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Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much funding his Department provided for the Physical Education, School Sport and Club Link Strategy in each of the last five years. [225686]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: A breakdown of the Department's investment in England into the strategy from 2003-04 to 2007-08 is set out in the following table:
| Financial year | Funding (£ million ) |
Schools: Standards
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families in which local authorities over 50 per cent. of children did not achieve five or more A* to C grade GCSEs, including English and mathematics, in the last year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. [224903]
Jim Knight: The available information on GCSE and equivalent results by local authority area is contained within Table 18 of Statistical First Release (SFR) GCSE and Equivalent Examination Results in England 2006-07 (Revised) which was published in January 2008. This SFR can be found at:
Figures cover all maintained mainstream schools (including CTCs and Academies) and maintained special schools, but exclude hospital schools and pupil referral units.
Secondary Education: Standards
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what his estimate is of spending on the National Challenge for Schools in each year between 2008 and 2012, broken down by smallest geographical area available; and if he will make a statement. [224668]
Jim Knight: In June 2008, the Secretary of State announced our intention to invest £400 million to ensure that in every secondary school at least 30 per cent. of students achieve five or more good GCSEs including English and mathematics by 2011. Distribution of the available funding will depend upon the assessment by schools, national challenge advisers and local authorities, with the DCSF, of how we can best support the achievement of young people. No decisions about allocations to particular geographical areas or in individual years have yet been made.
Teachers: Manpower
Mr. Graham Stuart: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many full-time primary school teachers there were in Yorkshire and the Humber in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. [223811]
Jim Knight: The following table provides the full-time equivalent and full-time headcount of regular teachers employed in local authority maintained nursery and primary schools in Yorkshire and the Humber Government office region and England, January 2004 to 2008.
| Full-time equivalent and full-time headcount of regular teachers in local authority maintained nursery and primary schools, January 2004 to 2008 | ||||
| Full-time equivalent | Full-time headcount | |||
| Yorkshire and the Humber | England | Yorkshire and the Humber | England | |
| Note: Figures are rounded to the nearest 10. Source: Annual Survey of Teachers in Service and Teacher Vacancies, 618 g. | ||||
Teachers: Pay
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families whether an academic review day counts as one of the 190 days per year on which a teacher is required to teach pupils and perform other duties, as referred to in paragraph 77.3 of the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document 2008. [225056]
Jim Knight: The term ‘academic review day’ is not a legal term, but is commonly used to describe a day on which a school closes to pupils so that staff may hold progress-review meetings with parents and pupils. Though the Department does not collect data on this practice, we understand that schools using such review days have adopted for this purpose one or more of the 190 days upon which they are required to meet each academic year.
Teachers: Pensions
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what his estimate is of the annual cost of the teachers’ pension scheme; and if he will make a statement. [225057]
Jim Knight: The Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) has estimated expenditure of £6,498 million and estimated income of £4,704 million in 2008-09.
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families if he will make a statement on the terms and conditions of the teachers' pension scheme. [225058]
Jim Knight: The Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS) is a defined benefit occupational pension scheme for teachers and lecturers in England and Wales which provides a range of benefits for members and their families.
The terms and conditions of the TPS were reformed from 1 January 2007 following a review involving the teacher and lecturer unions, employer representatives and the Government. The review considered all aspects of pension provision and introduced changes that: increased the contribution rate paid by all members and the normal pension age for new entrants to 65; deliver a modernised TPS more relevant to the needs of employers and members; makes sure the TPS will continue to be an important and valuable element of the total remuneration package for teachers and lecturers that
supports recruitment and retention; and ensures the long term financial sustainability of the scheme.
The detailed provisions of the TPS can be found at
Teachers: Qualifications
Mr. Graham Stuart: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many (a) primary and (b) secondary school teachers in Yorkshire and the Humber did not have qualified teacher status in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. [223810]
Jim Knight: The following table provides the full-time equivalent number of teachers without qualified teacher status employed in local authority maintained nursery/primary and secondary schools in Yorkshire and the Humber Government office region and England, January 2004 to 2008.
| Full-time equivalent unqualified( 1) regular teachers in local authority maintained nursery/primary and secondary( 2) schools, January 2004 to 2008 | ||||
| Yorkshire and the Humber | England | |||
| Primary | Secondary | Primary | Secondary | |
| (1) Includes instructors, overseas trained teachers and teachers on employment-based routes to qualified teacher status (Graduate Teacher Programme, the Registered Teachers Programme, the Overseas Trained Teachers Programme and the Teach First Scheme). (2) Maintained sector only. Teachers in academies (including those that were previously maintained schools) are not included. Note: Figures are rounded to the nearest 10. Source: Annual Survey of Teachers in Service and Teacher Vacancies, 618 g. | ||||
Teachers: Sick Leave
Mr. Graham Stuart:
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many teaching days were lost to sickness absence in Yorkshire and the
Humber in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. [223809]
Jim Knight: The number of teaching days taken as sickness absence in Yorkshire and the Humber in each of the last five calendar years is shown in the following table.
| Number of teaching days taken as sickness absence | |||
| Calendar year | Full-time teachers | Part-time teachers | Total |
| Note: Figures in the table include an estimated breakdown for authorities unable to distinguish between full-time and part-time absences. | |||
Further details can be found in the School Workforce Statistical First Releases (SFR); the most recent SFR was published on 25 September 2008 and can be found at:
Teachers: Training
Mr. Graham Stuart: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what percentage of Bachelor of Education course entrants did not have an A-level in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. [223797]
Jim Knight: The available information is given in the table and shows the percentage of entrants to undergraduate Initial Teacher Training (ITT) courses by their highest qualification on entry. Qualifications included in the “Other” category might be higher than A/AS level so could include trainees who have A/AS levels. A percentage relating specifically to entrants with no qualifications at advanced level is therefore not available.
Undergraduate trainees only represent 24 per cent. of trainees on ITT courses (excluding employment based routes).
| Percentage of undergraduate entrants to initial teacher training (ITT) courses by their highest qualification on entry, 2002-03 to 2006-07 | |||||||||
| 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | |||||||
| EBITT | Mainstream | Total | EBITT | Mainstream | Total | EBITT | Mainstream | Total | |
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