HC Deb 16 June 1997 vol 296 cc6-9W
Mr. Hancock

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to redirect section 11 funding towards needs led allocation. [3023]

Mr. Mike O'Brien

I refer the hon. Gentleman to the reply I gave to the hon. Member for Bath (Mr. Foster) on 9 June,Official Report, column 330.

Mr. Hancock

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much money was allocated to local authorities under section 11 to assist language teaching in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. [3024]

Mr. O'Brien

The table shows the amounts of grant paid to, or expected to be paid to, local authorities in relation to their expenditure within each of these years on projects which were entirely or principally concerned with teaching English as a second language in schools. Precise disaggregation of projects containing elements of other work concerned with raising educational achievement is not possible. The figures in the table do not include grant paid in relation to projects in further education colleges,

Section 11 Grant: ESL funding for 1992–93 to 1996–97
ESL projects
LEA 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97
Avon2 738,902 782,422 560,462 517,469 0
Barking and Dagenham 300,053 285,412 216,681 245,269 252,014
Barnet 886,259 888,470 604,181 739,744 785,198
Bedfordshire 2,728,983 2,799,311 2,095,796 1,930,291 1,977,989
Berkshire 900,858 917,565 927,074 811,214 833,522
Bexley 63,446 161,686 100,138 110,848 113,896
Birmingham 5,211,788 5,077,372 3,475,267 3,324,125 3,415,538
Bolton 716,582 731,700 558,616 578,376 594,282
Bradford 4,891,850 5,147,620 3,758,431 3,612,026 3,707,284
Brent 1,335,990 1,456,511 1,008,819 970,869 994,487
Bristol2 0 0 0 0 539,235
Bromley 0 0 0 19,118 22,671
Buckinghamshire 1,223,956 1,209,284 884,750 761,564 884,119
Bury 395,825 464,258 338,238 300,468 308,731
Calderdale 990,242 1,034,282 724,005 698,055 658,291
Cambridgeshire 1,137,452 1,256,649 943,296 862,061 885,768
Camden 1,232,639 1,364,312 996,706 1,231,714 1,324,898
Cardiff2 0 0 0 0 353,806
Cheshire 90,746 99,664 73,682 68,369 70,249
Cleveland2 459,449 470,930 340,541 331,799 0
Coventry 2,192,027 2,267,078 1,843,142 1,599,123 1,616,104
Croydon 956,353 1,102,874 779,056 857,263 913,168
Derbyshire1 1,058,739 1,406,477 1,026,632 944,899 1,040,741
Devon 15,597 15,816 11,949 42,249 59,573
Doncaster 91,925 125,714 93,665 86,240 88,611
Dorset 0 0 0 15,523 20,316
Dudley 972,476 990,148 763,374 656,613 711,594
Durham 96,533 171,737 119,090 117,811 121,051
Ealing 2,515,428 3,359,869 2,502,375 1,123,777 1,149,605
East Sussex1 171,546 172,010 132,752 175,571 188,022
Enfield 932,179 1,182,166 881.644 1,001,209 1,067,566
Essex 33,143 34,865 25,755 24,258 24,925
Gateshead 17,132 32,918 22,732 21,211 21,536
Gloucestershire 283,982 271,120 196,920 201,468 208,837
Greenwich 1,381,572 1,561,935 1,185,583 845,944 869,207
Gwent2 149,533 268,583 192,662 221,407 0
Hackney1 3,612,460 3,466,312 2,978,070 2,377,959 2,289,531
Hammersmith and Fulham 604,060 582,028 475,431 369,128 407,789
Hampshire 674,973 748,448 558,367 513,435 527,554
Haringey 1,695,810 2,565,456 2,113,364 1,704,835 1,751,367
Harrow 682,275 723,789 550,753 511,042 528,968
Havering 51,960 50,636 39,169 35,875 36,862
Hereford and Worcester 204,565 238,339 175,235 154,930 160,021
Hertfordshire 1,906,645 1,980,344 1,464,810 1,340,169 1,377,024
Hillingdon 287,153 297,310 244,050 203,954 209,563
Hounslow 1,556,837 1,585,688 1,157,155 1,041,080 1,069,711
Hull2 0 0 0 0 32,750
Humberside2 309,419 338,209 244,893 232,011 0
Islington 1,569,829 1,593,722 1,169,014 1,199,552 1,232,540
Kensington and Chelsea 1,007,552 1,051,241 820,563 714,954 734,615
Kent 956,653 1,074,317 882,988 736,981 757,248
Kingston 99,962 123,861 95,806 83,838 86,143
Kirklees 2,414,075 2,725,944 2,005,454 1,912,360 1,946,520
Lambeth1 1,204,508 1,237,070 922,583 1,001,111 1,011,152
Lancashire 4,603,652 4,838,711 3,651,180 3,164,866 3,328,182
Leeds 772,344 1,053,854 869,678 709,138 728,639
Leicestershire 3,252,152 3,580,065 2,353,001 2,401,675 2,480,992
Lewisham 1,726,023 1,825,602 1,363,705 951,038 978,279
Lincolnshire 55,236 69,958 61,319 70,972 72,924
Liverpool 119,714 139,807 110,580 113,917 112,739
Manchester 1,984,133 2,094,634 1,613,278 1,490,701 1,517,795
Merton1 474,754 643,576 438,356 490,188 509,289
Middlesbrough2 0 0 0 0 343,729
Newcastle 304,618 306,095 208,403 209,981 215,756

which remained a local authority responsibility in 1992–93, or grant paid in respect of adult education projects across the period, on which information is not readily available.

Section 11 Grant: ESL funding for 1992–93 to 1996–97
ESL projects
LEA 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97
Newham 1,978,422 1,877,198 1,384,944 1,320,239 1,381,687
Newport2 0 0 0 0 244,900
Norfolk1 58,662 65,199 57,978 44,966 109,975
North Lincolnshire2 0 0 0 0 178,098
North East Lincolnshire2 0 0 0 0 27,543
North Tyneside 132,170 139,766 100,409 95,879 98,516
North Yorkshire 58,154 65,123 49,312 44,675 45,903
Northamptonshire 497,138 473,678 357,729 324,943 333,879
Nottinghamshire 1,122,334 1,157,276 870,731 793,892 815,724
Oldham1 1,955,632 2,080,963 1,512,693 1,375,509 1,424,141
Oxfordshire 731,768 747,107 591,895 425,844 437,555
Redbridge 1,075,250 1,084,599 819,143 873,727 926,098
Richmond 56,087 69,014 49,864 47,343 48,645
Rochdale1 1,280,039 1,319,926 962,488 904,920 929,805
Rotherham 364,063 384,180 285,862 305,061 318,653
Salford 62,117 64,844 47,498 44,930 45,695
Sandwell 1,424,681 1,522,154 1,162,653 1,044,197 1,036,800
Sheffield 1,070,476 1,105,230 519,908 827,922 857,194
Shropshire 104,866 114,218 84,104 87,160 93,768
Somerset1 0 0 0 19,970 40,201
South Glamorgan2 445,116 501,949 376,219 344,337 0
South Tyneside 0 0 0 99,071 101,795
Southwark 1,651,171 1,750,683 1,356,049 563,744 610,385
St. Helens 10,307 18,975 14,043 14,571 15,379
Staffordshire 1,057,289 1,105,331 817,911 654,603 677,458
Stockport 100,052 103,265 76,079 70,839 72,788
Suffolk 268,621 286,280 214,077 196,388 201,788
Sunderland 110,656 115,825 87,284 79,456 81,641
Surrey 347,992 360,270 262,375 247,145 253,942
Sutton1 35,684 37,447 27,813 60,312 73,755
Swansea1,2 0 0 0 0 250,937
Tameside 479,674 478,072 359,057 327,957 336,976
Tower Hamlets 6.141,920 6,650,264 4,764,299 4,958,796 5,095,163
Trafford 257,277 289,973 215,001 216,777 251,797
Wakefield 281,492 348,796 251,031 210,797 230,907
Walsall 1,204,522 1,262,720 903,519 1,078,064 1,089,353
Waltham Forest 1,355,777 1,555,259 1,165,388 1,081,470 1,107,825
Wandsworth 1,637,795 1,485,719 1,374,497 998,981 991,955
Warwickshire 852,412 909,935 672,836 646,029 663,795
West Glamorgan2 0 0 0 224,304 0
West Sussex 260,247 280,628 212,623 192,511 197,805
Westminster 1,695,144 1,774,620 1,338,600 1,252,246 1,340,792
Wigan 56,170 60,071 44,078 55,801 59,212
Wiltshire 155,475 160,301 121,565 109,967 112,991
Wirral 60,592 95,393 75,839 0 0
Wolverhampton 1,677,545 1,746,895 1,311,354 1,063,003 1,077,042
Total 98,419,336 105,694,919 78,849,967 72,111,981 74,560,777
1Payments due to these authorities for the year on the basis of expenditure claimed. Some payments remain to be made
2Subject to local government reorganisation in 1996.

1. Where an authority's allocation of grant covered both education and non-education projects, an estimate has been given, based on the proportion of expenditure on relevant projects.

2. Figures for 1996–97 reflect grant entitlement. Final payments will be made in 1997–98.

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