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Pupils: Walking
Mr. Fallon: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much his Department spent on encouraging children to walk to school in each of the last five years; and how much funding it has allocated for such purposes in 2009-10. [280246]
Ms Diana R. Johnson: The following table shows the amount paid to schools from 2004-05 in small capital grants to support schools with approved school travel plans as part of the joint DCSF/Department for Transport (DFT) Travelling to School Initiative, which sets out a series of measures to support local authorities and schools to encourage more children to walk, cycle or take the bus to school. £20 million will be made available in 2009-10.
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Schools: Greater Manchester
Andrew Gwynne: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what assessment he has made of the (a) requirement for and (b) cost of school building repairs in (i) Tameside and (ii) Stockport in the next three years. [279764]
Mr. Coaker: The Department allocates capital funding to local authorities and schools. It then relies upon them to prioritise expenditure in accordance with local asset management plans. Accordingly, no assessment is carried out centrally of the requirement for and cost of school building repairs at local authority level.
Capital allocations to Tameside and Stockport for the current three year spending review period 2008-09 to 2010-11 amount to £38.0 million and £52.9 million respectively. Resources available for the period 2010-11 onwards have not yet been confirmed. Current allocations compare with £3.2 million for Tameside and £1.6 million for Stockport in 1996-97.
In addition, Tameside has a Building Schools for the Future wave 3 projects, with an indicative allocation of £80.2 million of conventional capital funding, and £97.5 million of PFI credits.
Schools: Polling Stations
Mr. Allen: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many schools were closed or partly closed for use as polling stations on 4 June 2009. [278954]
Mr. Coaker: The Department does not collect or record this information centrally.
Schools: Procurement
Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what steps his Department has taken to promote the uptake of collaborative procurement strategies within schools, as recommended in HM Treasury's May 2009 review, Operational Efficiency Programme: collaborative procurement. [279715]
Ms Diana R. Johnson: The Educational Procurement Centre (EPC) within the Department for Children Schools and Families is working with The Pro5 Group of Professional Buying Organisations (PBOs) to develop and commission collaborative arrangements for schools to access a wide range of goods and services.
OPEN—the Online Procurement for Educational Needs system is the Department's eProcurement tool for schools that has been developed with and for schools to aid them in procuring their goods and services in one convenient location should they wish to use it. We are working with public sector buying organisations such as Pro5 to utilise OPEN to meet their needs so that it can display collaborative catalogues and contracts.
EPC is working with departmental procurers, other government Departments and PBOs to analyse and assess opportunities for collaborative procurement in the schools sector.
The Department has also worked with the Office of Government Commerce to develop guidance in collaborative sourcing for schools, i.e. the new energy guide.
Schools: Repairs and Maintenance
Mr. Lancaster: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what assessment he has made of the requirement for repairs to school buildings in Milton Keynes in the next five years; and what estimate he has made of the cost of such repairs. [280287]
Mr. Coaker: The Department allocates capital funding to local authorities and schools. It then relies upon them to prioritise expenditure in accordance with local asset management plans. Accordingly, the Government do not carry out a central assessment of the requirement for and cost of school building repairs at local authority level.
Capital allocations to Milton Keynes for the current three year spending review period 2008-09 to 2010-11 amount to £75.7 million. In addition, Basic Need Safety Valve (BNSV) funding was allocated of £28.0 million. This was later reduced to £13.4 million following Milton Keynes’ assessment of the impact of the economic downturn on house building. Resources available for the period after 2010-11 have not yet been decided.
Schools: Standards
Jim Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what results each local authority-supported school in (a) Newcastle, (b) North Tyneside constituency and (c) Northumberland achieved against each of the new criteria included in the National Challenge in each of the last five years for which figures are available; what percentage of children at each school has been eligible for free school meals in each such year; and where each school ranked on such criteria among all local authority-supported schools in England in each such year. [273187]
Mrs. Curtis-Thomas:
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what results each local authority-supported school in (a) Merseyside and (b) Crosby constituency achieved against the National Challenge criteria in each of the last five years for which figures are available; what percentage
of children at each such school was eligible for free school meals in each such year; and where each such school ranked on these criteria among all local authority-supported schools in England in each such year. [273612]
Ms Diana R. Johnson: The current National Challenge set to each maintained mainstream schools is for more than 30 per cent. of their Key Stage 4 cohort to achieve five or more GCSEs at A*-C or the equivalent including the subjects of English and mathematics.
At school level, this indicator is only available for 2006 and onwards while data on the proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals are available for all of the requested years.
The available data for each of the requested schools have been placed in the House Libraries and those schools in the requested constituencies are compiled as follows.
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