§ Mr. MacleanTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what progress has been made towards meeting the Government's targets on class sizes. [57509]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisI refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry, South (Mr. Cunningham), on 29 October 1998,Official Report, column 231.
§ Mr. MacleanTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will provide a breakdown of the allocation of extra money to reduce class sizes. [57511]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisThe following table details the allocations so far made to both Local Education Authorities and Grant Maintained Schools, to deliver our pledge to cut infant class sizes. The respective sums of £22 million in revenue funding and over £45 million in capital funding will provide some 1,500 additional teachers and 600 extra classrooms to enable authorities and schools to make an early start in delivering the class sizes pledge.
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Allocations to reduce infant class sizes LEA Revenue Capital Barking and Dagenham — 141,850 Barnet 146,000 191,500 Bath and North East Somerset — 140,476 Bedfordshire — 743,707 Bexley 225,000 423,000 Blackburn 107,000 268,075 Blackpool 73,000 414,500 Bolton — 279,859 Bracknell — 174,000 Bradford 625,000 202,100 Brighton and Hove 88,000 110,000 Bristol, City of — 203,000 Bromley 200,000 520,000 Buckinghamshire 146,000 160,000 Bury 584,000 1,145,078 Calderdale 162,000 99,875 Cambridgeshire — 542,660 Cheshire — 800,775 Cornwall — 320,000 Coventry 452,000 40,000 Croydon 100,000 369,140 Cumbria 146,000 113,188 Darlington — 169,580 Derby, City of 1,000,000 878,124 Derbyshire 1,160,000 1,596,938 Devon 1,000,000 575,945 Dorset 324,000 254,000 Dudley — 373,500 Durham 250,000 167,160 Ealing 291,000 110,500 East Riding of Yorkshire 250,000 85,000 East Sussex 116,000 547,000 408W
Allocations to reduce infant class sizes Revenue Capital LEA Revenue Capital Enfield — 380,000 Essex — 542,877 Gateshead 100,000 200,542 Gloucestershire — 238,298 Greenwich — 80,000 Halton — 296,800 Hampshire — 1,025,000 Haringey 146,000 — Hartlepool 100,000 68,600 Havering — 76,840 Herefordshire 146,000 65,438 Hertfordshire 510,000 399,400 Hillingdon 291,000 864,198 Isle of Wight 135,000 170,000 Kent — 850,000 Kirklees 500,000 539,600 Knowsley — 80,480 Lambeth — 577,500 Lancashire 1,000,000 1,284,801 Leeds 500,000 320,000 Leicester City 584,000 157,700 Leicestershire 291,000 566,190 Lincolnshire 102,000 317,573 Liverpool — 84,675 Luton — 58,500 Manchester — 817,000 Medway — 187,620 Middlesbrough 146,000 93,988 Newcastle upon Tyne 500,000 367,381 Newham 257,000 278,141 Norfolk 291,000 470,400 North East Lincolnshire — 518,483 North Lincolnshire 675,000 410,000 North Somerset — 211,770 North Tyneside — 351,888 North Yorkshire — 459,000 Northamptonshire — 234,371 Northumberland 324,000 224,000 Nottingham, City of 146,000 451,900 Nottinghamshire — 405,000 Oldham — 1,111,500 Oxfordshire 584,000 842,485 Peterborough 150,000 — Plymouth 500,000 — Poole — 245,575 Reading — 92,375 Redbridge — 320,000 Redcar & Cleveland — 252,757 Richmond Upon Thames — 762,000 Rochdale — 320,000 Rotherham 219,000 85,000 Salford 146,000 139,000 Sandwell 1,000,000 1,158,500 Sefton 59,000 359,048 Sheffield 525,000 — Shropshire — 591,000 Slough 88,000 — Solihull 584,000 942,350 Somerset — 378,325 South Gloucestershire 500,000 873,414 South Tyneside 100,000 — Southend on Sea — 189,800 St. Helens — 343,875 Staffordshire — 350,000 Stockport 204,000 189,943 Stockton on Tees — 384,165 Stoke on Trent — 150,582 Sunderland — 55,000 Surrey — 419,081 Sutton 168,000 453,201 Swindon — 526,973 Tameside 291,000 —
Allocations to reduce infant class sizes LEA Revenue Capital Telford and Wrekin 291,000 328,700 Thurrock — 80,000 Torbay — 197,745 Trafford — 487,333 Wakefield 60,000 764,945 Walsall 146,000 397,455 Wandsworth 146,000 — Warrington 59,000 332,122 Warwickshire 584,000 168,500 West Sussex — 825,500 Wigan 290,000 726,300 Wiltshire 291,000 521,674 Windsor & Maidenhead — 98,800 Wirral — 202,269 Wokingham — 414,000 Wolverhampton — 356,502 York, City of 146,000 116,215 GM Schools 680,000 1,113,038