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The revenue per pupil figures shown in the following table are taken from the new Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG). They are not comparable with those for the years 2004-05 to 2005-06 because the introduction of the DSG in 2006-07 fundamentally changed how local authorities are funded.
The 2004-05 to 2005-06 figures are based on Education Formula Spending (EFS) which formed the education part of the Local Government Finance Settlement, plus various grants. This was an assessment of what local authorities needed to fund education rather than what they spent. The DSG is based largely on an authority's previous spending. In addition, the DSG has a different coverage to EFS. EFS comprised a schools block and an LEA block (to cover LEA central functions) whereas DSG only covers the school block. LEA block items are still funded through DCLG's Local Government Finance Settlement but education items cannot be separately identified. Consequently, there is a break in the Department's time series as the two sets of data are not comparable.
To provide a comparison for 2006-07 DSG, the Department have isolated the schools block equivalent funding in 2005-06; as described above this does not represent the totality of 'education' funding in that year.
The per pupil revenue funding figures for years 2005-06 (baseline) to 2008-09 for each London local authority are provided in the following table. As the DSG is a mechanism for distributing funding, a split between primary and secondary schools is not available.
The following figures are for all funded pupils aged 3-19 and are in real terms:
Sure Start Programme: West Midlands
Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many additional Sure Start centres are planned to be opened in (a) Staffordshire and (b) the West Midlands in the next three years. [292561]
Dawn Primarolo: Staffordshire county council currently has 43 Sure Start Children's Centres offering services to approximately 36,100 children, with an additional 13 planned to be delivered. West Midlands currently has 331 centres reaching 285,300 children with a further 48 planned. All centres are planned to be delivered by March 2010 in order to provide universal coverage of children's centre services for children under five and their families.
Energy and Climate Change
Carbon Emissions
Mr. Wallace: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what steps his Department is taking to monitor the effects of climate emission reduction targets on levels of carbon dioxide emissions. [289805]
Joan Ruddock: The Department monitors UK greenhouse gas emissions by way of our greenhouse gas inventory. The inventory is reviewed each year and the full dataset revised to incorporate methodological improvements and new data. The most recent results were published on 3 February 2009. These show UK greenhouse gas emissions in 2007 by source sector for each gas. The 2007 publication shows carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions have reduced by 8.5 per cent. (50.3 Mt CO2) since 1990, and by 1.6 per cent. (9 Mt CO2) since 1997. CO2 is the main greenhouse gas, accounting for 85.3 per cent. of total UK greenhouse gas emissions in 2007.
In March 2009, DECC published the provisional 2008 UK greenhouse gas emissions figures. In 2008, UK emissions of the six greenhouse gases covered by the Kyoto protocol were provisionally estimated to be 623.8 Mt of CO2 equivalent. This was 2 per cent. lower than the 2007 figure of 636.6 Mt.
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