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The aforementioned figures include schools that closed as a result of the amalgamation or merger of two or more schools; schools that have closed but reopened as voluntary schools with a religious character; and schools that have closed in local authorities that have moved from a three-tier to a two-tier system.


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School Fires

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) how many (a) fatal and (b) non-fatal injuries resulted from school fires in each year of the last 10 years; [79593]

(2) how many fires there were in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in each (i) region and (ii) local education authority in each of the last 10 years; and how many were started deliberately. [79571]

Jim Knight [holding answer 22 June 2006]: The Department does not collect these statistics, but does have some figures from the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG). The latest figures we have for England and Wales cover 2000-04.

Number of fires

2000

1,275

2001

1,529

2002

1,332

2003

1,313

2004

1,291


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The available data cannot differentiate between primary and secondary schools, or between the public and independent sectors. For all the years covered, 61 per cent. of the school fires were considered to be the result of deliberate fire setting.

There have been no fatalities due to school fires in the last 10 years, but school fires resulted in 46 non-fatal casualties in 2002 and 40 in 2003—the latest figures we have from DCLG. Of the 86 people injured in those two years, 54 were over 18 years old, 29 were aged 11-17, two aged between five and 10, and the age of one casualty is unknown.

Schools Budget

Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the total school budget was of each local authority for 2004-05; and what proportion was delegated to schools in each authority. [80622]

Jim Knight [holding answer 26 June 2006]: The available information is contained within the following table:


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Total schools’ budget( 1) and total money delegated to schools( 2) by local authority during 2004-05
Of which: total amount delegated to schools( 2, 3)
Local authority name Total schools’ budget( 1,3 ) (£) £ Percentage of total schools’ budget

England

28,378,783,000

24,868,617,000

87.6

City of London

1,774,000

1,086,000

61.2

Barking and Dagenham

123,004,000

108,570,000

88.3

Barnet

193,853,000

169,651,000

87.5

Barnsley

122,407,000

106,284,000

86.8

Bath and North East Somerset

89,939,000

79,637,000

88.5

Bedfordshire

220,493,000

196,784,000

89.2

Bexley

147,088,000

125,173,000

85.1

Birmingham

719,706,000

649,951,000

90.3

Blackburn and Darwen

99,047,000

86,362,000

87.2

Blackpool

78,383,000

64,179,000

81.9

Bolton

161,789,000

142,577,000

88.1

Bournemouth

73,623,000

62,620,000

85.1

Bracknell Forest

53,416,000

45,651,000

85.5

Bradford

321,379,000

288,876,000

89.9

Brent

170,198,000

149,828,000

88.0

Brighton and Hove

111,176,000

97,577,000

87.8

Bromley

176,580,000

149,825,000

84.8

Buckinghamshire

281,438,000

236,238,000

83.9

Bury

95,743,000

85,180,000

89.0

Calderdale

123,431,000

108,797,000

88.1

Cambridgeshire

262,579,000

234,709,000

89.4

Camden

124,477,000

102,110,000

82.0

Cheshire

368,484,000

313,811,000

85.2

City of Bristol

188,930,000

166,433,000

88.1

City of Kingston-Upon-Hull

148,425,000

134,289,000

90.5

Cornwall

260,961,000

222,983,000

85.4

Coventry

187,619,000

163,766,000

87.3

Croydon

197,796,000

175,920,000

88.9

Cumbria

264,240,000

236,477,000

89.5

Darlington

53,392,000

47,335,000

88.7

Derby

138,473,000

122,847,000

88.7

Derbyshire

396,328,000

347,043,000

87.6

Devon

319,856,000

286,441,000

89.6

Doncaster

183,562,000

160,760,000

87.6

Dorset

203,620,000

172,780,000

84.9

Dudley

176,846,000

152,012,000

86.0

Durham

271,183,000

249,392,000

92.0

Ealing

178,586,000

153,917,000

86.2

East Riding of Yorkshire

171,632,000

151,756,000

88.4

East Sussex

246,171,000

214,771,000

87.2

Enfield

201,876,000

177,635,000

88.0

Essex

741,672,000

650,563,000

87.7

Gateshead

108,190,000

93,570,000

86.5

Gloucestershire

304,192,000

263,475,000

86.6

Greenwich

170,630,000

152,318,000

89.3

Hackney

146,186,000

108,723,000

74.4

Halton

77,128,000

65,644,000

85.1

Hammersmith and Fulham

91,668,000

77,091,000

84.1

Hampshire

620,454,000

543,123,000

87.5

Haringey

156,798,000

135,020,000

86.1

Harrow

112,364,000

98,715,000

87.9

Hartlepool

58,050,000

52,058,000

89.7

Havering

138,314,000

125,975,000

91.1

Herefordshire

80,212,000

70,012,000

87.3

Hertfordshire

638,721,000

565,727,000

88.6

Hillingdon

161,115,000

143,737,000

89.2

Hounslow

151,235,000

133,537,000

88.3

Isle of Wight

74,792,000

62,892,000

84.1

Isles of Scilly

2,022,000

1,907,000

94.3

Islington

117,088,000

100,520,000

85.9

Kensington and Chelsea

60,596,000

51,062,000

84.3

Kent

803,297,000

707,384,000

88.1

Kingston upon Thames

80,147,000

71,892,000

89.7

Kirklees

238,729,000

206,598,000

86.5

Knowsley

101,282,000

85,826,000

84.7

Lambeth

144,579,000

126,129,000

87.2

Lancashire

645,308,000

552,860,000

85.7

Leeds

413,736,000

367,784,000

88.9

Leicester

179,114,000

157,165,000

87.7

Leicestershire

333,829,000

286,604,000

85.9

Lewisham

176,890,000

141,393,000

79.9

Lincolnshire

357,592,000

323,724,000

90.5

Liverpool

303,016,000

264,917,000

87.4

Luton

123,522,000

111,606,000

90.4

Manchester

266,455,000

235,250,000

88.3

Medway

169,590,000

149,702,000

88.3

Merton

85,299,000

77,484,000

90.8

Middlesbrough

78,826,000

66,421,000

84.3

Milton Keynes

134,580,000

116,287,000

86.4

Newcastle upon Tyne

144,583,000

125,337,000

86.7

Newham

224,595,000

191,640,000

85.3

Norfolk

399,955,000

355,580,000

88.9

North East Lincolnshire

97,278,000

82,443,000

84.8

North Lincolnshire

86,422,000

75,551,000

87.4

North Somerset

96,186,000

82,754,000

86.0

North Tyneside

104,510,000

96,067,000

91.9

North Yorkshire

299,938,000

271,182,000

90.4

Northamptonshire

364,536,000

323,799,000

88.8

Northumberland

178,247,000

154,693,000

86.8

Nottingham City

157,053,000

139,450,000

88.8

Nottinghamshire

407,872,000

357,373,000

87.6

Oldham

147,627,000

130,998,000

88.7

Oxfordshire

300,641,000

262,193,000

87.2

Peterborough

106,083,000

95,723,000

90.2

Plymouth

146,123,000

126,955,000

86.9

Poole

66,250,000

57,570,000

86.9

Portsmouth

95,693,000

83,445,000

87.2

Reading

64,392,000

55,911,000

86.8

Redbridge

165,256,000

148,930,000

90.1

Redcar and Cleveland

84,823,000

75,818,000

89.4

Richmond upon Thames

75,485,000

66,223,000

87.7

Rochdale

134,690,000

116,045,000

86.2

Rotherham

163,381,000

147,320,000

90.2

Rutland

17,092,000

15,870,000

92.9

Salford

130,416,000

109,446,000

83.9

Sandwell

177,150,000

167,081,000

94.3

Sefton

169,695,000

148,475,000

87.5

Sheffield

312,947,000

235,272,000

75.2

Shropshire

139,316,000

116,257,000

83.4

Slough

79,322,000

72,061,000

90.8

Solihull

121,135,000

104,826,000

86.5

Somerset

245,938,000

220,787,000

89.8

South Gloucestershire

134,374,000

116,988,000

87.1

South Tyneside

90,805,000

79,260,000

87.3

Southampton

114,036,000

100,997,000

88.6

Southend

100,684,000

88,181,000

87.6

Southwark

173,295,000

152,210,000

87.8

St. Helens

108,344,000

92,974,000

85.8

Staffordshire

446,754,000

388,557,000

87.0

Stockport

139,217,000

118,696,000

85.3

Stockton-on-Tees

108,756,000

95,774,000

88.1

Stoke on Trent

132,948,000

120,582,000

90.7

Suffolk

351,431,000

313,212,000

89.1

Sunderland

164,841,000

153,409,000

93.1

Surrey

504,842,000

437,813,000

86.7

Sutton

117,990,000

102,825,000

87.1

Swindon

96,118,000

86,102,000

89.6

Tameside

131,368,000

111,668,000

85.0

Telford and Wrekin

97,532,000

80,382,000

82.4

Thurrock

84,592,000

75,899,000

89.7

Torbay

70,790,000

60,739,000

85.8

Tower Hamlets

203,348,000

183,673,000

90.3

Trafford

123,355,000

105,053,000

85.2

Wakefield

169,380,000

155,690,000

91.9

Walsall

170,012,000

149,109,000

87.7

Waltham Forest

151,830,000

139,267,000

91.7

Wandsworth

133,648,000

123,108,000

92.1

Warrington

106,064,000

95,511,000

90.1

Warwickshire

274,447,000

237,407,000

86.5

West Berkshire

89,846,000

78,913,000

87.8

West Sussex

368,614,000

330,195,000

89.6

Westminster

96,001,000

83,280,000

86.7

Wigan

183,453,000

160,517,000

87.5

Wiltshire

220,358,000

191,432,000

86.9

Windsor and Maidenhead

72,973,000

63,281,000

86.7

Wirral

195,055,000

169,917,000

87.1

Wokingham

81,444,000

71,057,000

87.2

Wolverhampton

145,683,000

136,367,000

93.6

Worcestershire

277,741,000

245,661,000

88.4

York

85,465,000

73,109,000

85.5

(1 )Total schools’ budget is drawn from local authorities Section 52 Budget Statements submitted to the DfES. This is calculated as the gross elements of any grants plus the net elements of the remainder of the budget.
(2 )The total amount delegated to schools includes the individual schools’ budget as well as any school standards grants, devolved standards fund allocation, excellence in cities grant, additional targeted transitional grant, advance of transitional grant and support for schools in financial difficulty.
(3 )Cash figures are rounded to the nearest £1,000 and, therefore, may not sum due to rounding. Figures as reported by local authorities as at 23 June 2006.

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