Astra Pension Scheme
Mr. Todd:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what provision will be made to cover the shortfall in pension that the Astra Pension Scheme members are expecting; and if he will make a statement. [156119]
Mr. Wicks:
The process for winding up the Astra Group Pension Scheme is ongoing. The extent of any shortfall in benefits secured for members will not be known until the process is completed.
Student Travel Grants
Mr. Cox:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what plans he has to help young people over the age of 16 who are studying in school or college towards the cost of travelling expenses to their place of education. [156195]
Mr. Wicks:
My Department makes available funding to LEAs for schools and to colleges for students of 16 and over to help with transport and other course related costs. These funds are part of a £115 million package of discretionary support available from September 2001-02 onwards, which is an increase of £16 million over the 2000-01 allocation. We also provide up to £150 million for Education Maintenance Allowances to provide students of 16 and over in 56 LEAs with funding to support their costs and provide incentives.
We have given guidance to LEAs, who have a duty to assess and respond to local transport needs, on how best to work in partnership with colleges in providing local transport and local policies. In the longer term we have commissioned an exercise using external consultants to produce good practice guidance and options for developing policy.
4 Apr 2001 : Column: 185W
Statutory Instruments
Jane Griffiths:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many statutory instruments were laid before Parliament by his Department and its predecessors in each year from 1993 to 1998 inclusive. [156520]
Mr. Wills:
The following numbers of statutory instruments were laid:
| Year | Number
|
|---|
| 1993 | 74
|
| 1994 | 103
|
| 1995 | 84
|
| 1996 | 88
|
| 1997 | 70
|
| 1998 | 144
|
Grammar Schools
Dr. Tonge:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if the ability tests set by grammar schools will be set on the same basis as those in the National Curriculum. [156887]
Ms Estelle Morris:
Admission authorities for grammar schools are responsible for setting their own arrangements for selecting pupils by academic ability. It is up to them to decide what method of testing to adopt.
Taskforces
Mr. Ben Chapman:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the taskforces which report to his Department. [157151]
Mr. Blunkett:
Using the standard definition of a taskforce as a body with membership drawn not solely from the public sector, a lifetime of less than two years and a remit focused on a single issue taskforces reporting to DfEE are:
Advisory Group for Disabled People in Employment and Training
Advisory Group on Access and Hardship Funds
Advisory Group on Citizenship in Post Compulsory Education and Training
Citizenship Education Working Party
Connexions Service: Youth Service Transition Working Group
Council for Excellence in Management and Leadership
Expert Group on Neighbourhood Nurseries
Friends of Sure Start
Graduate Apprenticeship National Steering Group
Investors in People in Schools Advisory Group
Learning Partnerships Group
Literacy and Numeracy Strategy Group
Modern Apprenticeships Advisory Committee
National Advisory Group on Special Educational Needs
National Training Organisation Advisory Group
New Deal Taskforce
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School Achievement Awards
Mr. Chope:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list by constituency the number of achievement awards made to schools. [154747]
Ms Estelle Morris
[pursuant to her reply, 20 March 2001, c. 160W]: The table contained inaccuracies. A corrected table has been placed in the Library.
Mr. Chope:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list by local education authority the total value of achievement awards made and the percentage of the national total budget which schools in each local education authority received. [154749]
Ms Estelle Morris
[pursuant to her reply, 20 March 2000, c. 165-68W]: The table contained inaccuracies. The following table shows the correct information.
Total value of school achievement awards by LEA
| LEA | Value of awards (£) | Percentage of total value
|
|---|
| City of London | 8,400 | 0.0
|
| Camden | 279,470 | 0.5
|
| Greenwich | 277,480 | 0.4
|
| Hackney | 269,250 | 0.4
|
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 283,850 | 0.5
|
| Islington | 218,990 | 0.4
|
| Kensington | 214,550 | 0.3
|
| Lambeth | 276,110 | 0.4
|
| Lewisham | 435,590 | 0.7
|
| Southwark | 398,880 | 0.6
|
| Tower Hamlets | 609,190 | 1.0
|
| Wandsworth | 323,670 | 0.5
|
| Westminster | 269,080 | 0.4
|
| Barking and Dagenham | 371,230 | 0.6
|
| Barnet | 509,890 | 0.8
|
| Bexley | 363,290 | 0.6
|
| Brent | 356,150 | 0.6
|
| Bromley | 353,450 | 0.6
|
| Croydon | 330,120 | 0.5
|
| Ealing | 619,830 | 1.0
|
| Enfield | 419,430 | 0.7
|
| Haringey | 313,870 | 0.5
|
| Harrow | 263,330 | 0.4
|
| Havering | 394,230 | 0.6
|
| Hillingdon | 402,730 | 0.7
|
| Hounslow | 285,390 | 0.5
|
| Kingston upon Thames | 173,160 | 0.3
|
| Merton | 220,720 | 0.4
|
| Newham | 611,620 | 1.0
|
| Redbridge | 449,570 | 0.7
|
| Richmond upon Thames | 190,930 | 0.3
|
| Sutton | 309,620 | 0.5
|
| Waltham Forest | 305,160 | 0.5
|
| Birmingham | 2,040,550 | 3.3
|
| Coventry | 335,780 | 0.5
|
| Dudley | 407,370 | 0.7
|
| Sandwell | 418,260 | 0.7
|
| Solihull | 323,180 | 0.5
|
| Walsall | 342,890 | 0.6
|
| Wolverhampton | 409,340 | 0.7
|
| Knowsley | 171,210 | 0.3
|
| Liverpool | 797,600 | 1.3
|
| St. Helens | 276,590 | 0.4
|
| Sefton | 553,900 | 0.9
|
| Wirral | 373,450 | 0.6
|
| Bolton | 397,090 | 0.6
|
| Bury | 174,770 | 0.3
|
| Manchester | 616,310 | 1.0
|
| Oldham | 328,150 | 0.5
|
| Rochdale | 253,520 | 0.4
|
| Salford | 274,140 | 0.4
|
| Stockport | 240,690 | 0.4
|
| Tameside | 298,180 | 0.5
|
| Trafford | 416,780 | 0.7
|
| Wigan | 335,670 | 0.5
|
| Barnsley | 276,640 | 0.4
|
| Doncaster | 430,970 | 0.7
|
| Rotherham | 372,870 | 0.6
|
| Sheffield | 495,130 | 0.8
|
| Bradford | 416,180 | 0.7
|
| Calderdale | 266,520 | 0.4
|
| Kirklees | 602,380 | 1.0
|
| Leeds | 889,260 | 1.4
|
| Wakefield | 407,570 | 0.7
|
| Gateshead | 314,720 | 0.5
|
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 256,380 | 0.4
|
| North Tyneside | 345,300 | 0.6
|
| South Tyneside | 246,140 | 0.4
|
| Sunderland | 464,730 | 0.8
|
| Bath and North East Somerset | 275,370 | 0.4
|
| Bristol, City of | 349,350 | 0.6
|
| North Somerset | 179,480 | 0.3
|
| South Gloucestershire | 218,730 | 0.4
|
| Hartlepool | 195,920 | 0.3
|
| Middlesbrough | 226,140 | 0.4
|
| Redcar and Cleveland | 289,050 | 0.5
|
| Stockton-on-Tees | 333,710 | 0.5
|
| Kingston Upon Hull, City of | 370,540 | 0.6
|
| East Riding of Yorkshire | 309,290 | 0.5
|
| North East Lincolnshire | 255,850 | 0.4
|
| North Lincolnshire | 166,650 | 0.3
|
| North Yorkshire | 573,920 | 0.9
|
| York | 129,420 | 0.2
|
| Bedfordshire | 371,680 | 0.6
|
| Luton | 214,470 | 0.3
|
| Buckinghamshire | 400,420 | 0.6
|
| Milton Keynes | 293,380 | 0.5
|
| Derbyshire | 917,460 | 1.5
|
| Derby | 266,080 | 0.4
|
| Dorset | 360,140 | 0.6
|
| Poole | 137,320 | 0.2
|
| Bournemouth | 127,940 | 0.2
|
| Durham | 671,210 | 1.1
|
| Darlington | 148,540 | 0.2
|
| East Sussex | 376,080 | 0.6
|
| Brighton and Hove | 355,530 | 0.6
|
| Hampshire | 1,218,320 | 2.0
|
| Portsmouth | 177,610 | 0.3
|
| Southampton | 316,480 | 0.5
|
| Leicestershire | 664,890 | 1.1
|
| Leicester | 263,010 | 0.4
|
| Rutland | 54,190 | 0.1
|
| Staffordshire | 866,030 | 1.4
|
| Stoke | 323,410 | 0.5
|
| Wiltshire | 429,320 | 0.7
|
| Swindon | 81,560 | 0.1
|
| Bracknell Forest | 84,810 | 0.1
|
| Windsor and Maidenhead | 141,050 | 0.2
|
| West Berkshire | 180,300 | 0.3
|
| Reading | 191,260 | 0.3
|
| Slough | 264,200 | 0.4
|
| Wokingham | 166,430 | 0.3
|
| Cambridgeshire | 439,760 | 0.7
|
| Peterborough | 332,310 | 0.5
|
| Cheshire | 727,450 | 1.2
|
| Halton | 235,160 | 0.4
|
| Warrington | 180,770 | 0.3
|
| Devon | 725,750 | 1.2
|
| Plymouth | 275,730 | 0.4
|
| Torbay | 213,230 | 0.3
|
| Essex | 1,484,890 | 2.4
|
| Southend-on-Sea | 310,290 | 0.5
|
| Thurrock | 268,890 | 0.4
|
| Herefordshire | 126,630 | 0.2
|
| Worcestershire | 591,660 | 1.0
|
| Kent | 1,462,280 | 2.4
|
| Medway | 284,880 | 0.5
|
| Lancashire | 1,426,470 | 2.3
|
| Blackburn | 240,610 | 0.4
|
| Blackpool | 88,650 | 0.1
|
| Nottinghamshire | 787,890 | 1.3
|
| Nottingham | 440,570 | 0.7
|
| Shropshire | 235,660 | 0.4
|
| Telford and Wrekin | 242,300 | 0.4
|
| Cornwall | 368,980 | 0.6
|
| Cumbria | 765,530 | 1.2
|
| Gloucestershire | 500,540 | 0.8
|
| Hertfordshire | 1,423,680 | 2.3
|
| Isle of Wight | 80,190 | 0.1
|
| Lincolnshire | 818,420 | 1.3
|
| Norfolk | 951,710 | 1.5
|
| Northamptonshire | 489,980 | 0.8
|
| Northumberland | 437,610 | 0.7
|
| Oxfordshire | 563,070 | 0.9
|
| Somerset | 505,340 | 0.8
|
| Suffolk | 703,770 | 1.1
|
| Surrey | 1,063,410 | 1.7
|
| Warwickshire | 742,960 | 1.2
|
| West Sussex | 626,520 | 1.0
|
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Mr. Chope:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list by local education authority the number of (a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools which have received achievement awards. [154742]
Ms Estelle Morris
[pursuant to her reply, 20 March 2001, c. 159-64W]: The following table shows the correct information.
4 Apr 2001 : Column: 187W
School achievement awards by local education authority and type of school
| LEA | Nursery | PRU | Primary | Secondary | Special
|
|---|
| Barking and Dagenham | -- | -- | 18 | 4 | 1
|
| Barnet | 2 | 1 | 38 | 7 | --
|
| Barnsley | -- | -- | 30 | 5 | --
|
| Bath and North East Somerset | -- | -- | 26 | 5 | 3
|
| Bedfordshire | -- | -- | 39 | 12 | 1
|
| Bexley | -- | -- | 23 | 6 | --
|
| Birmingham | 1 | -- | 136 | 27 | 6
|
| Blackburn with Darwen | -- | -- | 20 | 4 | --
|
| Blackpool | -- | -- | 6 | 2 | --
|
| Bolton | -- | -- | 37 | 4 | 1
|
| Bournemouth | -- | -- | 7 | 2 | 1
|
| Bracknell Forest | -- | -- | 11 | 1 | --
|
| Bradford | 1 | -- | 37 | 6 | 2
|
| Brent | -- | 1 | 18 | 5 | --
|
| Brighton and Hove | -- | -- | 22 | 4 | 4
|
| Bristol, City of | 4 | -- | 41 | 3 | --
|
| Bromley | -- | -- | 24 | 5 | 1
|
| Buckinghamshire | -- | 3 | 47 | 7 | --
|
| Bury | 1 | -- | 22 | 1 | 2
|
| Calderdale | -- | -- | 28 | 3 | 1
|
| Cambridgeshire | -- | -- | 50 | 5 | 1
|
| Camden | -- | 1 | 15 | 5 | --
|
| Cheshire | -- | -- | 81 | 11 | --
|
| City of London | -- | -- | 1 | -- | --
|
| Cornwall | -- | -- | 43 | 7 | --
|
| Coventry | -- | -- | 24 | 5 | 1
|
| Croydon | 3 | 1 | 23 | 5 | 2
|
| Cumbria | -- | 1 | 85 | 17 | --
|
| Darlington | -- | -- | 10 | 4 | 1
|
| Derby | 3 | -- | 23 | 3 | 3
|
| Derbyshire | 2 | -- | 93 | 19 | --
|
| Devon | -- | -- | 97 | 10 | --
|
| Doncaster | -- | -- | 32 | 7 | --
|
| Dorset | -- | -- | 32 | 11 | 1
|
| Dudley | -- | -- | 26 | 9 | --
|
| Durham | 3 | -- | 96 | 8 | 4
|
| Ealing | -- | -- | 32 | 9 | 1
|
| East Riding of Yorkshire | -- | -- | 33 | 4 | 1
|
| East Sussex | -- | -- | 47 | 4 | --
|
| Enfield | -- | -- | 17 | 7 | --
|
| Essex | -- | 2 | 138 | 21 | 3
|
| Gateshead | 1 | -- | 35 | 4 | --
|
| Gloucestershire | -- | -- | 57 | 9 | 2
|
| Greenwich | -- | -- | 24 | 5 | --
|
| Hackney | -- | -- | 25 | 3 | --
|
| Halton | 2 | -- | 23 | 3 | 1
|
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 2 | -- | 19 | 5 | 3
|
| Hampshire | -- | 2 | 133 | 16 | 5
|
| Haringey | -- | -- | 22 | 4 | --
|
| Harrow | -- | -- | 18 | 4 | 1
|
| Hartlepool | -- | -- | 8 | 4 | 1
|
| Havering | -- | 1 | 22 | 10 | --
|
| Herefordshire | -- | -- | 16 | 4 | --
|
| Hertfordshire | -- | 1 | 124 | 28 | 3
|
| Hillingdon | -- | -- | 21 | 7 | --
|
| Hounslow | -- | -- | 21 | 4 | --
|
| Isle of Wight | -- | -- | 15 | 1 | --
|
| Islington | 1 | -- | 16 | 3 | --
|
| Kensington and Chelsea | 1 | -- | 20 | 2 | --
|
| Kent | -- | 2 | 131 | 28 | 2
|
| Kingston Upon Hull, City of | -- | -- | 32 | 5 | 1
|
| Kingston upon Thames | -- | 1 | 11 | 3 | 2
|
| Kirklees | -- | -- | 61 | 8 | --
|
| Knowsley | -- | -- | 26 | -- | --
|
| Lambeth | 1 | -- | 22 | 3 | 2
|
| Lancashire | 7 | 4 | 118 | 32 | 9
|
| Leeds | -- | -- | 91 | 7 | 1
|
| Leicester | -- | -- | 30 | 1 | --
|
| Leicestershire | -- | -- | 66 | 16 | --
|
| Lewisham | 1 | 1 | 27 | 6 | 3
|
| Lincolnshire | -- | -- | 59 | 27 | 3
|
| Liverpool | -- | -- | 57 | 14 | 3
|
| Luton | -- | 1 | 18 | 3 | --
|
| Manchester | -- | -- | 43 | 6 | 6
|
| Medway | -- | -- | 26 | 5 | --
|
| Merton | -- | -- | 21 | 2 | 1
|
| Middlesbrough | -- | -- | 20 | 2 | 2
|
| Milton Keynes | -- | -- | 23 | 3 | --
|
| Newcastle upon Tyne | -- | 1 | 36 | 3 | 1
|
| Newham | -- | -- | 27 | 7 | 1
|
| Norfolk | -- | -- | 105 | 16 | --
|
| North East Lincolnshire | -- | -- | 20 | 4 | 1
|
| North Lincolnshire | -- | -- | 18 | 4 | --
|
| North Somerset | -- | -- | 13 | 3 | 1
|
| North Tyneside | -- | -- | 30 | 6 | --
|
| North Yorkshire | -- | -- | 71 | 13 | --
|
| Northamptonshire | 3 | -- | 63 | 6 | 1
|
| Northumberland | -- | -- | 42 | 17 | 4
|
| Nottingham | 2 | -- | 37 | 7 | 2
|
| Nottinghamshire | -- | -- | 86 | 14 | 2
|
| Oldham | -- | -- | 33 | 4 | 1
|
| Oxfordshire | 3 | 1 | 50 | 12 | 4
|
| Peterborough | -- | -- | 26 | 4 | 1
|
| Plymouth | -- | -- | 25 | 5 | --
|
| Poole | -- | -- | 9 | 3 | --
|
| Portsmouth | 1 | 1 | 17 | -- | 5
|
| Reading | 1 | 1 | 12 | 5 | --
|
| Redbridge | -- | 1 | 18 | 9 | --
|
| Redcar and Cleveland | -- | 1 | 22 | 6 | 2
|
| Richmond upon Thames | 1 | -- | 16 | 3 | --
|
| Rochdale | -- | -- | 18 | 4 | 3
|
| Rotherham | -- | -- | 37 | 5 | --
|
| Rutland | -- | -- | 2 | 2 | --
|
| Salford | -- | -- | 28 | 4 | 3
|
| Sandwell | -- | -- | 35 | 6 | --
|
| Sefton | -- | -- | 29 | 13 | 2
|
| Sheffield | 2 | -- | 35 | 6 | 3
|
| Shropshire | -- | -- | 37 | 4 | --
|
| Slough | -- | 1 | 14 | 6 | --
|
| Solihull | -- | -- | 28 | 4 | --
|
| Somerset | -- | -- | 57 | 9 | 3
|
| South Gloucestershire | -- | 1 | 20 | 3 | --
|
| South Tyneside | 4 | 2 | 23 | 3 | 1
|
| Southampton | -- | -- | 31 | 3 | 2
|
| Southend-on-Sea | -- | -- | 19 | 5 | 1
|
| Southwark | 2 | -- | 27 | 7 | 1
|
| St. Helens | 1 | -- | 25 | 2 | 3
|
| Staffordshire | -- | 1 | 84 | 17 | 6
|
| Stockport | -- | -- | 29 | 3 | 1
|
| Stockton-on-Tees | -- | -- | 23 | 6 | --
|
| Stoke-on-Trent | 5 | 1 | 30 | 4 | 2
|
| Suffolk | -- | -- | 71 | 19 | 1
|
| Sunderland | -- | -- | 33 | 5 | 4
|
| Surrey | 1 | -- | 101 | 17 | --
|
| Sutton | 1 | -- | 12 | 8 | --
|
| Swindon | -- | -- | 14 | -- | --
|
| Tameside | -- | -- | 30 | 4 | 2
|
| Telford and Wrekin | -- | -- | 23 | 5 | --
|
| Thurrock | -- | -- | 17 | 5 | 2
|
| Torbay | -- | -- | 12 | 4 | --
|
| Tower Hamlets | 2 | 1 | 37 | 8 | 3
|
| Trafford | -- | -- | 32 | 9 | --
|
| Wakefield | -- | -- | 42 | 6 | --
|
| Walsall | -- | -- | 22 | 7 | 1
|
| Waltham Forest | 1 | -- | 13 | 6 | 1
|
| Wandsworth | -- | -- | 22 | 4 | 1
|
| Warrington | 1 | -- | 26 | 1 | --
|
| Warwickshire | 3 | -- | 57 | 14 | 4
|
| West Berkshire | -- | -- | 21 | 2 | 1
|
| West Sussex | -- | 2 | 72 | 7 | 3
|
| Westminster | -- | -- | 23 | 4 | --
|
| Wigan | -- | -- | 38 | 2 | 2
|
| Wiltshire | -- | -- | 43 | 11 | 1
|
| Windsor and Maidenhead | -- | -- | 17 | 3 | --
|
| Wirral | -- | -- | 42 | 2 | 4
|
| Wokingham | -- | -- | 17 | 2 | --
|
| Wolverhampton | 3 | -- | 29 | 7 | 2
|
| Worcestershire | 1 | 1 | 61 | 13 | 1
|
| York | -- | 1 | 13 | 2 | 2
|
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