House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 13 Jun 2007 (pt 0030)

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Nursery Schools: North East Region

Mrs. Hodgson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many nursery school places were available in Gateshead, East and Washington, West in (a) 1996-97 and (b) 2006-07. [140641]

Beverley Hughes: The available information is shown in the tables.

Table 1 provides information about the part-time equivalent number of free early education places filled by three and four-year-olds in Gateshead, East and Washington, West parliamentary constituency area. Data are provided for 2006 only because data are not available at constituency level for 1997.

Table 1: Part-time equivalent number of free early education places^{( 1,2,3)} filled by three and four-year-olds Parliamentary constituency: Gateshead, East and Washington, West Position in January
	3-year-olds			4-year-olds
	maintained nursery and primary schools^{( 4)}	other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers^{( 5)}	total 3-year-olds	maintained nursery and primary schools^{( 6)}	other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers^{( 7)}	total 4-year-olds
2006	580	240	820	830	90	920
⁽¹⁾ A place is equal to five or more sessions and can be filled by more than one child. ⁽²⁾ Figures are rounded to the nearest 100 if they exceed 1,000 and to the nearest 10 otherwise. ⁽³⁾ Prior to 2004, information on early education places was derived from returns made by local authorities as part of the Nursery Education Grant (NEG) data collection exercise. These data were collected at local authority level, therefore, data for this parliamentary constituency for 1996-97 are not available. ⁽⁴⁾ Headcount of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the School Census. ⁽⁵⁾ Part-time equivalent number of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Early Years Census and the School Census. ⁽⁶⁾ Headcount of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the School Census. ⁽⁷⁾ Part-time equivalent number of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Early Years Census and the School Census.

Gateshead, East and Washington, West parliamentary constituency is split between Gateshead and Sunderland local authority areas. Tables 2 and 3 provide information about the part-time equivalent number of free early education places filled by three and four-year-olds for each of these local authority areas respectively.

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Table 2: Part-time equivalent number of free early education places^{( 1,2)} filled by three and four-year-olds Local authority: Gateshead Position in January each year
	3-year-olds			4-year-olds
	maintained nursery and primary schools^{( 3)}	other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers	total 3-year-olds	maintained nursery and primary schools^{( 4)}	other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers	total 4-year-olds
1997	1,300	n/a	1,300	n/a	n/a	^(5,6)2,200
2007	1,200	⁽⁷⁾690	1,900	1,700	⁽⁸⁾270	1,900
n/a = Not available. ⁽¹⁾ A place is equal to five or more sessions and can be filled by more than one child. ⁽²⁾ Figures are rounded to the nearest 100 if they exceed 1,000 and to the nearest 10 otherwise. ⁽³⁾ Headcount of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the School Census. ⁽⁴⁾ Headcount of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the School Census. ⁽⁵⁾ Part-time equivalent number of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Nursery Education Grant data collection exercise. ⁽⁶⁾ For 1997, four-year-old sub national figures from the Nursery Education Grant data collection exercise can not be disaggregated between the maintained and private, voluntary and independent sectors. ⁽⁷⁾ Part-time equivalent number of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Early Years Census and the School Census. ⁽⁸⁾ Part-time equivalent number of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Early Years Census and the School Census.

Table 3 Part-time equivalent number of free early education places^{( 1,2)} filled by three and four-year-olds Local authority: Sunderland Position in January each year
	3 - year - olds			4 - year - olds
	maintained nursery and primary schools^{( 3)}	other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers	total 3-year-olds	maintained nursery and primary schools^{( 4)}	other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers	total 4-year-olds
1997	2,400	n/a	2,400	n/a	n/a	^(5,6)3,700
2007	2,300	⁽⁷⁾390	2,700	2,800	⁽⁸⁾140	2,900
n/a = Not available. ⁽¹⁾ A place is equal to five or more sessions and can be filled by more than one child. ⁽²⁾ Figures are rounded to the nearest 100 if they exceed 1000 and to the nearest 10 otherwise. ⁽³⁾ Headcount of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the School Census. ⁽⁴⁾ Headcount of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the School Census. ⁽⁵⁾ Part-time equivalent number of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Nursery Education Grant data collection exercise. ⁽⁶⁾ For 1997, four-year-old sub national figures from the Nursery Education Grant data collection exercise can not be disaggregated between the maintained and private, voluntary and independent sectors. ⁽⁷⁾ Part-time equivalent number of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Early Years Census and the School Census. ⁽⁸⁾ Part-time equivalent number of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Early Years Census and the School Census.

The latest figures on early education places for three and four-year-olds in England were published in Statistical First Release (SFR) 19/2007 “Provision for children under five years of age in England: January 2007”, available on my Department’s website:

www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/.

Pauline Hughes Consultancy

Frank Dobson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what expertise in electoral practice and principle the Pauline Hughes Consultancy brought to its assessment of the appropriateness of electoral arrangements for deciding the continuance or establishment of grammar schools. [141686]

Jim Knight [holding answer 11 June 2007]: This review considered whether the grammar school ballot provisions were working as intended and whether any providers could administer the ballots process in addition to Electoral Reform Services which is named in regulations. The Pauline Hughes Consultancy had relevant expertise in the procedures and regulations relating to the future of grammar schools and was paid £2,732.40 for this and other work.

Primary Education: Drugs

Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what plans the Government have to introduce drugs education schemes to primary schools. [141291]

Mr. Dhanda: The Department's guidance, ‘Drugs: Guidance for Schools (DfES 2004)’, makes clear that drug education should start in primary schools and outlines the issues that should be covered at key stages 1 and 2, having regard for the age and maturity of the pupils concerned. As part of their drug education, pupils should learn how to make informed choices about their health, how to resist pressure to do wrong and to take more responsibility for their actions. The Government intend to consult shortly on proposals for a new drug strategy, and education in primary schools will be considered as part of that wider process.

Primary Education: Teaching Methods

Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what his latest estimate is of the number of primary school pupils receiving Government-sponsored one-to-one tuition in (a) English, (b) mathematics and (c) other subjects. [140150]

Jim Knight: The Department for Education and Skills does not collect data on the extent to which individual schools are choosing to provide one-to-one support for their pupils in particular subjects from their own resources.

Through the Every Child A Reader programme approximately 2,300 six-year-olds in England will receive one-to-one tuition in early reading from highly skilled Reading Recovery teachers in this academic year. Reading Recovery is an intensive one-to-one support programme aimed at those young children
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with the greatest difficulties in learning to read. Every Child A Reader will be rolled out nationally from 2008-09 benefiting over 30,000 children a year by 2010-11. We also intend to develop a similar intensive one-to-one support programme in maths.

The Making Good Progress pilot begins in the next academic year and will include one-to-one tuition of up to 10 hours in English and/or maths to pupils behind national expectations who are still making slow progress. Our latest estimate is that in pilot schools (which will be both primary and middle schools) in 2007/08 6,100 children in key stage 2 will receive one-to-one tuition in English, and the same in maths. We anticipate that a similar number of key stage 2 pupils will receive the one-to-one tuition in 2008/09.

In the CSR it was announced that by 2010-11 300,000 pupils across both primary and secondary will be receiving one-to-one tuition in English and a further 300,000 pupils in maths.

Pupil Exclusions

Mr. Willetts: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many and what percentage of current pupils have been permanently excluded from school more than once, broken down by (a) those receiving and not receiving free school meals, (b) gender and (c) ethnicity. [132383]

Jim Knight: The available information is given in the table.

Information relating to free school meal eligibility is not collected for permanently excluded pupils.

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Maintained primary, secondary and all special schools ^{( 1)} : Number of pupils permanently excluded from school more than once by gender and ethnic group ^{( 2)} —England
	Pupils who have been permanently excluded more than once during 2004/05 ^{( 2)}
	Number^{( 3)}	Percentage
Gender
Boys	20	0.25
Girls	10	0.29
Total	20	0.26
Ethnic Group ^{( 4)}
White	⁽⁷⁾—	⁽⁷⁾—
White British	⁽⁷⁾—	⁽⁷⁾—
Irish	0	0.00
Traveller of Irish heritage	0	0.00
Gypsy/ Roma	0	0.00
Any other White background	0	0.00
Mixed	0	0.00
White and Black Caribbean	0	0.00
White and Black African	0	0.00
White and Asian	0	0.00
Any other Mixed background	0	0.00
Asian	0	0.00
Indian	0	0.00
Pakistani	0	0.00
Bangladeshi	0	0.00
Any other Asian background	0	0.00
Black	⁽⁷⁾—	⁽⁷⁾—
Black Caribbean	0	0.00
Black African	⁽⁷⁾—	⁽⁷⁾—
Any other Black background	0	0.00
Chinese	0	0.00
Any other ethnic group	0	0.00
Unclassified ⁽⁶⁾	20	n/a
All pupils ⁽⁵⁾	20	0.26
n/a = Not applicable ⁽¹⁾ Includes middle schools as deemed. Includes non-maintained special schools. Excludes general hospital schools. ⁽²⁾ This analysis is based on incomplete pupil level data. Any findings based on these figures should be used with caution. Those pupils who have been permanently excluded from more than one different school during the 2004/05 school year have been selected. ^{(3 )}Number of pupils who have been permanently excluded more than once expressed as a percentage of the total number of pupils who were permanently excluded of same gender and ethnic group. Based on incomplete pupil level data. ⁽⁴⁾ Pupils of compulsory school age and above have been classified according to their ethnic group. ⁽⁵⁾ Includes those pupils for whom information on their ethnic group was not sought, refused or is missing. ⁽⁶⁾ Information presented here has been derived from an extract of the National Pupil Database which has selected pupils with multiple cases of exclusion from different schools and linked to the available characteristic data (gender, ethnic group) collected via the School Census. ⁽⁷⁾ less than 5, or a rate based on less than 5 Note: Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10. There may be discrepancies between the sum of constituent items and totals as shown. Source: School Census / National Pupil Database ⁽⁶⁾

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