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Ministerial Visits (Scotland)
Pete Wishart: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many times he has visited Scotland on official duties each year since 2000; and what meetings were held on each occasion. [103610]
Mr. Charles Clarke: Since I became Secretary of State on 24 October 2002, I have visited Scotland once on 14 February 2003. While I was there I conducted a range of visits including a meeting with Cathy Jamieson MSP, Minister for Education and Young People, a tour of the Student Loan Company's offices and a meeting with Colin Ward, Chief Executive of the Student Loan Company.
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Pension Schemes
Mr. Heald: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will list the (a) funded and (b) unfunded public sector pension schemes for which his Department, its agencies and its non-departmental public bodies are responsible; when the last actuarial valuation was of each scheme; what the value was of the assets at the last actuarial valuation of each scheme; what deficit is disclosed by the last actuarial valuation of each scheme; and if he will make a statement. [104920]
Mr. Miliband: The only public service pension scheme for which this Department has responsibility is the unfunded Teachers' Pension Scheme. The Government Actuary has recently produced his report on the
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valuation of the scheme as at 31 March 2001. As part of changes made to the long term funding arrangements of the scheme, the values of both the assets and liabilities were determined at that date to be £142,880 million. As a result, the scheme has no deficit. A copy of the Government Actuary's report is available from the Library.
School Buildings
Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much money has been allocated for (a) capital repairs and (b) new buildings in (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools in the Portsmouth area in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. [104945]
Mr. Miliband: We do not hold complete information in the form requested. However, in 1997–98 the Government introduced New Deal for Schools (NDS) as a new additional programme targeted specifically at addressing the backlog of urgent repairs in school buildings that had built up after eighteen years of under-funding under the previous administration. This programme was bid based and was in addition to other capital funds made available to Portsmouth local
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education authority. NDS ran through four phases from 1997- 98 to 2000- 01. Table A shows the schools in the Portsmouth area which benefited from investment through the original NDS programme. From 2001- 02 most capital funding available for building improvements in schools has been allocated to local authorities and schools by needs-related formulae. It is for local authorities and schools to decide how their capital allocations are invested and prioritised between projects, in line with their local asset management planning. Also, from 2000–01 every school has received direct capital allocations to address their highest priorities. In addition, each year authorities have been able to bid for Basic Need funding for the provision of new pupil places. Table B shows all capital funding for school buildings allocated to Portsmouth LEA (including voluntary aided schools) since 1998–99. Looking to the future, I announced on 26 February proposals for a new approach to capital investment in a paper, "Building schools for the future". This will be a programme of rebuilding and renewal to ensure that secondary education in every part of England has facilities of 21st century standard within 10 to 15 years from 2005–06, subject to future public spending decisions. We will also aim to provide substantial investment in primary school buildings.
| £ | ||
|---|---|---|
| NDS 1 (1997–98) | ||
| Cliffdale Primary | Replacement of swimming pool | (21)210,000 |
| Mayfield | Boiler replacements | |
| Isambard Brunel Junior | Upgrade of toilets | |
| NDS 2 (1998–99) | ||
| Copnor Infant School | Installation of additional fire exit | 2,000 |
| Craneswater Junior School | Replacement of inadequate fire doors | 4,000 |
| Saxon Shore Infant | Repairs to unsafe fire doors | 6,600 |
| Waterside School | Sealing of door (fire precaution) | 500 |
| Springfield School | Installation of additional balustrade rail (safety precaution) | 1,200 |
| Arundel Court Junior School | Replacement of unreliable boiler | 15,000 |
| Corpus Christi RC Primary | Replacement of unreliable boiler | 7,000 |
| College Park Infant School | Replacement of unreliable boiler | 4,000 |
| Milton Park Infants School | Replacement of leaking flat roof | 18,000 |
| Court Lane Junior | Replacement of dilapidated Horsa kitchen- dining block | 170,000 |
| Devonshire Infant School | Renewal of leaking valley gutters | 3,600 |
| Prior Secondary | Replacement of rotting windows | 18,000 |
| College Park Infant | Replacement of dilapidated 50-year-old Horsa buildings | 250,000 |
| Craneswater Junior | Repairs to leaking walls | 13,500 |
| Arundel Court Infants School and Nursery Unit | Safety improvements to boiler | 1,700 |
| Cliffdale Primary | Replacement of unsafe electrical wiring | 55,000 |
| Springfield School | Installation of pool dosing controls | 5,000 |
| Springfield School | Repairs to fire alarm | 15,000 |
| Craneswater Junior | Replacement of inefficient boiler | 40,000 |
| St George's Beneficial | Replacement of unreliable boiler | 45,000 |
| St George's Beneficial | Replacement of deteriorating tank room floor | 500 |
| Springfield School | Securing of windows | 10,000 |
| Priory Secondary | Installation of safety barriers on footpath | 10,000 |
| Paulsgrove Primary School | Replacement of unreliable boiler | 40,000 |
| NDS 3 (1999–2000) | ||
| Court Lane Infant School | Replacement of temporary accommodation | 1,052,828 |
| Package (various schools) | Flat roofing and insulation | (21)1,456,978 |
| Mayfield School | Windows and doors framing | 606,604 |
(21) Denotes allocations made for multiple school or 'package' projects. We do not hold details of the individual schools included in these projects. Local education authorities hold details of the schools that benefited and of the value of each school's allocation.
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| Total | |
|---|---|
| 1997–98 | 3.1 |
| 1998–99 | (22)15.9 |
| 1999–2000 | 3.1 |
| 2000–01 | 5.2 |
| 2001–02 | 3.8 |
| 2002–03 | 4.3 |
| 2003–04 | 5.9 |
(22) Includes £12.4 million of Private Finance Initiative credits for Miltoncross Secondary, a newly built school.
Special Advisers
Pete Wishart: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many special advisers in the Department (a) have left and (b) will be leaving to work in Scotland for the Labour Party in the forthcoming Scottish parliamentary elections. [103611]
Mr. Charles Clarke: The rules relating to Special Advisers' political activities are set out in the Model Contract for Special Advisers. Further guidance in respect of elections for the Scottish Parliament is set out at paragraph 13 of the Guidance on Conduct for Civil Servants in UK Departments, published by the Cabinet Office on 10 March.
The reasons for a Special Adviser's resignation are a private matter between the Department and Adviser, and are therefore exempt from disclosure under paragraph 12 of the Code of Practice on Access to Information.
Standards Fund
Mr. Stevenson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much was made available to Stoke-on-Trent LEA under the Standards Fund in each year since 1999. [104999]
Mr. Miliband: The following table shows allocations for the Standards Fund for Stoke-on-Trent local education authority in 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2001–02 and 2002–03. The figures include both Government grant and local authority contributions.
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| £ | |
|---|---|
| Administrative support for small schools | 172,735 |
| Beacon schools | 56,000 |
| Best practice research scholarships | 34,335 |
| City learning centres: design and capital costs | 300,000 |
| Class size initiative | 1,165,476 |
| Developing and extending maintained nursery school services | 69,032 |
| Devolved formula capital for schools | 1,501,654 |
| Early years training and development | 67,858 |
| Education and health partnerships | 33,706 |
| Ethnic minority pupils and traveller achievement | 614,112 |
| Excellence in cities: development | 25,676 |
| Excellence in cities: excellence challenge | 12,739 |
| Excellence in cities: gifted and talented children | 361,000 |
| Excellence in cities: learning mentors and learning support units | 676,000 |
| Key Stage 3 numeracy: secondary schools conference | 14,656 |
| Literacy and numeracy: summer schools and Key Stage 3 | 132,000 |
| Local education authority music services | 238,000 |
| National grid for learning | 1,000,000 |
| New national curriculum | 90,500 |
| Maintained nursery capital | 92,200 |
| Performance management training | 207,252 |
| Pilot education maintenance allowance | 2,397,843 |
| Playing for success | 125,000 |
| Primary literacy and numeracy strategies | 860,176 |
| Qualifications | 36,429 |
| School improvement | 1,640,597 |
| School laboratories for the 21st century | 155,850 |
| School leadership | 85,985 |
| School security | 114,362 |
| Seed capital challenge | 172,790 |
| Small education action zones | 20,000 |
| Small school support fund | 86,834 |
| Social inclusion, drugs and youth | 1,067,179 |
| Special educational needs | 341,025 |
| Specialist schools | 158,386 |
| Study support | 180,886 |
| Summer schools for gifted and talented pupils | 18,000 |
| Support for parent governor representatives | 1,200 |
| Teacher incentives | 13,682 |
| Teaching assistants | 758,183 |
| Teenage pregnancies | 93,000 |
| Working environment fund | 99,860 |
| Year 6 literacy and numeracy booster classes | 247,392 |
| Total | 15,539,590 |
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