§ Mr. MaddenTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list those local education authorities that pay education maintenance allowance, indicating the amount currently paid by each; and if she will list the practice of each authority as to when the allowance is paid. [36779]
§ Mr. Robin SquireThe following local education authorities in England and Wales informed the Department that they had paid educational maintenance allowances in 1994–95 as in the table.
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Educational maintenance allowances paid by local education authorities England and Wales 1: academic year 1994–95 Number of EMAs Total expenditure on EMAs Corporation of London 1 518 Greenwich 431 82,050 Hackney 57 23,020 Hammersmith and Fulham 219 114,780 Islington 99 19,800 Kensington and Chelsea 505 256,270 Lambeth 801 341,632 Lewisham 388 139,882 Southwark 1 500 Tower Hamlets 439 133,100 Wandsworth 269 126,743 City of Westminster 239 96,600 Barking and Dagenham 129 52,358 Bexley 3 1,440 Bromley 256 129,046 Croydon 55 24,515 Enfield 267 125,819 Havering 32 16,902 Hounslow 131 62,972 Merton 47 20,550 Newham 65 14,100 Redbridge 52 21,619 Waltham Forest 703 246,287 Birmingham 457 110,505 Coventry 220 33,487 Walsall 174 81,457 Knowsley 326 80,984 Liverpool 1,724 545,618 St. Helens 69 32,778 Sefton 321 72,414 Wirral 460 153,554 Bury 9 2,800 Manchester 133 19,883 Oldham 124 58,156 Tamside 23 7,620 Wigan 170 80,835 Doncaster 128 43,647 Rotherham 166 92,949 Sheffield 121 11,838 Calderdale 337 65,963 Kirklees 435 293,717 Leeds 773 445,805 Wakefield 64 11,196 Gateshead 185 117,225 Newcastle upon Tyne 406 278,837 North Tyneside 90 24,435 South Tyneside 28 20,440 Sunderland 161 73,265 Clwyd 124 8,820 Dyfed 417 106,797 Gwent 704 404,279 Gwynedd 88 22,440 Mid-Glamorgan 857 243,726 Powys 79 24,024 South Glamorgan 360 72,000 West Glamorgan 67 19,890 Avon 514 163,668 Bedfordshire 93 21,340 Berkshire 188 127,260 Buckinghamshire 273 142,950 Cambridgeshire 910 111,936 Cheshire 614 298,821 Cleveland 66 31,417 Cornwall 402 130,328 Cumbria 226 79,976 Derbyshire 380 135,919 Devon 1,164 576,973 Dorset 1,232 288,254
Educational maintenance allowances paid by local education authorities England and Wales 1: academic year 1994–95 Number of EMAs Total expenditure on EMAs Durham 1,185 548,639 East Sussex 214 89,637 Essex 396 232,832 Gloucestershire 112 48,290 Hampshire 15 8,426 Hereford and Worcester 907 345,422 Hertfordshire 215 93,027 Humberside 304 177,723 Kent 686 149,138 Lancashire 65S 368,309 Lincolnshire 124 36,770 Norfolk 17 1,290 Northamptonshire 316 147,399 Nottinghamshire 728 429,077 Shropshire 161 77,220 Somerset 74 23,530 Staffordshire 203 82,833 Suffolk 127 50,996 Surrey 824 197,868 West Sussex 229 92,427 Wiltshire 1,577 392,238 Total all Leas2 34,554 12,191,668 Source:
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Notes:
1 Made by Local Education Authorities in England and Wales to students normally domiciled in their area.
2 National totals have been grossed to compensate for incomplete returns.
This information is derived from returns made by local education authorities to the Department; the fact that there is no entry for some LEAs does not necessarily mean that they paid no allowances. We have no information about the practice of authorities in making these allowances, which are discretionary awards. It is for individual LEAs to decide whether to pay education maintenance allowances and they are responsible for setting the conditions under which such allowances are paid, the level at which they are paid and the timing of payments.
§ Mr. MaddenTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what assessment she has made of the(a) gross and (b) net expenditure cost of the introduction nationally of a means-tested education maintenance allowance; how such an allowance would be paid; to whom it would be paid; and if such allowances are taxable. [36776]
§ Mr. SquireNo such assessment has been made by the Department.