; and how much of the Standards Fund has been spent in (a) South Shields constituency and (b) the borough of South Tyneside in each year since then. [152766]
Ms Estelle Morris: The following table shows the annual cash increase in the Standards Fund since 1996-97:
| £ million | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Total allocations | Increase on previous year | DfEE contribution | Increase on previous year |
| 1996-97 | 265 | 14 | 163 | 12 |
| 1997-98 | 320 | 55 | 211 | 48 |
| 1998-99 | 620 | 300 | 395 | 184 |
| 1999-2000 | 1,260 | 640 | 862 | 467 |
| 2000-01 | 2,490 | 1,230 | 1,913 | 1,051 |
Note:
The total allocation figures include both Government and local authority contributions.
Figures for the amount of grant spent in an individual constituency cannot be provided, but the following table
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shows the Standards Fund grant spent in South Tyneside local education authority since 1996-97. The figures include all grants paid through the Standards Fund payment system excluding New Deal for School capital, which is not part of the Standards Fund programme.
| £ million | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Total expenditure | DfEE contribution |
| 1996-97 | 1.1 | 0.7 |
| 1997-98 | 1.4 | 1.0 |
| 1998-99 | 2.4 | 1.5 |
| 1999-2000 | 4.0 | 2.8 |
| 2000-01 | 9.5 | 7.3 |
Notes:
1. The total expenditure figures include both Government and local authority contributions.
2. The figures for 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99 and 1999-2000 are audited outturn expenditure figures.
3. The figures for 2000-01 are the total expenditure currently expected to be incurred in this financial year.
Dr. David Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the funding allocations, by scheme, to South Tyneside Local Education Authority in each year since 1996; and what his estimates are for the 2001-02 financial year. [152780]
Ms Estelle Morris: I refer my right hon. Friend to the letter sent to him by the Secretary of State on 16 February. The total funding for South Tyneside local education authority since 1996-97 is set out:
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| £ million | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-01 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | |
| SSA | 59.0 | 59.5 | 65.7 | 68.8 | 71.8 | 73.6 |
| Grants | 0.7 | 3.0 | 1.4 | 3.0 | 6.5 | 7.7 |
| Of which: | ||||||
| Standards Fund(4) | 0.7 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 2.0 | 4.1 | 4.9 |
| Class Size Reduction Grant | -- | -- | -- | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Education Action Zones | -- | -- | 0.3 | 0.8 | 0.9 | -- |
| Nursery Vouchers Grant | -- | 2.1 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| £50 million Special Grant LEAs | -- | -- | -- | -- | 0.2 | 0.5 |
| School Standards (Special) Grant | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1.0 | 1.9 |
| Capital | 1.5 | 1.5 | 2.5 | 3.4 | 5.6 | n/a |
(4) DfEE contributions only. Figures for 2001-02 are provisional.
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In the Budget on 7 March, national increases of £100 million for School Standards Grant and devolved New Deal for Schools Capital were announced. South Tyneside will benefit from these increases; the precise allocations are being calculated, and have not been included in the table above.
Dr. David Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how much direct grant was received by each school in the South Shields constituency for the 2000-01 financial year; and what his estimate is for each school in 2001-02. [152781]
Ms Estelle Morris: The following table shows the School Standards Grant payable to each school in 2000-01. No estimate by individual school is yet available for 2001-02. However a typical primary school will receive £24,000 in 2001-02 compared with £9,000 in 2000-01; and a typical secondary school, £70,000 compared with £40,000 in 2000-01.
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Dr. David Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the amount of capital funding made available to schools in the South Shields constituency through the New Deal for Schools since May 1997. [152782]
Jacqui Smith: The following table shows those schools, in the South Shields constituency, which have benefited from investment through the New Deal for Schools programme, which commenced in 1997-98. These allocations formed part of the £5.5 million investment made in schools in the South Tyneside local education authority under the New Deal for Schools programme between 1997-98 and 2000-01. In total, in those four years, some £13 million of funding for capital investment has been allocated for schools in South Tyneside local education authority.
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(5) Local education authorities were not required to specify individual project costs for phase 1 of the NDS programme, so the amount shown is the total allocation in that year to the LEA. South Tyeside LEA holds project level information.
(6) Allocations made to package projects covering more than one school. South Tyneside local education authority will be able to advise the value of projects at schools which benefited from these allocations.
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Dr. David Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what percentage of its local schools' budget South Tyneside Council has delegated to schools in each year since 1996. [152784]
Ms Estelle Morris: The information requested is set out in the table. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has set a target for all local education authorities to delegate 85 per cent. of their local schools budget in 2001-02.
| Financial year | Percentage of schools' budget delegated |
|---|---|
| 1996-97 | 78.8 |
| 1997-98 | 78.1 |
| 1998-99 | 78.6 |
| 1999-2000 | 80.5 |
| 2000-01 | 83.3 |
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For 1998-99 and previous years, the figures represent the percentage of South Tyneside's General Schools Budget (adjusted mainly to exclude capital expenditure and capital financing costs) delegated to schools in accordance with the LEA's school funding formula.
Dr. David Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what the capital investment in schools in South Tyneside local education authority was from 1996 to 1999 (a) in total and (b) by funding stream; and what his forecast is for the next three years. [152786]
Jacqui Smith: Table A shows the capital allocations made to South Tyneside local education authority, by funding stream, from 1996-97 to 2000-01. Table B shows the forecast investment for the South Tyneside local education authority over the next three years.
Nationally, capital investment in school buildings has tripled from £683 million a year in 1996-97 to over £2 billion in 2000-01. It will be £3.5 billion in 2003-04, including grant, credit approvals and Private Finance Initiative credits. There will be central Government investment of £8.5 billion in school buildings in total from 2001-02 to 2003-04.
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(7) Future years' allocations shown in the above table are those already announced as being attributable to South Tyneside local education authority.
In addition to the amounts shown above, schools in the Authority will also benefit from a share of other programmes where allocations have not yet been made. These include over £1 billion of credit approvals, mainly to provide new pupil places; £440 million of grant to governors of Voluntary Aided schools; £555 million funding through the NDS Modernisation programme; £170 million worth of funding under the Schools Access Initiative and additional New Deal for Schools Devolved Formula announced in the Budget on 7 March of £300 million in total over the next three years.
This funding will be augmented by capital receipts and other contributions from local education authority sources, and the contribution which governors of Voluntary Aided schools make to their building work. In addition, around £1.6 billion is available nationally through Private Finance Initiative Credits for projects which will sign in 2002-03 and 2003-04.
Funding specifically ring fenced for the renewal of school laboratories and secondary learning support units is ending in 2001-02. Local authorities will be able to prioritise their other increased funding for this purpose, if they wish.
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