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Primary School Heads

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of primary school heads are estimated to earn more than £60,000 per annum. [28572]

Mr. Timms: The School Teachers' Review Body's leadership group pay survey for 2000 estimated that 0.2 per cent. of primary school heads earn more than £60,000 per annum.

Education (Somerset)

Mr. Liddell-Grainger: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much the Government have spent on education in Somerset in each of the financial years since 1996–97, broken down by areas on which the funding has been spent. [28743]

Mr. Timms: The information requested is contained in the following table:

Somerset£ million

	SSA	Grants	Total
Cash
1996–97	150.908	1.558	152.465
1997–98	150.711	6.912	157.623
1998–99	165.321	2.392	167.713
1999–2000	175.623	6.161	181.784
2000–01	186.168	16.266	202.435
2001–02	194.974	24.882	219.855
Change(45)	44.066	23.324	67.390
Real terms: prices 2000–01
1996–97	166.659	1.720	168.379
1997–98	161.463	7.405	168.868
1998–99	172.299	2.493	174.792
1999–2000	178.722	6.269	184.992
2000–01	186.168	16.266	202.435
2001–02	190.218	24.275	214.493
Change(45)	23.559	22.555	46.114

⁽⁴⁵⁾ Change since 1996–97

Notes:

1. Figures reflect Education SSA plus all school related revenue grants.

2. Real terms figures are calculated using GDP deflators published by the Treasury 20 December 2001.

3. 2001–02 figures are provisional.

Mr. Liddell-Grainger: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much her Department spent on advertising in Somerset between 31 December 2000 and 31 December 2001. [28744]

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Mr. Ivan Lewis: In the period 31 December 2000 to 31 December 2001, the Department for Education and Skills spent £11,513 on advertising on Somerset local radio. There was no expenditure on advertising in Somerset local press.

People living in Somerset will also have been exposed to national advertising run by the Department for Education and Skills. It is not possible to calculate what percentage of spending on television advertising can be allocated to Somerset because half of the county falls into the HTV West television region and the other half falls into the West Country television region.

Sex Education

Dr. Kumar: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will make a statement on her policy on sex education in schools. [28767]

Mr. Ivan Lewis: The responsibility for determining a school policy on sex and relationship education rests with governing bodies and head teachers. Our Sex and Relationship Education guidance, published in July 2000, clearly states that governing bodies and head teachers should consult parents in developing their sex and relationship education policy to ensure that the views of parents and the community are reflected. All schools must have a policy, which is made available for inspection and to parents.

The Department recommends that sex and relationship education should be supported by a school's wider curriculum for Personal Social and Health Education (PSHE) and Citizenship. In this way, schools can ensure that pupils receive their sex education in the wider context of relationships and are prepared for the responsibilities and experiences of adult life.

Standards Funds

Mr. Stevenson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the standards funds allocated to Stoke-on-Trent local education authority in (a) 1999–2000, (b) 2000–01 and (c) 2001–02. [28771]

Mr. Timms: The table shows allocations for the standards fund for Stoke-on-Trent local education authority in 1999–2000, 2000–01 and 2001–02. The figures include both Government and local authority contributions.

Standards fund allocations for city of Stoke-on-Trent council

	£
1999–2000
Administrative Support in Small Schools	57,084
Applications for Education Action Zones	30,000
Books for Schools	1,585
Class Size Initiative	1,080,242
Computer Systems for Chairs of Education	2,000
Drug Prevention	39,355
Early Years Training and Development	67,342
Education and Health Partnerships	19,000
Education Maintenance Allowance Pilots	1,024,683
Ethnic Minority Achievements	614,112
Laptops for Heads of Small Primary and Special Schools	15,466
Literacy and Numeracy Summer Schools	119,500
Local Education Authority Music Services	148,000
Local Recruitment Measures	50,000
National Grid for Learning	1,000,000
Playing for Success	100,000
Primary Literacy and Numeracy Strategies	687,782
Qualifications	46,275
School Asset Management Plans	33,610
School Improvement	1,445,382
School Leadership	122,631
School Security	115,898
Social Inclusion	342,484
Special Educational Needs	272,855
Support for Parent Governor Representatives	1,000
Work Related Learning at Key Stage 4	49,500
Working Environment Fund	99,860
Year 6 Literacy and Numeracy Booster Classes	277,910
Total	7,863,556
2000–01
Administrative Support for Small Schools	172,735
Beacon Schools	56,000
Best Practice Research Scholarships	34,335
City Learning Centres: Design and Capital Costs	300,000
Class Size Initiative	1,165,476
Developing and Extending Maintained Nursery School Services	69,032
Devolved Formula Capital for Schools	1,501,654
Early Years Training and Development	67,858
Education and Health Partnerships	33,706
Ethnic Minority Pupils and Traveller Achievement	614,112
Excellence in Cities: Development	25,676
Excellence in Cities: Excellence Challenge	12,739
Excellence in Cities: Gifted and Talented Children	361,000
Excellence in Cities: Learning Mentors and Learning Support Units	676,000
Key Stage 3 Numeracy: Secondary Schools Conference	14,656
Literacy and Numeracy: Summer Schools and Key Stage 3	132,000
Local Education Authority Music Services	238,000
National Grid for Learning	1,000,000
New National Curriculum	90,500
Maintained Nursery Capital	92,200
Performance Management Training	207,252
Pilot Education Maintenance Allowance	2,397,843
Playing for Success	125,000
Primary Literacy and Numeracy Strategies	860,176
Qualifications	36,429
School Improvement	1,640,597
School Laboratories for the 21st Century	155,850
School Leadership	85,985
School Security	114,362
Seed Capital Challenge	172,790
Small Education Action Zones	20,000
Small School Support Fund	86,834
Social Inclusion, Drugs and Youth	1,067,179
Special Educational Needs	341,025
Specialist Schools	158,386
Study Support	180,886
Summer Schools for Gifted and Talented Pupils	18,000
Support for Parent Governor Representatives	1,200
Teacher Incentives	13,682
Teaching Assistants	758,183
Teenage Pregnancies	93,000
Working Environment Fund	99,860
Year 6 Literacy and Numeracy Booster Classes	247,392
Total	15,539,590
2001–02
Adult:Pupil Ratios in Reception Classes	346,792
Advanced Skills Teachers	152,000
Child Protection Co-ordinators	39,600
Children in Public Care	41,661
Children of Asylum Seekers	3,500
City Learning Centres	2,400,000
Class Size Initiative	1,255,664
Devolved Capital	2,226,443
Drug Prevention and Advisers	65,760
Early Professional Development	264,800
Early Years Training and Development	76,293
Education Health Partnerships	32,798
Ethnic Minority Achievement	614,112
Excellence in Cities: Beacon Schools	70,000
Excellence in Cities: Excellence Challenge	211,101
Excellence in Cities: Secondary(46)	1,778,000
Gifted and Talented Children Summer Schools	18,000
Induction of Newly Qualified Teachers	441,363
Information Management Strategy	153,893
Key Stage 3: National Implementation	274,803
Literacy and Numeracy Summer Schools	100,000
Local Education Authority Music Services	264,400
Maintained Nursery School Service	140,650
National Curriculum	90,336
National Grid for Learning	1,356,063
NDS Condition Funding	1,696,708
Performance Management	136,283
Playing for Success	120,036
Primary Literacy and Numeracy Strategies	927,979
Qualifications	15,870
School Achievement Awards	340,950
School Improvement	997,000
School Laboratories	287,409
School Leadership	95,563
School Security	112,855
Seed Capital Challenge	191,087
Sick Children	11,903
Small Education Action Zones	415,414
Small Schools Fund	336,606
Social Inclusion: Pupil Support	1,282,329
Special Educational Needs	434,461
Specialist Schools	341,809
Study Support	284,029
Supported Early Retirement Scheme for Heads	40,000
Teachers' Sabbaticals	36,000
Teaching Assistants	1,118,490
Teenage Pregnancies	93,000
Truancy Buster Awards	8,000
Year 6 Booster Classes	261,114
Year 9 Booster Classes	76,500
Total	22,079,427

⁽⁴⁶⁾ Including Gifted and Talented Children, Learning Support Units and Learning Mentors

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