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Departmental Written Questions
Mr. Harper:
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what proportion of questions tabled to his Department for written answer on a named day in the current session have been answered on the day named as at 1 May 2008. [204209]
Kevin Brennan:
Since the beginning of the 2007-08 Session and up to 30 April 2008 the Department has received a total of 3,135 PQs: 462 named day and 2,673 ordinary written PQs. The manual check of all named day PQs carried out to monitor the timeliness of replies for the months of November 2007 to April 2008 is shown in the following table.
| | Total named day PQs received | Total named day PQs answered on time (percentage) |
|
November 2007
|
105
|
30
|
|
December 2007
|
58
|
38
|
|
January 2008
|
104
|
28
|
|
February 2008
|
89
|
42
|
|
March 2008
|
60
|
75
|
|
April 2008
|
46
|
83
|
Home Education: Finance
Dr. Iddon:
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which local education authorities in England provide funds for home education. [204696]
Jim Knight:
The Department does not collect information from local authorities specifically on the funding which they provide for home education. However, included in the following table is how much local authorities in England budgeted to spend on education otherwise than at school and PRU during
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the 2007-08 financial year. The Department is currently collecting the financial information for 2008-09.
| Local authority name | Budgeted net expenditure on education out of school (£) |
|
England
|
130,377,000
|
| | |
|
Barking and Dagenham
|
949,000
|
|
Barnet
|
252,000
|
|
Barnsley
|
407,000
|
|
Bath and North East Somerset
|
341,000
|
|
Bedfordshire
|
2,906,000
|
|
Bexley
|
122,000
|
|
Birmingham
|
2,884,000
|
|
Blackburn with Darwen
|
0
|
|
Blackpool
|
321,000
|
|
Bolton
|
525,000
|
|
Bournemouth
|
166,000
|
|
Bracknell Forest
|
338,000
|
|
Bradford
|
3,488,000
|
|
Brent
|
1,594,000
|
|
Brighton and Hove
|
774,000
|
|
Bristol City of
|
1,365,000
|
|
Bromley
|
377,000
|
|
Buckinghamshire
|
265,000
|
|
Bury
|
160,000
|
|
Calderdale
|
207,000
|
|
Cambridgeshire
|
2,230,000
|
|
Camden
|
58,000
|
|
Cheshire
|
2,250,000
|
|
City of London
|
0
|
|
Cornwall
|
1,470,000
|
|
Coventry
|
329,000
|
|
Croydon
|
1,342,000
|
|
Cumbria
|
434,000
|
|
Darlington
|
376,000
|
|
Derby
|
632,000
|
|
Derbyshire
|
2,646,000
|
|
Devon
|
3,228,000
|
|
Doncaster
|
422,000
|
|
Dorset
|
436,000
|
|
Dudley
|
1,736,000
|
|
Durham
|
2,060,000
|
|
Ealing
|
1,278,000
|
|
East Riding of Yorkshire
|
295,000
|
|
East Sussex
|
699,000
|
|
Enfield
|
975,000
|
|
Essex
|
9,279,000
|
|
Gateshead
|
809,000
|
|
Gloucestershire
|
4,348,000
|
|
Greenwich
|
275,000
|
|
Hackney
|
179,000
|
|
Halton
|
209,000
|
|
Hammersmith and Fulham
|
0
|
|
Hampshire
|
2,522,000
|
|
Haringey
|
601,000
|
|
Harrow
|
814,000
|
|
Hartlepool
|
152,000
|
|
Havering
|
115,000
|
|
Herefordshire
|
398,000
|
|
Hertfordshire
|
6,121,000
|
|
Hillingdon
|
344,000
|
|
Hounslow
|
340,000
|
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|
Isle of Wight
|
143,000
|
|
Isles of Scilly
|
26,000
|
|
Islington
|
173,000
|
|
Kensington and Chelsea
|
172,000
|
|
Kent
|
3,959,000
|
|
Kingston upon Hull, City of
|
352,000
|
|
Kingston upon Thames
|
230,000
|
|
Kirklees
|
876,000
|
|
Knowsley
|
115,000
|
|
Lambeth
|
0
|
|
Lancashire
|
591,000
|
|
Leeds
|
1,849,000
|
|
Leicester
|
664,000
|
|
Leicestershire
|
658,000
|
|
Lewisham
|
898,000
|
|
Lincolnshire
|
634,000
|
|
Liverpool
|
1,000
|
|
Luton
|
936,000
|
|
Manchester
|
764,000
|
|
Medway
|
640,000
|
|
Merton
|
189,000
|
|
Middlesbrough
|
532,000
|
|
Milton Keynes
|
799,000
|
|
Newcastle upon Tyne
|
15,000
|
|
Newham
|
431,000
|
|
Norfolk
|
955,000
|
|
North East Lincolnshire
|
203,000
|
|
North Lincolnshire
|
459,000
|
|
North Somerset
|
445,000
|
|
North Tyneside
|
129,000
|
|
North Yorkshire
|
2,134,000
|
|
Northamptonshire
|
856,000
|
|
Northumberland
|
2,144,000
|
|
Nottingham
|
1,423,000
|
|
Nottinghamshire
|
772,000
|
|
Oldham
|
353,000
|
|
Oxfordshire
|
310,000
|
|
Peterborough
|
685,000
|
|
Plymouth
|
174,000
|
|
Poole
|
206,000
|
|
Portsmouth
|
418,000
|
|
Reading
|
612,000
|
|
Redbridge
|
792,000
|
|
Redcar and Cleveland
|
1,241,000
|
|
Richmond upon Thames
|
121,000
|
|
Rochdale
|
342,000
|
|
Rotherham
|
427,000
|
|
Rutland
|
50,000
|
|
Salford
|
490,000
|
|
Sandwell
|
614,000
|
|
Sefton
|
528,000
|
|
Sheffield
|
1,486,000
|
|
Shropshire
|
422,000
|
|
Slough
|
117,000
|
|
Solihull
|
493,000
|
|
Somerset
|
1,382,000
|
|
South Gloucestershire
|
403,000
|
|
South Tyneside
|
40,000
|
|
Southampton
|
51,000
|
|
Southend-on-Sea
|
247,000
|
|
Southwark
|
1,276,000
|
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|
St. Helens
|
163,000
|
|
Staffordshire
|
2,021,000
|
|
Stockport
|
190,000
|
|
Stockton-on-Tees
|
215,000
|
|
Stoke-on-Trent
|
737,000
|
|
Suffolk
|
3,788,000
|
|
Sunderland
|
482,000
|
|
Surrey
|
2,504,000
|
|
Sutton
|
685,000
|
|
Swindon
|
819,000
|
|
Tameside
|
250,000
|
|
Telford and Wrekin
|
354,000
|
|
Thurrock
|
66,000
|
|
Torbay
|
1,140,000
|
|
Tower Hamlets
|
651,000
|
|
Trafford
|
495,000
|
|
Wakefield
|
142,000
|
|
Walsall
|
582,000
|
|
Waltham Forest
|
802,000
|
|
Wandsworth
|
475,000
|
|
Warrington
|
92,000
|
|
Warwickshire
|
701,000
|
|
West Berkshire
|
174,000
|
|
West Sussex
|
4,019,000
|
|
Westminster
|
1,309,000
|
|
Wigan
|
830,000
|
|
Wiltshire
|
397,000
|
|
Windsor and Maidenhead
|
107,000
|
|
Wirral
|
121,000
|
|
Wokingham
|
11,000
|
|
Wolverhampton
|
43,000
|
|
Worcestershire
|
334,000
|
|
York
|
389,000
|
Note:
Education otherwise than at school and PRU: alternative provision is suitable education arranged by local authorities for children of compulsory school age who are unable to attend mainstream or special schools because of illness, exclusion from school or otherwise.
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