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School Repairs (London)

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what assessment she has made of the requirement for school building repairs in each London borough; and what the costs are estimated to be in each case. [15670]

Jacqui Smith: Data on school buildings maintenance have been supplied to the Department twice; firstly in 2000–01 and secondly in 2003. The following table shows, for the two data collections, figures for each London borough. Costs have been updated to current costs. In addition to backlog repair work, the figures cover work needed over a five year period from the dates of the assessments, including cyclical and scheduled maintenance.

Central Government capital support for investment in schools has increased from under £700 million in 1996–97 to £5.5 billion this year and will rise further to £6.3 billion by 2007–08. Progress is being made year-by-year in improving the quality of the school building stock.
Schools maintenance requirements

	2001	2003
Barking and Dagenham	(117)—	62,441,458
Barnet	65,613,661	76,672,453
Bexley	41,501,485	46,147,620
Brent	51,240,631	43,944,403
Bromley	40,551,735	52,075,990
Camden	21,660,660	24,608,598
Croydon	27,576,388	29,752,920
Ealing	53,591,843	48,767,105
Enfield	71,824,888	53,015,502
Greenwich	53,508,581	70,350,093
Hackney	48,984,402	61,195,214
Hammersmith and Fulham	27,190,465	24,457,826
Haringey	(117)—	51,410,196
Harrow	26,640,453	31,784,504
Havering	69,694,380	63,341,119
Hillingdon	36,085,579	40,372,718
Hounslow	42,276,967	60,210,769
Islington	56,921,338	38,624,909
Kensington and Chelsea	11,395,334	10,127,270
Kingston upon Thames	31,468,000	43,320,352
Lambeth	(117)—	107,414,349
Lewisham	67,322,189	62,772,359
Merton	27,565,651	23,008,613
Newham	66,200,984	48,941,904
Redbridge	49,774,860	45,019,902
Richmond upon Thames	13,883,220	24,779,468
Southwark	38,462,069	51,926,358
Sutton	23,890,485	20,282,052
Tower Hamlets	44,530,317	27,322,041
Waltham Forest	38,597,729	26,742,607
Wandsworth	77,255,488	77,255,488
Westminster	39,387,252	29,212,585

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School Rules

Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what guidance is issued by her Department to head teachers on the development of school rules. [16448]

Jacqui Smith: Our Primary and Secondary National Strategies provide schools with comprehensive guidance and training materials on effective management of behaviour and attendance. These include practical
 
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advice on how to develop, implement and review a school behaviour policy which covers principles, roles and responsibilities, rules, rewards and sanctions.

School Sports

Mr. Davey: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many and what percentage of schools hold annual sports day; and if she will make a statement. [16000]

Jacqui Smith: The 2003–04 PE, school sport and club links survey—the largest and most comprehensive survey of school sport in England—found that 96 percent. of the 6500 schools taking part in the survey held a sports day or festival of sport. The results of the survey were published on 29 April 2004, and copies of the report (The impact of school sport partnerships: The results of the 2003–04 PE, school sports and club links survey) have been placed in the Houses of Parliament Libraries.

Mr. Davey: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many and what percentage of schools have no grassed play areas in (a) England, (b) each region and (c) each local education authority. [16001]

Bill Rammell: While the school premises data that the Department collects from local education authorities include information on the suitability of sports provision, the data do not show numbers or percentages of schools without grassed play areas.

Mr. Davey: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many and what percentage of schools offer lessons in (a) tennis, (b) swimming, (c) cricket, (d) rugby, (e) football, (f) netball and (g) lacrosse in (i) England, (ii) each region and (iii) each local education authority. [16002]

Jacqui Smith: The data requested are not held centrally in the format requested and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

The results of the 2004–05 PE, school sport survey found that:

(a) 71 per cent. of the 11,498 schools taking part in the survey offer tennis;

(b) 83 per cent. offer swimming;

 
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(c) 85 per cent. offer cricket;

(d) 82 per cent. offer rugby (this is a combined figure for rugby union—71 per cent. and league—11 per cent.);

(e) 97 per cent. offer football;

(f) 81 per cent. offer netball; and

(g) 4 per cent. offer lacrosse.

The results of the survey were published on 2 September 2005 and copies of the report (the results of the 2004–05 school sport survey) have been placed in the Libraries of both Houses of Parliament.

School Transfers

Mr. Marsden: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what assessment her Department has made of whether there is a link between pupils who move school often and social and economic deprivation. [15053]

Jacqui Smith: The Department commissioned the Pupil Mobility in Schools project to produce a report on the nature and causes of pupil mobility in schools and the implications of high mobility for national strategies to raise achievement. This project identified strong associations between pupil mobility and social deprivation, family break up and moves into and out of temporary accommodation. Mobile pupils are more likely to be eligible for free school meals, have English as an additional language, have a special educational need or have behavioural problems.

Dobson/Henthorne/Lynas (2000): Pupil Mobility in Schools—Final report, London: University College London.

SEN

Mr. Davey: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many pupils with special educational needs live more than three miles away from the (a) primary, (b) secondary and (c) special school that they attend; and if she will make a statement. [15999]

Jacqui Smith: The information requested has been provided in the following table.
The number and percentages of pupils with special educational needs who live more than three miles⁽¹¹⁸⁾ away from the (a) primary, (b)secondary and (c) special school that they attend

	Primary schools		Secondary schools		Special schools		Total
	Number	Percentage	Number	Percentage	Number	Percentage	Number	Percentage
Total pupils travelling more than 3miles to the school they attend	158,907	100.0	604,240	100.0	47,051	100.0	810,292	100.0
Pupils with no Special Educational Needs	128,836	81.1	523,663	86.7	117	0.2	652,616	80.5
Pupils with Special Educational Needs at School Action	14,864	9.4	45,504	7.5	109	0.2	60,477	7.5
Pupils with Special Educational Needs at School Action Plus	7,955	5.0	19,675	3.3	786	1.7	28,416	3.5
Pupils with a Statement of Special Educational Needs	7,252	4.6	15,398	2.5	46,039	97.9	68,689	8.5

⁽¹¹⁸⁾Distance is measured as a straight line between the pupils home postcode and the school postcode.
Note:
One secondary school from within Trafford Education Authority did not return a complete Plasc return in 2005. Therefore figures from this school have been discounted from the above table.
Source:
PLASC 2005 Final data





 
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