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Education White Paper

Dr. Kumar: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what role she expects local education authorities to fulfil in relation to (a) promoting, (b) monitoring and (c) commenting on personalised learning in schools in relation to the White Paper Higher Standards, Better Education for All. [26814]

Jacqui Smith: We expect all local authorities in their new role as commissioners of education and under their duty to raise educational standards to be promoting and
 
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monitoring personalisation of learning to ensure that all schools meet the needs of parents and pupils in their area.

Local authorities, through their National Strategies consultants and other school improvement staff, will play a vital role in promoting and spreading best practice about personalised learning to all their schools.

Under the New Relationship with Schools, local authorities will have access to up-to-date and authoritative information to monitor and assess how their schools are serving all their pupils: from the pupil-level data now available; from the School Improvement Partners (SIPs) they employ; and from the more frequent school inspections conducted by Ofsted. Also, through the SIP—a nationally accredited expert, typically a head teacher—local authorities will be able to support,
 
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challenge and hold school accountable locally around personalised learning specifically, and continuous school improvement, more generally.

Gifted and Talented Youth

Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to the Answer of 7 November 2005, Official Report, column 118W, on gifted and talented youth, how many and what proportion of members of the National Academy of Gifted and Talented Youth attended (a) maintained and (b) non-maintained secondary schools in 2004–05, broken down by local education authority. [28185]

Jacqui Smith: The information, as supplied by the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth, is set out in the following table.

		Members in independent schools	Percentage of total NAGTY membership	Members in maintained schools	Percentage of total NAGTY membership	Total members
		As at 31 March 2005
England			6.991	50,820	93.009	54,640
North-east		218	0.399	3,340	6.113	3,558
841	Darlington	7	0.013	172	0.315	179
840	Durham	6	0.011	185	0.339	191
390	Gateshead	0	0.000	160	0.293	160
805	Hartlepool	0	0.000	363	0.664	363
806	Middlesbrough	74	0.135	88	0.161	162
391	Newcastle upon Tyne	11	0.020	707	1.294	718
392	North Tyneside	0	0.000	553	1.012	553
929	Northumberland	16	0.029	144	0.264	160
807	Redcar and Cleveland	0	0.000	191	0.350	191
393	South Tyneside	0	0.000	235	0.430	235
808	Stockton-on-Tees	84	0.154	248	0.454	332
394	Sunderland	20	0.037	294	0.538	314
North-west		432	0.791	6,610	12.097	7,042
889	Blackburn with Darwen	0	0.000	107	0.196	107
890	Blackpool	2	0.004	100	0.183	102
350	Bolton	0	0.000	167	0.306	167
351	Bury	2	0.004	7	0.013	9
875	Cheshire	0	0.000	573	1.049	573
909	Cumbria	6	0.011	280	0.512	286
876	Halton	0	0.000	62	0.113	62
340	Knowsley	0	0.000	24	0.044	24
888	Lancashire	52	0.095	595	1.089	647
341	Liverpool	215	0.393	642	1.175	857
352	Manchester	2	0.004	164	0.300	166
353	Oldham	0	0.000	527	0.964	527
354	Rochdale	0	0.000	210	0.384	210
355	Salford	0	0.000	160	0.293	160
343	Sefton	5	0.009	390	0.714	395
342	St. Helens	0	0.000	346	0.633	346
356	Stockport	2	0.004	71	0.130	73
357	Tameside	0	0.000	143	0.262	143
358	Trafford	0	0.000	110	0.201	110
877	Warrington	0	0.000	282	0.516	282
359	Wigan	0	0.000	890	1.629	890
344	Wirral	146	0.267	760	1.391	906
Yorkshire and the Humber		102	0.187	6,050	11.072	6,152
370	Barnsley	0	0.000	536	0.981	536
380	Bradford	0	0.000	376	0.688	376
381	Calderdale	0	0.000	0	0.000	0
371	Doncaster	0	0.000	424	0.776	424
811	East Riding of Yorkshire	0	0.000	628	1.149	628
810	Kingston Upon Hull, City of	21	0.038	238	0.436	259
382	Kirklees	1	0.002	409	0.749	410
383	Leeds	31	0.057	274	0.501	305
812	North East Lincolnshire	1	0.002	106	0.194	107
813	North Lincolnshire	0	0.000	275	0.503	275
815	North Yorkshire	21	0.038	983	1 .799	1,004
372	Rotherham	0	0.000	242	0.443	242
373	Sheffield	20	0.037	659	1.206	679
384	Wakefield	5	0.009	152	0.278	157
816	York	2	0.004	748	1.369	750
East Midlands		174	0.318	6,167	11.287	6,341
831	Derby	1	0.002	324	0.593	325
830	Derbyshire	3	0.005	1,460	2.672	1,463
856	Leicester	155	0.284	483	0.884	638
855	Leicestershire	6	0.011	884	1.618	890
925	Lincolnshire	2	0.004	1,261	2.308	1,263
928	Northamptonshire	1	0.002	557	1.019	558
892	Nottingham	2	0.004	520	0.952	522
891	Nottinghamshire	0	0.000	678	1.241	678
857	Rutland	4	0.007	0	0.000	4
West Midlands		278	0.509	4,909	8.984	5,187
330	Birmingham	17	0.031	330	0.604	347
331	Coventry	5	0.009	606	1.109	611
332	Dudley	0	0.000	347	0.635	347
884	Herefordshire	2	0.004	32	0.059	34
333	Sandwell	0	0.000	249	0.456	249
893	Shropshire	2	0.004	406	0.743	408
334	Solihull	2	0.004	199	0.364	201
860	Staffordshire	113	0.207	650	1.190	763
861	Stoke-on-Trent	0	0.000	343	0.628	343
894	Telford and Wrekin	0	0.000	117	0.214	117
335	Walsall	0	0.000	281	0.514	281
937	Warwickshire	16	0.029	563	1.030	579
336	Wolverhampton	2	0.004	211	0.386	213
885	Worcestershire	119	0.218	575	1.052	694
East of England		383	0.701	7,205	13.186	7,588
820	Bedfordshire	7	0.013	511	0.935	518
873	Cambridgeshire	7	0.013	1,161	2.125	1,168
881	Essex	15	0.027	891	1.631	906
919	Hertfordshire	225	0.412	2,954	5.406	3,179
821	Luton	0	0.000	318	0.582	318
926	Norfolk	126	0.231	281	0.514	407
874	Peterborough	1	0.002	400	0.732	401
882	Southend-on-Sea	0	0.000	438	0.802	438
935	Suffolk	2	0.004	223	0.408	225
883	Thurrock	0	0.000	28	0.051	28
London		880	1.611	5,367	9.822	6,247
Inner London		54	0.099	1,705	3.120	1,759
202	Camden	0	0.000	210	0.384	210
201	City of London	12	0.022	0	0.000	12
204	Hackney	0	0.000	59	0.108	59
205	Hammersmith and Fulham	2	0.004	82	0.150	84
309	Haringey	1	0.002	42	0.077	43
206	Islington	0	0.000	0	0.000	0
207	Kensington and Chelsea	0	0.000	98	0.179	98
208	Lambeth	1	0.002	36	0.066	37
209	Lewisham	0	0.000	38	0.070	38
316	Newham	0	0.000	256	0.469	256
210	Southwark	5	0.009	244	0.447	249
211	Tower Hamlets	0	0.000	20	0.037	20
212	Wandsworth	9	0.016	481	0.880	490
213	Westminster	24	0.044	139	0.254	163
Outer London		826	1.512	3,662	6.702	4,488
301	Barking and Dagenham	0	0.000	173	0.317	173
302	Barnet	44	0.081	107	0.196	151
303	Bexley	0	0.000	218	0.399	218
304	Brent	29	0.053	356	0.652	385
305	Bromley	370	0.677	208	0.381	578
306	Croydon	34	0.062	256	0.469	290
307	Ealing	197	0.361	292	0.534	489
308	Enfield	0	0.000	110	0.201	110
203	Greenwich	17	0.031	38	0.070	55
310	Harrow	32	0.059	111	0.203	143
311	Havering	0	0.000	352	0.644	352
312	Hillingdon	2	0.004	114	0.209	116
313	Hounslow	0	0.000	430	0.787	430
314	Kingston upon Thames	2	0.004	101	0.185	103
315	Merton	2	0.004	4	0.007	6
317	Redbridge	6	0.011	412	0.754	418
318	Richmond upon Thames	3	0.005	130	0.238	133
319	Sutton	82	0.150	135	0.247	217
320	Waltham Forest	6	0.011	115	0.210	121
South-east		886	1.622	6,834	12.507	7,720
867	Bracknell Forest	4	0.007	44	0.081	48
846	Brighton and Hove	10	0.018	200	0.366	210
825	Buckinghamshire	21	0.038	182	0.333	203
845	East Sussex	48	0.088	110	0.201	158
850	Hampshire	16	0.029	894	1.636	910
921	Isle of Wight	2	0.004	99	0.181	101
886	Kent	55	0.101	1,529	2.798	1,584
887	Medway	0	0.000	89	0.163	89
826	Milton Keynes	0	0.000	31	0.057	31
931	Oxfordshire	45	0.082	699	1.279	744
851	Portsmouth	2	0.004	90	0.165	92
870	Reading	0	0.000	572	1.047	572
871	Slough	0	0.000	30	0.055	30
852	Southampton	3	0.005	130	0.238	133
936	Surrey	544	0.996	853	1.561	1,397
869	West Berkshire	1	0.002	235	0.430	236
938	West Sussex	22	0.040	176	0.322	198
868	Windsor and Maidenhead	113	0.207	176	0.322	289
872	Wokingham	0	0.000	695	1.272	695
South-west		467	0.855	4,338	7.939	4,805
800	Bath and North East Somerset	118	0.216	284	0.520	402
837	Bournemouth	2	0.004	30	0.055	32
801	Bristol, City of	12	0.022	493	0.902	505
908	Cornwall	5	0.009	636	1.164	641
878	Devon	77	0.141	758	1.387	835
835	Dorset	0	0.000	200	0.366	200
916	Gloucestershire	1	0.002	278	0.509	279
420	Isles of Scilly	0	0.000	0	0.000	0
802	North Somerset	0	0.000	287	0.525	287
879	Plymouth	2	0.004	273	0.500	275
836	Poole	0	0.000	22	0.040	22
933	Somerset	213	0.390	589	1.078	802
803	South Gloucestershire	0	0.000	140	0.256	140
866	Swindon	0	0.000	200	0.366	200
880	Torbay	0	0.000	64	0.117	64
865	Wiltshire	37	0.068	84	0.154	121

 
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