HC Deb 16 May 1995 vol 260 cc137-8W
Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will list the applications she has received to open new grant-maintained schools. [23664]

Mr. Robin Squire

Applications to establish new grant-maintained schools have been received from three independent schoolsOak Hill school, Avon, to establish an all age interdenominational Christian school; St. Anselm's college, Wirral, to establish an 11–18 Roman Catholic grammar school for boys; and Upton Hall convent school, Wirral, to establish an 11–18 Roman Catholic grammar school for girls.

A fourth application, for the establishment of a new grant-maintained Jewish high school in Leeds, has been withdrawn. A number of prospective promoters of new grant-maintained schools are currently in consultation with the Funding Agency for Schools.

Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what are the arrangements within her

Pupils and Full-Time Equivalent of Qualified Teachers in Maintained schools in each local education authority area in England January 1994
Pupils FTE Qualified Teachers
Nursery Primary Secondary Nursery Primary Secondary
Local Education Authority area Part-time Full-time Part-time Full-time Full-time FTE FTE FTE
Corporation of London 0 0 20 194 0 0.0 13.6 0.0
Camden 33 40 495 10,433 10,657 3.0 521.6 696.7
Greenwich 342 332 2,298 18,782 13,980 23.0 948.9 854.5
Hackney 108 62 1,398 15,485 7,445 8.0 812.7 509.5
Hammersmith 303 275 600 8,591 5,885 26.3 471.2 387.7
Islington 177 153 579 15,078 7,215 13.2 757.6 469.7
Kensington and Chelsea 83 169 231 6,210 3,162 15.0 357.5 253.8
Lambeth 262 190 1,439 17,493 6,306 20.0 953.8 425.3
Lewisham 136 97 2,122 18,692 10,888 9.0 917.9 671.1
Southwark 346 199 1,894 20,626 9,384 21.6 963.4 551.2
Tower Hamlets 280 432 1,054 20,678 11,888 38.1 1,179.5 837.2
Wandsworth 102 114 1,324 16,113 8,941 9.5 845.8 606.8
Westminster 136 53 581 8,645 7,464 12.0 508.4 482.0
Barking 0 0 1,815 14,287 9,756 0.0 687.1 570.3
Barnet 532 21 2,109 21,893 18,790 15.0 1,091.3 1,251.8
Bexley 0 0 1,425 18,083 14,525 0.0 801.1 882.4
Brent 42 181 1,713 20,691 12,688 15.0 978.5 799.7
Bromley 0 0 169 22,261 17,150 0.0 916.8 1,059.2
Croydon 462 0 1,125 25,891 14,909 13.5 1,212.0 881.3
Ealing 498 16 3,118 22,477 13,480 16.3 1,130.8 829.2
Enfield 0 0 1,713 22,110 17,848 0.0 1,018.9 1,076.1
Haringey 71 168 1,991 17,786 9,222 14.5 922.9 662.4

Department for monitoring complaints about grant-maintained schools; and how many complaints have been received to date over (a) admissions, (b) exclusions and (c) the conduct of the schools. [23665]

Mr. Robin Squire

The Department receives a variety of complaints about schools of all kinds—independent, local authority maintained and grant maintained—which are followed up as appropriate. Details are not aggregated, nor recorded by school type.

Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will list for each application from a grant-maintained school for a change of character to(a) add whole or partial selection of pupils and (b) to add or extend a sixth form (i) the number of objections submitted to the Secretary of State, (ii) the number of objections submitted by the governing bodies of other schools and (iii) if an objection was submitted by the local education authority. [23125]

Mr. Robin Squire

[holding answer 9 May 1995]: The information requested has been placed in the Library. The table includes only statutory objections. Some cases were supported by a large a number of signatories.