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Education Spending Formula

Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will list for each local education authority the education formula spending share (a) before and (b) after the impact of floors and ceilings for 2004–05. [147993]

Mr. Miliband: The following table provides the education formula spending share for each authority before and after the schools formula spending share floor and ceiling of 5 per cent. per pupil and 6.8 per cent. per pupil are applied and the LEA formula spending share floor and ceiling of 3 per cent. and 3.75 per cent. are applied. These figures are as announced at the provisional local government settlement.

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£ million

	2004–05
	EFSS before floors and ceilings	EFSS after floors and ceilings
City of London	1.764	1.302
Camden	100.120	100.916
Greenwich	161.585	160.700
Hackney	142.929	140.163
Hammersmith and Fulham	81.081	82.024
Islington	120.778	120.072
Kensington and Chelsea	50.580	54.988
Lambeth	150.161	150.404
Lewisham	165.109	165.212
Southwark	173.607	172.032
Tower Hamlets	197.838	188.854
Wandsworth	128.368	126.896
Westminster	91.243	90.506
Barking and Dagenham	114.109	115.035
Barnet	171.688	171.198
Bexley	131.098	134.381
Brent	158.819	158.393
Bromley	154.848	162.787
Croydon	188.848	190.281
Ealing	169.680	167.005
Enfield	179.326	183.868
Haringey	142.057	144.595
Harrow	115.267	115.053
Havering	125.699	130.444
Hillingdon	149.017	147.900
Hounslow	134.449	134.342
Kingston upon Thames	70.300	69.904
Merton	86.351	85.364
Newham	219.323	219.210
Redbridge	150.033	149.909
Richmond upon Thames	71.882	71.850
Sutton	104.151	105.644
Waltham Forest	143.293	146.315
Birmingham	669.571	650.132
Coventry	167.999	167.248
Dudley	167.200	162.610
Sandwell	181.061	173.303
Solihull	114.340	114.340
Walsall	161.220	152.513
Wolverhampton	142.789	138.272
Knowsley	99.718	100.390
Liverpool	271.638	271.996
St. Helens	96.271	96.272
Sefton	148.992	148.992
Wirral	176.199	176.369
Bolton	155.564	151.168
Bury	97.015	97.015
Manchester	260.186	260.186
Oldham	143.382	138.967
Rochdale	127.920	126.304
Salford	119.915	119.915
Stockport	137.019	137.069
Tameside	125.655	125.655
Trafford	112.925	112.938
Wigan	163.876	163.919
Barnsley	116.031	116.031
Doncaster	165.404	165.475
Rotherham	148.802	148.802
Sheffield	258.301	258.209
Bradford	299.793	288.749
Calderdale	113.205	113.145
Kirklees	219.389	218.940
Leeds	362.994	362.994
Wakefield	169.734	168.416
Gateshead	95.173	95.181
Newcastle upon Tyne	130.952	131.564
North Tyneside	96.317	96.313
South Tyneside	84.239	84.179
Sunderland	158.906	158.906
Isles of Scilly	1.773	1.678
Bath and North East Somerset	79.391	79.391
City of Bristol	169.802	166.648
North Somerset	89.368	89.216
South Gloucestershire	125.169	125.041
Hartlepool	55.189	54.519
Middlesbrough	75.990	74.771
Redcar and Cleveland	82.467	82.520
Stockton-on-Tees	102.211	102.237
City of Kingston-upon-Hull	144.446	144.573
East Riding of Yorkshire	158.835	158.586
North East Lincolnshire	92.080	92.167
North Lincolnshire	85.175	85.175
North Yorkshire	283.087	283.102
York	76.022	76.036
Bedfordshire	204.933	205.485
Luton	121.135	121.056
Buckinghamshire	248.235	248.099
Milton Keynes	125.343	125.049
Derbyshire	364.793	365.664
Derby	127.965	127.959
Dorset	175.648	175.363
Poole	59.763	59.791
Bournemouth	68.580	68.872
Durham	253.727	253.776
Darlington	53.014	53.014
East Sussex	222.316	236.535
Brighton and Hove	101.411	108.842
Hampshire	587.937	606.795
Portsmouth	91.764	93.604
Southampton	110.462	113.528
Leicestershire	293.424	294.246
Leicester	172.869	172.802
Rutland	17.207	16.807
Staffordshire	403.262	403.191
Stoke on Trent	129.956	128.872
Wiltshire	217.519	217.111
Swindon	96.478	97.258
Bracknell Forest	52.563	52.563
Windsor and Maidenhead	65.606	65.512
West Berkshire	82.575	81.204
Reading	61.992	59.826
Slough	76.380	76.437
Wokingham	78.514	77.008
Cambridgeshire	263.679	263.139
Peterborough	101.333	101.086
Cheshire	334.188	334.188
Halton	72.080	72.170
Warrington	100.320	100.323
Devon	321.672	321.601
Plymouth	126.934	127.087
Torbay	61.837	61.784
Essex	658.698	701.999
Southend	87.400	92.273
Thurrock	80.789	84.096
Herefordshire	84.055	84.055
Worcestershire	253.776	253.498
Kent	688.677	725.321
Medway	144.235	148.638
Lancashire	593.907	595.392
Blackburn	93.106	92.580
Blackpool	74.614	74.572
Nottinghamshire	373.900	374.433
Nottingham City	147.408	144.519
Shropshire	135.222	135.205
The Wrekin	90.911	90.907
Cornwall	245.872	245.863
Cumbria	248.261	248.047
Gloucestershire	277.292	277.292
Hertfordshire	557.018	564.551
Isle of Wight Council	67.160	67.874
Lincolnshire	336.164	335.663
Norfolk	374.454	375.347
Northamptonshire	337.605	337.429
Northumberland	156.863	156.702
Oxfordshire	287.653	287.762
Somerset	237.086	237.617
Suffolk	319.484	319.484
Surrey	487.405	487.007
Warwickshire	249.596	249.140
West Sussex	348.263	361.527

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English and Mathematics Tests

Harry Cohen: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of pupils achieved level 4 or above in Key Stage 2 test results for 11-year-olds in (a) English and (b) mathematics in 2003 in the London boroughs of (i) Redbridge and (ii) Waltham Forest. [147393]

Mr. Miliband: The following table shows the percentage of pupils who achieved the expected level (Level 4) or above in the 2003 National Curriculum Key Stage 2 assessment tests in (a) English and (b) mathematics in the London boroughs of (i) Redbridge and (ii) Waltham Forest.

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	(a) English	(b) Mathematics
(i) Redbridge	78	73
(ii) Waltham Forest	69	68

Further Eudcation (Plumbing-related Crafts)

Dr. Pugh: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many students in England attended further education classes in (a) plumbing and (b) plumbing-related crafts in each of the last three years. [148046]

Alan Johnson: The numbers of learners enrolled on plumbing and related courses at further education sector colleges in the three years to 2001/02 are shown in the table below. Due to the variety of plumbing and related courses on offer, it is not possible to distinguish between those courses in plumbing and those in plumbing related crafts.

Learners enrolled on plumbing and related courses at further education sector colleges in England: 1999/2000 to 2001/02thousands

	Learners
1999/2000	21.8
2000/01	23.9
2001/02	29.8

Source:

LSC Individualised Student Record.

Higher Education

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will make a statement on the link between applications to universities and social background of students. [147018]

Alan Johnson: The social class gap among those entering higher education is unacceptably wide. The most recent UCAS figures show that in 2001 71 per cent. of applicants came from the top three social classes and only 29 per cent. from the bottom three.

The main problem is prior attainment. 19 per cent. of 18-year-olds from the three lower social classes achieve two or more A Levels, compared to 50 per cent. from the three higher social classes.

The Government have put in place a range of policies to raise attainment and aspirations. These were summarised in "Widening participation in higher education", published in April 2003. A copy is available in the House of Commons Library.

Information Technology

Mr. Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many teachers were provided with information technology equipment to use in their own home in the last year for which figures are available. [146659]

Mr. Charles Clarke: The Laptops for Teachers initiative provided 68,507 teachers with a laptop computer for use at home and school during the 2002/03

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financial year. To date, the initiative has provided another 60,235 teachers with laptops in the current financial year.

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