§ Mr. ByersTo ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list for each local education authority the pupil capacity of those schools which have been approved for grant-maintained status and the number of pupils attending grant-maintained schools.
§ Mr. Robin SquireThe table below shows full-time pupil numbers in January 1993 at schools which are currently grant-maintained in each local education authority area.
Up-to-date figures on the capacity of grant-maintained schools are not available. However, my right hon. Friend intends to make regulations shortly under section 21 of the Education Act 1993 requiring LEAs and the Funding Agency for Schools, where it has relevant planning responsibilities, to submit annual information on the numbers of surplus places in LEA-maintained and grant-maintained schools respectively, beginning this year.
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LEA Pupils Avon 1,569 Barking and Dagenham 0 Barnet 10,612 Barnsley 0 Bedfordshire 9,197 Berkshire 9,631 Bexley 4,224 Birmingham 16,338 Bolton 3,119 Bradford 5,619 Brent 10,379 Bromley 12,493 Buckinghamshire 11,970 Bury 223 Calderdale 6,997 Cambridgeshire 17,020 Camden 2,340 Cheshire 2,813 678W
LEA Pupils Cleveland 0 Cornwall 0 Corporation of London 0 Coventry 0 Croydon 6,733 Cumbria 12,977 Derbyshire 16,946 Devon 4,856 Doncaster 0 Dorset 9,952 Dudley 4,839 Durham 0 Ealing 6,122 East Sussex 0 Enfield 5,725 Essex 84,712 Gateshead 0 Gloucestershire 24,404 Greenwich 239 Hackney 87 Hammersmith and Fulham 1,229 Hampshire 19,691 Haringey 0 Harrow 483 Havering 3,813 Hereford and Worcester 3,558 Hertfordshire 22,129 Hillingdon 14,069 Hounslow 2,108 Humberside 257 Isle of Wight 0 Isles of Scilly 0 Islington 0 Kensington and Chelsea 1,159 Kent 56,064 Kingston-upon-Thames 3,050 Kirklees 1,266 Knowsley 719 Lambeth 4,613 Lancashire 7,171 Leeds 1,189 Leicestershire 3,222 Lewisham 361 Lincolnshire 22,542 Liverpool 2,260 Manchester 0 Merton 0 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 0 Newham 556 Norfolk 11,231 North Tyneside 212 North Yorkshire 0 Northamptonshire 12,269 Northumberland 632 Nottinghamshire 1,831 Oldham 0 Oxfordshire 81 Redbridge 1,113 Richmond-upon-Thames 0 Rochdale 2,168 Rotherham 0 Salford 413 Sandwell 658 Sefton 0 Sheffield 2,836 Shropshire 3,847 Solihull 454 Somerset 772 South Tyneside 0 Southwark 4,030 St. Helens 0 Staffordshire 4,347 Stockport 0 Sunderland 0 Suffolk 0 Surrey 13,135 Sutton 7,390 Tameside 2,332
LEA Pupils Tower Hamlets 907 Trafford 2,892 Wakefield 0 Walsall 6,118 Waltham Forest 1,915 Wandsworth 7,002 Warwickshire 4,669 West Sussex 0 Westminster 0 Wigan 0 Wiltshire 16,131 Wirral 2,031 Wolverhampton 2,348 Note: Figures for numbers of pupils are derived from the Department's January 1993 Schools Census.
§ Mr. ByersTo ask the Secretary of State for Education when he plans to issue circulars arising from the Education Act 1993 concerning(a) the supply of school places and (b) the promotion of new grant-maintained schools.
§ Mr. ForthA draft circular on the supply of school places and guidance for promoters of new grant-maintained schools will be issued by the Department later in the summer.
§ Dr. WrightTo ask the Secretary of State for Education how many surplus places there are in grant-maintained schools; and what is the figure as a percentage of the admission limit for such schools.
§ Mr. Robin SquireThis information is not currently available. However, my right hon. Friend intends to make regulations shortly under section 21 of the Education Act 1993 requiring LEAs and the Funding Agency for Schools, where it has relevant planning responsibilities, to submit annual information on the numbers of surplus places in LEA maintained and grant-maintained schools respectively, beginning this year.