§ Mr. HarveyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list for schools in the Devon Local Education Authority the change in the average size of classes, taught by one teacher, between January 1998 and January 1999 for pupils in(a) nursery classes, (b) Key Stage Two and (c) secondary schools. [84645]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisInformation on class sizes for individual schools is not published centrally. The available information for Devon Local Education Authority area is shown in the following table.
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New Deal for schools—Phase 3 Table of allocations as a percentage of total bids
Local Education Authority NDS 3 bid (£) NDS 3 allocation (£) NDS 3 allocation as a percentage of bid (%) Barking & Dagenham 21,097,222 1,921,000 9.11 Barnet 5,967,682 1,388,500 23.27 Barnsley 7,639,233 1,062,000 13.90 Bath & North East Somerset 5,290,678 940,201 17.77 Bedfordshire 4,698,729 1,835,676 39.07 Bexley Council 3,228,916 786,908 24.37 Birmingham 16,760,924 6,909,845 41.23 Blackburn With Darwen 7,818,980 1,467,030 18,76 Blackpool1 8,346,200 750,000 8.99 Bolton 17,725,984 3,309,915 18.67 Bournemouth 5,859,788 1,073,200 18.31 Bracknell Forest 6,106,617 450,528 7.38 Bradford 27,026,971 20,000,000 74.00 Brent 13,313,899 1,361,904 10.23 Brighton & Hove 4,638,498 866,933 18.69 Bromley 3,357,485 780,616 23.25 The Government have pledged to reduce infant class sizes to 30 or below by September 2001 at the latest, and we are on course to meet that pledge.
Average class size of one teacher classes—Devon local authority area 11998 11999 Nursery classes 27.0 25.6 Key Stage One 26.8 24.8 Key Stage Two 29.3 28.9 Overall Primary 28.0 26.7 Secondary 21.7 21.9 1January each year