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Education (Sutton)

Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to the Answer of 28 June 2005, Official Report, column 1446W, on spending per pupil, what the figures were for the London borough of Sutton. [10187]

Jacqui Smith: The information requested is contained within the following table:
School based expenditure⁽³³⁾ per pupil⁽³⁴⁾ for Sutton LEAin 1985–86 and 2003–04^{(35)(5508020036)}

£ per pupil(37)
	1985–86	2003–04
LEA maintained primary schools	750	2,640
LEA maintained secondary schools	1,140	3,550
LEA maintained special schools(38)	—	13,630

⁽³³⁾ School based expenditure includes only expenditure incurred directly by the schools. This includes the pay of teachers and school-based support staff, school premises costs, books and equipment, and certain other supplies and services, less any capital items funded from recurrent spending and income from sales, fees and charges and rents and rates. This excludes the central cost of support services such as home to school transport, local authority administration and the financing of capital expenditure.
⁽³⁴⁾ Pupil numbers include only those pupils attending LEA maintained schools and are drawn from the DfES Annual Schools Census adjusted to be on a financial year basis.
⁽³⁵⁾ 1999–2000 saw a change in data source when the data collection moved from the RO1 form collected by the ODPM to the Section 52 form from the DfES. 2003–04 is the latest year for which figures are available.
⁽³⁶⁾ The main difference between the 1985–86 and 2003–04 figures is that meals and milk is no longer excluded and that no adjustments for balances are now made. However, 1985–86 also includes all premature retirement compensation (PRC) and Crombie payments, mandatory PRC payments and other indirect employee expenses, while in 2003–04 only the schools element of these categories is included. Also, for some LEAs, expenditure that had previously been attributed to the school sectors was reported within the LEA part of the form in 2003–04 and would therefore be excluded, though this is not quantifiable from existing sources.
⁽³⁷⁾ Figures are reported in cash terms and rounded to the nearest 10 as reported by the LEA.
⁽³⁸⁾ Figures for 1985–86 are published in the Departments Statistics of Education, Finance and Awards volume 1985. The all England figure published in the earlier Official Report, column 1446W, was taken as an aggregate of the individual LEA level unit costs for special schools. The individual LEA special School data are no longer available and therefore are not included in the answer to this PQ.



 
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Enterprise Education

Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what progress has been made in encouraging a common understanding of enterprise among secondary school teachers. [11497]

Jacqui Smith: Our guidance for teachers on the Teachemet website clearly sets out our definition on Enterprise Education. This definition is being reinforced at the 47 regional conferences we are currently running for all secondary schools in England, in which we emphasise the importance of whole-staff discussion of enterprise.

Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what guidance she has issued on the priority to be given to entrepreneurship within the teaching of enterprise. [11501]

Jacqui Smith: In the past two years we have been working with over 700 Pathfinder schools in order to generate national guidance based on the experience of the schools on ways of effectively teaching enterprise. We have also been holding a series of Enterprise in Schools conferences in all of the 47 LSC areas. These conferences, with the guidance, have clarified and defined the importance of entrepreneurship as part of enterprise education.

Examinations

Mr. Cameron: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of (a) secondary school students and (b) secondary modern school students aged 15 years at the start of the school year obtained the equivalent of Level 2 (five or more grade A*-C GCSEs) in (i) 2001, (ii) 2002, (iii) 2003 and (iv) 2004. [10768]

Jacqui Smith: The information requested can be found in the following table:

	All schools		Modern schools
	Number of 15 year old pupils	Percentage of 15 year old pupils achieving five or more A*-C	Number of 15 year old pupils	Percentage of 15 year old pupils achieving five or more A*-C
2003/04	643,560	53.7	26,808	42.3
2002/03	622,122	52.9	25,563	40.9
2001/02	606,554	51.6	24,710	38.8
2000/01	603,318	50.0	24,724	36.8

Notes:
1. For 2003/04 results incorporate GCSEs, GNVQs and a wide range of other qualifications approved pre-16. For 2000/01–2002/03 results are based on GCSEs and GNVQs only.
2. As standard the results reported relate to pupils aged 15 at the start of the academic year i.e. 31 August.
3. The information for this answer is derived from data collected for the school and college achievement and attainment tables (formerly performance tables) that are published annually.





 
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Free School Milk

Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many school children receive free school milk in (a) England and (b) Lancashire. [11078]

Jacqui Smith: The information requested is not collected centrally.

Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many litres of milk are provided free each day in (a) English and (b) Lancashire schools. [11079]

Jacqui Smith: The information requested is not collected centrally.

Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many schools are participating in the free school milk scheme; how many deliveries are made per week to these schools; and what percentage of milk supplied to schools under the scheme is sourced from (a) national suppliers and (b) overseas suppliers. [11354]

Jacqui Smith: The information requested is not collected centrally.
 
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Higher Education Initial Participation Rate

Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills when she expects the report commissioned by her Department to assess the feasibility of disaggregating the Higher Education Initial Participation Rate by ethnicity, disability, social class and region to be published; and if she will make a statement. [11100]

Bill Rammell: Professor Brian Ramsden's report on whether the Higher Education Initial Participation Rate (HEIPR) should be disaggregated is expected to be published on 25 August 2005.

Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills under what circumstances students whose domicile is (a) non-UK and (b) unknown areincluded in the Higher Education Initial Participation Rate; and how many students there were in each category in each year between 1999–2000 and 2003–04. [11101]

Bill Rammell: The Higher Education Initial Participation Rate (HEIPR) is a measure of initial participation for 17 to 30-year-old English domiciled first-time entrants to Higher Education and is produced in accordance with the recommendations of a National Statistics Quality review (National Statistics Quality Review Series—Report No. 24). No students recorded with non-UK or unknown domiciles have been included in the HEIPR in any year. The HEIPR includes only students recorded as English domiciled or United Kingdom" domiciled and attending courses at English institutions, with the assumption that latter group are likely to be English.

The following table records the number of students included in the HEIPR who are listed as United Kingdom" domiciled:
Entrants with domiciles listed as United Kingdom" counted in the HEIPR

Academic year	1999/2000	2000/01	2001/02	2002/03	2003/04
No prior HE	575	1,380	670	980	700
Unknown prior HE(39)	235	145	110	170	200

⁽³⁹⁾ Entrants with unknown prior HE status qualify in the HEIPR on a pro-rata basis, therefore only a proportion of these students will be included.
Figures rounded to the nearest 5.
Note:
It is normal practice to code United Kingdom students under their component domiciles (England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland), rather than United Kingdom". HESA guidance has since 1996/97 indicated that the United Kingdom" code should not be returned for a student's domicile.
Source:
Information derived from Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) student record.





Numbers of entrants counted within the HEIPR

Academic year	Number of initial entrants (000)
1999/2000	246
2000/01	249
2001/02	255
2002/03	268
2003/04	269

Source:
Information derived from Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) student record and Learning and Skills Council Individualised Learner Record.

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