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Milton Keynes
Mr. Lancaster: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families if he will set out, with statistical information related as directly as possible to Milton Keynes, the effects on Milton Keynes of the policies and actions of his Department and its predecessors since 1997. [316043]
Mr. Coaker: Since 1997 the Government have transformed education and child care with improved outcomes for children and young people. Figures showing the performance at key stage 2 and at GCSE and equivalents in North-East Milton Keynes are given in the following tables:
| Key stage 2 results of 11 year old pupils attending schools in the North-East Milton Keynes constituency | |||
| Percentage of pupils gaining level 4 and above( 1) | 1997 | 2009( 2) | Percentage point improvement 1997 to 2009 |
| (1) Includes pupils attending all maintained schools (including Academies and City Technology Colleges). (2) Revised data. Source: School and College Achievement and Attainment Tables | |||
Further information by constituency is provided within the Department's 'In Your Area' website available at:
Information available at constituency level includes the number of specialist schools, number of operational Academies, number of teaching assistants and other support staff, number of teachers and pupil: teacher ratios. Where information is not available at constituency level it has been provided at local authority level including the number of free early education places taken up by three and four-year-olds, number full-time and part-time entrants to higher education institutions aged 18 to 20, average A level point score per candidate and per entry together with percentage of people of working age qualified to at least Level 2 and percentage of people of working age qualified to Level 4 and above.
Additional information could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Non-Departmental Public Bodies: Finance
Mrs. Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which non-departmental public bodies have received funding from his Department in each year since its inception; and how much was paid to each in each such year. [316554]
Ms Diana R. Johnson [holding answer 9 February 2010]: The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) was created on 28 June 2007. The following table shows the amounts paid to the Department's non-departmental public bodies as grant in aid for financial years 2007-08 and 2008-09. This information is drawn from the Department's published resource accounts. Information for 2009-10 will not be available until the resource accounts are published in July.
Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education
Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families if he will make it a requirement that emergency life support skills are included in the compulsory Personal, Health, Social and Economic curriculum; and if he will make a statement. [315702]
Ms Diana R. Johnson: Children and young people already learn about emergency life support skills as part of Personal Social Health and Economic (PSHE) education. They learn about where and how to obtain health information, how to recognise and follow health and safety procedures, ways of reducing risk and minimising harm in risky situations, how to find sources of emergency help and how to use basic and emergency first aid.
Basic and emergency aid will continue to be part of statutory PSHE when it is introduced in schools in September 2011.
Pupil Exclusions: Suffolk
Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many children have been permanently excluded from (a) primary, (b) middle, (c) upper and (d) secondary schools in Suffolk in each year since 1997. [314870]
Mr. Coaker: The available information requested is shown in the table.
From 2002, the Department has carried out a checking exercise to confirm the overall number of permanent exclusions. However, this only confirms the number of exclusions in each local authority area and not at school level. Therefore information for middle and upper schools are not separately identifiable.
Pupils: Per Capita Costs
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much his Department spent per child on (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in (i) Greater London and (ii) Romford in the latest period for which figures are available. [315936]
Mr. Coaker: The Department allocates education funding to local authorities so the requested information for Greater London and Romford constituency is not available. The available information on how much was spent per child in primary and secondary schools in Havering and Greater London is shown in the following table:
| 2008-09 | ||
| Primary education | Secondary education | |
| 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. 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. 3. 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. 4. Figures are rounded to the nearest £10 and are in Cash Terms. | ||
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