House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 04 Mar 2008 (pt 0046)

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Number of part time funded places^{( 1,2)} filled by three and four-year-olds—local authority: Essex
Position in January each year
	Part-time funded places filled by three-year-olds			Part-time funded places filled by four-year-olds
	Maintained nursery and primary schools^{( 3)}	Other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers	Total three-year-olds	Maintained nursery and primary schools^{( 4)}	Other maintained and private voluntary and independent providers	Total four-year-olds
1997	1,600	n/a	1,600	n/a	n/a	⁽⁵⁾14,000
1998	1,900	n/a	1,600	n/a	n/a	⁽⁵⁾15,000
1999	2,000	n/a	2,000	n/a	n/a	⁽⁵⁾15,200
2000	2,000	⁽⁶⁾0	2,000	n/a	n/a	⁽⁵⁾15,100
2001	2,000	⁽⁶⁾220	2,220	n/a	n/a	⁽⁵⁾15,100
2002	2,000	⁽⁶⁾6,700	8,700	10,400	⁽⁵⁾4,700	15,100
2003	2,000	9,500	11,500	10,400	⁽⁷⁾4,600	15,000
2004	2,000	⁽⁹⁾9,700	11,700	10,500	⁽⁹⁾4,500	15,000
2005	1,900	⁽⁸⁾10,000	11,900	9,900	⁽⁹⁾4,500	14,400
2006	2,000	⁽⁸⁾9,900	11,900	9,900	⁽⁹⁾4,200	14,100
2007	1,900	⁽⁸⁾10,400	12,300	9,700	⁽⁹⁾4,400	14,100
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⁾ Part-time equivalent number of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Nursery Education Grant data collection exercise. ⁽⁷⁾ Part-time equivalent number of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Early Years Census supplementary data collection exercise and the School Census. ⁽⁸⁾ 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. ⁽⁹⁾ 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.

Number of part time funded places^{( 1,2)} filled by three and four year olds—local authority: Cambridgeshire
Position in January each year
	Part-time funded places filled by three-year-olds			Part-time funded places filled by four-year-olds
	Maintained nursery and primary schools^{( 3)}	Other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers	Total three-year-olds	Maintained nursery and primary schools^{( 4)}	Other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers	Total four-year-olds
1997	1,100	n/a	1,100	n/a	n/a	⁽⁵⁾5,800
1998	1,100	n/a	1,100	n/a	n/a	⁽⁵⁾6,500
1999	1,200	n/a	1,200	n/a	n/a	⁽⁵⁾6,300
2000	1,100	⁽⁶⁾0	1,100	n/a	n/a	⁽⁵⁾6,400
2001	1,200	⁽⁶⁾870	2,000	n/a	n/a	⁽⁵⁾5,900
2002	1,200	⁽⁶⁾1,500	2,700	4,700	⁽⁵⁾1,600	6,200
2003	1,100	⁽⁶⁾2,700	3,800	4,600	⁽⁷⁾1,600	6,200
2004	1,000	⁽⁸⁾2,800	3,800	4,500	⁽⁹⁾1,600	6,100
2005	980	⁽⁸⁾4,000	4,900	4,400	⁽⁹⁾1,300	5,700
2006	1,100	⁽⁸⁾4,000	5,100	4,500	⁽⁹⁾1,500	6,000
2007	1,100	⁽⁸⁾4,300	5,400	4,400	⁽⁹⁾1,600	6,000
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⁾ Part-time equivalent number of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Nursery Education Grant data collection exercise. ⁽⁷⁾ Part-time equivalent number of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Early Years Census supplementary data collection exercise and the School Census. ⁽⁸⁾ 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. ⁽⁹⁾ 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 19/2007 “Provision for children under five years of age in England—January 2007” in May, which is available on my Department’s website

www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/

Physical Education: Teachers

Hugh Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many hours of physical education training the Youth Sport Trust recommends during initial teacher training to meet the Government's school sport public service agreement target. [189591]

Jim Knight [holding answer 26 February 2008]: I am not aware of any recommendation the Youth Sport Trust has made about primary initial teacher training. In any event, neither this Department nor the Training and Development Agency for Schools prescribe the content for courses of initial teacher training or the time that should be spent on particular components of it. Training providers have discretion over this, but the outcome of their course must be that trainees are, on completion, able to demonstrate the various standards the Secretary of State has set out for awarding of Qualified Teacher Status.

Pupils: Per Capita Costs

David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) how much has been allocated per pupil for the 2008-09 school year, broken down by county; [189455]

(2) what the average funding per pupil is in England for the 2008-09 school year. [189458]

Jim Knight: The Dedicated Schools Grant guaranteed per pupil units of funding for 2008-09 are provided in the following tables for local authorities grouped by type: London, metropolitan, unitary and upper tier. Guaranteed units of funding are not calculated at a county level. The average figure for England is £4,066
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per pupil. This covers all funded pupils aged three to 15. Figures are in cash terms. In addition to the Dedicated Schools Grant there are other grants that support the schools budget whose allocations have not yet been finalised.

London authorities	2008-09 guaranteed per pupil unit of funding (£)
Barking and Dagenham	4,563
Barnet	4,559
Bexley	4,151
Brent	4,894
Bromley	3,966
Camden	6,161
City of London	7,362
Croydon	4,267
Ealing	4,832
Enfield	4,437
Greenwich	5,361
Hackney	6,170
Hammersmith and Fulham	5,635
Haringey	4,987
Harrow	4,507
Havering	4,137
Hillingdon	4,361
Hounslow	4,651
Islington	5,812
Kensington and Chelsea	5,757
Kingston upon Thames	4,256
Lambeth	5,848
Lewisham	5,556
Merton	4,452
Newham	5,071
Redbridge	4,214
Richmond upon Thames	4,311
Southwark	5,756
Sutton	4,253
Tower Hamlets	6,289
Waltham Forest	4,584
Wandsworth	5,146
Westminster	5,439

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