HC Deb 16 December 2002 vol 396 cc631-2W
Mr. Michael Foster

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister in the Local Government Finance Report (England) 2003–04 (1) what figure was used for the number of children of claimants of(a) working families tax credit and (b) disabled person's tax credit, used in the calculation of (i) additional needs for primary pupils and (ii) additional needs for secondary pupils, for each local authority; [87018]

(2) how many pupils (a) of primary school age have a mother tongue that is not English and (b) of secondary school age are in low achieving ethnic groups in each local authority; [87016]

(3) what figures were used in the calculation of (a) district, (b) environmental protection and (c) cultural services deprivation top-up for each non-metropolitan district council in non-metropolitan areas; [87020]

(4) what was the average number of dependent children of claimants receiving income support and income-based jobseeker's allowance used in the calculation of (a) additional needs for primary pupils and (b) additional needs for secondary pupils, for each local authority; [87017]

(5) what figure was used in the calculation of net in-commuters and day visitors of each non-metropolitan district council in non-metropolitan areas. [87021]

Mr. Leslie

The figures for the number of children of recipients of working families tax credit and disabled person's tax credit used in the additional education needs for both primary and secondary pupils are from the August 2001, November 2001, February 2002 and May 2002 releases, as published by the Inland Revenue.

For reasons of confidentiality, data on children of working families tax credit recipients are combined with children of disabled person's tax credit recipients by the Inland Revenue, and are therefore not available separately. The combined figures are used within the provisional Local Government Finance Settlement.

The same data are used for both (i) additional needs for primary pupils and (ii) additional needs for secondary pupils.

The total number of working families and disabled person's tax credit recipients, in each authority, together with the other information requested (and all the data used in calculating the provisional Local Government

Number of anti-social behaviour orders granted, as notified to the Home Office, by duration from 1 April 1999 to 30 June 2002, England and Wales
2 years 2.25 years 2.5 years 2.75 years 3 years 3.25 years 3.75 years 4 years 5 years and over Until further order Not known Total
1 April 1999 to 31 May 20001 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 104 104
June 20002 9 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 13
July to September 2000 32 0 0 0 6 0 0 1 5 2 4 50
October to December 2000 41 0 0 0 13 0 0 3 6 7 1 71
January to March 2001 48 1 0 0 11 0 0 4 3 7 2 76

Finance Settlement) are on the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's website within "Table 1" of the data section. http://www.local.odpm.gov.uk/finance/0304/tabs034.htm