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Education Finance

Brian Cotter: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the standard spending assessment funding was per child in (a) England and (b) the North Somerset local education authority in each year since 1997. [167530]

Mr. Miliband: There have been changes to the structure of Standard Spending Assessments and their successor from 2003–04, Education Formula Spending, which make them incomparable over time: for example, several large transfers from SSA/EFS to grant funding. Only total funding per pupil (including SSA/EFS and grants) is comparable between years. Also, for 2003–04 and 2004–05, pension transfers to EFS and the Learning and Skills Council are excluded from EFS and total funding figures to enable comparison between years.
 
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Funding per pupil aged 3 to 19—Real terms at 2002–03 prices £

	North Somerset			England
	SSA/EFS	Grants(28)	Total funding	SSA/EFS	Grants(28)	Total funding
1997–98	2,510	110	2,620	2,720	110	2,830
1998–99	2,610	80	2,690	2,820	60	2,880
1999–2000	2,670	150	2,820	2,880	130	3,010
2000–01	2,730	290	3,020	2,950	290	3,240
2001–02	2,740	360	3,100	2,990	400	3,390
2002–03	2,580	580	3,170	2,880	610	3,490
2003–04	2,720	(29)560	(29)3,290	3,010	(29)580	3,590
2004–05	2,970	(30)—		3,280	(30)—

⁽²⁸⁾ Grants are all revenue grants in DfES Departmental Expenditure Limits relevant to EFS pupils aged 3–19. Education maintenance allowances (EMAs) and grants not allocated at LEA level are excluded.
⁽²⁹⁾ Provisional.
⁽³⁰⁾ Not available.
Notes:
1. Per pupil figures are rounded to the nearest £10 so may not sum.
3. The pupil numbers used are those underlying the SSA/EFS settlement calculations plus Pupil Level Annual Schools Census (PLASC) 3-year-old maintained pupils and estimated 3 to 4-year-olds funded through state support maintained and other educational institutions where these are not included in the SSA pupil numbers.
4. Real terms figures based on GDP deflators as at 26 March 2004 (2002–03 prices).

Failing Schools

Mr. Pike: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many schools in Burnley deemed to be failing since 1997 have since reached satisfactory standards. [167926]

Mr. Miliband: Three schools in Burnley have been classified by Ofsted as needing Special Measures since summer 1997 and have subsequently come out of special measures status.

Mr. Kaufman: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many schools in Manchester, Gorton deemed to be failing since 1997 have since reached satisfactory standards. [167447]

Mr. Miliband: Two schools in Manchester Gorton have been placed in special measures since 1997, an infant and a junior school which amalgamated in January 2001 and became one primary school. The resulting school remained in special measures until 2001. It was inspected by Ofsted in November 2003 and was found to be an effective and improving school with good teaching and rising standards.

Mr. Hendrick: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many schools in Preston deemed to be failing since 1997 have since reached satisfactory standards. [168127]

Mr. Miliband: Six schools in Preston have been classified by Ofsted as needing Special Measures since summer 1997 and have subsequently been restored to health. Three schools that were already in Special Measures before 1997 have been restored since.

Educational Attainment

Mr. Kaufman: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of 15 and 16-year-olds in Manchester, Gorton achieved five or more
 
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GCSEs at grades A*-C or GNVQ equivalent in each of the last seven years. [167439]

Mr. Miliband: The information requested is as follows.
Percentage of 15-year-old pupils⁽³¹⁾ achieving five or more grades A*-C Percentage

Academic year	Manchester, Gorton parliamentary constituency	England
1997	19.4	45.1
1998	26.2	46.3
1999	27.9	47.9
2000	29.8	49.2
2001	26.5	50.0
2002	34.9	51.6
2003	36.8	52.9

⁽³¹⁾ GCSE/GNVQ results are reported as standard as the results of pupils aged 15 at the start of the academic year ie 31 August and therefore reaching the end of compulsory education at the end of the school year.

Mr. Kaufman: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many and what percentage of    pupils in Manchester, Gorton reached the (a) mathematics and (b) English standard in each of the last seven years. [167448]

Mr. Miliband: The results from the 2003 National Curriculum tests showed that 75 per cent. of 11-year-olds in England reached Level 4 in English and 73 per cent. in mathematics. These results represent a significant improvement in standards—of 12 percentage points in English and 11 percentage points in mathematics—since 1997, reflecting the impact of the National Literacy and Numeracy Strategies on primary schools. We remain absolutely committed, through our new Primary Strategy, to supporting schools to achieve the ambitious targets we have set for standards of literacy and numeracy.
 
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The follow table shows the number and percentage of pupils in Manchester Gorton who have achieved Level 4 or above in the Key Stage 2 English and mathematics tests since 1997. The results for Manchester Gorton are
 
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below the national average but show significant improvements since 1997 in both English and mathematics in line with the improvements nationally.

	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
English(32)	568	548	593	621	638	688	690
Mathematics(32)	526	456	584	612	628	711	659
English(33)	53	52	56	61	62	62	64
Mathematics(33)	49	43	55	60	61	64	61

⁽³²⁾ The number of eligible pupils for the Key Stage 2 tests varies slightly from year to year
⁽³³⁾ Percentage of pupils

Mr. Collins: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of pupils in   England achieved grades A*-C at GCSE in (a) mathematics, (b) English and (c) mathematics and English in each year since 1997. [167568]

Mr. Miliband: The percentage of 15-year-old pupils achieving grades A*-C in GCSE (a) mathematics, (b) English and (c) mathematics and English are shown in the following table:
Percentage

	Mathematics	English	Mathematics and English
2003	51.1	60.2	42.9
2002	52.3	59.9	43.4
2001	50.8	58.6	41.9
2000	50.0	58.6	41.2
1999	48.6	57.8	39.8
1998	47.4	56.1	38.1
1997	46.8	54.8	36.8

Further Education (Cleethorpes)

Shona McIsaac: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many people attended (a) university and (b) further education from Cleethorpes constituency in each year since 1995. [158116]

Alan Johnson: Figures are not available by constituency. The available information is given in the tables.
Number of 18-year-old applicants, domiciled in North East Lincolnshire LEA 1 accepted through UCAS to full time undergraduate HE study, 1995–2002 entry.

Academic year	North East Lincolnshire	Humberside
1995/96	—	1,663
1996/97	—	1,714
1997/98	312	—
1998/99	306	—
1999/2000	317	—
2000/01	311	—
2001/02	339	—
2002/03	312	—

⁽³⁴⁾ Prior to 1997, North East Lincolnshire was contained within Humberside LEA on the UCAS dataset, along with the City of Kingston upon Hull, North Lincolnshire and East Riding of Yorkshire.





Number of 16 and 17-year-olds in North East Lincolnshire LEA 1 participating in full-time further education from 1995/96 to2001/02:

Academic year	16-year-olds	17-year-olds	16 and 17-year-olds
1995/96	7,300	5,200	12,500
1996/97	1,300	1,000	2,400
1997/98	1,300	1,100	2,400
1998/99	1,300	1,000	2,300
1999/2000	1,400	1,000	2,400
2000/01	1,400	1,100	2,500
2001/02	1,600	1,100	2,600

⁽³⁵⁾ Prior to 1996, North East Lincolnshire was contained within Humberside LEA along with the City of Kingston upon Hull, North Lincolnshire and East Riding of Yorkshire. Therefore, the number of 16 and 17-year-olds for the academic 1995/96 is the figure for Humberside LEA since no individual figures for the four LEAs are available.

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