HC Deb 28 March 1991 vol 188 cc483-4W
Ms. Ruddock

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether any conditions for the payment of grants to Haberdashers' Aske's city technology college will be placed on the trustees of the Robert Aske's charity.

Mr. Eggar

No.

Ms. Ruddock

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) pursuant to his answer of 6 March,Official Report, column 188, what exact variations from the terms of paragraph 9 of the model CTC/CCTA funding agreement he has included in his agreement to fund the Haberdashers' Aske's city technology college;

(2) if he will provide a list of all variations and amendments from the model CTC/CCTA funding agreement placed in the Library on 31 October 1990 which have been included in his agreement to fund the Haberdashers' Aske's city technology college.

Mr. Eggar

The agreement between the Secretary of State and the Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College Trust contains a number of minor variations from the model agreement relating to the special circumstances of this project.

In paragraph 1, the entry into force of the agreement is made conditional upon the grant of a 99-year lease to the CTC by the Haberdasher's Company, as trustee of the Robert Aske's charity, in a form to be agreed with the Secretary of State.

Paragraphs 8ii and iii provide that the CTC's contribution to the capital costs of establishing the college shall be the value of a 99-year lease of the site of the Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham boys' and girls' schools, and 8ii incorporates a mechanism for agreeing the value. Paragraph 8v provides for the Secretary of State's share of the actual costs to be reduced by the amount of difference between the cash limit and the actual costs, if the capital costs finally incurred in establishing the CTC are less than the cash limit.

In paragraph 9, the words not be expected to exceed the proportion mentioned in paragraph 8iii

in line 11 of paragraph 9 have been amended to read in no circumstances be expected to exceed 80 per cent.".

Similarly, the words the first percentage referred to in paragraph 8iii in the penultimate line of the same paragraph have been amended to read "80 per cent.".

There are no other changes of substance.

Ms. Ruddock

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many applicants of each sex and from different ethnic groups there were for places in the first year group the Haberdashers' Aske's city technology college beginning in September 1991; and how many applicants of either sex and from different ethnic groups have now been offered places at the college.

Mr. Eggar

The college received a total of 830 applications. Of those interviewed, on observation, the ethnic groupings appeared to be:

  • 57 asian
  • 183 afro-caribbean
  • 280 white
  • 47 other.

Of the 90 girls and 90 boys offered places the ethnic groupings, based on the earlier observation, are:

  • 22 asian
  • 40 afro-caribbean
  • 99 white 19 other.