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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 2004–05 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 nameSCL ID SCL DescriptionNumber of enrolments
Buckinghamshire110484Buckingham School19
Buckinghamshire110485John Hampden Grammar School21
Buckinghamshire110488The Grange School27
Buckinghamshire110489Princes Risborough16
Buckinghamshire110490The Misbourne School21
Buckinghamshire110491John Colet School17
Buckinghamshire110492Quarrendon Upper School8
Buckinghamshire110493Burnham Grammar School18
Buckinghamshire110494Aylesbury High School36
Buckinghamshire110495Dr. Challoner's High School13
Buckinghamshire110496Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School and Performing Arts College29
Buckinghamshire110497Mandeville Upper School29
Buckinghamshire110499Holmer Green Senior School11
Buckinghamshire110500Cressex Community School23
Buckinghamshire110501Burnham Upper School11
Buckinghamshire110504Chesham High School21
Buckinghamshire110505The Beaconsfield School15
Buckinghamshire110506Sir William Ramsay School18
Buckinghamshire110508The Wye Valley School11
Buckinghamshire110509The Amersham School26
Buckinghamshire110510Chesham Park Community College10
Buckinghamshire110511Aylesbury Grammar School23
Buckinghamshire110512Royal Latin School35
Buckinghamshire110513Wycombe High School36
Buckinghamshire110514Dr. Challoner's Grammar School18
Buckinghamshire110515Sir William Borlase's Grammar School12
Buckinghamshire110516St. Bernard's Catholic School15
Buckinghamshire110528Beaconsfield High School16
Buckinghamshire110529The Chalfonts Community College26
Buckinghamshire110530The Royal Grammar School High Wycombe26
Buckinghamshire110533The Cottesloe School14
Buckinghamshire110534Waddesdon Church of England School32
Buckinghamshire110535Great Marlow School26
Buckinghamshire110542Holy Cross Convent School1
Buckinghamshire110548Stowe School6
Buckinghamshire110573Alfriston School1
Buckinghamshire110581Park School4
Buckinghamshire110582Heritage House School1
Buckinghamshire110585Furze Down School8
Buckinghamshire130607Aylesbury College159
Buckinghamshire130608Amersham and Wycombe College260
Buckinghamshire133586Penn School1
Milton Keynes110487Ousedale School53
Milton Keynes110498Denbigh School42
Milton Keynes110502Leon School and Sports College31
Milton Keynes110517St. Paul's Catholic School58
Milton Keynes110526Stantonbury Campus North69
Milton Keynes110531Lord Grey School35
Milton Keynes110532The Radcliffe School41
Milton Keynes110567Bury Lawn School2
Milton Keynes110575White Spire School7
Milton Keynes110587Slated Row School12
Milton Keynes110592The Redway School3
Milton Keynes130609Milton Keynes College333
Milton Keynes131185Shenley Brook End School20
Milton Keynes131396Walton High36
Oxfordshire123231Chipping Norton School28
Oxfordshire123232Banbury School57
Oxfordshire123233Bicester Community College28
Oxfordshire123235Burford School and Community College22
Oxfordshire123237The Henry Box School28
Oxfordshire123238Wood Green School18
Oxfordshire123239Bartholomew School18
Oxfordshire123241Gosford Hill School40
Oxfordshire123242Peers School20
Oxfordshire123243Wheatley Park School33
Oxfordshire123251The Cherwell School38
Oxfordshire123252Oxford Community School30
Oxfordshire123253Cheney School29
Oxfordshire123255Larkmead School17
Oxfordshire123256John Mason School14
Oxfordshire123257Fitzharrys School14
Oxfordshire123258Matthew Arnold School17
Oxfordshire123259St. Birinus School20
Oxfordshire123260Didcot Girls' School31
Oxfordshire123261Wallingford School18
Oxfordshire123262Faringdon Community College11
Oxfordshire123263King Alfred's Community and Sports College49
Oxfordshire123267The Marlborough Church of England School22
Oxfordshire123268Lord Williams's School47
Oxfordshire123270Blessed George Napier School8
Oxfordshire123277Kingham Hill School3
Oxfordshire123278Sibford School3
Oxfordshire123282The Oratory School1
Oxfordshire123283Cokethorpe School2
Oxfordshire123285Shiplake College6
Oxfordshire123290Headington School11
Oxfordshire123298Our Lady's Convent Senior School8
Oxfordshire123310Oxford High School GDST4
Oxfordshire123311Magdalen College School2
Oxfordshire123312Abingdon School9
Oxfordshire123313The School of St. Helen and St. Katharine7
Oxfordshire123318d'Overbroeck's College2
Oxfordshire123331Swalcliffe Park School Trust2
Oxfordshire130789The Henley College160
Oxfordshire130793Abingdon and Witney College169
Oxfordshire132406European School of Culham1
Oxfordshire133430St. Clare's Oxford1
Oxfordshire133644St. Gregory the Great VA Catholic Secondary School31
Oxfordshire134153Oxford and Cherwell College319
Total EMA students3,260


(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 2004–06 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 2007–13. 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 2007–13. In the Culture and Audiovisual part of the Council, we will seek to move towards agreement on the proposed new culture programmes (2007–13) and the new Media programmes (2007–13). 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 England—January 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 yearMaintained nursery and primary schools(13)Other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providersTotal 3-year-oldsMaintained nursery and primary schools(13)Other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers(14)Total 4-year-olds
19971,100n/a1,100n/an/a(17)1,200
19981,200n/a1,200n/an/a(17)1,300
19991,200n/a1,200n/an/a(17)1,200
20001,100(15)401,100n/an/a(17)1,000
2001960(15)301,000n/an/a(17)1,100
2002930(15)901,0001,100(17)201,100
2003930(15)801,0001,100201,100
2004950(16)1001,0001,100201,100




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 England—January 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 yearMaintained nursery and primary schools(19)Other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providersTotal 3-year-oldsMaintained nursery and primary schools(20)Other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providersTotal 4-year-olds
19971,200n/a1,200n/an/a(23)3,100
19982,000n/a2,000n/an/a(23)3,000
19992,000n/a2,000n/an/a(23)2,900
20002,000(21)2902,300n/an/a(23)2,800
20011,800(21)3702,200n/an/a(23)2,800
20021,600(21)4502,1002,800(23)902,900
20031,600(21)6402,3002,700(24)902,800
20041,600(22)6002,2002,600(24)1002,700




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 England—January 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 4–year-olds in maintained nursery and primary schools Nottingham, North parliamentary constituency area 1997and 2004

Maintained primary schools
Position in
January each
year
Maintained nursery schoolsNursery classesOther classes(27)Total
3-year-olds
199708500850
2004090010920
4-year-olds
199701,3001701,400
200408003601,200


(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 yearMaintained nursery and primary schools(29)(5507280030)Other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providersTotal
3-year-olds
19971,800n/a1,800
20042,200(30)7002,900
4-year-olds
1997n/an/a(32)3,900
20042,800(33)4003,200




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 England—January 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-olds—Stoke on Trent local education authority area

3-year-olds
4-year-olds
Position in January each yearMaintained nursery and primary schools(33)Other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providersTotal 3-year-oldsMaintained nursery and primary schools(34)Other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers(35)Total 4-year-olds
19971,200n/a1,200n/an/a(36)3,100
19982,000n/a2,000n/an/a(36)3,000
19992,000n/a2,000n/an/a(36)2,900
20002,000(37)2902,300n/an/a(36)2,800
20011,800(37)3702,200n/an/a(36)2,800
20021,600(37)4502,1002,80090(36)2,900
20031,600(37)6402,3002,700902,800
20041,600(38)6002,2002,6001002,700




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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