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Education Funding

Mr. Ivan Henderson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much additional funding has been given to (a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools in the Harwich constituency in addition to their SSA, since 1997. [107689]

Mr. Miliband: It is not possible to identify precisely how much additional funding has been given to Harwich schools since 1997. The following table shows how much recurrent and capital funding was allocated to Essex primary and secondary schools between 1998–99 and 2002–03, the years for which data are available on a like-for-like basis. The Department allocates capital funding for schools at local education authority level (LEA) level, without specifying separate amounts for primary and secondary schools.

This is equivalent in 2002–03 to an average of £82,377 revenue for a primary school and £306,329 revenue for a secondary school, but funding for individual schools depends on decisions taken by the local education authority.

Revenue and Capital Grant—Primary and Secondary£ million

	1998–99	2002–03	Cash change
Total Revenue Grant (Primary)	2.4	40.2	+37.8
Total Revenue Grant (Secondary)	1.6	24.2	+22.6
Total Capital Grant (Primary and Secondary)	13.8	74.6	+60.8

Note:

1. Figures reflect all revenue and capital grants in DfES's Departmental Expenditure Limits relevant to primary and secondary pupils (excluding EMA and a handful of others where it is not possible to get figures on a comparable basis over time).

2. Grants relevant to more than one sector have been notionally split (on a very rough ratio 60:40 primary:secondary)

3. Figures are rounded to the nearest 0.1m.

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Jeff Ennis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the spending per head on pupils in (a) Barnsley and (b) Doncaster was in each year since 1992. [107701]

Mr. Miliband: The information requested is contained in the following table:

Barnsley LEA and Doncaster LEA—Average expenditure per pupil

	Barnsley			Doncaster
	Pre- primary and primary	Secondary	Pre-primary, primary and secondary	Pre-primary and primary	Secondary	Pre- primary, primary and secondary
1992–93	2,340	3,340	2,720	2,310	3,490	2,820
1993–94	2,290	3,220	2,650	2,270	3,200	2,680
1994–95	2,210	3,180	2,590	2,360	3,130	2,710
1995–96	2,100	2,800	2,370	2,180	2,880	2,480
1996–97	2,070	2,700	2,310	2,200	3,010	2,530
1997–98	2,030	2,760	2,310	2,250	2,950	2,530
1998–99	2,150	2,750	2,380	2,230	2,940	2,510
1999–2000	2,410	2,870	2,590	2,380	3,000	2,640
2000–01	2,570	3,040	2,760	2,460	3,270	2,810
2001–02	2,800	3,220	2,970	2,720	3,540	3,080

Notes:

1. Net Current Expenditure (NCE) includes expenditure within schools and also that incurred centrally by LEAs.

2. Real Terms figures are adjusted to 2001–02 prices using the March 2003 GDP deflators.

3. Pre-primary, primary and secondary column contains the per pupil costs across all three phases of education. The figure is not a 'sum' but a weighted average of the previous two columns figures.

4. Figures rounded to the nearest 10.

5. 'SEN Schools' expenditure not included because it distorts the unit costs and can make meaningful comparison difficult.

6. Financial data are drawn from the RO1 forms up to 1998–99 and from the DfES Section 52 outturn statements from 1999–2000.

7. Pupil data are drawn from the Annual Schools Census adjusted to be on a financial year basis.

Exhibitions

Mr. Yeo: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will list events at which his Department and each agency and non-departmental public body for which his Department is responsible have exhibited in each of the last three years, stating for each (a) the purpose of exhibiting, (b) the cost of exhibiting and (c) the number of staff attending for the exhibition. [107623]

Mr. Stephen Twigg: The Department organises a large number of events for different target audiences and purposes each year, ranging from small scale workshops to introduce practitioners to new procedures or initiatives, to larger scale events to promote policy initiatives or present the bigger picture of the Department's activities to external partners and opinion formers.

Examples of these during the past three years range from a series of small local events to disseminate good practice in meeting the skills needs of employers, to major events such as the Education Show.

Records of all such events sponsored by the Department are not held centrally and the information could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Health Education

Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much his Department spent on (a) health and (b) diabetes educational materials for schools in each year since 1997. [107731]

Mr. Miliband: The Department does not keep a central record of expenditure on educational materials. We support a variety of programmes and initiatives to enhance education about health and healthy living. For example, with the Department of Health we have jointly funded the National Healthy Schools programme, providing £27 million since it began in 1999. We have also produced a number of good practice booklets for teachers to help them ensure the health of pupils; for example, on healthy school lunches, first aid and health and safety. The Department has not produced education materials specifically about diabetes.

Investors in People

Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what assessment he has made of the relationship between schools having Investors in People status and educational achievement; and if he will make a statement. [104959]

Mr. Stephen Twigg: There is good evidence that Investors in People supports school improvement. An NFER study in June 2000 found a clear positive link

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between achievement of the standard and Ofsted's assessment of teaching quality. For this reason, Investors enjoys the support of key national partners, including Ofsted. The great majority of schools which have achieved the standard say that it has directly contributed to raising pupil achievement, through a more focused approach to training and development. This view seems to be shared by schools of all shapes and sizes.

Iraq (Military Action)

Mr. Paul Marsden: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what guidance he has given to schools in Shropshire in terms of the military action in Iraq and (a) racist incidents, (b) emotional support from teachers to pupils, (c) teachers' responses to questions by pupils, (d) how the citizenship curriculum covers the conditional legal issues of war and (e) how teachers are expected to assist children with armed forces personnel relatives. [107200]

Mr. Stephen Twigg: My Department has not given any specific guidance to schools about military action in Iraq because advice is already available to them through a range of relevant material from the Department, the Service Children's Education Agency (SCE), and the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority. Advice on dealing with racist incidents can be found in the updated pack "Bullying—don't suffer in silence" (first issued in December 2001) and at www.qca.org.uk/ca/inclusion/respect for all/. Citizenship coverage of issues surrounding war can be found at www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/schemes2/citizenship/cit117. The SCE provides advice to forces personnel on education issues and has recently issued a deployment pack to local education authorities in areas, including Shropshire, where there are likely to be numbers of children from service families.

Private Finance Initiative

Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will list the successful capital bids under the Private Finance Initiative; and if he will explain the rationale behind the decisions on successful bids. [107374]

Mr. Miliband [holding answer 4 April 2003]: I refer my hon. Friend to the Departmental Press Notice 2003/0055 issued on 31 March 2003, which set out those LEAs prioritised for support. These projects were prioritised against the criteria issued to all LEAs in September 2002, a copy of which is available via www.teachernet.gov.uk.

Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what plans he has to hold a further round of bids for PFI Capital expenditure for (a) rebuilding and (b) redeveloping schools. [108113]

Mr. Miliband: I announced in a written statement on 26 February proposals for a new approach to capital investment in school buildings from 2005–06, including the use of private finance initiative (PFI) credits. The document '"Building Schools for the Future" gives further details of these proposals, which are the subject of a consultation until 31 May.

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The Government commit themselves in "Building Schools for the Future" to a programme of rebuilding and renewal to ensure that secondary education in every part of England has facilities of 21st-Century standard. The aim of this programme will be to deliver this goal successfully for every secondary pupil within 10 to 15 years from 2005–06, subject to public spending decisions. We propose to allocate PFI credits from 2005–06 as part of this wider, strategic targeting of groups of schools. I also announced on 31 March, as part of the allocation of PFI credits for 2004–05, four Building Schools for the Future pathfinder projects in Bradford, Bristol, Greenwich and Sheffield—worth £290 million in total. These will test new procurement and delivery methods.

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