HC Deb 25 March 1999 vol 328 cc368-73W
Mr. Willis

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list by local education authority the (i) amounts bid for and (ii) grants made by his Department for(a) 1998–99 and (b) 1999–2000 for revenue expenditure to meet his class size pledge. [78630]

Ms Estelle Morris

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 23 March 1999,Official Report, column 192.

Mr. Willis

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the bids made by local education authorities for (i) 1998–99 and (ii) 1999–2000 for(a) extra teachers and (b) new classrooms to meet the Government's class size pledge. [78633]

Ms Estelle Morris

I refer the hon. Member to the answers I gave on 10 February 1999,Official Report, column 271; 2 March 1999, Official Report, column 613; and 23 March 1999, Official Report, column 192.

Mr. Willis

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list by local education authority his estimate of the impact of class size reduction grants made by his Department for (i) 1998–99 and (ii) 1999–2000 in terms of extra(a) teachers and (b) classrooms. [78631]

Ms Estelle Morris

The information requested is set out in the following table.

The impact of capital and revenue funding to reduce infant class sizes in 1998–99 and 1999–2000
1998–99 1999–2000
LEA name Added classrooms Extra teachers Added classrooms Extra teachers
Barking and Dagenham 2 3
Barnet 3 5 10
Barnsley 6 27
Bath and North East Somerset 2 2 12
Bedfordshire 10 15 53
Bexley 5 14 2 15
Birmingham 5 4
Blackburn 3 9 7 13
Blackpool 7 5 3 17
Bolton 3 7 60
Bournemouth 9 5
Bracknell 2 5 8
Bradford 2 46 66
Brent 1
Brighton and Hove 6 7 15
Bristol 3 3 14
Bromley 5 14 4 27
Buckinghamshire 2 7 20 83
Bury 16 44 3 49
Calderdale 1 13 16
Cambridgeshire 10 11 69
Camden 1
Cheshire 10 14 100
City of London
Cornwall 5 8 56
Coventry 3 50 4 42
Croydon 1 7 17
Cumbria 3 10 14 51
Darlington 3 4 14
Derby 14 75 2 59
Derbyshire 22 100 24 133
Devon 8 79 2 75
Doncaster 4 37
Dorset 3 31 10 61
Dudley 4 7 17
Durham 3 24 5 46
Ealing 4 20 5 17
East Riding of Yorkshire 1 16 14 39
East Sussex 6 8 4 58
Enfield 3 8 27
Essex 7 16 77
Gateshead 2 9 8
Gloucestershire 4 8 56
Greenwich 1 2 0
Hackney 6
Halton 2 23
Hammersmith and Fulham
Hampshire 12 10 108
Haringey 3 3
Harrow 7
Hartlepool 2 5 2 7
Havering 1
Herefordshire 10 12 16
Hertfordshire 4 35 5 102
Hillingdon 12 22 16 16
Hounslow 8 11
Isle of Wight 2 11 1 15
Isles of Scilly
Islington
Kensington and Chelsea
Kent 11 12 80
Kingston upon Hull 7 23
Kingston upon Thames 26 9
Kirklees 6 44 10 57
Knowsley 1 5 12
Lambeth 3 2 4
Lancashire 30 57 61 121
Leeds 3 33 9 111
Leicester City 4 35 11 17

The impact of capital and revenue funding to reduce infant class sizes in 1998–99 and 1999–2000
1998–99 1999–2000
LEA name Added classrooms Extra teachers Added classrooms Extra teachers
Leicestershire 10 26 6 57
Lewisham
Lincolnshire 3 6 9 31
Liverpool 1 3 9
Luton 1 10 10
Manchester 9 1 3
Medway 3 3 28
Merton 27 9
Middlesbrough 1 5 12
Milton Keynes 4 16
Newcastle upon Tyne 8 40 1 28
Newham 6 16 7 10
Norfolk 5 29 13 71
North East Lincolnshire 8 2 29
North Lincolnshire 5 39 2 41
North Somerset 3 1 19
North Tyneside 5 5 14
North Yorkshire 7 19 70
Northamptonshire 3 13 24
Northumberland 3 22 10 37
Nottingham City 6 8 2 23
Nottinghamshire 5 38 80
Oldham 13 14 43
Oxfordshire 12 37 17 57
Peterborough 10 6 31
Plymouth 36 33
Poole 5 4 12
Portsmouth 4 6
Reading 2 3 10
Redbridge 7 4 9
Redcar and Cleveland 4 4 5
Richmond upon Thames 9 10 8
Rochdale 4 9 32
Rotherham 1 16 13 23
Rutland 3
Salford 2 14 4 15
Sandwell 15 82 4 50
Sefton 5 5 7 23
Sheffield 22 3 45
Shropshire 7 3 40
Slough 5 8 16
Solihull 22 43 13 32
Somerset 5 9 58
South Gloucestershire 14 34 9 48
South Tyneside 6 6
Southampton 4 9
Southend on Sea 3 2 9
Southwark 2
St. Helens 4 7 8
Staffordshire 4 9 87
Stockport 9 14 11 44
Stockton on Tees 5 2 10
Stoke on Trent 2 19 24
Suffolk 11 22
Sunderland 1 1 6
Surrey 6 4 71
Sutton 6 11 4 12
Swindon 7 25
Tameside 27 9 28
Telford and Wrekin 4 13 1 19
Thurrock 1 5 6
Torbay 4 5 12
Tower Hamlets
Trafford 7 6 21
Wakefield 11 6 7 28
Walsall 6 5 6 18
Waltham Forest 3
Wandsworth 10 5 10

The impact of capital and revenue funding to reduce infant class sizes in 1998–99 and 1999–2000
1998–99 1999–2000
LEA name Added classrooms Extra teachers Added classrooms Extra teachers
Warrington 4 4 10 8
Warwickshire 3 39 4 52
West Berkshire 6 7
West Sussex 17 12 38
Westminster
Wigan 10 23 16 33
Wiltshire 6 21 16 50
Windsor and Maidenhead 2 2 15
Wirral 4 13 20
Wokingham 5 6 6
Wolverhampton 6 12 21
Worcestershire 14 40
York, City of 2 10 2 18
National totals 633 1,528 1,020 4,308

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