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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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