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Private Finance Initiative
Paul Holmes: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the (a) names and (b) locations of the schools (i) built and (ii) renewed under the Private Finance Initiative scheme. [64255]
Bill Rammell: The Department for Education and Skills does not itself undertake private finance initiative (PFI) projects. PFI projects for the provision of schools are delivered through contracts between local authorities and private sector contractors.
There are currently 99 such projects with signed contracts covering over 800 schools. The names, locations and other details of these schools can be accessed at:
School Hours
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills which schools in Southend provide extended school hours; and if she will make a statement. [64220]
Bill Rammell: Nine schools in the Southend Local Authority area are working towards delivering a core offer of extended services by September 2006. The Government wants all schools to provide access to the core offer by 2010, with half of primary schools and a third of secondary schools doing so by 2008. We want to see at least 2,500 schools providing access to the core offer by September 2006. Good progress is being made nationally, with over 6,000 schools thus far indicating their willingness to work on developing a core offer of extended services.
The core offer, which should be available to all parents and pupils of the school, comprises access to:
It will be for individual local authorities, in discussion with all schools in their area, to take a strategic approach to developing access to the core offer in each year.
School IT Systems
Ms Diana R. Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much her Department allocated for school information technology systems in (a) Kingston upon Hull and (b) Hull North in each year since 1997. [64106]
Bill Rammell: The Department does not hold information on specific allocation figures for school information technology systems in (a) Kingston upon Hull and (b) Hull North. Funding for school information systems is included within the overall ICT funding allocation figure for the local authority.
Hull North is in Kingston upon Hull and allocations for this authority, from 1998–2005, are detailed in 'Funding for ICT in Schools in England' which is available in the House Library. The ICT funding allocation for Kingston upon Hull in 2005–06 was £2,755,007.
School Meals
Steve McCabe:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what provision will be made for schools committed to long-term contractual arrangements
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with vending machine suppliers if the proposed ban on junk food sales contained in the draft guidelines from the School Food Trust is implemented. [63398]
Bill Rammell: There is currently no intention to make provision available at a national level to schools committed to long-term arrangements. Such arrangements are made at local level and we would normally expect schools to seek expert advice from their local authority on contractual issues. Last year the Department produced a draft guide for schools and local authorities on 'School Meals Procurement', which sets out some of the key issues that governors and head teachers should consider when reviewing their current school meals service and deciding on changes. Alongside this guide, which is currently being updated, we are also producing additional guidance on contract variation which is aimed at helping schools tied into long term contracts. Both sets of guidance should be available in May.
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many school children in each school in Southend, West constituency (a) receive school meals and (b) pay for school meals. [64221]
Bill Rammell: The table shows information on free school meals taken as well as pupils known to be eligible for free schools meals.
Two sets of figures relating to the number and proportion of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals are given here. The first includes all pupils in the school, regardless of their age. The second includes full time pupils aged up to (and including) 15 and part time pupils aged 5 to 15 (inclusive). This second coverage is as used in the Pupil Achievement Tracker and Ofsted's PANDA reports and provides consistent school level comparisons.
Information on the number of pupils who pay for school meals is not collected centrally.
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(267) Includes pupils with sole and dual registration of all ages.
(268) Includes pupils with sole and dual registration who are full time and aged 0 to 15 (inclusive) and those who are part time and aged 5 to 15 (inclusive)
(269) Number of pupils who took a free school meal on the day of the census in January.
# less than 3 or a rate based on less than 3
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