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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:

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
2000–0112,325,00082,092,00015.0
2001–0213,410,00088,259,00015.2
2002–0314,787,00094,086,00015.7
2003–0416,936,000103,083,00016.4
2004–0518,620,000109,591,00017.0
2005–06(77)20,337,000121,620,00016.7


(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 nameLAMain specialismLeading optionFurther leading option
Cirencester Deer Park SchoolGloucestershireTechnologyArts
Greenwood Dale SchoolNottinghamTechnologyArts
Henbury High SchoolCheshireTechnologyArts
Shireland Language CollegeSandwellLanguageArts
The Ecclesbourne SchoolDerbyshireTechnologyArts
Uplands CommunityEast SussexTechnologyArts
King James's SchoolNorth YorkshireTechnologyB&E
Archbishop Temple CofE High SchoolLancashireTechnologyHumanities
Central Foundation Girls' SchoolTower HamletsArtsHumanities
Hazelwick SchoolWest SussexTechnologyHumanities
King Solomon High SchoolRedbridgeTechnologyHumanities
Lord Grey SchoolMilton KeynesLanguageHumanities
Notre Dame Catholic High SchoolSheffieldTechnologyHumanities
Queen Elizabeth's Community CollegeDevonTechnologyHumanities
St. Martin's SchoolEssexTechnologyHumanities
Stowmarket High SchoolSuffolkTechnologyHumanities
The Cardinal Wiseman R C SchoolEalingTechnologyHumanities
The Piggott SchoolWokinghamLanguageHumanities
Turves Green Boys' CollegeBirminghamTechnologyHumanities
Beths Grammar SchoolBexleyTechnologyLanguage
Comberton Village CollegeCambridgeshireSportsLanguage
Dr. Challoner's High SchoolBuckinghamshireSportsLanguage
Lancaster Girls' Grammar SchoolLancashireTechnologyLanguage
St. John's School & Community CollegeWiltshireTechnologyLanguage
Claremont High SchoolBrentArtsM&C
Stantonbury CampusMilton KeynesArtsM&C
The Skegness Grammar SchoolLincolnshireSportsM&C
The St Marylebone CofE SchoolWestminsterArtsM&C
Wood Green High School CollegeSandwellSportsM&C
Alcester High School CollegeWarwickshireTechnologyMusic
Charles Edward Brooke SchoolLambethArtsMusic
Hockerill Anglo-European CollegeHertfordshireLanguageMusic
Plantsbrooke SchoolBirminghamTechnologyMusic
Varndean SchoolBrighton & HoveTechnologyMusic
Bridgewater High SchoolWarringtonArtsScience
Connaught School for GirlsWaltham ForestLanguageScience
Pate's Grammar SchoolGloucestershireLanguageScience
Robert Pattinson SchoolLincolnshireLanguageScience
Sir Jonathan North Community CollegeLeicesterArtsScience
Stoke Newington SchoolHackneyArtsScience
The Henry Box SchoolOxfordshireLanguageScience
John Hampden Grammar SchoolBuckinghamshireTechnologySports
Kings Norton Girls' SchoolBirminghamLanguageSports
Ossett SchoolWakefieldTechnologySports
St. Augustine's Catholic CollegeWiltshireTechnologySports
The Eastwood School (11–18)Southend-on-SeaArtsSports
The Weald SchoolWest SussexTechnologySports
Harrogate Grammar SchoolNorth YorkshireLanguageTechnology
Beverley High SchoolE Riding of YorkshireTechnologyLeading Edge
Southend High School for BoysSouthend-on-SeaLanguagesLeading Edge
Thomas Tallis SchoolGreenwichArtsLeading Edge
Wildern SchoolHampshireArtsRaising Achievement Transforming Learning (SSAT)
Ashington Community High SchoolNorthumberlandSportsSchl Leadership (YST)
Aylesbury High SchoolBuckinghamshireLanguagesTraining School
Balcarras SchoolGloucestershireTechnologyTraining School
Chesterton Community CollegeCambridgeshireTechnologyTraining School
Grange Technology CollegeBradfordTechnologyTraining School
Greenford High SchoolEalingLanguagesTraining School
Holmesdale Technology CollegeKentTechnologyTraining School
Langdon SchoolNewhamSportsTraining School
Lytchett Minster SchoolDorsetArtsTraining School
Monks' Dyke Technology CollegeLincolnshireTechnologyTraining School
Seven Kings High SchoolRedbridgeTechnologyTraining SchoolLanguages
St. Angela's Ursuline Convent SchoolNewhamTechnologyTraining SchoolLanguages
St. Peter's CofE High SchoolStoke-on-TrentLanguagesTraining School
The Netherhall SchoolCambridgeshireSportsTraining School
The Thomas Aveling SchoolMedwayTechnologyTraining School
Valentines High SchoolRedbridgeTechnologyTraining School
Ashfield Comprehensive SchoolNottinghamshireTechnologyVocationalLanguages
Carmel R C Technology CollegeDarlingtonTechnologyVocational
Lees Brook Community Sports CollegeDerbySportsVocationalLanguages
Aldercar Community Languages CollegeDerbyshireLanguagesVocational
Ashdown SchoolPooleTechnologyVocational
Ashton-on-Mersey SchoolTraffordSportsVocational
Ercall Wood Technology CollegeTelford & WrekinTechnologyVocational
Greensward CollegeEssexTechnologyVocational
Haybridge High School and Sixth FormWorcestershireTechnologyVocational
Hillview School for GirlsKentArtsVocational
Kirk Hallam Community CollegeDerbyshireTechnologyVocational
Leiston Community High SchoolSuffolkTechnologyVocational
Middleton Technology SchoolRochdaleTechnologyVocational
Notley High SchoolEssexTechnologyVocational
Penryn CollegeCornwallSportsVocational
Ringmer Community CollegeEast SussexTechnologyVocational
St. Paul's Way Community SchoolTower HamletsArtsVocational
Swanwick Hall SchoolDerbyshireTechnologyVocational
The Benjamin Britten High SchoolSuffolkTechnologyVocational
The Gleed Girls Technology CollegeLincolnshireTechnologyVocational
The Hayesbrook SchoolKentSportsVocational
The Warwick SchoolSurreyTechnologyVocational
Tile Hill Wood SchoolCoventryLanguagesVocational
Total number of schools—91

 
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