HC Deb 24 October 1995 vol 264 cc622-33W
Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many pupils attended each school taking part in the assisted places scheme in the last academic year; how many in each case were on an assisted place; and what was the percentage on the assisted places scheme. [37933]

Mrs. Gillan

[holding answer 19 October 1995]: The information requested, which relates to England only and to the academic year 1994–95, is given in the following table.

Assisted places scheme 1994–95 academic year
School name Number of pupils on roll1 Number of APs Percentage of APs
Abbey School, Reading 991 47 4.74
Abingdon 761 96 12.61
Ackworth 470 26 5.53
Aldenham 350 29 8.29
Alice Ottley 700 89 12.71
Alleyn's, Dulwich 1,101 207 18.80
Ardingly College 668 31 4.64
Arnold School, Blackpool 1,145 80 6.99
Ashford 556 42 7.55
Ashville College 725 15 2.07
Austin Friars 298 15 5.03
Bancroft's 943 80 8.48
Barnard Castle 624 23 3.69
Bath High GPDST 632 100 15.82
Batley Grammar 582 270 46.39
Bedales 646 3 .46
Bedford 1,119 104 9.29
Bedford High 916 113 12.34
Bedford Modern 1,171 144 12.30
Belvedere GPDST 653 177 27.11
Berkhamstead Girls 529 21 3.97
Berkhamsted 694 28 4.03
Birkenhead 1,086 179 16.48
Birkenhead High GPDST 973 251 25.80
Bishop's Stortford College 564 50 8.87
Blackheath High GPDST 596 96 16.11
Bloxham, Banbury 339 26 7.67
Bolton School Boys 1,008 253 25.10
Bolton School Girls 1,162 240 20.65
Bootham, York 334 30 8.98
Bradfield College 592 6 1.01
Assisted places scheme 1994–95 academic year
School name Number of pupils on roll1 Number of APs Percentage of APs
Bradford Girls Grammar 911 65 7.14
Bradford Grammar School 1,107 231 20.87
Brentwood School 1,259 113 8.98
Brighton College 472 114 24.15
Brighton and Hove High School GPDST 750 155 20.67
Bristol Cathedral 471 132 28.03
Bristol Grammar 1,225 280 22.86
Bromley High GPDST 792 102 12.88
Bromsgrove 1,156 27 2.34
Bruton Girls 538 137 25.46
Burgess High Girls 610 30 4.92
Bury Grammar Boys 820 209 25.49
Bury Grammar Girls 1,092 253 23.17
Canford 467 31 6.64
Carmel College 213 76 35.68
Casterton 359 56 15.60
Caterham 470 133 28.30
Central Newcastle High School GPDST 887 123 13.87
Charterhouse 700 9 1.29
Cheadle Humle 958 136 14.20
Cheltenham Ladies' College 853 23 2.70
Chigwell 668 72 10.78
Christ's Hospital 818 31 3.79
Churcher's College 697 131 18.79
City of London 877 139 15.85
City of London Freemans 716 15 2.09
City of London Girls 640 125 19.53
Clifton College, Bristol 1,063 66 6.21
Clifton High, Bristol 715 54 7.55
Colfe's 971 204 21.01
Colston's Girls 499 178 35.67
Colston's Bristol 632 98 15.51
Coventry, Bablake 859 188 21.89
Cranleigh 691 35 5.07
Croham Hurst 496 27 5.44
Croydon High GPDST 1,029 96 9.33
Culford 612 51 8.33
Dame Alice Harpur 943 144 15.27
Dame Allans Boys 458 113 24.67
Dame Allans Girls 443 140 31.60
Dauntseys 620 60 9.68
Denstone College 296 119 40.20
Derby High 530 25 4.72
Douai, Reading 197 28 14.21
Dover College 221 25 11.31
Downe House, Newbury 553 16 2.89
Dulwich College 1,406 275 19.56
Durham 429 44 10.26
Edgbaston College Girls 319 27 8.46
Edgehill College 470 141 30.00
Ellesmere College 352 17 4.83
Eltham College, London SE9 769 121 15.73
Emanuel, London SW11 702 280 39.89
Epsom College 657 23 3.50
Assisted places scheme 1994–95 academic year
School name Number of pupils on roll1 Number of APs Percentage of APs
Exeter 828 169 20.41
Farnborough Hill 536 151 28.17
Felsted, Dunmow 598 54 9.03
Forest School 1,229 139 11.31
Framlingham College 728 13 1.79
Francis Holland 376 30 7.98
Friends, Saffron Walden 341 101 29.62
Giggleswick, Settle 438 21 4.79
Godolphin and Latymer 706 172 24.36
Godolphin, Salisbury 434 29 6.68
Gresham's 743 12 1.62
Guildford High Girls 730 30 4.11
Haberdashers' Aske's Boys 1,301 235 18.06
Haberdashers' Aske Girls 1,138 117 10.28
Haileybury 585 28 4.79
Hampton 947 204 21.54
Harrogate College 342 22 6.43
Headington 768 27 3.52
Hereford Cathedral 634 240 37.85
Highgate 1,077 41 3.81
Hipperholme Grammar 353 18 5.10
Holy Child 295 25 8.47
Hulme Grammar Boys 807 212 26.27
Hulme Grammar Girls 620 189 30.48
Hurstpierpoint College 331 26 7.85
Hymers College 920 155 16.85
Ipswich 731 75 10.26
Ipswich High GPDST 671 112 16.69
James Aliens Girls 1,004 172 17.13
John Lyon's 503 115 22.86
Kent College 684 88 12.87
Kimbolton Schools 730 32 4.38
King Edward VI High 541 131 24.21
King Edward VI Norwich 762 112 14.70
King Edward VI Southampton 937 233 24.87
King Edward VII Lytham 530 219 41.32
King Edward's at Bath 869 102 11.74
King Edward's Birmingham 869 239 27.50
King Edward's Witley 515 58 11.26
King Henry VIII 1,049 93 8.87
King's College Wimbledon 1,181 54 4.57
King's High Girls, Wark 564 135 23.94
King's Bruton 312 27 8.65
King's, Chester 671 89 13.26
King's Macclesfield 1,255 179 14.26
King's, Rochester 653 66 10.11
King's Tynemouth 894 26 2.91
King's, Worcester 921 178 19.33
Kinglsey 566 24 4.24
Kingston Grammar 597 171 28.64
Assisted places scheme 1994–95 academic year
School name Number of pupils on roll1 Number of APs Percentage of APs
Kingswood School, Bath 437 44 10.07
Kirkham Grammar 742 80 10.78
La Sagesse Convent 466 170 36.48
Lady Eleanor Holies 867 42 4.84
Latymer Upper 1,065 264 24.79
Laxton 197 9 4.57
Leeds Girls High 959 81 8.45
Leeds Grammar 1,178 172 14.60
Leicester Grammar 584 45 7.71
Leighton Park 377 27 7.16
Leys, Cambridge 411 38 925
Liverpool College 997 186 18.66
Lord Wandsworth College 455 81 17.80
Loreto Convent Grammar 683 41 6.00
Loughborough Grammar 940 130 13.83
Loughborough High 534 95 17.79
Magdalen College 513 125 24.37
Malvern College 834 101 12.11
Manchester Grammar 1,414 264 18.67
Manchester High 934 181 19.38
Marist Convent Senior 372 19 5.11
Maynard 540 168 31.11
Merchant Taylors' Girls 914 197 21.55
Merchant Taylors', L'pool 823 223 27.10
Merchant Taylors', N'wood 748 83 11.10
Mill Hill 527 75 14.23
Monkton Combe 311 41 13.18
Mount Carmel, Cheshire 545 30 5.50
Mount St. Mary's College 297 70 23.57
Mount, York 274 30 10.95
Newcastle under Lyme 1,293 383 29.62
Newcastle upon Tyne Church High 651 30 4.61
North London Collegiate 971 89 9.17
Northampton High 831 167 20.10
Norwich High GPDST 894 176 19.69
Notting Hill and Ealing High GPDST 840 117 13.93
Nottingham Girls High GPDST 1,091 204 18.70
Nottingham High 841 171 20.33
Oakham 1,005 28 2.79
Old Palace, Croydon 817 226 27.66
Oxford High GPDST 650 57 8.77
Pangbourne College 392 25 6.38
Perse School for Boys 643 40 6.22
Perse School for Girls 710 78 10.99
Plymouth College 824 202 24.51
Pocklington 735 152 20.68
Polam Hall 409 40 9.78
Assisted places scheme 1994–95 academic year
School name Number of pupils onroll1 Number of APs Percentage of APs
Portsmouth Grammar 1,173 178 15.17
Portsmouth High GPDST 743 138 18.57
Prior Park College 491 30 6.11
Putney High School GPDST 849 97 11.43
Queen Elizabeth's Hospital, Bristol 501 179 35.73
Queen Elizabeth's, Blackburn 1,132 267 23.59
Queen Elizabeth, Wakefield 749 133 17.76
Queen Mary, Lytham 638 231 36.21
Queen's College, London 367 79 21.53
Queen's College, Taunton 675 67 9.93
Queen's School, Chester 634 58 9.15
Ratcliffe College 479 74 15.45
Red Maids', Bristol 581 178 30.64
Redland High, Bristol 638 102 15.99
Reed's School, Cobham 351 26 7.41
Reigate Grammar 775 99 12.77
Rendcomb College 247 29 11.74
Repton 570 58 10.18
Rossall 657 43 6.54
Royal Grammar, Guildford 834 124 14.87
Royal Grammar, Newcastle upon Tyne 1,098 218 19.85
Royal Grammar, Worcester 795 287 36.10
Ryde School 689 17 2.47
Salesian College 490 75 15.31
Scarborough College 381 30 7.87
Sedbergh 376 45 11.97
Sevenoaks, Kent 931 26 2.79
Sheffield High GPDST 780 96 12.31
Shrewsbury High GPDST 582 91 15.64
Silcoates 595 15 2.52
Sir William Perkin's 591 89 15.06
Solihull 994 36 3.62
South Hampstead High GPDST 883 77 8.72
St. Albans 635 139 21.89
St. Albans High Girls 697 56 8.03
St. Ambrose College 908 54 5.95
St. Anselm's College 839 193 23.00
St. Bede's College 1,169 220 18.82
St. Bees 287 74 25.78
St. Benedict's 544 74 13.60
St. Catherine's 603 34 5.64
St. Dunstan's College 837 163 19.47
St. Edmund's College 535 80 14.95
St. Edward's College 1,047 396 37.82
St. Felix, Southwold 308 32 10.39
Assisted places scheme 1994–95 academic year
School name Number ofpupils onroll1 Number of APs Percentage of APs
St. George's College 499 36 7.21
St. Helen and St. Katharine, Abingdon 530 84 15.85
St. Helen's, Northwood 939 52 5.54
St. John's College, South sea 777 203 26.13
St. John's, Leatherhead 383 17 4.44
St. Joseph'sCollege, Ipswich 714 77 10.78
St. Joseph'sCollege, Stoke on Trent 470 25 5.32
St. Joseph's Convent, Reading 372 130 34.95
St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate 357 32 8.96
St. Margaret's, Bushey 419 27 6.44
St. Margaret's, Exeter 429 31 7.23
St. Mary and St. Anne 281 25 8.90
St. Mary's College, Crosby 870 271 31.15
St. Mary's Convent, Cambridge 571 124 21.72
St. Mary's Hall, Brighton 422 72 17.06
St. Maur's Convent, Weybridge 607 64 10.54
St. Paul's Girls, Hammersmith 604 69 11.42
St. Paul's, Barnes 1,213 76 6.27
St. Peter's, York 756 107 14.15
St. Swithun's, Winchester 628 2 .32
Stafford Grammar 288 25 8.68
Stamford 922 102 11.06
Stamford High 956 113 11.82
Stockport Grammar 1,285 243 18.91
Stonyhurst College 391 37 9.46
Stowe 544 6 1.10
Streatham Hill and Clapham High GPDST 611 164 26.84
Surbiton High 885 27 3.05
Sutton High GPDST 755 70 9.27
Sutton Valence 349 69 19.77
Sydenham High GPDST 699 124 17.74
Talbot Heath 525 137 26.10
Taunton 944 52 5.51
Teeside High 553 24 4.34
Tonbridge 658 3 .46
Tormead 610 28 4.59
Trent College 688 132 19.19
Trinity School of John Whitgift 854 149 17.45
Truro 793 115 14.50
Truro High 392 69 17.60
University College School 816 70 8.58
Upton Hall Convent 601 169 28.12
Ursuline Convent, Kent 216 30 13.89
Assisted places scheme 1994–95 academic year
School name Number of pupils on roll1 Number of APs Percentage of APs
Ursuline High, Ilford 368 142 38.59
Wakefield High 1,061 144 13.57
Walthamstow Hall 528 46 8.71
Warwick 993 145 14.60
Wellingborough 766 67 8.75
Wellington College 810 39 4.81
Wellington, Somerset 778 230 29.56
Wells Cathedral 806 73 9.06
West Buckland 548 82 14.96
Westholme 1,009 30 2.97
Westminster 664 61 9.19
Whitgift, Croydon 1,063 113 10.63
William Hulme Grammar 789 221 28.01
Wimbledon High GPDST 810 78 9.63
Winchester College 667 23 3.45
Wisbech Grammar 638 336 52.66
Withington Girls 593 78 13.15
Wolverhampton Grammar 696 267 38.36
Woodbridge 744 128 17.20
Woodhouse Grove 774 127 16.41
Worksop 326 25 7.67
Wrekin College 248 15 6.05
Wycliffe College 607 43 7.08
Yarm 473 44 9.30
1 As at January 1995.

Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what were the fees charged by each school taking part in the assisted places scheme in the last academic year. [37931]

Mrs. Gillan

[holding answer 19 October 1995]: The information requested, which relates to England only and to the academic year 1994–95, is given in the following table:

Assisted places scheme 1994–95 academic year
School name Annual fees charged for assisted pupils £
Abbey School, Reading 3,615
Abingdon 4,472
Ackworth 4,093
Aldenham 7,742
Alice Ottley 4,092
Alleyn's Dulwich 5,461
Ardingly College 7,379
Arnold School, Blackpool 3,405
Ashford 4,790
Ashville College 4,520
Austin Friars 3,966
Bancroft's 4,440
Barnard Castle 4,230
Bath High GPDST 3,405
Batley Grammar 3,189
Bedales 8,158
Bedford 5,866
Bedford High 4,401
Bedford Modern 4,056
Belvedere GPDST 3,405
Berkhamstead Girls 4,903
Berkhamsted 5,926
Assisted places scheme 1994–95 academic year
School name Annual fees charged for assisted pupils £
Birkenhead 3,249
Birkenhead High GPDST 3,405
Bishop's Stortford College 6,861
Blackheath High GPDST 3,825
Bloxham, Banbury 6,846
Bolton School Boys 4,071
Bolton School Girls 4,071
Bootham, York 5,426
Bradfield College 8,612
Bradford Girls Grmmar 3,720
Bradford Grammar School 3,619
Brentwood School 4,633
Brighton College 6,326
Brighton and Hove High School GPDST 3,405
Bristol Cathedral 3,813
Bristol Grammar 3,613
Bromley High GPDST 3,825
Bromsgrove 5,140
Bruton Girls 3,315
Burgess Hill Girls 4,896
Bury Grammar Boys 3,216
Bury Grammar Girls 3,216
Canford 8,250
Carmel College 7,344
Casterton 5,011
Caterham 4,910
Central Newcastle High School GPDST 3,405
Charterhouse 9,459
Cheadle Hulme 3,786
Cheltenham Ladies' College 6,875
Chigwell 6,029
Christ's Hospital 6,480
Churcher's College 4,656
City of London 5,365
City of London Freeman's 5,431
City of London Girls 4,633
Clifton College, Bristol 7,049
Clifton High, Bristol 3,962
Colfe's 4,220
Colston's Girls 3,384
Colston's, Bristol 4,978
Coventry, Bablake 3,315
Cranleigh 7,068
Croham Hurst 3,925
Croydon High GPDST 3,825
Culford 5,512
Dame Alice Harpur 3,807
Dame Allan's Boys 3,300
Dame Allan's Girls 3,300
Dauntsey's 5,841
Denstone College 6,037
Derby High 4,137
Douai, Reading 4,987
Dover College 5,488
Downe House, Newbury 7,032
Dulwich College 5,954
Durham 6,191
Edgbaston College Girls 4,309
Edgehill College 4,706
Ellesmere College 5,999
Eltham College, London SE9 4,791
Emanuel, London SW11 4,352
Epsom College 6,675
Exeter 3,789
Farnborough Hill 4,022
Felsted, Dunmow 7,758
Forest School 4,396
Framlingham College 5,718
Francis Holland 4,417
Friends, Saffron Walden 5,657
Giggleswick, Settle 5,067
Assisted places scheme 1994–95 academic year
School name Annual fees charged for assisted pupils £
Godolphin & Latymer 5,166
Godolphin Salisbury 5,821
Gresham's 7,568
Guildford High Girls 4,530
Haberdashers' Aske's Boys 5,010
Haberdashers' Aske's Girls 3.505
Haileybury 6,735
Hampton 4,237
Harrogate College 5,400
Headington 4,079
Hereford Cathedral 4,185
Highgate 5,939
Hipperholme Grammar 2,951
Holy Child 4,476
Hulme Grammar Boys 3,426
Hulme Grammar Girls 3,426
Hurstpierpoint College 7,711
Hymers College 3,259
Ipswich 4,534
Ipswich High GPDST 3,405
James Allen's Girls 5,216
John Lyon's 4,721
Kent College 4,932
Kimbolton Schools 4,572
King Edward VI High 3,756
King Edward VI Norwich 3,976
King Edward VI Southampton 4,116
King Edward VII Lytham 3,135
King Edward's at Bath 3,765
King Edward's Birmingham 4,134
King Edward's Witley 5,423
King Henry VIII 3,302
King's College Wimbledon 5,802
King's High Girls, Wark 3,530
King's Bruton 6,450
King's Chester 3,684
King's Macclesfield 3,942
King's Rochester 5,652
King's Tynemouth 3,312
King's Worcester 4,797
Kingsley 3,845
Kingston Grammar 4,491
Kingswood School, Bath 4,919
Kirkham Grammar 3,229
La Sagesse Convent 3,515
Lady Eleanor Holies 4,281
Latymer Upper 4,476
Laxton 4,506
Leeds Girls High 3,814
Leeds Grammar 3,729
Leicester Grammar 3,378
Leighton Park 7,720
Leys, Cambridge 7,537
Liverpool College 3,984
Lord Wandsworth College 6,468
Loreto Convent Grammar 2,671
Loughborough Grammar 3,762
Loughborough High 3,399
Magdalen College 4,288
Malvern College 7,297
Manchester Grammar 3,704
Manchester High 3,589
Marist Convent Senior 3,650
Maynard 3,637
Merchant Taylors' Girls 3,420
Merchant Taylors', Liverpool 3,418
Merchant Taylors', Norwood 5,972
Mill Hill 6,509
Monkton Combe 6,970
Mount Carmel, Cheshire 3,056
Mount St Mary's College 5,020
Assisted places scheme 1994–95 academic year
School name Annual fees charged for assisted pupils £
Mount, York 5,608
Newcastle Under Lyme 3,190
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Church High 3,426
North London Collegiate 4,302
Northampton High 3,858
Norwich High GPDST 3,405
Notting Hill and Ealing High GPDST 3,825
Nottingham Girls High GPDST 3,405
Nottingham High 3,865
Oakham 5,833
Old Palace, Croydon 3,681
Oxford High GPDST 3,405
Pangbourne College 6,878
Perse School for Boys 4,150
Perse School for Girls 3,672
Plymouth College 3,958
Pocklington 4,377
Polam Hall 3,887
Portsmouth Grammar 3,701
Portsmouth High GPDST 3,420
Prior Park College 4,378
Putney High School GPDST 3,825
Queen Elizabeth's Hospital, Bristol 3,758
Queen Elizabeth's, Blackburn 3,588
Queen Elizabeth, Wakefield 3,615
Queen Mary, Lytham 3,135
Queen's College, London 4,920
Queen's College, Taunton 5,245
Queen's School, Chester 3,291
Ratcliffe College 4,864
Red Maids', Bristol 3,665
Redland High, Bristol 3,602
Reed's School, Cobham 6,131
Reigate Grammar 4,170
Rendcomb College 6,361
Repton 7,640
Rossall 5,588
Royal Grammar, Guildford 5,467
Royal Grammar, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 3,330
Royal Grammar, Worcester 4,146
Ryde School 3,966
Salesian College 2,662
Scarborough College 4,694
Sedbergh 7,369
Sevenoaks, Kent 6,033
Sheffield High GPDST 3,405
Shrewsbury High GPDST 3,405
Silcoates 4,997
Sir William Perkins's 3,517
Solihull 3,978
South Hampstead High GPDST 3,825
St Albans 4,521
St Albans High Girls 4,182
St Ambrose College 3,094
St Anselm's College 3,003
St Bede's College 3,654
St Bees 6,202
St Benedict's 4,484
St Catherine's 5,297
St Dunstan's College 4,231
St Edmund's College 5,106
St Edward's College 3,297
St Felix, Southwold 5,537
St George's College 5,953
St Helen and St Katherine, Abingdon 3,603
St Helen's, Northwood 4,401
St John's College, Southsea 3,340
St John's, Leatherhead 6,402
St Joseph's College, Ipswich 3,798
St Joseph's College, Stoke-on Trent 3,051
St Joseph's Convent, Reading 3,527
Assisted places scheme 1994–95 academic year
School name Annual fees charged for assisted pupils £
St Lawrence College, Ramsgate 5,999
St Margaret's, Bushey 4,763
St Margaret's, Exeter 3,489
St Mary and St Anne 6,423
St Mary's College, Crosby 3,413
St Mary's Convent, Cambridge 3,515
St Mary's Hall, Brighton 5,349
St Maur's Convent, Weybridge 4,077
St Paul's Girls, Hammersmith 5,521
St Paul's, Barnes 6,452
St Peter's, York 5,533
St Swithun's, Winchester 5,964
Stafford Grammar 3,843
Stamford 3,762
Stamford High 3,765
Stockport Grammar 3,695
Stonyhurst College 6,729
Stowe 7,743
Streatham Hill and Clapham High GPDST 3,825
Surbiton High 4,296
Sutton High GPDST 3,825
Sutton Valence 6,620
Sydenham High GPDST 3,825
Talbot Heath 4,101
Taunton 5,978
Teesside High 3,259
Tonbridge 7,761
Tormead 4,315
Trent College 5,418
Trinity School of John Whitgift 4,786
Truro 4,074
Truro High 3,630
University College School 5,895
Upton Hall Convent 2,652
Ursuline Convent, Kent 4,616
Ursuline High, Ilford 3,915
Wakefield High 3,615
Walthamstow Hall 5,062
Warwick 4,048
Wellingborough 5,020
Wellington College 7,757
Wellington, Somerset 4,019
Wells Cathedral 4,886
West Buckland 4,392
Westholme 3,282
Westminster 6,933
Whitgift, Croydon 4,928
William Hulme Grammar 3,828
Wimbledon High GPDST 3,825
Winchester College 8,545
Wisbech Grammar 4,270
Withington Girls 3,357
Wolverhampton Grammar 4,130
Woodbridge 5,127
Woodhouse Grove 4,458
Worksop 5,434
Wrekin College 5,757
Wycliffe College 7,350
Yarm 4,318

Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will state for each year in which the assisted places scheme has been operating the number of places available and the number actually taken up, the amount budgeted each year for the scheme and the amount actually spent. [37932]

Mrs. Gillan

[holding answer 19 October 1995]: The information requested is given in the following table:

Year Places 1 available Places 1 taken up Budget2estimate £million Actual2outturn £million
1981–82 5,446 4,185 3.3 3.0
1982–83 11,058 8,616 9.3 8.7
1983–84 15,866 13,102 16.5 15.0
1984–85 20,699 17,386 22.5 22.2
1985–86 25,210 21,412 31.1 29.6
1986–87 29,295 24,478 37.4 37.9
1987–88 33,228 26,899 47.8 46.0
1988–89 33,217 27,083 55.1 50.9
1989–90 33,280 27,008 57.0 56.5
1990–91 33,302 26,740 60.4 63.4
1991–92 33,312 27,641 64.9 75.7
1992–93 33,479 28,674 87.1 392.8
1993–94 33,883 29,291 94.9 92.3
1994–95 33,139 29,747 101.5 101.5
The figures are for England only.
1 Academic year.
2 Financial year.
3 includes £4.9 million brought forward from financial year 1993–94.