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David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many non-pensionable bonuses were awarded to members of his staff in each of the last three years; and at what total cost. [72998]

Mr. Dhanda: The following table shows the percentage of staff in my Department receiving non-pensionable bonuses in each of the last three years, and the total cost.

	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Percentage of bonuses	26	32	33
Cost (£)	922,000	1,462,000	1,835,000
Percentage of paybill	0.6	0.96	33

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Education and Inspections Bill

Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will make a statement on the impact of human rights legislation on the drafting of the Education and Inspections Bill. [73951]

Jim Knight: The former Secretary of State signed a certificate under section 19 of the Human Rights Act indicating that the provisions of the Bill are, in her opinion, compliant with the ECHR/HRA Schedule rights.

During consideration of the Bill on Report I indicated that I would respond in writing to the hon. Member for Brent, East regarding the human rights considerations related to confiscation of property. I will publish that letter in the Library.

Education Funding

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the funding was per pupil in (a) primary, (b) infant, (c) junior and (d) secondary schools in each (i) London borough and (ii) local education authority in 2005-06. [75454]

Jim Knight: The information requested is not yet available. The Department is due to collect the section 52 outturn data relating to the 2005-06 financial year from August 2006.

Education Maintenance Allowance

Jim Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many education maintenance allowances are being paid in each local education authority in England; what percentage of the relevant age cohort these figures represent; and what estimate he has made of the take-up rate in each area. [75213]

Mr. Dhanda: EMA 2005/06 take-up to April 2006 and is shown in the following table.

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	Take-up current year (April 2006)		Take-up as proportion of age cohort		Take-up as proportion of eligible population
Local authority	16-year-olds	17-year-olds	16-year-olds (percentage)	17-year-olds (percentage)	16-year-olds (percentage)	17-year-olds (percentage)
Camden	753	687	41	39	86	86
Greenwich	1,154	930	42	33	87	81
Hackney	1,388	1,227	55	47	91	92
Hammersmith and Fulham	596	550	41	37	83	86
Islington	896	696	52	40	99	85
Kensington and Chelsea	349	317	27	26	96	92
Lambeth	1,517	1,241	60	47	99	92
Lewisham	1,326	1,079	46	38	90	82
Southwark	1,380	1,162	51	44	92	90
Tower Hamlets	1,587	1,336	64	53	93	87
Wandsworth	900	689	46	36	96	81
Westminster	564	534	36	34	86	89
Barking and Dagenham	922	697	40	32	97	88
Barnet	1,125	1,009	29	27	89	92
Bexley	849	677	27	22	81	77
Brent	1,441	1,303	46	42	94	92
Bromley	940	715	23	19	78	73
Croydon	1,568	1,213	35	28	94	83
Ealing	1,330	1,266	39	37	87	91
Enfield	1,380	1,142	38	32	89	83
Haringey	1,228	1,156	50	45	88	92
Harrow	924	825	34	27	95	93
Havering	833	623	28	21	82	72
Hillingdon	909	741	28	23	82	79
Hounslow	978	804	39	32	93	84
Kingston upon Thames	390	308	22	18	85	79
Merton	682	526	33	25	91	81
Newham	2,021	1,749	56	49	96	93
Redbridge	1,139	1,045	33	32	80	85
Richmond upon Thames	352	309	20	18	83	82
Sutton	595	482	25	20	83	76
Waltham Forest	1,246	1,037	45	38	84	83
Birmingham	6,330	5,262	44	37	86	83
Coventry	1,569	1,176	38	29	85	73
Dudley	1,402	1,087	34	27	85	76
Sandwell	1,834	1,445	47	37	89	82
Solihull	728	542	25	19	83	74
Walsall	1,374	1,090	39	32	86	77
Wolverhampton	1,508	1,134	45	35	87	76
Knowsley	1,178	891	51	39	92	82
Liverpool	2,839	2,188	48	37	89	77
St. Helens	976	759	41	33	99	84
Sefton	1,602	1,260	39	31	85	79
Wirral	1,749	1,274	40	29	86	71
Bolton	1,433	1,161	37	31	82	79
Bury	812	647	30	24	76	72
Manchester	2,685	2,213	46	39	88	83
Oldham	1,407	1,005	45	32	91	74
Rochdale	1,246	1,036	40	34	81	79
Salford	997	816	35	29	81	80
Stockport	993	897	26	24	75	76
Tameside	1,183	891	38	29	84	73
Trafford	919	805	32	30	82	80
Wigan	1,476	1,125	36	27	85	76
Barnsley	1,008	789	34	28	81	74
Doncaster	1,445	1,075	36	27	86	74
Rotherham	1,191	880	34	26	85	73
Sheffield	2,213	1,742	35	28	81	75
Bradford	2,963	2,256	43	34	90	79
Calderdale	984	720	37	27	83	69
Kirklees	1,883	1,546	34	29	82	77
Leeds	3,154	2,221	33	23	88	73
Wakefield	1,429	1,064	32	24	82	72
Gateshead	971	783	40	32	84	78
Newcastle upon Tyne	1,149	893	35	29	88	77
North Tyneside	905	676	36	27	80	70
South Tyneside	791	632	38	31	84	78
Sunderland	1,645	1,248	43	33	87	76
Bath and NE Somerset	599	440	26	20	82	74
Bristol, City of	1,561	1,067	34	24	90	69
North Somerset	725	567	29	23	75	71
South Gloucestershire	821	598	25	18	77	68
Hartlepool	607	429	47	33	87	73
Middlesbrough	920	773	46	39	85	78
Redcar and Cleveland	749	613	39	32	85	81
Stockton-on-Tees	917	756	34	29	82	77
Kingston upon Hull, City of	1,580	1,202	46	35	88	76
East Riding of Yorkshire	1,404	1,127	32	27	80	74
North East Lincolnshire	1,061	813	45	34	89	78
North Lincolnshire	779	619	36	30	80	74
North Yorkshire	2,241	1,670	26	20	85	75
York	637	493	29	23	87	79
Bedfordshire	1,302	1,012	24	19	80	73
Luton	1,227	1,032	47	39	87	81
Buckinghamshire	1,337	1,037	20	16	86	81
Milton Keynes	890	702	30	23	80	75
Derbyshire	3,067	2,374	30	25	81	72
Derby	1,088	718	34	24	87	68
Dorset	1,516	1,160	28	21	79	72
Poole	535	406	30	22	84	74
Bournemouth	624	465	33	26	85	74
Durham	2,408	1,851	38	30	84	73
Darlington	520	360	38	28	87	71
East Sussex	2,079	1,690	31	26	76	72
Brighton and Hove	923	721	34	27	87	77
Hampshire	4,165	3,079	25	19	82	73
Portsmouth	880	707	38	30	87	79
Southampton	946	679	38	27	86	72
Leicestershire	2,347	1,798	28	23	79	72
Leicester	2,182	1,880	58	50	89	86
Rutland	82	62	13	8	78	60
Staffordshire	3,487	2,715	32	25	79	70
Stoke-on-Trent	1,482	1,086	46	34	86	74
Wiltshire	1,568	1,148	26	19	78	69
Swindon	717	580	30	25	78	72
Bracknell Forest	327	201	22	12	102	72
Windsor and Maidenhead	295	254	16	12	78	79
West Berkshire	374	249	18	12	83	64
Reading	439	299	26	18	85	66
Slough	587	420	37	26	96	78
Wokingham	344	272	17	14	85	77
Cambridgeshire	1,769	1,325	25	19	82	72
Peterborough	780	577	36	26	84	73
Cheshire	2,521	1,881	28	21	81	73
Halton	751	566	44	33	85	74
Warrington	748	562	28	22	84	73
Devon	3,370	2,605	36	29	79	71
Plymouth	1,320	986	40	30	77	67
Torbay	782	579	45	34	85	73
Essex	4,800	3,455	27	20	83	70
Southend-on-Sea	620	528	30	27	77	74
Thurrock	563	346	27	18	89	63
Herefordshire	783	594	32	25	76	70
Worcestershire	2,324	1,847	31	25	76	74
Kent	5,519	4,068	29	22	83	72
Medway	1,180	897	32	24	79	70
Lancashire	5,374	4,419	33	28	82	78
Blackburn with Darwen	968	824	44	37	87	83
Blackpool	748	534	39	28	88	76
Nottinghamshire	3,330	2,419	32	24	84	70
Nottingham	1,600	1,164	48	35	95	78
Shropshire	1,130	845	28	21	79	70
Telford and Wrekin	777	582	33	24	78	70
Cornwall	3,102	2,542	46	38	79	75
Cumbria	2,034	1,576	32	25	76	69
Gloucestershire	2,121	1,659	27	22	79	74
Hertfordshire	3,217	2,465	23	18	81	74
Isle of Wight	710	618	41	36	72	73
Lincolnshire	3,149	2,374	34	26	79	72
Norfolk	3,484	2,556	34	26	83	70
Northamptonshire	2,477	1,741	27	19	80	68
Northumberland	1,326	1,020	33	26	78	69
Oxfordshire	1,496	1,105	19	14	84	74
Somerset	2,181	1,717	30	23	79	73
Suffolk	2,982	2,248	33	26	80	70
Surrey	2,447	1,916	18	14	83	77
Warwickshire	1,798	1,313	26	19	83	72
West Sussex	2,651	2,057	27	22	81	75
England	220,523	171,980	33	26	84	76
Notes: 1. Take-up figures are the number of learners who have received one or more EMA payments. 2. The eligibility estimates are produced using income distributions (derived from the Family Resources Survey) and expected numbers in full-time further education. When applied to individual localities, the figures may be subject to some variation but they provide a useful estimate. 3. City of London has been omitted because of small population size (see note 2, above). Take-up of EMA in the authority to date is 19 16-year-olds and 42 17-year-olds have received at least one payment.

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