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Joint International Unit

Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the budget is of the Joint International Unit; and how much was spent over 2005-06 on recruiting foreign students to UK institutions. [117109]

Bill Rammell: The total Joint International Unit budget for programmes in 2005-06 was £34,956,000 and in 2006-07 is £44,185,000. The amount spent through the DFES Prime Minister’s Initiative to recruit foreign students to UK institutions was £1,200,000 in 2005-06. The Joint International Unit covers both Department for Work and Pensions and DFES international programmes. It is estimated that international students contribute around £5 billion per year to the UK economy.

Literacy: Primary Schools

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what steps his Department (a) is taking and (b) plans to take to improve the literacy of primary school students. [117469]

Jim Knight: Since the introduction of the National Literacy Strategy in 1998, there has been a 14 percentage point improvement in the number of pupils achieving the target level for their age in the Key Stage 2 English tests.

To build on this success, the new Primary National Strategy literacy framework was made available to schools October 2006 and will support faster progression in English. The new framework fully reflects the recommendations from Jim Rose's independent review of early reading which advocates ‘high quality phonic work’ as the key means for teaching beginner readers how to read and spell words. The implementation of the new framework is backed by a comprehensive programme of professional development for head teachers and subject leaders in
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schools. The Primary National Strategy also continues to improve the focus and accessibility of its comprehensive range of teaching and training support including through expert consultants at the local level in order to improve primary results at both key stages.

Furthermore the ‘Every Child a Reader’ pilot, which provides intensive support for those children with significant difficulties in reading, will be rolled out nationally benefiting 30,000 children a year by 2011.

National College of School Leadership

Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the annual budget is of the National College of School Leadership; and how many people are employed there. [117112]

Jim Knight: In 2005-06 the annual budget including grant in aid and other income and supplementary programme funding was £95.074 million as reported in the college's annual report and accounts. The average number of people employed by the college during this period was 247, including agency, temporary and contracted staff.

Parents in Prison

Annette Brooke: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) how many children in England are known to have had a parent in prison in (a) 1996 and (b) 2006; [115460]

(2) how many children in England are predicted to have a parent in prison in (a) 2007 and (b) 2008. [115459]

Mr. Sutcliffe [holding answer 15 January 2007]: I have been asked to reply.

Information on the number of children having a parent in prison is not collected centrally.

A 2003 resettlement survey of 1,945 adult British national sentenced prisoners showed the average number of children per prisoner was 0.87.

More detail on the 2003 survey is available in Home Office Research Findings 248 which is available on the research development and statistics website:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/rfpubs1.html

School Libraries

Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills whether it is the policy of his Department that school libraries should include information on students’ ethnicity as part of their records of borrowers. [110748]

Jim Knight: It is for schools to decide what information school libraries keep on borrowers. For those schools that have libraries the Department has no policy on the collection and recording of information.

Sexual Orientation Regulations

Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what discussions he has had on
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the effects of the Sexual Orientation Regulations on the religious freedom of Christian Unions in (a) universities and (b) schools. [106732]

Mr. Dhanda: Ministers in the Department have held no such discussions.

Special Educational Needs

Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of children in (a) Chorley and (b) Lancashire with a special educational need were referred to the Special Educational Need and Disability Tribunal in the last two years. [117195]

Vera Baird: I have been asked to reply.

The following table gives the number of appeals against Lancashire local authority in the last two school years, and the number of children with special educational needs in the local authority's primary and secondary schools in the January of the relevant period. Appeals concern children residing in the local authority, rather than pupils at the local authority's schools. It would therefore be misleading to express one figure as a proportion of the other. Chorley is not a local education authority and we do not collate appeals data at the more local level.

	Special Educational Needs Appeals	Children with special educational needs
2005-06	63	26,866
2004-05	66	27,050

Special Schools

Mr. Willetts: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many unfilled special school places there were in each local authority in England in each year since 1997. [117438]

Mr. Dhanda [holding answer 22 January 2007]: This information is not collected centrally.

Teachers: Redundancy Payments

Mr. Willetts: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many teachers took redundancy payments in each local education authority in each year from 1997 to 2006; and what the total value of redundancy payouts made in each authority was in each year. [116990]

Jim Knight: The information requested is not collected centrally.

Teaching Assistants

Mr. Willetts: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many teaching assistants there were in schools in each local authority in each year from 1997 to 2006. [116989]

Jim Knight: The following table provides the number of full-time equivalent teaching assistants employed in local authority maintained schools in England by local authority, January 1997 to 2006.

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Full-time equivalent teaching assistants in maintained nursery, primary, secondary, special schools and pupil referral units in England, January 1997 to 2006
	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Gateshead	190	200	210	220	300	320	370	350	450	480
Newcastle upon Tyne	270	300	310	330	410	330	480	580	700	620
North Tyneside	200	220	220	240	270	180	300	250	290	430
South Tyneside	160	160	160	180	250	350	280	420	440	470
Sunderland	420	400	440	460	610	510	690	750	810	850
Hartlepool	100	110	120	140	210	140	260	250	310	310
Middlesbrough	210	200	180	210	280	360	440	520	530	520
Redcar and Cleveland	150	170	160	170	180	120	200	250	240	380
Stockton on Tees	210	220	230	280	340	210	280	290	380	430
Former Durham	640	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Darlington	—	120	130	140	170	200	210	190	270	300
Durham (post 1 April 1997)	—	550	580	620	690	650	820	990	1,090	1,100
Northumberland	320	340	380	450	560	650	720	800	910	1,040
North East	2,867	2,990	3,130	3,450	4,280	4,010	5,060	5,630	6,430	6,930
Cumbria	610	620	660	730	840	1,100	1,110	1,150	1,200	1,310
Former Cheshire	1,130	1,240	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Cheshire (post 1 April 1998)	—	—	830	870	1,020	1,120	1,230	1,350	1,530	1,740
Halton	—	—	190	200	240	250	270	320	320	330
Warrington	—	—	250	270	320	370	380	440	510	630
Bolton	390	430	480	570	650	790	830	950	1,050	1,070
Bury	270	260	280	330	360	460	480	540	590	640
Manchester	740	750	750	810	1,080	1,430	1,610	1,750	1,880	1,920
Oldham	390	410	430	470	560	580	630	690	780	830
Rochdale	260	270	290	340	530	680	710	760	840	860
Salford	430	440	450	480	530	700	570	660	790	780
Stockport	340	360	310	410	510	670	700	750	810	780
Tameside	280	290	310	360	490	360	420	460	520	660
Trafford	190	200	220	230	300	230	300	380	420	440
Wigan	340	390	420	430	560	440	740	800	880	980
Former Lancashire	1,780	2,000	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Lancashire (post 1 April 1998)	—	—	1,670	1,830	2,190	1,960	3,130	3,300	3,570	3,890
Blackburn with Darwen	—	—	300	350	430	360	530	580	610	650
Blackpool	—	—	190	220	290	190	390	430	480	480
Knowsley	210	230	260	280	350	470	430	490	480	460
Liverpool	450	490	520	610	920	720	1,150	1,150	1,190	1,130
St. Helens	260	270	290	310	390	420	480	530	640	610
Sefton	360	380	410	470	580	490	650	680	750	780
Wirral	320	350	390	420	570	620	780	790	850	1,020
North West	8,750	9,370	9,920	10,990	13,700	14,400	17,500	18,950	20,700	22,020
Kingston-upon-Hull, City of	370	400	440	460	540	510	540	640	880	920
East Riding of Yorkshire	340	370	410	470	550	500	650	800	880	950
North East Lincolnshire	220	240	260	310	460	520	570	650	630	690
North Lincolnshire	180	200	240	270	330	430	450	510	550	600
North Yorkshire (post 1 April 1996)	440	540	560	630	800	1,150	1,190	1,410	1,540	1,710
York	140	160	170	220	250	350	370	400	440	500
Barnsley	360	360	360	350	400	610	670	680	680	680
Doncaster	520	460	470	620	640	780	810	860	970	840
Rotherham	280	310	330	410	540	580	770	880	970	900
Sheffield	580	640	710	800	1,080	790	1,200	1,230	1,360	1,590
Bradford	1,240	1,200	1,230	1,370	1,590	1,600	1,870	1,880	1,980	2,000
Calderdale	370	400	420	520	630	720	770	820	880	860
Kirklees	580	620	670	970	1,120	1,160	1,140	1,270	1,390	1,490
Leeds	1,560	1,670	1,670	1,780	1,950	2,380	2,470	2,460	2,550	2,500
Wakefield	540	580	570	650	780	950	960	940	970	1,090
Yorkshire and the Humber	7,700	8,160	8,500	9,830	11,660	13,030	14,430	15,420	16,680	17,330
Former Derbyshire	1,180	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Derbyshire (post 1 April 1997)	—	930	990	1,160	1,460	1,660	1,720	1,820	1,980	2,190
Derby	—	360	380	430	510	590	670	760	830	930
Former Leicestershire	940	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Leicestershire (post 1 April 1997)	—	580	640	760	920	970	1,190	1,150	1,630	1,730
Leicester	—	470	520	540	620	730	900	930	1,120	1,090
Rutland	—	50	50	70	70	80	100	100	120	120
Lincolnshire	810	820	890	990	1,250	1,550	1,610	1,980	2,190	2,370
Northamptonshire	810	880	990	1,090	1,330	1,310	1,330	1,360	1,680	1,940
Former Nottinghamshire	1,310	1,420	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Nottinghamshire (post 1 April 1998)	—	—	1,000	1,090	1,350	1,600	1,660	1,770	1,990	2,060
Nottingham	—	—	540	570	720	770	900	950	1,010	1,060
East Midlands	5,050	5,500	6,010	6,690	8,220	9,270	10,090	10,830	12,560	13,490
Former Hereford and Worcester	630	800	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Herefordshire	—	—	190	210	250	190	330	370	410	420
Worcestershire	—	—	680	760	820	930	1,290	1,450	1,580	1,580
Former Shropshire	510	540	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Shropshire (post 1 April 1998)	—	—	350	390	460	560	640	690	780	750
Telford and Wrekin	—	—	260	280	370	390	480	530	580	640
Former Staffordshire	1,270	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Staffordshire (post 1 April 1997)	—	960	1,060	1,160	1,370	1,310	1,750	1,820	2,070	2,080
Stoke-on-Trent	—	460	460	490	540	460	620	750	820	830
Warwickshire	530	630	700	980	1,040	1,240	1,250	1,470	1,590	1,630
Birmingham	2,030	2,080	1,630	1,740	2,170	2,970	3,130	3,320	3,930	4,390
Coventry	390	440	440	670	820	690	640	740	770	770
Dudley	350	410	420	530	680	830	880	960	1,060	1,200
Sandwell	460	460	490	520	650	500	600	650	850	970
Solihull	280	300	300	320	370	410	470	520	610	630
Walsall	380	390	380	440	580	700	810	840	950	820
Wolverhampton	390	400	420	470	570	230	360	480	580	720
West Midlands	7,220	7,870	7,770	8,970	10,670	11,420	13,260	14,600	16,590	17,430
Former Cambridgeshire	1,240	1,370	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Cambridgeshire (post 1 April 1998)	—	—	1,000	1,090	1,230	1,420	1,480	1,830	2,020	1,880
Peterborough	—	—	380	500	540	660	720	780	910	1,050
Norfolk	730	850	930	1,050	1,490	1,710	1,740	1,870	2,310	2,570
Suffolk	500	610	660	770	1,100	920	1,430	1,350	1,460	1,540
Former Bedfordshire	790	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Bedfordshire (post 1 April 1997)	—	580	650	710	820	950	1,070	1,140	1,240	1,340
Luton	—	290	360	430	530	560	620	720	780	820
Former Essex	1,720	1,840	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Essex (post 1 April 1998)	—	—	1,620	1,760	2,100	3,140	3,500	3,660	3,810	3,920
Southend-on-Sea	—	—	220	280	350	460	560	600	640	650
Thurrock	—	—	210	290	340	430	540	550	570	630
Hertfordshire	1,080	1,270	1,250	1,510	1,800	1,740	2,710	2,870	3,110	2,910
East of England	6,060	6,800	7,280	8,380	10,300	12,000	14,370	15,360	16,850	17,290
City of London(1)	—	—	—	—	—	—	10	10	10	10
Camden	200	240	250	300	360	440	470	550	580	640
Greenwich	360	400	430	510	650	650	730	750	820	920
Hackney	210	250	290	380	420	490	530	610	680	720
Hammersmith and Fulham	190	200	210	250	240	260	300	360	380	430
Islington	250	250	270	350	360	350	480	520	560	620
Kensington and Chelsea	130	140	140	170	210	220	260	270	300	280
Lambeth	300	350	390	500	560	580	640	720	770	750
Lewisham	280	290	320	410	570	470	560	620	670	720
Southwark	350	420	430	650	810	750	710	900	1,030	1,070
Tower Hamlets	370	400	450	510	800	970	950	1,070	1,150	1,320
Wandsworth	330	370	370	460	470	380	530	590	730	800
Westminster	150	170	160	190	190	310	280	330	420	370
Barking and Dagenham	300	290	310	320	400	500	510	560	540	560
Barnet	290	340	400	480	550	740	720	850	980	1,070
Bexley	200	230	280	310	380	320	560	550	600	570
Brent	260	300	360	390	440	450	470	560	640	680
Bromley	210	230	230	270	360	440	500	520	550	620
Croydon	400	410	510	530	660	630	870	950	1,010	980
Ealing	340	360	370	400	510	450	530	630	690	670
Enfield	250	290	290	500	590	810	880	970	1,050	1,160
Haringey	350	360	380	420	490	650	680	810	900	960
Harrow	270	270	290	300	300	330	430	480	540	550
Havering	170	170	200	260	300	310	520	590	680	660
Hillingdon	300	340	380	420	510	520	590	620	740	800
Hounslow	280	280	290	330	380	400	400	550	580	680
Kingston upon Thames	130	130	150	170	220	220	250	310	360	380
Merton	190	200	220	240	290	250	300	370	530	460
Newham	280	280	390	500	960	720	1,070	1,190	1,300	980
Redbridge	190	230	270	370	450	580	620	730	820	910
Richmond upon Thames	100	110	110	130	160	210	220	250	330	350
Sutton	160	170	210	230	260	340	310	360	430	360
Waltham Forest	380	400	410	470	490	610	640	670	780	760
London	8,160	8,870	9,790	11,740	14,330	15,340	17,510	19,800	22,140	22,820
Former Berkshire	940	970	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Bracknell Forest	—	—	140	130	170	110	190	190	210	220
Windsor and Maidenhead	—	—	150	160	220	210	220	280	300	330
West Berkshire	—	—	190	200	230	330	350	430	530	490
Reading	—	—	200	200	240	280	280	280	320	250
Slough	—	—	230	250	300	340	440	450	530	530
Wokingham	—	—	210	220	230	290	290	360	380	380
Former Buckinghamshire	650	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Buckinghamshire (post 1 April 1997)	—	460	470	490	570	750	710	840	950	1,100
Milton Keynes	—	260	270	280	300	310	450	530	530	680
Former East Sussex	700	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
East Sussex (post 1 April 1997)	—	490	560	650	720	1,000	1,070	1,350	1,380	1,330
Brighton and Hove	—	270	310	320	380	410	370	400	460	510
Former Hampshire	2,560	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Hampshire (post 1 April 1997)	—	1,880	1,920	1,960	2,120	2,900	3,010	3,160	3,280	3,210
Portsmouth	—	330	400	410	480	600	600	630	830	660
Southampton	—	370	430	470	490	610	630	640	660	660
Isle of Wight	160	210	250	270	320	300	360	370	450	430
Former Kent	2,330	2,490	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Kent (post 1 April 1998)	—	—	2,210	2,470	2,750	3,620	4,160	4,330	4,860	4,660
Medway	—	—	440	670	830	710	830	900	960	930
Oxfordshire	780	830	860	930	1,030	1,080	1,280	1,440	1,670	1,630
Surrey	1,170	1,290	1,360	1,500	1,570	1,960	2,350	2,390	2,610	2,720
West Sussex	530	650	670	710	780	1,090	1,310	1,330	1,480	1,660
South East	9,830	10,480	11,250	12,290	13,720	16,910	18,890	20,300	22,400	22,360
Isles of Scilly	—	—	—	—	10	—	10	10	—	—
Bath and North East Somerset	170	170	160	160	180	70	100	80	170	270
City of Bristol	650	700	690	770	850	920	920	1,040	1,110	1,110
North Somerset	190	220	220	260	290	310	380	380	450	430
South Gloucestershire	270	280	300	350	430	480	560	550	590	640
Cornwall	790	870	960	980	990	1,000	1,170	1,190	1,860	1,630
Former Devon	810	960	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Devon (post 1 April 1998)	—	—	630	770	1,020	1,360	1,740	2,090	2,190	2,380
Plymouth	—	—	320	310	720	660	710	650	750	870
Torbay	—	—	140	170	180	200	220	290	280	300
Former Dorset	430	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Dorset (post 1 April 1997)	—	330	390	580	660	780	890	1,180	1,300	1,350
Poole	—	110	150	180	220	400	390	430	420	460
Bournemouth	—	130	170	210	240	380	380	410	400	460
Gloucestershire	470	490	550	590	740	710	750	700	910	1,030
Somerset	610	660	680	710	830	920	990	980	1,100	1,380
Former Wiltshire	530	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Wiltshire (post 1 April 1997)	—	340	350	350	410	560	650	780	750	750
Swindon	—	240	230	260	310	220	220	410	370	380
South West	4,940	5,490	5,940	6,670	8,090	8,980	10,070	11,160	12,650	13,440
England	60,580	65,540	69,600	79,020	94,990	105,360	121,190	132,060	147,000	153,100
(1) City of London did not make a return in 2002. Notes: 1. The first, second and third phases of local government reorganisation came into effect on 1 April 1996, 1 April 1997 and 1 April 1998 respectively. The new authorities are shown directly below their former parent local education authorities. 2. Totals are rounded to the nearest 10. 3. Totals may not appear equal to the sum of the component parts because of rounding. Source: Annual Schools’ Census (ASC).

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