§ Mr. SteinbergTo ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will list the numbers of grant-maintained schools in each local education authority area and the political control of the authority when those schools voted to become grant maintained. [15996]
§ Mr. Robin SquireThe information requested on political control is not readily available. The following table shows the total number of GM schools in each LEA area and the current political control of that LEA.
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Operating GM schools and political control of LEAs LEA area Number of GM schools Political control Avon 2 NOC—Largest party Labour Barking 0 Labour Barnet 12 NOC—Largest party Conservative Barnsley 0 Labour Bedfordshire 14 NOC—Largest party Labour Berkshire 20 Labour/Liberal Democrats/Independent joint administration—Largest party Liberal Democrats Bexley 8 NOC—Conservative minority administration—Equal largest parties Conservative and Labour Birmingham 23 Labour 448W
Operating GM schools and political control of LEAs LEA area Number of GM schools Political control Bolton 4 Labour Bradford 13 Labour Brent 14 Conservative minority administration—Largest party Conservative Bromley 18 Conservative Buckinghamshire 18 Conservative Bury 1 Labour minority administration—Largest party Labour Calderdale 14 NOC—Largest party Conservative Cambridgeshire 22 Liberal Democrats/Labour joint administration—Largest party Conservative Camden 2 Labour Cheshire 7 Conservative/Liberal Democrats—Largest party Labour Cleveland 0 Labour Cornwall 0 Liberal Democrats Corporation of London 0 Independent Coventry 0 Labour Croydon 12 Labour Cumbria 37 Labour minority administration—Largest party Labour Derbyshire 25 Labour Devon 7 Liberal Democrats minority administration—Largest party Liberal Democrats Doncaster 0 Labour Dorset 11 Liberal Democrats Dudley 7 Labour Durham 0 Labour Ealing 9 Labour East Sussex 0 Liberal Democrats/Labour joint administration—Largest party Liberal/Democrats Enfield 6 Labour Essex 143 Labour/Liberal Democrats joint administration—Largest party Labour Gateshead 0 Labour Gloucestershire 47 NOC—Largest party Liberal Democrats Greenwich 1 Labour Hackney 1 Labour Hammersmith 1 Labour Hampshire 31 Liberal Democrats/Labour/Independent joint administration—Largest party Liberal Democrats Haringey 0 Labour Harrow 1 NOC—Largest party Liberal Democrats Havering 4 Labour minority administration—Largest party Labour Hereford and Worcester 5 Labour/LiberalDemocrats joint administration—Largest party Conservative Hertfordshire 39 NOC—Largest party Labour Hillingdon 23 Labour Hounslow 2 Labour Humberside 3 Labour Isle of Wight 0 Liberal Democrats Isles of Scilly 0 Independent Islington 0 Labour Kensington and Chelsea 3 Conservative 449W
Operating GM schools and political control of LEAs LEA area Number of GM schools Political control Kent 87 NOC—Largest party Conservative Kingston upon Thames 5 Liberal Democrats Kirklees 2 Labour Knowsley 1 Labour Lambeth 15 Labour minority administration—Largest party Labour Lancashire 11 Labour Leeds 2 Labour Leicestershire 5 NOC—Largest party Labour Lewisham 1 Labour Lincolnshire 54 Labour/Liberal Democrats joint administration—Largest party Conservative Liverpool 4 Labour minority administration—Largest party Labour Manchester 0 Labour Merton 1 Labour Newcastle upon Tyne 0 Labour Newham 1 Labour Norfolk 30 Labour minority administration—Largest party Conservative North Tyneside 1 Labour North Yorkshire 1 NOC—Largest party Liberal Democrats Northamptonshire 23 Labour Norhumberland 1 Labour Nottinghamshire 3 Labour Oldham 0 NOC—Largest party Conservative Oxfordshire 1 NOC—Largest party Conservative Redbridge 1 NOC—Largest party Labour Richmond upon Thames 0 Liberal Democrats Rochdale 8 Conservative/Liberal Democrats joint administration—Largest party Labour Rotherham 0 Labour Salford 1 Labour Sandwell 2 Labour Sefton 0 NOC—Largest party Liberal Democrats Sheffield 11 Labour Shropshire 9 Labour/Liberal Democrats joint administration—Largest party Conservative Solihull 1 Conservative/Independent joint administration—Largest party Conservative Somerset 5 Liberal Democrats South Tyneside 0 Labour Southwark 10 Labour St. Helens 0 Labour Staffordshire 8 Labour Stockport 0 NOC—Largest party Liberal Democrats Suffok 0 Labour/Liberal Democrats joint administration—Largest party Labour Sunderland 0 Labour Surrey 34 NOC—Largest party Conservative Sutton 11 Liberal Democrats Tameside 3 Labour Tower Hamlets 1 Labour
Operating GM schools and political control of LEAs LEA area Number of GM schools Political control Trafford 4 Conservative Wakefield 0 Labour Walsall 9 NOC—Largest party Labour Waltham Forest 3 NOC—Largest party Labour Wandsworth 8 Conservative Warwickshire 8 Labour minority administration—Largest party Labour West Sussex 1 Liberal Democrats minority administration—Largest party Liberal Democrats Westminster 0 Conservative Wigan 0 Labour Wiltshire 32 NOC—Largest party Liberal Democrats Wirral 2 NOC—Largest party Labour Wolverhampton 3 Labour Note:
Political control of LEAs is correct as at 21 February 1994.
Key:
NOC—No overall control.
§ Sir Richard BodyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education how many grant-maintained schools she has been notified will be unable to meet the requirements of the national curriculum because they have been refused the necessary capital by the Funding Agency for Schools. [15525]
§ Mr. Robin SquireA number of schools have expressed serious disappointment that, as a result of constraints on the total available for capital grants next year, they will not be able to develop their curriculum in the way they had hoped. However, my right hon. Friend has not received notification that any school will be unable to meet the minimum requirements of the national curriculum for this reason. Decisions on capital grants for individual schools are a matter for the Funding Agency for Schools.