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EDUCATION AND SKILLS
Working Together"
Annette Brooke: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills when she expects to publish the responses to the consultation on Working Together". [28831]
Maria Eagle: The consultation ended on 28 October. The Department will publish an analysis of the consultation responses within three months of this date, in line with standard DfES practice.
Adult Guidance Provision
Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills where the responsibility for Adult Guidance Provision will lie when the Connexions model is replaced with that proposed in the Every Child Matters and Youth Matters white papers. [25085]
Phil Hope: Overall responsibility for securing provision of information, advice and guidance services for adults to help them make informed choices about learning and work rests with the Learning and Skills Council, and there are no plans for this to change.
After-class Tutoring
Rosie Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what estimate she has made of the percentage of (a) primary and (b) secondary school teachers who participate in after-class tutoring (i) at their school of employment and (ii) elsewhere in West Lancashire. [28103]
Jacqui Smith:
The information requested is not held centrally.
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Education
Mr. Lancaster: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many (a) classroom assistants and (b) full-time equivalent classroom assistant posts there were in the North-East Milton Keynes constituency in each year since 1997. [27205]
Jacqui Smith: The following table provides the full-time equivalent number of teaching assistants in maintained sector schools, including pupil referral units, in the North-East Milton Keynes constituency in January of each year.
The number of full-time equivalent teaching assistant posts in North-East Milton Keynes is not collected centrally.
(3) Includes teaching assistants, special needs support staff and ethnic minority support staff.
(4) Includes maintained and non-maintained special schools.
Note:
Figures are rounded to the nearest 10.
Source:
Annual School Census.
Rosie Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of its total budget was spent by Lancashire Local Education Authority on special needs education in West Lancashire in the last year for which figures are available. [27658]
Maria Eagle: The information requested is collected at local education authority level. West Lancashire is part of Lancashire Local Education Authority and the information supplied is reported at the LEA level.
(5) Includes planned expenditure on the provision for pupils with statements and the provision for non-statemented pupils with SEN, support for inclusion, inter authority recoupment, fees for pupils at independent special schools and abroad, educational psychology service, local authority functions in relation to child protection, therapies and other health related services, parent partnership, guidance and information, the monitoring of SEN provision and inclusion administration, assessment and co-ordination. Also included is the funding delegated to nursery, primary and secondary schools identified as notional SEN" and the individual schools budget (ISB) for special schools.
(6) The ISB for special schools will include some general education costs for pupils with SEN in addition to those costs specifically for SEN while the figures recorded against notional SEN" are indicative only of the amount that might be spent by schools on SEN. In addition to the figures quoted above, Lancashire also budgeted £13.2 million for SEN transport expenditure in 2005–06.
(7) Financial data are collected at a local authority level and as such figures for West Lancashire are not available.
(8) Figures are in cash terms as reported by the LEA and rounded to the nearest £1,000 and may not sum due to rounding.
(9) Total Education Revenue Expenditure is the combination of the total schools budget and the total local authority budget.
(10) The data are drawn from Lancashire local authority's 2005–06 Section 52 Budget Statement (Tables 1 and 2) submitted to the DfES.
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Education Authority Areas
Mr. Wills: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of children in (a) England and (b) London are attending state (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools outside the local education authority area in which they live. [27760]
Jacqui Smith: The information requested has been provided in the following table.
(11) Includes middle deemed primary schools.
(12) Includes middle deemed secondary, CTCs and academies.
Source:
Annual School Census 2005 Final.
Education Maintenance Allowance
Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many students have claimed the education maintenance allowance in each year that it has been available; and how many she expects to claim it in 2006–07. [27956]
Maria Eagle: The numbers of students who received education maintenance allowances (EMA) are:
| Number | |
|---|---|
| 2001/02 | 115,700 |
| 2002/03 | 125,600 |
| 2003/04 | 127,900 |
| 2004/05 | 297,600 |
For the academic year 2005/06, we estimate that around 465,000 young people will be eligible to receive EMA on income grounds. This includes unwaged trainees on work based learning programmes funded by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC). From April 2006, those aged 16–19 on Entry to Employment or Programme Led Pathways, and their parents/carers, will receive the same package of financial support as is
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currently available to those who stay on in full time education ie EMA, child benefit, child tax credit and other related benefits.
For the academic year 2006/07, we estimate that around 555,000 young people will be eligible to receive EMA on income grounds.
So far, the national EMA scheme has been rolled out to 16 and 17-year-olds. However, in pilot areas EMA is also available to those aged 18. The national scheme will be rolled out to 18-year-olds in September 2006. Unwaged trainees aged 16–19 will be eligible from April 2006.
Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the education maintenance allowance was per capita in each year in which it has been available; and what it will be in (a) 2006–07 and (b) 2007–08. [27957]
Maria Eagle: The education maintenance allowance (EMA) is a weekly payment of £10, £20 or £30 dependant upon household income paid directly to young people who stay on in learning after they reach the statutory school leaving age. Young people may also receive bonuses of £100 if they remain on their course and make good progress with their learning.
The household income thresholds for EMA payments in the academic year 2004/05 were:
The current household income thresholds for EMA payments (effective from the academic year 2005/06) are:
Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of students receiving the education maintenance allowance completed their qualifications in each year that the allowance has been available. [27958]
Maria Eagle: This information is not available as we do not separately record information on qualification completion rates for those claiming education maintenance allowances.
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