| Previous Section | Index | Home Page |
4 May 2004 : Column 1416W—continued
Computers for Schools
Mr. Kilfoyle:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much public funding has been
4 May 2004 : Column 1417W
spent on computers for schools in each of the last seven years in (a) Liverpool, (b) Manchester, (c) Leeds and (d) Sheffield. [166962]
Mr. Miliband: Schools in Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield local education authorities have benefited from the funding through the Standards Fund grant for ICT (including match funding from the LEA) as follows:
| Allocation to: | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liverpool LEA | Manchester LEA | Leeds LEA | Sheffield LEA | |
| 1998–99 | 978,576 | 983,605 | 1,700,000 | 1,200,000 |
| 1999–2000 | 1,050,000 | 1,410,000 | 1,350,000 | 900,000 |
| 2000–01 | 2,096,082 | 1,861,602 | 2,986,463 | 1,899,247 |
| 2001–02 | 2,306,630 | 2,012,866 | 3,356,591 | 2,242,424 |
| 2002–03 | 3,247,326 | 2,932,949 | 4,687,707 | 3,997,782 |
| 2003–04 | 3,229,701 | 2,880,827 | 4,762,382 | 3,078,495 |
| 2004–05 | 4,120,244 | 3,682,324 | 6,139,762 | 3,969,335 |
Mr. Neil Turner: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much public funding has been spent on computers for schools in Wigan in each of the last seven years. [169289]
Mr. Charles Clarke: My Department does not collect information on school spend on computers at constituency level. However, in the last seven years schools in Wigan LEA have benefited from the following funding through the Standards Fund grant for ICT (including match funding from the LEA).
| Allocation to Wigan LEA (£) | |
|---|---|
| 1998–99 | 685,947 |
| 1999–2000 | 675,000 |
| 2000–01 | 1,328,513 |
| 2001–02 | 1,483,483 |
| 2002–03 | 2,141,147 |
| 2003–04 | 2,557,655 |
| 2004–05 | 2,775,768 |
Computers within Reach Programme
Mr. Pike: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many (a) teachers and (b) families in Burnley have benefited from the Computers within Reach programme. [167933]
Mr. Charles Clarke: The Computers within Reach (CWR) scheme closed on 31 October 2001 having delivered over 24,000 recycled computers to people in 22 pilot areas, at a cost of £7.1 million over two years. Those eligible were in receipt of certain working age benefits or a State Pension with minimum income guarantee.
At the same time as funding was made available for the Computers within Reach scheme, funding was also provided for the Computers for Teachers programme. For teachers who met certain criteria, this programme subsidised the cost of a computer. It was subsequently replaced by the current Laptops for Teachers scheme which dispensed with subsidies, and through which sufficient funding will be provided to enable two thirds of teachers to receive a laptop by March 2006.
4 May 2004 : Column 1418W
Burnley was not one of the pilot areas for the CWR scheme.
Mr. Hendrick: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many (a) teachers and (b) families in Preston have benefited from the Computers within Reach programme. [168120]
Mr. Charles Clarke: The Computers within Reach (CWR) scheme closed on 31 October 2001 having delivered over 24,000 recycled computers to people in 22 pilot areas, at a cost of £7.1 million over two years. Those eligible were in receipt of certain working age benefits or a State Pension with minimum income guarantee.
At the same time as funding was made available for the Computers within Reach scheme, funding was also provided for the Computers for Teachers programme. For teachers who met certain criteria, this programme subsidised the cost of a computer. It was subsequently replaced by the current Laptops for Teachers scheme which dispensed with subsidies, and through which sufficient funding will be provided to enable two thirds of teachers to receive a laptop by March 2006.
Preston was not one of the pilot areas for the CWR scheme.
Jim Dobbin: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many (a) teachers and (b) families in Heywood and Middleton have benefited from the Computers within Reach programme. [168508]
Mr. Charles Clarke: The Computers within Reach scheme closed on 31 October 2001 having delivered over 24,000 recycled computers to people in 22 pilot areas, at a cost of £7.1 million over two years. Those eligible were in receipt of certain working age benefits or a state pension with minimum income guarantee.
At the same time as funding was made available for the Computers within Reach scheme, funding was also provided for the Computers for Teachers programme. For teachers who met certain criteria, this programme subsidised the cost of a computer. It was subsequently replaced by the current Laptops for Teachers scheme which dispensed with subsidies, and through which sufficient funding will be provided to enable two thirds of teachers to receive a laptop by March 2006.
Of the 24,000 computers delivered through the Computers within Reach scheme, approximately 2,200 were for people in the Manchester area including those in and around Heywood and Middleton.
Departmental Expenditure (Entertainment)
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what his latest estimate is of the amount spent by his Department on official entertainment in each year from 1996–97 to 2004–05. [168996]
Mr. Charles Clarke:
All expenditure on official entertainment is made in accordance with departmental guidance on financial procedures and propriety, based on the principles set out in Government Accounting. The following table sets out such spending in £000s for DfES and its predecessor Department in the relevant years.
4 May 2004 : Column 1419W
| Department for Education and Employment | Department for Education and Skills | |
|---|---|---|
| 1996–97 | 24 | — |
| 1997–98 | 21 | — |
| 1998–99 | 31 | — |
| 1999–2000 | 21 | — |
| 2000–01 | 20 | — |
| 2001–02 | — | 11 |
| 2002–03 | — | 16 |
| 2003–04(17) | — | 18 |
| 2004–05 | — | Not available |
(17) Estimated outturn.
Departmental Grants
Mr. Collins: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many bodies receive some or all of their funding from his Department; what amount of funding was received by each body in each year since 1997; and who the chief executive is of each body. [167570]
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 issued by each of the executive non-departmental public bodies. Information on other bodies is not available, except at disproportionate cost.
Earn As You Learn
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of children he expects will be persuaded to remain at school beyond their GCSEs through the earn as you learn scheme. [169482]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: Extensive independent evaluation of the Education Maintenance Allowance pilots shows that EMA increased participation by eligible 16-year-olds in education by 5.9 percentage points. Judged against historic trends, this represents a major increase. Based on evidence from the pilots, the evaluators predict that in the first year of the national scheme, some 35,000 additional young people will participate in post-16 education in colleges and schools as a result of EMA, and that this will rise to over 70,000 per year when EMA is fully in place.
Education Psychologists
Mrs. Brooke: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many education psychologists were working (a) in each local education authority and (b) in total in each year since 1997. [168634]
Mr. Miliband:
The following table shows the number of education psychologists employed in each local education authority in England in each year from 1997 to 2003, the latest information available.
4 May 2004 : Column 1420W
Source:
Annual survey of teachers in service and teacher vacancies (618g)
4 May 2004 : Column 1422W
| Next Section | Index | Home Page |