HC Deb 10 May 2004 vol 421 cc46-8W
Mr. Borrow

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many schools in South Ribble deemed to be failing since 1997 have since reached satisfactory standards. [171661]

Mr. Miliband

No schools in South Ribble have been deemed to be failing since 1997.

Mr. Borrow

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much money has been spent to develop school sports in South Ribble since 1997. [171671]

Mr. Stephen Twigg

The information is not held in the format requested. Within the context of the statutory National Curriculum, where Physical Education (PE) is compulsory for pupils aged 5–16, it is for individual schools to use their budgets as they judge appropriate.

The Government is investing more than £1 billion in England to transform PE, school sport and club links. The funding will help deliver an ambitious Public Service Agreement target, shared with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, to increase the percentage of 5–16 year olds who spend a minimum of two hours each week on high quality PE and school sport within and beyond the curriculum to 75 per cent. by 2006.

The Department is providing £440,130 to support the delivery of a School Sport Partnership in the South Ribble area. The partnership includes 6 secondary and 20 primary schools and provides enhanced sports opportunities for all young people to ensure that their pupils spend a minimum of two hours a week on high quality PE and School Sport. A key objective for all School Sport Partnerships is to ensure that the improvements and enhanced opportunities that they deliver are sustainable and embedded within schools to ensure a lasting legacy. The New Opportunities Fund has provided schools in the Lancashire LEA area with nearly £12 million specifically to enhance PE and school sport facilities.

Mr. Borrow

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) if he will list the building improvements in each school in South Ribble since 1997; and how much was spent on each improvement; [171672]

(2) how much public funding has been spent on repairing schools in South Ribble in each year since 1997; [171665]

(3) how much funding each school in South Ribble has received from the New Deal for Schools. [171663]

Mr. Miliband

The majority of capital support is allocated to schools and local education authorities (LEAs) by formula, and they decide how to invest it in line with their asset management plans. The Department does not, therefore, have complete information about capital investment at constituency level. Table A sets out the capital support given by the Government to Lancashire LEA since 1997–98, in total and by programme, including capital grants to each school. Table B shows the schools in the

Table A: Lancashire LEA capital allocations
£000
Type 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–051 2005–06
Additional NDS Grant (615) 1,510
Assistance with AMPs 189
Basic L C Vap 378 2,167 2,813
Basic need 5,388 5,519 4,766 6,543 2,931 4,597 9,312 1,200 2,713
Class size initiative 1,238 3,711 2,190 347 89
Condition 7,923 12,228 16,043
Devolved formula 9,115 7,517 11,489 17,518 11,811
Energy 353
Modernisation (Primary) 3.965
Modernisation LEA —3,500
Modernisation LEA —3,296 5,574 7,000 9,514 9,514
Modernisation VA 1,255 3,176 6,233 3,664
NDS 1 2,006
NDS 2 3,468
NDS 3 7,538
NDS 4 13,376
Outside toilets —275
Private finance initiative 13,400
School labs 591 591
School security 373 408 429 429 301 258
Schools access initiative 75 211 400 620 980 1,634 2,138 1,509 1,465
Schools Renewal Challenge Fund
Secondary Learning Support Units 290 314 389
Seed challenge 604 703 1,288 1,282 1,281
Specialist schools 100 100 500
Staff workspace 220 526
Supplementary credit approvals 2,021 454 1,149 365 454
Supplementary NDS for VA schools 63 3
Targeted capital funding 2,093 2,689
Targeted capital funding—VA 4,225
Voluntary aided school grant 3,425 5,031 3,597 3,735 3,633 4,371
Total 13,288 16,957 35,179 38,021 29,778 46,470 62,607 36,499 17,356
1Further allocations to be announced.

Table B: NDS allocations to schools in the South Ribble constituency
£
School Project details Grant awarded
1997–98 Balshaw's Church of England High School Refurbishment of technology areas and laboratories LEA-wide grant 2,006,0001
St. Anne's Catholic Primary School, Leyland Schemes submitted by District Liaison Committees (cont) LEA-wide grant 2,006,0001
1999–2000 Penwortham Priory High School Replacement of roof and floor and remedial drainage work 80,059
Farington Primary School Boilers/heating Project including 17 schools 601,9002
Lostock Hall Community Primary School Playground repairs Project including 25 schools 300,0002
Woodlea Junior School Window repairs/replacement Project including 14 schools 516,0002
Whitefield Primary School Playground repairs Project including 25 schools 300,0002
Lever House Primary School Rewires Project including 18 schools 1,007,1002
Penwortham Middleforth Church of England Primary School Playground repairs Project including 25 schools 300,0002
Our Lady and St. Gerard's Roman Catholic Primary School, Lostock Hall Boilers/heating Project including 17 schools 601,9002
Leyland St. Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School Rewires Project including 18 schools 1,007,1002
Wellfield High School Window repairs/replacement Project including 14 schools 516,0002
Wellfield High School Roof works Project including 13 schools 549,7002
Penwortham Girls High School Roof works Project including 13 schools 549,7002
2000–01 St. Catherine's RC Primary School Replacement of two classroom Portakabin 6,671
Woodlea Junior School Playground repairs Project including 29 schools 270,0902
Woodlea Junior School Replacement of boilers/heating systems Project including 36 schools 1,143,1102
Worden High School Roof repairs/replacement Project including 11 schools 548,4602
Penwortham Girls High School Roof repairs/replacement Project including 11 schools 548,4602
1For NDS 1 grant was allocated for Lancashire LEA-wide projects, part of which was used for work at each of two schools in the South Ribble constituency. The LEA will be able to say how much was allocated to each school.
2Allocations shown are the totals for packages of projects within Lancashire LEA which included the schools shown that are in the South Ribble constituency. The LEA will be able to say how much was allocated to each school.

South Ribble constituency that benefited from investment through the New Deal for Schools (NDS) programme, which ran between 1997–98 and 2000–01.

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