HC Deb 07 November 1995 vol 265 cc805-7W
Mr. Win Griffiths

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list by local education authority the amount(a) not included and (b) included in schools' budgets to cater for special educational needs; and what were the comparable figures for 1990. [41315]

Mr. Richards

According to the section 42 budget statements submitted earlier this year by local education authorities in Wales, the following amounts have been retained by LEAs in 1995–96 for special needs support services including special units:

£
Clwyd 3,412,000
Dyfed 8,005,000
Gwent 1,606,000
Gwynedd 1,747,000
Mid Glamorgan 4,377,000
Powys 1,447,000
South Glamorgan 4,520,000
West Glamorgan 991,000

Comparable figures for 1990 are not available because the content of the section 42 statement was changed in 1992.

Details of the amounts delegated to schools through their LEA's local management of schools budget formulae for special educational needs are not collected centrally.

Mr. Griffiths

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list by local education authority the numbers of(a) primary and (b) secondary school children who have received statements because of their emotional and behavioural difficulties in each of the last five years. [41318]

Mr. Richards

Information for 1994 and 1995 on the number of pupils in primary and secondary schools with statements of special need linked to emotional and behavioural difficulties is shown in the table. The information relates to the major need of the pupil identified on the individual statements of special educational need. Comparable figures for earlier years are not available.

the name chosen; if there are separate English and Welsh versions; and if he will make a statement. [41380]

Mr. Gwilym Jones

The 22 unitary councils bear the names of their authority area as approved by Parliament in the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994. All authorities have Welsh and English names as listed in schedule 1 to the Act and are identified as either counties or county boroughs. The authority names were chosen after an extensive consultation exercise held in the spring of 1993. The new section 21 of the Local Government Act 1972—inserted by section 2 of the 1994 Act—requires all councils to have Welsh and English titles. Section 74 of the 1972 Act provides for local authorities to change the name of their area. Until 1 October 1996, a name change requires the consent of the Secretary of State for Wales. His consent is not required after that date. If a name is changed under section 74 and there are generally accepted alternative Welsh and English forms of the name, or alternative names, both names should be used.

Mr. Llwyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the name of each community or town council within each of the new unitary council areas. [41381]

Mr. Jones

I will write to the hon. Member and place a copy of my letter in the Library of the House.