House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 30 Apr 2003 (pt 10)

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Nannies (Registration Scheme)

Vera Baird: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what plans he has to introduce a comprehensive registration scheme for nannies. [108428]

Maria Eagle: There are no current plans to introduce compulsory registration for nannies. However, my noble Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sure Start has received a number of proposals and representations on this issue which she is looking at.

Accessibility Strategies

Jim Dobbin: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills which Local Education Authorities in England and Wales have not published accessibility strategies and accessibility plans under sub-sections (2) and (9) of section 28D of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. [109419R]

Mr. Miliband: The Planning Duties under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 require local education authorities (LEAs) in England to develop accessibility strategies and schools to develop accessibility plans. LEAs must make their strategies available for inspection to interested parties at reasonable times. Schools must publish information about their accessibility plans in their governors' report to parents. LEAs strategies and school plans were required to be in place by 1 April 2003.

The Department for Education and Skills does not collect the information requested centrally. However, as part of their regular inspections of LEAs and schools, Ofsted will monitor the implementation of these Planning Duties. The National Assembly is responsible for the implementation of the Planning Duties in Wales.

Accountancy Services

Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the total cost to his Department was for accountancy services in 2002–03. [109486]

Mr. Stephen Twigg: The total of costs classified as accountancy services in the accounts of the Department in 2002–03 is £69,584.00.

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City Academies

Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills where the accounts of city academies will be recorded. [110056]

Mr. Miliband: As Academies will be registered charities as well as companies, their accounts will be recorded with both Companies House and The Charity Commission. Academies will also keep a record of their accounts at their registered offices.

Mr. Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many schools have become City Academies in each year since 1997, broken down by local education authority. [110140]

Mr. Miliband: Three Academies opened in 2002 in Bexley, Haringey and Middlesbrough. Nine further Academies will open in September 2003. These are in Brent, Bristol, Ealing, Manchester, Middlesbrough, Nottingham, Walsall and two in Southwark.

Class Sizes

Mr. Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the average class size in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools, broken down by school year and LEA, was in each year since 1997. [110214]

Mr. Stephen Twigg: The available information has been placed in the House of Commons Library.

Departmental Funding

Mr. Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many bodies received some or all of their funding from his Department; how much funding was received by each body; and who the chief executive of each body was in each year since 1997. [110134]

Mr. Charles Clarke: The information on funding of executive non- departmental public bodies is published annually in the Departmental Report. Information on the chief executives is contained in the individual annual reports published by each of the executive non-departmental public bodies. Information on other bodies is not available, except at disproportionate cost.

Departmental Staff

Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many staff are employed by his Department. [106279]

Mr. Stephen Twigg: I refer the hon. Member to the reply given by my hon. Friend the Minister of State, Cabinet Office on 4 April 2003, Official Report, column 891–92W.

Domestic Repair Work

Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many (a) plumbers, (b) joiners and (c) electricians were employed doing domestic repair work in Greater London in 1993; and how many there are now. [108383]

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Mr. Ivan Lewis: Figures for those employed solely doing domestic repair work in the occupations listed are not collected.

However, the Labour Force Survey estimates the numbers employed for all types of work undertaken in London in 1993 were 11,000 plumbers, 19,000 joiners and 19,000 electricians; and in 2003 there are 16,000 plumbers, 18,000 joiners and 23,000 electricians.

Education Spending

Mr. Bacon: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the total budget was for each school in (a) Norfolk, (b) Suffolk, (c) Kingston-upon-Hull and (d) Durham in each year since 1977. [110253]

Mr. Miliband: The information requested is contained in tables, copies of which have been placed in the Library.

Mr. Bacon: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the total budget is for each school in (a) Norfolk, (b) Suffolk, (c) Kingston upon Hull and (d) Durham for the financial year 2003–04; and what the projected total budget is for each school in Norfolk, showing projected deficits for the subsequent financial years in (i) 2004–05, (ii) 2005–06 and (iii) 2006–07. [110254]

Mr. Miliband: The information requested is not yet available. The Department is in the process of collecting the data relating to the 2003–04 financial year. I shall write to the hon. Member when the information for 2003–04 is to hand.

The information requested for financial years 2004–05 to 2006–07 is not due to be collected by the Department until March of those years.

Mr. Bacon: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the amount spent per pupil is in the financial year 2003–04 for each school in (a) Norfolk, (b) Suffolk, (c) Kingston upon Hull and (d) Durham. [110256]

Mr. Bacon: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the total budget was for each local education authority in England for each year since 1997, showing (a) the amount and (b) the percentage of the total LEA budget held at the centre in each case, and (i) the amount and (ii) the percentage of the total LEA budget handed on to schools. [110257]

Mr. Miliband: The information requested has been placed in the Libraries.

Examination Results

Mr. Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what (1) the breakdown of grades achieved by students who sat the GCSE (a) English, (b) mathematics and (c) science examination prior to reaching school year 11 was in each year since 1997; [110091]

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(a)

(b)

(3) how many children sat the GCSE (a) English, (b) mathematics and (c) science examination prior to reaching school year 11 in each year since 1997, broken down by (i) school year and (ii) local education authority; [110093]

(4) what the breakdown of grades achieved by students who sat a GCSE examination in a foreign language prior to reaching school year 11 was in each year since 1997. [110099]

Mr. Miliband: The information has been placed in the Library.

Excellence in Cities

Mr. Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many excellence in cities projects in England (a) opened, (b) closed and (c) were operating in each year since 1997, broken down by local education authority. [110143]

Mr. Miliband [holding answer 28 April 2003]: The EiC programme was launched in 1999—there were no programmes running in either 1997 or 1998. No EiC partnership has closed.

The programme was introduced in three phases.

Phase 1 began in September 1999 with 25 LEAs. These were Knowsley, Liverpool, Manchester, Salford, Bradford, Leeds, Rotherham, Sheffield, Birmingham, Camden, Corp of London, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Haringey, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth, Lewisham, Newham, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Wandsworth, Westminster.

Phase 2 in September 2000 extended the programme to 23 additional authorities: Halton, Rochdale, Sefton, St. Helens, Wirral, Gateshead, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, Redcar and Cleveland, South Tyneside, Stockton-on-Tees, Sunderland, Kingston upon Hull, Solihull, Stoke-on-Trent, Leicester, Nottingham, Barking and Dagenham, Brent, Ealing, Bristol

Phase 3 in September 2001 again extended the programme to include 10 additional authorities: Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Oldham, Barnsley, Doncaster, Sandwell, Wolverhampton, Luton, Enfield, Hounslow.

September 2001 also saw the inclusion of Excellence Clusters in the programme to tackle smaller pockets of deprivation. Further Clusters have since been established in the following authorities:

2001

Lancashire(2), Tameside, Cumbria, Kirklees(2), Walsall, Coventry, Croydon, Portsmouth, Kent,

2002

Thurrock, Barnet, Durham, Cheshire, Derby, Buckinghamshire, Hillingdon, Lancashire, Milton Keynes, Norwich, Peterborough, Stockport, Wigan. In addition Preston Education Action Zone transformed to a cluster.

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2003

From September further clusters will be created in the following authorities: Kent(3), Lincolnshire(3), Northamptonshire, Essex , Derbyshire, Havering, Bexley, Swindon and North Lincolnshire. The current Phase 2 Solihull Partnership will convert to a cluster.

In addition:

Five Education Action Zones will transform into clusters:

Croydon (New Addington), Grimsby, Herefordshire, Trafford and Weston.

2004

In January a further six Zones will transform into clusters:

East Basildon, East Brighton, Halifax, Plymouth, Thetford and Wigan.

Mr. Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what funding has been provided to each Excellence in Cities project in each year since 1997, broken down by local education authority. [110145]

Mr. Miliband [holding answer 28 April 2003]: The main Excellence in Cities programme now covers 58 local education authority areas. Smaller pockets of deprivation are covered by Excellence Clusters in 37 authorities.

The tables which have been placed in the Library show the funding allocated to LEAs since the programme began in 1999 for:

EiC phase 1, 2 and 3 partnerships, and

LEAs with an Excellence Cluster.

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