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[1] LEAs' local school budgets 2000-01: comparative tables. [2] Table showing Standards Fund 2000-01 contributions from the DfEE and LEAs. DfEE. 2000.

Deposited by

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Deposited papers

Date

22 December 2000

Reference

Dep 00/1885

House

House of Commons

Special Educational Needs and Disability Bill (HL) 2000/01

Special Educational Needs and Disability Bill (HL). Lords second reading debate. Agreed to on question. Committed to a Grand Committee.

Lead member

Baroness Blackstone

Answering member

Baroness Blatch

Department

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Debates on bills

Date

19 December 2000

Reference

620 c634-710

House

House of Lords

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many (i) further education trusts, (ii) foundation schools and (iii) city technology colleges were in existence on 1st April; and if they are (a) statutorily required to publish annual reports, (b) statutorily required to publish annual accounts, (c) subject...

Asked by

Tony Wright (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

7 December 2000

For answer on

18 December 2000

Answered on

18 December 2000

Tony Wright: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many (i) further education trusts, (ii) foundation schools and (iii) city technology colleges were in existence on 1 April; and if they are (a) statutorily required to publish annual reports, (b) statutorily required to publish annual accounts, (c) subject to the jurisdiction of the parliamentary or local government ombudsman, (d) subject to audit by the National Audit Office, (e) subject to audit by the Audit Commission, (f) statutorily required to admit the public to committee meetings, (g) statutorily required to hold public meetings, (h) statutorily required to publish the agendas of meetings, (i) statutorily required to publish the minutes of meetings, (j) statutorily required to publish the papers or documents for meetings, (k) statutorily required to keep and make publicly available a register of members' interests, (l) statutorily required to consult and report to local authorities in their areas on their plans and policies and (m) statutorily subject to scrutiny by local authorities in their areas of operation. [142398] Mr. Wicks: On 1 April 2000 there were (a) 425 colleges in the FE sector, (b) 858 foundation schools and 19 foundation special schools and (c) 14 City Technology Colleges and one City College for the Technology of Arts. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Question FE sector Foundation schools City Technology Colleges A Statutorily required to FE sector do not have to Yes 14 of the 15 CTCs are publish annual reports? publish an annual report limited companies and as just examination such are required to results. prepare and publish an annual report. The remaining CTC has no legal status, an annual report is prepared but not published. B Statutorily required to Yes. Requirement of Yes 14 of the 15 CTCs are publish annual accounts? instrument of limited companies and as government. such are required to prepare and publish their annual accounts. The remaining CTC has no legal status, an annual account is prepared but not published. C Subject to the No. The funding councils Yes No, the commissioner jurisdiction of the are subject to the would only be able to parliamentary or local parliamentary ombudsman. test whether CTCs were government ombudsman? Complaints about in his jurisdiction if a individual colleges can complaint were made to be made to either the him. funding council or the Secretary of State. D Subject to audit by the No, but the NAO have the Yes No, the NAO have National Audit Office? right to inspect inspection rights but do accounts (section 53 of not audit. the FHE Act 1992). E Subject to audit by the No Yes No National Audit Office? F Statutory requirement to No. It is up to the No. It is up to the No admit the public to governing body to decide governing body to decide committee meetings? who can attend a who can attend a governing body or governing body or committee meeting. committee meeting. Members of the public do Members of the public do not have a statutory not have a statutory right to attend such right to attend such meetings. meetings. G Statutory requirement to No Yes, at least one a No, but they are hold public meetings? year. required to hold an Annual Governors meeting with parents. H Statutory requirement to Yes. (Instrument of Yes No publish the agendas of Government) meetings? I Statutory requirement to Yes. (Instrument of Yes No publish the minutes of Government) meetings? J Statutory requirement to Yes. (Instrument of Yes No publish the papers or Government) documents for meetings? K Make publicly available Yes. (Instrument of Yes No, but most CTCs have a register of members' Government) or are in the process of interests? preparing registers of interests. L Statutory requirement to No. FE colleges are self Yes No consult and report to governing bodies. local authorities in their areas on their plans and policies? M Statutorily subject to No. FE colleges are self Yes No scrutiny to local governing bodies. authorities in their areas of operation? _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Date

18 December 2000

Reference

360 c21-4W;360 c21-3W; 142398

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will set out, for each local education authority in England for 2000-01, the amount of standards fund grant (a) contribution received from central government, (b) contributed by the local education authority, (c) devolved directly to schools and (d)...

Asked by

Baroness May of Maidenhead (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

18 December 2000

Reference

360 c25-6W; 142488

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

Statement on what improvements he (a) has made and (b) intends to make for meeting the special educational needs of dyslexic pupils. - Inc figures.

Asked by

David Kidney (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

6 December 2000

For answer on

18 December 2000

Answered on

18 December 2000

Mr. Kidney: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what improvements he (a) has made and (b) intends to make for meeting the special educational needs of dyslexic pupils. [141958] Jacqui Smith: We are committed as a Government to helping all children with special educational needs (SEN) to develop their full potential. We are taking a number of steps to raise the awareness of dyslexia and help teachers to improve the identification and assessment of children who have or may have dyslexia, including through baseline assessment, which--although this is not its primary purpose--can be a useful first screen to help teachers identify where a child has learning needs which may require further, more specialist investigation and assessment. The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority is now consulting on our proposals for revising statutory baseline assessment, including our proposal that the 90 current baseline assessment schemes be replaced by a single national scheme, which should help to improve the identification of learning needs. Any national scheme will incorporate the features of local schemes that have been most successful in identifying possible SEN. Training for teachers to support the new scheme would focus on how to use it to identify learning needs needing further investigation and how to devise strategy to help children progress. The National Literacy Strategy has raised standards for all children, including those with dyslexia, and we have started to build on this success by introducing pilot projects in September in 17 LEAs involving over 200 schools to transform standards in English and mathematics for 11 to 14-year-olds. We will implement this nationally in 2001. We are also taking work forward in partnership with some of the voluntary organisations that support children with dyslexia, including the British Dyslexia Association and the Dyslexia Institute. This includes the Department, together with the National Lottery Charities Board and WH Smith, funding a two year "Spell It" (Study Programme to Evaluate Literacy Learning through Individualised Tuition) research project run by the Dyslexia Institute to evaluate the effects of structured programmes of intervention, targeted at seven year old pupils who are experiencing specific difficulties in learning to read, write and spell. Two key aspects of the project are to develop activities that parents can do at home and to share the knowledge and skills of specialist teachers more widely. Following a seminar convened by the DfEE in July 1999 to bring together bodies with an interest and expertise in the field of teaching children with dyslexia, the Pathways Group was formed consisting of representatives from the DfEE and key partners in the field of dyslexia. The Group has been engaged in producing a leaflet designed to help teachers interested in pursuing further training on specific learning difficulties to access relevant training. It is envisaged that the leaflet will direct these teachers towards more detailed course information which will be available via the Department's Inclusion website. Children with dyslexia, along with all children with SEN, will also benefit from more general measures we are taking to support children with SEN. These include: the SEN and Disability Rights Bill, announced in the Queen's Speech in 6 December; the revision of the SEN Code of Practice; and the Standards Fund, through which we are spending £82 million in 2001-02 to improve support for children with special educational needs, which represents a 50 per cent. increase from the £55 million this year.

Date

18 December 2000

Reference

360 c20-1W; 141958

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will set out the payments made to all local education authorities from his Standards Fund expressed in amounts per pupil for each year since 1997. - Includes table.

Asked by

David Kidney (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

6 December 2000

For answer on

14 December 2000

Answered on

14 December 2000

Mr. Kidney: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will set out the payments made to all local education authorities from his Standards Fund expressed in amounts per pupil for each year since 1997. [141956] Ms Estelle Morris: The following table shows payments from the Standards Fund, shown as an amount per pupil, for 1997-98, 1998-99 and 1999-2000, for each local education authority. The figures for 1999-2000 are estimated payments, as audited outturn statements have yet to be received from all authorities. The figures include all grants paid through the Standards Fund payment system, excluding New Deal for Schools Capital, which is not part of the Standards Fund programme. Details for 2000-01 are not yet available. Standards fund payments grant per pupil £ _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Local education authority 1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000 City of London 89 111 797 Camden 37 71 202 Greenwich 31 53 162 Hackney 35 66 239 Hammersmith and Fulham 32 61 158 Islington 41 58 168 Kensington and Chelsea 41 58 198 Lambeth{1} 41 90 217 Lewisham 35 49 137 Southwark 41 57 173 Tower Hamlets 37 51 256 Wandsworth 49 79 173 Westminster 30 54 204 Barking and Dagenham 44 71 97 Barnet 22 47 92 Bexley 21 51 73 Brent 42 63 102 Bromley 30 56 89 Croydon 28 43 103 Ealing 34 45 116 Enfield 30 35 99 Haringey 33 53 189 Harrow 22 35 81 Havering 25 37 62 Hillingdon 28 84 133 Hounslow 30 47 117 Kingston upon Thames 23 42 57 Merton 30 38 146 Newham 30 57 118 Redbridge 27 45 85 Richmond upon Thames 24 33 150 Sutton 30 52 88 Waltham Forest 33 43 147 Birmingham 28 47 120 Coventry 38 63 132 Dudley 28 63 109 Sandwell 29 62 139 Solihull 31 65 113 Walsall 34 60 138 Wolverhampton 37 58 148 Knowsley 28 67 128 Liverpool 31 44 120 St. Helens 25 43 97 Sefton 22 46 96 Wirral 28 45 95 Bolton 27 44 151 Bury 25 79 126 Manchester 34 53 161 Oldham 25 46 204 Rochdale 34 59 133 Salford 25 48 124 Stockport 33 61 120 Tameside 29 52 111 Trafford 30 52 101 Wigan 36 64 117 Barnsley 33 49 111 Doncaster 27 38 110 Rotherham 27 47 142 Sheffield 29 56 128 Bradford 25 47 157 Calderdale 33 52 110 Kirklees 34 64 142 Leeds 29 50 116 Wakefield 31 61 107 Gateshead 32 56 130 Newcastle upon Tyne 43 86 112 North Tyneside 37 59 109 South Tyneside 37 59 110 Sunderland 26 42 78 Isles of Scilly 123 144 496 Bath and North East Somerset 17 50 116 Bristol, City of 28 47 107 North Somerset 28 48 98 South Gloucestershire 31 68 135 Hartlepool 29 63 110 Middlesbrough 24 46 137 Redcar and Cleveland 33 63 104 Stockton-on-Tees 27 49 114 City of Kingston-upon-Hull 28 40 206 East Riding of Yorkshire 31 53 110 North East Lincolnshire 22 59 93 North Lincolnshire 27 81 130 North Yorkshire 30 53 107 York 38 65 115 Bedfordshire 31 51 116 Luton 26 42 149 Buckinghamshire 27 52 130 Milton Keynes 30 48 106 Derbyshire 32 93 103 Derby 27 100 153 Dorset 30 58 104 Poole 26 54 92 Bournemouth 32 49 85 Durham 34 61 121 Darlington 28 63 130 East Sussex 27 55 105 Brighton and Hove 24 57 110 Hampshire 27 43 73 Portsmouth 24 40 101 Southampton 24 41 114 Leicestershire 28 53 94 Leicester 23 55 144 Rutland 50 85 124 Staffordshire 27 48 86 Stoke-on-Trent 30 52 143 Wiltshire 35 60 113 Swindon 30 53 100 Berkshire 28 n/a n/a Bracknell Forest n/a 46 105 Windsor and Maidenhead n/a 52 90 West Berkshire n/a 61 118 Reading n/a 69 125 Slough n/a 66 135 Wokingham n/a 44 96 Cambridgeshire 31 53 106 Peterborough n/a 50 125 Cheshire 29 50 84 Halton n/a 48 97 Warrington n/a 61 120 Devon 33 73 106 Plymouth n/a 61 95 Torbay n/a 46 115 Essex 31 52 78 Southend-on-Sea n/a 48 77 Thurrock n/a 47 94 Herefordshire n/a 60 149 Worcestershire 29 42 94 Kent 30 46 85 Medway n/a 44 94 Lancashire 32 57 126 Blackburn with Darwen n/a 51 184 Blackpool n/a 68 114 Nottinghamshire 26 45 86 Nottingham n/a 66 171 Shropshire 33 66 104 Telford and Wrekin n/a 82 135 Cornwall 35 59 140 Cumbria 36 63 107 Gloucestershire 36 66 96 Hertfordshire 31 52 82 Isle of Wight 38 65 111 Lincolnshire 32 53 92 Norfolk 33 62 99 Northamptonshire 33 54 102 Northumberland 34 59 114 Oxfordshire 33 61 121 Somerset 32 62 119 Suffolk 29 43 75 Surrey 28 51 83 Warwickshire 29 52 105 West Sussex 32 54 84 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Estimated for 1998-99 n/a--Authorities affected by local government reorganisation in April 1998 Note: Payments to Lambeth were stopped after September 1998 due to unresolved issues surrounding their audited outturn statement.

Date

14 December 2000

Reference

359 c232-4W;359 c230-2W; 141956

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, when he will issue further guidance to local education authorities and higher education institutions concerning students who are temporarily absent from their studies due to (a) illness and (b) caring responsibilities.

Asked by

Hilary Benn (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

6 December 2000

For answer on

14 December 2000

Answered on

14 December 2000

Mr. Hilary Benn: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment when he will issue further guidance to local education authorities and higher education institutions concerning students who are temporarily absent from their studies due to (a) illness and (b) caring responsibilities. [141312] Mr. Wicks: The Department issued further guidance in early November 2000 to all local education authorities and Higher Education institutions on the provisions for students who are temporarily absent from their course due to illness or caring responsibilities. Similar information was also made available to students in Higher Education. Under the Education (Student Support) Regulations, full-time students in England and Wales who are absent from their course because of illness are entitled to continue to receive student support for the first 60 days of absence. Before academic year 1998-99 this was only 28 days. Local education authorities also have the discretion to determine whether student support should be continued when a student is absent for reasons other than illness or caring duties. Full-time students who have suspended their studies because of illness or caring responsibilities, and who are required to wait until they are permitted to rejoin their course, can now claim Jobseeker's Allowance and Housing/Council Tax Benefit from when they recover from illness or their caring duties end. The revised guidance encourages local education authorities to use the discretionary powers available to them to continue paying student support when a student is temporarily absent from their course.

Date

14 December 2000

Reference

359 c234W;359 c232W; 141312

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list the public bodies which (a) are under a duty to and (b) may advise local education authorities of special educational needs of children under the age of five years in order to assist them in planning...

Asked by

Lord Boswell of Aynho (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

14 December 2000

Reference

359 c239-40W;359 c237-8W; 142629

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will make it his policy to allow local education authorities to act as monitors of minimum standards for internet service providers to schools and to stop non-monitored access of chatrooms in schools. - (Holding answer 29 November 2000).

Asked by

Paul Burstow (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

30 November 2000

Reference

357 c808W;357 c809W; 140785

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list the local education authorities involved in the work related studies project, indicating in each case the value of the project and the progress in meeting their objectives. - Inc tables.

Asked by

Win Griffiths (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

27 November 2000

For answer on

30 November 2000

Answered on

30 November 2000

Mr. Win Griffiths: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the local education authorities involved in the work-related studies project, indicating in each case the value of the project and the progress in meeting their objectives. [140941] Mr. Wicks: The Department is providing funding to local education authorities in 2000-01 to support locally derived and delivered work-related learning projects under two initiatives: Key stage 4 demonstration projects grants in 2000-01 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. LEA £ Barking and Dagenham 18,000 Barnsley 25,000 Camden 28,000 Cheshire 31,000 Coventry 20,000 Croydon 20,000 Gloucestershire 28,000 Greenwich 12,000 Kirklees 15,000 Lewisham 24,000 Merton 24,000 Newham 22,000 Sheffield 19,920 Shropshire 18,000 Southwark 20,000 St. Helens 14,000 Stoke-on-Trent 18,000 Trafford 18,000 Wigan 27,000 Worcestershire 20,000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Action research projects grants in 2000-01 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. LEA £ Barnsley 60,000 Coventry 61,000 Derbyshire 63,000 Devon 65,000 Dudley 50,000 Islington 65,000 Lancashire 65,000 Leicester 65,000 Manchester 65,000 Portsmouth 58,000 Rochdale 27,000 Sheffield 77,000 Solihull 65,000 Southwark 66,000 Tower Hamlets 53,000 Wakefield 60,000 Warwickshire 53,000 Wigan 65,500 York 50,000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. The aim of the programmes is to develop work-related opportunities which are relevant to all 14 to 16-year-olds, but with disaffected and underachievers a priority. The projects seek to encourage schools to pursue innovative approaches to vocational and work-related education that also help pupils make a successful transition to adult and working life. An independent national evaluation is being carried out on these projects on behalf of the Department. The Key Stage 4 Demonstration Projects evaluation has been completed and the report is currently being made ready for publication. The evaluation found that projects made good progress against key objectives during the two years they were evaluated, with project participants showing improving attendance and behaviour and helping with attainment and progression. The Action Research Projects evaluation is still under way, with outcome data being collected. This should be complete by the end of this year with a report ready in early 2001.

Date

30 November 2000

Reference

357 c809-10W; 140941

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list for each local education authority (a) in receipt of area cost adjustment and (b) not in receipt of area cost adjustment, the average teacher salary in each of the last 10 years for which figures are...

Asked by

Lord Jones of Cheltenham (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

30 November 2000

Reference

357 c819W;357 c811W; 140518

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many teachers there are in each local education authority; and how many of them have applied for the performance related pay threshold assessment in (a) actual terms and (b) as a percentage of the number of teachers in each...

Asked by

Lord Allan of Hallam (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

30 November 2000

Reference

357 c818W;357 c807W; 140775

House

House of Commons

Deposited Paper Dep 00/1760

Tables showing individual grants within the Standards Fund and Capital grants for education in Stoke-on-Trent local education authority. DfEE. 2000.

Deposited by

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Deposited papers

Date

29 November 2000

Reference

Dep 00/1760

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if all local education authorities recognise dyslexia as a special educational need; and how many local education authorities have been taken to Tribunal for Special Educational Needs appeals in disputes over children with dyslexia since its establishment. - Includes figures.

Asked by

Win Griffiths (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

28 November 2000

Reference

357 c583W; 140527

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many female pupils were excluded from school because of pregnancy in England between 1980 to 2000; and if he will make a statement; if he will list the 10 education authorities with (a) the highest and (b) the lowest...

Asked by

Chris Ruane (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

28 November 2000

Reference

357 c584W; 140542;140483

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list those local education authorities which have (a) funded, (b) partially funded and (c) not funded the cost to schools with sixth forms of implementing the new sixth form curriculum. - (Holding answer 17 November 2000).

Asked by

Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

21 November 2000

Reference

357 c134W; 139070

House

House of Commons

Westminster Hall adjournment debate on the Educational Maintenance Allowance Scheme in Cornwall

Westminster Hall adjournment debate on the Educational Maintenance Allowance Scheme in Cornwall.

Lead member

Lord Taylor of Goss Moor

Answering member

Malcolm Wicks

Type

Adjournment debates

Date

21 November 2000

Reference

357 c25-32WH

House

House of Commons

Special grant report (No 70) on threshold payments. Report by the Secretary of State for Education and Employment under section 88B of the Local Government Finance Act 1988.

Type

House of Commons papers

Notes

Received 20.11.00

Date

20 November 2000

Reference

HC 963 1999/2000

House

House of Commons

Special grant report (No 71) on leadership group payments. Report by the Secretary of State for Education and Employment under section 88B of the Local Government Finance Act 1988.

Type

House of Commons papers

Notes

Received 20.11.00

Date

20 November 2000

Reference

HC 964 1999/2000

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list by (a) authority and (b) as a total, the results of the asset management plan condition data surveys, breaking the data down according to each of the four levels of priority, as required by the Department....

Asked by

Lord Willis of Knaresborough (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

14 November 2000

Reference

356 c597W; 136751

House

House of Commons

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