House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 07 July 2008 (pt 0055)

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Building Schools for the Future Programme

Dr. Pugh: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which local authorities are participating in the Building Schools for the Future programme; and how many schools in each participating authority are scheduled for (a) refurbishment and (b) replacement. [216735]

Jim Knight: The following table identifies the local authorities participating in the Building Schools for the Future programme whose proposals for refurbishing and replacing schools have been agreed.

	Number of schools scheduled for
Local authority	refurbishment	replacement
Bradford⁽¹⁾	0	10
Barnsley	0	10
Birmingham⁽¹⁾	7	12
Blackburn	5	3
Bristol⁽¹⁾	0	5
Cambridgeshire⁽¹⁾	5	1
Derbyshire⁽¹⁾	4	3
Durham⁽¹⁾	6	3
Gateshead⁽¹⁾	2	0
Greenwich⁽¹⁾	2	3
Hackney	6	4
Haringey	11	2
Islington	6	6
Kent⁽¹⁾	7	5
Knowsley	0	9
Lambeth⁽¹⁾	1	4
Lancashire⁽¹⁾	3	8
Leeds⁽¹⁾	10	4
Leicester	12	6
Lewisham	9	7
Liverpool⁽¹⁾	5	3
Luton⁽¹⁾	3	5
Manchester⁽¹⁾	10	6
Middlesbrough	5	3
Newcastle	5	5
Newham⁽¹⁾	10	5
North Lincolnshire	5	3
Nottingham⁽¹⁾	5	6
Rochdale	9	5
Salford	1	7
Sandwell⁽¹⁾	5	3
Sheffield⁽¹⁾	7	3
Solihull	1	3
Southwark⁽¹⁾	4	9
South Tyneside	5	7
Sunderland	7	0
Tameside	7	7
Tower Hamlets⁽¹⁾	6	0
Waltham Forest⁽¹⁾	5	2
Westminster	8	2
⁽¹⁾ These local authorities have further projects in later waves of the programme; detailed school plans for these later projects have yet to be confirmed.

The following local authorities are participating in the BSF programme, but their plans for replacing or refurbishing the school estate are yet to be confirmed:

Barking and Dagenham, Bedford, Blackburn, Blackpool, Bournemouth and Poole, Camden, Coventry, Derby, Doncaster, Ealing, Enfield, Essex, Halton, Hammersmith and Fulham, Hartlepool, Hertfordshire, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Kirklees, North East Lincolnshire, North Tyneside, Nottinghamshire, Oldham, Portsmouth, Redcar and Cleveland, Rotherham, Somerset, Southampton, Staffordshire, St Helens, Stockton-on-Tees, Suffolk, Telford and Wrekin, Walsall, Wandsworth, Wolverhampton, Worcestershire.

Dr. Pugh: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much funding has been committed to the Building Schools for the Future programme; and how much in private finance initiative credit has been committed. [216736]

Jim Knight: The amount of capital resources allocated to the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme between 2005-06 and 2010-11 is £7.84 billion of conventional funding, and £7.454 billion of PFI credits. From 2008-09, the BSF budget includes academies.

Dr. Pugh: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what guidance he has issued on the consultations to take place before a local authority bids for Building Schools for the Future funds. [216749]

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Jim Knight: The Strategy for Change guidance sets out the requirement that authorities are able to demonstrate that they have consulted extensively on their Building Schools for the Future (BSF) proposals. We have also issued additional guidance for local authorities on school competitions and where the consultation processes align with the BSF timescales.

Child Development Grant

Mrs. Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what estimate he has made of the overall cost of implementing the Child Development Grant of £200 nationwide; and when he expects the Child Development Grant to be available to all parents. [215012]

Kevin Brennan: The Child Development Grants Pilot will run in 10 local authorities and will test how financial support can be used to encourage disadvantaged families to utilise the childcare and other services offered by their local children’s centres. The Child Development Grant pilot is one of a number of child poverty pilots announced at Budget 2008 as part of the wider child poverty strategy. A comprehensive evaluation will be undertaken to determine the likely impact and cost-effectiveness of all the child poverty pilots before a decision is made about whether any of the initiatives are
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rolled out nationally. Any decisions on future roll-out of Child Development Grants and other pilots will be subject to future spending reviews.

Children in Care

Mr. Howard: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many looked-after children in each ethnic category there are in England; how many people or couples in each ethnic category in England have been assessed as suitable adoptive parents and are yet to adopt; and if he will make a statement. [216080]

Kevin Brennan: Information on how many people or couples in each ethnic category in England have been assessed as suitable adoptive parents and are yet to adopt is not collected centrally.

Information on the number of looked-after children in each ethnic category in England is shown in the following table. The information is taken from Table A1 of the Statistical First Release (SFR 27/2007) entitled ‘Children looked after in England (including adoption and care leavers) year ending 31 March 2007’. The SFR is located at:

http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000741/index.shtml.

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Children looked after at 31 March by ethnic origin, 2003-07^{( 1, 2, 3)} , England
		Number					Percentage
		2003^{( 4)}	2004^{( 5)}	2005^{( 5)}	2006^{( 5)}	2007^{( 5)}	2003^{( 4)}	2004^{( 5)}	2005^{( 5)}	2006^{( 5)}	2007^{( 5)}
All children looked after at 31 March^{( 1, 2)}		61,200	61,200	61,000	60,300	60,000	100	100	100	100	100

Ethnic origin
White
	White British	47,300	46,300	45,900	45,000	44,700	77	76	75	75	74
	White Irish	580	520	500	440	400	1	1	1	1	1
	Any other White background	1,800	1,900	1,800	1,600	1,500	3	3	3	3	3
Mixed
	White and Black Caribbean	2,000	2,000	2,000	1,900	1,900	3	3	3	3	3
	White and Black African	400	410	440	430	440	1	1	1	1	1
	White and Asian	750	720	720	750	770	1	1	1	1	1
	Any other mixed background	2,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	3	3	3	3	3
Asian or Asian British
	Indian	300	300	280	300	290	0	0	0	0	0
	Pakistani	510	520	580	610	660	1	1	1	1	1
	Bangladeshi	200	230	270	280	280	0	0	0	0	0
	Any other Asian background	320	460	650	880	1,000	1	1	1	1	2
Black or Black British
	Caribbean	1,600	1,700	1,600	1,600	1,600	3	3	3	3	3
	African	1,800	2,300	2,400	2,400	2,300	3	4	4	4	4
	Any other Black background	870	880	900	900	880	1	1	1	1	1
Other ethnic groups
	Chinese	80	120	120	120	130	0	0	0	0	0
	Any other ethnic group	750	840	900	1,000	1,200	1	1	1	2	2
⁽¹⁾ Source: SSDA903 return on children looked after. ⁽²⁾ Figures exclude children looked after under an agreed series of short term placements. ⁽³⁾ Historical data may differ from older publications. This is mainly due to the implementation of amendments and corrections sent by some local authorities after the publication date of previous materials. ⁽⁴⁾ Figures are derived from the SSDA903 one third sample survey. ⁽⁵⁾ Figures are taken from the SSDA903 return which, since 2003-04 has covered all children looked after.

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