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Education and Skills

Building Bulletin 100

Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will make a statement on progress with the Building Bulletin 100 review. [77455]

Jim Knight: Public consultation on Building Bulletin (BB) 100, “Designing and Managing Against the Risk of Fire in Schools”, concluded in November last year. There were 66 responses to the 12 questions asked and many included additional comments, some extensive. An analysis of these responses has been completed and will shortly be published on the Department’s website.


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This feedback has now been incorporated into a new draft of BB 100, which is being internally reviewed. We hope to publish the final, agreed version before the end of this year.

Class Sizes

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will make a statement on class sizes in the London borough of Havering. [75443]

Jim Knight: Information on class sizes in Havering local authority area is given in the table. This shows that the average size of Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 classes has decreased since 2002. The average size of classes in secondary schools has remained the same.


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Classes taught by one teacher in maintained primary schools (by Key Stage 1 and 2) and secondary schools( 1,2,3) —position in January each year: 2002 to 2006 (provisional)—Havering local authority area
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 (provisional)

Key Stage 1 classes( 4)

Average class size

26.6

26.7

26.6

26.1

26.2

Number of classes

294

291

273

284

277

Percentage of classes with:

1-30 pupils

99.3

100.0

100.0

100.0

98.9

31 or more pupils

0.7

0.0

0.0

0.0

1.1

Number of pupils

7,823

7,762

7,268

7,416

7,249

Percentage of pupils in classes with:

1-30 pupils

99.2

100.0

100.0

100.0

98.7

31 or more pupils(5)

0.8

0.0

0.0

0.0

1.3

Key Stage 2 classes

Average class size

27.5

27.5

27.6

27.3

26.8

Number of classes

402

392

368

384

390

Percentage of classes with:

1-30 pupils

71.9

77.6

80.2

81.8

87.2

31 or more pupils

28.1

22.4

19.8

18.2

12.8

Number of pupils

11,058

10,764

10,159

10,501

10,434

Percentage of pupils in classes with:

1-30 pupils

67.2

73.7

77.3

78.4

84.7

31 or more pupils

32.8

26.3

22.7

21.6

15.3

Classes in primary schools

Average class size

27.1

27.1

27.1

26.7

26.5

Number of classes

719

706

686

692

686

Percentage of classes with:

1-30 pupils

83.2

87.0

88.0

89.2

91.7

31 or more pupils

16.8

13.0

12.0

10.8

8.3

Number of pupils

19,506

19,137

18,613

18,509

18,181

Percentage of pupils in classes with:

1-30 pupils

79.9

84.4

85.8

86.8

89.9

31 or more pupils

20.1

15.6

14.2

13.2

10.1

Classes in secondary schools

Average class size

21.8

21.7

22.0

21.9

21.8

Number of classes

709

731

732

724

708

Percentage of classes with:

1-30 pupils

94.6

94.1

94.4

93.2

92.5

31 or more pupils

5.4

5.9

5.6

6.8

7.5

Number of pupils

15,457

15,878

16,087

15,846

15,399

Percentage of pupils in classes with:

1-30 pupils

92.2

91.4

91.9

90.2

89.2

31 or more pupils

7.8

8.6

8.1

9.8

10.8

(1) Classes as taught during a single selected period in each school on the day of the census in January. (2) Includes middle schools as deemed. (3) For secondary schools, excludes sixth form colleges. (4) Includes reception classes. (5) Key Stage 1 classes of 31 or more may contain pupils who have been admitted as exceptions. Source: Schools’ Census

Education Act 1996 (Prosecutions)

Mr. Byers: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many prosecutions were brought under section 7 of the Education Act 1996 in the last year for which figures are available; and how many such prosecutions involved children with cerebral palsy. [76949]

Jim Knight: Home Office data for 2004, the latest year for which figures are available, show 8,140 prosecutions in England and Wales under the Education Act 1996. These include:

Prosecutions related to section 7 for truancy are brought under section 444 of the Act. Information is not collected on the characteristics of pupils or their families.

Examinations

Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills which organisations are permitted to submit (a) GCSE and (b) A-level examinations for approval by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority. [76235]

Jim Knight: The awarding bodies AQA, Edexcel and OCR are the only organisations that currently submit GCSE and A-level specifications to the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA), which regulates qualifications in England. Any other organisations that wished to submit such a specification would have to show that it could abide by the relevant regulations.


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