| Previous Section | Index | Home Page |
10 May 2004 : Column 49W—continued
Sexual Health
Lembit Öpik: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what measures his Department is taking to ensure that young people receive clear and accurate information in schools to enable them to make informed choices about their sexual health; and if he will make a statement. [171171]
Margaret Hodge: Teaching about sexual health and safer sex are key elements of the Government's sexual health strategy and are covered by our Sex and Relationship Education (SRE) guidance, which was sent to all schools in July 2000. All maintained secondary schools have a statutory responsibility to teach SRE. Through SRE pupils learn about sexual health, contraception and the range of advice and support services which are available. Young people should be made aware of the risks of contracting sexually transmitted infections and know about prevention, diagnosis and treatment. In addition, we have made a new resource on 'Teaching and Learning about HIV' available to all schools.
Schools (Stockton, South)
Ms Dari Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many teacher vacancies there were in Stockton, South on the latest date for which figures are available; and what steps are being taken to reduce them. [171450]
Mr. Miliband: Information on teacher vacancies is not available by constituency as it is collected at local education authority level. In January 2003, the latest information available, there were seven full-time teacher vacancies in Stockton-on-Tees local education authority.
Like other areas, since 1997 Stockton-on-Tees has benefited from the initiatives that the Government have put in place to recruit and retain teachers and to increase the number of staff supporting them in schools. Since 1997, the number of full-time equivalent regular teachers in maintained schools in the Stockton-on-Tees LEA area has risen by 110, from 1,650 to 1,760 in 2003. Over the same period, the number of full-time equivalent school support staff in the area has grown by 340 from 460 to 800 in 2003.
Ms Dari Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many teaching assistants there were in schools in Stockton South in (a) each of the last seven years and (b) on the latest date for which figures are available. [171451]
Mr. Miliband:
The following table gives the numbers of full time equivalent teaching assistants in maintained schools in the Stockton South constituency in January of each year' between 1997 and 2003, the latest year for which data are available.
10 May 2004 : Column 50W
| Number | |
|---|---|
| 1997 | 90 |
| 1998 | 90 |
| 1999 | 100 |
| 2000 | 120 |
| 2001 | 160 |
| 2002 | 110 |
| 2003 | 150 |
Source:
Annual Schools' Census
Ms Dari Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will make a statement on the effects on schools of changes since 1997 in the level of investment in school sports in Stockton South. [171470]
Mr. Stephen Twigg: The information is not held in the format requested. Within the context of the statutory National Curriculum, where Physical Education (PE) is compulsory for pupils aged five-16, it is for individual schools to use their budgets as they judge appropriate.
The Government is investing more than £1 billion in England to transform PE, school sport and club links. The funding will help deliver an ambitious Public Service Agreement target, shared with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, to increase the percentage of five-16 year olds who spend a minimum of two hours each week on high quality PE and school sport within and beyond the curriculum to 75 per cent. by 2006.
The Department is providing £751,475 to support the delivery of a School Sport Partnership in the Stockton-on-Tees area. The partnership includes five secondary and 25 primary schools and provides enhanced sports opportunities for all young people to ensure that their pupils spend a minimum of two hours a week on high quality PE and School Sport. A key objective for all School Sport Partnerships is to ensure that the improvements and enhanced opportunities that they deliver are sustainable and embedded within schools to ensure a lasting legacy. The New Opportunities Fund has provided schools in the Stockton-on-Tees LEA area with over £2.4 million specifically to enhance PE and school sport facilities.
Ms Dari Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of 15 and 16-year-olds in Stockton, South achieved five or more GCSEs at Grade A* to C or GNVQ equivalent in each of the last seven years. [171471]
Mr. Miliband: The information requested is as follows:
| Academic year | Stockton, South | England |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 42.9 | 45.1 |
| 1998 | 44.0 | 46.3 |
| 1999 | 43.6 | 47.9 |
| 2000 | 45.9 | 49.2 |
| 2001 | 49.8 | 50.0 |
| 2002 | 48.6 | 51.6 |
| 2003 | 51.8 | 52.9 |
(17) 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.
10 May 2004 : Column 51W
Ms Dari Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many schools in Stockton, South deemed to be failing since 1997 have since reached satisfactory standards. [171473]
Mr. Miliband: No schools in Stockton, South have been deemed to be failing since 1997.
Ms Dari Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many children in Stockton, South have benefited from the Excellence in Cities programme; and what the per pupil spending was in each year since the programme's inception. [171475]
Mr. Miliband: The following table shows the number of children in Stockton, South benefiting from EiC, and the annual spend per pupil for the years in question.
| Number of children | Total EiC expenditure(18)(£) | Spend per pupil (£) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000–01 | 8,196 | 574,495 | 70.09 |
| 2001–02 | 8,219 | 1,148,283 | 139.71 |
| 2002–03 | 8,238 | 1,700,191 | 206.38 |
| 2003–04 | 8,295 | 2,585,332 | 311.67 |
(18) All funding figures supplied by Stockton Finance Office.
10 May 2004 : Column 52W
The large increase in the rate of EiC funding in 2002–03 is due to the extra funding provided through the Behaviour Improvement Programme and the increase in 2003–04 is due to the introduction of the Leadership Incentive Grant.
Ms Dari Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) how much public funding money has been spent on repairing schools in Stockton South in each year since 1997; [171476]
(2) how much funding each school in Stockton South has received from the New Deal for Schools. [171474]
Mr. Miliband: The majority of capital support is allocated to schools and local education authorities (LEAs) by formula, and they decide how to invest it in line with their asset management plans. The Department does not, therefore, have complete information about capital investment at constituency level. Table A sets out the capital support given by the Government to Stockton LEA since 1997–98, in total and by programme, including devolved formula capital grants to each school. Table B shows the schools in the Stockton South constituency that benefited from investment through the New Deal for Schools (NDS) programme, which ran between 1997–98 and 2000–01.
| Type | 1997–98 | 1998–99 | 1999–2000 | 2000–01 | 2001–02 | 2002–03 | 2003–04 | 2004–05 1 | 2005–06 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assistance with AMPs | — | — | 26 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Basic L C Vap | — | — | — | — | 39 | 229 | 300 | — | — |
| Basic need | 165 | 702 | 1,209 | 1,524 | 341 | 82 | 2,069 | 3,035 | 1,393 |
| City Learning Centres | 85 | 2,381 | |||||||
| Class size initiative | — | 384 | 174 | 185 | 103 | 5 | — | — | — |
| Condition | — | — | — | — | 1,439 | 2,218 | 2,863 | — | — |
| Devolved formula | — | — | — | 1,383 | 1,118 | 1,709 | 2,662 | 2,233 | — |
| Energy | — | 64 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Modernisation (Primary) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 821 | — |
| Modernisation LEA | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 668 | — |
| Modernisation LEA | — | — | — | — | — | 769 | 1,318 | 1,336 | 1,887 |
| Modernisation VA | — | — | — | — | — | 162 | 431 | 846 | 497 |
| NDS 1 | 531 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| NDS 2 | — | 358 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| NDS 3 | — | — | 1,374 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| NDS 4 | — | — | — | 2,704 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Nursery provision | 61 | ||||||||
| Outside toilets | — | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Pathfinder schools | 61 | ||||||||
| Private finance initiative | — | — | — | — | 6,400 | — | — | — | — |
| School labs | — | — | — | 145 | 145 | — | — | — | — |
| School security | 52 | 65 | 65 | 64 | 45 | 39 | — | — | — |
| Schools access initiative | 13 | 69 | 100 | 140 | 224 | 288 | 426 | 316 | 311 |
| Seed challenge | — | — | — | 152 | 165 | 267 | 265 | 258 | — |
| Specialist schools | — | — | 450 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Staff workspace | — | — | — | — | — | 59 | 113 | — | — |
| Supplementary credit approvals | 87 | 73 | 2,012 | 84 | 338 | — | — | — | — |
| Targeted capital funding | — | — | — | — | — | 653 | 1,411 | 1,570 | — |
| Voluntary aided school grant | 135 | 213 | 1,110 | 1,914 | 923 | 846 | — | — | — |
| Total | 983 | 1,938 | 6,520 | 7,541 | 13,661 | 7,387 | 11,858 | 11,083 | 4,088 |
(19) Further allocations to be announced.
(20) For NDS 1 grant was allocated for Stockton LEA-wide projects, part of which was used for work at each of three schools in the Stockton South constituency. The LEA will be able to say how much was allocated to each school.
(21) Allocations shown are the totals for packages of projects within Stockton LEA which included the schools shown that are in the Stockton South constituency. The LEA will be able to say how much was allocated to each school.
10 May 2004 : Column 53W
| Next Section | Index | Home Page |