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Connexions Service

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which Catholic schools host the Connexions service; and if he will make a statement. [256728]

Beverley Hughes: The provision of Connexions services in schools is the responsibility of local authorities. We do not keep a central record of what advice is provided by Connexions Services to any particular school.

Education Maintenance Allowance: Telephone Services

Mr. David Anderson: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what assessment he has made of the merits of establishing a dedicated telephone line for hon. Members to call regarding the education maintenance allowance. [256260]

Jim Knight: My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families has given no consideration to establishing a dedicated telephone line for hon. Members to call regarding issues with the education maintenance allowance. issues that are raised directly with the Department for Children, Schools and Families by hon. Members are referred to the Learning and Skills Council. The Learning and Skills Council has operational responsibility for the education maintenance allowance.

Education: Finance

Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families whether it is the Government’s policy that education spending should continue to rise as a share of gross domestic product; and if he will make a statement. [255287]

Jim Knight: The proportion of GDP being spent on education across the current period, 2008-11, was determined during comprehensive spending review 2007. There are no plans to change current levels of funding. The proportion of GDP to be committed to education thereafter will be determined by the next spending review.

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Educational Psychology

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many educational psychologists there were in each local authority in 2008; how many children aged 18 years or under there were per educational psychologist; and how many children and young people aged 18 years or under with (i) statemented and (ii) non-statemented special educational needs there were per educational psychologist. [252674]

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The following table provides the full-time equivalent number of educational psychologists (EPs) employed by each local authority in England in January 2008, the number of these per child aged 18 or under and the number per pupil in local authority maintained schools with statemented and non-statemented special educational needs at that date.

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Full-time equivalent number of educational psychologists (EPs) employed by local authorities, and the number of these per child aged 18 or under, per child in local authority maintained school with statemented and non-statemented special educational needs, 2008, England
	FTE educational psychologists( 1,2)	Children aged 18 or under per EP( 3)	Pupils with statement of SEN per EP( 3)	Pupils with SEN but without statement per EP( 3)
England	2,123	4,830	90	580
Darlington	7	3,200	60	420
Durham	23	4,420	100	690
Gateshead	11	3,730	70	460
Hartlepool	4	5,300	80	770
Middlesbrough	7	4,850	130	550
Newcastle upon Tyne	12	4,280	70	620
North Tyneside	9	4,730	100	560
Northumberland	16	3,890	90	420
Redcar and Cleveland	6	5,420	110	850
South Tyneside	6	5,650	130	710
Stockton on Tees	10	4,170	90	400
Sunderland	13	4,650	90	660
Blackburn with Darwen	12	3,160	50	440
Blackpool	5	6,410	110	930
Bolton	10	6,480	120	850
Bury	8	5,340	110	520
Cheshire	23	6,480	140	550
Cumbria	15	6,860	130	810
Halton	6	5,060	120	720
Knowsley	8	4,480	90	690
Lancashire	40	6,360	150	590
Liverpool	16	5,580	90	1,040
Manchester	17	5,660	130	800
Oldham	10	5,600	80	670
Rochdale	9	5,670	120	650
Salford	9	5,320	90	590
Sefton	22	2,720	40	330
St. Helens	9	4,470	60	480
Stockport	11	5,410	110	550
Tameside	12	4,220	70	470
Trafford	7	6,430	120	700
Warrington	6	7,260	190	780
Wigan	26	2,590	50	300
Wirral	13	5,390	140	670
Barnsley	0	n/a	n/a	n/a
Bradford	19	6,480	100	1,000
Calderdale	7	6,240	120	750
Doncaster	9	7,340	130	870
East Riding of Yorkshire	13	5,140	90	510
Kingston upon Hull, City of	10	5,810	120	710
Kirklees	24	3,980	80	440
Leeds	24	6,480	90	780
North East Lincolnshire	3	10,700	250	1,840
North Lincolnshire	8	4,350	110	610
North Yorkshire	17	7,360	100.	690
Rotherham	11	5,130	100	770
Sheffield	18	6,100	120	900
Wakefield	11	6,460	120	820
York	7	5,120	60	500
Derby	10	5,350	100	720
Derbyshire	29	5,490	90	590
Leicester	15	4,670	100	640
Leicestershire	21	6,380	120	570
Lincolnshire	24	5,970	160	740
Northamptonshire	33	4,690	100	620
Nottingham	16	3,440	30	630
Nottinghamshire	25	6,490	50	790
Rutland	0	n/a	n/a	n/a
Birmingham	43	5,820	140	800
Coventry	16	4,290	80	620
Dudley	11	6,200	130	790
Herefordshire	7	5,640	90	680
Sandwell	16	4,300	60	620
Shropshire	0	n/a	n/a	n/a
Solihull	12	3,990	90	510
Staffordshire	30	5,740	120	520
Stoke on Trent	13	3,940	90	620
Telford and Wrekin	17	2,320	60	280
Walsall	11	5,290	90	580
Warwickshire	17	6,580	130	770
Wolverhampton	20	2,640	60	300
Worcestershire	22	5,510	110	640
Bedfordshire	14	6,440	130	680
Cambridgeshire	3	46,430	950	4,810
Essex	42	7,120	130	690
Hertfordshire	42	5,860	100	620
Luton	9	5,010	80	710
Norfolk	24	6,980	160	880
Peterborough	8	5,100	150	820
Southend on Sea	7	5,000	120	570
Suffolk	17	9,100	160	940
Thurrock	8	4,770	110	660
Camden	12	3,220	70	350
City of London	0	7,700	40	940
Hackney	13	3,830	70	470
Hammersmith and Fulham	7	4,150	90	580
Haringey	12	4,050	80	620
Islington	13	2,550	50	430
Kensington and Chelsea	6	4,730	40	230
Lambeth	15	3,390	70	470
Lewisham	11	5,060	100	720
Newham	12	5,190	40	830
Southwark	17	3,140	80	500
Tower Hamlets	17	2,840	70	440
Wandsworth	14	3,250	90	510
City of Westminster	9	3,680	70	520
Barking and Dagenham	17	2,590	n/a	n/a
Barnet	13	5,700	100	710
Bexley	10	5,340	120	760
Brent	13	4,230	90	680
Bromley	13	5,150	120	500
Croydon	13	5,930	90	760
Ealing	15	4,260	80	590
Enfield	18	3,720	60	600
Greenwich	16	3,250	90	560
Harrow	11	4,450	80	530
Havering	10	5,170	80	470
Hillingdon	11	5,440	100	790
Hounslow	13	3,700	80	610
Kingston upon Thames	14	2,280	40	200
Merton	7	5,470	100	550
Redbridge	8	7,500	160	770
Richmond upon Thames	7	5,780	100	430
Sutton	10	4,410	100	500
Waltham Forest	12	4,290	110	810
Bracknell Forest	4	6,460	120	660
Brighton and Hove	7	6,290	120	860
Buckinghamshire	22	5,130	100	430
East Sussex	19	5,490	100	610
Hampshire	48	5,790	90	660
Isle of Wight	5	5,500	90	540
Kent	48	6,560	120	980
Medway	7	9,200	190	1,620
Milton Keynes	11	5,080	110	530
Oxfordshire	26	5,260	80	510
Portsmouth	7	5,270	110	840
Reading	5	5,430	90	610
Slough	10	3,000	70	460
Southampton	11	3,930	50	660
Surrey	37	6,480	120	610
West Berkshire	9	4,260	100	480
West Sussex	36	4,550	80	550
Windsor and Maidenhead	7	4,490	80	380
Wokingham	3	10,550	230	830
Bath and North East Somerset	7	4,890	110	450
Bournemouth	8	3,720	60	450
City of Bristol	40	1,950	40	200
Cornwall	23	4,610	80	510
Devon	35	4,190	80	470
Dorset	16	5,320	80	630
Gloucestershire	23	5,480	90	570
Isles of Scilly	0	n/a	n/a	n/a
North Somerset	10	4,280	50	480
Plymouth	0	n/a	n/a	n/a
Poole	8	3,390	50	410
Somerset	28	4,000	30	400
South Gloucestershire	9	6,210	110	600
Swindon	6	6,580	130	820
Torbay	4	7,340	230	860
Wiltshire	23	4,510	70	440
n/a = Not applicable. (1) EPs in service including those on secondment for in service and other training. (2) Local authorities showing no EPs may acquire these services from neighbouring authorities. (3) Figures are rounded to the nearest 10. Source: Form 618g survey, School Census and ONS population estimates.

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