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Class Sizes
Mr. Allen: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many (a) five, (b) six and (c) seven-year-old children in Nottingham, North were taught in class sizes of 30 or more in (i) 1997 and (ii) the latest period for which figures are available. [211019]
Mr. Stephen Twigg: The age of individual pupils in classes is not collected centrally. The available information is shown in the table.
(16)Includes middle schools as deemed.
(17)Percentage of pupils in those classes expressed as a percentage of pupils in all classes taught by one teacher.
Source:
Annual Schools Census
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College Lecturers (Pay)
Alistair Burt: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many college lecturers are employed by outside organisations; what the average differential in the pay rates between college lecturers employed directly by colleges and those employed indirectly is; and whether her Department monitors the pay rates set by (a) Protocol Professional and (b) other consultancies who hire lecturers using public funds. [211366]
Mr. Stephen Twigg: Data from the Learning and Schools Council (LSC) indicate that some 11,900 (9 per cent.) of teaching staff in colleges in the academic year 2002–03 were not employed directly by colleges.
The rates of pay set by Protocol Professionals or any other agencies are not monitored by the LSC or the Department.
Further education colleges are run by independent corporations established under the Further and Higher Education Act 1992. They determine their own recruitment and pay policies. Pay levels will therefore vary from institution to institution.
The following table shows the average salaries of full-time lecturers in further education paying into the Teachers Pension Scheme (TPS) as at 31 March 2002.
Source:
Database of Teacher Records
There is no barrier to agency staff joining the TPS but the differing rates of pay between agency and non-agency staff cannot be determined. There are no indications on the proportion of staff joining the TPS.
Departmental Policies (Hull)
Mr. McNamara: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will set out, with statistical information relating as directly as possible to the Kingston upon Hull, North constituency, the effects on Kingston upon Hull, North of her Department's policies and actions since 2 May 1997. [211808]
Mr. Stephen Twigg:
The Kingston upon Hull, North constituency lies within Kingston upon Hull local education authority. The most recent Key Stage 2 and GCSE and equivalents Achievement for pupils attending schools in Kingston upon Hull, North are given in the following tables.
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(18)For 2004 only results incorporate GCSEs, GNVQs and a wide range of other qualifications approved pre-16. Prior to 2004 results are based on GCSEs and GNVQs only.
(19)As standard the results reported relate to pupils aged 15 at the start of the academic year i.e. 31 August and therefore reaching the end of compulsory education at the end of the school year.
Further information by constituency, is provided within the Department's 'In Your Area' website available at http://www.dfes.gov.uk/inyourarea. Where information is not available at the constituency level it has been provided at local education authority level.
This website allows users to access key facts and local information about education and skills based on postcodes. The data available within the site offers comparisons between 1997 and the latest available year and covers five geographies. These are Parliamentary constituency, Ward, Local Authority District, Local Education Authority, Government Office Region. England figures are also provided.
The information available within the website is grouped in a number of broad categories including Literacy and Numeracy at age 11, Literacy and Numeracy at age 14, GCSE / GNVQ results, Pupils with Special Educational Needs, School Initiatives, School Workforce, School Funding and Resources, Children's Social Services, Early Years, Class Sizes, Post 16, Higher Education and Adult Education.
Additional information could be provided only at disproportionate cost. However, my Department is investigating ways in which we can disseminate more information about the effects of our policies at a local level. The 'In Your Area' website will be further developed over the coming months to include additional information about Adult Education, School Funding, School Initiatives, School Performance, School Workforce and Post 16.
Education Funding
Mr. Webb:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much central Government funding was received by each local education authority in England (a) per primary pupil and (b) per secondary pupil in 2004–05; if she will estimate the figures for
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2005–06 based on the provisional local government settlement; and if she will provide in each case estimates for England as whole. [212020]
Mr. Stephen Twigg: The table gives, for local education authorities in England in 2004–05, the total funding per pupil in cash terms. These funding figures include funding via Education Formula Spending/Standard Spending Assessment and grants allocated at an LEA level, it also includes the pensions transfer to EPS and the Learning and Skills Council.
Unfortunately, estimated funding figures for 2005–06 are not available as not all grant figures for 2005–06 are yet to hand.
Notes:
1.Price base: Cash.
2.Figures reflect relevant sub-blocks of education EPS settlements and include the pensions transfer to EPS and LSC. EPS is paid to authorities as a combination of central Government grant and council tax raised locally.
3.Total funding also includes all revenue grants in DfES Departmental Expenditure Limits relevant to pupils aged 3–10 and excludes EMAs and grants not allocated at LEA level. For those LEAs in receipt of advance of grant under the transitional support arrangements for 2004–05, advance grant funding is included in the year of payment (2004–05). There will be a consequential reduction in DfES grant for these LEAs in future years (either 2006–07 and 2007–08 or 2006–07 to 2008–09) depending on the terms which the advance was given to the LEA.
4.The pupil numbers used to convert £m figures to £ per pupil are those underlying the EPS settlement calculations.
5.Rounding: Figures are rounded to the nearest 10.
6.Status: 2004–05 figures are provisional as some grants have not yet been finalised/audited.
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Mr. Reed: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the (a) percentage and (b) cash change in education funding for Leicestershire County Council has been in each year since 2001–02; how many teachers have been employed in Leicestershire local education authority area in each year since 2001–02 in real terms; and how much funding has changed per (i) primary and (ii) secondary school pupil in Leicestershire since 2001–02. [212122]
Mr. Stephen Twigg: The information requested is in the tables. Total funding includes funding via Education Formula Spending/Standard Spending Assessment and grants allocated at the LEA level. It excludes the pensions transfer to EFS and the Learning and Skills Council, and is in real terms.
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Notes:
1.Price Base: Real terms at 2003–04 prices, based on GDP deflators as at 30 September 2004.
2.Figures reflect relevant sub-blocks of education SSA/EFS settlements and exclude the pensions transfer to EFS and LSC.
3.Total funding also includes all revenue grants in DfES Departmental Expenditure Limits relevant to pupils aged 3–15 and exclude EMAs and grants not allocated at LEA level.
4.The pupil numbers used to convert £m figures to £ per pupil are those underlying the SSA/EFS settlement calculations plus PLASC 3 year old maintained pupils and estimated 3 to 4-year-olds funded through state support in maintained and other educational institutions where these are not included in the SSA pupil numbers.
5.Where responsibility for funding a school has transferred from an LEA, related funding no longer appears in the series.
6.Rounding: Figures are rounded to the nearest £10.
7.Status: 2003–04 and 2004–05 figures are provisional as some grants have not yet been finalised/audited.
The following table gives the number of teachers employed in Leicestershire since 2001–02:
| Number of teachers | |
|---|---|
| 2001–02 | 5,040 |
| 2002–03 | 5,290 |
| 2003–04 | 5,220 |
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Figures are full-time equivalent regular teachers (excluding occasional) in service in the maintained sector in January of each year. The figure quoted for 2002–03 may be overstated. Source: DfES Annual Survey of Teachers in Service and Teacher Vacancies (Form 618G).
Information for all LEAs is published by the Department in the Statistical First Release on the DfES website at the following URL:
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