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Please find the information attached in Table A. This sets out the amount spent by each local LSC for all ESOL provision delivered through Further Education colleges for the academic year 2005/06.

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Table A: ESOL funding for 2005/06 by local Learning and Skills Council
Region	LLSC	Funding total 2005/06 (£)
EE	Bedfordshire and Luton	3,791,690
	Cambridgeshire	3,492,877
	Essex	2,111,704
	Hertfordshire	2,613,822
	Norfolk	1,450.582
	Suffolk	604,614
EE Total		14,065,288
EM	Derbyshire	1,547,683
	Leicestershire	7,807,825
	Lincolnshire and Rutland	782,736
	Northamptonshire	1,640,823
	Nottinghamshire	3,598,129
EM Total		15,377,197
GL	London—Central	38,184,416
	London—East	37,002,364
	London—North	16,367,376
	London—South	14,838,901
	London—West	33,100,693
GL Total		139,493,751
NE	County Durham	343,638
	Northumberland	144,826
	Tees Valley	1,679,997
	Tyne and Wear	6,107,880
NE Total		8,276,341
NW	Cheshire and Warrington	2,099,248
	Cumbria	462,543
	Greater Manchester	18,862,640
	Greater Merseyside	4,110,488
	Lancashire	3,660,339
NW Total		29,195,259
SE	Berkshire	5,855,726
	Hampshire and Isle of Wight	4,885,756
	Kent and Medway	3,290,490
	Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire	5,985,950
	Surrey	3,647,247
	Sussex	7,041,012
SE Total		30,706,182
SW	Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole	1,688,032
	Devon and Cornwall	2,677,081
	Gloucestershire	1,009,998
	Somerset	708,436
	West of England	5,201,213
	Wiltshire and Swindon	1,410,714
SW Total		12,695,474
WM	Birmingham and Solihull	14,494,734
	Coventry and Warwickshire	5,455,717
	Herefordshire and Worcestershire	1,175,318
	Shropshire	542,596
	Staffordshire	3,898,288
	The Black Country	6,076,449
WM Total		31,643,102
YH	Humberside	2,721,281
	North Yorkshire	860,747
	South Yorkshire	5,803,549
	West Yorkshire	10,925,633
YH Total		20,311,210
Grand total		301,763,804
Note: SFL ESOL within and outside section 1996/97.

Ms Abbott: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how his Department plans to meet the needs for English for Speakers of Other Languages teaching of (a) families and (b) women, including those who are unemployed. [110944]

Phil Hope: Since 2001, English for Speakers of Other Languages has been delivered to adults as part of the Skills for Life Strategy. In that period, demand and funding for ESOL has tripled. We will continue to deliver ESOL as a significant strand of the Skills for Life strategy in the future.

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As part of the preparation for implementation of the changes, the Department for Education and Skills is carrying out a Race Equality Impact Assessment. As a result of that process, we are considering what additional support may be included in family literacy, language and numeracy provision to meet the language needs of families and in particular of women who are parents. We are also considering how women can demonstrate an entitlement for free ESOL where they have no access to either benefits documentation of their own or to family funding. These groups are among the highest priority learners for Skills for Life provision.

In addition, the Department has announced a New Arrivals Excellence Programme to help build capacity in local authorities and schools for those pupils for whom English is an additional language. It is also delivering projects through the Primary and Secondary National Strategies for more advanced bilingual learners.

Ms Abbott: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills whether his Department has carried out a race impact exercise to assess the effect on minority ethnic groups of restricting access to English for Speakers of Other Languages courses. [110945]

Phil Hope: A Race Equality Impact Assessment exercise is being undertaken. The final consultation session took place on 6 February. The exercise has taken views from around 150 people including trade unionists, FE principals, learners and staff from organisations such as the Refugee Council and other local voluntary groups. Contributions to the exercise have been helpful and constructive. The sessions have identified a number of areas for further consideration and a report will be published late in February.

Primary Education: Standards

Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills in how many primary schools less than 65 per cent. of pupils achieved level four in (a) English and (b) mathematics in (i) 1997, (ii) 1998 and (iii) 2006 in each local education authority. [119297]

Jim Knight: The requested information is shown in the following table.

In 1997 nearly half of primary schools were achieving below this level in mathematics, now fewer than one in five schools are doing so. In English one in eight schools are achieving below 65 per cent. compared with just under half in 1997. Impressive gains have been made towards meeting the KS2 PSA school-level floor target (reduce by 40 per cent. by 2008 the number of schools where less than 65 per cent. of pupils achieve level 4 in English and in maths). There are now 1,785 schools below the target in English and 2,555 schools below in mathematics down from 2,849 in English and 3,570 in maths in 2003 (baseline year).

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Number of primary schools with less than 65 per cent. of pupils achieving level 4 or above by local authorities
		1997( 1)		1998( 1)		2006
LA	LA name	English	Mathematics	English	Mathematics	English	Mathematics
201	City of London	—	—	—	—	1	—
202	Camden	23	15	17	20	4	9
203	Greenwich	50	46	46	51	14	18
204	Hackney	45	42	40	40	16	23
205	Hammersmith and Fulham	22	18	19	25	5	9
206	Islington	30	31	31	36	9	19
207	Kensington and Chelsea	12	11	13	17	—	6
208	Lambeth	41	41	36	49	10	22
209	Lewisham	42	42	37	48	10	16
210	Southwark	54	55	49	55	15	24
211	Tower Hamlets	54	50	49	52	9	9
212	Wandsworth	32	35	28	38	7	14
213	Westminster	16	19	14	20	2	7
301	Barking and Dagenham	25	25	20	26	7	7
302	Barnet	24	28	20	30	6	5
303	Bexley	24	26	25	35	7	9
304	Brent	31	28	29	26	9	15
305	Bromley	17	20	17	23	9	11
306	Croydon	30	35	29	43	5	12
307	Ealing	36	36	28	44	6	17
308	Enfield	29	31	25	34	7	18
309	Haringey	34	33	33	35	10	20
310	Harrow	14	13	8	15	1	2
311	Havering	23	29	16	21	3	4
312	Hillingdon	17	21	18	27	3	8
313	Hounslow	25	26	25	30	5	7
314	Kingston upon Thames	9	11	7	10	3	3
315	Merton	10	10	6	12	4	8
316	Newham	47	46	43	46	11	13
317	Redbridge	18	24	9	19	2	4
318	Richmond upon Thames	6	5	3	7	1	2
319	Sutton	9	12	8	16	4	4
320	Waltham Forest	27	28	22	35	8	13
330	Birmingham	174	181	158	197	54	85
331	Coventry	46	52	48	61	15	22
332	Dudley	44	50	39	49	11	15
333	Sandwell	65	71	61	70	15	32
334	Solihull	17	21	12	17	2	7
335	Walsall	55	63	51	65	13	20
336	Wolverhampton	44	53	47	62	16	21
340	Knowsley	40	35	32	38	13	12
341	Liverpool	84	87	72	97	26	31
342	St. Helens	28	29	21	27	6	5
343	Sefton	30	29	19	35	8	10
344	Wirral	41	46	41	56	15	17
350	Bolton	48	48	50	58	10	15
351	Bury	14	16	15	30	7	7
352	Manchester	97	89	87	108	37	32
353	Oldham	47	47	46	52	14	18
354	Rochdale	45	41	36	49	5	15
355	Salford	47	42	44	55	20	17
356	Stockport	31	33	31	43	6	17
357	Tameside	48	55	44	60	4	10
358	Trafford	28	31	23	30	8	9
359	Wigan	54	53	40	57	13	8
370	Barnsley	48	46	49	51	23	27
371	Doncaster	47	50	54	60	14	18
372	Rotherham	46	44	51	62	18	25
373	Sheffield	76	71	68	82	29	35
380	Bradford	48	56	49	58	41	56
381	Calderdale	38	36	36	43	12	7
382	Kirklees	63	60	57	64	18	22
383	Leeds	99	100	93	109	31	48
384	Wakefield	52	53	49	58	19	14
390	Gateshead	36	33	35	37	6	9
391	Newcastle upon Tyne	44	47	46	50	17	20
392	North Tyneside	22	20	18	24	3	5
393	South Tyneside	26	18	24	28	10	10
394	Sunderland	49	43	41	51	14	14
420	Isles of Scilly	—	1	—	—	—	—
800	Bath and North East Somerset	14	16	16	23	5	7
801	Bristol, City of	69	68	60	67	24	26
802	North Somerset	14	19	12	19	3	5
803	South Gloucestershire	28	32	27	40	3	10
805	Hartlepool	15	13	13	19	3	4
806	Middlesbrough	26	25	22	28	11	10
807	Redcar and Cleveland	27	20	21	30	6	7
808	Stockton-on-Tees	28	27	28	32	5	9
810	Kingston upon Hull, City of	64	57	58	60	20	8
811	East Riding of Yorkshire	30	38	34	44	4	11
812	North East Lincolnshire	21	24	26	29	7	9
813	North Lincolnshire	19	20	16	23	4	8
815	North Yorkshire	38	35	52	74	16	14
816	York	15	15	13	20	5	7
820	Bedfordshire	16	22	16	34	3	6
821	Luton	22	26	19	29	4	12
825	Buckinghamshire	32	40	28	43	11	18
826	Milton Keynes	25	31	28	32	13	14
830	Derbyshire	94	102	106	131	25	34
831	Derby	30	26	31	34	16	18
835	Dorset	20	28	21	44	3	9
836	Poole	7	11	6	11	2	3
837	Bournemouth	8	13	9	12	4	5
840	Durham	98	86	88	88	25	25
841	Darlington	8	7	12	14	3	2
845	East Sussex	46	59	42	65	17	22
846	Brighton and Hove	28	29	28	33	5	7
850	Hampshire	91	105	82	135	25	47
851	Portsmouth	20	22	19	22	8	13
852	Southampton	31	32	26	29	9	13
855	Leicestershire	63	63	55	71	13	19
856	Leicester	48	41	50	56	23	27
857	Rutland	—	1	4	6	—	2
860	Staffordshire	83	92	81	123	21	40
861	Stoke-on-Trent	52	57	47	57	19	21
865	Wiltshire	43	50	51	62	13	25
866	Swindon	23	25	18	24	7	4
867	Bracknell Forest	—	—	7	15	—	4
868	Windsor and Maidenhead	—	—	5	9	3	6
869	West Berkshire	65	90	11	23	3	8
870	Reading	—	—	20	24	5	10
871	Slough	—	—	9	16	4	4
872	Wokingham	—	—	9	13	1	2
873	Cambridgeshire	90	82	53	80	12	16
874	Peterborough	—	—	29	38	10	11
875	Cheshire	—	—	70	86	20	36
876	Halton	121	131	27	31	10	10
877	Warrington	—	—	20	32	6	10
878	Devon	—	—	80	115	22	30
879	Plymouth	140	146	35	43	15	13
880	Torbay	—	—	14	20	5	6
881	Essex	—	—	152	203	36	60
882	Southend-on-Sea	200	195	17	20	3	3
883	Thurrock	—	—	23	30	8	13
884	Herefordshire	51	67	16	28	4	9
885	Worcestershire	—	—	32	59	6	7
886	Kent	198	213	159	205	69	109
887	Medway	—	—	34	46	13	22
888	Lancashire	—	—	151	186	48	58
889	Blackburn with Darwen	210	189	31	34	8	12
890	Blackpool	—	—	13	20	3	4
891	Nottinghamshire	173	166	111	124	26	37
892	Nottingham	—	—	65	72	24	25
893	Shropshire	66	70	29	39	3	12
894	Telford and Wrekin	—	—	28	29	5	10
908	Cornwall	60	71	72	89	19	33
909	Cumbria	71	75	70	82	17	27
916	Gloucestershire	49	70	52	90	14	23
919	Hertfordshire	88	119	84	149	21	30
921	Isle of Wight	11	10	11	15	1	3
925	Lincolnshire	73	81	88	117	29	45
926	Norfolk	90	105	96	123	36	45
928	Northamptonshire	45	54	44	65	19	37
929	Northumberland	26	30	22	33	4	5
931	Oxfordshire	59	71	48	75	20	33
933	Somerset	41	55	48	73	15	15
935	Suffolk	52	66	52	73	12	24
936	Surrey	48	63	41	79	13	29
937	Warwickshire	56	64	52	73	13	17
938	West Sussex	53	69	58	79	9	28
	Total	6,129	6,471	5,810	7,596	1,785	2,555
(1) Following local government re-organisation in 1997 and 1998, the results for some local authorities (LAs) are not directly comparable with 2006.

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