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Children's Centres: Essex
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much funding his Department has allocated for children's centres in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point in each of the last three years. [318096]
Dawn Primarolo: Funding for Sure Start Children's Centres is provided to Local Authorities as part of the Sure Start, Early Years and Childcare Grant (SSEYCG) and is not allocated to individual constituencies. Essex Local Authority is responsible for managing the SSEYCG funding and Children's Centres performance across their area and will decide how much to allocate to centres in Castle Point.
The funding allocated to Essex for Children's Centres over the past three years is shown in Table 1.
| Table 1. Children's Centres allocations for Essex local authority, 2007-08 to 2009-10. | ||
| (£) | ||
| Children's Centres Revenue Allocation | Children's Centres Capital Allocation | |
| (1) The 2007-08 allocation is for the wider Main Capital Block | ||
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many children in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point attend Sure Start centres. [318097]
Dawn Primarolo: The 85 designated Sure Start Children Centres in Essex local authority have a combined reach of over 70,000 children under five and their families. The six centres in Castle Point constituency have a combined reach of around 4,500 children under five and their families. Reach area defines those children and families with the opportunity to access children's centres. Figures for the number of children under five and their families actually attending and using children's centres are not collected centrally.
Children's Centres: Feltham
Alan Keen: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much funding his Department has allocated for children's centres in Feltham and Heston constituency. [316669]
Dawn Primarolo: Hounslow local authority has been allocated over £31.6m revenue and capital funding to deliver its Sure Start Children's Centres. The Department allocates funding to local authorities for children's centres, and its predecessor Sure Start Local programmes, through the Sure Start, Early Years and Childcare Grant. It is for local authorities to determine how to allocate the funding between individual children's centres. The Department does not collect information on how much is allocated at constituency level.
GCSE
Paul Holmes: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 18 January 2010, Official Report, column 137W, on academies: sponsorship, what the increase was in the proportion of pupils achieving at least five GCSEs at grades A* to C including English and mathematics in 2009 in schools, other than academy schools, which had fewer than (a) 50, (b) 40 and (c) 30 per cent. of pupils achieving this standard in 2008. [312798]
Mr. Coaker [holding answer 25 January 2010]: The requested information is shown in the following table.
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) how many students resident in (a) Knowsley, (b) Kensington and Chelsea and (c) Islington sat a GCSE in (i) physics, (ii) chemistry, (iii) English literature, (iv) history and (v) a modern language in 1997; [316846]
(2) how many students resident in (a) Knowsley and (b) Kensington and Chelsea sat a GCSE in (i) physics, (ii) chemistry, (iii) English literature, (iv) history and (v) a modern language in the most recent year for which figures are available. [316847]
Mr. Coaker:
Consistent information about pupil achievement based on residency is only available for years 2002-03 onwards. Information on whether a pupil has entered GCSEs in chemistry, physics, history and English literature has also only been on the National
Pupil Database since the 2003-04 academic year, and on a consistent basis for a modern foreign language since the 2007-08 academic year.
| Fifteen year old students( 1,2 ) resident( 3) in (a) Knowsley, (b) Kensington and Chelsea and (c) Islington local authorities who were entered for GCSEs in (i) physics (ii) chemistry (iii) English literature (iv) history in 2003-04 | ||||
| Number of students( 1) entered for chemistry GCSE | Number of students( 1) entered for physics GCSE | Number of students( 1) entered for history GCSE | Number of students( 1) entered for English literature GCSE | |
| (1) Aged 15 on 31 August 2003. (2) Students attending maintained schools only including City Technology Colleges and Academies. (3) Based on students with a valid postcode in that academic year. Source: National Pupil Database (final data) | ||||
| Students at the end of Key Stage 4( 1,2 ) resident( 3) in (a) Knowsley, (b) Kensington and Chelsea and (c) Islington local authorities who were entered for GCSEs in a modern foreign language in 2007-08 | |
| Local Authority | Number |
| (1 )Number of students on roll at the end of Key Stage 4 in the 2007-08 academic year. (2) Students attending maintained schools only including City Technology Colleges and Academies. (3) Based on students with a valid postcode in that academic year. Source: National Pupil Database (final data) | |
| Students at the end of Key Stage 4( 1,2 ) resident( 3) in (a) Knowsley and (b) Kensington and Chelsea local authorities who were entered for GCSEs in (i) physics (ii) chemistry (iii) English literature (iv) history and (v) a modern foreign language in 2008/2009 | |||||
| Local Authority | Number of students( 1) entered for a Modern Foreign Language GCSE | Number of students( 1) entered for Chemistry GCSE | Number of students(1) entered for Physics GCSE | Number of students(1) entered for History GCSE | Number of students(1) entered for English Literature GCSE |
| (1 )Number of students on roll at the end of Key Stage 4 in the 2008-09 academic year. (2) Students attending maintained schools only including City Technology Colleges and Academies. (3) Based on students with a valid postcode in that academic year. Source: National Pupil Database (amended data) | |||||
Home Education
Mr. David Anderson: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families if he will recommend an increase in the use of school attendance orders as a method of supporting families with home-educated children. [318522]
Mr. Coaker: No, the usage of those measures is left to the local authorities' discretion.
Pre-school Education
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much he expects local authorities to spend on delivering the three to four year-old nursery entitlement in 2010-11. [316091]
Dawn Primarolo: In 2008-09 over £4 billion was spent by local authorities on provision for under fives including the free entitlement for three and four-year-olds. This amount is up from around £1 billion in 1997-98.
In 2010-11, funding of £340 million has been made available to local authorities through the Standards Fund to fund the 2.5 hours per week extension to the three and four-year-old free entitlement and flexible delivery.
Local authorities will shortly be submitting their budget plans to the Department for the 2010-11 financial year, as required by section 251 of the Apprenticeships Skills Children and Learners Act 2009.
Schools: Essex
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much has been spent on repairing schools in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point in each year since 1997; and what proportion of that expenditure was spent on schools which failed to meet standards on acoustics. [318088]
Mr. Coaker: Repairs which bring schools back to their original state constitute a revenue expense, and are paid out of revenue funding. Repairs which amount to capital improvement, such as better insulation, are payable from capital allocations.
School revenue and capital allocations are not made directly to Castle Point, but to Essex county council. School-based revenue expenditure on repair and maintenance is shown in the following table.
| £ | ||
| Essex | England | |
| Notes: 1. Up to 2001-02, the figures cover all expenditure on non-capital building works, including repairs and maintenance of buildings, and non-capital expenditure on fixed plant and grounds. 2. From 2002-03, the definition of the figures is: Building maintenance and improvement, including: Charges by contractors for internal and external repair, maintenance and improvement to buildings and fixed plant including costs of labour and materials; Related professional and technical services, including labour costs where supplied as part of the contract/service; Costs of materials and equipment used by directly employed staff for internal and external repair, maintenance and improvement to buildings and fixed plant; Fixtures and fittings e.g. carpet, curtains, etc. 3. All figures rounded to the nearest £1,000. | ||
Capital allocations by the Department to Essex in each year since 1997-98 are as follows:
| £ million | |
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