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Music: Finance

Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) how much has been spent on the Music Standards Fund in each year since 2004; [164025]

(2) what funding the Music Standards Forum is planned to receive over the next two years. [164026]

Jim Knight [holding answer 13 November 2007]: In respect of spending on the Music Standards Fund from 2003-04 I refer the hon. Member to my reply of 20 February 2007, Official Report, column 892W.

The Music Standards Fund grant for the next two years, that is, for 2008-09 and 2009-10, totals £82 million a year. Local authorities are free to add to the Music Standards Funds from their general education budgets, and many do.

No Outsiders Project

Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what discussions his Department has had with the No Outsiders Project; and if he will make a statement. [163835]

Jim Knight: The Department has no direct involvement in the project although a DCSF official has visited the project to observe a training session and an official has met the project lead who outlined the project’s intentions.

The project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (an independent organisation, established by Royal Charter). Its aims are to assist in understanding the requirements of The Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007. The No Outsiders Project does not affect what is taught in the school curriculum. This is governed by the Education Act 1996, as amended, which includes children learning the value of all relationships, with a particular emphasis on marriage and its importance for bringing up children.

Pupils: Finance

Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what share each local authority will receive of the additional money for deprived pupils who attend schools in less deprived local authorities in each year from 2007-08 to 2011-12; how this money will be targeted on pupils with high assessed needs; and if he will make a statement. [165073]

Jim Knight: The following table sets out allocations of the £40.9 million of funding within dedicated schools grant (DSG) to support children from deprived backgrounds who attend schools in less deprived local authorities. The amounts are increases in funding for 2008-09, and will become part of each qualifying authority's DSG baseline for 2009-10 and 2010-11. No funding was allocated for 2007-08; funding for 2011-12 will be allocated under the next spending review. Decisions on the targeting of this funding will be taken by local authorities in consultation with their schools forums, but our strong expectation is that it will be directed to those schools with the most disadvantaged pupil intakes.


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LEA name £ million

Barnet

1.264

Bath and NE Somerset

0.317

Bedfordshire

1.219

Bexley

0.284

Bromley

0.518

Buckinghamshire

0.384

Cambridgeshire

0.362

Cheshire

2.637

Derbyshire

1.873

Dorset

0.314

East Riding of Yorkshire

1.171

Essex

1.574

Gloucestershire

1.023

Hampshire

0.768

Harrow

0.331

Havering

0.077

Hertfordshire

0.046

Hillingdon

0.042

Kent

3.963

Kingston upon Thames

0.177

Leicestershire

1.335

Milton Keynes

1.558

North Somerset

0.690

North Yorkshire

1.493

Northamptonshire

2.484

Oxfordshire

0.147

Poole

0.011

Richmond upon Thames

0.277

Shropshire

0.309

Solihull

1.193

Somerset

0.951

South Gloucestershire

0.074

Staffordshire

2.459

Stockport

1.316

Suffolk

1.408

Surrey

0.048

Sutton

0.218

Swindon

0.564

Thurrock

0.243

Trafford

1.338

Warrington

0.875

Warwickshire

0.722

West Sussex

0.425

Wiltshire

0.178

Worcestershire

1.576

York

0.673


Qualifications and Curriculum Authority: Conferences

Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what costs were incurred by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority for the hire of outside meeting rooms, broken down by (a) location and (b) general purpose of each meeting in 2006-07; how much has been incurred for the same purpose in 2007-08; and if he will make a statement. [163543]

Jim Knight: The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) incurred costs of £2.65 million in 2006-07 and £1.62 million in the current financial year to October for external meetings. Total costs by location are shown below. Information on the purpose of each meeting could be collected only at disproportionate cost, but a significant number were stakeholder meetings on key areas of QCA’s work, such as developing Diplomas and the national consultation on the Secondary Curriculum.


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Location Amount (£)

2006-07 (April-March)

Bath

1,179

Belfast

48,244

Birmingham

128,396

Blackburn

15,366

Bolton

395

Bournemouth

1,992

Bradford

2,727

Brighton

3,188

Bristol

23,542

Bromley

617

Cambridge

2,233

Cardiff

817

Chelmsford

2,831

Coventry

186,135

Crewe

1,101

Doncaster

205

Dudley

609

Enfield

5,509

Exeter

271

Guildford

5,058

Hemel Hempstead

2,767

Ipswich

1,062

Kingston upon Thames

81,371

Lancaster

1,088

Leeds

19,932

Leicester

37,340

Liverpool

2,181

Llandudno

1,481

London

1,472,455

Manchester

57,208

Middlesbrough

3,000

Milton Keynes

124,694

Newcastle upon Tyne

9,517

Northampton

134,684

Nottingham

2,950

Oldham

208

Oxford

8,491

Preston

220

Reading

53,303

Redhill

411

Sheffield

27,277

Slough

29,086

Southampton

12,364

St. Albans

1,101

Stockport

60,186

Stoke-on -Trent

1,756

Swansea

705

Telford

8,572

Truro

1,109

Twickenham

3,631

Wakefield

270

Warrington

30,000

Watford

2,228

Wolverhampton

212

York

28,777

Total

2,652,052

2007-08 (April-October)

Bath

500

Belfast

1,116

Birmingham

43,917

Blackburn

5,763

Bournemouth

31,319

Bristol

4,406

Bromley

1,050

Cambridge

589

Cardiff

1,150

Chelmsford

1,893

Chester

17,214

Coventry

99,774

Crewe

11,958

Croydon

304

Darlington

1,058

Derby

800

Doncaster

316

Dudley

563

Exeter

3,542

Gloucester

2,535

Harrogate

1,256

Hemel Hempstead

2,218

Hereford

470

Huddersfield

240

Hull

2,400

Ipswich

5,145

Kingston upon Thames

54,395

Lancaster

6,711

Leeds

5,961

Liverpool

525

London

1,050,836

Manchester

11,118

Middlesbrough

3,800

Milton Keynes

29,245

Northampton

39,529

Norwich

1,946

Nottingham

979

Oxford

45,943

Peterborough

469

Plymouth

6,334

Preston

6,575

Reading

10,747

Redhill

8,234

Rochester

527

Salisbury

242

Sheffield

2,512

Southampton

3,350

Stockport

29,164

Stoke-on-Trent

1,558

Sunderland

316

Swansea

2,250

Taunton

4,479

Truro

898

Tunbridge Welts

251

Uxbridge

4,277

Walsall

193

Watford

530

Wolverhampton

735

Worcester

14,417

York

28,447

Total

1,618,989


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