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Private Sector

Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what departmental investigations have taken place since 1 January 2007 into the management of his Department’s contracts with
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private sector agencies; and if he will make a statement. [177830]

Kevin Brennan: The Department carries out a programme of regular risk based audit assessments across the range of its business. This includes reviews of the quality of contract management.

Investigations may be carried out into issues where there appears to be evidence of possible malpractice or impropriety. Since 1 January 2007, the Department has undertaken two formal investigations that have concerned or included consideration of issues relating to the management of contracts with private sector organisations.

Regulation

Mrs. May: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families for which regulators and inspectorates his Department has had responsibility in each year since 1997; what the budget was of each such body in each year; and what the cost to the public purse was of any restructuring of each such body in each year. [175315]

Kevin Brennan: The following table sets out the annual budget for each of the financial years from 1998-99 to 2006-07 for each of the regulatory and inspectorate bodies that were the responsibility of the former Department for Education and Skills (2001-02 to 2006-07) and the former Department for Education and Employment (1998-99 to 2000-01). Final figures are not currently available for 2007-08 for the Department for Children, Schools and Families and information is not readily accessible prior to 1998-99.

The Department does not hold specific financial information in relation to the cost of any restructuring that these bodies may have undertaken. This information could be gathered from the bodies themselves only at disproportionate cost.

Annual budget provision for regulatory and inspectorate bodies of the former Department for Education and Skills and the former Department for Education and Employment since 1998-99
£000
Financial year	Adult Learning Inspectorate	Office for Fair Access	Office of the Children’s Commissioner	General Teaching Council	Qualifications and Curriculum Authority
2006-07	27,100	500	3,000	449	150,900
2005-06	26,100	400	3,000	609	151,000
2004-05	30,712	500	—	3,007	155,014
2003-04	30,000	—	—	3,300	94,700
2002-03	25,400	—	—	3,500	69,900
2001-02	21,500	—	—	7,400	54,269
2000-01	—	—	—	—	61,326
1999-2000	—	—	—	—	58,292
1998-99	—	—	—	—	54,800
Note: Adult Learning Inspectorate transferred to Ofsted from 1 April 2007. Source: Departmental resource accounts from 1998-99 to 2006-07.

Schools: Sports

Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many school governing bodies and school sport associations work with competition managers. [179061]

Kevin Brennan: Competition managers work with schools, national governing bodies of sport and school sport associations within each county area to increase inter-school sport competition. The national school sport competition framework has been developed in partnership with some 20 national governing bodies of sport.

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School sport partnerships now include all maintained schools in England. There are currently 90 competition managers in post, each working across two school sport partnerships. On average, there are 48 schools per partnership. This means that competition managers are currently working with around 7,200 primary schools and 1,440 secondary schools. The appointment of a total of 226 competition managers by January 2009 will ensure that all maintained schools in England will be included in this framework.

Special Educational Needs: Greater London

Mr. Hands: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many pupils have been statemented in schools in each London borough in each of the last five years. [179289]

Jim Knight: The information requested is given in the following table.

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Maintained mainstream schools: number of pupils for whom statements were newly made, London local authorities, 2002 - 06, position in January each year
	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
London( 1)	4,840	4,930	4,520	4,040	3,840
Inner London( 1)	1,790	1,860	1,710	1,460	1,450
Camden	103	169	179	117	94
City of London	5	0	4	(2)—	(2)—
Hackney	174	147	149	142	136
Hammersmith and Fulham	128	127	104	92	66
Haringey	159	181	137	118	146
Islington	92	87	102	130	100
Kensington and Chelsea	60	46	36	43	32
Lambeth	126	197	143	112	166
Lewisham	250	121	182	136	126
Newham	37	41	45	40	50
Southwark	213	241	178	149	166
Tower Hamlets	186	199	190	166	125
Wandsworth	164	204	165	133	131
Westminster	95	99	97	82	108
Outer London( 1)	3,050	3,070	2,810	2,580	2,390
Barking and Dagenham	160	140	114	80	62
Barnet	161	87	116	143	157
Bexley	194	197	208	207	120
Brent	117	171	156	141	168
Bromley	206	166	152	198	186
Croydon	244	273	240	193	145
Ealing	181	196	156	156	146
Enfield	210	203	188	139	82
Greenwich	111	167	149	129	186
Harrow	152	150	108	102	119
Havering	97	113	94	67	36
Hillingdon	248	187	100	103	103
Hounslow	230	250	230	174	121
Kingston upon Thames	79	89	98	72	46
Merton	149	140	165	128	100
Redbridge	170	150	168	161	187
Richmond upon Thames	79	66	75	78	78
Sutton	107	142	107	123	131
Waltham Forest	157	185	186	188	214
(1) Regional totals have been rounded to the nearest 10. (2) One or two pupils. Source: SEN 2 Survey 2003-06.

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