§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many London local authorities are receiving Section 11 funding. [101044]
§ Jacqui SmithIn November 1998, the Government announced a new grant, the Ethnic Minority Achievement Grant (EMAG), to replace the education element of the Home Office's Section 11 Grant. EMAG was established to raise standards for those ethnic minority and Traveller pupils particularly at risk of underachieving and to meet the particular needs of pupils for whom English is an Additional Language. All London local authorities received funding through EMAG for 1999–2000. Details of individual allocations, which mirrored Section 11 allocations in 1998–99, are set out in the following table.
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Ethnic minority achievement grant 1999–2000: Allocations to local authorities in London £ Local education authority Grant Barking 662,475 Barnet 1,459,113 Bexley 179,781 Brent 2,370,904 Bromley 51,161 Camden 2,931,900 City of London 108,500 Croydon 2,032,254 Ealing 2,949,203 Enfield 2,293,602 Greenwich 1,783,616 Hackney 4,299,222 Hammersmith 940,880 Haringey 3,337,039 Harrow 863,751 Havering 75,640 Hillingdon 629,631 Hounslow 1,829,207 Islington 2,529,175 Kensington and Chelsea 1,177,506 Kingston upon Thames 222,389 Lambeth 3,436,055 Lewisham 2,211,561 Merton 803,895 Newham 253,058 Redbridge 1,965,442 Richmond upon Thames 76,785 Southwark 1,431,818 Sutton 151,345 Tower Hamlets 8,125,390 Waltham Forest 2,054,111 Wandsworth 1,912,879 Westminster 2,151,538 For 2000–01, £162.5 million will be available to local education authorities to improve the attainment of ethnic minority, Traveller and refugee pupils, an increase of 7 per cent. on the amount available for the same purposes in 1999–2000. Provisional allocations for the newly merged Ethnic Minority and Traveller Achievement Grant for 2000–01 were announced in October 1999.