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Children's Centres
Miss McIntosh:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many children's centres within each local authority have been (a) opened and (b) closed in the last 12 months. [130307]
Beverley Hughes:
500 Sure Start Children's Centres have been designated/opened in the last 12 months (23 March 2006 to 23 March 2007). This is broken down by each local authority. We have not received any reports of closures.
| Local Authority | Number of designated children’s centres 23 March 2006 to 23 March 2007 |
|
Barking and Dagenham
|
4
|
|
Barnet
|
1
|
|
Barnsley
|
3
|
|
Bath and North East Somerset
|
2
|
|
Bexley
|
1
|
|
Birmingham
|
16
|
|
Blackburn with Darwen
|
3
|
|
Blackpool
|
1
|
|
Bolton
|
1
|
|
Bradford
|
10
|
|
Brent
|
3
|
|
Brighton and Hove
|
2
|
|
Bromley
|
3
|
|
Buckinghamshire
|
7
|
|
Bury
|
1
|
|
Calderdale
|
4
|
|
Cambridgeshire
|
2
|
|
Camden
|
1
|
|
Cheshire
|
5
|
|
Cornwall
|
4
|
|
Coventry
|
6
|
|
Croydon
|
3
|
|
Cumbria
|
6
|
|
Derby, City of
|
5
|
|
Derbyshire
|
13
|
|
Devon
|
5
|
|
Doncaster
|
5
|
|
Dorset
|
2
|
|
Dudley
|
3
|
|
Durham
|
22
|
|
Ealing
|
6
|
|
East Sussex
|
5
|
|
Enfield
|
5
|
|
Essex
|
5
|
|
Hackney
|
6
|
|
Halton
|
1
|
|
Hammersmith and Fulham
|
1
|
|
Hampshire
|
4
|
|
Haringey
|
1
|
|
Harrow
|
3
|
|
Havering
|
1
|
|
Herefordshire
|
2
|
|
Hillingdon
|
1
|
|
Hounslow
|
5
|
|
Islington
|
1
|
|
Kensington and Chelsea
|
2
|
|
Kent
|
9
|
|
Kingston upon Hull, City of
|
6
|
|
Kingston upon Thames
|
2
|
|
Kirklees
|
11
|
|
Lambeth
|
8
|
|
Lancashire
|
8
|
|
Leeds
|
3
|
|
Leicester, City of
|
5
|
|
Lincolnshire
|
6
|
|
Liverpool
|
6
|
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|
London, City of
|
1
|
|
Luton
|
9
|
|
Manchester
|
5
|
|
Medway
|
2
|
|
Merton
|
1
|
|
Middlesbrough
|
1
|
|
Milton Keynes
|
2
|
|
Newcastle upon Tyne
|
2
|
|
Newham
|
2
|
|
Norfolk
|
8
|
|
North East Lincolnshire
|
3
|
|
North Lincolnshire
|
1
|
|
North Somerset
|
2
|
|
North Tyneside
|
5
|
|
North Yorkshire
|
1
|
|
Northamptonshire
|
4
|
|
Northumberland
|
9
|
|
Nottingham, City of
|
8
|
|
Nottinghamshire
|
8
|
|
Oldham
|
3
|
|
Oxfordshire
|
12
|
|
Peterborough, city of
|
1
|
|
Reading
|
1
|
|
Redcar and Cleveland
|
4
|
|
Richmond upon Thames
|
1
|
|
Rochdale
|
5
|
|
Rotherham
|
7
|
|
Salford
|
6
|
|
Sandwell
|
6
|
|
Sefton
|
5
|
|
Sheffield
|
3
|
|
Solihull
|
1
|
|
Somerset
|
2
|
|
South Tyneside
|
3
|
|
Southampton
|
9
|
|
Southend on Sea
|
2
|
|
Southwark
|
5
|
|
St. Helens
|
1
|
|
Staffordshire
|
4
|
|
Stockport
|
2
|
|
Stockton on Tees
|
1
|
|
Stoke on Trent
|
4
|
|
Suffolk
|
4
|
|
Surrey
|
8
|
|
Sutton
|
1
|
|
Swindon
|
4
|
|
Thurrock
|
3
|
|
Torbay
|
2
|
|
Tower Hamlets
|
6
|
|
Trafford
|
2
|
|
Wakefield
|
8
|
|
Walsall
|
6
|
|
Waltham Forest
|
4
|
|
Warrington
|
1
|
|
Warwickshire
|
6
|
|
West Berkshire
|
2
|
|
West Sussex
|
4
|
|
Westminster, City of
|
1
|
|
Wigan
|
3
|
|
Wiltshire
|
4
|
|
Wirral
|
5
|
|
Wokingham
|
1
|
|
Wolverhampton
|
3
|
|
Worcestershire
|
3
|
|
Total
|
500
|
Education: Information and Communications Technology
Mr. Jim Cunningham:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what steps his Department is taking to encourage online learning in Coventry. [126039]
Jim Knight
[holding answer 12 March 2007]: The Government’s e-strategy for education and children’s services seeks to ensure all learners have access to an
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online learning space. The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta) is responsible for leading on enabling this access, and their delivery plan for the e-strategy aims to harness technology for the overall benefit of learners and the education system. Enabling online learning where and when appropriate is just one element of the strategy’s aims.
