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EDUCATION AND SKILLS
Education Statistics (London)
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much was spent per pupil for (a) primary and (b) secondary school education in (i) Brent East, (ii) the London borough of Brent and (iii) London in each year since 1997. [172804]
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Mr. Miliband: The information requested is submitted to the Department according to local education authority areas rather than districts within an area. Brent East is a district of Brent local education authority. The information for Brent LEA is as follows:
| £ | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Brent LEA | Primary education | Pre-primary & Primary | Secondary education |
| 1997–98 | n/a | 2,370 | 4,610 |
| 1998–99 | n/a | 2,650 | 5,060 |
| 1999–2000 | 2,630 | 2,710 | 3,320 |
| 2000–01 | 2,710 | 2,810 | 3,740 |
| 2001–02 | 3,050 | 3,160 | 4,090 |
| 2002–03 | 3,230 | 3,370 | 4,330 |
| Greater London | Primary education | Pre-primary & Primary | Secondary education |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997–98 | n/a | 2,340 | 3,130 |
| 1998–99 | n/a | 2,520 | 3,250 |
| 1999–2000 | 2,630 | 2,750 | 3,280 |
| 2000–01 | 2,820 | 3,000 | 3,540 |
| 2001–02 | 3,160 | 3,380 | 4,020 |
| 2002–03 | 3,440 | 3,610 | 4,320 |
Notes:
1. The financial data are taken from LEAs' Section 52 Outturn Statements submitted to the DfES from 1999–2000 onwards and the ODPM's RO1 statement previously. 2002–03 data is subject to change by the LEA. Expenditure was not distinguished between pre-primary and primary sectors until the inception of the Section 52 outturn statement in 1999–2000.
2. 1999–2000 figures reflect the return of GM schools to local authority maintenance. Brent LEA had 11 GM schools out of 13. The GM schools were not included in the 1998–99 data but were in 1999–00. If 1997–98 and 1998–99 figures are adjusted to include funding and pupils, the figures become 3,019 for 1997–98 and 3,171 for 1998–99.
3. The outturn 2002–03 tables captured the data in a fundamentally different way to the previous years. Categories were aligned with the Consistent Financial Reporting framework and the spending by LEAs was no longer split by school sector. Consequently the unit costs per pupil in 2002–03 are not strictly comparable with earlier years as they include an apportionment of LEA expenditure based on pupil numbers. Figures are rounded to the nearest £10.
4. Net current expenditure (NCE) includes expenditure within schools and also that incurred centrally by the LEA.
5. The NCE per pupil figures for pre-primary & primary relate the net current expenditure (after recharges) in the pre-primary sector and maintained primary schools to the total number of financial year pupils who are educated in the maintained nursery and primary schools sector.
6. The NCE per pupil figures for secondary relate the net current expenditure (after recharges) in maintained secondary schools to the total number of financial year pupils who are educated in the maintained secondary schools sector.
7. Pupil data are drawn from the Annual Schools Census adjusted to be on a financial year basis.
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Pupil Funding
Mr. Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will estimate the annual cost of educating all pupils currently within the private education sector in the state sector. [176939]
Mr. Miliband: We have made no such estimate.
School Performance
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what assessment he has made of the correlation between value added measures of school performance and absolute measures of school performance, with particular reference to GCSE/GNVQ results. [179899]
Mr. Miliband [holding answer 22 June 2004]: For maintained mainstream schools published in the 2003 Secondary (GCSE/GNVQ) performance tables, the correlation between the school KS3-GCSE value added measure and the school average capped point score for 15-year-olds was 0.46.
School Places
Mr. Chaytor: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will list, for each of the last five years, for each English local education authority, the total number and percentage of parents lodging an appeal against the allocation of a place for their child in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools. [176702]
Mr. Miliband [holding answer 10 June 2004]: The requested information has been placed in the House of Commons Library.
Due to changes in the underlying data collection, the percentage of appeals lodged given in this table for 2001–02 is not directly comparable with earlier years.
Information on admission appeals lodged in 2002–03 will be published in a Statistical First Release on 17 June.
Schools (Capital Investment)
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many schools in each of the successful bids for wave one of Building Schools for the Future were designated as (a) weak, (b) under-performing and (c) failing. [172908]
Mr. Miliband: The following table shows the data requested for areas included in wave one of Building Schools for the Future. The LEAs' projects were chosen on the basis of the educational and social need of the schools included, the quality of the authorities' educational plans, and the authorities' capacity to deliver a large procurement.
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CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
Child Labour
Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will make grants to sports clubs and associations conditional on their use and purchase only of equipment which has not been manufactured using child labour. [179773]
Mr. Caborn: The Government are strongly committed to helping eliminate child labour throughout the world and fully support the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in this area. Although sports governing bodies do not have the resources to enable them to research how equipment funded by grants has been manufactured, the Government do urge all UK importing industries to be scrupulous in their choice of suppliers and ensure that they uphold the ILO core labour standards, including those on child labour. The UK has ratified all of the related ILO core Conventions and has provided £15 million to the ILO's International Programme for the Elimination of Child Labour.
Diverse Media
Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what her policy is on ensuring that all people in the UK have access to a diverse media. [179742]
Estelle Morris: The Government are committed to ensuring that all people in the United Kingdom have access to diverse media and brought forward the Communications Act 2003 to deliver that policy. For example, the Act requires the new communications regulator, Ofcom, to secure the availability throughout the United Kingdom of a wide range of electronic communications services and a wide range of television and radio services. Ofcom must also have regard to the desirability of encouraging the availability and use of high speed data transfer services throughout the United Kingdom. These responsibilities are supported by other provisions of the Act and by the Government's own policies for extending the availability of digital television services.
Iraq (Antiquities)
Harry Cohen: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what recent information she has received about important cultural artefacts taken from (a) the Museum of Baghdad and (b) elsewhere in Iraq being discovered (i) in the UK, (ii) in other European Union countries, (iii) in the US and (iv) on the international arts market; and if she will make a statement. [179338]
Tessa Jowell:
Estimates made available to us suggest that, of the 40 important "iconic" objects stolen from the exhibition halls of the Iraq Museum, about half have
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now been recovered. Of the 15,000 objects taken from the storerooms about 7,000 have been recovered, which means that around 8,000 are still missing (including 5,000 cylinder seals). So far as I am aware none of the objects stolen from the museum has been recovered in the UK.
Further information was received by the Interpol Tracking Task Force for Iraq at its meeting on 30 and 31 May in Jordan with updates from Interpol the US, UK, France, Italy and Jordan.
France and Italy stated that no objects from the museum had been recovered in their country although both had seized some items of Iraqi origin, possibly from illegal excavations.
The US have recently seized three cylinder seals from the Iraq Museum (marked with IM numbers) and they have also seized several consignments of property suspected of being excavated from Iraq.
Jordanian and Syrian customs have been very active and made many significant seizures including cylinder seals and an Ivory chairback (on the "most wanted" list).
The conference recognised the use of the internet to sell suspicious property from Iraq and made recommendations that are published on the Interpol website.
The Metropolitan Police Art and Antiques Unit has recovered a number of Iraqi objects stolen between the wars and they are in the process of repatriating them.
Harry Cohen: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport when she expects the Museum of Baghdad to reopen; and if she will make a statement. [179339]
Tessa Jowell: This is a matter for Iraq's interim Government and the Iraq State Board of Antiquities to decide.
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