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Education/Employment Statistics (Bootle)
Mr. Benton: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many residents of Bootle have undertaken apprenticeships in each of the last five years. [172782]
Alan Johnson:
The information requested is not available at parliamentary constituency level. Nor is the information available on a consistent geographical basis over the last five years. However, the table shows the number of starts on Advanced Modern Apprenticeships and Foundation Modern Apprenticeships in Greater
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Merseyside Learning and Skills Council (LSC) area between April 2001 and the end of July 2003, as well as the number of starts from April 98 to March 2001 in the four TECs that amalgamated to become Greater Merseyside LSC.
| Time period—TEC/LSC | Advanced MAs | Foundation MAs |
|---|---|---|
| April 1998 to March 1999 | ||
| CEWTEC * | 1,400 | 300 |
| Merseyside | 2,400 | 1,200 |
| St. Helens CCTE | 300 | 100 |
| North and Mid Cheshire * | 1,200 | 200 |
| April 1999 to March 2000 | ||
| CEWTEC * | 1,000 | 900 |
| Merseyside | 2,600 | 3,500 |
| St. Helens CCTE | 300 | 400 |
Failing Schools
Mr. Ben Chapman: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many schools in Wirral, South deemed to be failing since 1997 have since reached satisfactory standards. [173630]
Mr. Miliband: No schools in Wirral, South have been found to be failing since 1997.
FE Colleges
Clive Efford: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what steps he is taking to assist (a) recruitment and (b) retention of staff in further education colleges. [173896]
Alan Johnson: Further education colleges are independent corporations which set their own pay and recruitment arrangements. However, we are increasing the total funding for FE by £1.2 billion between 2002–03 and 2005–06 (19 per cent. in real terms) and increasing flexibility in the use of this money. This will give colleges more scope to meet local recruitment and retention needs.
We also support colleges through the following specific recruitment and retention initiatives:
In designated shortage subject areas: Golden Hellos (one-off payments) to new teachers (1,961 individuals benefited to date) and Repayment of Teacher Loans over 10 years (233 benefited to date).
A pilot Training Bursary Scheme of £6,000 is in place to attract new staff into the profession (6,655 benefited to date and 2,000 allocated for 2004–05).
The newly launched Key Worker Living programme provides eligible FE teachers with equity loans to help with high housing costs in London, the South East, and Eastern regions.
Through the new Centre for Excellence in Leadership, the Leadership Development Framework, and the Work Shadowing Scheme, development opportunities are being extended, to ensure that talented staff are able to advance their careers.
Further Education Colleges (Salford)
Ian Stewart:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many people in the Eccles constituency he expects to stay in education as a result of the introduction of education maintenance allowances;
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and if he will provide additional funding to further education colleges in the City of Salford to support additional students. [173132]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: The DfES does not hold information on student numbers for individual constituencies. However, we estimate that there will be about 3,900 extra sixteen year olds in the North West Region in further education this September who would not be participating without EMA. Salford is an EMA pilot area and at present there are 1,200 students in receipt of EMA.
The 2002 Spending review settlement allows for an expansion in the numbers of young people in FE. The additional funding takes account of the impact of EMA in further education colleges.
Higher Education (North West)
Helen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what recent discussions he has had on the links between industry and higher education which relate to the development of the Omega site in Warrington; and if he will make a statement. [171015]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: The Secretary of State has not been involved in any discussions on this issue. The Learning and Skills Council and Warrington Borough Council have been chairing a working group looking at skills needs in relation to the site (the Omega Skills Challenge Group). The group includes representatives of local higher education institutions. This is a prudent measure, and does not pre-empt any decision on the planning application to develop the site.
Housing Costs
Clive Efford: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what assistance is given to schools in areas where the cost of housing has been identified as a barrier to recruiting staff, with particular reference to (a) newly qualified teachers, (b) experienced staff and (c) senior managers. [173897]
Mr. Miliband:
The overall school and LEA funding system recognises the higher costs of recruiting and retaining staff in some areas by giving these LEAs, including inner London LEAs like Greenwich, additional resource through an Area Cost Adjustment.
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Teachers in London, the South East and Eastern regions will now be potentially eligible for assistance with housing costs through the new Key Worker Living Scheme.
Teachers are able to apply for this new scheme which builds on the foundations laid by the Starter Homes Initiative which since September 2001 has been helping key workers to buy homes in areas where high house prices undermine recruitment and retention.
We have identified the need to assist those potential future leaders who wish to remain in London but may have otherwise chosen to leave as a result of prohibitive housing costs. Over the next two years we will be aiming to assist 1,000 of these teachers by offering equity loans of up to £100,000 to help them purchase property within travelling distance of their schools. In addition, there will also be another strand to the scheme which will make available equity loans of up to £50,000 to qualifying experienced teachers. Finally, newly qualified teachers will not be excluded and will be eligible to receive support through the Shared Ownership and Intermediate Renting strands of the new scheme.
The statutory pay arrangements for teachers give significant discretion to schools to award recruitment and retention incentives and benefits to any grade of teacher where they consider the circumstance justify it.
Liverpool Schools
Mr. Wareing: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) how many (a) new local authority schools and (b) school extensions and modernisations in Liverpool have been sanctioned by his Department since 1997; and at what cost; [173664]
(2) what the total amount of financial aid provided to Liverpool City Council by his Department in terms of grants and the funding of capital projects was in each year since 1997. [173661]
Mr. Miliband: We do not hold information on details of investment in school buildings. The majority of capital funding is now allocated to local authorities and schools by needs-related formulae. Investment decisions are made locally in line with priorities agreed in the authority's asset management plan. Information on details of investment may be held locally. The following table shows capital allocations in total and by programme given by the Government to Liverpool local education authority since 1997–98.
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| Type | Funding type | 2001–02 | 2002–03 | 2003–04 | 2004–05(39) | 2005–06(39) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Additional NDS Grant (615) | Grant | 200 | — | — | — | — |
| Assistance with AMPs | Grant | — | — | — | — | — |
| Basic L C Vap | Grant | 190 | 1,089 | 1,390 | — | — |
| Basic Need | Supported Borrowing | 2,946 | 994 | 253 | 468 | 937 |
| City Learning Centres | Grant | 2,948 | — | — | — | — |
| Class Size initiative | Grant | 151 | 17 | — | — | — |
| Condition | Grant | 2,386 | 3,435 | 4,518 | — | — |
| Devolved Formula | Grant | 2,859 | 4,339 | 6,671 | 3,461 | — |
| Early Excellence Centre | Grant | 377 | — | — | — | — |
| Energy | Grant | — | — | — | — | — |
| Modernisation (Primary) | Grant | — | — | — | 1,528 | — |
| Modernisation LEA | Grant | — | — | — | 1,051 | — |
| Modernisation LEA | Supported Borrowing | — | 1,100 | 1,740 | 2,101 | 3,170 |
| Modernisation VA | Grant | — | 480 | 1,189 | 2,334 | 1,372 |
| NDS 1 | Grant | — | — | — | — | — |
| NDS 2 | Grant | — | — | — | — | — |
| NDS 3 | Grant | — | — | — | — | — |
| NDS 4 | Grant | — | — | — | — | — |
| Nursery Provision | Grant | — | — | — | — | — |
| Pathfinder Schools | Grant | — | 149 | — | — | — |
| Private Finance Initiative | PFI Credits(Signed) | — | — | 3,800 | — | — |
| School Labs | Grant | 296 | — | — | — | — |
| School Security | Grant | 115 | 98 | — | — | — |
| Schools Access Initiative | Supported Borrowing | 465 | 703 | 1,129 | 561 | 545 |
| Seed Challenge | Grant | 333 | 584 | 575 | 564 | — |
| Specialist Schools | Supported Borrowing | 100 | 100 | — | — | — |
| Staff Workspace | Grant | — | 109 | 241 | — | — |
| Supplementary Credit Approvals | Supported Borrowing | 916 | — | — | — | — |
| Supplementary NDS for VA Schools | Grant | 9 | — | — | — | — |
| Targeted Capital Funding | Supported Borrowing | 4,950 | — | 1,200 | 3,157 | — |
| Voluntary Aided School Grant | Grant | 2,756 | 2,168 | — | — | — |
| Total | 21,997 | 15,365 | 22,706 | 15,225 | 6,024 |
(39) More allocations to be made.
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