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To prevent debts falling into the hands of vulture funds in the first place, we have supported the World Bank’s debt reduction facility. This facility helps countries buy back their commercial debts at a vastly reduced price, cancelling debt outright and preventing it being enforced before a court. More than $9 billion of poor countries’ debts have already been cancelled in this way. Following improvements to the facility, DFID has recently
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committed more funds—up to £10 million—to future commercial debt buy-back operations.

To help countries defend themselves in existing cases, we have supported the establishment of an African legal support facility to which DFID will contribute £5 million. We believe this will help ensure countries have access to high quality legal advice and expertise, which can be valuable in reducing the impact of litigation. For example, in the case of Zambia, where DFID helped to pay its legal fees when it was targeted by a vulture fund, the court reduced Zambia’s liability by around $40 million.

Children, Schools and Families

Academies

Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what (a) responsibility and (b) powers local authorities will have over academies as a result of the dissolution of the Learning and Skills Council and the devolution of powers over 16-19 education to local authorities. [259093]

Jim Knight: Subject to the passage of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill, local authorities will take on the responsibility for securing sufficient provision for all 16 to 19-year-olds in their area. In fulfilling the proposed duties in the Bill, they will commission places from all types of providers, including academies, to meet the needs of the young people in their areas. Local authorities will not gain any new powers or responsibilities over academies.

An Academy Trust, through their funding agreement is responsible for determining the number of places they will provide to their local communities in consultation with their local authority. Under current arrangements the Secretary of State already has the power to amend that number of places, for instance on the basis of local need. Under the proposals in the Bill, the only change is that the Secretary of State will have the power to ask the YPLA to exercise these and other academy-related functions, on his behalf, as set out in clause 74.

Academies: Special Educational Needs

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many pupils in each year group with (a) statemented and (b) non-statemented special educational needs attended academies in each year since 2003. [258347]

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The requested information is provided in the tables:

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Academies: number of pupils with special educational needs by national curriculum year group, 2003-08, England
	2003			2004			2005
	Number of pupils	Pupils with s tatements of SEN	Pupils with SEN without statements	Number of pupils	Pupils with s tatements of SEN	Pupils with SEN without statements	Number of pupils	Pupils with s tatements of SEN	Pupils with SEN without statements
National Curriculum Year Group:
Nursery Year 1	0	0	0	0	0	0	20	0	⁽¹⁾—
Nursery Year 2	0	0	0	0	0	0	30	0	⁽¹⁾—
Reception	0	0	0	0	0	0	100	⁽¹⁾—	20
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	110	⁽¹⁾—	40
2	0	0	0	0	0	0	100	⁽¹⁾—	30
3	0	0	0	0	0	0	100	10	30
4	0	0	0	0	0	0	100	⁽¹⁾—	30
5	0	0	0	0	0	0	110	10	40
6	0	0	0	0	0	0	110	10	40
7	560	10	110	2,300	80	650	3,380	120	960
8	460	10	170	1,800	60	560	2,820	100	800
9	540	20	210	1,710	70	500	2,260	70	710
10	540	10	150	1,760	60	540	2,210	80	670
11	540	10	140	1,890	60	520	2,090	80	610
12	70	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	570	⁽¹⁾—	20	1,180	20	180
13	0	0	0	190	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	480	⁽¹⁾—	20
14	0	0	0	⁽¹⁾—	0	0	20	0	⁽¹⁾—
Not followed	—	—	—	0	0	0	0	0	0

Total	2,720	70	780	10,220	330	2,800	15,200	510	4,180

	2006			2007			2008
	Number of pupils	Pupils with s tatements of SEN	Pupils with SEN without statements	Number of pupils	Pupils with s tatements of SEN	Pupils with SEN without statements	Number of pupils	Pupils with s tatements of SEN	Pupils with SEN without statements
National Curriculum Year Group:
Nursery Year 1	20	0	⁽¹⁾—	20	0	⁽¹⁾—	30	⁽¹⁾—	0
Nursery Year 2	50	0	10	40	0	10	200	0	20
Reception	120	0	30	110	⁽¹⁾—	40	400	⁽¹⁾—	60
1	80	⁽¹⁾—	40	100	0	50	300	10	80
2	110	⁽¹⁾—	50	100	⁽¹⁾—	40	330	⁽¹⁾—	110
3	100	⁽¹⁾—	50	110	⁽¹⁾—	50	310	10	100
4	100	10	50	90	⁽¹⁾—	50	320	⁽¹⁾—	120
5	100	⁽¹⁾—	50	110	10	50	300	10	140
6	100	10	50	100	⁽¹⁾—	50	330	10	120
7	5,020	150	1,250	8,110	190	2,530	14,050	360	4,020
8	4,760	150	1,270	7,600	200	2,260	12,980	320	3,980
9	4,350	150	1,140	7,450	210	2,000	12,650	320	3,890
10	3,720	110	980	7,060	210	1,920	12,430	340	3,550
11	3,580	110	1,000	6,390	170	1,670	11,900	310	3,300
12	1,810	30	240	2,600	30	320	5,190	70	650
13	1,130	10	110	1,380	10	120	2,610	20	230
14	100	0	10	90	0	20	110	⁽¹⁾—	10
Not followed	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Total	25,240	740	6,320	41,470	1,030	11,180	74,430	1,770	20,390
⁽¹⁾ Less than 5. Notes: 1. Excludes dually registered pupils. 2. These figures do not include Academies that opened after January 2008. 3. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10. Source: School Census

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