School Funding (Newcastle)

Mr. Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the schools in the City of Newcastle upon Tyne which received cash resources directly in the financial year 2000-01, with the sum for each school; and if he will estimate how much will be allocated in 2001-02 on the basis of his proposals in the pre-Budget report. [148817]

Ms Estelle Morris [holding answer 5 February 2001]: The following table shows the School Standards Grant entitlement for each school in 2000-01. In 2001-02 the estimated total School Standards Grant for Newcastle education authority will amount to £2.8 million. Amounts for that year cannot yet be shown for individual schools, but the typical primary school will receive £20,000 and the typical secondary school, £60,000. In addition devolved formula capital grants are payable: in 2000-01 these are £12,000 for a typical primary school and £36,000 for a typical secondary school, increasing progressively to £16,000 and £50,000 respectively by 2003-04.

School Standards Grant--Newcastle LEA

Name of school	Amount (£)
Ashfield Nursery School	3,000
Cruddas Park Nursery School	3,000
Atkinson Road Nursery School	6,000
Newburn Manor Nursery School	3,000
Monkchester Road Nursery School	6,000
Walkergate Nursery School	3,000
Valley View Nursery School	3,000
Ashlyns Unit	3,000
Parkway Centre	3,000
Dinnington Village First School	6,000
Archibald First School	9,000
South Gosforth First School	9,000
Regent Farm First School	9,000
Linhope First School	9,000
Gosforth Park First School	9,000
Broadway East First School	9,000
Grange First School	6,000
Atkinson Road Primary School	9,000
Throckley First School	9,000
Newburn Manor First School	6,000
Walbottle Village First School	6,000
West Denton First School	9,000
Knoplaw First School	9,000
Milecastle First School	9,000
Cheviot First School	9,000
Waverley First School	9,000
Simonside First School	9,000
Farne First School	9,000
Lemington First School	9,000
Westerhope First School	9,000
Byker Primary School	9,000
West Jesmond Primary School	9,000
Benton Park Primary School	9,000
Hawthorn Primary School	6,000
Canning Street Primary School	9,000
Chillingham Road Primary School	9,000
Cowgate Primary School	6,000
Cragside Primary School	9,000
Delaval Community Primary School	9,000
Denton Road Primary School	9,000
Broadwood Junior School	6,000
Broadwood Infant School	6,000
Tyneview Primary School	9,000
North Fawdon Primary School	9,000
Hilton Primary School	9,000
Montagu Primary School	6,000
Mountfield Primary School	9,000
Ravenswood Primary School	9,000
South Benwell Primary School	6,000
Stocksfield Avenue Primary School	9,000
Walkergate Junior School	9,000
Walkergate Infant School	9,000
Thomas Walling Primary School	9,000
Welbeck Primary School	9,000
Westgate Hill Primary School	9,000
West Walker Primary School	9,000
Wharrier Street Primary School	9,000
Wingrove Primary School	9,000
Wyndham Primary School	9,000
Kenton Bar Primary School	9,000
Kingston Park Primary School	9,000
Hotspur Primary School	9,000
Moorside Community Primary School	9,000
Christ Church CofE Primary School, Newcastle	6,000
St. Anthony's CofE Primary School	6,000
Archbishop Runcie CofE First School	6,000
St. Charles' RC Primary School	9,000
St. Oswald's RC Primary School	9,000
St. Mark's RC Primary School	6,000
St. George's RC Primary School	6,000
St. Cuthbert's RC Primary School	6,000
St. John Vianney RC Primary School	9,000
St. Paul's CofE Primary School	9,000
English Martyrs' RC Primary School	9,000
Sacred Heart RC Primary School	9,000
St. Bede's RC Primary School	9,000
St. Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School	9,000
St. Catherine's RC Primary School	9,000
St. Joseph's RC Primary School	6,000
St. Lawrence's RC Primary School	9,000
Our Lady and St. Anne's RC Voluntary Aided Primary School	9,000
St. Michael's RC Primary School	9,000
St. Teresa's Catholic Primary School	9,000
St. Vincent's RC Primary School	9,000
St. Alban's RC Primary School	9,000
Chapel Park Middle School	30,000
Chapel House Middle School	30,000
Throckley Middle School	30,000
Gosforth Central Middle School	30,000
Gosforth West Middle School	30,000
Gosforth East Middle School	30,000
West Denton High School	30,000
Gosforth High School	50,000
Walbottle Campus	50,000
Walker Technology College	50,000
Benfield School	40,000
Kenton School	50,000
Denton Park Middle School	30,000
Chevyside Middle School	30,000
Heaton Manor School	50,000
Lemington Middle School	30,000
West Gate Community College	50,000
Firfield Community School	30,000
St. Mary's Catholic Comprehensive School	40,000
St. Cuthbert's High School	40,000
Sacred Heart RC Comprehensive School	50,000
Trinity School	15,000
Hadrian School	15,000
Sir Charles Parsons School	15,000
Thomas Bewick School	15,000
Total	1,526,000

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Education Funding (Tyne and Wear)

Mr. Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will set out for each authority in the former county of Tyne and Wear the allocations under (a) New Deal for Schools, (b) the Standards Fund in 2000-01 and 2001-02, (c) Excellence in Cities in 2001-02 and (d) the additional support for recruitment retention in schools tackling educational disadvantage in 2001-02. [148818]

Ms Estelle Morris [holding answer 5 February 2001]: Listed in the following tables are the allocations for each authority in the former county of Tyne and Wear under (a) New Deal for Schools from 1997-98 to 2000-01, (b) the Standards Fund in 2000-01 and 2001-02 and (c) Excellence in Cities (EiC) in 2001-02. New Deal for Schools and EiC funding are issued through the Standards Fund and are not included in the following Standards Fund allocations. The EiC allocations cover initiatives for Learning mentors, Learning support units, Gifted and Talented and Beacon Schools. They do not cover initiatives for City Learning Centres, Specialist Schools and Mini-Education Action Zones where total allocations are still to be determined. The Standards Fund allocations for 2001-02 have not yet been finalised. They include allocations already advised to local education authorities, but there are further grants for which allocations have not yet been announced.

New Deal for schools allocations£000

	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01
Gateshead	352	1,187	962	2,816
Newcastle	487	4,612	6,318	3,300
North Tyneside	406	613	1,364	2,705
South Tyneside	536	1,675	1,270	2,058
Sunderland	719	960	2,030	3,872

Standards Fund allocations£000

	2000-01	2001-02
Gateshead	8,901	10,635
Newcastle	14,885	13,955
North Tyneside	8,533	9,621
South Tyneside	7,242	9,059
Sunderland	11,954	15,165

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Excellence in Cities allocations£000

	2001-02
Gateshead	1,542
Newcastle	1,943
North Tyneside	1,595
South Tyneside	1,497
Sunderland	2,655

£210 million is available under the School Improvement Grant in 2001-02. The majority of this will be devolved to all schools to fund locally identified school improvement priorities. Fifteen per cent. of the grant will be allocated to schools in challenging circumstances. These funds have been allocated to support secondary schools with low levels of attainment or free high school meals and schools in special measures. Allocations of School Improvement Grant (which includes allocations for schools in challenging circumstances) for each authority in the former county of Tyne and Wear are set out in the following table.

School Improvement Grant allocations--2000-01£000

	School Improvement	Allocation of School Improvement for schools in challenging circumstances
Gateshead	810	130
Newcastle	956	110
North Tyneside	667	0
South Tyneside	653	50
Sunderland	1,129	105

Under this Government, funding per pupil has already increased by over £300 in real terms, and it will increase by a further £150 per pupil for 2001-02. Under the last

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Government, funding per pupil fell by £60 in real terms between 1994-95 and 1997-98. There will be further increases in funding following the year 2000 spending review: a further £370 per pupil over the three year period, taking the total increase to nearly £700 between 1997-98 and 2003-04.