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EDUCATION AND SKILLS

Teenage Pregnancy (Greater London)

Mrs. May: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the teenage pregnancy rate in each local authority in the Greater London area was in (a) 1997 and (b) 2003–04. [192527]

Mr. Timms: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.

Letter from Len Cook to Mrs. Theresa May, dated 21 October 2004:

As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking what the teenage pregnancy rate in each local authority in the Greater London area was in (a) 1997 and (b) 2003–04. (192527)

The most recent year for which conceptions statistics are available is 2002. The available figures are provisional estimates and are given in the attached table for the areas requested.

Conceptions to women aged under 18—number and rate:London 1997 and 2002⁽⁵⁾

	1997		2002(5)
	Number of conceptions	Rate per 1,000 women aged 15–17	Number of conceptions	Rate per 1,000 women aged 15–17
London	5,975	50.6	6,512	52.0
Inner London 2,758		65.2	3,010	66.9
Camden	144	52.4	135	49.3
Hackney and City of London	279	79.6	303	75.3
Hammersmith and Fulham	126	61.0	137	62.0
Haringey	234	65.3	313	79.3
Islington	169	61.6	173	62.6
Kensington and Chelsea	75	42.3	81	42.8
Lambeth	352	85.7	406	99.6
Lewisham	302	79.0	328	75.2
Newham	295	62.2	333	57.9
Southwark	284	78.6	335	81.2
Tower Hamlets	185	49.3	187	46.5
Wandsworth	219	66.5	184	64.4
Westminster City of	94	36.4	95	43.2
Outer London
Barking and Dagenham	193	69.0	236	73.3
Barnet	171	30.2	192	33.6
Bexley	140	37.0	172	40.1
Brent	206	44.7	253	51.4
Bromley	142	29.3	179	35.1
Croydon	320	53.5	367	58.1
Ealing	200	38.9	185	34.8
Enfield	206	45.7	292	55.6
Greenwich	274	67.4	248	61.9
Harrow	120	30.8	115	28.0
Havering	162	38.7	150	36.7
Hillingdon	221	53.0	210	46.8
Hounslow	164	44.0	158	40.0
Kingston upon Thames	66	28.6	68	27.5
Merton	109	41.5	118	40.5
Redbridge	150	35.2	155	33.5
Richmond upon Thames	66	25.2	63	26.6
Sutton	106	36.9	110	34.9
Waltham Forest	201	54.4	231	58.0

⁽⁵⁾ Provisional figures.


 
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Education Finance

Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what projected expenditure under the (a) Targeted Capital Fund and (b) locally co-ordinated voluntary aided programme is for (i) 2004–05, (ii) 2005–06 and (iii) 2006–07; and what spending was in 2003–04. [193057]

Mr. Miliband: I have placed two tables of information in the Library of the House. Table A shows details of spending against Targeted Capital projects and the Local Education Authority Co-ordinated Voluntary Aided Programme for 2004–05. Table B shows the projected programme for 2004–05. I am not yet able to confirm all of the programmes for 2005–06 and 2006–07 but will be announcing the details in the next month or so.

Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will make a statement on the availability of capital funding to local education authorities not in Phase 1 of Building Schools for the Future. [193058]

Mr. Miliband: I aim to announce in the next month or so details of capital funding available for all local authorities and schools over the 2004 Spending Review period.
 
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Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what representations he has received on the future of the (a) locally co-ordinated voluntary aided programme and (b) Targeted Capital Fund; and if he will make a statement. [193059]

Mr. Miliband: I can confirm that these popular programmes will continue. The Department works with the Voluntary Aided Capital Working Group on schools capital issues. The Secretary of State has previously announced increases in the Department's total schools capital budget, and I will announce more details early next month, including some developments in the Targeted Capital Fund programme.

Mathematics (A-level)

Peter Bottomley: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will make a statement on the number and rate for the relevant pupil population of mathematics A grades at A level (a) at Westminster School and (b) in schools in (i) inner London, (ii) Birmingham, (iii) Manchester and (iv) Leeds. [190943R]

Mr. Miliband: The information requested given in Table 1 is for academic year 2002/03. Figures for 2003/04 will be available for local education authorities from October 21 and for schools after the School and College Achievement and Attainment Tables are published in January.
Table 1: Grade A achievement at mathematics by students aged 16 to 18 in 2002/03

	Number of A grades at A level mathematics	As a percentage of A level mathematics entries (percentage)
Westminster School	105	91
Birmingham LEA	256	34
Leeds LEA	134	31
Manchester LEA	59	31
Inner London LEAs	242	23

Note:
It is DfES policy that Local Education Authority statistics include both maintained schools (mainstream and special) and Further Education Sector Institutions, but exclude independent schools.

Teachers' Pay

Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the average full-time equivalent gross pay of teachers in York schools was in each year since 1997 (a) in cash terms and (b) at current prices. [192438]

Mr. Miliband: The following table gives the actual gross average salary in cash terms and 2002–03 prices. The information is for full-time regular qualified teachers at all grades in the maintained schools sector in the City of York local education authority in each year from 1997. The latest information is for 2003.

	Average salary(6)	Current prices(7)
1997	22,550	26,070
1998	23,200	26,150
1999	24,060	26,370
2000	24,930	26,740
2001	26,920	28,530
2002	27,840	28,770
2003	29,670	29,670

Sources:
Database of Teachers' Records
⁽⁶⁾ Includes all allowances. Data as at March each year.
⁽⁷⁾ The actual salaries have been adjusted using the current GDP price deflator, for which the value for year 2002–03 has been set to 100.


 
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INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Angola

Mike Gapes: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what support his Department is giving to development projects in Angola. [192604R]

Hilary Benn: DFID has set out its proposed support for Angola for the period 2003 to 2006 in its Country Engagement Plan, which complements the UK's overall Angola policy framework. DFID's assistance in 2004–05 will be almost £9 million. £3 million of this has been allocated to humanitarian programmes. Working closely with international partners like the World Bank and the United Nations, DFID is tightly focusing our development efforts on three main areas:

Consolidation of Peace

DFID is supporting media and civil society activities worth £1.13 million aimed at building peace and preventing further conflict. In addition, Angola benefits from an Africa Conflict Prevention Pool contribution of US$ 25 million over five years to the World Bank's Multi-Country Demobilisation and Reintegration Programme (MDRP) for the Africa Great Lakes region.

Democratisation

DFID is helping prepare civil society and other stakeholders for the national elections scheduled for September 2006. The total cost of this programme over two years is expected to exceed £0.5 million.

Economic Reform and Transparency

DFID is working closely with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to assist the Government of Angola to introduce economic reforms aimed at improved financial management and greater transparency. This includes setting up a Trust Fund to help Angola sign up to and implement the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. DFID has also been supporting the Angolan national response to combat HIV/AIDS; the process to develop and implement a Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper and land reform. All of the above programmes are worth £1.64 million. And finally, we are contributing £8.9 million over three years to alleviate urban poverty through our Luanda Urban Poverty Programme.

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