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Golden Hello

Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills for what reasons RE has not been included in the Golden Hello scheme. [70631]

Mr. Miliband: Golden Hellos are available for the five secondary shortage subjects in which the Government aim to recruit the most trainee teachers each year and in which demand for teachers is greatest.

Free School Meals

Mr. Coleman: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of school children are entitled to free school meals in each (a) Government office region and (b) local education authority. [68904]

Mr. Miliband: The information requested is shown in the table.

Maintained nursery, primary, secondary and all special schools:School meal arrangements as at January 2001, by local education authority

	Percentage of day pupils(18) known to be eligible for free school meals
	Nursery and primary schools(19)	Secondary schools(19)	Special schools
England	17.6	15.8	38.6
North East	24.0	21.1	50.9
Darlington	17.3	15.8	48.9
Durham	19.8	17.9	57.1
Gateshead	24.1	21.6	46.2
Hartlepool	25.2	25.8	41.4
Middlesbrough	29.1	35.8	60.9
Newcastle upon Tyne	34.4	25.3	67.1
North Tyneside	21.0	17.6	33.5
Northumberland	14.3	12.1	41.4
Redcar and Cleveland	23.7	22.8	36.9
South Tyneside	28.8	24.1	55.9
Stockton-on-Tees	20.1	20.0	61.4
Sunderland	31.4	30.0	47.9
North West	21.7	20.3	46.4
Blackburn with Darwen	25.2	26.0	42.8
Blackpool	25.8	22.0	44.3
Bolton	17.8	15.5	37.7
Bury	14.6	15.0	25.4
Cheshire	11.9	10.0	35.6
Cumbria	14.5	12.4	40.5
Halton	26.6	24.0	47.3
Knowsley	37.0	45.0	62.9
Lancashire	16.1	14.9	46.0
Liverpool	37.2	36.0	61.1
Manchester	42.7	43.8	56.7
Oldham	23.3	21.9	47.1
Rochdale	23.5	25.2	51.5
Salford	30.3	25.6	33.6
Sefton	19.3	19.8	41.4
St. Helens	20.5	19.2	46.9
Stockport	13.1	14.0	32.5
Tameside	19.3	20.1	41.9
Trafford	14.6	15.4	32.3
Warrington	11.2	10.1	32.2
Wigan	16.3	14.7	46.1
Wirral	29.7	26.7	51.9
Yorkshire and the Humber	18.3	17.2	41.3
Barnsley	21.8	24.7	49.7
Bradford	22.1	26.8	42.9
Calderdale	17.7	16.6	36.7
Doncaster	20.3	17.9	44.1
East Riding of Yorkshire	10.3	8.6	36.9
Kingston Upon Hull, City of	25.9	27.0	43.5
Kirklees	18.7	18.0	50.3
Leeds	19.1	18.0	35.6
North East Lincolnshire	23.6	20.6	51.2
North Lincolnshire	15.3	13.5	38.7
North Yorkshire	8.9	6.4	26.5
Rotherham	19.6	15.8	44.6
Sheffield	21.5	20.0	47.6
Wakefield	17.5	17.0	40.5
York	11.1	8.9	32.0
East Midlands	13.6	12.6	35.6
Derby	20.3	20.2	35.6
Derbyshire	12.8	10.7	38.0
Leicester	23.9	22.3	38.0
Leicestershire	7.8	6.9	47.4
Lincolnshire	6.6	8.4	31.5
Northamptonshire	9.9	10.7	29.8
Nottingham	32.3	37.2	44.0
Nottinghamshire	13.4	12.7	34.4
Rutland	5.0	5.0	3.0
West Midlands	19.1	17.4	38.9
Birmingham	32.8	33.2	43.6
Coventry	19.3	20.1	43.0
Dudley	14.3	15.0	38.9
Herefordshire	8.1	7.9	17.4
Sandwell	23.5	24.3	47.6
Shropshire	10.2	8.1	25.0
Solihull	12.6	12.0	33.2
Staffordshire	12.1	9.2	36.6
Stoke-on-Trent	28.5	24.3	50.3
Telford and Wrekin	20.4	20.0	36.3
Walsall	18.0	17.2	46.4
Warwickshire	10.3	7.6	25.0
Wolverhampton	22.3	22.4	45.3
Worcestershire	9.0	10.3	32.6
East of England	12.4	10.5	28.6
Bedfordshire	11.1	10.1	29.3
Cambridgeshire	9.5	7.8	22.0
Essex	11.7	10.0	29.9
Hertfordshire	9.1	7.4	25.9
Luton	21.3	26.9	38.2
Norfolk	14.3	10.7	30.2
Peterborough	22.0	17.5	36.6
Southend-on-Sea	19.2	13.1	35.1
Suffolk	11.9	10.5	27.7
Thurrock	15.3	15.3	26.5
London	25.9	25.8	45.7
Inner London	38.2	42.1	53.7
Camden	42.3	28.9	39.5
City of London	33.8	0.0	0.0
Hackney	39.6	44.4	59.1
Hammersmith and Fulham	43.2	33.1	54.5
Haringey	36.9	40.2	52.6
Islington	41.3	45.6	55.8
Kensington and Chelsea	38.2	31.8	7.0
Lambeth	37.7	41.7	66.2
Lewisham	32.7	39.6	57.2
Newham	34.2	44.9	26.5
Southwark	35.9	52.8	49.6
Tower Hamlets	54.3	65.1	78.3
Wandsworth	28.9	26.8	48.2
Westminster	36.8	32.9	51.7
Outer London	18.9	18.3	40.4
Barking and Dagenham	23.2	26.0	34.8
Barnet	17.0	15.7	38.1
Bexley	14.0	12.7	37.5
Brent	26.9	24.5	43.3
Bromley	13.9	11.8	34.4
Croydon	20.9	19.4	43.0
Ealing	24.0	31.2	47.6
Enfield	22.1	20.3	39.5
Greenwich	35.5	33.6	59.5
Harrow	12.0	17.5	32.0
Havering	11.9	11.1	30.9
Hillingdon	14.0	14.8	38.0
Hounslow	22.0	19.7	45.3
Kingston upon Thames	6.9	9.1	22.4
Merton	15.1	16.3	30.6
Redbridge	15.8	15.2	34.5
Richmond upon Thames	10.5	15.7	30.3
Sutton	12.3	7.8	42.7
Waltham Forest	26.6	29.9	44.8
South East	10.8	9.1	29.4
Bracknell Forest	6.9	4.8	18.6
Brighton and Hove	18.6	17.6	36.0
Buckinghamshire	5.6	6.7	36.5
East Sussex	14.7	13.1	35.4
Hampshire	9.0	6.6	22.7
Isle of Wight	18.8	16.7	36.2
Kent	13.1	9.8	33.9
Medway	12.9	9.8	29.8
Milton Keynes	13.2	11.9	45.7
Oxfordshire	9.1	9.5	22.6
Portsmouth	17.1	16.1	34.6
Reading	14.9	13.1	29.0
Slough	15.6	15.5	35.0
Southampton	22.7	17.2	38.3
Surrey	7.4	6.1	20.7
West Berkshire	6.4	4.7	21.1
West Sussex	7.6	6.9	24.7
Windsor and Maidenhead	6.6	5.6	40.2
Wokingham	3.8	4.7	35.6
South West	12.0	9.7	30.3
Bath and North East Somerset	10.5	7.9	25.2
Bournemouth	9.8	10.7	37.4
Bristol, City of	22.6	20.5	40.6
Cornwall	13.1	12.2	29.1
Devon	12.4	10.2	26.3
Dorset	4.6	6.2	19.9
Gloucestershire	9.7	7.0	26.0
Isles of Scilly	6.4	6.3	0.0
North Somerset	10.0	7.8	33.7
Plymouth	20.7	14.0	38.8
Poole	6.2	7.2	25.7
Somerset	10.7	9.0	28.2
South Gloucestershire	8.2	7.5	25.7
Swindon	12.5	9.4	35.0
Torbay	19.4	13.9	30.4
Wiltshire	8.8	6.5	27.9

⁽¹⁸⁾ Excludes boarders

⁽¹⁹⁾ Includes middle schools as deemed

Source:

Annual Schools' Census

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Annual School Census

Mr. Wiggin: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what personal information the annual school census collects. [69009]

Mr. Miliband: The Pupil Level Annual Schools Census (PLASC) was introduced for all maintained primary, secondary and special schools and City Technology

17 Jul 2002 : Column 375W

Colleges in January 2002. The following information was collected for each pupil on the school's register on the Census day:

Unique pupil number (UPN)


Full name


Date of birth


Gender


Home postcode


Date of entry


National Curriculum year


Enrolment status


Courses of study (for post-16 pupils only). and the following information for each pupil permanently excluded from the school during the previous school year:


UPN


Full name


Date of birth


Gender


Date of exclusion


Ethnic group


Stage on SEN Code of Practice scale (at the time of exclusion).

From January 2003 information will also be collected on whether or not registered pupils are in local authority care on the Census day, and whether they have been in care at any time since joining that school.

Mr. Liddell-Grainger: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what safeguards there will be in the school census following the inclusion in the list of children in care. [67587]

Mr. Miliband: The Pupil Level Annual Schools Census (PLASC), which was introduced for all maintained primary, secondary and special schools and City Technology Colleges in January 2002, will from January 2003 also collect details of whether or not pupils are in local authority care on the Census day, and whether they have been in care at any time since joining that school.

Information about the safeguards in place to ensure that there is no unauthorised access to PLASC data was provided in the answers to previous questions from the hon. Member on 18 March 2002, Official Report, column 112W and on 10 April 2002, Official Report, columns 115–16W. All of these safeguards will continue to apply, and to be kept under review in the light of advice from the Information Commissioner and other developments.

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