§ 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 MorrisThe 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): School Security £ LEA Expenditure Barking 57,343 Barnet 98,917 Barnsley 93,812 Bath and NE Somerset 71,095 Bedfordshire 165,727 Bexley 83,066 Birmingham 435,551 Blackburn with Darwen 72,095 Blackpool 46,787 Bolton 117,263 Bournemouth 37,421 Bracknell Forest 38,056 Bradford 229,894 Brent 62,517 Brighton and Hove 78,242 Bromley 61,553 Buckinghamshire 202,143 Bury 80,342 Calderdale 66,480 Cambridgeshire 177,651 Camden 56,116 Cheshire 307,766 City of Bristol 156,075 City of London 744 Cornwall 228,506 Coventry 128,675 Croydon 106,039 Cumbria 227,760 Darlington 46,026
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Table 1: Local education authority (LEA) expenditure on school security measures from Standards Fund 1998–99 (Grant 18): School Security £ LEA Expenditure Derby 88,046 Derbyshire 323,655 Devon 279,442 Doncaster 139,240 Dorset 148,057 Dudley 112,803 Durham 258,120 Ealing 82,388 East Riding of Yorkshire 140,287 East Sussex 177,407 Enfield 92,180 Essex 355,976 Gateshead 88,131 Gloucestershire 195,656 Greenwich 85,883 Hackney 70,910 Halton 63,538 Hammersmith 47,113 Hampshire 461,947 Haringey 82,116 Harrow 71,166 Hartlepool 41,836 Havering 86,857 Herefordshire 80,697 Hertfordshire 431,656 Hillingdon 58,193 Hounslow 84,224 Isle of Wight 56,920 Isles of Scilly 2,591 Islington 69,775 Kensington and Chelsea 28,176 Kent 440,642 Kingston-upon-Hull 110,399 Kingston upon Thames 43,291 Kirklees 178,478 Knowsley 77,815 Lambeth 66,129 Lancashire 542,965 Leeds 287,359 Leicester 118,430 Leicestershire 245,821 Lewisham 88,982 Lincolnshire 239,202 Liverpool 211,743 Luton 73,582 Manchester 197,201 Medway Towns 97,664 Merton 55,860 Middlesbrough 66,065 Milton Keynes 79,153 Newcastle upon Tyne 109,499 Newham 92,374 Norfolk 322,723 North East Lincolnshire 78,961 North Lincolnshire 76,228 North Somerset 75,587 North Tyneside 85,842 North Yorkshire 294,636 Northamptonshire 273,550 Northumberland 168,630 Nottingham City 119,138 Nottinghamshire 325,454
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Table 1: Local education authority (LEA) expenditure on school security measures from Standards Fund 1998–99 (Grant 18): School Security £ LEA Expenditure Oldham 116,562 Oxfordshire 260,896 Peterborough 62,385 Plymouth 105,454 Poole 38,216 Portsmouth 64,781 Reading 34,941 Redbridge 85,193 Redcar and Cleveland 69,194 Richmond upon Thames 50,854 Rochdale 90,501 Rotherham 129,465 Rutland 11,529 Salford 111,851 Sandwell 132,632 Sefton 126,222 Sheffield 184,912 Shropshire 128,600 Slough 36,063 Solihull 91,229 Somerset 217,409 South Gloucestershire 109,027 South Tyneside 74,491 Southampton 81,228 Southend-on-Sea 37,734 Southwark 79,363 St. Helens 79,938 Staffordshire 371,280 Stockport 124,564 Stockton-on-Tees 78,558 Stoke-on-Trent 112,479 Suffolk 297,308 Sunderland 132,781 Surrey 328,518 Sutton 48,845 Swindon 60,578 Tameside 98,379 Telford and Wrekin 65,972 Thurrock 45,912 Torbay 43,939 Tower Hamlets 98,230 Trafford 81,304 Wakefield 149,619 Walsall 114,389 Waltham Forest 82,633 Wandsworth 57,346 Warrington 88,164 Warwickshire 207,700 West Berkshire 62,404 West Sussex 283,477 Westminster 49,379 Wigan 128,984 Wiltshire 163,458 Windsor and Maidenhead 53,829 Wirral 137,247 Wokingham 33,422 Wolverhampton 113,821 Worcestershire 229,936 York 71,192 Total 19,708,368
Table 2: Total amount made available by Government to local education authorities (LEAs) each year since 1995 to undertake school security measures £ million Government grant LEA contribution Total amount 1997–98 New Deal for Schools 6 — 6 1997–98 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 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.