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Pupils: Languages
Mr. Jeremy Browne: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many and what percentage of children in (a) Somerset and (b) Taunton constituency have English as a second language; and what funding has been made available for individual schools in each area to support those children in each of the last five years. [141231]
Jim Knight: The available information is given in the following table.
The revenue funding that local authorities allocate to their schools is a matter for local authorities to decide locally through their own local funding formulae (subject to satisfying the minimum funding guarantee for schools from 2004-05 onwards). According to their Section 52 Budget Statements, Somerset LA’s local funding formula does not allocate any funding to schools via their individual school budget share specifically on the basis of having pupils for which English is a second language attending the school.
However, local authorities do receive additional funding from the Ethnic Minority Achievement Grant (EMAG). EMAG is intended to help local authorities narrow achievement gaps for those minority ethnic groups who are underachieving and to meet particular needs of pupils for whom English is an additional language. It is distributed to local authorities by formula which includes the number of EAL pupils in each LA. For this year, Somerset LA will receive an EMAG totalling £37,585, with locally determined formulae devolving at least 85 per cent. of this to schools. The grant is worth £179 million nationally in 2007-08.
| Maintained primary and secondary schools( 1) : number and percentage of pupils whose first language is known or believed to be other than English( 2) , as at January each year 2003 to 2007(provisional) | |||||||||
| Somerset local authority area | Taunton parliamentary constituency | England( 4) | |||||||
| Number of pupils( 2) | Number of pupils whose first language is known or believed to be other than English | Percentage of pupils whose first language is known or believed to be other than English( 3) | Number of pupils( 2) | Number of pupils whose first language is known or believed to be other than English | Percentage of pupils whose first language is known or believed to be other than English( 3) | Number of pupils( 2) | Number of pupils whose first language is known or believed to be other than English | Percentage of pupils whose first language is known or believed to be other than English( 3) | |
| (1 )Includes middle schools as deemed. (2 )Excludes dually registered pupils. (3 )The number of pupils whose first language is known or believed to be other than English expressed as a percentage of the total number of pupils of compulsory school age and above. (4 )Figures for England have been rounded to the nearest 10. (5 )Provisional figures. Source: School Census | |||||||||
Pupils: Per Capita Costs
Dr. Kumar: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much was allocated per pupil to each local education authority in each of the last five years. [144268]
Jim Knight: The requested information has been placed in the House Library.
Rosie Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) what the average education funding was per pupil in West Lancashire in each year since 1997, broken down by age group; [144818]
(2) what the level of funding was per pupil in West Lancashire constituency in (a) 2005 and (b) 2006. [144819]
Jim Knight: The West Lancashire constituency falls within the local authority of Lancashire and the information supplied applies to all of Lancashire. The revenue funding figures per pupil aged three to 10, 11 to 15 and three to 19 for Lancashire for years 1997-98 to 2005-06 are as follows:
| £ | |||
| Primary ( 3 to 10-year-olds) | Secondary (11 to 15-year-olds) | Total ( 3 to 19-year olds) | |
| Notes: 1. Price base: Real terms at 2005-06 prices, based on GDP deflators as at 27 September 2006. 2. Figures reflect relevant sub-blocks of standard spending assessment/education formula spending (EFS) settlements and exclude the pensions transfer to EFS and LSC. 3. Total funding also includes all revenue grants in DfES departmental expenditure limits relevant to pupils aged three to 19 and exclude education maintenance allowances (EMAs) and grants not allocated at LEA level. The pupil numbers used to convert £ million figures to £ per pupil are those underlying the SSA/EFS settlement calculations plus PLASC. 4. Three-year-old maintained pupils and estimated three to four-year-olds funded through state support in maintained and other educational institutions where these are not included in the SSA pupil numbers. 5. Rounding—figures are rounded to the nearest £10. 6. Status—some of the grant allocations have not been finalised. If these do change, the effect on the funding figures is expected to be minimal. 7. 1997-98 figures for authorities subject to local government reorganisation in that year have been estimated, pro-rata to their post LGR figures. | |||
The revenue per pupil figures shown in the following table are taken from the new dedicated schools grant (DSG) and are in cash terms. They are not comparable with those for the years 1997-98 to 2005-06 because the introduction of the DSG in 2006-07 fundamentally changed how local authorities are funded. The DSG is based largely on an authority’s previous spending.
The 1997-98 to 2005-06 figures are based on education formula spending (EPS) which formed the education part of the local government finance settlement, plus various grants. This was an assessment of what local authorities needed to fund education rather than what they spent. In addition, the 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 DCLG’s local government finance settlement but education items cannot be separately identified. Consequently, there is a break in the Department’s time series as the
two sets of data are not comparable. An alternative time series is currently under development.
To provide a comparison for 2006-07 DSG, the Department 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. As the DSG is just a mechanism for distributing funding there is not a primary/secondary split available.
The figures are for all funded pupils aged three to 15 years.
| £ | |
| Notes: 1. The revenue funding per pupil figures only run to 2005-06 because we cannot provide a consistent time series beyond that year as 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 education formula spending (EPS) which formed the education part of the local government finance settlement, plus various grants. This was an assessment of what local authorities needed to fund education rather than what they spent. In 2006-07 funding for schools changed with the introduction of the DSG which is based largely on an authority’s previous spending. 2. 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 DCLG’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, an alternative time series is currently under development. 3. 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. | |
Matthew Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the average education funding was per pupil, broken down by age group, in (a) Cornwall, (b) the South West, (c) England and (d) the UK in each year since 1979. [140559]
Jim Knight: The revenue funding figures per pupil aged three to 10 and 11 to 15 for Cornwall, the South West and England for years 1997-98 to 2005-06 are provided in the tables below. Comparable figures are not available for 1979-80 to 1996-97. Figures are not available at UK level.
| Primary (3 to 10-year-olds) | |||
| Cornwall | South West | England | |
| Secondary (11 to 15-year-olds) | |||
| Cornwall | South West | England | |
| Notes: 1. Price Base: Real terms at 2005-06 prices, based on GDP deflators as at 27 September 2006. 2. Figures reflect relevant sub-blocks of standard spending assessment/education formula spending (EFS) settlements and exclude the pensions transfer to EFS. 3. Total funding also includes all revenue grants in DFES departmental expenditure limits relevant to pupils aged 3-10 and 11-15 and exclude education maintenance allowances (EMAs) and grants not allocated at LA level. 4. The pupil numbers used to convert £ million figures to £ per pupil are those underlying the SSA/EFS settlement calculations plus PLASC three-year-old maintained pupils and estimated three to four-year-olds funded through state support in maintained and other educational institutions where these are not included in the SSA pupil numbers. 5. Rounding: Figures are rounded to the nearest £10. 6. Status: Some of the grant allocations have not been finalised. If these do change, the effect on the funding figures is expected to be minimal. | |||
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