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Non-qualification Programmes

Mr. Chidgey: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills when he intends to identify a budget for non-qualification bearing programmes. [192027]

 
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Mr. Ivan Lewis: I have already done so. The Government have agreed with the LSC a budget of £207.4 million in 2004–05 for adult education secured through Local Education Authorities, an increase of 43 per cent. compared with funding in 2000–01 of £145 million. In addition the LSC is currently consulting on reforming the planning and funding of non-qualification provision to meet our commitments to safeguard learning opportunities for personal and community development and to secure a coherent range of 'first steps' learning opportunities in every area.

Parenting Orders (Buckinghamshire)

Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many parenting orders have been (a) sought by and (b) granted to schools in Buckinghamshire since June 2001. [191066]

Mr. Stephen Twigg: The information requested is not collected centrally. However, Buckinghamshire local education authority advises that local magistrates have granted parenting orders in nine of the truancy cases it has brought to prosecution since July 2001.

Plumbing Courses

Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will make a statement on the level of Construction Industry Training Board support for plumbing courses; and how many colleges offered such courses in (a) 2003/04 and (b) 2004/05. [190845]

Mr. Ivan Lewis: The plumbing sector withdrew from the scope of the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) in 1990 and set up its own training arrangements. Those arrangements are now the responsibility of SummitSkills—the licensed Sector Skills Council for the sector. The CITB does not therefore provide direct support for plumbing courses.

However, some plumbing trainees are employed by construction firms who are in scope to the CITB. Employers can claim grant support from the CITB for these trainees. Information provided by the Learning and Skills Council shows that in 2003/04 plumbing courses were offered by 238 training providers of which 136 were colleges with nearly 36,000 enrolments. It is too early in the 2004/05 academic year for similar data to be available.

Pupil:Teacher Ratio

Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the pupil teacher ratio figures were in each local education authority at (a) key
 
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stage 1, (b) key stage 2 and (c) key stage 3 at the latest date for which figures are available. [192120]

Mr. Miliband: Pupil teacher ratios figures are not available by key stage because the teacher numbers from which they are derived are collected by phase of education only. Many teachers will teach more than one key stage.
 
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Pupil teacher ratios by phase of education, region and local education authority were published on the DfES research and statistics gateway website alongside the Statistics of Education Schools in England Volume, 2004 edition on 30 September, Table 7a (LEA). This may be downloaded from the following URL: www. dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/VOL/v000495/index.shtml.
Table 7a: Maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools: pupil:teacher ratios ⁽²⁷⁾ by type of school—January 2004By local education authority area, by Government Office region in England 2,3

	Nursery schools			Primary Schools (30)
	FTE pupils	FTE teachers(31)	Pupil:teacher ratio	FTE pupils	FTE teachers(31)	Pupil:teacher ratio
England	23,600	1,460	16.2	4,112,620	181,230	22.7
North-east	2,030	120	17.5	209,270	9,610	21.8
Darlington	250	10	19.2	8,680	350	24.6
Durham	550	30	18.3	41,230	1,960	21.0
Gateshead	30	—	14.3	16,030	760	21.0
Hartlepool	20	—	6.9	8,920	400	22.5
Middlesbrough	0	0	—	13,400	630	21.4
Newcastle upon Tyne	570	30	18.5	19,380	860	22.5
North Tyneside	60	—	16.1	15,770	690	22.8
Northumberland	40	—	38.5	18,720	840	22.3
Redcar and Cleveland	0	0	—	12,930	600	21.4
South Tyneside	130	10	15.6	12,940	620	20.9
Stockton-on-Tees	0	0	—	16,910	750	22.6
Sunderland	380	20	15.6	24,360	1,140	21.3
North-west	3,680	230	15.8	598,280	26,760	22.4
Blackburn with Darwen	370	20	19.1	14,600	660	22.0
Blackpool	0	0	—	11,950	550	21.7
Bolton	220	10	16.5	24,770	1,100	22.5
Bury	50	—	15.7	15,910	670	23.7
Cheshire	90	10	18.2	55,660	2,490	22.4
Cumbria	250	10	17.9	40,060	1,850	21.7
Halton	200	10	18.8	10,490	490	21.2
Knowsley	0	0	—	15,570	700	22.2
Lancashire	1,090	70	16.0	95,320	4,260	22.4
Liverpool	240	20	12.6	38,350	1,790	21.4
Manchester	90	10	10.3	40,720	1,840	22.1
Oldham	0	0	—	22,950	940	24.3
Rochdale	140	10	12.1	19,830	890	22.4
Salford	0	0	—	20,250	910	22.3
Sefton	150	10	18.6	23,500	1,070	22.1
St. Helens	70	10	13.7	15,650	670	23.4
Stockport	430	20	18.2	23,560	1,040	22.6
Tameside	20	—	10.1	19,680	890	22.2
Trafford	0	0	—	18,830	790	23.8
Warrington	30	—	12.9	17,530	770	22.6
Wigan	110	10	18.2	26,300	1,180	22.2
Wirral	140	10	10.9	26,820	1,210	22.2
Yorkshire and the	2,020	120	16.5	436,650	19,170	22.8
Humber	40	—	18.3	19,450	820	23.6
Barnsley	410	30	14.0	48,250	2,160	22.4
Bradford	0	0	—	18,780	830	22.6
Calderdale	0	0	—	26,590	1,150	23.1
Doncaster	240	10	21.3	26,050	1,110	23.5
East Riding of Yorkshire	210	10	21.9	22,320	1,010	22.1
Kingston upon Hull	140	10	11.3	34,970	1,560	22.4
Kirklees	0	0	—	60,270	2,660	22.6
Leeds	180	10	16.1	14,400	620	23.2
North East Lincolnshire	0	0	—	13,620	580	23.5
North Lincolnshire	120	10	17.6	45,020	2,080	21.6
North Yorkshire	230	10	18.4	23,650	1,030	23.0
Rotherham	240	20	15.4	42,200	1,790	23.5
Sheffield	170	10	16.7	27,810	1,180	23.6
Wakefield	50	—	28.1	13,250	590	22.7
York	53	2	27.6	13,756	624	22.0
East Midlands	1,480	100	15.4	357,620	15,490	23.1
Derby	290	20	13.0	20,980	930	22.6
Derbyshire	330	20	16.6	62,760	2,650	23.7
Leicester	20	—	7.5	27,370	1,210	22.6
Leicestershire	20	—	17.4	49,590	2,140	23.2
Lincolnshire	280	20	18.6	53,580	2,290	23.4
Northamptonshire	330	20	16.6	55,740	2,450	22.7
Nottingham	120	10	13.5	22,800	1,090	20.8
Nottinghamshire	90	10	13.3	62,270	2,610	23.8
Rutland	0	0	—	2,540	120	21.5
West Midlands	3,420	170	19.7	463,870	20,500	22.6
Birmingham	1,520	80	18.8	100,110	4,660	21.5
Coventry	80	—	20.6	25,910	1,180	21.9
Dudley	50	—	12.3	28,000	1,270	22.0
Herefordshire	0	0	—	13,180	610	21.6
Sandwell	0	0	—	28,850	1,230	23.5
Shropshire	0	0	—	21,240	910	23.3
Solihull	0	0	—	19,630	880	22.4
Staffordshire	350	20	21.9	64,390	2,740	23.5
Stoke-on-Trent	340	20	22.3	21,340	870	24.4
Telford and Wrekin	70	—	15.7	15,140	630	23.9
Walsall	400	20	24.3	25,040	1,060	23.6
Warwickshire	300	20	16.8	40,820	1,800	22.7
Wolverhampton	290	10	22.5	22,280	970	22.9
Worcestershire	30	—	12.6	37,930	1,680	22.5
East of England	2,090	140	15.3	436,510	19,040	22.9
Bedfordshire	430	30	16.8	23,880	1,050	22.8
Cambridgeshire	270	20	13.2	43,950	1,860	23.6
Essex	150	10	14.8	107,540	4,630	23.2
Hertfordshire	640	40	17.3	89,950	3,910	23.0
Luton	350	20	14.6	18,310	780	23.5
Norfolk	130	10	12.2	65,350	2,930	22.3
Peterborough	80	10	11.4	15,400	660	23.2
Southend-on-Sea	0	0	—	14,150	620	22.8
Suffolk	50	—	23.2	44,460	2,050	21.7
Thurrock	0	0	—	13,510	540	24.9
London	5,300	350	15.3	601,650	25,960	23.2
Inner London	3,360	210	15.7	221,640	9,890	22.4
Camden	80	—	19.0	11,280	530	21.5
City of London	0	0	—	220	10	23.2
Hackney	90	10	12.6	17,350	760	22.9
Hammersmith and Fulham	260	20	17.2	9,510	410	23.2
Haringey	190	10	12.6	20,910	890	23.4
Islington	190	10	14.3	14,510	650	22.3
Kensington and Chelsea	220	10	15.1	7000	330	21.5
Lambeth	350	30	13.9	19,050	920	20.8
Lewisham	180	10	13.1	21,130	1,030	20.4
Newham	610	30	18.8	29,270	1,200	24.5
Southwark	430	30	17.0	22,750	1,030	22.2
Tower Hamlets	450	20	18.2	21,560	900	24.1
Wandsworth	160	10	17.9	16,620	780	21.4
Westminster	160	10	11.1	10,480	470	22.4
Outer London	1,950	130	14.6	380,010	16,080	23.6
Barking and Dagenham	0	0	—	17,440	710	24.6
Barnet	300	10	20.5	24,790	1,080	23.0
Bexley	0	0	—	20,600	830	24.7
Brent	200	10	15.5	22,140	920	24.2
Bromley	0	0	—	24,010	1,010	23.7
Croydon	300	20	17.6	29,130	1,260	23.0
Ealing	270	20	15.9	24,700	1,000	24.8
Enfield	0	0	—	25,850	1,150	22.6
Greenwich	450	30	13.9	19,430	870	22.3
Harrow	20	10	1.5	18,960	800	23.8
Havering	0	0	—	19,650	810	24.3
Hillingdon	60	10	10.8	22,720	900	25.2
Hounslow	0	0	—	17,920	780	23.0
Kingston upon Thames	50	—	12.4	10,480	480	22.0
Merton	0	0	—	13,440	580	23.2
Redbridge	0	0	—	22,440	970	23.3
Richmond upon Thames	40	—	10.7	11,770	540	21.6
Sutton	80	10	12.7	14,440	600	24.1
Waltham Forest	190	10	18.9	20,110	800	25.2
South-east	2,270	150	14.9	624,940	27,720	22.5
Bracknell Forest	0	0	—	8,510	360	23.4
Brighton and Hove	90	10	17.5	16,450	760	21.6
Buckinghamshire	90	—	28.9	38,810	1,720	22.5
East Sussex	0	0	—	35,860	1,670	21.4
Hampshire	100	10	13.0	99,300	4,350	22.8
Isle of Wight	0	0	—	7,190	320	22.2
Kent	40	—	16.9	110,960	4,850	22.9
Medway	0	0	—	22,880	1,000	22.9
Milton Keynes	60	—	22.6	22,310	1,000	22.4
Oxfordshire	380	30	13.6	44,130	1,980	22.3
Portsmouth	40	—	11.6	14,430	660	21.9
Reading	300	20	15.3	9,620	430	22.1
Slough	320	20	15.2	10,720	440	24.6
Southampton	30	—	12.2	16,280	740	21.9
Surrey	240	20	13.0	76,950	3,370	22.9
West Berkshire	100	10	14.7	11,720	540	21.7
West Sussex	200	20	11.2	58,870	2,640	22.3
Windsor and Maidenhead	200	10	21.4	8,050	350	22.8
Wokingham	70	—	18.5	11,910	530	22.6
South-west	1,310	80	15.9	383,830	16,970	22.6
Bath and North East Somerset	0	0	—	12,380	540	22.7
Bournemouth	0	0	—	10,790	450	23.8
Bristol, City of	1,090	70	16.6	29,460	1,290	22.8
Cornwall	60	10	8.6	38,850	1,720	22.6
Devon	60	10	12.0	54,520	2,440	22.3
Dorset	0	0	—	24,580	1,120	21.9
Gloucestershire	0	0	—	44,810	2,060	21.7
Isles of Scilly	0	0	—	260	20	11.5
North Somerset	0	0	—	14,820	610	24.1
Plymouth	100	10	19.6	19,720	860	22.9
Poole	0	0	—	10,630	450	23.8
Somerset	0	0	—	37,590	1,690	22.2
South Gloucestershire	0	0	—	22,790	960	23.6
Swindon	0	0	—	16,970	700	24.1
Torbay	0	0	—	9,930	430	23.0
Wiltshire	0	0	—	35,740	1,590	22.5

 
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	Secondary schools(30)
	FTE pupils	FTE teachers(31)	Pupil:teacher ratio
England	3,324,700	195,240	17.0
North east	179,140	10,910	16.4
Darlington	6,350	360	17.5
Durham	33,000	1,950	16.9
Gateshead	12,020	760	15.7
Hartlepool	6,660	400	16.6
Middlesbrough	5,810	380	15.1
Newcastle-upon-Tyne	17,470	1,100	15.9
North Tyneside	13,820	870	16.0
Northumberland	30,560	1,730	17.7
Redcar and Cleveland	10,330	660	15.7
South Tyneside	10,260	650	15.9
Stockton-on-Tees	12,890	780	16.6
Sunderland	19,980	1,280	15.6
North-west	472,520	29,080	16.2
Blackburn with Darwen	9,610	600	16.0
Blackpool	8,740	530	16.5
Bolton	19,940	1,240	16.1
Bury	12,010	680	17.6
Cheshire	47,720	2,820	16.9
Cumbria	35,310	2,180	16.2
Halton	8,310	520	16.0
Knowsley	10,190	640	16.0
Lancashire	76,690	4,600	16.7
Liverpool	33,460	2,190	15.2
Manchester	23,670	1,490	15.9
Oldham	16,770	1,080	15.5
Rochdale	14,400	860	16.8
Salford	12,720	790	16.1
Sefton	21,220	1,340	15.8
St. Helens	12,210	770	15.9
Stockport	17,070	1,030	16.6
Tameside	15,970	960	16.6
Trafford	16,360	980	16.7
Warrington	14,150	880	16.1
Wigan	21,400	1,320	16.2
Wirral	24,620	1,580	15.5
Yorkshire and the	349,320	20,810	16.8
Humber	13,740	770	17.8
Barnsley	34,660	2,150	16.1
Bradford	15,440	930	16.6
Calderdale	21,890	1,360	16.2
Doncaster	23,490	1,330	17.7
East Riding of Yorkshire	16,220	830	19.6
Kingston upon Hull	26,780	1,560	17.1
Kirklees	48,080	2,910	16.5
Leeds	11,730	650	18.0
North East Lincolnshire	10,910	610	17.9
North Lincolnshire	41,530	2,570	16.1
North Yorkshire	20,430	1,330	15.4
Rotherham	31,560	1,880	16.8
Sheffield	22,390	1,280	17.4
Wakefield	10,490	650	16.0
York	10,099	631	16.0
East Midlands	297,210	17,370	17.1
Derby	15,540	960	16.2
Derbyshire	50,500	2,960	17.1
Leicester	18,260	1,070	17.0
Leicestershire	46,740	2,650	17.6
Lincolnshire	47,430	2,700	17.6
Northamptonshire	47,390	2,730	17.4
Nottingham	13,920	910	15.3
Nottinghamshire	55,070	3,230	17.0
Rutland	2,360	140	16.9
West Midlands	380,080	22,490	16.9
Birmingham	70,920	4,450	15.9
Coventry	21,480	1,250	17.2
Dudley	20,870	1,240	16.9
Herefordshire	10,480	620	16.9
Sandwell	19,990	1,140	17.5
Shropshire	18,330	1,070	17.1
Solihull	15,830	890	17.7
Staffordshire	62,380	3,610	17.3
Stoke-on-Trent	15,220	920	16.5
Telford and Wrekin	10,650	620	17.1
Walsall	21,480	1,330	16.2
Warwickshire	34,210	1,980	17.3
Wolverhampton	17,040	1,010	16.9
Worcestershire	41,220	2,360	17.5
East of England	386,870	21,860	17.7
Bedfordshire	37,740	2,060	18.4
Cambridgeshire	32,670	1,750	18.7
Essex	90,680	5,040	18.0
Hertfordshire	79,290	4,630	17.1
Luton	12,430	700	17.7
Norfolk	46,190	2,660	17.3
Peterborough	12,750	750	17.0
Southend-on-Sea	12,210	690	17.7
Suffolk	54,360	3,160	17.2
Thurrock	8,570	410	20.8
London	42,1750	24,720	17.1
Inner London	127,320	7,750	16.4
Camden	9,690	620	15.7
City of London	0	0	—
Hackney	7,350	420	17.5
Hammersmith and Fulham	7,210	410	17.7
Haringey	11,220	740	15.2
Islington	7,860	490	16.0
Kensington and Chelsea	3,500	220	15.6
Lambeth	7,750	460	16.7
Lewisham	11,640	750	15.5
Newham	18,120	1,090	16.6
Southwark	10,020	580	17.4
Tower Hamlets	14,310	850	16.9
Wandsworth	10,250	620	16.5
Westminster	8,410	500	16.7
Outer London	294,430	16,970	17.3
Barking and Dagenham	12,070	710	17.1
Barnet	21,130	1,310	16.1
Bexley	18,010	960	18.7
Brent	15,930	950	16.7
Bromley	22,230	1,260	17.6
Croydon	18,660	1,040	17.9
Ealing	14,940	840	17.7
Enfield	21,610	1,270	17.1
Greenwich	14,960	900	16.7
Harrow	9,050	530	17.2
Havering	16,520	930	17.7
Hillingdon	17,800	990	18.0
Hounslow	16,670	980	17.0
Kingston upon Thames	9,340	550	17.1
Merton	8,580	450	19.0
Redbridge	20,000	1,180	16.9
Richmond upon Thames	7,350	390	19.1
Sutton	15,720	910	17.4
Waltham Forest	13,850	830	16.6
South-east	511,580	29,180	17.5
Bracknell Forest	6,110	330	18.2
Brighton and Hove	12,390	760	16.2
Buckinghamshire	34,620	1,840	18.8
East Sussex	28,850	1,700	17.0
Hampshire	72,630	4,240	17.1
Isle of Wight	12,150	650	18.7
Kent	98,120	5,610	17.5
Medway	20,720	1,140	18.1
Milton Keynes	12,870	750	17.3
Oxfordshire	38,090	2,130	17.9
Portsmouth	10,090	540	18.7
Reading	6,170	390	16.0
Slough	8,440	460	18.5
Southampton	12,170	750	16.1
Surrey	59,450	3,230	18.4
West Berkshire	12,170	750	16.2
West Sussex	45,030	2,630	17.1
Windsor and Maidenhead	10,490	620	16.9
Wokingham	11,030	640	17.1
South-west	326,220	18,810	17.3
Bath and North East Somerset	12,430	730	17.0
Bournemouth	10,000	570	17.5
Bristol, City of	16,660	1,030	16.2
Cornwall	33,070	1,880	17.6
Devon	42,300	2,410	17.5
Dorset	30,570	1,720	17.8
Gloucestershire	40,320	2,410	16.8
Isles of Scilly	0	0	—
North Somerset	12,930	760	17.1
Plymouth	19030	1080	17.5
Poole	8570	490	17.3
Somerset	33,390	1,840	18.1
South Gloucestershire	16,950	1,010	16.8
Swindon	11,580	650	17.7
Torbay	9200	540	17.0
Wiltshire	29,220	1,680	17.4

⁽²⁷⁾ See paragraph 29 of the explanatory notes.
⁽²⁸⁾ See paragraphs 45–47 of the explanatory notes.
⁽²⁹⁾ Rounding of components may cause discrepancies in totals.
⁽³⁰⁾ Includes middle schools as deemed.
⁽³¹⁾ Includes full-time and the full-time equivalent of part-time qualified teachers.
Notes:
1. Includes qualified teachers (including those not in schools and teachers providing short-term cover) and teachers without Qualified Teachers Status employed in the maintained sector.
2. These are ratios over all maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools; they do not reflect the actual deployment of teachers among different schools, nor the size of classes as taught.



 
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