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Further Education

Mr. Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of (a) 16-year-olds, (b) 17-year-olds, (c) 18-year-olds, (d) 19-year-olds, (e) 20-year-olds, (f) 21-year-olds, (g) 22-year-olds and (h) 23-year-olds were in (i) full-time and (ii) part-time education in each year since 1992. [89293]

Mr. Miliband: The percentages of 16, 17 and 18-year-olds participating in full-time and part-time education, end 1991 to end 2001, are set out in the table. These are taken from the annual statistical first release, XParticipation in Education, Training and Employment by 16 to 18-Year-Olds in England". Figures for end 2001 are provisional.

Participation in Education in England

	16-year-olds		17-year-olds		18-year-olds
End of year	Full-time	Part-time	Full-time	Part-time	Full-time	Part-time
1991	66.6	9.7	48.8	13.7	28.3	13.2
1992	70.0	8.0	54.1	11.0	33.1	11.6
1993	72.6	7.5	57.5	9.7	37.0	10.3
1994	71.0	8.1	58.7	9.9	38.4	10.0
1995	70.4	7.3	58.4	8.9	39.4	9.5
1996	69.7	7.8	57.9	9.2	38.4	10.1
1997	69.4	6.7	57.4	8.4	37.7	9.4
1998	69.8	6.6	57.8	8.5	37.2	9.6
1999	71.3	6.6	58.7	8.7	37.3	9.8
2000	71.4	6.5	59.0	8.2	37.1	9.3
2001	71.2	7.3	58.4	9.6	36.6	9.9

Equivalent overall participation rates are not produced by the Department for those aged 19 and over.

Language Teaching

Mr. Brady: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills when he will introduce the new voluntary recognition system for language skills; which body will operate the system, including the setting and monitoring of standards; and what he expects the cost to be in each of the next five years. [89330]

Mr. Miliband: The voluntary recognition system will be formally introduced in 2005. Prior to that, the system will be trialled. The Department is working with a number of key partners, including the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA), the Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research (CILT) and the Nuffield Languages Programme to develop the system. We will work with the QCA in inviting the national awarding bodies to tender for the opportunity to operate the system. The level of funding will depend on the pace of implementation and the number of languages covered by the system.

School Budgets

Mr. Brady: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will list schools with sixth forms which will face a reduced budget in the next financial year as a result of decisions of the Learning and Skills Councils, giving the percentage reduction proposed in each case. [88891]

Mr. Ivan Lewis: The effect of 2003–04 sixth form allocations by the Learning and Skills Council on schools' budgets cannot be calculated at present. These allocations are added into the budget share calculated

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by the local education authority for the whole school using its own funding formula; and in doing so, the authority is permitted to make a range of adjustments, both up and down, before the total budget share for the school is finalised. Local education authorities are obliged to publish details of 2003–04 budget shares by 31 March 2003, and will be calculating them in the months leading up to that date.

The LSC allocations for 2003–04 were announced on 11 December 2002. The quantum distributed was #1.428 billion, which is 5.3 per cent. higher than the quantum for 2002–03. The allocations have not yet been finalised and are the subject of consultation with LEAs and schools. The allocations are primarily the

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responsibility of the LSC, and John Harwood, the Chief Executive of the LSC, will write to the hon. Member about them. A copy of his letter will be placed in the Libraries.

School Transport

Mr. Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what school transport costs were for each local education authority in England in the last 12 months for which figures are available. [89367]

Mr. Miliband: The following information details the home to school/college transport expenditure returned by local education authorities for 2000–01 financial year:

LEA name:	Pre-primary education	Primary education	Secondary education	Special Schools
Barking and Dagenham	0	556,272	309,210	1,197,303
Barnet	0	195,264	436,260	1,887,871
Barnsley	0	0	0	0
Bath and North East Somerset	0	418,279	979,653	733,486
Bedfordshire	0	592,000	3,542,700	2,820,000
Bexley	0	333,000	106,000	1,572,000
Birmingham	5,483	1,235,734	889,667	9,315,605
Blackburn	0	141,666	441,754	833,239
Blackpool	0	24,508	19,773	521,914
Bolton	1	107,196	153,394	577,174
Bournemouth	0	76,144	(10)65,388	733,285
Bracknell Forest	0	37,565	497,273	968,638
Bradford	1,358	1,232,478	1,941,675	1,753,978
Brent	0	457,000	476,000	1,902,000
Brighton and Hove	0	0	0	0
Bromley	23,748	551,700	348,844	1,746,803
Buckinghamshire	19,466	1,846,286	6,380,213	2,571,587
Bury	0	232,041	226,207	912,407
Calderdale	0	186,768	675,040	962,587
Cambridgeshire	105,315	1,758,565	4,235,868	2,785,303
Camden	0	0	0	0
Cheshire	0	1,674,597	4,620,374	3,130,612
City of Bristol	51,599	96,139	389,568	731,654
City of Kingston-upon-Hull	0	0	0	0
City of London	17,764	248	8,615	27,006
Cornwall	88,067	1,188,855	3,771,242	1,346,783
Coventry	42,260	118,448	374,480	970,911
Croydon	32	0	0	2,624,743
Cumbria	17,027	2,215,052	4,405,232	1,322,707
Darlington	1,459	73,727	430,277	418,231
Derby	0	453,920	173,388	1,329,306
Derbyshire	0	979,000	3,626,000	2,621,000
Devon	19	3,076,798	7,519,964	2,571,980
Doncaster	0	12,743	26	0
Dorset	4,156	1,402,700	3,768,864	2,293,919
Dudley	0	174,462	121,237	1,408,805
Durham	33,607	973,003	4,488,932	2,488,208
Ealing	0	377,776	258,043	2,814,569
East Riding of Yorkshire	0	1,089,303	2,830,130	1,899,254
East Sussex	0	368,889	2,090,370	2,459,259
Enfield	1,327	409,252	541,205	2,605,101
Essex	0	5,059,519	7,783,730	7,271,403
Gateshead	0	111,858	98,321	898,896
Gloucestershire	100,387	1,288,224	3,222,346	2,416,953
Greenwich	0	0	0	2,299,550
Hackney	1,333	0	0	0
Halton	0	421	182,418	1,108,493
Hammersmith and Fulham	0	42,605	170,421	1,485,939
Hampshire	0	2,424,000	4,470,000	5,778,000
Haringey	0	312,822	261,834	1,541,271
Harrow	0	64,742	17,504	1,960
Hartlepool	0	21,523	180,162	396,942
Havering	0	72,829	235,198	641,142
Herefordshire	78	1,409,106	1,966,239	1,031,053
Hertfordshire	0	1,991,053	4,850,372	5,995,644
Hillingdon	1,601	381,667	277,025	2,009,241
Hounslow	0	311,062	116,124	1,430,000
Isle of Wight Council	0	67,213	980,664	179,824
Isles of Scilly	0	11,076	8,462	0
Islington	0	11,250	7,224	15,239
Kensington and Chelsea	3,774	61,635	45,283	15,094
Kent	0	3,854,782	11,987,257	5,611,489
Kingston upon Thames	0	43,973	69,915	1,162,444
Kirklees	0	462,900	280,000	1,803,600
Knowsley	0	5,010	207,295	1,272,842
Lambeth	0	234,808	234,808	2,113,844
Lancashire	0	1,119,824	6,524,843	7,286,324
Leeds	0	157,465	10,138	3,949,392
Leicester	0	0	0	0
Leicestershire	0	759,261	4,315,277	4,252,856
Lewisham	47,637	37,209	54,566	2,172,244
Lincolnshire	0	2,339,989	5,917,882	4,068,068
Liverpool	0	1,319	585,579	3,274,923
Luton	67,808	121,140	33,750	1,024,430
Manchester	0	0	192,497	5,467,276
Merton	0	0	0	1,042,949
Middlesbrough	39,693	186,022	169,598	396,979
Milton Keynes	47,474	431,528	574,060	958,588
Newcastle upon Tyne	0	0	0	806,981
Newham	0	866,350	538,602	789,327
Norfolk	0	2,531,792	7,595,377	3,533,812
North East Lincolnshire	0	139,483	286,715	760,754
North Lincolnshire	0	487,060	1,073,780	839,979
North Somerset	0	615,261	1,090,804	625,292
North Tyneside	0	94,766	59,154	970,753
North Yorkshire	372,151	2,991,141	5,080,018	2,020,754
Northamptonshire	0	2,126,191	2,052,429	3,098,523
Northumberland	0	1,809,426	857,618	3,930,583
Nottingham City	0	138,216	277,021	1,374,234
Nottinghamshire	22,474	2,023,816	3,008,785	2,273,379
Oldham	17,939	113,014	109,522	1,262,509
Oxfordshire	113	3,284,713	2,895,945	3,727,772
Peterborough	0	345,015	427,518	1,107,438
Plymouth	0	288,065	835,992	1,156,850
Poole	0	109,458	444,040	671,789
Portsmouth	0	148,353	420,050	449,704
Reading	0	0	0	33,724
Redbridge	0	266,461	576,305	1,655,378
Redcar and Cleveland	8,335	56,192	77,635	2,712
Richmond upon Thames	0	0	0	0
Rochdale	100,318	1,942	224,345	1,201,082
Rochester and Gillingham	0	1,198,200	958,500	723,500
Rotherham	69,224	140,088	248,801	1,118,730
Rutland	0	178,231	503,295	167,913
Salford	0	82,739	94,559	1,073,968
Sandwell	0	271,970	427,692	1,302,821
Sefton	0	101,463	262,945	1,637,520
Sheffield	0	5,227	3,795	2,735,746
Shropshire	0	1,718,677	1,988,957	1,700,132
Slough	0	250,042	187,532	801,588
Solihull	0	516,000	601,000	562,000
Somerset	0	3,128,172	3,295,276	260,681
South Gloucestershire	0	1,348,792	541,955	428,044
South Tyneside	0	193,212	124,902	388,349
Southampton	67,718	55,825	56,838	822,903
Southend	0	23,028	137,011	1,054,754
Southwark	158,250	0	0	0
St. Helens	32,722	18,647	401,547	1,192,292
Staffordshire	0	537,456	4,710,974	3,760,251
Stockport	0	10,791	117,483	1,747,441
Stockton-on-Tees	759	393,681	393,945	680,367
Stoke on Trent	132	410,881	262,829	885,927
Suffolk	0	5,539,700	3,416,149	276,984
Sunderland	89	416	75,476	1,507,243
Surrey	147,894	2,708,624	5,476,770	6,483,764
Sutton	0	233,344	122,889	910,898
Swindon	0	367,969	367,969	1,259,761
Tameside	0	69,902	205,450	888,882
The Wrekin	0	0	5,075	0
Thurrock	0	171,626	463,070	408,451
Torbay	0	123,732	526,707	549,948
Tower Hamlets	0	12,048	108,428	2,357,473
Trafford	0	238,945	342,326	1,466,249
Wakefield	0	191,673	346,735	833,715
Walsall	136	107,069	228,402	1,148,377
Waltham Forest	1,460	1,618,318	393,881	173,305
Wandsworth	0	34,457	208,028	1,887,246
Warrington	0	182,610	635,171	823,705
Warwickshire	4,782	2,870,428	4,190,863	2,814,722
West Berkshire	6	303,410	803,145	1,420,492
West Sussex	0	433,940	2,894,622	4,299,504
Westminster	0	19,972	15,692	2,410,074
Wigan	0	33,260	282,621	1,487,741
Wiltshire	0	1,237,410	3,556,142	1,454
Windsor and Maidenhead	105	114,441	448,558	1,279,029
Wirral	0	320,236	658,174	1,314,616
Wokingham	0	43,660	679,587	999,626
Wolverhampton	0	277,966	281,431	1,304,636
Worcestershire	0	1,151,413	3,492,660	3,546,787
York	0	93,985	632,929	746,429

Source:

School Budget data for 2000–01 is taken from section 52 budget statements completed by Local Education Authorities and returned to the DfES

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