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Departmental Circular
Mr. Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the circular documents that were sent by her Department to (a) primary and (b) secondary schools during March; and how many pages each document contained. [51595]
Mr. Timms [holding answer 22 April 2002]: The Department sent five documents to all primary schools and eight documents to all secondary schools in March 2002 as listed below.
| Communications to primary schools | Page numbers |
|---|---|
| Letter from Secretary of State—performance points on the upper pay scale | 3 |
| Spectrum | 11 |
| Standards and school workload. Letter from Secretary of State +poster | 3 |
| Teachers Pay confirmation 2002–03 | 8 |
| Write Here , Write Now 2002—competition/letter | 3 |
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| Communications to secondary schools | Page numbers |
|---|---|
| 14–19: More opportunities, Higher Standards—Young People's version of the Green Paper | 18 |
| Connexions Card launch | 2 |
| Key Stage 3 National Strategy Designing and timetabling the Key Stage 3 Curriculum | 31 |
| Letter from Secretary of State—performance points on the upper pay scale | 3 |
| Progress file to replace the National Record of Achievement | 3 |
| Spectrum | 11 |
| Standards and school workload. Letter from Secretary of State +poster | 3 |
| Teachers' pay confirmation 2002–03 | 8 |
Maintained Schools
Mr. Brady: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the occasions on which a maintained school applying for a change of status has been refused permission by the school organisation committee, stating the grounds for refusal in each case. [51944]
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Mr. Timms: Only one proposal for a change of school category has been rejected by a School Organisation Committee since the change of category regulations were introduced in September 2000. Proposals published by the governing body of Olney Middle Community School, to become a Foundation School, were rejected by Milton Keynes School Organisation Committee in March this year. The Committee stated that their reason for rejection was that the proposals were not in the best interests of education in the area because they did not demonstrate how the change would support improving standards.
In another five cases, the School Organisation Committee was not able to arrive at a unanimous decision, so the change proposals were referred to the Schools Adjudicator, who approved them.
Mr. Brady: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills which maintained schools have changed status between (a) foundation, (b) community, (c) voluntary aided and (d) other in each year since the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 created the categories, giving the initial status and the new status in each case. [51945]
Mr. Timms: The following schools have changed category since the Education (Change of Category of Maintained Schools)(England) Regulations came into force on September 2000:
| School | LEA | New category | Decision by | Change date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (a) Foundation | ||||
| Repton Primary | Derbyshire | Community | SOC(12) | 1 January 2002 |
| (b) Community | ||||
| Churston Ferrers Grammar | Torbay | Foundation | SOC(12) | 1 September 2001 |
| St. Edmund's Community | Norfolk | Foundation | SOC(12) | 1 January 2002 |
| New Bradwell Combined | Milton Keynes | Foundation | SOC(12) | 1 January 2002 |
| Ousedale | Milton Keynes | Foundation | SOC(12) | 1 January 2002 |
| Mayfield School and College | Redbridge | Foundation | Schools adjudicator | 1 January 2002 |
| Stanton Middle | Milton Keynes | Foundation | Schools adjudicator | 1 February 2002 |
| Torquay Grammar School for Girls | Torbay | Foundation | SOC(12) | 1 April 2002 |
| Loughton Middle | Milton Keynes | Foundation | SOC(12) | 1 April 2002 |
| Southwood Middle | Milton Keynes | Foundation | SOC(12) | 1 April 2002 |
| Cleeve Secondary | Gloucestershire | Foundation | SOC(12) | 1 April 2002 |
| Shenley Brook End | Milton Keynes | Foundation | Schools adjudicator | 1 September 2002 |
| Hayesfield Secondary | Bath and north-east Somerset | Foundation | Schools adjudicator | 1 September 2002 |
| (c) Voluntary aided | ||||
| Kirkbie Kendal VA Secondary | Cumbria | Foundation | SOC(12) | 1 September 2001 |
| (d) Voluntary controlled | ||||
| Springwood High | Norfolk | Foundation | SOC(12) | 1 September 2001 |
| Heddington CE Primary | Wiltshire | Voluntary aided | SOC(12) | 1 September 2001 |
| Zeals CE First | Wiltshire | Voluntary aided | SOC(12) | 1 September 2001 |
| Verwood CE VC First | Dorset | Voluntary aided | SOC(12) | 1 September 2001 |
| St. George's CE Primary, Bourton | Dorset | Voluntary aided | SOC(12) | 1 September 2001 |
| Keevil CE Primary | Wiltshire | Voluntary aided | SOC(12) | 1 January 2002 |
| Crockerton CE Primary | Wiltshire | Voluntary aided | SOC(12) | 1 January 2002 |
| Stoborough CE First | Dorset | Voluntary aided | Schools adjudicator | 1 September 2002 |
(12) SOC = local School Organisation Committee
LEA Funding
Mr. Brady: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of education funding was delegated to schools by local education authority area in the latest year for which figures are available, estimating the extra spending per pupil in each authority delegated at the highest percentage level. [52085]
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Mr. Timms: The following table sets out, for each local education authority, (a) the percentage of the Local Schools Budget (LSB) delegated to schools in 2001–02 and (b) the additional amount per pupil which would have been delegated to schools if the LEA had delegated 90.6 per cent. of its LSB (this being the highest delegation percentage achieved by any LEA).
Notes:
1. The percentages in column 1 are those shown for each LEA in the annual comparative table published by the Department on 29 June 2001, except in the cases of Halton and Westminster, whose figures have been revised in the light of subsequent information. (Subsequent information from two other LEAs does not affect the calculation of their delegation percentages rounded to the nearest 0.1 per cent.). As in the case of the annual comparative table, the Corporation of London and the Isles of Scilly have been omitted.
2. The calculations underlying column 2 are based on the rounded percentages in column 1. As in column 1 and in the annual comparative table, delegated funding includes devolved Standards Fund grants, but not School Standards Grant.
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