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Education Maintenance Allowance
Dr. Starkey:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many students aged 16 to 18 years are in receipt of education maintenance allowance in each institution in the Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Learning and Skills Council area. [210744]
Mr. Ivan Lewis:
EMA is available in 200405 to eligible young people aged 16 on 31 August 2004 in the Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire LSC area. As at 19 January 2005 3,260 young people in the Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire LSC area had received an EMA payment.
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A document showing how many young people are receiving EMA in individual educational institutions in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire LSC area is shown in the table:
EMA students by School/College(10)
LEA name | SCL ID |
SCL Description | Number of enrolments
|
Buckinghamshire | 110484 | Buckingham School | 19
|
Buckinghamshire | 110485 | John Hampden Grammar School | 21
|
Buckinghamshire | 110488 | The Grange School | 27
|
Buckinghamshire | 110489 | Princes Risborough | 16
|
Buckinghamshire | 110490 | The Misbourne School | 21
|
Buckinghamshire | 110491 | John Colet School | 17
|
Buckinghamshire | 110492 | Quarrendon Upper School | 8
|
Buckinghamshire | 110493 | Burnham Grammar School | 18
|
Buckinghamshire | 110494 | Aylesbury High School | 36
|
Buckinghamshire | 110495 | Dr. Challoner's High School | 13
|
Buckinghamshire | 110496 | Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School and Performing Arts College | 29
|
Buckinghamshire | 110497 | Mandeville Upper School | 29
|
Buckinghamshire | 110499 | Holmer Green Senior School | 11
|
Buckinghamshire | 110500 | Cressex Community School | 23
|
Buckinghamshire | 110501 | Burnham Upper School | 11
|
Buckinghamshire | 110504 | Chesham High School | 21
|
Buckinghamshire | 110505 | The Beaconsfield School | 15
|
Buckinghamshire | 110506 | Sir William Ramsay School | 18
|
Buckinghamshire | 110508 | The Wye Valley School | 11
|
Buckinghamshire | 110509 | The Amersham School | 26
|
Buckinghamshire | 110510 | Chesham Park Community College | 10
|
Buckinghamshire | 110511 | Aylesbury Grammar School | 23
|
Buckinghamshire | 110512 | Royal Latin School | 35
|
Buckinghamshire | 110513 | Wycombe High School | 36
|
Buckinghamshire | 110514 | Dr. Challoner's Grammar School | 18
|
Buckinghamshire | 110515 | Sir William Borlase's Grammar School | 12
|
Buckinghamshire | 110516 | St. Bernard's Catholic School | 15
|
Buckinghamshire | 110528 | Beaconsfield High School | 16
|
Buckinghamshire | 110529 | The Chalfonts Community College | 26
|
Buckinghamshire | 110530 | The Royal Grammar School High Wycombe | 26
|
Buckinghamshire | 110533 | The Cottesloe School | 14
|
Buckinghamshire | 110534 | Waddesdon Church of England School | 32
|
Buckinghamshire | 110535 | Great Marlow School | 26
|
Buckinghamshire | 110542 | Holy Cross Convent School | 1
|
Buckinghamshire | 110548 | Stowe School | 6
|
Buckinghamshire | 110573 | Alfriston School | 1
|
Buckinghamshire | 110581 | Park School | 4
|
Buckinghamshire | 110582 | Heritage House School | 1
|
Buckinghamshire | 110585 | Furze Down School | 8
|
Buckinghamshire | 130607 | Aylesbury College | 159
|
Buckinghamshire | 130608 | Amersham and Wycombe College | 260
|
Buckinghamshire | 133586 | Penn School | 1
|
Milton Keynes | 110487 | Ousedale School | 53
|
Milton Keynes | 110498 | Denbigh School | 42
|
Milton Keynes | 110502 | Leon School and Sports College | 31
|
Milton Keynes | 110517 | St. Paul's Catholic School | 58
|
Milton Keynes | 110526 | Stantonbury Campus North | 69
|
Milton Keynes | 110531 | Lord Grey School | 35
|
Milton Keynes | 110532 | The Radcliffe School | 41
|
Milton Keynes | 110567 | Bury Lawn School | 2
|
Milton Keynes | 110575 | White Spire School | 7
|
Milton Keynes | 110587 | Slated Row School | 12
|
Milton Keynes | 110592 | The Redway School | 3
|
Milton Keynes | 130609 | Milton Keynes College | 333
|
Milton Keynes | 131185 | Shenley Brook End School | 20
|
Milton Keynes | 131396 | Walton High | 36
|
Oxfordshire | 123231 | Chipping Norton School | 28
|
Oxfordshire | 123232 | Banbury School | 57
|
Oxfordshire | 123233 | Bicester Community College | 28
|
Oxfordshire | 123235 | Burford School and Community College | 22
|
Oxfordshire | 123237 | The Henry Box School | 28
|
Oxfordshire | 123238 | Wood Green School | 18
|
Oxfordshire | 123239 | Bartholomew School | 18
|
Oxfordshire | 123241 | Gosford Hill School | 40
|
Oxfordshire | 123242 | Peers School | 20
|
Oxfordshire | 123243 | Wheatley Park School | 33
|
Oxfordshire | 123251 | The Cherwell School | 38
|
Oxfordshire | 123252 | Oxford Community School | 30
|
Oxfordshire | 123253 | Cheney School | 29
|
Oxfordshire | 123255 | Larkmead School | 17
|
Oxfordshire | 123256 | John Mason School | 14
|
Oxfordshire | 123257 | Fitzharrys School | 14
|
Oxfordshire | 123258 | Matthew Arnold School | 17
|
Oxfordshire | 123259 | St. Birinus School | 20
|
Oxfordshire | 123260 | Didcot Girls' School | 31
|
Oxfordshire | 123261 | Wallingford School | 18
|
Oxfordshire | 123262 | Faringdon Community College | 11
|
Oxfordshire | 123263 | King Alfred's Community and Sports College | 49
|
Oxfordshire | 123267 | The Marlborough Church of England School | 22
|
Oxfordshire | 123268 | Lord Williams's School | 47
|
Oxfordshire | 123270 | Blessed George Napier School | 8
|
Oxfordshire | 123277 | Kingham Hill School | 3
|
Oxfordshire | 123278 | Sibford School | 3
|
Oxfordshire | 123282 | The Oratory School | 1
|
Oxfordshire | 123283 | Cokethorpe School | 2
|
Oxfordshire | 123285 | Shiplake College | 6
|
Oxfordshire | 123290 | Headington School | 11
|
Oxfordshire | 123298 | Our Lady's Convent Senior School | 8
|
Oxfordshire | 123310 | Oxford High School GDST | 4
|
Oxfordshire | 123311 | Magdalen College School | 2
|
Oxfordshire | 123312 | Abingdon School | 9
|
Oxfordshire | 123313 | The School of St. Helen and St. Katharine | 7
|
Oxfordshire | 123318 | d'Overbroeck's College | 2
|
Oxfordshire | 123331 | Swalcliffe Park School Trust | 2
|
Oxfordshire | 130789 | The Henley College | 160
|
Oxfordshire | 130793 | Abingdon and Witney College | 169
|
Oxfordshire | 132406 | European School of Culham | 1
|
Oxfordshire | 133430 | St. Clare's Oxford | 1
|
Oxfordshire | 133644 | St. Gregory the Great VA Catholic Secondary School | 31
|
Oxfordshire | 134153 | Oxford and Cherwell College | 319
|
Total EMA students | | 3,260
|
(10) Data to 19 January 2005
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Education, Youth and Culture Council
Mr. Moore:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the Government's priorities for the Education, Youth and Culture Council will be during the United Kingdom's Presidency of the European Union; and if she will make a statement. [209555]
Dr. Howells:
The Operational Programme of the Council for 2005 submitted by the incoming Luxembourg and United Kingdom Presidencies and based on the Multi-Annual Strategic Programme for 200406 sets out priority areas of work in all policy
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areas, including education, youth and culture. A copy of the Annual Operation Programme for 2005 is available in the Library of the House.
The focus of the programme is on the on-going handling of EU business. What will fall to the UK Presidency depends on the progress made by the Council, European Parliament and Commission under the Luxembourg Presidency. The programme reflects the main UK Presidency objectives and provides the basis for us to take forward our priorities.
Key issues for the UK Presidency generally are likely to include progressing the delivery of the Lisbon agenda of more and better jobs, sustainable economic growth and greater competitiveness. In the Education part of the Council, we will aim to make good progress on the proposed new Integrated Lifelong Learning programme 200713. We will also begin work on the preparation of a report to the 2006 Spring European Council on the implementation of the detailed work programme 2010 for education and training systems agreed at Barcelona in spring 2002. In the Youth part of the Council, we will continue our negotiations on the Youth in Action programme for 200713. In the Culture and Audiovisual part of the Council, we will seek to move towards agreement on the proposed new culture programmes (200713) and the new Media programmes (200713). We will also seek to make progress on priority initiatives flowing from the new Culture Council work plan, in particular those on digitisation of cultural heritage and mobility of museum collections. In addition, we will take forward the preparatory work for a review of the Television without Frontiers (TVWF") directive.
Free Nursery Places
Iain Wright:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many children in Hartlepool have benefited from free nursery places since the policy was introduced. [210649]
Margaret Hodge:
All four-year-olds in England have been entitled to a free part-time early education place since September 1998. All three-year-olds in England have been entitled to a free part-time early education place since April 2004.
The available information on the numbers of free part-time early education places taken up by three and four-year-olds in Hartlepool local education authority area is shown in the table.
The latest figures on early education places for three and four-year-olds in England were published in Statistical First Release 39/2004 Provision for children under five years of age in EnglandJanuary 2004 (final)", which is available on the Department's website www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/.
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Number of free nursery education places(11) taken up 3 and 4-year-olds, Hartlepool local education authority area
| 3-year-olds
| 4-year-olds
|
Position in January each year | Maintained nursery and primary schools(13) | Other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers | Total 3-year-olds | Maintained nursery and primary schools(13) | Other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers(14) | Total 4-year-olds
|
1997 | 1,100 | n/a | 1,100 | n/a | n/a | (17)1,200
|
1998 | 1,200 | n/a | 1,200 | n/a | n/a | (17)1,300
|
1999 | 1,200 | n/a | 1,200 | n/a | n/a | (17)1,200
|
2000 | 1,100 | (15)40 | 1,100 | n/a | n/a | (17)1,000
|
2001 | 960 | (15)30 | 1,000 | n/a | n/a | (17)1,100
|
2002 | 930 | (15)90 | 1,000 | 1,100 | (17)20 | 1,100
|
2003 | 930 | (15)80 | 1,000 | 1,100 | 20 | 1,100
|
2004 | 950 | (16)100 | 1,000 | 1,100 | 20 | 1,100
|
n/a = Not available.
(11) Figures are rounded to the nearest 10 or 100 as appropriate.
(12) Headcount of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Annual Schools' Census.
(13) Headcount of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Annual Schools' Census.
(14) Part-time equivalent number of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Early Years Census and the Annual Schools' Census.
(15) Part-time equivalent number of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Nursery Education Grant data collection exercise.
(16) Part-time equivalent number of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Early Years Census and the Annual Schools' Census.
(17) Part-time equivalent number of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Nursery Education Grant data collection exercise.
Mr. Fisher:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many children in Stoke-on-Trent have taken up free nursery places in each year since the policy was introduced. [210865]
Margaret Hodge:
All four-year-olds in England have been entitled to a free part-time early education place since September 1998. All three-year-olds in England have been entitled to a free part-time early education place since April 2004.
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The available information on the numbers of free part-time early education places taken up by three and four year olds in Stoke on Trent local education authority Area is shown in the table.
The latest figures on early education places for three and four-year-olds in England were published in Statistical First Release 39/2004 Provision for children under five years of age in EnglandJanuary 2004 (final)", which is available on the Department's website www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/.
Number of free nursery education places(18) taken up by 3 and 4-year-olds, Stoke on Trent local education authority area
| 3-year-olds
| 4-year-olds
|
Position in January each year | Maintained nursery and primary schools(19) | Other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers | Total 3-year-olds | Maintained nursery and primary schools(20) | Other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers | Total 4-year-olds
|
1997 | 1,200 | n/a | 1,200 | n/a | n/a | (23)3,100
|
1998 | 2,000 | n/a | 2,000 | n/a | n/a | (23)3,000
|
1999 | 2,000 | n/a | 2,000 | n/a | n/a | (23)2,900
|
2000 | 2,000 | (21)290 | 2,300 | n/a | n/a | (23)2,800
|
2001 | 1,800 | (21)370 | 2,200 | n/a | n/a | (23)2,800
|
2002 | 1,600 | (21)450 | 2,100 | 2,800 | (23)90 | 2,900
|
2003 | 1,600 | (21)640 | 2,300 | 2,700 | (24)90 | 2,800
|
2004 | 1,600 | (22)600 | 2,200 | 2,600 | (24)100 | 2,700
|
n/ a = Not available.
(18) Figures are rounded to the nearest 10 or 100 as appropriate.
(19) Headcount of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Annual Schools' Census.
(20) Headcount of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Annual Schools' Census.
(21) Part-time equivalent number of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Nursery Education Grant data collection exercise.
(22) Part-time equivalent number of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Early Years Census and the Annual Schools' Census.
(23) Part-time equivalent number of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Nursery Education Grant data collection exercise.
(24) Part-time equivalent number of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Early Years Census and the Annual Schools' Census.
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Mr. Allen:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many (a) three and (b) four-year-old children in Nottingham, North attended nursery in (i)1997 and (ii) the most recent period for which figures are available. [211020]
Margaret Hodge:
All four-year-olds in England have been entitled to a free part-time early education place since September 1998. All three-year-olds in England have been entitled to a free part-time early education place since April 2004.
The available information on the numbers of free part-time early education places taken up by three and four-year-olds in Nottingham, North parliamentary constituency and Nottingham City local education authority area is shown in the tables. Information for private and voluntary providers is available for Nottingham City but not for Nottingham, North.
The latest figures on early education places for three and four-year-olds in England were published in Statistical First Release 39/2004 Provision for children under five years of age in EnglandJanuary 2004 (final)", which is available on the Department's website www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/.
Number of free nursery education places(25)(5507280026) taken up 3 and 4year-olds in maintained nursery and primary schools Nottingham, North parliamentary constituency area 1997and 2004
| | Maintained primary schools
|
Position in
January each
year | Maintained nursery schools | Nursery classes | Other classes(27) | Total
|
3-year-olds | | | |
|
1997 | 0 | 850 | 0 | 850
|
2004 | 0 | 900 | 10 | 920
|
4-year-olds | | | |
|
1997 | 0 | 1,300 | 170 | 1,400
|
2004 | 0 | 800 | 360 | 1,200
|
(25) Headcount of children aged three and four at 31 December in the previous calendar year.
(26) Figures are rounded to the nearest 10 or 100 as appropriate.
(27) Includes reception classes and classes not designated as nursery classes.
Source:
Annual Schools' Census
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Number of free nursery education places(28) taken up three and four-year-olds Nottingham City local education authority area 1997 and 2004
Position in January each year | Maintained nursery and primary schools(29)(5507280030) | Other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers | Total
|
3-year-olds | | |
|
1997 | 1,800 | n/a | 1,800
|
2004 | 2,200 | (30)700 | 2,900
|
4-year-olds | | |
|
1997 | n/a | n/a | (32)3,900
|
2004 | 2,800 | (33)400 | 3,200
|
n/a = Not available.
1 Figures are rounded to the nearest 10 or 100 as appropriate.
(28) Headcount of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Annual Schools' Census.
(29) Part-time equivalent number of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Early Years Census and the Annual Schools' Census.
(30) Headcount of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Annual Schools' Census.
(31) Part-time equivalent number of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Nursery Education Grant data collection exercise.
(32) Part-time equivalent number of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Early Years Census and the Annual Schools' Census.
Mr. Fisher:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many three and four-year-olds in Stoke on Trent have benefited from the scheme guaranteeing a free part-time nursery place. [209908]
Margaret Hodge:
All four-year-olds in England have been entitled to a free part-time early education place since September 1998. All three-year-olds in England have been entitled to a free part-time early education place since April 2004.
The available information on the numbers of free part-time early education places taken up by three and four-year-olds in Stoke on Trent local education authority area is shown in the table.
The latest figures on early education places for three and four-year-olds in England were published in Statistical First Release 39/2004 Provision for children under five years of age in EnglandJanuary 2004 (final)", which is available on the Department's website www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/.
Number of free nursery education places taken up 3 and 4-year-oldsStoke on Trent local education authority area
| 3-year-olds
| 4-year-olds
|
Position in January each year | Maintained nursery and primary schools(33) | Other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers | Total 3-year-olds | Maintained nursery and primary schools(34) | Other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers(35) | Total 4-year-olds
|
1997 | 1,200 | n/a | 1,200 | n/a | n/a | (36)3,100
|
1998 | 2,000 | n/a | 2,000 | n/a | n/a | (36)3,000
|
1999 | 2,000 | n/a | 2,000 | n/a | n/a | (36)2,900
|
2000 | 2,000 | (37)290 | 2,300 | n/a | n/a | (36)2,800
|
2001 | 1,800 | (37)370 | 2,200 | n/a | n/a | (36)2,800
|
2002 | 1,600 | (37)450 | 2,100 | 2,800 | 90 | (36)2,900
|
2003 | 1,600 | (37)640 | 2,300 | 2,700 | 90 | 2,800
|
2004 | 1,600 | (38)600 | 2,200 | 2,600 | 100 | 2,700
|
n/a = Not available.
(33) Headcount of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Annual Schools' Census.
(34) Headcount of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Annual Schools' Census.
(35) Part-time equivalent number of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar from the Early Years Census and the Annual Schools' Census.
(36) Part-time equivalent number of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Nursery Education Grant data collection exercise.
(37) Part-time equivalent number of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Nursery Education Grant data collection exercise.
(38) Part-time equivalent number of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Early Years Census and the Annual Schools' Census.
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