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Legislation (Sunset Clauses)

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what her policy is on the use of sunset clauses in legislation. [34249]

Mr. Lammy: The appropriateness of a sunset clause for the whole or part of any proposed legislation is considered on a case by case basis. It is also addressed when a regulatory impact assessment relating to legislation is being prepared.

Maladministration

Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many payments for maladministration have been made by (a) her Department, (b) its agencies, (c) its non-departmental public bodies and (d) other bodies for which her Department has responsibility in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement. [32249]

Mr. Lammy: It is the policy of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, its agency and non-departmental public bodies to make financial redress in accordance with the guidance set out in Chapter 18.7 and Annexes 18.1 and 18.2 of Government Accounting.

The information you requested is set out in the following table:
Department for Culture, Media and Sport

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05
Department	0	0	0	0	0
Executive NDPBs	0	0	1	0	0
Advisory NDPBs	0	0	0	0	0
Agency	0	0	0	0	0

 
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EDUCATION AND SKILLS

Departmental Contracts (Direct Mail)

Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many contracts for direct mail were signed by her Department in (a) 2005–06 to date and (b) 2004–05; and what the value was in each case. [27791]

Bill Rammell: The information requested is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Academy Schools

Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) how many and what percentage
 
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of pupils at academy schools (a) received free school meals and (b) were special educational needs children (i) before and (ii) after academy status was gained; [35326]

(2) how many and what proportion of special educational needs pupils (a) were at academy schools at the point they were designated as academies, (b) have been admitted since designation and (c) were admitted in the present term; [36287]

(3) how many and what proportion of pupils were eligible for free school meals in academy schools (a) at the point of designation and (b) in admissions since designation; and how many are eligible in the present term. [36293]

Jacqui Smith: The following table gives this information.
Special educational needs

		Academy
	Predecessor school—last year before closure	First year after opening	2005
Average number on roll	740	935	1,031
Average number of pupils with special needs with statements	25	29	33
Average percentage of pupils with special needs with statements	4	3	3
Average number of pupils with special needs without statements	198	253	292
Average percentage of pupils with special needs without statements	27	26	27

Free school meals

		Academy
	Predecessor school—last year before closure	First year after opening	2005
Average number on roll	740	935	1,031
Average number of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals	315	374	409
Average percentage of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals	45	40	40

Note:
Unless stated, averages are for 14 open academies and their respective predecessor schools. 13 academies have been omitted; three as they were 'new schools' and 10 as they had only just opened in September 2005 and therefore data are not yet available.

Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills at what point in establishment of a sponsored academy school the sponsor's £2 million contribution has to be paid; if she will list the academy schools which have been established; and what (a) the total committed by each sponsor, (b) the total paid by that sponsor to date, (c) the total contributed by Government to date and (d) the total estimated public funding to come is in each case. [36283]

Jacqui Smith: Academies' sponsors make their financial contribution within the timescale agreed with the Secretary of State through the Funding Agreement for each project. The information requested is shown in the following table. The third column records where we have clear evidence from the Academy Trust that a sponsor's contribution has been spent—there will be additional funding from the sponsor which has been provided to the Trust but not yet spent by them, or where the Department has not yet received evidence of that expenditure.
£000

Academy	Total committed by sponsor	Total evidence of use of sponsor contributions to end of November 2005	Total contributed by DfES to date	Total estimated public funding to come
Bexley	2,410	947	28,770	4
Greig	2,000	1,375	14,479	0
Unity	2,000	1,680	18,689	(29)-99
Capital City, Brent	2,000	1,993	24,928	66
City of London	2,000	1,097	31,065	620
Manchester	2,000	336	18,723	(29)-937
Peckham	2,000	1,018	26,660	1,160
City Academy, Bristol	2,599	1,666	25,045	23
Kings	2,000	2,000	20,301	0
Walsall	2,500	2,062	15,707	14
West London, Ealing	2,000	1,700	26,410	2,753
Lambeth	2,000	1,000	24,319	(29)-873
London, Barnet	1,500	1,191	16,536	10,263
Mossbourne	2,150	1,704	25,824	0
Northampton	2,000	624	25,212	147
Stockley	2,000	431	21,734	2,076
St Francis of Assisi	2,000	950	16,196	(29)-1,000
Marlowe	2,462	1,462	11,510	13,558
Macmillan	1,250	0	835	10,949
St Paul's Greenwich	2,000	200	5,729	23,460
The Harefield	1,500	42	4,055	20,864
Dixons CTC	651	200	1,804	4,055
Djanogly	0	250	21,197	329
Trinity, Doncaster	2,000	1,734	20,698	2,071
Haberdashers Hatcham	705	0	2,320	4,021
Haberdashers Knights	296	0	11,634	28,451
Salford	1,600	0	5,108	8,345
Total	47,623	25,662	465,488	130,320

⁽²⁹⁾ Subject to separate agreements. The sponsor will complete their contribution at a later stage of the building project with recovery by DfES.
Note:
Academies listed in order of opening.





 
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Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many academy schools are in the lowest 5 per cent. of Super Output areas according to deprivation indices. [36289]

Jacqui Smith: Decisions on where Academies open are based on criteria which include not only deprivation indices, but also educational need. We calculate deprivation statistics using the ODPM Multiple Indices of Deprivation, which are based on the 8,414 wards in England. Of the 27 Academies currently open, five are in the lowest 5 per cent. of Super Output areas in terms of deprivation indices.

Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many academy schools have been established and are operating; how many are in the course of being set up; how many applications are awaiting approval; and how many she expects to approve in the next two years. [36291]

Jacqui Smith: There are currently 27 open academies; a further 43 are in the course of being set up, either in feasibility or implementation; there are many more projects in pre-feasibility, and there will be at least 40 academies open by 2006 and further projects opening by 2007, but it is too early to give a precise number for these. We are committed to there being 200 academies open or in the pipeline by 2010.

Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many academy schools require pupils to wear school uniform; how many of
 
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these are in local education authority areas where grants are provided for uniforms; and how many of these schools provide grants themselves. [36294]

Jacqui Smith: Academies are independent state schools, and so they are free to adopt the school uniform policies they consider appropriate. The Department does not hold information centrally about which local authorities offer school uniform grants to schools, nor do we require schools to tell us how they allocate their own funding for items such as school uniform grants.

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