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Teachers' Pay

Mr. Dawson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills when she intends to make information available to schools on the level of financial support for the teachers' pay award next year. [31295]

Mr. Timms: The pay award will be funded from schools' general budgets. The effective increase in Education Standard Spending is 5.7 per cent. for 2002–03 compared with an estimated cost of the pay settlement of 4 per cent. It is for local education authorities to notify schools formally of the level of their budgets in 2002–03 by 31 March.

SSA (Cambridgeshire)

Mrs. Anne Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the Cambridgeshire local education authority spend on education above SSA per pupil for the primary and secondary sectors, and in total, for 1990–91 to 2000–02 and projected for the financial year 2002–03, adjusted for inflation at current values. [29507]

Mr. Timms [holding answer 22 January 2002]: The following table contains the latest available information:

CambridgeshireReal terms figures⁽⁶⁸⁾

	1990–91	1991–92	1992–93	1993–94	1994–95	1995–96	1996–97	1997–98	1998–99	1999–2000
NCE per pupil
Pre Primary/Primary	1,640	1,790	2,130	2,100	2,190	2,180	2,120	2,030	2,090	2,200
Secondary	2,590	2,670	2,910	2,800	2,850	2,750	2,740	2,700	2,630	2,770
Total	2,030	2,150	2,460	2,390	2,470	2,420	2,380	2,300	2,300	2,430
SSA per pupil
Pre Pri/Primary	1,790	1,960	2,010	1,970	2,010	1,990	2,030	1,910	2,080	2,190
Secondary	2,570	2,670	2,700	2,760	2,730	2,640	2,670	2,640	2,640	2,680
Total	2,110	2,250	2,300	2,300	2,310	2,260	2,290	2,200	2,300	2,390

⁽⁶⁸⁾ All figures are in real terms at 2000–01 prices, and rounded to the nearest £10.

Notes:

1. Information for 2000–02 and 2002–03 is not yet available and as a result it is not possible to arrive at a projection.

2. Figures for 1990–91 to 1998–99 include grant maintained schools. Figures for 1999–2000 include ex-GM schools.

3. Expenditure data for 1999–2000 is taken from S52 outturn statements completed by local education authorities and returned to DfES. Data for all previous years is taken from DETR's Revenue Outturn Returns.

4. For the years 1990–91 to 1992–93, Net Current Expenditure after recharges was not recorded in the RO1. Net Recurrent Expenditure is used for these years. Therefore, per pupil figures for these years may not be strictly comparable with the later years.

5. SSA figures implicitly cover funding for Special Schools, and there is no split available for special schools.

6. The NCE figures provided here are for pre primary/primary and secondary only. Hence the two sets of figures are not comparable

7. Pupil numbers used in calculating per pupil figures are financial year averages, based on January Annual School Census returns.

8. Pupil numbers for secondary schools for 1990–91, 1991–92 and 1992–93 include sixth form colleges; these ceased to be classified as schools in April 1993.

9. Cambridgeshire was re-organised in 1998–99.

Training

Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many adults aged over 25 years are without access to training, broken down by region expressed as (a) a percentage and (b) the total figure, ranked in descending order according to percentage figures for the period in which the latest figures are available. [30578]

John Healey: Set out is information from the National Adult Learning Survey (NALS2001). It shows the number of people (in thousands) aged 26 and over who are classed as non-learners. A non-learner is someone who has not

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taken part in any of the NALS-defined learning activities over the past three years. The information is not available for Scotland or Northern Ireland.

Government office region	Percentage of GOR who are non-learners	Number (Thousand)	Population in GOR (Thousand)
Wales	47	916	1,962
Yorkshire and Humberside	41	1,373	3,349
North West	37	1,695	4,543
North East	37	637	1,713
West Midlands	35	1,251	3,545
East Midlands	34	966	2,832
London	31	1,472	4,738
South West	30	1,013	3,394
Eastern	28	1,028	3,695
South East	25	1,347	5,473

It is important to note that most of these non-learners have chosen not to do any learning or are restricted by family/work circumstances. They are not usually non- learners as a result of access problems.In terms of factors that might restrict access, some of the access-related obstacles to learning (not mutually exclusive) mentioned by non-learners include:

Cannot find local opportunities to learn (12 per cent.);


Problems arranging transport to the course (15 per cent.);


Course difficult due to health/disability (9 per cent.).

Qualifications (19-year-olds)

Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many 19-year-olds there are without a basic qualification, broken down by region, expressed as (a) a percentage and (b) total number, ranked in descending order according to percentages for the latest date for which figures are available. [30592]

Mr. Ivan Lewis: The information readily available has been derived from the Labour Force Survey and is given in the table.

Estimates of the numbers and proportions of 19-year-olds⁽⁶⁷⁾ with no qualifications by region, 2000–01, United Kingdom

	Population aged 19 (Thousand)	Numbers with no qualifications (Thousand)	Proportion with no qualifications(68) (Percentage)
United Kingdom	726	61	8
Home countries
Northern Ireland	23	2	9
Wales	43	4	9
England	605	49	8
Scotland	54	4	7
Government office regions
East Midlands	55	6	10
West Midlands	61	6	10
East	63	6	9
Yorkshire and the Humber	61	5	8
London	93	7	7
North West	74	5	7
South East	101	7	7
North East	38	2	6
South West	59	3	6

Notes:

1. Due to small sample sizes, the proportion of 19 to 21-year-olds with no qualifications have been used as a proxy for 19-year-olds without qualifications.

2. Estimates of the proportion with no qualifications are subject to sampling error. Figures are accurate to:

±1 percentage point for UK and England estimates (eg estimate for England lies between 7 per cent. and 9 per cent.),

±2 percentage points for Yorkshire, London, North West, South East, South West and Scotland estimates,

±3 percentage points for East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, North East and Wales estimates, and

±4 percentage points for the Northern Ireland estimate (eg the proportion lies between 5 per cent. and 13 per cent.)

Source:

DfES estimates from the Labour Force Survey, averaged data—winter 2000–01 to autumn 2001

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Excellence in Cities

Mr. Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the Standards Fund and Excellence in Cities allocations for the City of Newcastle upon Tyne in 2001–02 and the provisional indication of allocations for 2002–03. [31473]

Mr. Timms: The following table shows allocations for the Standards Fund and Excellence in Cities for the city of Newcastle upon Tyne in 2001–02, and the provisional allocations so far announced for 2002–03. The figures include both Government and local authority contributions.

2001–02 Standards fund allocations for City of Newcastle uponTyne council

	£
Adult: Pupil Ratios in Reception Classes	685,209
Advanced Skills Teachers	162,500
Beacon Schools	116,500
Children in Public Care	44,317
Children of Asylum Seekers	57,500
City Learning Centres	1,200,000
Class Size Recurrent Funding	1,319,707
Devolved Capital	2,025,164
Drug Prevention	69,510
Early Years Training and Development	72,002
Education Health Partnerships	31,689
Ethnic Minority Achievement	613,453
Family Literacy and Numeracy	45,200
Fresh Start	250,000
Gifted and Talented Children Summer Schools	18,000
Induction of Newly Qualified Teachers	278,145
Information Management Strategy	146,998
Key Stage 3: National Implementation	288,063
LEA Music Services	234,600
Literacy and Numeracy Summer Schools	70,000
Maintained Nursery School Service	119,189
National Curriculum	88,062
National Grid for Learning	1,145,169
NDS Condition Funding	1,701,927
Performance Management	146,664
Playing for Success	50,000
Primary Literacy and Numeracy Strategies	1,031,147
Qualifications	11,202
Schools Achievement Awards	266,280
School Improvement	961,000
School Laboratories	339,716
School Leadership	125,647
School Security	107,799
Seed Capital Challenge	192,864
Sick Children	12,662
Small Education Action Zones	318,120
Small Schools Fund	328,591
Social Inclusion: Pupil Support	1,405,300
Special Educational Needs	462,163
Specialist Schools	1,099,620
Study Support	287,697
Supported Early Retirement Scheme for Heads	40,000
Teachers' Sabbaticals	90,000
Teaching Assistants	1,094,654
Teenage Pregnancies	100,900
Traveller Children Achievement	31,502
Year 6 Booster Classes	222,892
Year 9 Booster Classes	54,000
Youth Service	11,650
Excellence in Cities
Excellence in Cities: Excellence Challenge	262,334
Excellence in Cities: Secondary(67)	1,903,000
Total	21,740,308

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2002–03 Standards fund allocations for City of Newcastle uponTyne council

	£
Adult: Pupil Ratios in Reception Classes	298,958
Advanced Skills Teachers (ASTs)	128,250
Beacon Schools	154,500
Capital Funding for Nursery Education in Disadvantaged Areas	98,178
Class Size Initiative	31,875
Drug, Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention	73,107
Early Years Training and Development	72,002
Education Health Partnerships	32,439
Ethnic Minority Achievement	613,453
Gifted and Talented Summer Schools	18,000
Induction of Newly Qualified Teachers	327,117
KS3 Strategy and Summer Schools	891,734
LEA Music Services	403,926
National Grid for Learning	1,580,283
NDS Condition Funding	2,609,476
NDS Devolved Formula Capital	1,435,678
New School Security Projects	49,051
Performance Management and Threshold Assessment	150,829
Playing for Success	50,000
Primary Literacy and Numeracy Strategies	926,761
Qualifications	17,875
School Improvement	1,056,250
Seed Challenge Capital	322,740
Sick Children and Children in Public Care	63,567
Small Schools Fund	376,000
Social Inclusion: Pupil Support	1,445,949
Special Educational Needs	514,894
Study Support	480,658
Teacher Recruitment Incentives	96,115
Teacher Sabbaticals	162,000
Teaching Assistants	1,086,584
Teenage Pregnancies	56,646
Traveller Children Achievement	31,502
Year 6 Booster Classes	224,658
Excellence in Cities
Excellence in Cities: Excellence Challenge	594,094
Excellence in Cities: Primary and Secondary(69)	2,033,663
Total	18,508,812

⁽⁶⁹⁾ Including Gifted and Talented Children, Learning Support Units and Learning Mentors

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