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Sure Start

Mr. Chris Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much funding has been made available to Sure Start projects in the London borough of Islington for each year since the inception of Sure Start; and what the projected funding for future years is. [184723]

Margaret Hodge: The London borough of Islington has six Sure Start local programmes, two Early Excellence Centres and eight Neighbourhood nurseries, the first of which was approved in October 2000. The revenue funding for these initiatives is shown in the following table:
Table 1 £

	Amount (Revenue)
2000/01	448,250
2001/02	894,900
2002/03	2,277,208
2003/04	4,030,346
2004/05	4,910,149
2005/06	5,227,097
Total	17,837,950

The total amount of capital allocated to the Sure Start initiatives in Islington is £7,587,100. In addition Islington has been allocated £1,033,126 revenue and £3,149,773 capital to develop children's centres over the period of 2004–06.

These figures do not include local authority funding for child care and nursery education allocated to Islington.

The Chancellor announced in the Spending Review that the Sure Start Unit will be allocated £1,167 million,
 
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£1,483 million and £1,667 million for 2005/06, 2006/07 and 2007/08 respectively for England. At this stage it is not possible to say how much will be allocated to individual local authorities.

Out-of-city Schools

Alan Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many Nottingham pupils
 
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have gone to out of city schools in the last academic year; (ii) what funding was transferred out of the city as a result; and (iii) how many pupils in each of the last three years have been returned to city schools during the course of the year. [184662]

Mr. Miliband: The information is as follows:

(i) The information requested is shown in the following table.
Number and proportion of LEA resident pupils in maintained primary⁽⁵³⁾and secondary⁽⁵³⁾ schools educated in other LEAs and the number and proportion of non-residents educated in schools located within the LEA—January 2003

	Nottingham
	Primary	Secondary
Number of pupils resident within the LEA	25,615	16,451
Number of resident pupils educated in other LEAs	1,365	3,659
Percentage of resident pupils educated in other LEAs(54)	5.3	22.2
Number of pupils educated within the LEA	25,538	13,937
Number of pupils educated in the LEA that are resident in another LEA	1,288	1,145
Percentage of pupils educated in the LEA that are resident in another LEA(55)	5	8.2

⁽⁵³⁾ Includes middle schools as deemed.
⁽⁵⁴⁾ Percentage reported is calculated as a percentage of resident pupils living within the LEA.
⁽⁵⁵⁾ Percentage reported is calculated as a percentage of school population attending schools within the LEA.
Source:
NPD 2003.

(ii) Local education authorities are funded for the pupils attending schools within their authority irrespective of the area of residence of the individual pupils (with the exception of SEN pupils where recoupment is arranged locally). Therefore there is no need for funding transfers in respect of cross border movements.

(iii) Data of this type are not currently available.

St. Helens Schools

Mr. Watts: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many (a) head teachers, (b) teachers and (c) support workers were employed in St. Helens schools in each year from 1997 to 2004. [184621]

Mr. Miliband: The following table gives the full-time equivalent number of head teachers, all regular teachers and support staff employed in the maintained sector in St. Helens local education authority for each year between 1997 and 2003, the latest information available.

	Head teachers(56)	All teachers(57)	Support staff 3
2003	78	1,630	800
2002	78	1,580	790
2001	75	1,570	680
2000	77	1,570	570
1999	81	1,570	530
1998	84	1,570	500
1997	83	1,590	480

⁽⁵⁶⁾ Source: Annual Survey of Teachers in Service 2001 to 2003 and Database of Teachers Records (DTR) 1997 to 2000. The DTR is maintained primarily for pensions purposes. The figures include all teachers who are being paid as head teachers.
⁽⁵⁷⁾ Source: Annual Survey of Teachers in Service
⁽⁵⁸⁾ Source: Annual School Census. Support staff include teaching assistants, administrative staff, technicians and other medical, child care and education support staff.

Mr. Watts: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the average pay was for teachers in St. Helens in each year from 1997 to 2004. [184623]

Mr. Miliband: The following table shows the average salary of full-time regular qualified teachers in the maintained schools sector in England and Wales as at March of each year. The latest information available is for 2002.

As at March	£
2002	28,720
2001	27,200
2000	25,390
1999	24,440
1998	23,540
1997	22,900

Source:
The Database of Teacher Records. Figures cover all grades and include all allowances.

Mr. Watts: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) what major development and spending projects (a) have taken place since 1997 and (b) are planned to take place over the next two years in St. Helens; [184626]

(2) what the level of (a) capital and (b) revenue spend was in St. Helens primary schools in each year from 1997 to 2004. [184622]

Mr. Miliband: The bulk of capital funding is allocated to local education authorities (LEAs) and schools by formula so that they can decide their priorities for investment in line with locally decided asset management plans. We do not, therefore, hold detailed information about school building developments and projects that have taken place, or are planned.

The following table shows the capital allocations made to St. Helens LEA and all its schools, both primary and secondary, from 1996–97 to 2003–04.
 
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Capital allocations to St. Helens and its schools

	Allocation (£000)
1996–97	2,286
1997–98	1,818
1998–99	3,244
1999–2000	3,802
2000–01	6,603
2001–02	5,562
2002–03	10,234
2003–04	7,152

For revenue spend in primary schools in St. Helens, the figures are as follows:
St. Helen's: Net institutional expenditure (NIE)⁽⁵⁹⁾ (cash terms) £

	NIE (pre-primary and primary) 2	NIE (pre-primary) 2	NIE (primary) 2
1996–97	29,540,000	—	—
1997–98	27,484,000	—	—
1998–99	29,286,000	—	—
1999–2000	33,966,565	514,585	33,451,980
2000–01	37,197,870	828,287	36,369,583
2001–02	39,765,740	1,174,816	38,590,924
2002–03(61)			39,865,585

⁽⁵⁹⁾ Net institutional expenditure (NIE) includes all school-recurrent funding, including teaching staff and non-teaching staff salaries, school premises costs, equipment and supplies. It takes account of unspent balances held by schools at the year end. It does not include the cost of school meals, home to school transport, LEA central administration or the financing costs of capital expenditure.
⁽⁶⁰⁾ Prior to 1999–2000 figures are drawn from the RO1 return which collected combined information for pre-primary and primary. In 2002–03 the structure of the form changed to collect in-school expenditure information from the primary, secondary and special sectors only.
⁽⁶¹⁾ 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 expenditure reported in 2002–03 is not strictly comparable with earlier years.
Source:
The expenditure data prior to 1999–2000 is drawn from the annual 'RO1' spending returns which local authorities submitted to the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions. From 1999–2000 onwards, data is taken from local education authorities' Section 52 Outturn Statements submitted to the DfES.

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