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Schools for the Future Programme

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 Department’s 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 Department’s capital strategy, providing a new approach to capital investment in secondary schools.

BSF aims to create world-class, 21st-century schools—environments which will inspire learning for
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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.

Schools: Darlington

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.

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Full-time equivalent number of teachers, teaching assistants and support staff employed in maintained schools in Darlington and former Durham local authorities January 1992 to 2006
	Darlington			Former Durham
January	Teachers( 1)	Teaching assistants( 2)	Support staff( 2,3)	Teachers( 1)	Teaching assistants( 2)	Support staff( 2,3)
1992	—	—	—	5,120	590	1,130
1993	—	—	—	5,140	580	1,180
1994	—	—	—	5,120	570	1,150
1995	—	—	—	5,020	610	1,170
1996	—	—	—	5,010	620	1,180
1997	—	—	—	4,910	640	1,230
1998	820	120	210	—	—	—
1999	820	130	240	—	—	—
2000	800	140	250	—	—	—
2001	780	170	300	—	—	—
2002	840	200	360	—	—	—
2003	840	210	380	—	—	—
2004	850	190	370	—	—	—
2005	860	270	480	—	—	—
2006	830	300	530	—	—	—
(1) DfES annual survey of teachers in service and teacher vacancies (618g). (2)Annual School Census. (3 )Support staff figures include teaching assistants numbers. Note: Figures are rounded to the nearest 10.

Schools: South West Region

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
1999	171	73	244	12	19	31
2000	172	73	245	12	19	31
2001	172	73	245	12	19	31
2002	172	73	245	12	19	31
2003	172	71	243	12	19	31
2004	170	72	242	12	19	31
2005	169	72	241	12	19	31
2006	169	70	239	12	19	31

	Number of schools
	South west
	Primary				Secondary
	Rural( 3)	Urban( 4)	Unknown( 5)	Total	Rural( 3)	Urban( 4)	Total( 5)
1999	983	1,020	2	2,005	95	240	335
2000	985	1,014	0	1,999	95	240	335
2001	984	1,008	0	1,992	96	237	333
2002	983	1,008	0	1,991	96	237	333
2003	980	1,005	0	1,985	95	235	330
2004	978	1,003	0	1,981	95	234	329
2005	977	997	0	1,974	92	233	325
2006	975	979	0	1,954	89	231	320

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