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Pre-School Education: Nottingham
Mr. Allen: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many children aged (a) three and (b) four years in Nottingham North constituency are in free nursery places. [308293]
Dawn Primarolo: The available figures are in the table.
| Part-time equivalent number of free early education places( 1,2,3) filled by three and four-year olds. Parliamentary constituency: Nottingham North. Position in January | ||
| Number of three -year-olds | Number of four -year-olds | |
| (1) A place is equal to 12.5 hours (five sessions) and can be filled by more than one child. (2) Figures are rounded to the nearest 100. (3) Age of all children taken at 31 December 2008. Source: Early Years Census and School Census | ||
The Department publishes information on the part-time equivalent number of free early education places filled by three and four-year-olds in maintained, private, voluntary and independent providers. This is derived by counting children taking up 12 and a half hours per week as one place, 10 hours per week as 0.8 places, seven and a half hours per week as 0.6 places, five hours per week as 0.4 places and two and a half hours per week as 0.2 places.
Pupil Referral Units
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which Pupil Referral Units he has visited since his appointment; and on what date each such visit took place. [305351]
Mr. Coaker [holding answer 8 December 2009]: The Secretary of State visited Knowsley Skills Academy on 16 September 2009. Knowsley Skills Academy is one of 12 alternative provision pilots, part of the action we are taking forward to implement the White Paper on alternative provision, "Back on Track" published in May 2008.
Pupils: Assessment
Mr. Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what qualifications are equivalent to one or more GCSE passes; and if he will make a statement. [305997]
Mr. Coaker [holding answer 5 January 2010]: All level 2 qualifications approved under section 96 of the Learning and Skills Act 2000 contribute towards the reported performance of pupils at key stage 4 in obtaining GCSEs and equivalent qualifications.
An exhaustive list of equivalent qualifications and the size of their contributions to the five A*-C grade GCSE or equivalent threshold can be found at QCDA's National Database of Accredited Qualifications website at:
in the "performance measures" section under the entry for each qualification.
Pupils: Per Capita Costs
Mr. Mark Field: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much funding was provided per pupil in the maintained sector for (a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools in (i) England, (ii) the South West Region and (iii) each local authority within the South West Region in each year from 1997 to 2009. [307365]
Mr. Coaker: Per pupil revenue funding figures for primary school pupils (ages three to 10) for England, the South West Region, and each local authority in the South West of England between 1997-98 and 2005-06 are shown in table 1. These figures are in real terms and are based on financial years.
Per pupil revenue funding figures for secondary school pupils (ages 11-15) for England, the South West Region, and each local authority in the South West of England between 1997-98 and 2005-06 are shown in table 2. These figures are in real terms and are based on financial years.
| Table 2 | |||||||||
| Real terms revenue funding per pupil (£)-SSA/ EFS plus grants | |||||||||
| 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | |
| Notes: 1. Price Base: Real terms at 2008-09 prices, based on GDP deflators as at 9 December 2009. 2. Figures reflect relevant sub-blocks of Standard Spending Assessment/Education Formula Spending (EFS) settlements and exclude the pensions transfer to EFS. 3. Total funding also includes all revenue grants in DFES Departmental Expenditure Limits relevant to pupils aged 11-15 and exclude Education Maintenance Allowances (EMAs) and grants not allocated at LEA level. For those authorities in receipt of advance of grant under the transitional support arrangements for 2004-05, advance grant funding is included in the year of payment (2004-05). There will be a consequential reduction in DFES grant for these LEAs in future years (either 2006-07 and 2007-08 or 2006-07 to 2008-09, depending on the terms on which the advance was given to the LEA). 4. The pupil numbers used to convert £ million figures to £ per pupil are those underlying the SSA/EFS settlement calculations plus PLASC three-year-old maintained pupils and estimated three to four-year-olds funded through state support in maintained and other educational institutions where these are not included in the SSA pupil numbers. 5. Rounding: Figures are rounded to the nearest £10. 6. Status: Some of the grant allocations have not been finalised. If these do change, the effect on the funding figures is expected to be minimal. 7. 1997-98 figures for authorities subject to local government reorganisation in that year have been estimated, pro-rata to their post LGR figures. | |||||||||
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