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Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) how many schools have been (a) newly opened and (b) refurbished under the Departments Building Schools for the Future programme in each year; [109848]
(2) on what date the first new school building opened under the Building Schools for the Future programme. [109849]
Jim Knight: Building Schools for the Future (BSF) is a core part of the Departments capital strategy, providing a new approach to capital investment in secondary schools.
BSF aims to create world-class, 21st-century schoolsenvironments which will inspire learning for
decades to come and provide exceptional assets for the whole community. Subject to future public spending decisions, the intention is to achieve this aim for every secondary school pupil within 15 waves from 2005-06 onwards.
The first contracts for the BSF programme were signed earlier this year. The first Quick Win BSF school opened in Solihull in June and the second in South Tyneside in September. The first non-Quick Win school is scheduled to open in Bristol in September 2007.
In financial year 2007/08, we expect 14 schools will open of which three will be refurbished and a further 117 will start construction.
In financial year 2008/09, 56 schools will open of which 21 will be refurbished and a further 182 will start construction.
In financial year 2009/10, 129 will open and a further 182 will start construction.
The figures for 2009/10 are indicative as this includes Wave 4 projects, which have just been selected this month, and certain Wave 2-3 projects where authorities have not yet finalised their plans.
Mr. Milburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many (a) teachers, (b) teaching assistants and (c) support staff were employed in Darlington local education authority schools in each year since 1992. [108826]
Jim Knight: The following table provides the number of full-time equivalent teachers, teaching assistants and support staff employed in local authority maintained schools in Darlington local authority, January 1998 to 2006.
Darlington local authority was created as a unitary authority with responsibilities for education on 1 April 1997. Prior to this date figures for Darlington were included in Durham local authority figures and are not available separately.
Matthew Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many (a) rural and (b) urban (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools in (1) Cornwall, (2) the south west and (3) England there were in each year since 1979. [108719]
Jim Knight: The readily available information is given in the following table. The figures are based on the 2004 ONS Urban and Rural classification and are only available on this basis back to 1999.
Maintained primary and secondary schools( 1: ) Number of schools by urban/rural classification( 2 ) Position in January each year: 1999 to 2006 | ||||||
Number of schools | ||||||
Cornwall LA | ||||||
Primary | Secondary | |||||
Rural( 3) | Urban( 4) | Total | Rural( 3) | Urban( 4) | Total | |
Number of schools | |||||||
South west | |||||||
Primary | Secondary | ||||||
Rural( 3) | Urban( 4) | Unknown( 5) | Total | Rural( 3) | Urban( 4) | Total( 5) | |
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