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Increased Flexibility Programme

Mr. Dismore: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills whether the 14–16 Increased Flexibility programme will be continued; and if he will make a statement. [203594]

Mr. Miliband: An announcement will be made shortly.

Islington Schools

Jeremy Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much his Department spent on (a) pre-school, (b) primary school and (c) secondary schools in the Borough of Islington for each year since 1996–97; and how much was spent by the London borough of Islington from locally-generated revenue. [203286]

Mr. Miliband [holding answer 8 December 2004]: The Department funds Local Education Authorities and it is for them to decide how that funding is allocated within their area. Information relating to the spending on pre-primary, primary and secondary schools in Islington Education Authority is provided in the following table. Locally generated revenue data is not collected by my Department.
Combined LEA and school based net expenditure⁽²⁵⁾ by Islington LEA 1996–97 to 2002–03⁽²⁶⁾.

	Pre-primary education	Primary education	Pre-primary and Primary education	Secondary education	Overall LEA and school based expenditure
1996–97	n/a	n/a	41,104,000	25,845,000	86,049,000
1997–98(27)	n/a	n/a	43,454,000	26,575,000	88,659,000
1998–99(27)	n/a	n/a	46,950,000	27,161,000	94,361,000
1999–2000(27)	6,524,000	44,570,000	51,094,000	29,607,000	93,160,000
2000–01	7,786,000	49,511,000	57,298,000	35,857,000	103,392,000
2001–02	8,223,000	53,576,000	61,799,000	42,826,000	115,651,000
2002–031, 4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	112,676,000

⁽²⁵⁾ The combined LEA and school based expenditure includes all expenditure on the education of children in LEA maintained establishments and pupils educated by the LEA other than in maintained establishments. This includes both school based expenditure and all elements of central LEA expenditure except youth and community and capital expenditure from revenue (CERA). A sector breakdown for combined LEA and school based expenditure is not available in 2002–03 due to the redesign of the Section 52 Outturn Table A where central LEA expenditure is no longer split by phase.
⁽²⁶⁾ 1999–00 saw a change in data source when the data collection moved from the RO1 form collected by the ODPM to the Section 52 form from the DfES. 2002–03 saw a further break in the time series following the introduction of Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR) and the associated restructuring of the outturn tables. The change in sources is shown by the dotted line.
⁽²⁷⁾ Spending in 1997–98 reflects the transfer of monies from local government to central Government for the nursery vouchers scheme. These were returned to local government from 1998–99. The 1999–00 figures reflect the return of GM schools to local authority maintenance.
⁽²⁸⁾ In 2002–03 Islington LEA were one of a group of LEAs whose net current expenditure was lower than expected. It is suspected that this was caused by the misreporting of funding in the income column of their 2002–03 Outturn Statement Table A.
Notes:
1. Figures are rounded to the nearest1,000 as reported by the LEA. n-a= not available





 
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Literacy/Numeracy

David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of (a) Key Stage 2 pupils and (b) Key Stage 3 pupils reached the required standards in both literacy and numeracy in each year since 1997 in (i) Haltemprice and Howden and (ii) England. [203527]

Mr. Miliband: The percentage of Key Stage 2 pupils achieving level 4 or above in English and mathematics for 1997–2003 are set out in the following table:
Percentage

	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
Haltemprice and Howden:
English	69.2	72.0	76.8	84.3	82.0	81.9	79.7
Mathematics	70.0	70.6	76.3	79.2	77.2	80.0	77.5
England:
English	63	65	71	75	75	75	75
Mathematics	62	59	69	72	71	73	73

The percentage of Key Stage 3 pupils achieving level 5 or above in English and mathematics for 1997–2003 are set out in the following table:
Percentage

	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
Haltemprice and Howden:
English	64.9	68.4	66,6	68.9	66.7	69.8	76.9
Mathematics	69.0	64.7	70.0	73.7	72.2	71.5	72.8
England:
English	57	65	64	64	65	67	69
Mathematics	60	59	62	65	66	67	71

Figures for 2004 by Parliamentary Constituency are not yet available, but will be placed in the Library as soon as possible.

OECD PISA Survey 2003

Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what reasons were given by the schools in England which refused to take part in the OECD PISA 2003 survey for their decision not to take part. [203171]

Mr. Miliband: The Department's contractor, ONS, gained some insights from contacts with schools while seeking their agreement to take part about why they did not wish to participate in PISA 2003. The most common reason for refusal was the teaching staff time required in co-ordinating the school's participation in the studies. Schools also said that they received too many requests from a number of different sources to take part in surveys. The PISA rules require that testing takes place in the spring or summer terms and, as the sample was of 15–16 year olds, many sampled pupils were in their GCSE year and even the half a day's testing required by PISA was seen as a distraction from their preparation.

Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what reasons were given by schools which took part in the OECD PISA 2003 survey for excluding certain pupils from the survey. [203172]

Mr. Miliband: PISA is a voluntary survey and relies on the co-operation of both schools and students. Schools which participated in PISA did not have a role
 
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in excluding eligible students. Some students declined to take part in the survey as their participation was voluntary and some students who agreed to take part in PISA were absent on the day of testing.

Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what discussions officials from the Office for National Statistics have had with officials from the Department for Education and Skills regarding the OECD PISA 2003 survey. [203179]

Mr. Miliband: As the Department's contractor for PISA 2000 and 2003, the ONS has had an ongoing and close relationship with DFES over a number of years. This has included regular project management meetings and updates on PISA as appropriate to the stage of the survey.

Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to the answer of 1 December, Official Report, column 147W on International Student Assessment Study, what the response rate of (a) schools and (b) pupils in the sample of English schools selected was for (i) the OECD PISA survey 2000 and (ii) the OECD PISA survey 2003. [203216]

Mr. Miliband: The school and pupil response rates for England for PISA 2000 and 2003 are set out in the following table.

	School Response—before replacement	School Response—after replacement	Pupil Response
PISA 2000	59	82	81
PISA 2003	64	77	77

Permanent Exclusions (Fines)

Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills which local education authorities issue fines to schools for permanent exclusion. [202973]

Mr. Stephen Twigg: Schools are not fined for permanently excluding a pupil. Some local education authorities deduct an amount of money (over and above the amount prescribed in regulations) from the excluding school's budget to help pay for the excluded pupil's suitable education elsewhere. Information on which LEAs do this is not held centrally.

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