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Education Maintenance Allowance
Mr. Graham Stuart: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many pupils in the East Riding of Yorkshire receive the education maintenance allowance; and if she will make a statement. [57222]
Maria Eagle: This is a matter for the Learning and Skills Council, who operate education maintenance allowances for the DFES and hold the information about take-up of the scheme. Mark Haysom, the Council's chief executive, has written to the hon. Member with the information requested and a copy of his reply has been placed in the House Library.
Letter from Mark Haysom dated 15 March 2006:
I am writing in response to your parliamentary question regarding Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA).
By the end of January 2006, 2,457 young people in the East Riding local education authority area had received one or more EMA payments in the academic year 2005–06.
Education (Wirral, West)
Stephen Hesford: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many people in Wirral, West (a) gained at least two A-levels and (b) went on to higher education in each of the last three years. [62352]
Jacqui Smith:
The following tables show the requested information.
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| Academic year | Number |
|---|---|
| 2002/03 | 537 |
| 2003/04 | 552 |
| 2004/05 | 589 |
Source:
School and College Achievement and Attainment Tables data
| Academic year | Entrants |
|---|---|
| 2002/03 | 300 |
| 2003/04 | 385 |
| 2004/05 | 345 |
Note:
The answers to (a) and (b) do not have the same coverage and should not be compared. The A-level candidates in Wirral, West are those that are at school or college there, the HE entrants are those whose home address is in Wirral, West.
Source:
Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) student record. Figures are on a HESA standard registration population and are rounded to the nearest 5. Entrants are those domiciled in Wirral, West constituency, rather than those who attended school or college there.
Education Act
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) if she will make a statement on the operation of section 159 of the Education Act 2002; [58706]
(2) on how many occasions the Chief Inspector has been requested to exercise his powers under section 159(2) of the Education Act 2002 in each year since its enactment; what the outcome was of each such inspection; and if she will make a statement. [58709]
Jacqui Smith: I refer my hon. Friend to the reply given on 27 February 2006, Official Report, column 525W.
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) how many proprietors have been prosecuted for operating unregistered schools (a) under the Education Act 2002 and (b) prior to the implementation of the Education Act 2002 between (i)1997 and 2002 and (ii) 1991 and 1996; and what the outcome was of each prosecution for cases which have been completed; [58707]
(2) whether her Department has been prevented by the regulatory framework from pursuing a prosecution under section 159 of the Education Act 2002 after deciding to do so; and if she will make a statement. [58708]
Jacqui Smith: No proprietors have been prosecuted for operating unregistered schools either since, or prior to, the implementation of the Education Act 2002. The current regulatory framework has not prevented my Department from prosecuting any case under section 159 of the Education Act 2002.
Education Funding
Patrick Hall:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the annual average per capita expenditure was in (a) state schools for all (i) five to
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19-year-olds, (ii) five to 11-year-olds, (iii) 11 to 16-year-olds and (iv) 16 to 19-year-olds and (b) state grammar schools for all (A) 11 to 16-year-olds and (B) 16 to 19-year-olds in England in the last year for which figures are available. [62956]
Jacqui Smith: The requested information is not collected by the Department in the way that it has been asked for. Expenditure in local authority maintained schools cannot be attributed to a particular age group and instead is split by phase of education. The available information for school based expenditure per pupil by local authority maintained schools in England during 2004–05 is contained in the following table:
(29)Includes all local authority maintained grammar schools.
Notes:
1.School based expenditure includes only expenditure incurred directly by local authority maintained schools. This includes the pay of teachers and school-based support staff, school premises costs, books and equipment, and certain other supplies and services, less any capital items funded from recurrent spending and income from sales, fees and charges and rents and rates. This excludes the central cost of support services such as home to school transport, local authority administration and the financing of capital expenditure. The pupil data are drawn from the DfES Annual Schools Census adjusted to be on a financial year basis.
2.Includes all local authority maintained schools with delegated budgets.
3.2004–05 data are provisional and are subject to change by the local authority.
4.Figures are as reported by local authorities at 29 March 2006 in cash terms and rounded to the nearest £10.
5.Financial data are drawn from local authorities' 2004–05 section 52 outturn statements submitted to the DfES. Pupil data are drawn from the DfES Annual Schools Census adjusted to be on a financial year basis. Local authority maintained grammar schools in England are drawn from Edubase (the Department's database of educational establishments) and matched across to the financial data reported on section 52 outturn.
6.There are 164 grammar schools. The unit cost for grammar schools was compiled by obtaining a list of schools from EduBase and matching the financial data for the 164 schools from s52 outturn table B, and replicating the Department's LA unit cost calculation for these schools.
Educational Attainment
Mr. Gibb:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to her answer of 7 March 2006, Official Report, column 1426W, on educational attainment, what proportion of (a) children in receipt of free school meals, (b) pupils with special educational needs and (c) all children aged 15 years at the end of the 2004–05 academic year achieved (i) five or more A* to C grades at GCSE and equivalent including mathematics and English and (ii) no A* to C grades at GCSE and equivalent, broken down by (A) community schools, (B)foundation schools, (C) voluntary aided schools,
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(D) voluntary controlled schools, (E) academies, (F) city technology colleges and (G) special schools excluding grammar schools. [60723]
Jacqui Smith: The information requested can be found in the following table.
(30)Age at the start of the academic year.
(31)Including community and foundation special schools.
(32)Containing pupils who were not included in the Pupil Level Annual School Census (as in national figures).
(33)Including statemented and non-statemented SEN pupils.
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