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To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) how much was allocated by her Department in Bath and North East Somerset for (a) capital projects and (b) revenue funding in each of the last five years;

Asked by

Dan Norris (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

16 February 2006

For answer on

27 February 2006

Answered on

14 March 2006

Capital and revenue allocations made to Bath and North East Somerset local authority and its schools, and to South Gloucestershire local authority and its schools, in each of the last five years are set out in the following table:

				£ million
	Capital allocations			Revenue funding
	Bath and North East Somerset	South Gloucestershire	Bath and North East Somerset	South Gloucestershire
2001–02	5.4	11	77.2	117.5
2002–03	12.5	15.9	81.8	126.8
2003–04	11.8	14.9	90.2	141.6
2004–05	7.3	19.1	96.2	149.9
2005–06	5.6	11	103.5	160
⁽⁸⁰⁾ Note: 2002–03 and 2003–04 included Targeted Capital Funding of £4.4 million and £4.9 million respectively.
⁽⁸¹⁾ Note: 2002–03 and 2004–05 included Targeted Capital Funding of £4.0 million and £2.5 million respectively.

We expect local authorities and schools to take decisions on allocating capital funds for building maintenance and improvements in accordance with their local asset management plan. Accordingly, records of these categories of expenditure are not held centrally. However revenue figures are reported separately, and are shown below.

Revenue expenditure on the maintenance and improvement of school buildings and grounds since 1997–98Cash terms figures as reported by local authorities as at 23 February 2006 £
	Bath and NE Somerset LA				South Gloucestershire LA
	Primary schools	Pre-primary and primary schools	Secondary schools	Primary schools	Pre-primary and primary schools	Secondary schools
1997–98	—	1,056	1,132	—	1,196	1,518
1998–99	—	1,474	1,204	—	1,139	1,686
1999–2000	737	737	1,208	1,081	1,081	1,367
2000–01	833	833	1,118	866	867	943
2001–02	820	820	2,004	1,448	1,449	750
2002–03	688	—	1,205	666	—	1,214
2003–04	654	—	1,147	582	—	1,087
2004–05	758	—	1,160	661	—	1,184
Note: All figures are £1,000's.

Date

14 March 2006

Reference

54397; 443 c2231-4W;443 c2231-4W

House

House of Commons

School Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the annual funding per pupil has been in (a) Bath and North East Somerset and (b) South Gloucestershire in each year since 1992.

Asked by

Dan Norris (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

16 February 2006

For answer on

27 February 2006

Answered on

7 March 2006

As a result of data changes and changes to the school funding system, comparable figures are not available for 1992–97. The table sets out the figures in real terms for each financial year from 1997–98 to 2005–06. Total funding includes funding via Education Formula Spending/Standard Spending Assessment and revenue grants allocated at an LEA level.In 2003–04 an additional £640 million was transferred into Education Formula Spending in respect of teachers pensions. This transfer has been excluded from the figures provided so they are on a comparable basis for years before and after the transfer.

Funding per pupil aged three to 19 in Bath and North East Somerset and South Gloucestershire £
	Real terms, excluding pensions transfer toEPS and LSC 1997–98 to 2005–06
	Bath and North East Somerset	South Gloucestershire
1997–98	2,680	2,610
1998–99	2,750	2,680
1999–2000	2,890	2,810
2000–01	3,100	2,990
2001–02	3,200	3,090
2002–03	3,300	3,210
2003–04	3,410	3,340
2004–05	3,570	3,480
2005–06	3,760	3,660
Notes: 1. Price base: Real terms at 2004–05 prices, based on GDP deflators as at 23 December 2005. 2. Figures reflect relevant sub-blocks of Standard Spending Assessment/Education Formula Spending (EFS) settlements and exclude the pensions transfer to EFS and LSC. 3. Total funding also includes all revenue grants in DfES departmental expenditure limits relevant to pupils aged three to 19 and exclude Education Maintenance Allowances (EMAs) and grants not allocated at LEA level. 4. The pupil numbers used to convert £ million figures to £ per pupil are those underlying the SSA/EFS settlement calculations plus PLASC three-year-old maintained pupils and estimated three to four-year-olds funded through state support in maintained and other educational institutions where these are not included in the SSA pupil numbers. 5. Rounding: figures are rounded to the nearest 10. Status: 2005–06 figures are provisional as some grants have not yet been finalised/audited.

Date

7 March 2006

Reference

443 c1464-5W;443 c1464-5W; 54365

House

House of Commons

Education (Staffing)

(2) how many (a) full-time teachers and (b) school support staff were employed in Bath and North East Somerset for each year since 1992.

Asked by

Dan Norris (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

16 February 2006

For answer on

27 February 2006

Answered on

7 March 2006

The following table provides the full-time and full-time equivalent number of regular teachers and the full-time equivalent number of support staff employed in South Gloucestershire and Bath and North East Somerset local authorities in each January since 1997. Support staff data can only be provided on a full-time equivalent basis.South Gloucestershire and Bath and North East Somerset local authorities were created on 1 April 1996. Figures are not available prior to April 1996.

Full-time and full-time equivalent number of teachers and full-time equivalent support staff employed in maintained schools in South Gloucestershire and Bath and North East Somerset local authorities
	South Gloucestershire				Bath and North East Somerset
	Teachers				Teachers
January	Full-time	FTE	Support staff	Full-time	FTE	Support staff
1997	1,790	1,970	600	1,240	1,370	410
1998	1,780	1,980	620	1,200	1,350	430
1999	1,810	2,050	650	1,210	1,350	440
2000	1,860	2,090	700	1,220	1,360	500
2001	1,880	2,120	800	1,240	1,390	530
2002	1,910	2,160	900	1,280	1,410	560
2003	1,910	2,180	920	1,270	1,440	610
2004	1,900	2,180	960	1,220	1,390	660
2005	1,890	2,180	1,030	1,230	1,410	730
Note: Figures are rounded to the nearest 10. Source: Survey of teachers in service and teacher vacancies (teachers), Annual School Census (support staff).

Date

7 March 2006

Reference

54399; 443 c1423W;443 c1423W

House

House of Commons

Class Sizes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the average class size was in (a) Bath and (b) North East Somerset in (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools in the latest period for which figures are available.

Asked by

Dan Norris (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

28 February 2006

Reference

443 c627W;443 c627W; 54366

House

House of Commons

North Somerset

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will take steps to increase the average funding per schoolchild in North Somerset to the average level of funding in (a) the West Country and (b) England.

Asked by

John Penrose (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

30 January 2006

Reference

46173; 442 c87W;442 c87W

House

House of Commons

Underachieving/Deprived Pupils

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what assessment she has made of the allocation of funding to schools in deprived areas of Somerset; and if she will make a statement.

Asked by

David Laws (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

16 January 2006

Reference

41301; 441 c1032-3W

House

House of Commons

Academic Performance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will make a statement on academic performance by (a) primary and (b) secondary pupils in (i) Somerset schools, (ii) England and (iii) the south west.

Asked by

David Laws (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

9 January 2006

For answer on

11 January 2006

Answered on

16 January 2006

The 2005 national results show that standards in both primary and secondary schools are continuing to rise, with improvements at every key stage this year. Since 1997 at key stage 2, English has increased by 16 percentage points (pp) to 79 per cent. and in maths by 13 pp to 75 per cent.. Provisional results at key stage 3 show English has increased by 17 pp to 74 per cent.; in maths by 14 pp to 74 per cent.; in science by 10 pp to 60 per cent.; and in ICT by 19 pp to 69 per cent. At key stage 4 provisional results show the percentage of pupils achieving 5+A*-C GCSEs has increased by 10.6 pp to 55.7 per cent.Standards of educational attainment in both primary and secondary schools in (a) Somerset and (b) the south west show that performance is above that of the national average. A summary of the 2005 outcomes is set out in the following table.Information about education and skills by constituency is made available by the Department through the ‘In Your Area' web site, available at http://www.dfes.gov.uk/inyourarea.

Performance level⁽¹⁵⁾
	Primary—KS2 percentage achieved level 4+				Secondary—KS3 percentage achievedlevel 5+				Secondary—KS4 percentage achieved 5+ A*-C
	English	Maths	Science	English	Maths	Science	ICT	GCSE or equivalent
Somerset	80	76	88	77	77	75	75	57.9
National	79	75	86	74	74	70	69	55.7
South West	79	75	87	75	75	73	72	55.8
⁽¹⁵⁾ Data for KS2 is amended. For KS3 and KS4 data is provisional.
⁽¹⁶⁾ Overall figures for Bath and NE Somerset, North Somerset and Somerset local authorities.

Date

16 January 2006

Reference

41452; 441 c995-6W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) care beds, (b) nursing beds, (c) elderly mentally impaired beds and (d) terminal beds there are in Somerset; and how many there have been in each of the last three years; how many people there were in elderly care...

Asked by

Ian Liddell-Grainger (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

1 April 2003

For answer on

14 April 2003

Answered on

14 April 2003

Mr. Liddell-Grainger: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many (a) care beds, (b) nursing beds, (c) elderly mentally impaired beds and (d) terminal beds there are in Somerset; and how many there have been in each of the last three years; [107338] (2) how many people there were in elderly care in Somerset in each of the last three years; [107337] (3) how many respite care homes have shut in each of the last three years in (a) the Sedgemore district council area and (b) west Somerset; [107335] (4) how many people were placed in care homes from hospitals in Somerset in each of the last three years. [107336] Jacqui Smith: The latest available information on residential and nursing care home places in the Somerset area is shown in table 1. Information on the number of care home places in Somerset is not yet available for 2002. Table 1: Residential and nursing care home places in Somerset at 31 March _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Nursing care1 Residential care2 Total number of care home places Number of places 2000 2001 2000 2001 2000 2001 Total 2,760 2,540 4,100 4,100 6,860 6,640 Of which: Older people3 2,260 1,960 3,060 3,030 5,310 4,990 Elderly Mentally Infirm4 500 470 70 70 570 530 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Nursing data refers to Somerset health authority and includes registered beds in general and mental nursing homes 2 Residential data refers to Somerset shire county, and includes places in LA staffed, voluntary, private, small homes and dual registered residential places. 3 Beds designated people aged 65 and over other than elderly mentally infirm people 4 Beds designated for elderly mentally infirm people Source: RA Form A and RH(N) forms, Department of Health The number of people aged 65 or over receiving community-based services to help them to live at home independently in the Somerset area is shown in table 2. Community based services include one or more of the following services: home care, day care, meals, planned short term breaks (respite care), direct payments, professional support, transport, equipment or adaptations. Table 2: Older people receiving community-based services in Somerset1 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. As at 31 March Number of older people Rate per 1,000 population aged 65 or over2 2000 7,340 77 2001 9,630 100 2002 9,520 98 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Notes: 1 People aged 65 or over, receiving community-based services from Somerset county council as at 31 March 2 This rate is Performance Assessment Framework Indicator C32 Source: KS1 return, Department of Health Information is not available centrally on the number of terminal beds in Somerset and the number of people placed in care homes from hospitals in Somerset. Information is not collected centrally on respite care homes, as there is no formal classification for respite care homes.

Date

14 April 2003

Reference

403 c608-10W; 107338;107337;107335;107336

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of the cost of specialist residential placements for vulnerable children was contributed by health authorities in (a) Dorset, (b) Somerset and (c) Hampshire in (i) 2000-01 and (ii) 2001-02; what guidance the Department gives to health authorities in England on...

Asked by

Annette Brooke (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

6 November 2002

Reference

392 c421W;392 c433W; 77086;77380

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement about the change in the number of care home beds in Somerset since 1997. - Inc table.

Asked by

Adrian Flook (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 June 2002

Reference

59354; 386 c1101-2W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will set out the basis on which he determined the relative allocations to tackle bed blocking to the social services departments of (a) South Gloucestershire Unitary Authority, (b) Bath and North East Somerset Unitary Authority, (c) Bristol Unitary Authority and...

Asked by

Steve Webb (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

24 October 2001

For answer on

16 January 2002

Answered on

16 January 2002

Mr. Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will set out the basis on which he determined the relative allocations to tackle bed blocking to the social services departments of (a) South Gloucestershire Unitary Authority, (b) Bath and North East Somerset Unitary Authority, (c) Bristol Unitary Authority and (d) North Somerset Unitary Authority. [10801] Jacqui Smith: [holding answer 29 October 2001]: All councils will receive additional funding, 55 councils received extra help. The decision on which councils received extra help was taken on the basis of the councils with the highest rates, and the most severe problems with delayed discharge. Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire councils all met these criteria, and have received extra help. The table shows the allocations for these councils for 2001-02 and 2002-03. £ _________________________________________________________________________________________________. County council 2001-02 2002-03 Bath and North East Somerset 467,938 985,350 Bristol 993,479 2,080,468 North Somerset 551,831 1,162,243 South Gloucestershire 468,324 990,292 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Date

16 January 2002

Reference

10801; 378 c378W;378 c392W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many temporary classrooms there are in schools in (a) Somerset and (b) the Yeovil constituency; and if he will make a statement. - Inc figures and fact that the information requested is not held centrally.

Asked by

Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

11 April 2000

Reference

348 c90W; 118640

House

House of Commons

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