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Information on individual voluntary exit scheme payments to staff for each of those years is not available in the form requested and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Iain Wright: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) what percentage of young people in (a) Hartlepool constituency and (b) Tees Valley sub-region received (i) £30, (ii) £20 and (iii) £10 in education maintenance allowance in each year since the scheme began; [129785]
(2) what percentage of young people in (a) Hartlepool constituency and (b) Tees Valley sub-region received education maintenance allowance in each year since the scheme began. [129787]
Phil Hope: These are matters for the Learning and Skills Council, who operate the education maintenance allowance (EMA) scheme for the DfES and hold the information about take-up and payments made under the scheme. Mark Haysom, the councils chief executive, has written to my hon. Friend with the information requested and a copy of his reply has been placed in the Library.
Letter from Mark Haysom, dated 11 April 2007:
I am writing in response to your recent Parliamentary Questions that asked:
What percentage of young people in (a) Hartlepool constituency and (b) Tees Valley sub-region received (i) 30, (ii) 20 and (iii) 10 in education maintenance allowance in each year since the scheme began and; What percentage of young people in (a) Hartlepool constituency and (b) Tees Valley sub-region received education maintenance allowance in each year since the scheme began?
Information on the number of young people who have applied, enrolled and received Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) is available at Local Authority Level, but not at constituency level. EMA take-up is defined as young people who have received one or more EMA payments in the academic year.
The following tables show EMA take-up data split by payment band for Hartlepool Local Authority area and Tees Valley LSC during each academic year since the schemes inception.
Take-up of EMA in each academic year 2004/ 05 | ||||
Hartlepool | Tees Valley | |||
Band | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage |
Take-up of EMA in each academic year 2005/ 06 | ||||
Hartlepool | Tees Valley | |||
Band | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage |
Take-up of EMA in each academic year2006/07 to end February | ||||
Hartlepool | Tees Valley | |||
Band | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage |
In the first year of national roll out EMA was available to all 16 year olds across England and to 17 and 18 year olds in former pilot areas (young people who are 19 are entitled to receive EMA in certain circumstances). In 2005/06 EMA roll out continued and EMA was available to all 16 and 17 year olds nationally. In 2006/07 EMA is available to all 16, 17 and 18 year olds nationally. In calculating the percentage of young people receiving EMA only take up and population figures for age groups where EMA was available nationally have been used. The fall-off in later years reflects that age groups are included that are less likely to be in education.
The following table shows the percentage of young people receiving EMA in Hartlepool Local Authority area and Tees Valley LSC during each academic year since national roll out.
Percentage of population receiving EMA in each academic year | ||
Hartlepool | Tees Valley | |
I hope this information is useful and addresses your question.
Mr. Iain Wright: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much was spent on (a) primary and (b) secondary school education in (i) Hartlepool constituency, (ii) the Tees Valley sub-region, (iii) the North East region and (iv) England in each year since 1992. [130910]
Jim Knight: Hartlepool constituency falls within the Hartlepool local education authority. The information requested is shown in the following tables.
Primary school- based expenditure | ||||
£ | ||||
Hartlepool local authority | Tess Valley sub-region | North East Government office region | England | |
Pre-primary and primary school- based expenditure | ||||
£ | ||||
Hartlepool local authority | Tess Valley sub-region | North East Government office region | England | |
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