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Medical Schools

Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what capital is being made available to the new medical schools for research laboratories and equipment. [67150]

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Margaret Hodge: The Higher Education Funding Council for England issues capital grants to higher education institutions including those with medical schools, which are used for a number of purposes. The Department of Health has provided additional NHS research and development funding to the NHS Trusts associated with some of the new medical schools to facilitate the development of the research infrastructure in those localities.

Schools (Somerset)

Mr. Liddell-Grainger: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many schools in Somerset provide up to two hours of sport and physical education each week. [67588]

Mr. Stephen Twigg: The Government are committed to all children having two hours of high quality physical education (PE) and school sport a week, within and outside the curriculum. The Specialist Sports College and the School Sport Co-ordinator programmes are helping schools make that a reality. From September 1.8 million pupils will be benefiting from the School Sport Co-ordinator programme within 142 partnerships with nearly 750 co-ordinators and over 3500 primary or special school link teachers.

The Department for Education and Skills does not collect data on the number of schools in Somerset that are providing the two hour entitlement. However, we do know that Somerset currently has 1 School Sport Co-ordinator partnership (with 6 co-ordinators) and King Arthur's Community School will begin operating this September as a Sport College. Nationally we estimate that about 25 per cent. of schools—those within School Sport Co-ordinator Partnerships—are offering their pupils access to the two hour entitlement. However, an audit due to take place during the autumn term will check this assumption.

Discretionary Awards

Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list for each LEA where EMAs have been introduced the amount of resources allocated for discretionary awards in each of year since 1997. [67470]

Margaret Hodge [holding answer 5 July 2002]: Prior to 1998–99, funding for discretionary support was made within the Education SSA. This is not broken down into specific funding lines and individual LEA allocations are therefore not available. In 1999, discretionary funding for young people post-16 in schools was transferred to the School Access Funds. The amount of School Access Funds made available to LEAs for discretionary support in the EMA pilot areas is set out in the table.

Separate allocations of Access Funds are also made available to colleges, including sixth form colleges. The amounts are listed in the Further Education Funding Council and Learning and Skills Council Circulars (FEFC Circulars 97/32, 98/29, 99/27,00/14, LSC Circular 01/08).

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£000

LEA	1999–2000	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03
	Original pilots—September 1999
Bolton	31,775	8,168	22,932	32,192
Cornwall	35,249	12,782	22,267	30,043
Doncaster	76,318	19,002	59,579	83,378
Gateshead	42,754	9,969	29,413	36,716
Greenwich	106,541	89,763	25,382	35,523
Lambeth	20,280	17,358	5,000	5,200
Leeds	121,873	121,873	62,456	82,634
Lewisham	45,590	45,590	12,891	14,517
Middlesbrough	5,000	5,000	5,000	5,000
Nottingham	16,394	8,081	11,937	16,757
Oldham	26,649	6,875	14,689	20,502
Southampton	5,000	5,000	5,000	7,019
Southwark	13,813	17,033	5,000	7,019
Stoke on Trent	n/a	5,000	5,000	7,019
Walsall	77,693	15,996	57,853	81,214
	Pilots from September 2000
Barking and Dagenham	31,952	56,794	16,059	20,050
Barnsley	8,862	11,521	5,000	6,413
Birmingham	250,401	426,700	122,120	167,782
Bradford	170,393	279,138	81,562	112,280
Brent	67,643	115,818	32,749	33,843
Camden	54,427	103,446	43,382	60,899
Coventry	60,859	101,777	43,271	57,946
Ealing	70,083	115,418	32,636	32,636
East Lancashire(12)	104,844	136,297	205,287	213,863
Hackney	34,610	44,993	16,990	21,971
Halton	18,970	31,233	11,028	12,927
Hammersmith and Fulham	30,002	31,233	11,028	12,927
Haringey	80,542	104,705	29,607	29,607
Hartlepool	8,048	13,329	6,748	9,473
Islington	14,172	26,227	7,655	8,472
Kingston upon Hull	6,589	11,267	5,000	6,395
Knowsley	41,840	54,392	15,380	15,380
Leicester City	18,642	33,103	16,298	20,961
Liverpool	255,980	332,774	131,392	184,447
Luton	5,000	8,212	5,000	5,200
Manchester	38,772	62,767	24,626	31,748
Newham	29,252	47,417	18,771	26,351
North East Lincolnshire	5,000	9,453	5,000	6,603
North Tyneside	30,432	52,119	19,282	27,067
Northumberland	56,949	96,015	38,872	54,568
Salford	5,000	5,000	5,000	5,200
Sandwell	47,012	61,116	22,093	29,288
Sheffield	65,965	85,755	28,773	40,392
South Tyneside	9,137	15,009	7,993	11,220
St. Helens	20,033	85,755	28,773	40,392
Suffolk	74,794	127,213	179,856	187,370
Sunderland	35,298	45,888	84,777	88,319
Tameside	5,378	8,720	5,000	5,200
Tower Hamlets	112,052	145,667	52,669	72,380
Wakefield	30,064	39,083	15,264	21,428
Waltham Forest	14,349	26,980	7,629	9,664
Wandsworth	30,851	60,310	17,054	17,054
Wigan	9,599	16,169	5,000	6,998
Wirral	96,184	165,221	46,719	62,588
Wolverhampton	59,149	98,585	45,139	62,380
Worcestershire	32,816	59,959	18,839	25,892
Totals	2,766,874	3,740,068	1,859,720	2,330,307

⁽¹²⁾ Figures shown are for the whole of Lancashire

Education Maintenance Allowance

Mr. Breed: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many young people received educational maintenance allowance (a) by variant and (b) by region in each year since 1999. [67086]

Margaret Hodge [holding answer 5 July 2002]: (a) The following table shows the number of young people in receipt of education maintenance allowance by variant.

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Variant Number	1999–2000	2000–01	2001–02
1(13)	5,682	27,240	35,697
2(14)	816	5,151	5,387
3(15)	2,168	9,105	13,044
4(16)	683	13,151	22,006
5(17)	384	16,225	29,828
6(18)	0	5,732	9,656
Pure transport(19)	0	4,064	7,416
Hybrid transport(20)	0	2,442	4,302
Total	9,733	83,110	127,336

⁽¹³⁾ £30 per week, £50 termly retention bonus, (up to) £50 achievement bonus,'cut off' threshold of £30,000

⁽¹⁴⁾ £40 per week, £50 termly retention bonus, (up to) £50 achievement bonus, 'cut off' threshold of £30,000

⁽¹⁵⁾ £30 per week to the parent, £50 termly retention bonus, (up to) £50 achievement bonus, 'cut off' threshold of £30,000

⁽¹⁶⁾ £30 per week, £80 termly retention bonus, (up to) £140 achievement bonus, 'cut off' threshold of £30,000

⁽¹⁷⁾ £30 per week, £50 termly retention bonus, (up to) £50 achievement bonus, 'cut off' threshold of £20,000

⁽¹⁸⁾ £30 per week, £50 termly retention bonus, (up to) £50 achievement bonus, 'cut off' threshold of £25,000

⁽¹⁹⁾ Free transport, £50 termly retention and (up to) £50 achievement bonus (2 areas), £80 termly retention and (up to) £140 achievement bonus (1 area), 'cut off' threshold of £30,000

⁽²⁰⁾ £20 per week, eligible to receive discount on transport costs, no retention bonus, no achievement bonus, 'cut off' threshold of £30,000

(b) The second table shows the number of young people in receipt of education maintenance allowance by Government office region.

Region	1999–2000	2000–01	2001–02
East Midlands	258	4,104	6,009
East of England	0	2,301	4,459
London	384	12,988	23,355
North East	1,505	8,506	12,615
North West	1,690	17,917	27,438
South East	542	1,546	1,500
South West	3,046	5,890	5,775
West Midlands	772	14,857	24,616
Yorkshire and The Humber	1,536	15,001	21,569
Total	9,733	83,110	127,336

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