§ Mr. Edward DaveyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) what was the total amount spent by schools on security measures in 1999(a) by constituency and (b) by local education authority; [123134]
(2) how much the Government have awarded to local education authorities in each year since 1995 for schools to (a) implement security reviews and (b) undertake measures to make their premises more secure. [123167]
§ Ms Estelle Morris[pursuant to her reply, 23 May 2000, c. 438W]A column of figures was omitted. The correct response is as follows: My Department does not collect information in the level of detail requested. Expenditure by each local education authority in England supported by the Government's Standards Fund grant for school security, which is allocated directly to authorities, is shown in Table 1 for 1998–99, the latest year for which outturn information is available, along with the total sums available to authorities for 1999–2000.
Specific grants for school security measures have been made available since 1997–98, following a recommendation from the Government's Working Group on School Security. To date, £94 million has been made available to support a variety of security measures in schools in England, to help make a safer environment for pupils and staff. A breakdown, by year, of this total funding is given in Table 2.
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Table 1: Local education authority (LEA) expenditure on school security measures from Standards Fund 1998–99 (Grant 18) and total sums available to LEAs from Standards Fund 1999–2000 (Grant 23) £ Standards Fund Grant for School Security LEA 1998–99 (Grant 18) Expenditure 1999–2000 (Grant 23) Total sums available Barking 57,343 67,912 Barnet 98,917 123,974 Barnsley 93,812 99,074 Bath & NE Somerset 71,095 76,584 Bedfordshire 165,727 193,365 Bexley 83,066 95,562 Birmingham 435,551 475,503 Blackburn with Darwen 72,095 76,108 Blackpool 46,787 49,173 Bolton 117,263 129,117 Bournemouth 37,421 49,310 Bracknell Forest 38,056 41,410 Bradford 229,894 251,207 Brent 62,517 80,000 Brighton & Hove 78,242 79,814 Bromley 61,553 110,681 Buckinghamshire 202,143 226,150 417W
Table 1: Local education authority (LEA) expenditure on school security measures from Standards Fund 1998–99 (Grant 18) and total sums available to LEAs from Standards Fund 1999–2000 (Grant 23) £ Standards Fund Grant for School Security LEA 1998–99 (Grant 18) Expenditure 1999– (Grant 23) Total sums available Bury 80,342 83,511 Calderdale 66,480 99,723 Cambridgeshire 177,651 226,796 Camden 56,116 61,965 Cheshire 307,766 320,162 City of Bristol 156,075 158,701 City of London 744 755 Cornwall 228,506 233,369 Coventry 128,675 130,077 Croydon 106,039 128,568 Cumbria 227,760 276,406 Darlington 46,026 47,626 Derby 88,046 105,260 Derbyshire 323,655 362,117 Devon 279,442 308,352 Doncaster 139,240 140,176 Dorset 148,057 161,791 Dudley 112,803 126,021 Durham 258,120 262,142 Ealing 82,388 102,194 East Riding of Yorkshire 140,287 145,797 East Sussex 177,407 183,179 Enfield 92,180 107,485 Essex 355,976 558,626 Gateshead 88,131 87,888 Gloucestershire 195,656 268,237 Greenwich 85,883 97,492 Hackney 70,910 71,246 Halton 63,538 65,073 Hammersmith 47,113 50,545 Hampshire 461,947 509,493 Haringey 82,116 88,696 Harrow 71,166 73,399 Hartlepool 41,836 42,866 Havering 86,857 95,774 Herefordshire 80,697 83,373 Hertfordshire 431,656 502,675 Hillingdon 58,193 95,811 Hounslow 84,224 88,858 Isle of Wight 56,920 59,923 Isle of Scilly 2,591 2,682 Islington 69,775 69,828 Kensington & Chelsea 28,176 32,248 Kent 440,642 586,813 Kingston-upon-Hull 110,399 111,794 Kingston upon Thames 43,291 52,693 Kirklees 178,478 183,892 Knowsley 77,815 79,939 Lambeth 66,129 83,868 Lancashire 542,965 571,343 Leeds 287,359 305,986 Leicester 118,430 125,615 Leicestershire 245,821 268,426 Lewisham 88,982 91,684 Lincolnshire 239,202 315,208 Liverpool 211,743 225,448 Luton 73,582 86,632 Manchester 197,201 201,822 Medway Towns 97,664 116,004 Merton 55,860 62,951 Middlesbrough 66,065 65,821 Milton Keynes 79,153 96,887 Newcastle upon Tyne 109,499 113,144
Table 1: Local education authority (LEA) expenditure on school security measures from Standards Fund 1998–99 (Grant 18) and total sums available to LEAs from Standards Fund 1999–2000 (Grant 23) £ Standards Fund Grant for School Security LEA 1998–99 (Grant 18) Expenditure 1999–2000 (Grant 23) Total sums available Newham 92,374 106,079 Norfolk 322,723 372,730 North East Lincolnshire 78,961 79,773 North Lincolnshire 76,228 76,848 North Somerset 75,587 77,297 North Tyneside 85,842 87,173 North Yorkshire 294,636 305,113 Northamptonshire 273,550 311,142 Northumberland 168,630 173,105 Nottingham City 119,138 121,676 Nottinghamshire 325,454 351,473 Oldham 116,562 117,350 Oxfordshire 260,896 264,799 Peterborough 62,385 78,364 Plymouth 105,454 110,892 Poole 38,216 48,751 Portsmouth 64,781 71,600 Reading 34,941 51,867 Redbridge 85,193 90,502 Redcar and Cleveland 69,194 69,759 Richmond upon Thames 50,854 51,769 Rochdale 90,501 101,311 Rotherham 129,465 130,858 Rutland 11,529 17,059 Salford 111,851 111,682 Sandwell 132,632 141,349 Sefton 126,222 127,603 Sheffield 184,912 197,903 Shropshire 128,600 135,149 Slough 36,063 50,438 Solihull 91,229 93,443 Somerset 217,409 226,794 South Gloucestershire 109,027 110,917 South Tyneside 74,491 74,916 Southampton 81,228 88,369 Southend-on-Sea 37,734 63,508
Table 2: Total amount made available by Government to local education authorities (LEAs) each year since 1995 to undertake school security measures £ million Year Grant Government grant LEA contribution Total amount 1997–98 New Deal for Schools 6 — 6 1998–98 Grants for Education Support and Training (GEST)—Grant rate 60 per cent. 12 8 20 1998–99 Standards Fund (Grant 18)—Grant rate 75 per cent. 15 5 20 1999–2000 Standards Fund (Grant 23)—Grant rate 75 per cent. 16.5 5.5 22 2000–01 Standards Fund (Grant 26)—Grant rate 75 per cent. 16.5 5.5 22 Notes:
1. GEST and the Standards Fund grants for school security had grant rates. This means Government provide the set grant rate and local education authorities are required to contribute the remainder in order to take up the grant.
2. In 1997–98 and 1998–99, an additional £2 million per year was made available to schools in the grant-maintained sector via the Funding Agency for Schools.
3. The Standards Fund school security grant is allocated to local education authorities by formula and can be used on a variety of physical measures and on security related training for staff and governors. Local education authorities are required to devolve at least 70 per cent. of their grant allocation to schools, while being allowed to retain a maximum of 30 per cent. of their allocation to co-ordinate a training programme for staff and governors.
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Table 1: Local education authority (LEA) expenditure on school security measures from Standards Fund 1998–99 (Grant 18) and total sums available to LEAs from Standards Fund 1999–2000 (Grant 23) £ Standards Fund Grant for School Security LEA 1998–99 (Grant 18) Expenditure 1999–2000 (Grant 23) Total sums available Southwark 79,363 95,123 St. Helens 79,938 80,850 Staffordshire 371,280 389,198 Stockport 124,564 126,183 Stockton-on-Tees 78,558 86,720 Stoke-on-Trent 112,479 115,898 Suffolk 297,308 303,128 Sunderland 132,781 133,440 Surrey 328,518 388,752 Sutton 48,845 68,812 Swindon 60,578 83,889 Tameside 98,379 103,915 Telford & Wrekin 65,972 76,335 Thurrock 45,912 59,109 Torbay 43,939 48,315 Tower Hamlets 98,230 102,641 Trafford 81,304 98,062 Wakefield 149,619 151,567 Walsall 114,389 133,751 Waltham Forest 82,633 91,383 Wandsworth 57,346 79,192 Warrington 88,164 89,094 Warwickshire 207,700 230,165 West Berkshire 62,404 73,506 West Sussex 283,477 291,736 Westminster 49,379 50,324 Wigan 128,984 141,052 Wiltshire 163,458 212,012 Windsor & Maidenhead 53,829 57,565 Wirral 137,247 145,166 Wokingham 33,422 66,198 Wolverhampton 113,821 119,013 Worcestershire 229,936 247,714 York 71,192 72,251 Total 19,708,368 21,989,240