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School Buildings

Mr. Phil Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many and what percentage of schools in England and Wales were built during the 1960s and 1970s, broken down by (a) local education authority, (b) the total amount of outstanding maintenance for each school and (c) the perceived lifetime of each of these schools at the time of construction. [87226]

Mr. Miliband: The data that have been collected from authorities in connection with asset management plan appraisal do not show these age bands. Many schools have estates comprising numbers of blocks of different ages. Maintenance costs in the data cover both the backlog and requirements over a five year period from the date of assessment. Most of these maintenance assessments were carried out two to three years ago and do not reflect the effect of subsequent revenue and capital spending in reducing maintenance requirements. The DfES does not hold information on the perceived lifetime of each of the schools at the time of construction.

School Funding

Mr. Brady: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to his oral answer to the hon. Member for Ashford on 9 December 2002, Official Report, column 28, whether all schools will be fully funded in respect of the cost of payments to teachers on the upper spine of performance related pay. [87200]

Mr. Miliband: Threshold payments constitute point 1 of the upper pay scale and the threshold is fully funded. #90 million has been ring-fenced this year for performance pay, including the progression from upper pay scale 1 to upper pay scale 2. Sixty per cent. of the cost of a performance point grant for heads, deputies and assistant heads will be funded through a dedicated performance pay grant. Next year, at least #150 million

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will be ring-fenced for performance pay. Schools can also use their general budgets to award performance pay if they wish to. Education standard spending has increased by #1.3 billion this year, and is continuing to increase over the next three years.

School Laboratories

Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what programmes are in place between school science and design technology departments and local industry to obtain hardware for school laboratories and workshops. [85409]

Margaret Hodge: Nationally, through Science Year, we have secured over #4 million worth of science equipment and resources for schools from partners such as Intel, Pfizer, the Gatsby Charitable Foundation and the Association for Science Education. Highlights include an Intel Digital Microscope for every maintained primary and secondary school and an electronic whiteboard to every school with a science advanced skills teacher.

At local level, through education and business partnerships, we encourage schools and firms to work together in ways which best meet their joint needs. This can range from scientists and engineers helping with out of school clubs, to providing other resources, including hardware, where local manufacturers of the specialist equipment needed for science and design and technology are able and willing to do so.

From April 2001, the LSC assumed responsibility, for ensuring the provision of education/business link activity, including KS4 work experience and professional development placements (formerly teacher placements), in each of the 47 LSC areas.

Dr. Iddon: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what action he has taken to monitor the effectiveness of the School Laboratories for the 21st Century scheme. [85675]

Margaret Hodge: The #60 million capital funding for the School Laboratories for the 21st Century scheme was spread over two years, with construction works needing to be completed by 31 August 2002. Over the next 12 months an evaluation report will be prepared covering a sample of the 149 participating local education authorities. This will provide details of how the funding has been invested, including what the balance is between newly constructed and refurbished laboratories, and an early indication of what impact this has had on educational standards.

School Transport

Mr. Brady: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of school budgets was spent on school transport in each local education authority area in the last 12 months. [87207]

Mr. Miliband: The following table provides the latest available information. It shows expenditure on school transport as a percentage of the local education authority's gross expenditure.

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LEA Section 52 Outturn Statement 2000–01—home to school/college transport as a percentage of gross expenditure before recharges—as reported by LEAs

LEA name Pre-primary Primary Secondary Special All schools

Barking and Dagenham 0.0 1.3 0.8 19.0 2.4

Barnet 0.0 0.3 0.6 16.6 1.7

Barnsley 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Bath and North East Somerset 0.0 1.2 2.6 14.5 2.8

Bedfordshire 0.0 1.0 3.4 17.2 3.8

Bexley 0.0 0.7 0.2 18.3 1.9

Birmingham 0.0 0.5 0.4 16.5 1.9

Blackburn 0.0 0.4 1.5 10.8 1.8

Blackpool 0.0 0.1 0.1 9.1 1.0

Bolton 0.0 0.2 0.3 7.4 0.6

Bournemouth 0.0 0.3 0.2 13.3 1.4

Bracknell Forest 0.0 0.2 2.6 21.4 3.4

Bradford 0.0 1.1 1.6 14.3 1.9

Brent 0.0 0.7 0.9 15.6 2.1

Brighton and Hove 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Bromley 0.7 0.9 0.5 14.6 1.9

Buckinghamshire 0.7 2.2 6.5 13.0 5.3

Bury 0.0 0.6 0.7 13.8 1.8

Calderdale 0.0 0.4 1.5 20.4 1.9

Cambridgeshire 2.0 1.8 4.5 16.9 4.2

Camden 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Cheshire 0.0 1.4 3.6 18.6 3.5

City of Bristol 0.5 0.1 0.6 4.9 0.8

City of Kingston-upon-Hull 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

City of London 26.6 0.0 20.3 21.0 4.1

Cornwall 1.5 1.3 3.9 23.1 3.2

Coventry 1.5 0.2 0.5 7.3 1.0

Croydon 0.0 0.0 0.0 12.3 1.7

Cumbria 0.5 2.2 4.0 21.5 3.6

Darlington 0.1 0.4 2.4 12.3 2.2

Derby 0.0 0.9 0.4 17.9 1.8

Derbyshire 0.0 0.7 2.6 15.4 2.3

Devon 0.0 2.5 6.2 14.2 4.9

Doncaster 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Dorset 0.2 2.4 4.4 16.3 4.7

Dudley 0.0 0.3 0.2 14.7 1.3

Durham 0.8 0.9 4.6 13.6 3.5

Ealing 0.0 0.6 0.5 19.2 2.6

East Riding of Yorkshire 0.0 1.7 4.3 17.5 4.1

East Sussex 0.0 0.4 2.5 12.8 2.6

Enfield 0.0 0.6 0.8 19.1 2.2

Essex 0.0 1.9 2.9 20.2 3.5

Gateshead 0.0 0.2 0.2 11.6 1.2

Gloucestershire 1.2 1.2 2.8 13.7 2.8

Greenwich 0.0 0.0 0.0 15.4 1.7

Hackney 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Halton 0.0 0.0 0.7 20.8 2.2

Hammersmith and Fulham 0.0 0.1 0.6 16.8 2.4

Hampshire 0.0 1.0 2.1 14.7 2.5

Haringey 0.0 0.5 0.6 12.0 1.7

Harrow 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1

Hartlepool 0.0 0.1 0.9 10.9 1.4

Havering 0.0 0.1 0.5 16.4 0.9

Herefordshire 0.0 4.2 6.7 28.7 6.6

Hertfordshire 0.0 1.0 2.0 15.6 2.6

Hillingdon 0.1 0.7 0.5 16.4 2.2

Hounslow 0.0 0.7 0.2 15.9 1.7

Isle of Wight Council 0.0 0.4 2.8 4.8 2.1

Isles of Scilly 0.0 2.1 1.3 0.0 1.6

Islington 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.0

Kensington and Chelsea 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3

Kent 0.0 1.4 4.1 10.9 3.4

Kingston upon Thames 0.0 0.2 0.3 19.8 2.2

Kirklees 0.0 0.6 0.4 16.7 1.5

Knowsley 0.0 0.0 0.6 11.2 1.7

Lambeth 0.0 0.4 0.7 15.7 2.2

Lancashire 0.0 0.5 2.9 17.0 3.0

Leeds 0.0 0.1 0.0 26.8 1.4

Leicester 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Leicestershire 0.0 0.7 3.1 26.7 3.4

Lewisham 0.6 0.1 0.1 15.2 1.8

Lincolnshire 0.0 2.0 4.3 18.9 4.5

Liverpool 0.0 0.0 0.5 15.0 1.5

Luton 2.9 0.2 0.1 15.1 1.3

Manchester 0.0 0.0 0.2 19.5 2.7

Merton 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.4 1.5

Middlesbrough 10.4 0.5 0.6 6.8 1.2

Milton Keynes 1.2 0.9 1.6 10.8 2.0

Newcastle upon Tyne 0.0 0.0 0.0 9.2 0.7

Newham 0.0 1.1 0.7 13.3 1.3

Norfolk 0.0 1.8 5.7 19.3 4.6

North East Lincolnshire 0.0 0.4 0.8 20.6 1.5

North Lincolnshire 0.0 1.5 3.3 28.0 3.4

North Somerset 0.0 1.8 2.9 12.3 3.0

North Tyneside 0.0 0.2 0.1 13.4 1.3

North Yorkshire 8.1 2.9 4.3 13.5 4.4

Northamptonshire 0.0 1.8 1.4 17.6 2.5

Northumberland 0.0 3.9 1.1 30.8 4.7

Nottingham City 0.0 0.2 0.6 18.3 1.5

Nottinghamshire 0.5 1.3 1.9 15.2 2.2

Oldham 0.7 0.2 0.2 13.8 1.3

Oxfordshire 0.0 3.1 2.6 22.7 4.1

Peterborough 0.0 0.9 1.0 18.9 2.2

Plymouth 0.0 0.6 1.5 11.9 1.9

Poole 0.0 0.5 1.9 13.1 2.3

Portsmouth 0.0 0.4 1.3 7.0 1.3

Reading 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.5 0.1

Redbridge 0.0 0.5 1.0 14.6 2.0

Redcar and Cleveland 1.4 0.2 0.3 0.1 0.2

Richmond upon Thames 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Rochdale 2.0 0.0 0.5 14.8 1.5

Rochester and Gillingham 0.0 2.1 1.6 14.4 2.3

Rotherham 4.7 0.2 0.4 11.8 1.2

Rutland 0.0 2.8 6.4 17.6 5.5

Salford 0.0 0.2 0.2 10.3 1.2

Sandwell 0.0 0.4 0.7 11.5 1.4

Sefton 0.0 0.2 0.4 15.9 1.6

Sheffield 0.0 0.0 0.0 16.3 1.2

Shropshire 0.0 3.7 3.9 22.9 5.0

Slough 0.0 0.9 0.7 15.2 2.1

Solihull 0.0 1.1 1.3 10.0 1.7

Somerset 0.0 3.4 3.5 2.5 3.3

South Gloucestershire 0.0 2.4 1.1 7.3 2.1

South Tyneside 0.0 0.6 0.4 8.3 1.0

Southampton 1.9 0.1 0.2 9.6 1.0

Southend 0.0 0.1 0.4 16.1 1.5

Southwark 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1

St. Helens 1.7 0.0 1.1 16.6 1.9

Staffordshire 0.0 0.4 2.8 14.3 2.6

Stockport 0.0 0.0 0.2 22.0 1.6

Stockton-on-Tees 0.1 0.9 1.0 8.8 1.6

Stoke on Trent 0.0 0.8 0.6 10.1 1.5

Stockport 0.0 0.0 0.2 22.0 1.6

Suffolk 0.0 4.9 2.2 2.1 3.2

Sunderland 0.0 0.0 0.1 15.2 1.2

Surrey 1.4 1.5 3.4 17.7 3.8

Sutton 0.0 0.6 0.3 14.0 1.5

Swindon 0.0 1.0 1.2 14.7 2.5

Tameside 0.0 0.2 0.5 9.0 1.2

The Wrekin 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Thurrock 0.0 0.5 1.9 13.9 1.7

Torbay 0.0 0.6 2.0 12.0 2.2

Tower Hamlets 0.0 0.0 0.2 17.4 1.6

Trafford 0.0 0.5 0.7 13.9 1.9

Wakefield 0.0 0.3 0.6 8.2 1.0

Walsall 0.0 0.2 0.3 9.6 1.0

Waltham Forest 0.0 2.7 1.0 0.8 1.7

Wandsworth 0.0 0.1 0.6 11.3 1.9

Warrington 0.0 0.5 1.6 14.3 1.9

Warwickshire 0.1 3.0 4.3 15.9 4.5

West Berkshire 0.0 1.1 2.3 24.1 3.6

West Sussex 0.0 0.3 2.2 15.8 2.5

Westminster 0.0 0.1 0.0 28.5 2.9

Wigan 0.0 0.0 0.5 15.9 1.3

Wiltshire 0.0 1.3 4.0 0.0 2.4

Windsor and Maidenhead 0.0 0.5 1.5 25.6 3.1

Wirral 0.0 0.5 0.9 9.2 1.5

Wokingham 0.0 0.2 2.2 14.9 2.7

Wolverhampton 0.0 0.5 0.5 15.8 1.6

Worcestershire 0.0 1.4 3.3 20.2 3.8

York 0.0 0.3 2.3 14.1 2.4

LEA name	Pre-primary	Primary	Secondary	Special	All schools
Barking and Dagenham	0.0	1.3	0.8	19.0	2.4
Barnet	0.0	0.3	0.6	16.6	1.7
Barnsley	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Bath and North East Somerset	0.0	1.2	2.6	14.5	2.8
Bedfordshire	0.0	1.0	3.4	17.2	3.8
Bexley	0.0	0.7	0.2	18.3	1.9
Birmingham	0.0	0.5	0.4	16.5	1.9
Blackburn	0.0	0.4	1.5	10.8	1.8
Blackpool	0.0	0.1	0.1	9.1	1.0
Bolton	0.0	0.2	0.3	7.4	0.6
Bournemouth	0.0	0.3	0.2	13.3	1.4
Bracknell Forest	0.0	0.2	2.6	21.4	3.4
Bradford	0.0	1.1	1.6	14.3	1.9
Brent	0.0	0.7	0.9	15.6	2.1
Brighton and Hove	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Bromley	0.7	0.9	0.5	14.6	1.9
Buckinghamshire	0.7	2.2	6.5	13.0	5.3
Bury	0.0	0.6	0.7	13.8	1.8
Calderdale	0.0	0.4	1.5	20.4	1.9
Cambridgeshire	2.0	1.8	4.5	16.9	4.2
Camden	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Cheshire	0.0	1.4	3.6	18.6	3.5
City of Bristol	0.5	0.1	0.6	4.9	0.8
City of Kingston-upon-Hull	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
City of London	26.6	0.0	20.3	21.0	4.1
Cornwall	1.5	1.3	3.9	23.1	3.2
Coventry	1.5	0.2	0.5	7.3	1.0
Croydon	0.0	0.0	0.0	12.3	1.7
Cumbria	0.5	2.2	4.0	21.5	3.6
Darlington	0.1	0.4	2.4	12.3	2.2
Derby	0.0	0.9	0.4	17.9	1.8
Derbyshire	0.0	0.7	2.6	15.4	2.3
Devon	0.0	2.5	6.2	14.2	4.9
Doncaster	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Dorset	0.2	2.4	4.4	16.3	4.7
Dudley	0.0	0.3	0.2	14.7	1.3
Durham	0.8	0.9	4.6	13.6	3.5
Ealing	0.0	0.6	0.5	19.2	2.6
East Riding of Yorkshire	0.0	1.7	4.3	17.5	4.1
East Sussex	0.0	0.4	2.5	12.8	2.6
Enfield	0.0	0.6	0.8	19.1	2.2
Essex	0.0	1.9	2.9	20.2	3.5
Gateshead	0.0	0.2	0.2	11.6	1.2
Gloucestershire	1.2	1.2	2.8	13.7	2.8
Greenwich	0.0	0.0	0.0	15.4	1.7
Hackney	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Halton	0.0	0.0	0.7	20.8	2.2
Hammersmith and Fulham	0.0	0.1	0.6	16.8	2.4
Hampshire	0.0	1.0	2.1	14.7	2.5
Haringey	0.0	0.5	0.6	12.0	1.7
Harrow	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.1
Hartlepool	0.0	0.1	0.9	10.9	1.4
Havering	0.0	0.1	0.5	16.4	0.9
Herefordshire	0.0	4.2	6.7	28.7	6.6
Hertfordshire	0.0	1.0	2.0	15.6	2.6
Hillingdon	0.1	0.7	0.5	16.4	2.2
Hounslow	0.0	0.7	0.2	15.9	1.7
Isle of Wight Council	0.0	0.4	2.8	4.8	2.1
Isles of Scilly	0.0	2.1	1.3	0.0	1.6
Islington	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.0
Kensington and Chelsea	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3
Kent	0.0	1.4	4.1	10.9	3.4
Kingston upon Thames	0.0	0.2	0.3	19.8	2.2
Kirklees	0.0	0.6	0.4	16.7	1.5
Knowsley	0.0	0.0	0.6	11.2	1.7
Lambeth	0.0	0.4	0.7	15.7	2.2
Lancashire	0.0	0.5	2.9	17.0	3.0
Leeds	0.0	0.1	0.0	26.8	1.4
Leicester	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Leicestershire	0.0	0.7	3.1	26.7	3.4
Lewisham	0.6	0.1	0.1	15.2	1.8
Lincolnshire	0.0	2.0	4.3	18.9	4.5
Liverpool	0.0	0.0	0.5	15.0	1.5
Luton	2.9	0.2	0.1	15.1	1.3
Manchester	0.0	0.0	0.2	19.5	2.7
Merton	0.0	0.0	0.0	10.4	1.5
Middlesbrough	10.4	0.5	0.6	6.8	1.2
Milton Keynes	1.2	0.9	1.6	10.8	2.0
Newcastle upon Tyne	0.0	0.0	0.0	9.2	0.7
Newham	0.0	1.1	0.7	13.3	1.3
Norfolk	0.0	1.8	5.7	19.3	4.6
North East Lincolnshire	0.0	0.4	0.8	20.6	1.5
North Lincolnshire	0.0	1.5	3.3	28.0	3.4
North Somerset	0.0	1.8	2.9	12.3	3.0
North Tyneside	0.0	0.2	0.1	13.4	1.3
North Yorkshire	8.1	2.9	4.3	13.5	4.4
Northamptonshire	0.0	1.8	1.4	17.6	2.5
Northumberland	0.0	3.9	1.1	30.8	4.7
Nottingham City	0.0	0.2	0.6	18.3	1.5
Nottinghamshire	0.5	1.3	1.9	15.2	2.2
Oldham	0.7	0.2	0.2	13.8	1.3
Oxfordshire	0.0	3.1	2.6	22.7	4.1
Peterborough	0.0	0.9	1.0	18.9	2.2
Plymouth	0.0	0.6	1.5	11.9	1.9
Poole	0.0	0.5	1.9	13.1	2.3
Portsmouth	0.0	0.4	1.3	7.0	1.3
Reading	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.5	0.1
Redbridge	0.0	0.5	1.0	14.6	2.0
Redcar and Cleveland	1.4	0.2	0.3	0.1	0.2
Richmond upon Thames	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Rochdale	2.0	0.0	0.5	14.8	1.5
Rochester and Gillingham	0.0	2.1	1.6	14.4	2.3
Rotherham	4.7	0.2	0.4	11.8	1.2
Rutland	0.0	2.8	6.4	17.6	5.5
Salford	0.0	0.2	0.2	10.3	1.2
Sandwell	0.0	0.4	0.7	11.5	1.4
Sefton	0.0	0.2	0.4	15.9	1.6
Sheffield	0.0	0.0	0.0	16.3	1.2
Shropshire	0.0	3.7	3.9	22.9	5.0
Slough	0.0	0.9	0.7	15.2	2.1
Solihull	0.0	1.1	1.3	10.0	1.7
Somerset	0.0	3.4	3.5	2.5	3.3
South Gloucestershire	0.0	2.4	1.1	7.3	2.1
South Tyneside	0.0	0.6	0.4	8.3	1.0
Southampton	1.9	0.1	0.2	9.6	1.0
Southend	0.0	0.1	0.4	16.1	1.5
Southwark	3.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1
St. Helens	1.7	0.0	1.1	16.6	1.9
Staffordshire	0.0	0.4	2.8	14.3	2.6
Stockport	0.0	0.0	0.2	22.0	1.6
Stockton-on-Tees	0.1	0.9	1.0	8.8	1.6
Stoke on Trent	0.0	0.8	0.6	10.1	1.5
Stockport	0.0	0.0	0.2	22.0	1.6
Suffolk	0.0	4.9	2.2	2.1	3.2
Sunderland	0.0	0.0	0.1	15.2	1.2
Surrey	1.4	1.5	3.4	17.7	3.8
Sutton	0.0	0.6	0.3	14.0	1.5
Swindon	0.0	1.0	1.2	14.7	2.5
Tameside	0.0	0.2	0.5	9.0	1.2
The Wrekin	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Thurrock	0.0	0.5	1.9	13.9	1.7
Torbay	0.0	0.6	2.0	12.0	2.2
Tower Hamlets	0.0	0.0	0.2	17.4	1.6
Trafford	0.0	0.5	0.7	13.9	1.9
Wakefield	0.0	0.3	0.6	8.2	1.0
Walsall	0.0	0.2	0.3	9.6	1.0
Waltham Forest	0.0	2.7	1.0	0.8	1.7
Wandsworth	0.0	0.1	0.6	11.3	1.9
Warrington	0.0	0.5	1.6	14.3	1.9
Warwickshire	0.1	3.0	4.3	15.9	4.5
West Berkshire	0.0	1.1	2.3	24.1	3.6
West Sussex	0.0	0.3	2.2	15.8	2.5
Westminster	0.0	0.1	0.0	28.5	2.9
Wigan	0.0	0.0	0.5	15.9	1.3
Wiltshire	0.0	1.3	4.0	0.0	2.4
Windsor and Maidenhead	0.0	0.5	1.5	25.6	3.1
Wirral	0.0	0.5	0.9	9.2	1.5
Wokingham	0.0	0.2	2.2	14.9	2.7
Wolverhampton	0.0	0.5	0.5	15.8	1.6
Worcestershire	0.0	1.4	3.3	20.2	3.8
York	0.0	0.3	2.3	14.1	2.4

Source:

LEA Section 52 (Outturn) Statement 2000–01 and is expressed in percentage terms of the total LEA (gross) expenditure.

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