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funded SEN improvements at more than 500 mainstream schools.
Specialised Diplomas: Finance
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much he expects to spend on 14 to 19 diplomas in each of the next five years; and if he will make a statement. [321273]
Mr. Iain Wright: Estimated forecast expenditure on diplomas for 2010-11 is £198.3 million. Diploma spending plans beyond the 2010-11 financial year will be considered as part of the next spending review and funding levels will be determined at that stage.
Teachers: Pay
Greg Mulholland: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the average salary of a teacher in (a) Leeds North West constituency and (b) England was in the most recent year for which figures are available. [322696]
Mr. Coaker: The information requested is not available for Leeds North West constituency because it is not possible to verify the reliability of the data source at the constituency level.
The average salary of a teacher in service in local authority maintained schools in Leeds local authority is £34,900 and £35,900 in England, in March 2008, the latest information available.
Teachers: Wolverhampton
Mrs. Curtis-Thomas:
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many teachers were employed in state schools in Wolverhampton (a)
in 1997 and (b) on the latest date for which figures are available. [322631]
Mr. Coaker: The information requested is published in table 19 of the Statistical First Release (SFR) 'School Workforce In England (including local authority level figures) January 2009 (Revised)' published on 29 September 2009. The SFR is available at the following web link:
Teaching Methods
Mr. Sanders: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what steps he is taking to ensure the provision of one-to-one tuition for pupils with (a) high and (b) low attainment at Key Stage 1. [321714]
Ms Diana R. Johnson: The Government have committed to the national roll-out of the Every Child a Reader and Every Child Counts programmes, which provide one-to-one interventions for the lowest attaining children. We also expect schools to provide personalised learning for all their pupils including high attaining gifted and talented pupils. The Pupil and Parent Guarantees, which will come into force in September 2010, will entitle pupils not making good progress in mathematics or English at Key Stage 1 to catch-up support. They will also ensure that parents or carers are informed when their child is identified as gifted and talented and of the support and challenge the school will provide.
Trade Unions
Mr. Syms: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many days staff of his Department and its agencies spent on trade union activity in the latest year for which figures are available; and what recent estimate he has made of the annual cost to the public purse of such activity. [320666]
Ms Diana R. Johnson: At the end of the last calendar year, there were four full-time members of staff engaged in national full-time trade union activity and their annual wage bill is £118,000. Other staff in the Department are occasionally engaged in trade union-related work but the information is held locally, not centrally, and can be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
The Department is moving to three full-time posts in the coming year at an estimated cost of £85,000.
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