Mr. Laws:
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what contracts have been awarded by his Department to the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust; what the value is of each contract; and if he will make a statement. [321275]
Mr. Coaker:
The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust has successfully bid for a number of contracts advertised by the Department in open competition. Details of live contracts between DCSF and SSAT are as follows.
Programme
Contract period
Total value of contract (£)
Academies school improvement support
September 2008 to August 2011
13,600,000
Curriculum Policy Delivery
June 2007 to March 2010
7,451,000
Gaining Ground
April 2009 to February 2011
3,572,000
Licence to Cook/Teach Food Technology
April 2009 to March 2011
1,200,000
Teachers International Professional Development
June 2008 to March 2011
3,306,844
Trusts Delivery(1)
September 2007 to August 2010
8,222,991
Work Related Learning Enterprise Policy
October 2008 to March 2010
7,681,514
(1) SSAT bid for this contract as part of a consortium also including the Youth Sport Trust and Foundation and Aided Schools National Foundation
Support for All: The Families and Relationships
Mrs. Maria Miller:
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much his Department allocated to deliver and maintain the online eligibility checker for parents as referred to in the Green Paper, Support for All: the Families and Relationships in the last 12 months. [318283]
Dawn Primarolo:
The funding for the proposals outlined in "Support for All: the Families and Relationships Green Paper" has been allocated from current budgets.
The online eligibility checker will be taken forward next financial year and consequently no money has been spent on it to date. It is anticipated that the project 25 Mar 2010 : Column 589W
will cost in the region of £100,000 and that the funding required will be allocated from the 2010-11 Affordable Childcare Campaign budget.
Sure Start Programme
Mr. Purchase:
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many Sure Start children's centres there are in the City of Wolverhampton. [322258]
Dawn Primarolo:
There are 18 designated Sure Start Children's Centres in the Wolverhampton city council local authority area.
Sure Start Programme: York
Hugh Bayley:
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many (a) children and (b) families are in receipt of support from Sure Start Children's Centres in York. [322115]
Dawn Primarolo:
The 10 designated Sure Start Children's Centres in the City of York local authority area have a combined reach of over 8,400 children under five and their families. Reach area defines those children and 25 Mar 2010 : Column 590W
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.
Teachers: Males
Michael Gove:
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) pursuant to the answer of 14 December 2009, Official Report, column 707W, on teachers: males, if he will provide the figures for each local authority; [318405]
(2) pursuant to the answer of 14 December 2009, Official Report, column 708W, on teachers: males; how many (a) nursery and primary and (b) secondary schools with no male teachers there were in each local authority area. [318485]
Mr. Coaker [holding answer 24 February 2010]: The School Census reports that only two local authority maintained secondary schools (one in Bradford local authority and one in Hackney local authority) did not have a male teacher in service in January 2009. Both of these are girls schools with a religious character. The following table provides similar numbers for local authority maintained nursery and primary schools:
Local authority maintained nursery and primary schools in each local authority who do not have a male teacher in service, year: January 2009, coverage: England
