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Education (Hartlepool)
Iain Wright: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much funding per pupil was allocated for (a) primary and (b) secondary school education in Hartlepool in each year since 1997. [218514]
Mr. Stephen Twigg: The information requested is contained within the following table:
Notes:
1. Total funding includes funding via education formula spending/standard spending assessment and revenue grants allocated at an LEA level. It excludes the pensions transfer to EPS and the Learning and Skills Council, and is in real terms.
2. Real terms at 2003–04 prices, based on GDP deflators as at 30 September 2004.
3. Figures reflect relevant sub-blocks of education SSA/EFS settlements and exclude the pensions transfer to EFS and LSC.
4. Total funding also includes all revenue grants in DfES departmental expenditure limits relevant to pupils aged 3–10 and 11–15 and exclude EMAs and grants not allocated at LEA level.
5. The pupil numbers used to convert £ million 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.
6. Figures are as reported by the LEA and rounded to the nearest £10.
7. 2003–04 and 2004–05 figures are provisional as some grants have not yet been finalised/audited.
8. 1997–98 figures for LEAs subject to local government reorganisation in that year have been estimated, pro-rate to their post LGR figures.
New Approaches to Contact
Mr. Forth:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) when the Department's Design Team planning the Family Resolutions Pilot Project met the New Approaches to Contact organisation; [216440]
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(2) when the Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families met the Director of New Approaches to Contact as referred to in the letter from the Minister to the right hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 24 January (ref 2004/0065500POMH). [216442]
Margaret Hodge: Neither I, nor the Design Group, nor the Steering Group, for the Family Resolutions Pilot Project have met New Approaches to Contact (NATC).
Individual members of the Design Group for the Family Resolutions Pilot Project and my noble Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children and Families have met the Director of New Approaches to Contact, to discuss his early interventions proposals.
My reply of 24 January 2005 to correspondence of 29 November 2004 from the hon. Member (ref 2004/0065500POMH) contained an error in stating that I had met the Director of NATC to discuss the Early Interventions project. My noble Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children and Families met the Director of New Approaches to Contact .
Local Intervention and Development Fund
Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills under which line in the Budget 2004 Annual Report the Local Intervention and Development Fund appears; and what the projected budget for the fund is for each year from 2005–06 to 2009–10. [218684]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: The Local Intervention and Development (LID) Fund is administered by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) and appears within the LSC figures in Chapter 2 and Annex B to the 2004 Annual Report. For 2005–06, 2006–07 and 2007–08 a budget for the LID fund of £195 million in each year was set out in the LSC Grant Letter published on 15 November 2004. Figures from 2008–09 onwards have not yet been set.
Music
Mr. Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the Department's policy is regarding the position of music education in the school curriculum. [219016]
Mr. Stephen Twigg: The Department's commitment to music education is set out in the Music Manifesto and the national curriculum.
We recognise the importance of music in schools both as a subject in its own right and as a means of driving up standards across the curriculum. Music is a statutory entitlement for all pupils up to the age of 14, and can be taken as an option at Key Stage 4.
Primary Teachers
Charles Hendry: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many graduates have entered teaching at primary education level in each year since 1997; and if she will make a statement. [218807]
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Mr. Stephen Twigg: The following table shows the number of graduates with qualified teacher status entering service for the first time in maintained nursery and primary schools from 1996–97 to 2002–03, the latest year available.
| Full and part-time entrants | |
|---|---|
| 2003(3) | 13,410 |
| 2002(3) | 14,250 |
| 2001 | 13,590 |
| 2000 | 13,640 |
| 1999 | 12,670 |
| 1998 | 13,480 |
| 1997 | 12,670 |
(3) Provisional data: The numbers shown in service may change as a result of late receipt of annual service returns.
Source:
Database of Teachers' Records.
Figures include teachers who have qualified in the previous calendar year and those who have no known service in the English maintained sector and qualified before the previous calendar year. It is possible that a very small number of this latter group are not graduates.
10–20 per cent. of part-time teachers may not be included in the data.
School Funding Arrangements
Mr. Kidney: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills whether she plans to extend the consultation period for her consultation on new school funding arrangements if a General Election intervenes before the closing date of 13 May. [218539]
Mr. Stephen Twigg: Guidance on the conduct of Government business, including the handling of consultation exercises, will be published by the Cabinet Office on the announcement of a General Election.
School Violence
Mr. Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what her Department's policy is on dealing with violence taking place in primary and secondary schools. [219363]
Derek Twigg: Although violence in schools is rare the Government takes the issue very seriously. We have made it clear that head teachers may permanently exclude pupils for violence even when this is a first offence. But it is even more important to help schools create an environment that reduces the risk of violence to an absolute minimum. To achieve that we have:
given every secondary school access to high-quality behaviour management training materials and expert advice from behaviour management consultants;
funded extra support for schools facing the greatest challenges through our Behaviour Improvement Programme;
giving every primary school access to high-quality behaviour management training materials and curriculum materials for developing pupils' social, emotional and behavioural skills;
developing staff training and curriculum materials to help secondary schools develop the social, emotional and behavioural skills of their pupils;
developing specific violence prevention materials through our Violence Reduction in Schools project; and
Sexual Abuse
Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what estimate she has made of the number of individuals under the age of 18 years who had been sexually abused who received support and counselling in each of the last five years. [218655]
Margaret Hodge: The requested information is not collected centrally.
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