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Criminal Records Bureau

Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) how many teachers were unable to gain clearance from the Criminal Records Bureau before the first day of the new school year in (a) Lancashire and (b) the North West of England; [77631]

(2) how many school days were lost due to teachers being unable to gain clearance from the Criminal Records Bureau before the first day of the new school year in the North West of England. [77632]

Mr. Miliband: The information requested is not available.

Departmental Projects (Hull, North)

Mr. McNamara: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the projects to which his Department has allocated funding in the Hull, North constituency since 1997, indicating the amount in each case. [76561]

Mr. Stephen Twigg [holding answer 28 October 2002]: The information requested has been placed in the Libraries.

Education SSA

Martin Linton: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the education SSA is per head in secondary schools in Wandsworth. [77289]

Mr. Miliband: In 2002–03 Wandsworth's Education SSA per pupil in secondary schools is 4,460.

Note:

Figure in cash terms for pupils aged 11–15—rounded to nearest #10

English/Mathematics Targets

Harry Cohen: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what special assistance she

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proposes to provide to those local education authorities whose results in English and Mathematics for 11-year-olds in 2002 fell a long way short of the Government's 2004 target; and if she will make a statement. [77340]

Mr. Miliband: Following this year's Key Stage 2 results the Department asked all LEAs to draw up specific plans to identify and provide targeted support to those schools which are underperforming—both low attaining schools and those which are not helping their children make as much progress as other similar schools. Over the next couple of months the Department is meeting with all LEAs individually to discuss these plans and the further support they need to meet the challenging targets for 2004. The National Literacy and Numeracy Strategies will continue to help LEAs improve their results, in particular by focusing low attaining and underperforming schools, improving leadership and intervention programmes for pupils who are not achieving their potential. We are allocating an additional #11 million this year to support schools make improvements in 2003.

Examinations

Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what plans he has to alter the administration of examinations in England. [76490]

Mr. Miliband: The Tomlinson report on A Level standards made a number of recommendations, which the Department accepted in full. The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority are now acting to implement these. The second stage of the Tomlinson inquiry will make further recommendations by the end of November.

Exclusion

Mr. Randall: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many pupils have been excluded from (a) state primary and (b) state secondary schools in the London Borough of Hillingdon at each of the key stages in each year since 1997. [77294]

Mr. Miliband: The available information is shown in the table. Information collected centrally on permanent exclusions does not record the Key Stage of the pupil; a breakdown of the figures by age is given as a proxy. Figures are not available centrally on fixed-term exclusions.

Maintained primary and secondary schools in the London Borough of Hillingdon:Number of permanent exclusions by age of pupils England 1996–97 to 2000–01⁽¹⁴⁾

Primary Schools (15)	Age of Pupils			Total
	6 and under	7 to 10	11 and over
1996–97
Number of permanent exclusions	2	1	0	3
Percentage of all permanent exclusions(16)	66.7	33.3	0.0	100.0
Percentage of school population (17)	0.02	0.01	0.00	0.01
1997–98
Number of permanent exclusions	0	3	0	3
Percentage of all permanent exclusions(16)	0.0	100.0	0.0	100.0
Percentage of school population (17)	0.00	0.03	0.00	0.01
1998–99
Number of permanent exclusions	0	4	0	4
Percentage of all permanent exclusions(16)	0.0	100.0	0.0	100.0
Percentage of school population(17)	0.00	0.03	0.00	0.02
1999–2000
Number of permanent exclusions	1	3	0	4
Percentage of all permanent exclusions(16)	25.0	75.0	0.0	100.0
Percentage of school population(17)	0.01	0.02	0.00	0.02
2000–01(14)
Number of permanent exclusions	4	11	0	15
Percentage of all permanent exclusions(16)	26.7	73.3	0.0	100.0
Percentage of school population(17)	0.03	0.09	0.00	0.06

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Secondary Schools (15)	Age of Pupils			Total
	11 to 13	14 to 15	16 and over
1996–97
Number of permanent exclusions	32	25	0	57
Percentage of all permanent exclusions(16)	56.1	43.9	0.0	100.0
Percentage of school population(17)	0.41	0.51	0.00	0.38
1997–98
Number of permanent exclusions	24	28	0	52
Percentage of all permanent exclusions(16)	46.2	53.8	0.0	100.0
Percentage of school population(17)	0.31	0.57	0.00	0.34
1998–99
Number of permanent exclusions	34	25	0	59
Percentage of all permanent exclusions(16)	57.6	42.4	0.0	100.0
Percentage of school population(17)	0.44	0.51	0.00	0.390
1999–2000
Number of permanent exclusions	15	22	2	39
Percentage of all permanent exclusions(16)	38.5	56.4	5.1	100.0
Percentage of school population(17)	0.18	0.43	0.08	0.24
2000–01(14)
Number of permanent exclusions	30	16	0	46
Percentage of all permanent exclusions(16)	65.2	34.8	0.0	100.0
Percentage of school population(17)	0.35	0.31	0.00	0.28

⁽¹⁴⁾ Permanent exclusions data for 2000/01 are estimated as they are known to be incomplete.

⁽¹⁵⁾ Includes middle schools as deemed.

⁽¹⁶⁾ The number of permanent exclusions expressed as a percentage of the total number.

⁽¹⁷⁾ The number of permanent exclusions expressed as a percentage of the number (headcount) of full and part-time pupils (excluding dually registered pupils in special schools) in January each year.

Source:

Annual Schools Census

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Exclusion Appeals Panels

Mr. Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what guidance has been sent by her Department to school exclusion appeals panels since 1998. [76786]

Mr. Stephen Twigg: Circular 10/99 published in July 1999 contained statutory guidance on exclusion including the working of appeal panels. Letters amending the guidance in Circular 10/99 were issued in January and August 2000 and January and June 2001.

This guidance was sent to local education authorities which are responsible in law for establishing the panels.

In addition a training pack for exclusion appeal panels was sent to all LEAs in September 2001.

Expenditure (Secondary Schools)

Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) what his estimate is of the average expenditure on (a) secondary school places per pupil in the state sector and (b) secondary school places per day pupil in the independent sector; and if he will make a statement; [75255]

(2) what his estimate is of the total local and national government expenditure, per pupil, in state secondary schools in 2001–02; and if he will make a statement. [76547]

Mr. Miliband [holding answer 24 October 2002]: For the state sector, the estimated average recurrent expenditure funded by central and local government in 2001–02 was #3,600 per pupil. Independent Schools Council figures suggest a private school recurrent spending figure of #5,400 per annum. Some caution is needed in making detailed comparisons between the sectors as it is not easy to calculate per pupil funding exactly on a like-for-like basis.

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