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Mr. Win Griffiths : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list all the successful capital grant requests from grant- maintained schools in each of the last three years stating the work to be carried out and its value ; and how many of these projects enabled disabled students to have access to these schools.
Mr. Forth : I have placed in the Library copies of papers detailing the allocations of named project capital grant to
self-governing--grant-maintained--schools in 1991-92, 1992-93 and 1993-94.
Allocations are made on the basis of specific priorities. Since 1991-92 these priorities have been urgent health and safety work, major repairs, bids under the technology
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schools initiative, and improvements to the delivery of the national curriculum, especially science and technology. Information on the number of projects which have facilitated disabled students' access to schools is not available.Age-weighted Pupil Unit
Mr. Bayley : To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) if he will publish a table indicating the value in cash terms of the age-weighted pupil unit used this year by the local education authorities in (a) North Yorkshire, (b) Cleveland, (c) County Durham, (d) Cumbria, (e) Lancashire, (f) Bradford, (g) Leeds, (h) Wakefield, (i) Doncaster and (j) Humberside for children in nursery classes, children in reception classes and children in each year from year 1 through to sixth form ;
(2) What is the value in cash terms of the age-weighted pupil unit used this year for children in nursery classes, reception classes and in each year from year 1 to sixth form by his Department for funding each grant- maintained school in North Yorkshire, Cleveland, County Durham, Cumbria, Lancashire, Bradford, Leeds, Wakefield, Doncaster and Humberside ; and what are the amounts per child in each of these schools, the amount of transitional funding, special purpose grant, top-up funding and other DFE funding provided this year.
Mr. Forth : Information on age-weighted pupil unit values is contained in part 3 of the budget statement required to be published by each local education authority under section 42 of the Education Reform Act 1988. These returns from the 10 local education authorities listed are being placed in the Library. Annual maintenance grant for grant-maintained schools is calculated by reference to the local education authority's local management of schools scheme and so incorporates its age-weighted pupil units. Grant-maintained schools also receive a share of the local education authority's central budgets, calculated as a percentage addition to the local management of schools budget rather than a sum per pupil. As soon as a school is approved as self governing, transitional grant is available to help in preparing the school to take on its new responsibilities. Secondary schools, and primary schools with 200 or more pupils, are currently eligible to receive £30,000 plus £30 for each pupil, subject to a maximum of £60,000.
A primary school with fewer than 200 pupils is eligible to receive £20,000 plus £30 for each pupil. A range of other special purpose grants are available to self-governing schools. Of these, only the grant for curriculum and staff development is derived from pupil numbers in the school. This grant is paid, for 1993-94, at the rate of £42.50--or the part-year equivalent--per pupil. Self-governing
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schools are also eligible for a pupil related capital allocation for 1993-94. A full year's allocation is £11,000 plus £20 per pupil. Schools becoming self-governing through the year will receive a pro rata allocation.GCSE
Mr. Nigel Evans : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what was the average number of GCSE passes received in (i)
grant-maintained schools and (ii) other state schools under the control of local authorities in 1992.
Mr. Forth : The average number of GCSE passes received by 16-year- old pupils in (i) self-governing state
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--grant-maintained--schools was 7.6 and (ii) other maintained schools excluding special schools under the control of local authorities 7.2 in 1992.Grant-maintained Schools
Mr. Win Griffiths : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list for each grant-maintained school in 1933-94 the value of (a) the direct annual maintenance grant and (b) the central annual maintenance grant ; and what is (b) as a percentage of (a) .
Mr. Forth : The information is given in the table. The cash figures and percentages given could change in many cases as we continue to refine grants in consultation with schools and LEAs.
Self Governing State Schools (Grant Maintained) 1993-94
|(a) |(b) |Percentage
LEA/School |Direct Annual |Central Annual |(b) to (a)
|Maintenance Grant |Maintenance Grant
|£ |£
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Gloucestershire
Ribston Hall High School |825,677 |122,664 |14.9
Marling School |1,382,098 |202,061 |14.6
Pate's Grammar School |1,702,766 |263,872 |15.5
Stroud High School |1,312,990 |191,958 |14.6
Robinswood Primary School |424,252 |62,025 |14.6
Tewkesbury School |1,904,191 |278,391 |14.6
The Crypt School |799,745 |116,922 |14.6
Balcarras School |1,198,943 |175,282 |14.6
Chosen Hill School |1,974,371 |288,651 |14.6
Katharine Lady Berkeley School |1,833,040 |267,988 |14.6
Churchdown School |1,863,730 |272,475 |14.6
The Cotswold School |1,020,833 |149,245 |14.6
Newent Community School |2,010,291 |293,902 |14.6
Rednock School |1,943,319 |284,111 |14.6
Saintbridge School |1,438,979 |210,377 |14.6
Chipping Camden School |1,434,064 |209,658 |14.6
St. Gregory RC Primary School |446,791 |65,320 |14.6
Blue Coat CE Grant-Maintained School |287,450 |39,668 |13.8
Picklenash County Junior School |288,938 |39,873 |13.8
Wyedean School |1,126,146 |130,633 |11.6
Hammersmith
London Oratory School |3,378,300 |668,903 |19.8
Hampshire
Hardley Secondary School |1,397,575 |204,324 |14.6
Burgate School |1,091,648 |159,598 |14.6
Arnewood School |2,067,639 |302,286 |14.6
Ringwood Comprehensive School |1,429,546 |208,998 |14.6
Crofton School, Fareham |1,846,231 |269,917 |14.6
The City of Portmouth Boys' School |1,578,029 |230,706 |14.6
The Priory Primary School |140,013 |21,702 |15.5
Testwood School |1,595,347 |233,238 |14.6
Abbotswood Middle School |708,213 |109,773 |15.5
Front Lawn Middle School |356,069 |55,191 |15.5
All Hallows RC School |2,017,686 |205,804 |10.2
Bay House Grant-Maintained School |2,915,958 |297,428 |10.2
Blackfield Middle School |492,024 |76,264 |15.5
Bohunt Community School |1,922,482 |196,093 |10.2
Calmore GM Middle School |451,822 |70,032 |15.5
St. Joseph's RC Primary School |459,669 |71,249 |15.5
Havering
Abbs Cross School |1,533,993 |174,875 |11.4
Coopers Company and Coborn |2,419,022 |275,768 |11.4
Frances Bardsley School |2,356,534 |268,645 |11.4
Hereford and Worcester
St. Augustine's RC High School |1,435,836 |162,249 |11.3
St. Bede's School |775,721 |87,656 |11.3
Hertfordshire
Rickmansworth School |2,025,340 |296,102 |14.6
Watford Boys Grammar School |2,174,406 |317,896 |14.6
Francis Bacon School |995,273 |156,924 |15.8
Watford Girls' Grammar School |2,147,903 |314,021 |14.6
Parmiters School |2,026,651 |296,294 |14.6
St. Mary's R.C. Primary School |256,823 |39,294 |15.3
Christ Church CE JMI School, Chorley |269,328 |41,207 |15.3
Parkside First School |301,876 |46,187 |15.3
Hertingfordbury School |206,111 |31,535 |15.3
Bishop Stortford's School |1,988,859 |290,769 |14.6
Ashlyns Grant-Maintained School |1,328,656 |140,837 |10.6
Bushey Hall School |2,280,801 |241,765 |10.6
Bushey Meads GM School |1,897,977 |201,186 |10.6
Dame Alice Owens School |2,316,103 |245,507 |10.6
Mount Grace School |1,079,233 |114,399 |10.6
Queens School |2,426,771 |257,238 |10.6
Hillingdon
Bishopshalt School |2,045,378 |342,554 |16.7
Haydon School |2,366,141 |326,903 |13.8
Queensmead School |1,936,377 |277,062 |14.3
Vyners School |1,879,630 |279,902 |14.9
Uxbridge High School |1,475,457 |214,957 |14.6
Northwood School |1,961,004 |297,940 |15.2
Hayes Manor School |1,506,331 |215,109 |14.3
Mellow Lane School |2,072,571 |280,787 |13.5
Oak Farm Infant School |419,346 |81,744 |19.5
Oak Farm Junior School |480,056 |93,578 |19.5
The Douay Martyrs School |2,070,421 |280,496 |13.5
Abbotsfield School |1,580,321 |183,317 |11.6
Grange Park Infant School |365,825 |60,361 |16.5
Grange Park Junior School |395,515 |65,260 |16.5
Swakeleys School |1,646,393 |190,982 |11.6
Hounslow
Gumley House Convent School<1> |1,957,513 |254,477 |13.0
Gunnersbury Catholic School<1> |1,920,624 |249,681 |13.0
Humberside
Wold Newton Primary School<1> |121,213 |19,636 |16.2
Kensington
Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School |1,721,938 |406,096 |23.6
Kent
The Grammar School for Girls Wilmington |965,161 |127,015 |13.2
The Cornwallis School |1,578,594 |224,836 |14.2
The Maplesden Noakes School |1,356,329 |185,732 |13.7
Wilmington Grammar School for Boys |723,273 |99,781 |13.8
St. George's CE School, Gravesend |2,031,786 |284,822 |14.0
Homewood School |2,441,340 |324,777 |13.3
Thamesview School |1,979,169 |271,916 |13.7
Dartford Grammar School |1,583,271 |220,332 |13.9
Southlands Comprehensive School |2,133,561 |290,573 |13.6
Dartford Grammar School for Girls |1,489,802 |206,519 |13.9
Aylesford School |1,827,149 |247,290 |13.5
Wrotham School |888,991 |119,683 |13.5
Simon Langton Boys' Grammar School |1,233,808 |169,121 |13.7
Snodland CE Primary School |448,750 |74,044 |16.5
Oldborough Manor High |1,319,626 |199,299 |15.1
Senacre High School |1,800,475 |248,843 |13.8
Cranbrook School |1,482,083 |212,028 |14.3
Angley School |1,581,444 |172,377 |10.9
Fulston Manor School |1,550,317 |168,985 |10.9
Oakwood Park Grammar School |969,009 |105,622 |10.9
Rainham Park Grammar School |2,054,565 |223,948 |10.9
Robert Napier School, Gillingham |1,560,014 |170,041 |10.9
The Minster School |2,629,113 |286,573 |10.9
The Skinner's School |1,348,336 |146,969 |10.9
The Canterbury School |1,602,901 |174,716 |10.9
Borough Green Primary School |359,340 |59,291 |16.5
Chatham Grammar School |1,084,788 |118,242 |10.9
Sir Roger Manwood's School |1,347,982 |146,930 |10.9
The Archbishop School |1,233,571 |134,459 |10.9
The Malling School |1,150,544 |125,409 |10.9
Sandown Court School |1,671,987 |182,247 |10.9
Meopham School |878,560 |95,763 |10.9
Holy Trinity |294,829 |48,647 |16.5
The Bradbourne School |951,443 |103,707 |10.9
Hugh Christie School |1,787,900 |194,881 |10.9
St. Simon Stock School |1,706,071 |185,962 |10.9
Mascalls School |2,560,289 |279,071 |10.9
Roseacre Junior School |385,523 |63,611 |16.5
St. Gregory's Catholic Comprehensive School |1,686,900 |183,872 |10.9
St. John Fisher, Chatham |2,159,331 |235,367 |10.9
Sutton-at-Hone CE Primary School |376,771 |62,167 |16.5
The Charles Dickens School |1,468,886 |160,109 |10.9
The Folkestone School for Girls |1,574,065 |171,573 |10.9
The Wildernesse School |1,305,611 |142,312 |10.9
Westlands High School |2,566,244 |279,721 |10.9
Kingston
Tiffin School |2,065,071 |301,911 |14.6
Holy Cross Convent School |1,343,148 |138,344 |10.3
Richard Challoner School |1,406,739 |144,894 |10.3
Kirklees
Heckmondwike Grammar School |1,314,731 |192,212 |14.6
Castle Hall GM School |783,243 |114,509 |14.6
Lambeth
La Retraite School |1,458,724 |255,277 |17.5
St. Bernadette Junior School |355,003 |89,816 |25.3
Archbishop Tenison's School |1,271,048 |222,433 |17.5
Bishop Thomas Grant School |2,139,657 |374,440 |17.5
Dunraven GM School |2,683,506 |469,614 |17.5
Lancashire
Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School |1,585,021 |231,728 |14.6
Lancaster Royal Grammar School |1,716,904 |251,009 |14.6
Lancaster Girls Grammar School |1,394,580 |203,886 |14.6
Clitheroe Royal Grammar School |1,944,932 |284,347 |14.6
Newton Blue Coat CE School |331,062 |51,315 |15.5
Baines School |1,335,938 |195,312 |14.6
Archbishop Temple School |1,081,404 |111,385 |10.3
Leicestershire
Long Field High School |721,457 |109,453 |15.2
Abington High School |1,072,465 |130,841 |12.2
Bushloe High School |1,233,364 |150,470 |12.2
South Wigston High School |1,277,617 |155,869 |12.2
Uppingham Community College |1,200,821 |146,500 |12.2
Lewisham
Turnham Primary School |728,449 |196,681 |27.0
Lincolnshire
Queen Elizabeth's GM Grammar School |781,093 |106,496 |13.6
Skegness Grammar School |1,314,009 |179,364 |13.7
The Kings School Grantham |1,687,328 |220,612 |13.1
Carre's Grammar School |956,128 |129,788 |13.6
St. George's School |1,982,852 |237,768 |12.0
King Edward VI Grammar School |1,253,803 |179,770 |14.3
Caistor School |911,390 |128,165 |14.1
Bourne Primary School |596,420 |90,656 |15.2
Gartree School |768,012 |110,302 |14.4
Magdalen CE/Meth Primary School |300,264 |45,640 |15.2
Yarborough High School |2,120,366 |288,277 |13.6
Lincoln Christ's Hospital School |2,386,241 |334,515 |14.0
Castle Hills School, Gainsborough |1,035,426 |101,472 |9.8
North Kesteven School |2,402,288 |235,424 |9.8
North Rauceby Primary School |114,617 |17,421 |15.2
Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Horn |1,216,391 |119,206 |9.8
Robert Pattinson School |2,218,147 |217,378 |9.8
William Alvey CE Junior School |587,988 |89,374 |15.2
Ancaster High School |1,150,423 |112,741 |9.8
William Farr CE School |1,574,253 |154,277 |9.8
Ermine School |367,800 |55,906 |15.2
Gleed Girls School |1,096,394 |107,447 |9.8
Monks' Dyke High School |1,359,368 |133,218 |9.8
Lacey Gardens Junior School |509,418 |77,432 |15.2
Malcolm Sargent County Primary School |639,906 |97,266 |15.2
Liverpool
St. Francis Xavier's College |2,183,879 |319,281 |14.6
Newham
Stratford School<1> |1,401,962 |238,509 |17.0
Norfolk
Wymondham College |2,030,235 |296,818 |14.6
Gresham County Primary |146,350 |21,396 |14.6
Heacham Middle School |322,991 |47,221 |14.6
Redgate Middle School, Hunstanton |256,311 |37,472 |14.6
Loddon Middle School |320,494 |48,840 |15.2
Costessey High School, Norwich |1,326,513 |193,935 |14.6
Cromer High School |1,097,472 |160,449 |14.6
Dereham Church VA First School |194,542 |28,442 |14.6
Downham Market High School |2,702,641 |395,123 |14.6
Marshland High School |1,208,288 |176,650 |14.6
Norwich Road School |447,268 |65,390 |14.6
Robert Kett Middle School |549,491 |80,335 |14.6
West Flegg Middle School |555,825 |81,261 |14.6
Acle High School |1,000,381 |146,636 |14.7
Sheringham High School |1,088,381 |159,120 |14.6
South Wooton School |168,449 |24,627 |14.6
Cliff Park High School |1,384,638 |105,233 |7.6
Flegg High School |1,096,199 |83,311 |7.6
Great Yarmouth High School |1,454,991 |110,579 |7.6
Lynn Grove VC High School |1,496,431 |113,729 |7.6
St. Clements High School |1,080,193 |82,095 |7.6
Northamptonshire
Southfield School for Girls |1,265,684 |185,041 |14.6
Kingsley Park Middle School |540,393 |79,005 |14.6
Kingswood School |1,860,044 |271,936 |14.6
Moulton Primary School |493,772 |72,189 |14.6
King John School |423,897 |61,973 |14.6
Northampton School for Boys |1,690,538 |247,155 |14.6
Lodge Park School |1,617,189 |236,431 |14.6
Manor School |1,397,453 |117,386 |8.4
Montagu School |1,699,066 |142,722 |8.4
Weavers School |2,316,277 |194,567 |8.4
Windmill Primary School |546,201 |67,183 |12.3
Wrenn School |2,046,531 |175,013 |8.6
Sir Christopher Hatton |1,548,809 |130,100 |8.4
Danesholme Junior School |457,596 |56,284 |12.3
Woodnewton Way Junior School |479,142 |58,934 |12.3
Nottinghamshire
Ravensdale Middle School |545,541 |79,757 |14.6
Greenwood Dale School |1,159,012 |144,876 |12.5805
St. James CE Primary |275,195 |38,527 |14.0
Wardle High School |1,892,379 |170,314 |9.0
Sandwell
Manor High School |1,540,270 |225,186 |14.6
Sheffield
Clifford First School |124,276 |18,169 |14.6
Shropshire
Adams' Grammar School |1,009,015 |147,517 |14.6
Corbet GM School |1,112,407 |112,353 |10.1
Ercall Wood School<2> |1,180,593 |103,892 |8.8
Solihull
Hatchford Primary School |706,907 |110,277 |15.6
Somerset
Sexey's School<1> |1,131,247 |165,387 |14.6
Bruton Primary School<1> |291,981 |53,725 |18.4
Southwark
London Nautical School |1,216,956 |242,174 |19.9
St. Francesca Cabrini RC Primary |624,767 |167,438 |26.8
Staffordshire
St. Thomas More School |1,651,234 |241,408 |14.6
Cannock Chase High School |1,853,274 |209,420 |11.3
Surrey
Guildford County Secondary School |1,585,741 |221,152 |13.9
Collingwood School, Camberley |2,988,420 |422,747 |14.1
St. John the Baptist School, Woking |1,370,008 |187,359 |13.7
Glyn School |1,725,814 |230,663 |13.4
Gordon's School |677,114 |97,325 |14.4
Beacon School |1,555,783 |178,930 |11.5
Epsom and Ewell High School |1,759,053 |202,308 |11.5
Hawkedale First School |152,769 |25,313 |16.6
Heathside Secondary School |1,081,857 |124,424 |11.5
Manor First School, Byfleet |214,755 |35,584 |16.6
Roseberry School, Epsom |1,680,235 |193,243 |11.5
Stonleigh First School |261,423 |43,316 |16.6
De Stafford School |1,058,765 |121,768 |11.5
Send CE First School |201,997 |33,469 |16.6
Thamesmead School |979,482 |112,650 |11.5
St. Paul's School |1,320,301 |130,710 |9.9
Sutton
Wilsons School |1,454,272 |248,961 |17.1
Nonsuch High School for Girls |1,738,088 |256,092 |14.7
John Fisher School |1,454,435 |215,712 |14.8
Cheam High School |1,924,582 |225,097 |11.7
Sutton Grammar School for Boys |1,285,145 |150,309 |11.7
St. Philomena's School |1,699,377 |173,336 |10.2
Wallington High School for Boys |1,306,716 |133,285 |10.2
Wallington High School for Girls |1,511,973 |154,221 |10.3
Tameside
Audenshaw High School<1> |1,380,454 |201,821 |14.6
West Hill School<1> |1,327,644 |142,058 |10.7
Tower Hamlets
Raines Foundation School |2,011,147 |434,408 |21.6
Trafford
Ashton on Mersey School |1,621,670 |167,032 |10.3
New Wellington High School |1,653,588 |170,320 |10.3
Sale Moor School |1,126,561 |116,036 |10.3
Walsall
The Streetly School |2,028,385 |296,547 |14.6
St. Thomas More RC School |2,301,934 |336,540 |14.6
Shire Oak Community School |1,263,004 |155,349 |12.3
Waltham Forest
Highams Park School |2,145,893 |315,446 |14.7
Wandsworth
Graveney School |3,882,643 |577,628 |14.9
Burntwood School |3,034,341 |438,934 |14.5
Elliott School |3,131,969 |338,253 |10.8
Salesian College |1,295,195 |139,881 |10.8
Ethelburga Primary School |363,171 |59,923 |16.5
Hillbrook Primary School |625,753 |103,249 |16.5
John Paul II RC School |1,306,129 |141,062 |10.8
Southfields School |3,160,338 |341,316 |10.8
Warwickshire
Newbold Grange High School (alias Avon)<1> |623,679 |95,690 |15.3
Ash Green School (Exhall)<1> |948,491 |141,683 |15.0
Hartshill School<1> |1,165,046 |167,408 |14.4
Queen Elizabeth School, Atherstone<1> |1,391,275 |145,094 |10.4
Myton School<1> |2,002,429 |208,830 |10.4
Alcester Grammar School<1> |1,163,674 |96,585 |-
Rugby High School for Girls<1> |1,129,411 |93,741 |8.3
Wirral
Calday Grange Grammar School |2,072,366 |186,513 |9.0
Wiltshire
St. Augustine's School |1,016,685 |148,638 |14.6
Aloeric School |417,004 |82,984 |19.9
Highbury School |995,756 |145,578 |14.6
Lavington School |912,503 |133,407 |14.6
Wolverhampton
Moseley Park |2,168,107 |327,384 |15.1
Wolverhampton GS |1,170,673 |182,018 |15.5
<1> Consultation on a proposed final grants for these schools has been completed and a finalised grant notified to the
school and LEA.
<2> School became grant maintained after 1 April 1993.
Self Governing State Schools (Grant Maintained) 1993-94
|(a) |(b) |Percentage
LEA/School |Direct Annual |Central Annual |(b) to (a)
|Maintenance Grant |Maintenance Grant
|£ |£
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Gloucestershire
Ribston Hall High School |825,677 |122,664 |14.9
Marling School |1,382,098 |202,061 |14.6
Pate's Grammar School |1,702,766 |263,872 |15.5
Stroud High School |1,312,990 |191,958 |14.6
Robinswood Primary School |424,252 |62,025 |14.6
Tewkesbury School |1,904,191 |278,391 |14.6
The Crypt School |799,745 |116,922 |14.6
Balcarras School |1,198,943 |175,282 |14.6
Chosen Hill School |1,974,371 |288,651 |14.6
Katharine Lady Berkeley School |1,833,040 |267,988 |14.6
Churchdown School |1,863,730 |272,475 |14.6
The Cotswold School |1,020,833 |149,245 |14.6
Newent Community School |2,010,291 |293,902 |14.6
Rednock School |1,943,319 |284,111 |14.6
Saintbridge School |1,438,979 |210,377 |14.6
Chipping Camden School |1,434,064 |209,658 |14.6
St. Gregory RC Primary School |446,791 |65,320 |14.6
Blue Coat CE Grant-Maintained School |287,450 |39,668 |13.8
Picklenash County Junior School |288,938 |39,873 |13.8
Wyedean School |1,126,146 |130,633 |11.6
Hammersmith
London Oratory School |3,378,300 |668,903 |19.8
Hampshire
Hardley Secondary School |1,397,575 |204,324 |14.6
Burgate School |1,091,648 |159,598 |14.6
Arnewood School |2,067,639 |302,286 |14.6
Ringwood Comprehensive School |1,429,546 |208,998 |14.6
Crofton School, Fareham |1,846,231 |269,917 |14.6
The City of Portmouth Boys' School |1,578,029 |230,706 |14.6
The Priory Primary School |140,013 |21,702 |15.5
Testwood School |1,595,347 |233,238 |14.6
Abbotswood Middle School |708,213 |109,773 |15.5
Front Lawn Middle School |356,069 |55,191 |15.5
All Hallows RC School |2,017,686 |205,804 |10.2
Bay House Grant-Maintained School |2,915,958 |297,428 |10.2
Blackfield Middle School |492,024 |76,264 |15.5
Bohunt Community School |1,922,482 |196,093 |10.2
Calmore GM Middle School |451,822 |70,032 |15.5
St. Joseph's RC Primary School |459,669 |71,249 |15.5
Havering
Abbs Cross School |1,533,993 |174,875 |11.4
Coopers Company and Coborn |2,419,022 |275,768 |11.4
Frances Bardsley School |2,356,534 |268,645 |11.4
Hereford and Worcester
St. Augustine's RC High School |1,435,836 |162,249 |11.3
St. Bede's School |775,721 |87,656 |11.3
Hertfordshire
Rickmansworth School |2,025,340 |296,102 |14.6
Watford Boys Grammar School |2,174,406 |317,896 |14.6
Francis Bacon School |995,273 |156,924 |15.8
Watford Girls' Grammar School |2,147,903 |314,021 |14.6
Parmiters School |2,026,651 |296,294 |14.6
St. Mary's R.C. Primary School |256,823 |39,294 |15.3
Christ Church CE JMI School, Chorley |269,328 |41,207 |15.3
Parkside First School |301,876 |46,187 |15.3
Hertingfordbury School |206,111 |31,535 |15.3
Bishop Stortford's School |1,988,859 |290,769 |14.6
Ashlyns Grant-Maintained School |1,328,656 |140,837 |10.6
Bushey Hall School |2,280,801 |241,765 |10.6
Bushey Meads GM School |1,897,977 |201,186 |10.6
Dame Alice Owens School |2,316,103 |245,507 |10.6
Mount Grace School |1,079,233 |114,399 |10.6
Queens School |2,426,771 |257,238 |10.6
Hillingdon
Bishopshalt School |2,045,378 |342,554 |16.7
Haydon School |2,366,141 |326,903 |13.8
Queensmead School |1,936,377 |277,062 |14.3
Vyners School |1,879,630 |279,902 |14.9
Uxbridge High School |1,475,457 |214,957 |14.6
Northwood School |1,961,004 |297,940 |15.2
Hayes Manor School |1,506,331 |215,109 |14.3
Mellow Lane School |2,072,571 |280,787 |13.5
Oak Farm Infant School |419,346 |81,744 |19.5
Oak Farm Junior School |480,056 |93,578 |19.5
The Douay Martyrs School |2,070,421 |280,496 |13.5
Abbotsfield School |1,580,321 |183,317 |11.6
Grange Park Infant School |365,825 |60,361 |16.5
Grange Park Junior School |395,515 |65,260 |16.5
Swakeleys School |1,646,393 |190,982 |11.6
Hounslow
Gumley House Convent School<1> |1,957,513 |254,477 |13.0
Gunnersbury Catholic School<1> |1,920,624 |249,681 |13.0
Humberside
Wold Newton Primary School<1> |121,213 |19,636 |16.2
Kensington
Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School |1,721,938 |406,096 |23.6
Kent
The Grammar School for Girls Wilmington |965,161 |127,015 |13.2
The Cornwallis School |1,578,594 |224,836 |14.2
The Maplesden Noakes School |1,356,329 |185,732 |13.7
Wilmington Grammar School for Boys |723,273 |99,781 |13.8
St. George's CE School, Gravesend |2,031,786 |284,822 |14.0
Homewood School |2,441,340 |324,777 |13.3
Thamesview School |1,979,169 |271,916 |13.7
Dartford Grammar School |1,583,271 |220,332 |13.9
Southlands Comprehensive School |2,133,561 |290,573 |13.6
Dartford Grammar School for Girls |1,489,802 |206,519 |13.9
Aylesford School |1,827,149 |247,290 |13.5
Wrotham School |888,991 |119,683 |13.5
Simon Langton Boys' Grammar School |1,233,808 |169,121 |13.7
Snodland CE Primary School |448,750 |74,044 |16.5
Oldborough Manor High |1,319,626 |199,299 |15.1
Senacre High School |1,800,475 |248,843 |13.8
Cranbrook School |1,482,083 |212,028 |14.3
Angley School |1,581,444 |172,377 |10.9
Fulston Manor School |1,550,317 |168,985 |10.9
Oakwood Park Grammar School |969,009 |105,622 |10.9
Rainham Park Grammar School |2,054,565 |223,948 |10.9
Robert Napier School, Gillingham |1,560,014 |170,041 |10.9
The Minster School |2,629,113 |286,573 |10.9
The Skinner's School |1,348,336 |146,969 |10.9
The Canterbury School |1,602,901 |174,716 |10.9
Borough Green Primary School |359,340 |59,291 |16.5
Chatham Grammar School |1,084,788 |118,242 |10.9
Sir Roger Manwood's School |1,347,982 |146,930 |10.9
The Archbishop School |1,233,571 |134,459 |10.9
The Malling School |1,150,544 |125,409 |10.9
Sandown Court School |1,671,987 |182,247 |10.9
Meopham School |878,560 |95,763 |10.9
Holy Trinity |294,829 |48,647 |16.5
The Bradbourne School |951,443 |103,707 |10.9
Hugh Christie School |1,787,900 |194,881 |10.9
St. Simon Stock School |1,706,071 |185,962 |10.9
Mascalls School |2,560,289 |279,071 |10.9
Roseacre Junior School |385,523 |63,611 |16.5
St. Gregory's Catholic Comprehensive School |1,686,900 |183,872 |10.9
St. John Fisher, Chatham |2,159,331 |235,367 |10.9
Sutton-at-Hone CE Primary School |376,771 |62,167 |16.5
The Charles Dickens School |1,468,886 |160,109 |10.9
The Folkestone School for Girls |1,574,065 |171,573 |10.9
The Wildernesse School |1,305,611 |142,312 |10.9
Westlands High School |2,566,244 |279,721 |10.9
Kingston
Tiffin School |2,065,071 |301,911 |14.6
Holy Cross Convent School |1,343,148 |138,344 |10.3
Richard Challoner School |1,406,739 |144,894 |10.3
Kirklees
Heckmondwike Grammar School |1,314,731 |192,212 |14.6
Castle Hall GM School |783,243 |114,509 |14.6
Lambeth
La Retraite School |1,458,724 |255,277 |17.5
St. Bernadette Junior School |355,003 |89,816 |25.3
Archbishop Tenison's School |1,271,048 |222,433 |17.5
Bishop Thomas Grant School |2,139,657 |374,440 |17.5
Dunraven GM School |2,683,506 |469,614 |17.5
Lancashire
Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School |1,585,021 |231,728 |14.6
Lancaster Royal Grammar School |1,716,904 |251,009 |14.6
Lancaster Girls Grammar School |1,394,580 |203,886 |14.6
Clitheroe Royal Grammar School |1,944,932 |284,347 |14.6
Newton Blue Coat CE School |331,062 |51,315 |15.5
Baines School |1,335,938 |195,312 |14.6
Archbishop Temple School |1,081,404 |111,385 |10.3
Leicestershire
Long Field High School |721,457 |109,453 |15.2
Abington High School |1,072,465 |130,841 |12.2
Bushloe High School |1,233,364 |150,470 |12.2
South Wigston High School |1,277,617 |155,869 |12.2
Uppingham Community College |1,200,821 |146,500 |12.2
Lewisham
Turnham Primary School |728,449 |196,681 |27.0
Lincolnshire
Queen Elizabeth's GM Grammar School |781,093 |106,496 |13.6
Skegness Grammar School |1,314,009 |179,364 |13.7
The Kings School Grantham |1,687,328 |220,612 |13.1
Carre's Grammar School |956,128 |129,788 |13.6
St. George's School |1,982,852 |237,768 |12.0
King Edward VI Grammar School |1,253,803 |179,770 |14.3
Caistor School |911,390 |128,165 |14.1
Bourne Primary School |596,420 |90,656 |15.2
Gartree School |768,012 |110,302 |14.4
Magdalen CE/Meth Primary School |300,264 |45,640 |15.2
Yarborough High School |2,120,366 |288,277 |13.6
Lincoln Christ's Hospital School |2,386,241 |334,515 |14.0
Castle Hills School, Gainsborough |1,035,426 |101,472 |9.8
North Kesteven School |2,402,288 |235,424 |9.8
North Rauceby Primary School |114,617 |17,421 |15.2
Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Horn |1,216,391 |119,206 |9.8
Robert Pattinson School |2,218,147 |217,378 |9.8
William Alvey CE Junior School |587,988 |89,374 |15.2
Ancaster High School |1,150,423 |112,741 |9.8
William Farr CE School |1,574,253 |154,277 |9.8
Ermine School |367,800 |55,906 |15.2
Gleed Girls School |1,096,394 |107,447 |9.8
Monks' Dyke High School |1,359,368 |133,218 |9.8
Lacey Gardens Junior School |509,418 |77,432 |15.2
Malcolm Sargent County Primary School |639,906 |97,266 |15.2
Liverpool
St. Francis Xavier's College |2,183,879 |319,281 |14.6
Newham
Stratford School<1> |1,401,962 |238,509 |17.0
Norfolk
Wymondham College |2,030,235 |296,818 |14.6
Gresham County Primary |146,350 |21,396 |14.6
Heacham Middle School |322,991 |47,221 |14.6
Redgate Middle School, Hunstanton |256,311 |37,472 |14.6
Loddon Middle School |320,494 |48,840 |15.2
Costessey High School, Norwich |1,326,513 |193,935 |14.6
Cromer High School |1,097,472 |160,449 |14.6
Dereham Church VA First School |194,542 |28,442 |14.6
Downham Market High School |2,702,641 |395,123 |14.6
Marshland High School |1,208,288 |176,650 |14.6
Norwich Road School |447,268 |65,390 |14.6
Robert Kett Middle School |549,491 |80,335 |14.6
West Flegg Middle School |555,825 |81,261 |14.6
Acle High School |1,000,381 |146,636 |14.7
Sheringham High School |1,088,381 |159,120 |14.6
South Wooton School |168,449 |24,627 |14.6
Cliff Park High School |1,384,638 |105,233 |7.6
Flegg High School |1,096,199 |83,311 |7.6
Great Yarmouth High School |1,454,991 |110,579 |7.6
Lynn Grove VC High School |1,496,431 |113,729 |7.6
St. Clements High School |1,080,193 |82,095 |7.6
Northamptonshire
Southfield School for Girls |1,265,684 |185,041 |14.6
Kingsley Park Middle School |540,393 |79,005 |14.6
Kingswood School |1,860,044 |271,936 |14.6
Moulton Primary School |493,772 |72,189 |14.6
King John School |423,897 |61,973 |14.6
Northampton School for Boys |1,690,538 |247,155 |14.6
Lodge Park School |1,617,189 |236,431 |14.6
Manor School |1,397,453 |117,386 |8.4
Montagu School |1,699,066 |142,722 |8.4
Weavers School |2,316,277 |194,567 |8.4
Windmill Primary School |546,201 |67,183 |12.3
Wrenn School |2,046,531 |175,013 |8.6
Sir Christopher Hatton |1,548,809 |130,100 |8.4
Danesholme Junior School |457,596 |56,284 |12.3
Woodnewton Way Junior School |479,142 |58,934 |12.3
Nottinghamshire
Ravensdale Middle School |545,541 |79,757 |14.6
Greenwood Dale School |1,159,012 |144,876 |12.5805
St. James CE Primary |275,195 |38,527 |14.0
Wardle High School |1,892,379 |170,314 |9.0
Sandwell
Manor High School |1,540,270 |225,186 |14.6
Sheffield
Clifford First School |124,276 |18,169 |14.6
Shropshire
Adams' Grammar School |1,009,015 |147,517 |14.6
Corbet GM School |1,112,407 |112,353 |10.1
Ercall Wood School<2> |1,180,593 |103,892 |8.8
Solihull
Hatchford Primary School |706,907 |110,277 |15.6
Somerset
Sexey's School<1> |1,131,247 |165,387 |14.6
Bruton Primary School<1> |291,981 |53,725 |18.4
Southwark
London Nautical School |1,216,956 |242,174 |19.9
St. Francesca Cabrini RC Primary |624,767 |167,438 |26.8
Staffordshire
St. Thomas More School |1,651,234 |241,408 |14.6
Cannock Chase High School |1,853,274 |209,420 |11.3
Surrey
Guildford County Secondary School |1,585,741 |221,152 |13.9
Collingwood School, Camberley |2,988,420 |422,747 |14.1
St. John the Baptist School, Woking |1,370,008 |187,359 |13.7
Glyn School |1,725,814 |230,663 |13.4
Gordon's School |677,114 |97,325 |14.4
Beacon School |1,555,783 |178,930 |11.5
Epsom and Ewell High School |1,759,053 |202,308 |11.5
Hawkedale First School |152,769 |25,313 |16.6
Heathside Secondary School |1,081,857 |124,424 |11.5
Manor First School, Byfleet |214,755 |35,584 |16.6
Roseberry School, Epsom |1,680,235 |193,243 |11.5
Stonleigh First School |261,423 |43,316 |16.6
De Stafford School |1,058,765 |121,768 |11.5
Send CE First School |201,997 |33,469 |16.6
Thamesmead School |979,482 |112,650 |11.5
St. Paul's School |1,320,301 |130,710 |9.9
Sutton
Wilsons School |1,454,272 |248,961 |17.1
Nonsuch High School for Girls |1,738,088 |256,092 |14.7
John Fisher School |1,454,435 |215,712 |14.8
Cheam High School |1,924,582 |225,097 |11.7
Sutton Grammar School for Boys |1,285,145 |150,309 |11.7
St. Philomena's School |1,699,377 |173,336 |10.2
Wallington High School for Boys |1,306,716 |133,285 |10.2
Wallington High School for Girls |1,511,973 |154,221 |10.3
Tameside
Audenshaw High School<1> |1,380,454 |201,821 |14.6
West Hill School<1> |1,327,644 |142,058 |10.7
Tower Hamlets
Raines Foundation School |2,011,147 |434,408 |21.6
Trafford
Ashton on Mersey School |1,621,670 |167,032 |10.3
New Wellington High School |1,653,588 |170,320 |10.3
Sale Moor School |1,126,561 |116,036 |10.3
Walsall
The Streetly School |2,028,385 |296,547 |14.6
St. Thomas More RC School |2,301,934 |336,540 |14.6
Shire Oak Community School |1,263,004 |155,349 |12.3
Waltham Forest
Highams Park School |2,145,893 |315,446 |14.7
Wandsworth
Graveney School |3,882,643 |577,628 |14.9
Burntwood School |3,034,341 |438,934 |14.5
Elliott School |3,131,969 |338,253 |10.8
Salesian College |1,295,195 |139,881 |10.8
Ethelburga Primary School |363,171 |59,923 |16.5
Hillbrook Primary School |625,753 |103,249 |16.5
John Paul II RC School |1,306,129 |141,062 |10.8
Southfields School |3,160,338 |341,316 |10.8
Warwickshire
Newbold Grange High School (alias Avon)<1> |623,679 |95,690 |15.3
Ash Green School (Exhall)<1> |948,491 |141,683 |15.0
Hartshill School<1> |1,165,046 |167,408 |14.4
Queen Elizabeth School, Atherstone<1> |1,391,275 |145,094 |10.4
Myton School<1> |2,002,429 |208,830 |10.4
Alcester Grammar School<1> |1,163,674 |96,585 |-
Rugby High School for Girls<1> |1,129,411 |93,741 |8.3
Wirral
Calday Grange Grammar School |2,072,366 |186,513 |9.0
Wiltshire
St. Augustine's School |1,016,685 |148,638 |14.6
Aloeric School |417,004 |82,984 |19.9
Highbury School |995,756 |145,578 |14.6
Lavington School |912,503 |133,407 |14.6
Wolverhampton
Moseley Park |2,168,107 |327,384 |15.1
Wolverhampton GS |1,170,673 |182,018 |15.5
<1> Consultation on a proposed final grants for these schools has been completed and a finalised grant notified to the
school and LEA.
<2> School became grant maintained after 1 April 1993.
Dyslexia
Mr. Soley : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what percentage of school children removed from school because of behavioural problems in the last three years are dyslexic.
Mr. Forth : This information is not collected centrally.
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First Aid
Mr. Whittingdale : To ask the Secretary of State for Education whether he will require basic instruction in first aid to be part of the national curriculum.
Mr. Forth : My right hon. Friend has no such plans. Section 1 of the Education Reform Act 1988 already requires the curriculum of maintained schools to prepare
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pupils for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life. As part of that preparation, all pupils are now required to be taught those aspects of safety education contained in several national curriculum core and foundation subjects. In addition, the National Curriculum Council has issued guidance to all maintained schools in England offering advice on how schools might incorporate topics about safety education, including knowledge of basic first aid, into their wider programmes of health education.Law Students
Mr. Boateng : To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many representations his Department has received in the last 12 months regarding discretionary grants made by local authorities to trainee lawyers.
Mr. Llwyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many representations he has received over the last six months on the subject of discretionary grants to law students seeking to qualify in one of the two branches of the legal profession ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Boswell : My right hon. Friend has received a number of representations on this subject. They have been made by the Law Society, the College of Law and the Trainee Solicitors Group, among others. We have also received correspondence and parliamentary questions from several hon. Members on the training of lawyers.
GEST Funding
Mr. Win Griffiths : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list for each of the last three years the local education authorities which have not been able to take up grants for education support and training funding offered to them ; for what purposes the unused funding was originally made available ; and what it was used for subsequently.
Mr. Forth : The information provided in the table is for 1992-93 and for 1993-94. Information about 1991-92 is not readily available. The tables set out the local education authorities which surrendered some of the allocations made available to them. Each year's programme covers some 30 or more individual grants for different purposes. The sums surrendered ranged across most grants. We do not know what use LEAs will have made of their unused 40 per cent. contribution to GEST allocations. The saving in central Government grant which represents 60 per cent. of GEST allocations has been redeployed to a range of other Department of Education programmes. To provide the full information requested would involve disproportionate cost.
1993-94
Gest allocations not taken up
|£ thousands
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Greenwich |129.4
Lambeth |14.1
Barnet |21.7
Manchester |296.6
Kirklees |153.5
Wakefield |206.7
Gateshead |165.4
Newcastle upon Tyne |109.0
North Tyneside |60.8
Sunderland |43.3
Avon |11.3
Cleveland |169.5
Cumbria |57.5
Devon |747.7
Durham |233.3
Gloucestershire |348.6
Humberside |315.9
Norfolk |221.5
Northamptonshire |20.0
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Total |3,325.7
Note: Total programme |320,200.0
Percentage not taken up |1.0
1993-94
Gest allocations not taken up
|£ thousands
------------------------------------------------
Greenwich |129.4
Lambeth |14.1
Barnet |21.7
Manchester |296.6
Kirklees |153.5
Wakefield |206.7
Gateshead |165.4
Newcastle upon Tyne |109.0
North Tyneside |60.8
Sunderland |43.3
Avon |11.3
Cleveland |169.5
Cumbria |57.5
Devon |747.7
Durham |233.3
Gloucestershire |348.6
Humberside |315.9
Norfolk |221.5
Northamptonshire |20.0
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Total |3,325.7
Note: Total programme |320,200.0
Percentage not taken up |1.0
Educational Psychology
Mr. Blunkett : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what was the funding allocation for the educational psychology service for each year since 1985.
Mr. Forth : The information requested is not held centrally. Each local education authority is responsible for securing educational psychology services in the light of local needs and priorities. Central Government, through
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the grants and education support and training programme, provide financial support to authorities to assist them with the costs of the initial training of educational psychologists. Funds to support LEA expenditure of £3.5 million on the training of educational psychologists have been allocated in 1993-94.Mr. Blunkett : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what steps he is taking (a) to protect the educational psychology service and (b) to ensure a common standard service throughout the country ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Forth : Each local education authority is responsible for securing educational psychology services in its area. The Education Bill contains power to enable authorities to provide support services, such as educational psychology, to all pupils with special educational needs, including those without statements.
Under the Bill, all authorities in England and Wales will be placed under a duty to have regard to the provisions of a code of practice, issued by the Secretary of State, giving them practical guidance in discharging their duty towards children with special educational needs. One of the objectives of the code is to secure greater consistency in local education authority practice, to the benefit of children with SEN and their parents.
Mr. Blunkett : To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many educational psychologists were employed by each local education authority in each year since 1985.
Mr. Forth : Information on the number of educational psychologists employed by individual local education authorities is collected annually by the Department. However, pre-1992 returns were not compiled in a standard format and are not readily available for every year. Figures are shown in the table for 1985 and 1992.
Numbers of full-time equivalent educational
psychologists in post by local education
authority
LEA |1985 |1992
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Inner London |87.7
City |0.0
Camden |7.8
Greenwich |11.0
Hackney |8.5
Hammersmith and Fulham |8.0
Islington |10.0
Kensington and Chelsea |6.0
Lambeth |7.8
Lewisham |10.0
Southwark |15.0
Tower Hamlets |10.0
Wandsworth |11.0
Westminster |7.0
Barking and Dagenham |7.0 |7.5
Barnet |8.5 |13.6
Bexley |5.0 |6.5
Brent |9.6 |11.2
Bromley |8.0 |10.0
Croydon |9.0 |10.8
Ealing |5.4 |9.8
Enfield |9.0 |12.5
Haringey |7.0 |9.8
Harrow |6.0 |6.0
Havering |8.0 |8.0
Hillingdon |5.0 |8.2
Hounslow |5.9 |5.8
Kingston upon Thames |2.0 |3.0
Merton |5.0 |5.7
Newham |11.0 |11.0
Redbridge |6.0 |7.4
Richmond upon Thames |4.0 |5.5
Sutton |4.0 |6.0
Waltham Forest |8.0 |7.0
Birmingham |37.2 |37.5
Coventry |12.3 |14.0
Dudley |7.5 |8.5
Sandwell |8.0 |14.0
Solihull |7.3 |8.0
Walsall |7.0 |10.0
Wolverhampton |6.0 |10.0
Knowsley |7.0 |6.8
Liverpool |15.5 |18.0
St. Helens |4.0 |6.5
Sefton |9.0 |11.0
Wirral |8.0 |13.5
Bolton |4.0 |7.4
Bury |3.5 |4.5
Manchester |14.0 |19.3
Oldham |5.0 |4.0
Rochdale |9.0 |7.5
Salford |6.0 |7.0
Stockport |6.7 |9.5
Tameside |7.0 |11.0
Trafford |3.0 |4.0
Wigan |8.0 |6.5
Barnsley |4.0 |4.5
Doncaster |9.0 |9.0
Rotherham |9.0 |10.3
Sheffield |13.6 |16.2
Bradford |14.0 |19.0
Calderdale |2.0 |6.8
Kirkless |12.0 |15.0
Leeds |13.5 |19.0
Wakefield |6.0 |12.0
Gateshead |8.0 |10.0
Newcastle upon Tyne |12.0 |11.0
North Tyneside |8.0 |8.0
South Tyneside |6.0 |8.0
Sunderland |9.0 |10.1
Isles of Scilly |0.0 |0.0
Avon |28.6 |28.8
Bedfordshire |12.0 |17.0
Berkshire |17.3 |17.0
Buckinghamshire |16.0 |21.9
Cambridgeshire |12.0 |14.0
Cheshire |17.0 |25.1
Cleveland |18.0 |18.3
Cornwall |8.0 |12.0
Cumbria |9.0 |18.0
Derbyshire |21.5 |33.1
Devon |20.4 |22.1
Dorset |14.5 |17.5
Durham |17.4 |20.4
East Sussex |11.8 |19.6
Essex |31.4 |42.7
Gloucestershire |11.0 |17.0
Hampshire |31.5 |44.0
Hereford and Worcester |11.0 |16.5
Hertfordshire |21.5 |28.4
Humberside |21.0 |24.0
Isle of Wight |3.0 |3.0
Kent |19.0 |30.0
Lancashire |34.0 |42.0
Leicestershire |19.0 |33.6
Lincolnshire |10.0 |13.0
Norfolk |14.0 |18.5
North Yorkshire |15.2 |20.0
Northamptonshire |15.0 |17.5
Northumberland |4.1 |9.5
Nottinghamshire |30.0 |28.5
Oxfordshire |12.5 |14.5
Shropshire |8.0 |12.0
Somerset |9.0 |11.0
Staffordshire |17.7 |29.4
Suffolk |13.0 |14.0
Surrey |22.0 |28.4
Warwickshire |9.8 |12.3
West Sussex |12.0 |17.4
Wiltshire |13.0 |14.8
Total: All LEAs |1,173.4|1,501.6
Behavioural Problems (Referrals)
Mr. Blunkett : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will list for each year since 1985 by local education authority, the number of referrals by teachers of children with behavioural problems.
Mr. Forth : The information requested is not centrally available.
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British Rail Employees (Concessions)
11. Mr. Barnes : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what representations he has received over the past year concerning the future of concessionary travel facilities for current British Rail employees ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Freeman : I have given a clear assurance that travel concessions for employees of BR and their dependants, and for retired staff will be safeguarded in the privatisation of British Rail.
Red Routes
13. Sir Paul Beresford : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what effect the operation of red routes has had on the use of buses in the relevant areas.
Mr. Norris : Since the start of the pilot scheme in 1991, the number of passengers using the 43 route and the new express service introduced last year has increased by about 11,000 a week. This is an increase of about 10 per cent., compared with a small overall decline in bus patronage in London over the same period.
London Transport Staff (Assaults)
14. Mr. Wicks : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many physical assaults on London Transport staff took place in each year since 1988.
Mr. Norris : There were 517 assaults on LT staff in 1990-91, 689 in 1991-92, and the provisional total for 1992-93 is 622. Comparable figures for earlier years are not available.
Crossrail
15. Mr. Lidington : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make a statement on the future of the crossrail project.
Mr. MacGregor : As my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said in his speech to the CBI last Tuesday, we have concluded that crossrail can be carried forward as a joint venture with the private sector and that London Transport's Crossrail Bill should proceed to its Second Reading next month.
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Mr. Nicholas Winterton : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list those organisations and companies, other than the Manufacturing and Construction Industries Alliance, from which he has received recent representations concerning the crossrail project.
Mr. Norris : My right hon. Friend and I have received representations in recent weeks from the following organisations and companies :
Aylesbury Vale District Council
British Airways plc
Buckinghamshire County Council
Department of Trade & Industry
Grosvenor House
Howard de Walden Estates Ltd.
London Borough of Camden
London Chamber of Commerce and Industry
London Regional Passengers' Committee
London Tourist Board and Convention Bureau
Oxford Street Association
Regalian Group of Companies
Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors
Save London's Theatres Campaign
Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners
St Albans Friends of the Earth
Trafalgar House
Wokingham Friends of the Earth
West Coast Main Line
16. Mr. Bradley : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what progress has been made with the proposal by the consortium consisting of Trafalgar House, Balfour Beatty and GEC Alsthom, in connection with upgrading of the west coast main line.
Mr. Freeman : The consortium has put forward outline proposals for a joint venture to upgrade the west coast main line and I have responded to them. Further work is in hand to identify a way forward--which must include a competition for the choice of private sector partners.
21. Mr. Hoyle : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will publish details of the locomotive breakdowns, signal failures and other causes of train delays on the west coast main line, from 1990, 1991 and 1992.
Mr. Freeman : This information is not held by the Department. These are operational matters for British Rail.
British Rail Journey Times
17. Mr. Nigel Griffiths : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what discussions he has had with British Rail on the reduction of journey times on its principal routes.
Mr. Freeman : The timetabling and routing of services is entirely a matter for the management of British Rail and it would not be appropriate for Ministers to intervene.
Traffic Congestion, London
18. Mr. Soley : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what proposals he has to reduce traffic congestion in London.
Mr. Norris : Our aim is a much-improved public transport system, capable of responding efficiently to
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changes in demand, and offering a good- quality alternative to the private car. In terms of the road network, we are planning increasing emphasis on road traffic management measures--such as the introduction of red routes--to improve the relia