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Residential Bursaries (Low Income Earners)

Mr. Swire: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what plans his Department has to provide residential bursaries for low income earners at colleges. [180932]

Alan Johnson: My Department plans to continue to make funding available for residential bursaries, and for support with lodgings and travel costs, for students on full-time courses. This is paid through the Learning and Skills Council and our national delivery agent
 
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Manchester city council. The amount of support is assessed against individual financial circumstances.

School Exclusions

Mr. Boris Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of children permanently excluded from schools are diagnosed dyslexic. [180528]

Mr. Ivan Lewis: The information requested is not collected centrally. However the number of pupils permanently excluded with special educational needs is shown in the table.
Maintained primary, secondary and special schools1,2: number of pupils permanently excluded with special educational needs (SEN) 2002/03 (Provisional)3,4,5

	Number of exclusions	Percentage of all permanent exclusions(29)	Percentage of school population(30)
Pupils with SEN	6,170	66	0.45
of which:
Pupils with statements of SEN	1,030	11	0.43
SEN pupils without statements	5,140	55	0.46
Pupils with no SEN	3,120	34	0.05

Notes
⁽²⁴⁾ Includes middle schools as deemed.
⁽²⁵⁾ Includes both maintained and non-maintained special schools.
⁽²⁶⁾ Provisional figures are subject to revision.
⁽²⁷⁾ Based on numbers confirmed by local education authorities due to incomplete school data returns.
⁽²⁸⁾ Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10.
⁽²⁹⁾ The number of permanent exclusions by school type expressed as a percentage of the total number of permanent exclusions across all schools.
⁽³⁰⁾ The number of excluded pupils expressed as a percentage of the number (headcount) of the school population. Excludes dually registered pupils.
Source:
Annual Schools' Census

School Transport

Mr. Chaytor: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will list, for each of the last five years, the cost per pupil of school transport for each English local education authority with a wholly selective admissions system, together with the average for their statistical neighbours. [177608]

Mr. Miliband [holding answer 16 June 2004]: The information requested is contained within the following table:

LEAs with a selective admissions system		1998–99		1999–2000
LEA number	LEA name	Cost per pupil (£)	Average for statistical neighbours (£)	Cost per pupil (£)	Average for statistical neighbours (£)
303	Bexley	40	38	41	41
319	Sutton	47	35	38	36
358	Trafford	56	42	48	41
825	Buckinghamshire	116	93	85	91
871	Slough	85	37	69	34
880	Torbay	56	61	55	48
882	Southend-on-Sea	88	32	45	36
886	Kent	113	82	86	72
887	Medway	80	38	63	38
925	Lincolnshire	109	99	110	96

 
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LEAs with a selective admissions system		2000–01		2001–02		2002–03
LEA number	LEA name	Cost per pupil (£)	Average for statistical neighbours (£)	Cost per pupil (£)	Average for statistical neighbours (£)	Cost per pupil (£)	Average for statistical neighbours (£)
303	Bexley	51	48	30	51	30	60
319	Sutton	44	47	44	51	61	66
358	Trafford	57	46	68	50	87	64
825	Buckinghamshire	133	99	135	107	137	125
871	Slough	65	40	79	42	88	57
880	Torbay	62	57	66	55	84	73
882	Southend-on-Sea	47	47	55	46	74	62
886	Kent	101	81	97	88	123	100
887	Medway	62	38	65	39	70	54
925	Lincolnshire	124	103	135	111	172	127

Notes:
1. The financial data are taken from LEAs' section 52 outturn statement submitted to the DfES from 1999–2000 onwards and the ODPM's RO1 statement previously. 2002–03 data are subject to change by the LEA.
2. The cost of home to school transport includes the cost of public transport, contract hire or the use of authority vehicles in transporting pupils to school under section 509 of the Education Act 1996.
3. Wholly selective areas for grammar school ballots purposes are those which the Department has calculated that 25 per cent. or more of the maintained secondary school population attend maintained grammar schools.
4 Figures include all expenditure by the local authority on school transport. This includes the pre-primary, primary, secondary and special school sectors. The unit cost is calculated by dividing the sum of the net expenditure in these sectors by the total number of pupils educated in LEA maintained nursery, primary, secondary and special schools.
5. The statistical neighbours categorisations are based upon the classifications developed by Ofsted. The calculation of statistical neighbours is concerned with finding, for each LEA, other LEAs with the most similar values of a given set of variables that describe LEA contexts. The average for a LEA's statistical neighbours is calculated using the sum of the 10 statistically "closest' neighbours net expenditure divided by the total number of pupils educated in these 10 LEAs.
6. Pupil data are drawn from the Annual Schools Census adjusted to be on a financial year basis.

School Transport (London)

Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the cost of home to school transport in Greater London was, broken down by
 
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local education authority, was in each of the last five years. [170499]

Mr. Miliband: The information requested is contained in the following table:
Cost of home to school/college transport in Greater London £000

	1998–99			1999–2000
LEA name	Total transport expenditure	Transport related income	Net current expenditure on transport	Total transport expenditure	Transport related income	Net current expenditure on transport
City of London	0	0	0	76	0	76
Camden	1,588	0	1,588	2,935	0	2,935
Greenwich	1,923	0	1,923	2,196	0	2,196
Hackney	2,410	0	2,410	0	0	0
Hammersmith and Fulham	1,238	0	1,238	1,459	0	1,459
Islington	1,354	0	1,354	1,449	0	1,449
Kensington and Chelsea	502	13	489	820	125	695
Lambeth	2,784	0	2,784	2,750	0	2,750
Lewisham	2,024	0	2,024	2,391	0	2,391
Southwark	2,038	0	2,038	2,688	0	2,688
Tower Hamlets	2,289	0	2,289	2,187	0	2,187
Wandsworth	1,514	0	1,514	1,756	0	1,756
Westminster	1,819	0	1,819	1,718	0	1,718
Barking and Dagenham	1,296	0	1,296	1,492	0	1,492
Barnet	2,256	0	2,256	2,460	0	2,460
Bexley	1,449	0	1,449	1,661	0	1,661
Brent	2,251	0	2,251	2,681	0	2,681
Bromley	2,298	0	2,298	2,582	0	2,582
Croydon	1,966	0	1,966	2,249	0	2,249
Ealing	3,098	318	2,780	3,250	306	2,944
Enfield	1,956	0	1,956	3,760	0	3,760
Haringey	1,834	0	1,834	2,002	0	2,002
Harrow	1,477	0	1,477	1,682	0	1,682
Havering	702	25	677	877	26	851
Hillingdon	2,155	0	2,155	2,618	0	2,618
Hounslow	1,669	102	1,567	1,807	0	1,807
Kingston-upon-Thames	749	67	682	1,228	18	1,210
Merton	1,073	0	1,073	1,191	0	1,191
Newham	1,834	0	1,834	2,235	0	2,235
Redbridge	2,161	0	2,161	2,224	0	2,224
Richmond-upon-Thames	817	0	817	1,047	0	1,047
Sutton	891	0	891	1,079	0	1,079
Waltham Forest	1,386	0	1,386	1,834	0	1,834

 
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	2000–01			2001–02
LEA name	Total transport expenditure	Transport related income	Net current expenditure on transport	Total transport expenditure	Transport related income	Net current expenditure on transport
City of London	60	0	60	49	0	49
Camden	2,030	0	2,030	2,168	0	2,168
Greenwich	2,300	0	2,300	2,382	0	2,382
Hackney	2,097	915	1,182	1,147	0	1,147
Hammersmith and Fulham	1,699	0	1,699	1,649	0	1,649
Islington	1,499	15	1,484	1,663	0	1,663
Kensington and Chelsea	821	3	818	1,056	8	1,048
Lambeth	3,027	0	3,027	2,566	114	2,453
Lewisham	2,416	0	2,416	2,721	0	2,721
Southwark	2,730	0	2,730	2,385	0	2,385
Tower Hamlets	2,478	0	2,478	132	0	132
Wandsworth	2,234	2	2,232	2,002	157	1,844
Westminster	2,446	0	2,446	1,919	0	1,919
Barking and Dagenham	2,063	0	2,063	1,984	30	1,954
Barnet	2,700	0	2,700	2,827	0	2,827
Bexley	2,116	0	2,116	1,242	0	1,242
Brent	2,835	0	2,835	2,831	0	2,831
Bromley	2,712	0	2,712	2,952	0	2,952
Croydon	3,290	0	3,290	4,404	0	4,404
Ealing	3,450	366	3,084	3,750	286	3,464
Enfield	3,603	0	3,603	3,932	0	3,932
Haringey	2,116	0	2,116	4,697	0	4,697
Harrow	1,817	0	1,817	2,195	0	2,195
Havering	989	34	955	1,067	14	1,054
Hillingdon	2,742	31	2,712	3,298	0	3,298
Hounslow	1,958	0	1,958	2,149	0	2,149
Kingston-upon-Thames	1,276	16	1,260	1,467	12	1,455
Merton	1,255	0	1,255	1,466	0	1,466
Newham	2,323	0	2,323	2,489	0	2,489
Redbridge	2,498	0	2,498	2,571	0	2,571
Richmond-upon-Thames	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sutton	1,267	0	1,267	1,287	0	1,287
Waltham Forest	2,415	0	2,415	2,327	2	2,324

	2002–03
LEA name	Total transport expenditure	Transport related income	Net current expenditure on transport
City of London	62	0	62
Camden	2,346	0	2,346
Greenwich	2,677	11	2,666
Hackney	1,585	516	1,070
Hammersmith and Fulham	1,599	0	1,599
Islington	2,271	170	2,101
Kensington and Chelsea	1,039	0	1,039
Lambeth	1,988	0	1,988
Lewisham	3,279	0	3,279
South wark	2,325	0	2,325
Tower Hamlets	743	0	743
Wandsworth	2,520	0	2,519
Westminster	1,636	0	1,636
Barking and Dagenham	2,467	0	2,467
Barnet	4,119	0	4,119
Bexley	1,268	0	1,268
Brent	2,987	0	2,987
Bromley	1,248	0	1,248
Croydon	5,600	1,244	4,356
Ealing	4,140	2,221	1,919
Enfield	3,780	14	3,766
Haringey	2,905	6	2,899
Harrow	2,565	0	2,565
Havering	1,261	3	1,258
Hillingdon	3,706	0	3,706
Hounslow	2,435	0	2,435
Kingston-upon-Thames	1,582	0	1,582
Merton	1,496	0	1,496
Newham	2,893	0	2,893
Redbridge	3,020	0	3,020
Richmond-upon-Thames	1,148	0	1,148
Sutton	1,865	0	1,865
Waltham Forest	2,884	0	2,884

Notes:
1. The financial data is taken from LEAs' Section 52 Outturn Statements submitted to the DfES from 1998–99 onwards and the ODPM's R01 statement before then. 2002–03 data is subject to change by the LEA.
2. The cost of home to school/college transport includes the cost of public transport, contract hire or the vehicles in transporting pupils/students to school/college under section 509 of the Education Act 1996.
3. Figures include all expenditure by the local authority on transport. This includes the pre-primary, education out of school and continuing education sectors.
4. Some substantial variations between years have occurred. We are not able to offer a detailed analysis for the reasons because LEAs do not offer a breakdown of inconsistencies across the years.
5. ConfED/DfES conducted a joint survey in 2003 of LEA transport expenditure and policies. The data should enable LEAs to compare their policies and costs with other similar authorities.





 
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