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Academies

John Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the independently managed academies that are operational, broken down by local education authority. [27190]

Jacqui Smith: There are currently 27 open academies in England. The following table lists them, together with the local authority area in which they are sited.

Academy	Local authority area
The Academy at Peckham	Southwark
The Academy of St. Francis of Assisi	Liverpool
The Business Academy, Bexley	Bexley
Capital City Academy	Brent
The City Academy, Bristol	Bristol
The City of London Academy	Southwark
Dixons City Academy	Bradford
Djanogly City Academy Nottingham	Nottingham
Greig City Academy	Haringey
Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College Academy	Lewisham
Haberdashers' Aske's Knights Academy	Lewisham
Harefield Academy	Hillingdon
The King's Academy	Middlesbrough
Lambeth Academy	Lambeth
London Academy	Barnet
Macmillan Academy	Middlesbrough
Manchester Academy	Manchester
The Marlowe Academy	Kent
Mossbourne Community Academy	Hackney
Northampton Academy	Northamptonshire
Salford City Academy	Salford
St. Paul's Academy	Greenwich
Stockley Academy	Hillingdon
Trinity Academy	Doncaster
Unity City Academy	Middlesbrough
The Walsall City Academy	Walsall
The West London Academy	Ealing

 
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Bridgewater Primary School

Mr. Binley: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to the answer of 7 November 2005, Official Report, column 108W, on Bridgewater primary school, Northamptonshire, in what circumstances departmental school design and funding guidelines provide funding for kitchen facilities; in what circumstances departmental guidelines judge kitchen facilities to be required by the school or local authority; and if her Department will provide funding for kitchen facilities at the Bridgewater primary school. [29186]

Jacqui Smith: The Departments area guidelines are applicable to any school but are particularly aimed at new school buildings. The Department bases its allocations for specific central programmes such as Building Schools for the Future on these guidelines and so these allocations will be sufficient to enable kitchen and dining facilities to be included.

It is not a legal requirement for a school to have a kitchen. Schools and local authorities are expected to provide nutritious and freshly prepared meals. It is the Government's view that this would ideally be from an on-site kitchen, but it can be achieved off-site if the appropriate arrangements are in place.

Over the current three years, 2003–04 to 2005–06, the Department is providing direct capital grants to Northamptonshire schools of some £32 million, also formulaic funding allocations of £49 million. In addition, during this period, there was an allocation to
 
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the local authority of £100 million in respect of a Private Finance Initiative, and nearly £5 million in respect of the Targeted Capital Fund programme. It is for the local authority, acting in co-operation with Bridgewater primary school and other schools, to prioritise expenditure in accordance with asset management plans. This includes whether to invest in kitchens or other assets.

Children's Trusts

Geraldine Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many children's trusts there are in England. [24533]

Beverley Hughes: Most local authorities, primary care trusts and their partners are in the process of establishing a children's trust in their local area and are on target to meet the Government's expectation that most areas will have a children's trust by 2006, and all by 2008. 35 pathfinders and many other local areas have already established their children's trust arrangements, and some 125 local authorities say that their directors of children's services have been or are being appointed.

Class Sizes

Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the average class size was in (a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools in (i) England, (ii) Staffordshire and (iii) Tamworth. [26167]

Jacqui Smith: The information requested is shown in the following table.
Maintained primary schools: average class size taught by one teacher⁽³⁶⁾. England, Staffordshire local authority and Tamworth parliamentary constituency.

Position as at January each year
	1997		2005
	Maintained primary(37)	Maintained secondary(37)	Maintained primary(37)	Maintained secondary(37)
England	27.5	21.7	26.2	21.7
Staffordshire local authority(38)	27.5	22.3		—
Staffordshire local authority (39)	—	-	26.0	21.5
Tamworth parliamentary constituency	27.5	21.5	25.7	21.0

⁽³⁶⁾ Classes taught during a single selected period in each school on the day of the census in January.
⁽³⁷⁾ Includes middle schools as deemed.
⁽³⁸⁾ Before local government re-organisation.
⁽³⁹⁾ After local government Re-organisation.
Source:
Annual Schools' Census

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the average class size is in (a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools in Brent. [27757]

Jacqui Smith: The information requested is shown in the following table.
Maintained primary and secondary schools: average class size. Taught by one teacher⁽⁴⁰⁾.

January 2005
	Maintained primary(41)	Maintained secondary(41)
Brent local authority	27.3	20.7

⁽⁴⁰⁾ Classes taught during a single selected period in each school on the day of the census in January.
⁽⁴¹⁾ Includes middle schools as deemed.
Source:
Annual Schools' Census

Departmental Finance

Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the real terms percentage increase in allocated resources for her Department (a) was for the period 1997–98 to 2004–05 and (b) is estimated to be between 2005–06 and 2007–08 (i) for each period and (ii) for each year. [31036]

Jacqui Smith: The real terms percentage increase for the period 1997–98 to 2004–05 was 89.4 per cent. For the period 2005–06 to 2007–08 the increase is planned to be 8.5 per cent.

The increases for the individual years over the previous year are shown in the following table.
 
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Expenditure on education, training and children 1997–98to 2007–08

£ million in 2005–06 prices(42)
	Number	Percentage change
Outturn
1997–98	15,011	—
1998–99	14,974	-0.2
1999–2000	16,035	7.1
2000–01	18,838	17.5
2001–02	21,268	12.9
2002–03	25,170	18.3
2003–04	27,391	8.8
2004–05(43)	28,431	3.8
Plans
2005–06(44)	30,546	7.4
2006–07	31,822	4.2
2007–08	33,129	4.1

⁽⁴²⁾ The Department previously had responsibility for employment policies. These have been removed from the above figures for comparison purposes.
⁽⁴³⁾ Estimated outturn as supplied for the Public Expenditure Outturn White Paper.
⁽⁴⁴⁾ Excludes take up of end year flexibility.

Education (West Lancashire)

Rosie Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many recorded incidents of physical assault by students on staff there were in each secondary school in West Lancashire in each of the past five years. [27711]

Jacqui Smith: The information requested is not available.

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