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Schools: Bexley
Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to the answer of 26 March 2007, Official Report, column 1293W, to the hon. Member for Bexleyheath and Crayford (Mr. Evennett), on schools: Bexley, what the dedicated schools grant was per pupil for each London borough. [132644]
Jim Knight: The Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) was first introduced in 2006-07; the funding that each London borough received in 2006-07 and the indicative allocation for 2007-08 are detailed in the following table:
| 2006-07 Final | 2007-08 Indicative | |||
| DSG guaranteed unit of funding per pupil | Total DSG funding (£ million) | DSG guaranteed unit of funding per pupil | Total DSG funding (£ million) | |
| Notes: 1. Figures are on a cash basis 2. Prior to the introduction of the DSG, funding for nursery, primary and secondary school aged pupils was through the Education Funding System (EFS) which was part of the local government finance settlement. EFS was based on what an authority needed to fund education whereas DSG is largely based on an authority’s previous spending. EFS also included funding for an authority's central functions, this is still part of DCLG’s local government finance settlement rather than DSG. For these reasons EFS and DSG are not comparable. 3. The DSG does not represent the totality of education funding; there are other grants that support the schools budget which have not been included in the table. Source: http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/docbank/index.cfm?id=9405 | ||||
Schools: Complaints
Mr. Willetts: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what representations he has received on his Department’s guidance on school complaints procedures, LEA/01/0180/2003. [127412]
Jim Knight: During Anti-Bullying Week 2006, the Office of the Children’s Commissioner (OCC) launched a draft report into school bullying complaints procedures. The Department is facilitating a consultation with key stakeholders on behalf of the OCC and expects to receive the final report in April/May 2007. In addition, the Local Government Ombudsman recently wrote to the Department about the possibility of extending his remit to cover the internal management of schools. No other representations have been received by the Department on school complaints procedures.
Schools: Crime
Mr. Willetts: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many criminal offences were committed by pupils on school premises in each year since 1997. [132378]
Jim Knight: The information requested is not collected centrally.
Schools: Finance
Mr. Waterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) what the dedicated schools grant was for Eastbourne in each of the last 10 years; [125458]
(2) what the average funding per school pupil is in (a) Eastbourne, (b) East Sussex and (c) England in 2006-07. [125638]
Jim Knight: The Department for Education and Skills allocates revenue funding to local authorities so the requested information is not available for Eastbourne.
The dedicated schools grant (DSG) was introduced in 2006-07, prior to this authorities’ revenue funded was from standard spending assessments (SSA) and education formula spending (EPS) which formed the education part of the local government finance settlement, plus various grants. The per pupil funding for East Sussex local authority and England from 1997-98 to 2005-06 was:
The introduction of the dedicated schools grant (DSG) in 2006-07 fundamentally changed how local authorities are funded. The 1997-98 to 2005-06 figures are based on an assessment of what local authorities needed to fund education; the 2006-07 DSG is based largely on an authority’s previous spending.
In addition, DSG has a different coverage to EFS. EFS comprised a schools block and an LEA block (to cover LEA central functions) whereas DSG only covers the school block. LEA block items are still funded through CLG’s local government finance settlement but education items cannot be separately identified. This means we have a break in our time series as the two sets of data are not comparable.
To provide a comparison for 2006-07 DSG, we have isolated the schools block equivalent funding in 2005-06; as described above this does not represent the totality of ‘education’ funding in that year. There are other grants that support the schools budget, these are not included in the provided DSG figures. The cash figures for all funded pupils aged three-15 in East Sussex and England are shown in the following table.
| £ | |||
| 2005-06 Baseline | 2006-07 DSG guaranteed unit of funding | 2007-08 DSG guaranteed unit of funding | |
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