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Children, Schools and Families

Academies: Standards

Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what assessment he has made of the effects of academy schools on educational attainment in areas of relative (a) wealth and (b) deprivation. [242004]

Jim Knight: Most academy pupils—almost 70 per cent. (based on the income deprivation affecting children index)—come from deprived areas, but we have made no separate assessment of their performance compared to pupils from other areas. Overall, however, the evidence shows that academies are improving educational attainment compared with their predecessor schools and at a much faster rate than the national average. The fifth annual independent evaluation of academies by PricewaterhouseCoopers concludes that

Building Schools for the Future Programme

Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which local authorities are scheduled to be included in waves 7 to 15 of the Building Schools for the Future programme; and if he will make a statement. [242143]

Jim Knight: We have not yet identified which local authorities and projects will be in waves 7 to 15 of the Building Schools for the Future programme. The deadline for authorities to submit revised expressions of interest was the end of November 2008.

Departmental ICT

Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families with reference to the answer of 28 October 2008, Official Report, columns 1001-2W, what the (a) expected completion date and (b) estimated cost of each project was at its outset. [242317]


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Jim Knight: As stated in my previous answer of 28 October 2008, Official Report, columns 1001-02W, the Department does not currently hold a comprehensive list of IT expenditure at every level of detail sponsored by the Department or its delivery partners. To research this information further could be done only at disproportionate cost.

Departmental Pay

Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much was spent on bonuses by each of his Department’s non-departmental public bodies in the last year for which data are available. [240618]

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 26 November 2008, Official Report, column 1841W.

Departmental Pensions

Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the net present value is of current (a) departmental employees and (b) teachers’ pensions. [240634]

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme (PCSPS) is a multi-employer occupational pension scheme for civil servants employed by Government Departments, including the Department for Children, Schools and Families, as well as some other public bodies. The liabilities for the PCSPS are contained in the Cabinet Office: Civil Superannuation Resource Accounts, which are laid before Parliament each year. Figures for the liabilities relating to individual employers are not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

The value of the teachers’ pension scheme is available in the latest published Resource Accounts (2006-07).

Departmental Public Expenditure

Mr. Ancram: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much his Department spent on (a) entertainment, (b) advertising and promotion and (c) public relations consultancy in 2007-08. [240787]

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: Expenditure on entertainment by the Department for Children, Schools and Families in 2007-08 has been provided previously, please refer to the answer given on 17 October 2008, Official Report, column 1583W.

Promotional campaigns, including those using advertising, are funded from the Department’s central Advertising and Publicity Budget and from individual programme budgets held by policy directorates. It is therefore not possible to establish a definitive figure for all advertising and promotion, except at disproportionate cost.

Advertising is part of a full integrated promotional campaign. We are able to separate the Department’s spend on campaign advertising, as this is centrally placed through the Central Office of Information, in 2007/08 expenditure by the Department on such advertising was £4,588,000.


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Public relations agencies are employed for specific communications tasks, most commonly working alongside our press office to provide campaign support in local, regional and specialist media. The Department’s expenditure on public relations in 2007-08 was £2,333,000.

Education Maintenance Allowance

Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many pupils studying for (a) further mathematics, (b) physics, (c) chemistry and (d) mathematics A-level have been in receipt of education maintenance allowance in each year since its introduction; and what the equivalent number was in the year before its introduction. [240606]

Jim Knight: The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) is responsible for the operation of the education maintenance allowance (EMA) scheme. The LSC does not collect information about the A-level subjects studied by EMA recipients.

EMA was rolled out nationally in England from September 2004. The A-level entry time series from the 2002/03 academic year onwards can be found at

GCSE

Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of (a) pupils entitled to free school meals, (b) pupils not entitled to free school meals and (c) all pupils gained (i) no GCSEs and (ii) fewer than five A* to G grades including English and mathematics at GCSE in each year since 1999. [241853]

Jim Knight: The requested information is given in the following tables, for years going back to 2003. Data prior to 2002 are not available, due to information on free school meal eligibility not being collected. The 2008 data are expected to be published in December.

Pupils achieving fewer than five or more A*-G including English and maths
Number Percentage
FSM Non-FSM All pupils FSM Non-FSM All pupils

2007

18,019

45,174

63,193

23.5

8.5

10.5

2006

19,683

47,445

89,727

25.2

9.2

15.1

2005

21,085

47,447

68,532

26.4

9.5

11.8

2004

22,760

51,223

76,722

27.8

10.1

13.0

2003

23,114

50,798

76,620

28.5

10.3

13.3


Pupils achieving no GCSEs
Number Percentage
FSM Non-FSM All pupils FSM Non-FSM All pupils

2007

4,047

9,651

13,698

5.3

1.8

2.3

2006

4,867

11,072

17,132

6.2

2.1

2.9

2005

6,032

12,293

18,325

7.6

2.4

3.2

2004

7,213

15,680

23,939

8.8

3.1

4.1

2003

9,667

19,713

30,213

11.9

4.0

5.2


Please note that the data for 2005-07 are based on pupils at the end of KS4 and years 2003 and 2004 are based on 15-year-old pupils at the start of the academic year.


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Figures relate to pupils in maintained schools only.

Data for 2002 can be provided only at disproportionate cost.

History: Education

Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families with reference to the answer of 16 October 2008, Official Report, columns 1502-3W, on schools: assessments, which mainstream schools did not enter any pupils for A-level history. [241518]

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The information required is given as follows.

Only schools that were published in the 2007 School and College Achievement and Attainment Tables have been given.


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Maintained mainstream schools that did not enter any pupils into GCE A level history in 2006/07
School Number of 16 to 18-year-olds( 1)

2024104

Haverstock School

255

2024652

Maria Fidelis Roman Catholic Convent School FCJ

141

2044686

The Skinners’ Company’s School for Girls

152

2084509

Charles Edward Brooke School

88

2035403

Archbishop Tenison’s School

36

2106906

The Academy at Peckham

133

2114242

Mulberry School for Girls

356

2124329

Battersea Technology College

62

3036905

The Business Academy Bexley

90

3044006

Wembley High Technology College

180

3045408

John Kelly Boys’ Technology College

134

3046905

Capital City Academy

140

3076905

West London Academy

112

3084041

Salisbury School

124

3084043

Highlands School

192

3094034

Woodside High School, a Business and Enterprise Specialist School

68

3094037

Park View Academy

64

3096905

Greig City Academy

114

3124654

Guru Nanak Sikh Voluntary Aided Secondary School

72

3134021

Hounslow Manor School

100

3145403

Coombe Boys’ School

93

3206905

Walthamstow Academy

2

3304084

Washwood Heath Technology College

113

3304207

Handsworth Wood Girls’ Visual and Performing Arts Specialist College and Sixth Form Centre

51

3304227

Broadway School

143

3304245

Moseley School A Language College

141

3305412

George Dixon International School and Sixth Form Centre

185

3314030

Lyng Hall School

65

3335400

Manor Foundation Business and Sports College

74

3354017

Alumwell Business and Enterprise College

164

3354100

Darlaston Community Science College

114

3364115

Deansfield High School

96

3364131

Parkfield High School

108

3364139

Moreton Community School

110

3404609

All Saints Catholic High School

152

3414419

Shorefields School

53

3414420

Fazakerley High School

71

3414423

Croxteth Community Comprehensive School

91

3414425

Broadgreen High School a Technology College

164

3414788

St. Benedict’s College

114

3414796

Archbishop Beck Catholic Sports College

168

3416906

North Liverpool Academy

156

3524257

Whalley Range 11-18 High School and Business and Enterprise College

297

3714607

Rossington All Saints Church of England (VA) School—A Sports College

145

3804034

Rhodesway School

206

3804066

Greenhead High School

182

3804100

Carlton Bolling College

312

3804613

Feversham College

96

3804616

Immanuel College

122

3814036

The Ridings School

27

3824048

Batley Girls’ High School

182

3834031

City of Leeds School

52

3834044

Primrose High School

99

3834045

John Smeaton Community High School

84

3834054

Intake High School Arts College

99

3834058

West Leeds High School

90

3834059

Parklands Girls’ High School

73

3834851

South Leeds High School

93

3904605

Cardinal Hume Catholic School

91

3914500

All Saints College

49

8004108

Culverhay School

62

8014032

Brislington Enterprise College

304

8016905

The City Academy Bristol

12

8114063

Howden School and Technology College

93

8124086

The Lindsey School and Community Arts College

55

8154203

Ripon College

76

8254001

Highcrest Community School

124

8254036

Princes Risborough

73

8254072

Cressex Community School

43

8254074

Burnham Upper School

134

8254094

The Wye Valley School

156

8254095

Amersham School

95

8264085

Sir Frank Markham Community School

121

8315403

Merrill College

62

8364111

Rossmore Community College

32

8364112

Ashdown Technology College

135

8374189

Oakmead College of Technology

53

8564005

New College Leicester

37

8604066

Norton Canes High School

73

8604084

Maryhill High School

39

8674030

The Brakenhale School

72

8714082

Baylis Court School

67

8715409

The Westgate School

72

8724041

Ryeish Green School

90

8754161

Ellesmere Port Specialist School of Performing Arts

81

8814735

St. Peters College

81

8825414

The Eastwood School (11-18)

88

8864026

Dartford Technology College

63

8864031

Swanley Technology College

85

8864059

Swadelands School

64

8864065

Holmesdale Technology College

133

8864114

Archers Court Maths and Computing College

76

8864204

Wilmington Enterprise College

52

8864207

Castle Community College

91

8864219

Hextable School

111

8864242

The Abbey School

93

8865409

Wrotham School

89

8865410

Aylesford School—Sports College

109

8865455

The Hayesbrook School

79

8865456

Northfleet Technology College

8865466

Brockhill Park Performing Arts College

159

8884408

Fleetwood Sports College

2

8914008

Kirkby College

52

8925402

Greenwood Dale School

171

8926905

Djanogly City Academy Nottingham

226

9094301

Morton School

33

9094630

Newman Catholic School

77

9095408

North Cumbria Technology College

31

9164039

Vale of Berkeley College

7

9164040

Brockworth Enterprise School

87

9194117

The Sele School

61

9194154

Onslow St. Audrey’s School

54

9195427

Hockerill Anglo-European College

162

9254036

The City of Lincoln Community College

112

9254609

St. Clements College

103

9255414

Joseph Ruston Technology College

11

9255423

The Giles School

136

9264048

Charles Burrell High School

77

9264067

Heartsease High School

43

9264068

Earlham High School

86

9265403

Costessey High School

130

9284103

Unity College

78

9314074

Peers School

47

9314145

St. Gregory the Great VA Catholic Secondary School

131

9365405

Epsom and Ewell High School

123

(1) Age at start of academic year, i.e. 31 August 2006.

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