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Special Advisers (IT Allowances)
Keith Vaz:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills whether special advisers in her Department receive an IT allowance. [52671]
Maria Eagle:
Special advisers do not receive any IT allowances.
Special Educational Needs
John Bercow:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list specialist schools which have a special educational needs specialism. [53558]
Jacqui Smith:
12 special schools have been designated in the special educational needs (SEN) specialism, specialising in one of the four areas of the SEN code of practice. The schools are:
Ash Field School and Micro Technology Assessment Centre, Leicester
Clifford Holroyde Centre of Expertise, Liverpool
Cuckmere House School, East Sussex
Holly House School, Derbyshire
Marjory Kinnon School, Hounslow
Mary Hare School, Newbury
New Rush Hall School, Redbridge
Penn Hall School, Wolverhampton
RNIB New College, Worcester
The West of England School and College for Children with Little or No Sight, Exeter
West Gate School (formerly Emily Fortey School), Leicester
Additionally, there are 33 special schools designated with a curriculum specialism.
Mr. Stewart Jackson:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of Peterborough local education authority's total budget was spent on special needs education in each of the last seven years. [54820]
Jacqui Smith:
The available information is contained within the following table. Similar data are not available before 2000–01:
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Budgeted net expenditure on the provision of education for children with special educational needs(74)(5508890075) by Peterborough local authority since 2000–01
| Budgeted net expenditure on the provision of education for children with special educational needs (£) | Total Education Revenue Expenditure(76)(£) | Budgeted net expenditure on the provision of education for children with SEN as a percentage of total education revenue expenditure
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| 2000–01 | 12,325,000 | 82,092,000 | 15.0
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| 2001–02 | 13,410,000 | 88,259,000 | 15.2
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| 2002–03 | 14,787,000 | 94,086,000 | 15.7
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| 2003–04 | 16,936,000 | 103,083,000 | 16.4
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| 2004–05 | 18,620,000 | 109,591,000 | 17.0
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| 2005–06(77) | 20,337,000 | 121,620,000 | 16.7
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(74) 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.
(75) 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 only indicative of the amount that might be spent by schools on SEN and, from 2004–05 onwards, notional SEN" delegated to nursery schools was reported on Section 52 for the first time and this accounts for £18,000 of the 2005–06 total. In 2005–06, Peterborough also budgeted £1.7 million for SEN transport expenditure but this is not included in the budgeted net expenditure on SEN as figures are not available prior to 2005–06.
(76) Total Education Revenue Expenditure is the combination of the total schools budget and the total LEA budget.
(77) Cash terms figures as reported by Peterborough local authority as at 27 February 2006.
Note:
Figures are rounded to the nearest thousand pounds and may not sum due to rounding.
The data are drawn from Peterborough local authority's Section 52 Budget Statements (Tables 1 and 2) submitted to the DfES.
Specialist Schools
John Bercow:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the high performing specialist schools which have taken on additional functions since the publication of the White Paper, Higher Standards, Better Schools for All. [53549]
Jacqui Smith:
91 high performing specialist schools, tabled as follows, have taken on one or more of the four leading options offered at redesignation in the autumn of 2005. A further 66 schools are currently under consideration and will be informed shortly.
| School name | LA | Main specialism | Leading option | Further leading option
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| Cirencester Deer Park School | Gloucestershire | Technology | Arts | —
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| Greenwood Dale School | Nottingham | Technology | Arts | —
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| Henbury High School | Cheshire | Technology | Arts | —
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| Shireland Language College | Sandwell | Language | Arts | —
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| The Ecclesbourne School | Derbyshire | Technology | Arts | —
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| Uplands Community | East Sussex | Technology | Arts | —
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| King James's School | North Yorkshire | Technology | B&E | —
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| Archbishop Temple CofE High School | Lancashire | Technology | Humanities | —
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| Central Foundation Girls' School | Tower Hamlets | Arts | Humanities | —
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| Hazelwick School | West Sussex | Technology | Humanities | —
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| King Solomon High School | Redbridge | Technology | Humanities | —
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| Lord Grey School | Milton Keynes | Language | Humanities | —
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| Notre Dame Catholic High School | Sheffield | Technology | Humanities | —
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| Queen Elizabeth's Community College | Devon | Technology | Humanities | —
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| St. Martin's School | Essex | Technology | Humanities | —
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| Stowmarket High School | Suffolk | Technology | Humanities | —
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| The Cardinal Wiseman R C School | Ealing | Technology | Humanities | —
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| The Piggott School | Wokingham | Language | Humanities | —
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| Turves Green Boys' College | Birmingham | Technology | Humanities | —
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| Beths Grammar School | Bexley | Technology | Language | —
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| Comberton Village College | Cambridgeshire | Sports | Language | —
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| Dr. Challoner's High School | Buckinghamshire | Sports | Language | —
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| Lancaster Girls' Grammar School | Lancashire | Technology | Language | —
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| St. John's School & Community College | Wiltshire | Technology | Language | —
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| Claremont High School | Brent | Arts | M&C | —
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| Stantonbury Campus | Milton Keynes | Arts | M&C | —
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| The Skegness Grammar School | Lincolnshire | Sports | M&C | —
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| The St Marylebone CofE School | Westminster | Arts | M&C | —
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| Wood Green High School College | Sandwell | Sports | M&C | —
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| Alcester High School College | Warwickshire | Technology | Music | —
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| Charles Edward Brooke School | Lambeth | Arts | Music | —
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| Hockerill Anglo-European College | Hertfordshire | Language | Music | —
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| Plantsbrooke School | Birmingham | Technology | Music | —
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| Varndean School | Brighton & Hove | Technology | Music | —
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| Bridgewater High School | Warrington | Arts | Science | —
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| Connaught School for Girls | Waltham Forest | Language | Science | —
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| Pate's Grammar School | Gloucestershire | Language | Science | —
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| Robert Pattinson School | Lincolnshire | Language | Science | —
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| Sir Jonathan North Community College | Leicester | Arts | Science | —
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| Stoke Newington School | Hackney | Arts | Science | —
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| The Henry Box School | Oxfordshire | Language | Science | —
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| John Hampden Grammar School | Buckinghamshire | Technology | Sports | —
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| Kings Norton Girls' School | Birmingham | Language | Sports | —
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| Ossett School | Wakefield | Technology | Sports | —
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| St. Augustine's Catholic College | Wiltshire | Technology | Sports | —
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| The Eastwood School (11–18) | Southend-on-Sea | Arts | Sports | —
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| The Weald School | West Sussex | Technology | Sports | —
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| Harrogate Grammar School | North Yorkshire | Language | Technology | —
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| Beverley High School | E Riding of Yorkshire | Technology | Leading Edge | —
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| Southend High School for Boys | Southend-on-Sea | Languages | Leading Edge | —
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| Thomas Tallis School | Greenwich | Arts | Leading Edge | —
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| Wildern School | Hampshire | Arts | Raising Achievement Transforming Learning (SSAT) | —
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| Ashington Community High School | Northumberland | Sports | Schl Leadership (YST) | —
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| Aylesbury High School | Buckinghamshire | Languages | Training School | —
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| Balcarras School | Gloucestershire | Technology | Training School | —
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| Chesterton Community College | Cambridgeshire | Technology | Training School | —
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| Grange Technology College | Bradford | Technology | Training School | —
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| Greenford High School | Ealing | Languages | Training School | —
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| Holmesdale Technology College | Kent | Technology | Training School | —
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| Langdon School | Newham | Sports | Training School | —
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| Lytchett Minster School | Dorset | Arts | Training School | —
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| Monks' Dyke Technology College | Lincolnshire | Technology | Training School | —
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| Seven Kings High School | Redbridge | Technology | Training School | Languages
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| St. Angela's Ursuline Convent School | Newham | Technology | Training School | Languages
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| St. Peter's CofE High School | Stoke-on-Trent | Languages | Training School | —
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| The Netherhall School | Cambridgeshire | Sports | Training School | —
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| The Thomas Aveling School | Medway | Technology | Training School | —
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| Valentines High School | Redbridge | Technology | Training School | —
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| Ashfield Comprehensive School | Nottinghamshire | Technology | Vocational | Languages
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| Carmel R C Technology College | Darlington | Technology | Vocational | —
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| Lees Brook Community Sports College | Derby | Sports | Vocational | Languages
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| Aldercar Community Languages College | Derbyshire | Languages | Vocational | —
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| Ashdown School | Poole | Technology | Vocational | —
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| Ashton-on-Mersey School | Trafford | Sports | Vocational | —
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| Ercall Wood Technology College | Telford & Wrekin | Technology | Vocational | —
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| Greensward College | Essex | Technology | Vocational | —
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| Haybridge High School and Sixth Form | Worcestershire | Technology | Vocational | —
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| Hillview School for Girls | Kent | Arts | Vocational | —
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| Kirk Hallam Community College | Derbyshire | Technology | Vocational | —
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| Leiston Community High School | Suffolk | Technology | Vocational | —
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| Middleton Technology School | Rochdale | Technology | Vocational | —
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| Notley High School | Essex | Technology | Vocational | —
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| Penryn College | Cornwall | Sports | Vocational | —
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| Ringmer Community College | East Sussex | Technology | Vocational | —
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| St. Paul's Way Community School | Tower Hamlets | Arts | Vocational | —
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| Swanwick Hall School | Derbyshire | Technology | Vocational | —
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| The Benjamin Britten High School | Suffolk | Technology | Vocational | —
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| The Gleed Girls Technology College | Lincolnshire | Technology | Vocational | —
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| The Hayesbrook School | Kent | Sports | Vocational | —
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| The Warwick School | Surrey | Technology | Vocational | —
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| Tile Hill Wood School | Coventry | Languages | Vocational | —
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| Total number of schools—91 | | | |
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