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Dept for Education and Skills

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Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many and what percentage of students are (a) eligible for education maintenance allowance and (b) claiming educational maintenance allowance, broken down by (a) private and (b) maintained sector status, in (A) each local education authority and (B) England. [122982] Mr. Ivan Lewis: The following table gives a breakdown, by local education authority, of the estimate of the number of students who are in further education and the percentage of those who are claiming Education Maintenance Allowance in the pilot schemes. The estimates of the number of students in further education are based on figures taken from the 1991 population census. Local education authorities do not collect information on how these figures are distributed between private and maintained sector status institutions. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Local education authority Estimate of number of eligible Number of students who have Percentage of students who have students in Further Education received EMA received EMA Barking and Dagenham 1,500 952 63.5 Barnsley 2,200 1,479 67.2 Birmingham 14,700 10,277 69.9 Bolton 3,600 2,230 61.9 Bradford 5,900 4,850 82.2 Brent 2,600 1,813 69.7 Camden 1,400 1,252 89.4 Cornwall 6,800 5,677 83.5 Coventry 4,400 2,386 54.2 Doncaster 3,500 2,543 72.7 Ealing 2,800 1,649 58.9 Gateshead 2,300 1,835 79.8 Greenwich 2,000 1,366 68.3 Hackney 2,000 1,977 98.9 Halton 1,400 1,081 77.2 Hammersmith and Fulham 1,200 829 69.1 Haringey 2,000 1,579 78.9 Hartlepool 1,000 816 81.6 Islington 1,500 1,309 87.3 Kingston upon Hull 2,400 1,922 80.1 Knowsley 2,000 1,913 95.7 Lambeth 2,300 1,737 75.5 Lancashire (East) 5,100 2,466 48.4 Leeds 8,500 4,857 57.1 Leicester 4,400 3,259 74.1 Lewisham 2,200 1,805 82.0 Lincolnshire (N.E.) 2,200 1,405 63.9 Liverpool 6,200 3,587 57.9 Luton 2,700 1,581 58.6 Manchester 6,300 4,456 70.7 Middlesbrough 1,900 1,578 83.1 Newham 2,700 2,589 95.9 North Tyneside 2,500 1,595 63.8 Northumberland 4,200 2,643 62.9 Nottingham 3,300 2,791 84.6 Oldham 3,000 2,624 87.5 Salford 1,800 1,127 62.6 Sandwell 2,500 2,041 81.6 Sheffield 5,600 3,716 66.4 Southampton 2,500 1,392 55.7 Southwark 1,900 1,467 77.2 South Tyneside 2,000 1,666 83.3 St. Helens 2,200 1,465 66.6 Stoke on Trent 2,600 2,607 100.1 Suffolk 6,800 2,617 38.5 Sunderland 3,500 2,260 64.6 Tameside 2,800 2,026 72.4 Tower Hamlets 2,200 2,765 125.7 Wakefield 4,300 2,201 51.2 Walsall 3,200 2,649 82.8 Waltham Forest 2,200 1,577 71.7 Wandsworth 1,700 1,013 59.6 Wigan 3,700 2,546 68.8 Wirral 4,100 2,540 61.9 Wolverhampton 3,200 2,359 73.7 Worcestershire 5,800 3,040 52.4 England total 189,300 131,782 169.6 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Average Notes: Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) is currently paid to young people who reside in one of the pilot areas, irrespective of the location of the institution they attend. We only have estimated figures for the number of young people living in each local education authority (LEA) area who participate in further education. In some areas, particularly those where there has been rapid population movements, the estimates carry some degree of uncertainty; therefore there are some anomalies in the right hand column.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

122982; 408 c441-2W

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Further education Eligibility Grants Education maintenance allowance Pilot schemes Local education authorities Students

Contains statistics

Yes

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