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Dept for Education and Skills

Answer

Dr. Kumar: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many schools in (a) the North East and (b) each local authority area (i) have been designated and (ii) are being considered for status as a specialist technology college. [141868] Mr. Miliband: The data requested is set out in the following table. Technology college designations _________________________________________________________________________________________________. LEA/region Technology college designations Being considered for technology college status North East region 35 0 Local education authorities London borough of Barking and Dagenham 1 -- London borough of Barnet 3 1 Barnsley 1 -- Bath and North East Somerset 3 -- Bedfordshire 2 -- London borough of Bexley 1 -- Birmingham 17 1 Blackburn with Darwen 3 -- Blackpool -- -- Bolton 2 -- Bournemouth 1 -- Bracknell Forest 1 -- Bradford 3 -- London borough of Brent 3 -- Brighton and Hove 2 -- City of Bristol 1 1 London borough of Bromley 5 1 Buckinghamshire 5 -- Bury 1 -- Calderdale 2 -- Cambridgeshire 7 -- London borough of Camden 2 -- Cheshire 8 1 Corporation of London -- -- Cornwall 7 -- Coventry 3 1 London borough of Croydon 2 -- Cumbria 5 1 Darlington 2 -- City of Derby 2 -- Derbyshire 8 2 Devon 6 -- Doncaster 3 -- Dorset 5 -- Dudley 1 -- Durham 9 -- London borough of Ealing 3 -- East Riding of Yorkshire 4 -- East Sussex 6 -- London borough of Enfield 2 -- Essex 12 1 Gateshead 2 -- Gloucestershire 12 -- London borough of Greenwich 2 -- London borough of Hackney 3 -- Halton 2 -- London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham -- -- Hampshire 9 3 London borough of Haringey 1 -- London borough of Harrow 2 -- Hartlepool 1 -- London borough of Havering 2 -- Herefordshire 2 -- Hertfordshire 10 1 London borough of Hillingdon 2 -- London borough of Hounslow 2 -- Isles of Scilly -- -- Isle of Wight 1 -- London borough of Islington 1 -- Royal borough of Kensington and Chelsea -- -- Kent 12 -- City of Kingston upon Hull 1 -- Royal borough of Kingston- upon-Thames 2 -- Kirklees 5 -- Knowsley -- -- London borough of Lambeth 2 -- Lancashire 18 2 Leeds 6 1 Leicester City 2 -- Leicestershire 7 -- London borough of Lewisham -- -- Lincolnshire 15 1 Liverpool 7 -- Luton 1 -- Manchester 3 -- Medway 3 -- London borough of Merton 1 -- Middlesborough 1 -- Milton Keynes 1 -- Newcastle upon Tyne 5 -- London borough of Newham 3 -- Norfolk 10 -- North East Lincolnshire 2 -- North Lincolnshire 2 -- North Somerset 2 -- North Tyneside 2 -- North Yorkshire 9 1 Northamptonshire 7 -- Northumberland 5 -- City of Nottingham 3 -- Nottinghamshire 9 1 Oldham 2 -- Oxfordshire 7 -- City of Peterborough 2 -- City of Plymouth 4 -- Poole 2 -- Portsmouth 1 -- Reading 2 -- London borough of Redbridge 4 1 Redcar and Cleveland 1 -- London borough of Richmond- upon-Thames -- -- Rochdale 2 -- Rotherham 2 -- Rutland 1 -- Salford 1 -- Sandwell 3 -- Sefton 2 -- Sheffield 4 -- Shropshire 6 -- Slough 1 -- Solihull 1 -- Somerset 9 -- South Gloucestershire 3 -- South Tyneside 2 -- Southend-on-Sea 2 -- Southampton 1 -- London borough of Southwark 2 -- St. Helens 2 -- Staffordshire 11 1 Stockport 1 1 Stockon on Tees 2 -- Stoke on Trent 1 1 Suffolk 11 1 Sunderland 3 -- Surrey 12 3 London borough of Sutton 1 -- Swindon 2 -- Tameside 1 -- Telford and Wrekin 2 -- Thurrock 1 -- Torbay 1 -- London borough of Tower Hamlets 1 -- Trafford 3 -- Wakefield 3 -- Walsall 3 -- London borough of Waltham Forest 2 -- London borough of Wandsworth 1 -- Warrington 3 -- Warwickshire 7 1 West Berkshire 3 -- West Sussex 5 -- London borough of Westminster 1 -- Wigan 4 -- Wiltshire 5 1 Royal borough of Windsor and Maidenhead 1 -- Wirral 4 1 Wokingham -- -- Wolverhampton 3 -- Worcestershire 6 -- City of York 2 -- Total 529 31 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

141868; 415 c295-8W

Session

2003-04

Subjects

North East Schools Technology Specialist schools

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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