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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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