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Details of the funding of DCSF's Executive Non-Departmental Public Bodies were given to the hon.
member on 22 October 2008, Official Report column. 461W. For convenience, the funding details are reproduced in the following table. Some of these budgets are subject to change but are correct as at 17 November 2008.
The Advisory NDPBs incur little or no expenditure and are resourced from within the Department's existing budgets. As a result, information on budgets for 2008-11 are not readily available.
Departmental Publications
Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 21 October 2008, Official Report, columns 326-27W, on departmental publications, if he will place in the Library a copy of each of his Department’s fortnightly e-mails sent to schools in September and October. [231166]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The Department will provide the Library with copies of the fortnightly e-mails sent to schools in September and October. These can also be found online at:
Departmental Written Questions
Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many questions for written answer were tabled to his Department and its predecessors in Session (a) 2002-03, (b) 2003-04, (c) 2004-05, (d) 2005-06, (e) 2006-07 and (f) 2007-08 to date; and how many were (i) answered substantively and (ii) not answered on grounds of disproportionate cost. [235400]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The number of written parliamentary questions received in each session since 2002-03 by this Department and its predecessor are shown in the following table:
| Session | Total number of written parliamentary questions tabled |
Information on how many questions received a substantive answer or were not answered on disproportionate cost grounds is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Education Maintenance Allowance
Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many applications for the education maintenance allowance have been received for the academic year 2008-09; and how many of them have been fully processed. [237291]
Jim Knight: This is a matter for the Learning and Skills Council (LSC), which operates the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) for the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) and holds information about applications made under the scheme. Mark Haysom, the LSC’s Chief Executive, will write to the hon. Member for Putney with the information requested and a copy of his reply will be placed in the House Library.
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) when the decision was taken to combine the administration of the education maintenance allowance with other adult learning grants; what the reasons for that decision were; who took the decision; and if he will make a statement; [237367]
(2) what (a) grants and (b) allowances are administered via the Learner Support Programme contracted to Liberata; and if he will make a statement. [237369]
Jim Knight: These are matters for the Learning and Skills Council (LSC), which operates the Learner Support programmes for the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF). The LSC are responsible for the contract to deliver the helpline, assessment and payment function for the learner support programmes. Mark Haysom, the LSC's chief executive, will write to the hon. Member for Yeovil with the information requested and a copy of his reply will be placed in the House Library.
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) which company has been contracted to run the Learner Support Programme in 2009; and if he will make a statement; [237368]
(2) what steps he is taking to ensure that education maintenance allowance payments are made on time; and if he will make a statement. [237371]
Jim Knight:
These are matters for the Learning and Skills Council (LSC), which operates the Learner Support programmes for the Department for Children, Schools and Families. Mark Haysom, the LSC’s Chief Executive,
will write to the hon. Member for Yeovil with the information requested and a copy of his reply will be placed in the House Library.
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many people entitled to education maintenance allowance in 2008-09 have not yet received any payments; and if he will make a statement. [237370]
Jim Knight: Eligibility for the education maintenance allowance (EMA) is based on household income. The Department for Children, Schools and Families does not hold information on household income for every eligible 16 to 18-year-old who participates in a course that meets the EMA valid provision criteria. Therefore it is not possible to calculate the number of students who are entitled to EMA. With regard to EMA payments, this is a matter for the Learning and Skills Council (LSC), which operates the education maintenance allowance (EMA) for the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) and hold information about payments made under the EMA scheme.
Mark Haysom, the LSC's chief executive, will write to the hon. Member for Yeovil with the information requested and a copy of his reply will be placed in the House Library.
Education Maintenance Allowance: Telephone Services
Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) how many calls were made to the learner support helpline for students claiming education maintenance allowance in each month since September 2007; and how many of them were (a) answered and (b) unanswered in each of those months: [237288]
(2) how many advisers were working on the learner support helpline for students claiming education maintenance allowance in each month since September 2007; [237289]
(3) what the cost for the contractor Liberata to staff the learner support helpline for students claiming education maintenance allowance was in (a) 2005-06, (b) 2006-07, (c) 2007-08 and (d) 2008-09. [237290]
Jim Knight: This is a matter for the Learning and Skills Council (LSC), which operates the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) for the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) and contract with Liberata to deliver the helpline, assessment and payment function for EMA. Mark Haysom, the LSC’s Chief Executive, will write to the Hon. Member for Putney with the information requested and a copy of his reply will be placed in the House Library.
Education: Crosby
Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) how much his Department's predecessor spent on education in Crosby constituency in 1997; and how much his Department has spent in 2008 to date; [236672]
(2) how much his Department plans to spend per school pupil in each local education authority in Crosby constituency in 2008-09; and how much was spent in each academic year since 1997-98. [236705]
Jim Knight: The Department allocates education funding to local authorities so the requested information for Crosby constituency is not available.
Total and per pupil revenue funding figures for pupils aged 3-19 for Sefton local authority for years 1997-98 to 2005-06 are as follows. These figures are in real terms:
| Sefton local authority revenue funding | ||
| Total (£ million) | Per pupil (£) | |
The revenue per pupil figures shown in the following table are taken from the dedicated schools grant (DSG) which was introduced in April 2006. They are not comparable with those for the years 1997-98 to 2005-06 because the introduction of the DSG in 2006-07 fundamentally changed how local authorities are funded.
The 1997-98 to 2005-06 figures are based on Education Formula Spending (EFS) which formed the education part of the Local Government Finance Settlement, plus various grants. This was an assessment of what local authorities needed to fund education rather than what they spent. The DSG is based largely on an authority's previous spending. In addition, the DSG has a different coverage to EFS. EFS comprised a schools block and an LEA block (to cover LEA central functions) whereas DSG only covers the school block. LEA block items are still funded through DCLG's Local Government Finance Settlement but education items cannot be separately identified. Consequently, there is a break in the Department's time series as the two sets of data are not comparable.
To provide a comparison for 2006-07 DSG, the Department have isolated the schools block equivalent funding in 2005-06; as described above this does not represent the totality of 'education' funding in that year.
The total and per pupil revenue funding figures for years 2005-06 to 2008-09 for Sefton local authority are provided in the following table. The following figures are for all funded pupils aged 3-19 and are in real terms:
| Sefton local authority revenue funding | ||
| Total (£ million) | Per pupil (£) | |
Education: Finance
Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 17 October 2008, Official Report, column 1585W, on education, how much funding has been allocated to each other miscellaneous programme in 2008-09. [234385]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The following table lists the programmes aggregated under the ‘Other Miscellaneous’ title and their corresponding projected allocations for 2008-09, as shown in the 2008 departmental annual report.
| List of other miscellaneous programmes | |
| £ million | |
|
Inclusion Programmes/Behaviour/Aim higher/Alternative provision | |
|
Governors/Admissions/Independent State Schools/Travel Advisers/School Meals | |
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