§ Ms Dari TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many teacher vacancies there were in Stockton, South on the latest date for which figures are available; and what steps are being taken to reduce them. [171450]
§ Mr. MilibandInformation on teacher vacancies is not available by constituency as it is collected at local education authority level. In January 2003, the latest information available, there were seven full-time teacher vacancies in Stockton-on-Tees local education authority.
Like other areas, since 1997 Stockton-on-Tees has benefited from the initiatives that the Government have put in place to recruit and retain teachers and to increase the number of staff supporting them in schools. Since 1997, the number of full-time equivalent regular teachers in maintained schools in the Stockton-on-Tees LEA area has risen by 110, from 1,650 to 1,760 in 2003. Over the same period, the number of full-time equivalent school support staff in the area has grown by 340 from 460 to 800 in 2003.
§ Ms Dari TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many teaching assistants there were in schools in Stockton South in(a) each of the last seven years and (b) on the latest date for which figures are available. [171451]
§ Mr. MilibandThe following table gives the numbers of full time equivalent teaching assistants in maintained schools in the Stockton South constituency in January of each year. between 1997 and 2003, the latest year for which data are available.
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Number 1997 90 1998 90 1999 100 2000 120 2001 160 2002 110 2003 150 Source: Annual Schools' Census
§ Ms Dari TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will make a statement on the effects on schools of changes since 1997 in the level of investment in school sports in Stockton South. [171470]
§ Mr. Stephen TwiggThe 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 five-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 five-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 £751,475 to support the delivery of a School Sport Partnership in the Stockton-on-Tees area. The partnership includes five secondary and 25 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 Stockton-on-Tees LEA area with over £2.4 million specifically to enhance PE and school sport facilities.
§ Ms Dari TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of 15 and 16-year-olds in Stockton, South achieved five or more GCSEs at Grade A* to C or GNVQ equivalent in each of the last seven years. [171471]
§ Mr. MilibandThe information requested is as follows:
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Percentage of 15-year-old pupils1achieving five or more grades A* to C Percentage Academic year Stockton, South England 1997 42.9 45.1 1998 44.0 46.3 1999 43.6 47.9 2000 45.9 49.2 2001 49.8 50.0 2002 48.6 51.6 2003 51.8 52.9 1GCSE/GNVQ results are reported as standard as the results of pupils aged 15 at the start of the academic year ie 31 August and therefore reaching the end of compulsory education at the end of the school year.
§ Ms Dari TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many schools in Stockton, South deemed to be failing since 1997 have since reached satisfactory standards. [171473]
§ Mr. MilibandNo schools in Stockton, South have been deemed to be failing since 1997.
§ Ms Dari TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many children in Stockton, South have benefited from the Excellence in Cities programme; and what the per pupil spending was in each year since the programme's inception. [171475]
§ Mr. MilibandThe following table shows the number of children in Stockton, South benefiting from EiC, and the annual spend per pupil for the years in question.
Number of children Total EiC expenditure1(£) Spend per pupil (£) 2000–01 8,196 574,495 70.09 2001–02 8,219 1,148,283 139.71 2002–03 8,238 1,700,191 206.38 2003–04 8,295 2,585,332 311.67 1All funding figures supplied by Stockton Finance Office.
Table A: Stockton LEA capital allocations £000 Type 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–051 2005–061 Assistance with AMPs — — 26 — — — — — — Basic L C Vap — — — — 39 229 300 — — Basic need 165 702 1,209 1,524 341 82 2,069 3,035 1,393 City Learning Centres 85 2,381 Class size initiative — 384 174 185 103 5 — — — Condition — — — — 1,439 2,218 2,863 — — Devolved formula — — — 1,383 1,118 1,709 2,662 2,233 — Energy — 64 — — — — — — — Modernisation (Primary) — — — — — — — 821 — Modernisation LEA — — — — — — — 668 — Modernisation LEA — — — — — 769 1,318 1,336 1,887 Modernisation VA — — — — — 162 431 846 497 NDS 1 531 — — — — — — — — NDS 2 — 358 — — — — — — — NDS 3 — — 1,374 — — — — — — NDS 4 — — — 2,704 — — — — — Nursery provision 61 Outside toilets — 10 — — — — — — — Pathfinder schools 61 Private finance initiative — — — — 6,400 — — — — School labs — — — 145 145 — — — — School security 52 65 65 64 45 39 — — — Schools access initiative 13 69 100 140 224 288 426 316 311 Seed challenge — — — 152 165 267 265 258 — Specialist schools — — 450 — — — — — — Staff workspace — — — — — 59 113 — — Supplementary credit approvals 87 73 2,012 84 338 — — — — Targeted capital funding — — — — — 653 1,411 1,570 — Voluntary aided school grant 135 213 1,110 1,914 923 846 — — — Total 983 1,938 6,520 7,541 13,661 7,387 11,858 11,083 4,088 1Further allocations to be announced. 52W
Table B: NDS allocations to schools in the Stockton South constituency £ School Project details Grant awarded 1997–98 Egglescliffe Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School Replacement of mobiles LEA-wide grant 531,0001 Conyers School Replacement of mobiles LEA-wide grant 531,0001 Ian Ramsey Church of England Aided Comprehensive School Improve IT suite LEA-wide grant 531,0001 The large increase in the rate of EiC funding in 2002£03 is due to the extra funding provided through the Behaviour Improvement Programme and the increase in 2003–04 is due to the introduction of the Leadership Incentive Grant.
§ Ms Dari TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) how much public funding money has been spent on repairing schools in Stockton South in each year since 1997; [171476]
(2) how much funding each school in Stockton South has received from the, New Deal for Schools. [171474]
§ Mr. MilibandThe 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 Stockton LEA since 1997–98, in total and by programme, Including devolved formula capital grants to each school. Table B shows the schools in the Stockton South 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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Table B. NDS allocations to schools in the Stockton South constituency £ School Project details Grant awarded 1998–99 Westlands School Hot water temperature controls to baths 1,464 St. Mark's Church of England Voluntary Aided Junior School, Stockton Hot water source controls 4,544 1999–2000 St. Mark's Church of England Voluntary Aided Junior School, Stockton Boiler plant replacement (single boiler installations) 39,200 St. Cuthbert's RC Voluntary Aided Primary School Boiler plant replacement (single boiler installations) 47,040 Preston Primary School Asbestos removal Project including 11 schools 430,8462 Harewood Infant School Asbestos removal Project including 11 schools 430,846M2 The Links Primary School Boiler plant replacement (single boiler installation) Project including 10 schools 545,8012 Oxbridge Lane Primary School Asbestos removal Project including 11 schools 430,8462 Egglescliffe Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School Boiler plant replacement (single boiler installation) Project including 10 schools 545,8012 St. Cuthbert's RC Voluntary Aided Primary School Boiler plant replacement (single boiler installation) Project including 10 schools 545,8012 St. Mark's Church of England Voluntary Aided Junior School, Stockton Boiler plant replacement (single boiler installation) Project including 10 schools 545,8012 2000–01 Conyers School Replacement of 11 temporary classrooms 1,021,668 St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Primary School, Thornaby Replacement of asbestos roof tiles 16,430 Preston Primary School Replacement of obsolete/leaking Project including 10 schools 678,8002 Christ The King RC Primary School Replacement of obsolete/leaking boilerplant and asbestos insulation Project including 10 schools 678,8002 Egglescliffe School Replacement of obsolete/leaking boilerplant and asbestos insulation Project including 10 schools 678,8002 Grangefield School Replacement of obsolete/leaking boilerplant and asbestos insulation Project including 10 schools 678,8002 Ian Ramsey Church of England Aided Comprehensive School Replacement of obsolete/leaking boilerplant and asbestos insulation Project including 10 schools 678,8002 1For NDS 1 grant was allocated for Stock, ton LEA-wide projects, part of which was used for work at each of three schools in the Stockton South 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 Stockton LEA which included the schools shown that are in the Stockton South constituency. The LEA will be able to say how much was allocated to each school.