§ Mr. ByersTo ask the Secretary of State for Education how many people are employed on the management of the assisted places scheme; at what cost; and what plans he has for placing the management of the assisted places scheme in private hands.
§ Mr. ForthThe full-time equivalent of 7.7 staff is directly engaged in the management of the assisted places scheme in the current financial year and the direct staff costs are some £130,000 per annum. My right hon. Friend currently has no plans to change the existing arrangements for the management of the assisted places scheme.
§ Mr. ByersTo ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list for the academic year 1991–92 those schools involved in the assisted places scheme with(a) the total number of pupils on rolls, (b) the number of assisted pupils and the percentage which (b) represents of (a).
§ Mr. ForthThe information requested is given in the following table:
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School name Number of pupils on roll Number of assisted pupils Percentage of assisted pupils to pupils on roll Brentwood School 1,155 84 7.27 Brighton College 482 115 23.86 Brighton/Hove High GPDST 718 151 21.03 Bristol Cathedral 459 133 28.98 Bristol Grammar 1,193 256 21.46 Bromley High GPDST 716 83 11.59 Bromsgrove 1,166 15 1.29 Bruton Girls 558 127 22.76 Burgess Hill Girls 577 14 2.43 Bury Grammar Boys 783 199 25.42 Bury Grammar Girls 1,141 243 21.30 Canford 501 30 5.99 Carmel College 262 70 26.72 Casterton 351 42 11.97 Caterham 723 117 16.18 Central Newcastle High GPDST 825 115 13.94 Charterhouse 698 7 1.00 Cheadle Hulme 912 126 13.82 Cheltenham Ladies College 848 12 1.42 Chigwell 644 66 10.25 Christ's Hospital 804 16 1.99 Churchers College 514 118 22.96 City of London 818 139 16.99 City of London Freemans 673 6 0.89 City of London Girls 646 109 16.87 Clifton College, Bristol 1,196 68 5.69 Clifton High, Bristol 824 43 5.22 Colfes 869 176 20.75 Colston's Girls 587 166 28.28 Colston's Bristol 729 77 10.56 Coventry, Bablake 1,957 273 13.95 Cranleigh 724 30 4.14 Croham Hurst 556 15 2.70 Croydon High GPDST 1047 82 7.83 Culford 645 48 7.44 Dame Alice Harpur 1,007 142 14.10 Dame Allans Boys 472 118 25.00 Dame Allans Girls 449 120 26.73 Dauntseys 622 57 9.16 Denstone College 300 112 37.33 Derby High 508 10 1.97 Douai, Reading 262 15 5.73 Dover College 267 14 5.24 Downe House, Newbury 470 6 1.28 Dulwich College 1,393 273 19.60 Durham 373 21 5.63 Edgbaston College Girls 405 16 3.95 Edgehill College 496 139 28.02 Ellerslie (to 1992) 174 15 8.62 Ellesmere College 374 6 1.60 Eltham College, London 726 94 12.95 Emanuel, London SW11 757 283 37.38 Epsom College 673 23 3.42 Exeter 818 170 20.78 Farnborough Hill 488 153 31.35 Felixstowe College 339 5 4.42 Felsted, Dunmow 562 44 7.83 Forest School 1,173 128 10.91 Framlington College 710 6 0.85 Francis Holland 369 15 4.07 Friends, Saffron Walden 273 74 27.11 Giggleswick, Settle 435 9 2.07 Godolphin & Latymer 699 156 2.32 Godolphin, Salisbury 353 14 3.97 Greshams 769 10 1.30 Guildford High Girls 598 10 1.67 Haberdashers Askes Boys 1,300 228 17.54 Haberdashers Askes Girls 1,125 105 9.33 Haileybury and ISC 615 10 1.63 Hampton 891 187 20.99 Harrogate College 389 17 4.37 Headington 723 7 0.97 Hereford Cathedral 595 229 38.49 Highgate 904 35 3.87 Hipperholme Grammar 378 6 1.59 Holy Child 335 10 2.99 70W71W
School name Number of pupils on roll Number of assisted pupils Percentage of assisted pupils to pupils on roll Hulme Grammar Boys 840 202 24.05 Hulme Grammar Girls 631 178 28.21 Hurstpierpoint College 519 13 2.50 Hymers College 939 141 15.02 Ipswich 618 74 11.97 Ipswich High GPDST 575 100 17.39 James Aliens Girls 948 161 16.98 John Lyons 506 91 17.98 Kent College 740 88 11.89 Kimbolton Schools 713 15 2.10 King Edward VI High 544 125 22.98 King Edward VI Norwich 761 116 15.24 King Edward VI Southampton 945 223 23.60 King Edwards VII Lytham 616 231 37.50 King Edwards at Bath 853 110 12.90 King Edwards Birmingham 829 233 28.11 King Edwards Witley 522 72 13.79 Kings College Wimbledon 1,070 65 6.07 Kings High Girls, Warwick 553 137 24.77 Kings Bruton 347 11 3.17 Kings, Chester 596 84 14.09 Kings, Macclesfield 1,026 152 14.81 Kings, Rochester 650 58 8.92 Kings, Tynemouth 915 10 1.09 Kings, Worcester 905 179 19.78 Kingsley 586 10 1.71 Kingston Grammar 584 150 25.68 Kingswood School, Bath 483 39 8.07 Kirkham Grammar 646 79 12.23 La Sagesse Convent 507 150 29.59 Lady Eleanor Holies 806 37 4.59 Latymer Upper 1,053 325 30.86 Laxton 184 2 1.09 Leeds Girls High 949 73 7.69 Leeds Grammar 1,129 187 16.56 Leicester Grammar 565 22 3.89 Leighton Park 343 15 4.37 Leys, Cambridge 379 37 9.76 Liverpool College 687 182 26.49 Lord Wandsworth College 761 81 10.64 Loreto Convent Grammar 812 54 6.65 Loughborough Grammar 921 125 13.57 Loughborough High 528 94 17.80 Magdalen College 473 126 26.64 Malvern College 555 71 12.79 Manchester Grammar 1,430 257 17.97 Manchester High 970 172 17.73 Marist Convent Senior 406 7 1.72 Maynard 557 159 28.55 Merchant Taylors Girls 888 182 20.50 Merchant Taylors, Liverpool 846 207 24.47 Merchant Taylors, Northwood 704 67 9.52 Mill Hill 565 60 10.62 Monkton Combe 600 41 6.83 Mount Carmel, Cheshire 572 15 2.62 Mount St. Mary's College 324 69 21.30 Mount, York 327 15 4.59 Newcastle Under Lyme 1,347 419 31.11 Newcastle-upon-Tyne Church High 626 15 2.40 North London Collegiate 900 96 10.67 Northampton High 787 152 19.31 Norwich High GPDST 829 166 20.02 Notting Hill/Ealing High 764 116 15.18 Nottingham Girls High GPDST 1,072 199 18.56 Nottingham High 825 150 18.18 Oakham 1,036 15 1.45 Old Palace, Croydon 761 197 25.89 Oxford High GPDST 648 79 12.19 Pangbourne College 408 14 3.43 Perse School for Boys 651 58 8.91 Perse School for Girls 701 68 9.70 Plymouth College 876 187 21.35 Pocklington 714 133 18.63 Polam Hall 483 21 4.35 Portsmouth Grammar 1,088 191 17.56 72W73W
School name Number of pupils on roll Number of assisted pupils Percentage ofassisted pupils topupils on roll Portsmouth High GPDST 710 132 18.59 Prior Park College 440 14 3.18 Putney High School GPDST 832 84 10.10 Queen Elizabeth Hospital 484 166 34.30 Queen Elizabeth, Blackburn 1,225 248 20.24 Queen Elizabeth, Wakefield 740 141 19.05 Queen Mary, Lytham 660 233 35.30 Queens College, London 398 74 18.59 Queens College, Taunton 699 66 9.44 Queens School, Chester 613 75 12.23 Ratcliffe College 456 69 15.13 Red Maids, Bristol 578 158 27.34 Redland High, Bristol 663 88 13.27 Reed's School, Gobham 340 15 4.41 Reigate Grammar 852 107 12.56 Rendcomb College 244 15 6.15 Repton 553 51 9.22 Rossall 782 41 5.24 Royal Grammar, Guildford 810 111 13.70 Royal Grammar, Newcastle 1,117 263 23.55 Royal Grammar, Worcester 895 254 28.38 Ryde School 628 7 1.11 Salesian College 499 54 10.82 Scarborough College 430 15 3.49 Sedbergh 458 40 8.73 Sevenoaks, Kent 914 10 1.09 Sheffield High GPDST 707 91 12.87 Shrewsbury High GPDST 610 76 12.46 Silcoates 560 6 1.07 Sir William Perkins 504 87 17.26 Solihull 1,000 21 2.10 South Hampstead High GPDST 726 68 9.37 St. Albans 670 113 16.87 St. Albans High Girls 677 50 7.39 St. Ambrose College 782 64 8.18 St. Anselms College 853 204 23.92 St. Bede's College 1,120 220 19.64 St. Bees 332 82 24.70 St. Benedict's 599 78 13.02 St. Catherine's 596 34 5.70 St. Dunstan's College 788 154 19.54 St. Edmund's College 618 80 12.94 St. Edward's College 883 396 44.85 St. Felix, Southwold 367 11 3.00 St. George's College 630 26 4.13 St. Helen and St. Katherine 508 89 17.52 St. Helen's, Northwood 920 43 4.67 St. John's College, Southsea 847 173 20.43 St. John's, Leatherhead 439 8 1.82 St. Joseph's College, Ipswich 654 81 12.39 St. Joseph's College, Stoke 477 10 2.10 St. Joseph's Convent, Reading 458 111 24.24 St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate 380 15 3.95 St. Margaret's, Bushey 471 13 2.76 St. Margaret's, Exeter 456 13 2.85 St. Mary and St. Anne 267 10 3.75 St. Mary's College, Crosby 800 235 29.38 St. Mary's Convent, Cambridge 572 110 19.23 St. Mary's Hall, Brighton 367 59 16.08 St. Maurs Convent, Weybridge 713 52 7.29 St. Paul's Girls, Hammersmith 618 62 10.03 St. Paul's, Barnes 1,161 80 6.89 St. Peter's, York 768 126 16.41 St. Swithun's, Winchester 629 0 0.00 Stafford Grammar 292 10 3.42 Stamford 962 84 8.73 Stamford High 999 87 8.71 Stockport Grammar 1,259 230 18.27 Stoneyhurst College 421 30 7.13 Stowe 588 5 0.85 Streatham Hill/Clapham High 537 148 27.56 Surbiton High 704 14 1.99 Sutton High GPDST 802 59 7.36 Sutton Valence 384 62 16.15 Sydenham High GPDST 704 126 17.90 Talbot Heath 547 140 25.59
School name Number of pupils on roll Number of assisted pupils Percentage of assisted pupils to pupils on roll Taunton 1,026 52 5.07 Teesside High 541 10 1.85 Tonbridge 627 2 0.32 Tormead 522 8 1.53 Trent College 638 124 19.44 Trinity-of John Whitgift 834 141 16.91 Truro 907 117 12.90 Truro High 372 61 16.40 University College School 767 70 9.13 Upton Hall Convent 606 166 27.39 Ursuline Convent, Kent 285 15 5.26 Ursuline High, Ilford 401 144 35.91 Wakefield High 1,013 147 14.51 Walthamstow Hall 505 57 11.29 Warwick 981 141 14.37 Wellingborough 795 64 8.05 Wellington College 820 39 4.76 Wellington, Somerset 838 214 25.54 Wells Cathedral 815 78 9.57 West Buckland 566 85 15.02 Westholme 1,019 15 1.47 Westminster 610 53 8.69 Whitgift, Croydon 939 108 11.50 William Hulme Grammar 791 220 27.81 Wimbledon High GPDST 758 65 8.58 Winchester College 652 22 3.37 Wisbech Grammar 628 312 49.68 Withington Girls 569 71 12.48 Wolverhampton Grammar 653 261 39.97 Woodbridge 781 113 14.47 Woodhouse Grove 735 133 18.10 Worksop 374 15 4.01 Wrekin College 339 5 1.47 Wycliffe College 598 41 6.86 Yarm 560 21 3.75 Average proportion 13.52
§ Mr. ByersTo ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will state for each year in which the assisted places scheme has been operating the number of places available and the number actually taken up, the amount budgeted each year for the scheme and the amount actually spent.
§ Mr. ForthThe information requested is given in the following table for each year up to 1991–92, the latest year for which complete figures are available:
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Year Places available1 Places taken up1 Budget estimate2£m Actual outturn2 £m 1981–82 5,446 4,185 3.3 3.0 1982–83 11,058 8,616 9.3 8.7 1983–84 15,866 13,102 16.5 15.0 1984–85 20,699 17,386 22.5 22.2 1985–86 25,210 21,412 31.1 29.6 1986–87 29,295 24,478 37.4 37.9 1987–88 33,228 26,899 47.8 46.0 1988–89 33,217 27,083 55.1 50.9 1989–90 33,280 27,008 57.0 56.5 1990–91 33,302 26,740 60.4 63.4 1991–92 33,312 27,641 64.9 75.7 The figures are for England only 1 Academic year 2 Financial year