Class Sizes (Hansard, 4 March 1998)

§ Mr. Chope
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if the additional funds announced to reduce infant class sizes in 1998–99 will be available to the same education authorities in subsequent years. [32694]

§ Mr. Byers
No decision has yet been taken on how additional funds will be allocated to LEAs in 1999–2000 and subsequent years.

§ Mr. Chope
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list by education authority the sum requested in each bid for additional funds to reduce infant class sizes in 1998–99. [32695]

§ Mr. Byers
The details of individual Standards Fund applications are a matter for individual authorities.

§ Mr. Chope
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will publish the details of the calculation which informed his statement of 11 February that the additional funds allocated to Dorset County Council to reduce infant class sizes in 1998–99 will result in 800 pupils being kept out of classes greater than 30 children. [32693]

§ Mr. Byers
Dorset's application set out how many pupils would benefit from the allocation of different sums. From this the Department calculated on a pro rata basis the number of pupils who would benefit from the £324,000 allocated to Dorset.

§ Mr. Chope
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many pupils aged five, six or seven years in each local education authority in England are currently in classes containing more than 30 children. [32700]

§ Mr. Byers
The information is not available in the form requested.

§ Mr. Chope
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what is his estimate of the number of pupils aged five, six or seven years in each local education authority area in England who will be in classes of size greater than 30 children in the academic year 1998–99. [32697]

§ Mr. Byers
This information is not yet available.
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§ Mr. Chope
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many pupils would have been kept out of classes greater than 30 children if all the bids by local education authorities for additional funds to reduce infant class sizes in 1998–99 had been accepted in full. [32696]

§ Mr. Byers
This information was not supplied by the individual local education authorities.