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EDUCATION AND SKILLS

British Students (Overseas Courses)

Mr. Sheerman: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many British students undertook (a) part of their British undergraduate degree programme, (b) their whole undergraduate degree, and (c) a post-graduate qualification abroad in each year since 1990. [164848]

Alan Johnson: The latest available information is shown in the table. Figures for earlier years are not held centrally.
Students form the UK studying all or part of their course overseas

	Undergraduate exchange students on year out abroad 1	UK students studying the whole of their course abroad 2
1994/95	2,650	26,400
1995/96	3,275	n/a
1996/97	3,940	n/a
1997/98	3,710	26,200
1998/99	4,580	26,900
1999/2000	5,470	27,600
2000/01	4,700	25,400
2001/02	4,940	n/a
2002/03	9,770	n/a

n/a = not available
⁽³³⁾ Figures for 2002/03 include non-exchange language students, which are excluded for the figures for previous years.
Source:
Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).
⁽³⁴⁾ Estimated. Covers all courses; figures are not available for undergraduate and postgraduate courses separately.
Source:
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

CCTV

Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many secondary schools have installed CCTV systems. [176624]

Mr. Ivan Lewis: Schools and local education authorities make their own decisions about the level of security they feel best meets their needs, and information about security equipment, including CCTV systems, is not held centrally. My Department has provided information and guidance about school security that can be obtained free of charge from the Department's publication centre or accessed via the Department's website at www.dfes.gov.uk/schoolsecurity.

Education (Over-40s)

Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what funding will be made available in each year up to 2007–08 to provide those over the age of 40 years with a first Level 2 qualification; and if he will make a statement. [176420]

Alan Johnson: The Department allocates funds for education and training in the post-16 learning and skills sector to the Learning and Skills Council (LSC). The
 
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Department has allocated a total of £6.3 billion to the LSC for learning participation in 2004–05. It is for the LSC to use these funds for adult and youth programmes to meet the Government's funding priorities. The Department has no plans to allocate specific funding to the LSC for the provision of a first Level 2 qualification to those over the age of 40 years. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced the Spending Review 2004 settlement for the Department for the years 2005–06 to 2007–08, highlighting the importance this Government attach to education and skills. It is too early to say what this settlement will mean for the funding of learning participation up to 2007–08.

Education Authority Areas

Mr. Andrew Turner: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will list for each local education authority the (a) number and (b) proportion of residents of (i) primary school and (ii) secondary school age not educated within that local education authority, and the (A) number and (B) proportion of school pupils of (1) primary school and (2) secondary school age not resident within the local education authority. [174863]

Mr. Miliband: Tables giving the requested information for all local education authorities have been placed in the House of Commons Library.

Further Education Colleges

Mr. Simmonds: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of the £1.2 billion provided to further education colleges for the period 2003 to 2006 has been allocated to (a) Government targets for growth in (i) 16 to 19- year-old students, (ii) adult students, (b) changes in pension entitlements and (c) changes in the level of national insurance contributions. [177388]

Alan Johnson: In November 2002 the Secretary of State announced plans to increase assumed funding for further education (FE) allocated to the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) by £1.2 billion in 2005–06, when compared to 2002–03. In 2005–06 the proportion of additional assumed funding in FE for planned increases in the number of 16 to 18-year -old full time equivalent (FTE) learners, and those aged 19 and above, is 29 per cent. and 11 per cent. respectively. Funding was not allocated for colleges specifically for changes in the level of national insurance contributions. Colleges are expected to meet these costs from the significant additional investment we are making in FE. Funding to colleges for changes to employer contributions to the Teachers Pension Scheme is over and above the £1.2 billion increase.

Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of young people between the ages of 16 and 21 years were studying at further education colleges, excluding A-level and GCSE students, in (a) greater London and (b) each London borough in each of the last five years. [177042]

Alan Johnson: Participation rates are routinely available at local education authority level. The proportions of 16 to 21-year-olds residents of greater
 
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London studying at further education colleges in 2001 and 2002, excluding GCSE and A-Level students, are shown in the following table.
Proportions of 16 to 21-year-old residents of greater London studying at FE colleges (excluding A-level and GCSE students) by local education authority of residence and year Percentage

Local education authority	November 2001	November 2002
City of London	7	6
Camden	9	8
Greenwich	14	14
Hackney	21	20
Hammersmith and Fulham	14	13
Islington	16	15
Kensington and Chelsea	10	9
Lambeth	21	22
Lewisham	17	18
Southwark	17	19
Tower Hamlets	14	15
Wandsworth	14	15
Westminster	10	8
Barking and Dagenham	14	14
Barnet	14	14
Bexley	15	14
Brent	17	17
Bromley	11	10
Croydon	18	17
Ealing	16	16
Enfield	18	18
Haringey	22	21
Harrow	19	18
Havering	18	18
Hillingdon	15	14
Hounslow	14	13
Kingston upon Thames	9	8
Merton	16	16
Newham	23	21
Redbridge	14	14
Richmond upon Thames	12	12
Sutton	14	14
Waltham Forest	20	21
Greater London	16	16

Source:
LSC Individualised Student Record
LSC Individualised Learner Record
ONS/GAD population estimates

The percentages in this table are produced using post-Census population estimates. However we are currently unable to provide a historical series on a comparable population basis. Further information concerning this issue can be found in the Department's Statistical First Release, "Participation in Education, Training and Employment by 16–18 Year Olds in England: 2001 and 2002" available online at: http://www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgatewav/DB/SFR/s000426/index.shtml.

Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many full-time equivalent students have been educated at each of the further education colleges on Merseyside in each year. [177265]

Alan Johnson: This is a matter for the Learning and Skills Council (LSC). Mark Haysom the Council's Chief Executive will write to my hon. Friend with the information requested and a copy of his reply will be placed in the Library.
 
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Learning and Skills Council

Mr. Hopkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what he expects the funding gap between school sixth forms and further education colleges to be in (a) 2004–05, (b) 2005–06 and (c) 2006–07. [176822]

Alan Johnson [holding answer 7 June 2004]: The Government have set out its investment plans for 2003–04 to 2005–06 which should enable the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) to increase funding for further education significantly. For the academic year 2003/04, base funding rates per qualification increased by 3 per cent. for school sixth forms and by 4.5 per cent. for further education colleges on a broadly comparable basis. Our expenditure plans to 2005–06 should see this trend continue. Although the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced on 17 March the Spending Review settlement for the Department for the years 2005–06 to 2007–08, Ministers have yet to determine funding allocations and priorities within the Department. It is therefore too early to say what impact this settlement will have on the funding of schools, sixth forms and further education colleges.

Brian Cotter: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what plans he has to equalise funding between schools and colleges for 16–19 years olds in Weston-Super-Mare. [176979]

Alan Johnson: The Government have set out its investment plans for 2003–04 to 2005–06 which should enable the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) to increase funding for further education significantly. For the academic year 2003/04, core funding rates per qualification increased by 3 per cent. for school sixth forms and by 4.5 per cent. for further education colleges on a broadly comparable basis. Our expenditure plans to 2005–06 should see this trend continue.

Brian Cotter: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what plans he has to provide funding to help further education colleges in Weston-Super-Mare to refurbish and rebuild their estates. [176980]

Alan Johnson: All of the Department's post-16 learning and skills sector capital investment is allocated to the Learning and Skills Council (LSC). The Department does not provide a specific budget to the LSC for rebuilding and refurbishing property in further education colleges at either the local or regional levels. It is for the LSC to determine for itself the right level of capital investment in further education colleges. Mr. Haysom, the Council's Chief Executive, will write to the hon. Member on this matter and a copy of his reply will be placed in the House Library.

Mr. Oaten: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what plans he has to equalise funding between schools and colleges for 16 to 19-year-olds in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. [177011]

Alan Johnson [holding answer 7 June 2004]: The Government have set out its investment plans for 2003–04 to 2005–06 which should enable the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) to increase funding for further education significantly. For the academic year 2003/04, core funding rates per qualification increased by 3 per cent. for school sixth forms and by 4.5 per cent. for
 
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further education colleges on a broadly comparable basis. Our expenditure plans to 2005–06 should see this trend continue.

Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much capital expenditure has been allocated to each further education college on Merseyside since 1995. [177261]

Alan Johnson: All of the Department's post-16 learning and skills sector capital investment is allocated to the Learning and Skills Council (LSC). The Department does not provide a specific budget to the LSC for rebuilding and refurbishing property in further education colleges at either the local or regional levels, and does not collect this information. It is for the LSC to determine for itself the right level of capital investment in further education colleges. This is an operational matter for the LSC. Mr. Haysom, the Council's Chief Executive, will write to my hon. Friend on this matter and a copy of his reply will be placed in the House Library.

Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what funding each further education college on Merseyside received in each year since 1997; what budget they have been allocated from the Learning and Skills Council for 2004–05; and what percentage change these allocations represent in comparison with the previous year. [177263]

Alan Johnson: The Department allocates funds for education and training in the post-16 learning and skills sector to the Learning and Skills Council (LSC). The LSC decides the funding allocations at individual college level. Information about these allocations is not collected by the Department. This is an operational matter and the responsibility of the LSC. Mark Haysom, the LSC's Chief Executive, will write to my hon. Friend with this information and a copy of his reply will be placed in the Library.

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