§ Mr. Don FosterTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what percentage of, and how many primary school pupils were in classes of over (i) 30, (ii) 36 and (iii) 40 in September 1998 in each local education authority and in total; and what was the actual and percentage change in numbers compared with September(a) 1996 and (b) 1997 in each local education authority and in total. [63500]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisThe information is not collected centrally.
§ Mr. WillisTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the bids made by local education authorities before 20 November for capital expenditure to meet the Government's class size pledge. [63328]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisBids were received from the local education authorities listed below:
- Barking and Dagenham
- Barnet
- Barnsley
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Bedfordshire
- Bexley
- Birmingham
- Blackburn
- Blackpool
- Bolton
386 - Bournemouth
- Bracknell
- Brent
- Brighton and Hove
- Briston
- Bromley
- Buckinghamshire
- Bury
- Calderdale
- Cambridgeshire
- Camden
- Cheshire
- Cornwall
- Coventry
- Croydon
- Cumbria
- Darlington
- Derby
- Derbyshire
- Devon
- Doncaster
- Dorset
- Dudley
- Durham
- Ealing
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- East Sussex
- Enfield
- Essex
- Gateshead
- Gloucestershire
- Greenwich
- Halton
- Hampshire
- Hartlepool
- Havering
- Herefordshire
- Hertfordshire
- Hillingdon
- Hounslow
- Isle of Wight
- Kingston upon Hull
- Kingston upon Thames
- Knowsley
- Lambeth
- Lancashire
- Leeds
- Leicester City
- Leicestershire
- Lincolnshire
- Liverpool
- Luton
- Manchester
- Medway
- Merton
- Milton Keynes
- Newcastle upon Tyne
387 - Newham
- Norkfolk
- North East Lincolnshire
- North Tyneside
- North Yorkshire
- Northamptonshire
- Northumberland
- Nottingham City
- Nottinghamshire
- Oldham
- Oxfordshire
- Peterborough
- Poole
- Portsmouth
- Reading
- Redbridge
- Redcar amd Cleveland
- Rochdale
- Rotherham
- Salford
- Sandwell
- Sefton
- Sheffield
- Shropshire
- Slough
- Solihull
- Somerset
- South Gloucestershire
- Southampton
- Southend on Sea
- Southwark
- St. Helens
- Staffordshire
- Stockport
- Stockton on Tees
- Stoke on Trent
- Suffolk
- Sunderland
- Surrey
- Sutton
- Tameside
- Telford and Wrekin
- Thurrock
- Torbay
- Trafford
- Wakefield
- Walsall
- Waltham Forest
- Wandsworth
- Warrington
- Warwickshire
- West Berkshire
- West Sussex
- Wigan
- Wiltshire
- Windsor amd Maidenhead
- Wirral
388 - Wokingham
- Wolverhampton
- Worcestershire
§ Mr. WillisTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many temporary classrooms(a) have been built and (b) are planned to be built to meet the Government's pledge on class sizes. [63329]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisWe have made clear that where extra classrooms are needed to meet the class size limit, LEAs should provide permanent and not temporary classrooms. Plans will not be approved where these rely simply on the use of temporary accommodation.