House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 18 Jul 2001 (pt 15)

FE Student Funding

Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the average funding per student was in the further education sector in each of the last 10 years. [2993]

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John Healey [holding answer 9 July 2001]: The unit of funding for further education students based on total funding for the sector is as follows:

£

Year Unit of funding

1993–94⁽¹⁹⁾ 3,210

1994–95⁽¹⁹⁾ 3,170

1995–96⁽¹⁹⁾ 3,040

1996–97⁽¹⁹⁾ 3,050

1997–98⁽¹⁹⁾ 3,070

1998–99⁽¹⁹⁾ 3,130

1999–2000⁽²⁰⁾ 3,400

Year	Unit of funding
1993–94⁽¹⁹⁾	3,210
1994–95⁽¹⁹⁾	3,170
1995–96⁽¹⁹⁾	3,040
1996–97⁽¹⁹⁾	3,050
1997–98⁽¹⁹⁾	3,070
1998–99⁽¹⁹⁾	3,130
1999–2000⁽²⁰⁾	3,400

⁽¹⁹⁾ Actual

⁽²⁰⁾ Provisional

Note:

Unit of funding is rounded to nearest £10. Figures include assumed additional employer contributions and exclude FEFC administration and student support

Source:

Further Education Funding Council's individualised student record and DfES estimates and projects

There are no comparable figures available prior to 1993–94.

Curriculum and Staffing Survey

Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will outline the proposed timetable for the next curriculum and staffing survey. [3364]

Mr. Timms: The possibility of conducting a secondary curriculum and staffing survey in 2001–02 is being considered at present.

Ministerial Travel

Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills when she last travelled on the London Underground in the course of her official duties. [3687]

Mr. Ivan Lewis: My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State uses the most efficient and cost effective mode of transport, in accordance with the requirements of the "Ministerial Code" and "Travel by Ministers".

Student Support

Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what financial support is available for UK citizens attending UK universities whose parents are overseas as (a) civilians working in the European Union in the private sector, (b) civilians working in the European Union on behalf of the (i) UK Government, (ii) other UK public body and (iii) the EU, (c) civilians working in the private sector in a non-EU country, (d) civilians working on behalf of the (1) UK Government and (2) other UK public body in a non-EU country, (e) a member of HM armed forces based in a European Union country and (f) a member of HM armed forces based in a non-EU country. [3688]

Margaret Hodge: It has been the policy of successive Governments that eligibility for student support should be based on residence in the UK, or in the case of tuition fee support the EU or European Economic Area (EEA). To receive a student loan, tuition fee support and other supplementary grants, a student (and not their parents)

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must normally be able to satisfy three requirements relating to their residence and immigration status on the first day of the first academic year of their course. They must:

be settled in the UK, in other words ordinarily resident here without being subject under the immigration laws to any restriction on the period for which they may stay;

be ordinarily resident in England or Wales;

have been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and Islands throughout the three year period preceding that date other than wholly or mainly for the purpose of receiving full-time education.

Where a local education authority (LEA) is satisfied that a student (or their spouse or parent) is, or was, temporarily employed outside the United Kingdom and Islands, and the student meets the other eligibility criteria, they will exceptionally be eligible for support, whether or not they travel with their parents (or spouse) or stay in the UK. Where a parent's absence is not of a temporary nature and the student has remained in the UK throughout the period of the employment abroad, not wholly for the purpose of education, it may be possible for the student to establish ordinary residence in their own right. We urge LEAs to be as flexible as possible in their use of their discretion in interpreting the temporary absence provisions.

A specific exception is made for members of the armed forces serving abroad, and their children and spouses, who are considered to satisfy the temporary employment provision because of the nature of their postings. This exception does not include MOD employees or other staff who are abroad catering for or serving the armed forces (i.e. teachers at forces schools overseas or reservists), nor does it include Government employees working abroad as they are not under the same degree of compulsion to work abroad as a member of the armed forces.

Students who are not eligible for full student support under the normal criteria and whose LEA is satisfied that they do not qualify on the basis of temporary absence provisions may nevertheless qualify for assistance with their tuition fees. All EU nationals, including UK nationals, who have been resident in the European Economic Area (EEA) throughout the last three years are eligible to apply for income-assessed assistance with their tuition fees.

My Department has produced a guide for students and their parents who are or have been temporarily employed overseas which is available from our website at www.dfee.gov.uk/student support.

Child Care

Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many new day care places in neighbourhood nurseries have been created in Coventry since 1997. [3928]

Mr. Timms [holding answer 17 July 2001]: The Neighbourhood Nurseries Initiative was launched earlier this year. Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership (EYDCP) bids are presently being considered by the DFES and an announcement will be made on funding for each EYDCP shortly.

Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many out of school hours child care places have been created by the three-year

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start-up fund in Coventry; and how much money from the New Opportunities Fund has gone to Coventry for this purpose. [3929]

Mr. Timms [holding answer 17 July 2001]: The New Opportunities Fund have confirmed an indicative allocation of £1,227,153 for the Out of School Hours programme for the Coventry Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership over the next two years, some of which will be available for three-year start up funds in disadvantaged areas. Assessment by the New Opportunities Fund of the first applications submitted on 1 July for this new funding will take place over the next few months.

Ms Buck: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will define the phrase "disadvantaged areas" as used for determining resources via the National Childcare Strategy. [4623]

Mr. Timms: "Disadvantaged Areas" are, for the purposes of the allocation of funding for the National Childcare Strategy, defined as those wards calculated to be the 20 per cent. most disadvantaged nationally against the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions (DTLR) index of multiple deprivation. In some cases, grants may also be made for pockets of

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disadvantage where it is identified that levels of deprivation are at an equivalent level to those wards in the 20 per cent. most disadvantaged banding.

School Premises (Coventry)

Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many schools in Coventry (a) have received refurbishment and repair in the past four years and (b) will receive improvement projects by the end of this year. [3931]

Mr. Timms: Information showing the schools in Coventry that have benefited from refurbishment and repair investment under the New Deal for Schools programme in the four years from 1997–98 to 2000–01 is shown in the table. Over the same period, schools in Coventry have also benefited from other capital refurbishment and repair funding, including formula capital funding devolved to every maintained school from 2000–01. Coventry local education authority will have details of funding going to individual schools.

Capital investment for schools already allocated to Coventry local education authority from 2001–02 to 2003–04 amounts to £20.8 million. It is for the local education authority to decide how and when to invest this money, along with any other funding from its own resources, in line with school building improvement and repair priorities in its local Asset Management Plan.

Table of New Deal for Schools Allocations, Coventry local education authority

£

NDS 1 NDS 2 NDS 3 NDS 4

Project 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01

Cardinal Newman RC Secondary School—Refurbishment of science laboratories ⁽²¹⁾— — — —

Woodway Park Secondary School—Refurbishment of science laboratories ⁽²¹⁾— — — —

Woodway Park Secondary School—Refurbishment of design and technology accommodation ⁽²¹⁾— — — —

Finham Park Secondary—Safer lighting in the Design Technology Block — 6,480 — —

John Gulson Primary—Safer water storage, burners, electricity and lighting — 6,180 — —

Good Shepherd RC VA Primary—Safer water storage, burners, electricity and lighting — 13,880 — —

Sherbourne Fields Special School—Safer water storage, burners, electricity and lighting — 8,805 — —

St. Elizabeth's RC VA Primary—Safer water storage, burners, electricity and lighting — 9,880 — —

Three Spires Special School—Safer water storage, burners, electricity and lighting — 14,571 — —

Whoberley Hall Primary—Safer water storage, burners, electricity and lighting — 61,493 — —

Clifford Bridge Primary—Safer water storage, burners, electricity and lighting — 57,457 — —

Baginton Fields Special—Safer water storage, burners, electricity and lighting — 45,713 — —

Blue Coat CE SA Secondary—Upgrade obsolete electrical mains distribution panel — 17,250 — —

Park Hill Primary—Safer lighting — 1,620 — —

Ernesford Grange—Safer lighting — 3,240 — —

All Souls RC VA Primary—Renew electrical distribution and lighting installation — 41,400 — —

Whoberley Hall Primary School—Safer electrical supply and distribution — 8,910 — —

Deedmore Special—Create a barrier access between cars and pupils — 24,300 — —

Parkgate Primary School—Toilet refurbishment — 12,150 — —

Cardinal Newman RC VA Secondary—Toilet refurbishment — 32,400 — —

The Woodlands Secondary School—Toilet refurbishment (all House Block toilets) — 32,400 — —

Sacred Heart RC VA Secondary—Toilet refurbishment (all toilet areas to school) — 10,800 — —

Richard Lee Primary—Toilet refurbishment (all toilet areas in school) — 32,400 — —

Five schools—Replacement of obsolete boilers — — ⁽²²⁾133,302 —

Christ the King Infants—Replacement of obsolete boilers — — 16,507 —

Two schools—Remove friable asbestos/Heating Mains — — ⁽²²⁾115,439 —

Two schools—Replacement of dangerous and leaking roofs — — ⁽²²⁾46,953 —

16 schools—Remove and replace corroded water tanks — — ⁽²²⁾415,608 —

Bishop Ullathorne RC Secondary—Remove and replace corroded water tanks — — 18,196 —

Blue Coat CE Secondary—Remove and replace corroded water tanks — — 9,190 —

Cardinal Newman RC Secondary—Remove and replace corroded water tanks — — 22,952 —

Cardinal Wiseman RC Secondary—Remove and replace corroded water tanks — — 22,165 —

19 schools—Replace faulty and inadequate fire alarms — — ⁽²²⁾573,373 —

Cardinal Newman RC Secondary—Replace faulty and inadequate fire alarms — — 71,765 —

Christ the King Infant—Replace faulty and inadequate fire alarms — — 11,706 —

Holy Family RC Primary—Replace faulty and inadequate fire alarms — — 20,626 —

St. Anne's RC Primary—Replace faulty and inadequate fire alarms — — 9,898 —

St. Augustine's RC Primary—Replace faulty and inadequate fire alarms — — 11,798 —

St. Elizabeth's RC Primary—Replace faulty and inadequate fire alarms — — 14,520 —

St. John Fisher RC Primary—Replace faulty and inadequate fire alarms — — 12,705 —

St. Thomas More RC Primary—Replace faulty and inadequate fire alarms — — 22,688 —

Bishop Ullathorne RC Secondary—Create fire escape routes — — 56,955 —

Bishop Ullathorne RC Secondary—Refurbishment of obsolete design and technology area to counteract health and safety hazards — — 73,786 —

John Gulson Primary—Improve inadequate ventilation to teaching areas — — 11,602 —

Three schools—Repair and replacement of damaged roofs — — ⁽²²⁾166,667 —

Sidney Stringer Secondary—Replacement of hazardous external cladding in disrepair — — 43,212 —

Caludon Castle, John Gulson and St. John Fisher Schools—Boiler replacement — — — 118,914

President Kennedy School and Community College—replacement of obsolete water tanks — — — 62,902

Stoke Park, Manor Park, Hearsall and Whitley Abbey Primary Schools—Repair of roofs — — — 96,037

Moseley, Parkhill, Stivichall, Eburne and Easter Green Junior Schools—Boiler replacement — — — 206,153

Aldermoor Farm, Grange Farm and Wainbody Wood Schools—Replacement of electrical low voltage switchgear — — — 10,928

Barrs Hill, Stoke Park and Hearsall Schools—Flood relief — — — 38,682

Caludon Castle, Moseley, Coundon Court, Deedmore and Parkhill Schools—Refurbishment of domestic hot water system and boiler plant — — — 150,187

Coundon Primary—Replacement of junior building — — — 966,000

Barr's Hill School and Community College—Refurbishment of science accommodation — — — 267,866

Alderman Callow School and Community College—Refurbishment of science accommodation — — — 213,380

Ernesford Grange School and Community College—Refurbishment of design technology accommodation — — — 232,324

Caludon Castle—Refurbishment of design technology accommodation — — — 261,109

Caludon Castle, Coundon Court, Ernesford Grange, Bishop Ullathorne, President Kennedy and Stoke Park Schools—Refurbishment of science accommodation — — — 933,881

Ravensdale Primary School—Replace temporary accommodation with new block and playground — — — 617,797

Foleshill CE Primary School—Replace temporary class base and playground — — — 221,640

Total ⁽²¹⁾668,000 441,329 43,212 4,397,800

				£
	NDS 1	NDS 2	NDS 3	NDS 4
Project	1997–98	1998–99	1999–2000	2000–01
Cardinal Newman RC Secondary School—Refurbishment of science laboratories	⁽²¹⁾—	—	—	—
Woodway Park Secondary School—Refurbishment of science laboratories	⁽²¹⁾—	—	—	—
Woodway Park Secondary School—Refurbishment of design and technology accommodation	⁽²¹⁾—	—	—	—
Finham Park Secondary—Safer lighting in the Design Technology Block	—	6,480	—	—
John Gulson Primary—Safer water storage, burners, electricity and lighting	—	6,180	—	—
Good Shepherd RC VA Primary—Safer water storage, burners, electricity and lighting	—	13,880	—	—
Sherbourne Fields Special School—Safer water storage, burners, electricity and lighting	—	8,805	—	—
St. Elizabeth's RC VA Primary—Safer water storage, burners, electricity and lighting	—	9,880	—	—
Three Spires Special School—Safer water storage, burners, electricity and lighting	—	14,571	—	—
Whoberley Hall Primary—Safer water storage, burners, electricity and lighting	—	61,493	—	—
Clifford Bridge Primary—Safer water storage, burners, electricity and lighting	—	57,457	—	—
Baginton Fields Special—Safer water storage, burners, electricity and lighting	—	45,713	—	—
Blue Coat CE SA Secondary—Upgrade obsolete electrical mains distribution panel	—	17,250	—	—
Park Hill Primary—Safer lighting	—	1,620	—	—
Ernesford Grange—Safer lighting	—	3,240	—	—
All Souls RC VA Primary—Renew electrical distribution and lighting installation	—	41,400	—	—
Whoberley Hall Primary School—Safer electrical supply and distribution	—	8,910	—	—
Deedmore Special—Create a barrier access between cars and pupils	—	24,300	—	—
Parkgate Primary School—Toilet refurbishment	—	12,150	—	—
Cardinal Newman RC VA Secondary—Toilet refurbishment	—	32,400	—	—
The Woodlands Secondary School—Toilet refurbishment (all House Block toilets)	—	32,400	—	—
Sacred Heart RC VA Secondary—Toilet refurbishment (all toilet areas to school)	—	10,800	—	—
Richard Lee Primary—Toilet refurbishment (all toilet areas in school)	—	32,400	—	—
Five schools—Replacement of obsolete boilers	—	—	⁽²²⁾133,302	—
Christ the King Infants—Replacement of obsolete boilers	—	—	16,507	—
Two schools—Remove friable asbestos/Heating Mains	—	—	⁽²²⁾115,439	—
Two schools—Replacement of dangerous and leaking roofs	—	—	⁽²²⁾46,953	—
16 schools—Remove and replace corroded water tanks	—	—	⁽²²⁾415,608	—
Bishop Ullathorne RC Secondary—Remove and replace corroded water tanks	—	—	18,196	—
Blue Coat CE Secondary—Remove and replace corroded water tanks	—	—	9,190	—
Cardinal Newman RC Secondary—Remove and replace corroded water tanks	—	—	22,952	—
Cardinal Wiseman RC Secondary—Remove and replace corroded water tanks	—	—	22,165	—
19 schools—Replace faulty and inadequate fire alarms	—	—	⁽²²⁾573,373	—
Cardinal Newman RC Secondary—Replace faulty and inadequate fire alarms	—	—	71,765	—
Christ the King Infant—Replace faulty and inadequate fire alarms	—	—	11,706	—
Holy Family RC Primary—Replace faulty and inadequate fire alarms	—	—	20,626	—
St. Anne's RC Primary—Replace faulty and inadequate fire alarms	—	—	9,898	—
St. Augustine's RC Primary—Replace faulty and inadequate fire alarms	—	—	11,798	—
St. Elizabeth's RC Primary—Replace faulty and inadequate fire alarms	—	—	14,520	—
St. John Fisher RC Primary—Replace faulty and inadequate fire alarms	—	—	12,705	—
St. Thomas More RC Primary—Replace faulty and inadequate fire alarms	—	—	22,688	—
Bishop Ullathorne RC Secondary—Create fire escape routes	—	—	56,955	—
Bishop Ullathorne RC Secondary—Refurbishment of obsolete design and technology area to counteract health and safety hazards	—	—	73,786	—
John Gulson Primary—Improve inadequate ventilation to teaching areas	—	—	11,602	—
Three schools—Repair and replacement of damaged roofs	—	—	⁽²²⁾166,667	—
Sidney Stringer Secondary—Replacement of hazardous external cladding in disrepair	—	—	43,212	—
Caludon Castle, John Gulson and St. John Fisher Schools—Boiler replacement	—	—	—	118,914
President Kennedy School and Community College—replacement of obsolete water tanks	—	—	—	62,902
Stoke Park, Manor Park, Hearsall and Whitley Abbey Primary Schools—Repair of roofs	—	—	—	96,037
Moseley, Parkhill, Stivichall, Eburne and Easter Green Junior Schools—Boiler replacement	—	—	—	206,153
Aldermoor Farm, Grange Farm and Wainbody Wood Schools—Replacement of electrical low voltage switchgear	—	—	—	10,928
Barrs Hill, Stoke Park and Hearsall Schools—Flood relief	—	—	—	38,682
Caludon Castle, Moseley, Coundon Court, Deedmore and Parkhill Schools—Refurbishment of domestic hot water system and boiler plant	—	—	—	150,187
Coundon Primary—Replacement of junior building	—	—	—	966,000
Barr's Hill School and Community College—Refurbishment of science accommodation	—	—	—	267,866
Alderman Callow School and Community College—Refurbishment of science accommodation	—	—	—	213,380
Ernesford Grange School and Community College—Refurbishment of design technology accommodation	—	—	—	232,324
Caludon Castle—Refurbishment of design technology accommodation	—	—	—	261,109
Caludon Castle, Coundon Court, Ernesford Grange, Bishop Ullathorne, President Kennedy and Stoke Park Schools—Refurbishment of science accommodation	—	—	—	933,881
Ravensdale Primary School—Replace temporary accommodation with new block and playground	—	—	—	617,797
Foleshill CE Primary School—Replace temporary class base and playground	—	—	—	221,640

Total	⁽²¹⁾668,000	441,329	43,212	4,397,800

⁽²¹⁾ Local education authorities were not required to specify individual project costs for Phase 1 (1997–98) of the New Deal for Schools programme. Coventry local education authority holds this information.

⁽²²⁾ For NDS three allocations, individual details of amounts awarded to schools within a package project were not required. Coventry local education authority will be able to provide the value of projects at schools that have benefited from these allocations.

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