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Pupils: Disadvantaged

Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of pupils eligible to receive free school meals were not entered for a modern foreign language GCSE in each year since 2005. [277958]

Ms Diana R. Johnson: The information available is given in the following table:

How many and what proportion of pupils eligible to receive free school meals were not entered for a modern foreign language GCSE in each year since 2006
	Number	Percentage
2008	55,342	74.1
2007	55,416	72.4
2006	54,242	69.5
Source: National Pupil Database.

The data are based on pupils at the end of Key Stage 4.

The data for 2005 are not provided as they are not available on a comparable basis.

This table included expenditure on education by other Government departments, non-department public bodies and local authorities. Detailed figures are not readily available for future years for these other organisations.

Note :

The Real Total Education Expenditure figure for 2006-07 should read 61,569 and not 51,569. All other figures on the table are correct. A correction slip is being issued and the web version amended.

Pupils: Disadvantaged and Special Educational Needs

Paul Holmes: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) what percentage of pupils in (a) maintained secondary schools and (b) grammar schools were eligible for free school meals in the last year for which figures are available; [280239]

(2) what percentage of pupils in (a) maintained secondary schools and (b) grammar schools had special educational needs in the last year for which figures are available. [280240]

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Ms Diana R. Johnson: The requested information is shown in the following tables:

State-funded secondary( 1) and grammar schools: free school meal eligibility as at January 2009 (provisional) in England
	Grammar schools	Secondary schools
Number of pupils(2)	158,610	3,256,120
Number of pupils eligible for FSM	3,210	434,860
Percentage of pupils eligible for FSM	2.0	13.4
(1) Includes middle schools as deemed, and CTCs and Academies. (2) Includes solely registered pupils only. Note: Pupil numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10. Source: School Census

State-funded secondary( 1) and grammar schools: special educational needs as at January 2009 (provisional) in England
	Grammar schools	Secondary schools
Number of pupils(2)	158,610	3,256,120
Number of pupils with statements of SEN	350	64,950
Percentage of pupils with statements of SEN	0.2	2.0
Number of pupils with SEN without statements	6,250	620,450
Percentage of pupils with SEN without statements	3.9	19.1
(1) Includes middle schools as deemed, and CTCs and Academies. (2) Includes solely registered pupils only. Note: Pupil numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10. Source: School Census

Pupils: Per Capita Costs

Linda Gilroy: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the average expenditure per school pupil in Plymouth was in each year since 1989. [283267]

Mr. Coaker: The available information on the average expenditure per school pupil in Plymouth is shown in the table.

School based expenditure per pupil in local authority maintained primary, secondary and special schools from 1992-93 to 2007-08
	Part A: Total (including pre-primary)
	1992-93	1993-94	1994-95	1995-96	1996-97	1997-98	1998-99
England	1,960	1,950	1,990	2,020	2,060	2,080	2,190
Plymouth	—	—	—	—	—	—	2,090
Pre LGR Devon	1,870	1,830	1,900	1,890	1,970	1,980	—

	Part B
	1999-2000		2000-01		2001-02
	Total (including pre-primary)	Total (excluding pre-primary)	Total (including pre-primary)	Total (excluding pre-primary)	Total (including pre-primary)	Total (excluding pre-primary)
England	2,390	2,370	2,620	2,590	2,940	2,900
Plymouth	2,340	2,320	2,620	2,600	2,920	2,890
Pre LGR Devon	—	—	—	—	—	—

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	Part C: Total (excluding pre-primary)
	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
England	2,950	3,230	3,440	3,710	3,950	4,170
Plymouth	2,920	3,140	3,400	3,680	3,900	4,150
Pre LGR Devon	—	—	—	—	—	—
Notes: 1. School based expenditure includes only expenditure incurred directly by the schools. This includes the pay of teachers and school-based support staff, school premises costs, books and equipment, and certain other supplies and services, less any capital items funded from recurrent spending and income from sales, fees and charges and rents and rates. This excludes the central cost of support services such as home to school transport, local authority administration and the financing of capital expenditure. 2. 1999-2000 saw a change in data source when the data collection moved from the R01 form collected by the ODPM to the section 52 form from the DFES. 2002-03 saw a further break in the time series following the introduction of Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR) and the associated restructuring of the outturn tables. The change in sources is shown as parts B and C. From 2002-03 school based expenditure is taken from section 52 outturn table A line 51 net current expenditure (NCE). For 2001-02 and earlier years the expenditure is calculated as lines 1 to 12 less lines 29, 30, 35 and 37. This differs from the old Net Institutional Expenditure (NIE) calculation only in the treatment of meals and milk which is no longer excluded and no adjustments for balances are now made. This is taken from section 52 outturn table 3 for 1999-2000 to 2001-02 and from the R01 form previously. 3. The calculation for 2002-03 onwards is broadly similar to the calculation in previous years. However, 2001-02 and earlier years includes all premature retirement compensation (PRC) and Crombie payments, mandatory PRC payments and other indirect employee expenses. In 2001-02 this accounted for approximately £70 per pupil. From 2002-03 onwards only the schools element of these categories is included and this accounted for approximately £50 per pupil of the 2002-03 total. Also, for some LAs, expenditure that had previously been attributed to the school sectors was reported within the LA part of the form from 2002-03, though this is not quantifiable from existing sources. 4. Pupil numbers include only those pupils attending maintained establishments within each sector and are drawn from the DFES Annual Schools Census adjusted to be on a financial year basis. 5. Local government reorganisation (LGR) took place during the mid to late 1990s and those LAs that did not exist either pre or post LGR are shaded out for those years. 6. Spending in 1997-98 reflects the transfer of monies from local government to central Government for the nursery vouchers scheme. These were returned to local government from 1998-99. 7. The 1999-2000 figures reflect the return of GM schools to local authority maintenance. Consequently LAs where there entire pupil provision were educated in GM schools will show a unit cost of zero prior to 1999-2000. 8. Expenditure was not distinguished between the pre-primary and primary sectors until the inception of section 52 for financial year 1999-2000. 9. School based expenditure in LA maintained nursery schools was not recorded in 2002-03 and comparable figures are not available for 2003-04 onwards. 10. Figures are rounded to the nearest £10. Cash terms figures as reported by local authorities as at 26 June.

Schools: Expenditure

Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what proportion of the spending on education identified on page 173 of his Department’s Annual Report 2009, Cm 7595, is expenditure on schools; and if he will make a statement. [282070]

Ms Diana R. Johnson: The proportion of expenditure on education identified on page 173 of the Departmental Report 2009, which relates to schools, is as follows:

	Percentage
Financial year	Proportion
1997-98	65.0
1998-99	65.4
1999-00	67.6
2000-01	68.6
2001-02	69.8
2002-03	69.9
2003-04	67.9
2004-05	68.1
2005-06	68.0
2006-07	67.8
2007-08	67.3
2008-09	66.9

Special Educational Needs

Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what percentage of pupils with special educational needs are home schooled in each local authority area, broken down by the type of special educational need. [268487]

Ms Diana R. Johnson: The Department does not centrally collect data on home educated children by type of special educational need.

Sure Start Programme: Enfield

Joan Ryan: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much his Department has spent on each Sure Start centre in (a) the London Borough of Enfield and (b) Enfield North constituency in each year since such centres were established. [282571]

Dawn Primarolo: Sure Start local programmes (SSLPs), the forerunner of Sure Start Children's Centres, were introduced in waves from 1999-2000. There has been one trailblazer SSLP in Enfield since the beginning of the initiative.

From 2006-07, to reflect SSLPs transition to children's centres, the SSLP Grant was paid to local authorities together with children's centre funding as part of the Sure Start, Early Years and Childcare Grant (formerly the General Sure Start Grant). Under the terms and conditions of that grant, local authorities have a degree of freedom in the allocation and use of the funding provided to best meet their local objectives. Furthermore, in an effort to reduce the monitoring burden the Department only requires them to report expenditure at a local level, rather than by individual children's centre. It is therefore not possible to provide a breakdown of expenditure by individual children's centre.

The following tables set out total expenditure on the SSLP and all children's centres in Enfield for each financial year since programme inception.

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