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Sure Start

Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many second phase Sure Start's
 
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children's centres are planned in each local authority during 2006–08; and how much funding will be provided to each local authority for this purpose. [1812]

Beverley Hughes: A total of £947 million funding has been made available to local authorities in the second phase of the children's centres programme. This comprises of £405,523,772 capital and £542,205,843 revenue. The capital allocation is to contribute to the funding of new children's centre places to be created in phase 2, whereas the revenue allocation is to fund both new and existing centres created in phases 1 and 2. Local authorities will develop their children's centres by building on existing provision such as Sure Start local programmes, neighbourhood nurseries and primary schools which have already benefited from a number of funding streams. The following table sets out the funding allocated to each local authority.

Local authority	Total number of CCs required in 2006–08(63)	Total capital 2006–08, including 20 per cent. London uplift(64)	Total revenue 2006–08 including 10 per cent. London uplift(64)
Barking and Dagenham	6	2,388,828	5,105,821
Barnet	15	3,821,802	3,082,925
Barnsley	5	1,001,920	3,463,680
Bath and NE Somerset	6	964,830	827,201
Bedfordshire	18	2,972,555	3,267,137
Bexley	8	1,568,238	2,286,878
Birmingham	43	15,307,670	25,718,111
Blackburn with Darwen	5	1,198,810	2,283,734
Blackpool	3	750,825	2,325,298
Bolton	10	3,007,975	4,041,326
Bournemouth	5	1,117,310	1,896,905
Bracknell Forest	6	1,028,445	836,341
Bradford	15	3,839,200	10,620,192
Brent	9	2,049,714	3,842,938
Brighton and Hove	9	2,267,380	2,801,391
Bristol	14	3,629,485	5,366,977
Bromley	13	2,712,486	2,913,960
Buckinghamshire	22	3,628,945	3,252,676
Bury	8	2,034,685	2,531,485
Calderdale	9	2,347,325	2,231,737
Cambridgeshire	22	3,488,440	3,532,242
Camden	9	3,478,662	2,347,693
Cheshire	27	5,009,345	4,751,908
City of London(65)	—	—	—
Cornwall	16	3,022,960	2,532,384
County of Herefordshire	6	940,360	1,027,314
Coventry	9	2,077,055	4,506,056
Croydon	17	5,344,500	4,451,078
Cumbria	16	2,991,755	3,655,529
Darlington	2	444,090	1,002,794
Derby	8	2,169,735	2,746,118
Derbyshire	29	5,890,135	6,594,458
Devon	24	4,283,720	3,507,294
Doncaster	8	1,966,305	4.569,916
Dorset	13	2,077,090	2,129,300
Dudley	11	2,544,485	3,806,311
Durham	12	2,690,605	4,109,869
Ealing	12	3,585,480	4,859,418
East Riding of Yorkshire	10	1,436,025	2,295,874
East Sussex	18	3,575,715	2,879,147
Enfield	11	2,858,190	4,996,785
Essex	53	9,001,295	10,873,952
Gateshead	5	1,403,115	2,562,509
Gloucestershire	23	3,826,990	3,756,377
Greenwich	7	2,331,942	4,901,299
Hackney	8	4,271,454	6,552,491
Halton	3	477,295	809,168
Hammersmith and Fulham	7	2,499,168	1,656,494
Hampshire	53	9,515,160	7,958,958
Haringey	8	3.366,132	4,725,163
Harrow	9	1,012,830	1,818,542
Hartlepool	2	718,190	1,110,245
Havering	8	1,283,682	1,988,912
Hertfordshire	49	9,371,350	7,761,791
Hillingdon	12	3,297,744	2,366,595
Hounslow	11	3,647,964	3,472,361
Isle of Wight	3	409,150	1,379,321
Isles of Scilly	—	—	—
Islington	5	2,566,722	3,613,793
Kensington and Chelsea	6	1,301,292	1,378,808
Kent	52	9,134,060	10,648,341
Kingston upon Hull	7	2,273,440	2,599,548
Kingston upon Thames	7	829,920	1,190,239
Kirklees	15	3,778,855	6,714,086
Knowsley	3	681,925	2,410,783
Lambeth	10	4,146,438	6,336,245
Lancashire	40	8,130,990	10,283,537
Leeds	26	7,308,535	8,385,926
Leicester City	8	2,169,125	6,572,971
Leicestershire	24	4,104,055	3,777,122
Lewisham	9	3,044,958	5,902,008
Lincolnshire	23	4,192,565	3,423,583
Liverpool	8	2,907,975	9,025,886
Luton	8	2,151,485	3,787,873
Manchester	10	3,946,160	9,419,364
Medway	10	1,898,615	2,542,766
Merton	8	1,793,226	1,893,882
Middlesbrough	4	1,096,435	1,181,447
Milton Keynes	10	1,737,145	2,174,242
Newcastle upon Tyne	6	1,448,890	2,345,930
Newham	8	4,157,658	9,083,995
Norfolk	26	3,903,885	3,967,069
North East Lincolnshire	6	1,844,420	1,386,399
North Lincolnshire	4	806,955	1,210,277
North Somerset	7	999,235	1,219,607
North Tyneside	6	1,403,335	2,059,718
North Yorkshire	21	3,261,090	3,211,280
Northamptonshire	27	4,996,990	5,213,489
Northumberland	10	2,046,550	1,628,435
Nottingham City	7	2,476,120	4,527,426
Nottinghamshire	26	5,093,215	6,146,864
Oldham	8	2,189,620	4,071,087
Oxfordshire	25	4,314,465	4,480,780
Peterborough	6	1,458,780	1,790,517
Plymouth	7	1,667,945	2.512,798
Poole	6	1,218,555	961,301
Portsmouth	7	1,798,495	1,797,128
Reading	6	1,139,670	1,591,823
Redbridge	10	1,941,708	2,842,516
Redcar and Cleveland	4	614,895	979,244
Richmond upon Thames	9	1,141,560	1,485,168
Rochdale	8	2,372,525	2,670,073
Rotherham	8	1,836,645	4,173,631
Rutland	1	218,225	180,784
Salford	6	1,550,040	3,646,710
Sandwell	7	2,382,750	6,173,249
Sefton	9	1,817,725	2,436,913
Sheffield	18	4,749,895	5,932,118
Shropshire	10	1,833,355	1,506,545
Slough	5	922,740	1,862,463
Solihull	7	1,362,130	1,971,992
Somerset	19	3,087,485	2,897,077
South Tyneside	3	751,005	1,982,293
Southampton	8	1,887,540	2,380,347
Southend	7	1,587,465	1,933,426
Southwark	9	3,555,360	5,319,798
St. Helens	4	971,460	2,311,935
Staffordshire	32	5,760,275	5,065,655
South Gloucestershire	11	2,139,975	1,717,490
Stockport	12	2,637,190	3,134,651
Stockton-on-Tees	6	1,250,715	979,949
Stoke-on-Trent	5	1,333,265	3,343,144
Suffolk	26	4,279,960	4,564,098
Sunderland	6	1,572,125	3,704,269
Surrey	46	8,113,945	6,862,882
Sutton	8	1,585,572	1,648,579
Swindon	7	1,074,825	1,819,870
Tameside	6	1,657,750	3,336.263
Telford and Wrekin	7	1,346,770	2,178,740
Thurrock	5	786,815	2,162,756
Torbay	3	367,850	1,128,890
Tower Hamlets	6	3,090,984	5,573,446
Trafford	8	1,638,910	2,620,577
West Berkshire	6	1,164,685	945,625
Wakefield	8	1,908,270	5,207,885
Walsall	8	2,494,510	4,575,941
Waltham Forest	8	2,913,036	5,400,914
Wandsworth	13	3,734,946	2,656,529
Warrington	7	1,466,965	2,017,555
Warwickshire	20	3,244,685	3,475,765
West Sussex	30	5,478,575	4,563,728
Westminster	7	2,525,826	1,735,024
Wigan	9	2,350,235	5,882,837
Wiltshire	20	3,764,660	3,035,235
Windsor and Maidenhead	6	1,090,780	885,129
Wirral	9	2,055,330	4,700,360
Wokingham	7	1,082,650	901,730
Wolverhampton	6	1,598,730	3,678,806
Worcestershire	23	4,372,670	3,523,769
York	8	1,689,450	1,330,718
Total	1,823	405,523,772	542,205,843

⁽⁶³⁾These are subject to negotiation if authorities with large targets wish to defer some centres to phase 3.
⁽⁶⁴⁾Excluding rural uplift. Authorities with rural areas will be advised of their allocations shortly.
⁽⁶⁵⁾Allocations yet to be agreed—due to the small number of children in those authorities we are working with the authorities to determine suitable targets and funding.



 
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Synthetic Phonics

Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) if she will make a statement on her announcement on 3 June of an independent review into the role of synthetic phonics in teaching reading in primary schools; [3579]

(2) if she will list the people who will conduct the independent review of the role of synthetic phonics in teaching reading in primary schools headed by Mr. Jim Rose. [3580]

Jacqui Smith: The National Literacy Strategy, combined with developments in the Foundation Stage, have transformed the nature of teaching, learning and achievement in primary schools over the last seven years. Compared to 1997, around 96,000 more children each year are being helped to reach the expected reading level for their age.

The Strategy have continually evolved to ensure that it benefits from the latest developments in this area, and the time is now right to renew the literacy framework, to accelerate and build on this success. Synthetic phonics is already at the heart of early literacy teaching for every child under the Strategy, and the debate centres not on whether to teach phonics, but how to do so. As part of the renewal of the literacy framework, we have appointed Jim Rose to make recommendations on best practice in the teaching of early reading and synthetic phonics in primary schools and early years settings, covering content and pace of learning. He will also make recommendations on the best support for children with significant literacy difficulties to enable them to catch up with their peers, and the relationship between such targeted intervention programmes with synthetic phonics

Mr. Rose's recommendations will draw on an examination of both academic research and classroom best practice in schools and early years settings, as well as recent reports by the Education and Skills Select Committee, Ofsted and the Clackmannanshire study. He will provide an interim report in November 2005 and make final recommendations early in the new year. Decisions on who will work alongside him as he conducts his review will be made shortly, in agreement with Mr. Rose.

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