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Education Funding (Bury)
Mr. Chaytor: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the total allocation of capital expenditure to (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in Bury Metropolitan borough council area was in each of the last seven years. [198326]
Mr. Charles Clarke: The following table shows capital resources allocated to Bury local education authority and its schools, since 1997. Information on the split between primary and secondary schools is not held centrally. Decisions on how resources should be invested in schools are taken locally in accordance with the locally prepared asset management plans.
| £000 | |
|---|---|
| 1997–98 | 941 |
| 1998–99 | 2,311 |
| 1999–2000 | 3,317 |
| 2000–01 | 5,183 |
| 2001–02 | 4,736 |
| 2002–03 | 5,785 |
| 2003–04 | 7,556 |
| 2004–05 | 10,833 |
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Education Maintenance Allowance
Mr. Grogan: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many students in the Selby constituency are receiving the education maintenance allowance. [198783]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: Since the start of the academic year, as of 31 October, 1,579 young people in the North Yorkshire area had received payments under the national EMA scheme. The number is increasing at a steady rate and we expect it to continue to do so. The EMA scheme has proved its effectiveness in the pilots we have run, and it will allow young people from lower income households to succeed in a wide variety of vocational and academic courses.
We are unable to provide numbers down to constituency level.
Rob Marris: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will list institutions with students aged 16 to 18 years who are in receipt of an education maintenance allowance, broken down by number of students. [197505]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: There are currently around 2,875 schools and colleges across England with students enrolled on the EMA system (EMASYS). Over 200,000 young people have received EMA payments so far.
The following information lists the schools and colleges in the Black Country and the number of students enrolled on EMASYS in each up to 31 October. A copy of the full list, including an electronic version, will be placed in the Library.
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Ms Oona King: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) how many 16-year-olds in full-time education in Tower Hamlets are eligible for an education maintenance allowance; [198866]
(2) how many and what percentage of young people starting post-16 education in Tower Hamlets in 2004 have been awarded education maintenance allowance; and what percentage of those have received a (a) £30, (b) £20 and (c) £10 award. [198867]
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Mr. Ivan Lewis: We estimate that around 1,400 16-year-olds entering Year 12 in Tower Hamlets are eligible for EMA on income grounds.
Since the start of the academic year, as of 31 October, 1,416 young people in the Tower Hamlets LEA area had received payments under the national EMA scheme. The number is increasing at a steady rate and we expect
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it to continue to do so. We are unable to breakdown the figures at LEA level to show specifically how many young people are receiving £10, £20 and £30 payments.
Education/Training (West Derbyshire)
Mr. McLoughlin: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of (a) GCSE and (b) sixth form students have continued to higher education in (i) West Derbyshire, (ii) the East Midlands of England and (iii) England in each year since 1990. [198362]
Dr. Howells: The available information on participation rates by region shows the proportion of 18-year-olds entering full-time undergraduate courses in the UK via the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCASJ, and is given in the table. Comparable figures for the years prior to 1994 are not available centrally.
It should be noted that the proportions in the table are based only on the number of 18-year-olds entering full-time HE. This is a different definition to the Department's main measures of HE participation: the Age Participation Index (API), which measures the proportion of UK domiciled students who enter full-time HE by the age of 20, and the Higher Education Initial Participation Rate (HEIPR) which measures the proportion of 17–30 year old English domiciled first time entrants to full or part-time HE. Neither the API nor the HEIPR are calculated for each LEA, because of the lack of detailed data at local authority level.
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(75) Derbyshire excludes Derby LEA from 1997.
(76) Covers the local education authorities of Derby, Derbyshire, Leicester, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and Rutland.
Mr. McLoughlin: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many young people in (a) West Derbyshire and (b) the East Midlands have entered (i) an advanced modern apprenticeship and (ii) a foundation modern apprenticeship since the schemes' inception. [198363]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: The information is not available for West Derbyshire as requested by the hon. Gentleman. However, information is available for old Training and Enterprise Council (TEC) areas and new Learning and Skills Council (LSC) areas. The following table shows the number of starts on Apprenticeships in Derbyshire Learning and Skills Council (LSC) between the 26 March 2001 and the end of July 2004, as well as the number of starts from the inception of the programmes until 25 March 2001 in the three TEC areas that became part of Derbyshire LSC area. The table also shows the number of starts in the East Midlands region in these periods.
(77) Some of the Stockport and High Peak TEC area became part of Derbyshire LSC, but some of the old TEC area also became part of Greater Manchester LSC
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