§ Mr. ChopeTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list by education authority the number of children of asylum seekers and refugees with English language difficulties who are not being counted as being at school for the purposes of calculating annual primary and secondary performance tables. [47990]
§ Mr. Ivan LewisWe received a number of requests from schools to discount children who had recently arrived from overseas (including children of asylum seekers and refugees) from the 2001 school performance tables.
For the primary school tables, a total of 1,648 children were discounted from the published results in the performance tables.
For the secondary school tables, a total of 1,559 children were discounted. A breakdown by local education authority, for the primary school and secondary school tables respectively, is provided.
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Numbers of children recently arrived from overseas discounted from 2001 performance tables Local education authority Number of children discounted Primary school performance tables Barking and Dagenham 23 Barnet 43 Barnsley 3 Bath and North East Somerset 3 Bedfordshire 7 Bexley 5 Birmingham 42 Blackburn with Darwen 5 Bolton 8 Bournemouth 7 Bracknell Forest 3 Bradford 23 Brent 78 Brighton and Hove 7 Bristol, City of 9 Bromley 4 Buckinghamshire 5 Calderdale 1 Cambridgeshire 2 Camden 13 Cheshire 3 Coventry 24 Croydon 33 Cumbria 1 Derby City 6 Derbyshire 2 Devon 2 Doncaster 4 Dorset 1 Dudley 5 Durham 1 Ealing 53 East Sussex 4 Enfield 55 Essex 12 Gateshead 2 Gloucestershire 3
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Numbers of children recently arrived from overseas discounted from 2001 performance tables Local education authority Number of children discounted Greenwich 28 Hackney 44 Halton 1 Hammersmith and Fulham 27 Hampshire 7 Haringey 66 Harrow 32 Havering 6 Hertfordshire 12 Hillingdon 14 Hounslow 34 Islington 7 Kensington and Chelsea 23 Kent 26 Kingston upon Hull, City of 6 Kingston upon Thames 21 Kirklees 4 Lambeth 19 Lancashire 8 Leeds 12 Leicester City 40 Leicester 4 Lewisham 31 Lincolnshire 3 Liverpool 24 Luton 16 Manchester 41 Medway 2 Merton 10 Milton Keynes 10 Newcastle upon Tyne 22 Newham 116 Norfolk 3 North East Lincolnshire 1 North Lincolnshire 1 North Tyneside 2 North Yorkshire 3 Northamptonshire 11 Nottingham City 9 Nottinghamshire 3 Oldham 10 Oxfordshire 19 Peterborough City 8 Plymouth 8 Portsmouth 1 Reading 10 Redbridge 32 Redcar and Cleveland 2 Richmond upon Thames 2 Rochdale 3 Salford 11 Sandwell 4 Sefton 4 Sheffield 33 Slough 4 Solihull 2 Somerset 1 South Gloucestershire 2 South Tyneside 2 Southampton 3 Southend-on-Sea 4 Southwark 51 Staffordshire 1 Stockport 2 Stockton on Tees 2 Stoke on Trent 4 Suffolk 8 Sunderland 4 Surrey 5 Sutton 7 Swindon 7
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Numbers of children recently arrived from overseas discounted from 2001 performance tables Local education authority Number of children discounted Tameside 2 Tower Hamlets 25 Trafford 4 Wakefield 1 Walsall 3 Waltham Forest 30 Wandsworth 36 Warrington 1 Warwickshire 4 West Berkshire 1 West Sussex 4 Westminster, City of 20 Wigan 3 Wiltshire 2 Wolverhampton 2 Worcestershire 2 York, City of 1 Secondary school performance tables Barking and Dagenham 20 Barnet 41 Bedfordshire 14 Bexley 1 Birmingham 32 Blackburn with Darwen 1 Blackpool 2 Bolton 2 Bournemouth 1 Bradford 10 Brent 60 Brighton and Hove 23 Bristol, City of 6 Buckinghamshire 2 Bury 2 Calderdale 5 Cambridgeshire 8 Camden 16 Cheshire 2 Coventry 20 Croydon 78 Cumbria 6 Derbyshire 10 Dorset 7 Dudley 2 Durham 4 Ealing 63 East Sussex 16 Enfield 30 Essex 18 Gateshead 2 Gloucestershire 14 Greenwich 23 Hackney 25 Hammersmith and Fulham 40 Hampshire 6 Haringey 59 Harrow 41 Havering 2 Hertfordshire 11 Hillingdon 7 Hounslow 34 Islington 49 Kensington and Chelsea 33 Kent 27 Kingston upon Thames 7 Lewisham 20 Lincolnshire 1 Liverpool 1 Luton 17 Manchester 30 Medway 5
Numbers of children recently arrived from overseas discounted from 2001 performance tables Local education authority Number of children discounted Merton 22 Milton Keynes 7 Newcastle upon Tyne 4 Newham 72 Norfolk 6 North East Lincolnshire 2 North Tyneside 3 North Yorkshire 8 Northamptonshire 10 Nottingham City 2 Nottinghamshire 1 Oldham 2 Oxfordshire 14 Peterborough City 2 Plymouth 4 Reading 5 Redbridge 29 Redcar and Cleveland 1 Rotherham 1 Sandwell 2 Sheffield 26 Shropshire 22 Slough 7 Solihull 1 Somerset 6 South Gloucestershire 1 Southwark 69 Staffordshire 1 Suffolk 16 Surrey 16 Swindon 1 Tameside 2 The Wrekin 2 Torbay 4 Tower Hamlets 20 Trafford 1 Waltham Forest 68 Wandsworth 16 Warrington 1 West Berkshire 1 West Sussex 3 Westminster, City of 4 Wiltshire 2 Wolverhampton 17 Worcestershire 2
§ Mr. ChopeTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list by education authority the amount of money paid in 2001–02 by her Department to support the education costs of children of asylum seekers dispersed to cluster areas under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. [47991]
§ Mr. Ivan Lewis£1.5 million was made available in 2000–01 to support the education costs of children of asylum seekers dispersed to cluster areas under the Immigration and Asylum Act. This amounted to £500 per child and was to be used to help settle these children into school quickly. This funding was rolled forward into 2001–02 and, due to a greater number of eligible children, was increased to £2,377,000. Thus allowing this Department to continue to make a payment of £500 per child.
In addition, all schools with children of asylum seekers on their school roll, including those in the dispersal areas, receive funding for them in the same way as they do for all other children through the education standard spending 188W assessment. In addition, there is support through the ethnic minority achievement grant. All local education authorities are eligible for this grant which totals around £154 million this year. The purpose of this grant is to support minority ethnic children at risk of underachieving and provide support to those for whom English is an additional language, including the children of asylum seekers and refugees.
The list of authorities in receipt of funding is as follows:
Asylum seekers grant allocations 2001–02 LEA name Amount of funding Barnsley 23,500 Birmingham 75,500 Blackburn 13,500 Bolton 65,000 Bradford 78,500 Brighton 7,500 Bristol 10,000 Bury 26,500 Calderdale 16,500 Coventry 36,500 Darlington 500 Derby 64,000 Doncaster 35,000 Dudley 11,000 Gateshead 41,000 Hants 2,000 Hartlepool 9,000 Kingston 31,500 Kirklees 31,000 Lancashire 4,500 Leeds 108,000 Leicester 51,000 Leicestershire 1,500 Lincolnshire 2,500 Liverpool 124,000 Manchester 425,500 Middlesbrough 44,500 Newcastle 131,500 Newham 1,500 North Tyneside 34,000 Nottingham 128,000 Oldham 9,000 Peterborough 6,000 Plymouth 9,500 Portsmouth 4,000 Redcar 30,500 Rochdale 51,500 Rotherham 21,000 Salford 101,500 Sandwell 30,000 Sefton 10,000 Sheffield 148,500 South Tyneside 20,500 Stockport 17,000 Stockton-on-Tees 10,500 Stoke-on-Trent 16,000 Sunderland 30,000 Tameside 11,500 Trafford 19,000 Wakefield 29,000 Walsall 19,000 Wigan 50,500 Wolverhampton 98,000 Total 2,377,000