§ Mr. CousinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will set out for each authority in the former county of Tyne and Wear the allocations under(a) New Deal for Schools, (b) the Standards Fund in 2000–01 and 2001–02, (c) Excellence in Cities in 2001–02 and (d) the additional support for recruitment retention in schools tackling educational disadvantage in 2001–02. [148818]
§ Ms Estelle Morris[holding answer 5 February 2001]: Listed in the following tables are the allocations for each authority in the former county of Tyne and Wear under (a) New Deal for Schools from 1997–98 to 2000–01, (b) the Standards Fund in 2000–01 and 2001–02 and (c) Excellence in Cities (EiC) in 2001–02. New Deal for Schools and EiC funding are issued through the Standards Fund and are not included in the following Standards Fund allocations. The EiC allocations cover initiatives for Learning mentors, Learning support units, Gifted and Talented and Beacon Schools. They do not cover initiatives for City Learning Centres, Specialist Schools and Mini-Education Action Zones where total allocations are still to be determined. The Standards Fund allocations for 2001–02 have not yet been finalised. They include allocations already advised to local education authorities, but there are further grants for which allocations have not yet been announced.
New Deal for schools allocations £000 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 Gateshead 352 1,187 962 2,816 Newcastle 487 4,612 6,318 3,300 North Tyneside 406 613 1,364 2,705 South Tyneside 536 1,675 1,270 2,058 Sunderland 719 960 2,030 3,872 585W
Standards Fund allocations £000 2000–01 2001–02 Gateshead 8,901 10,635 Newcastle 14,885 13,955 North Tyneside 8,533 9,621 South Tyneside 7,242 9,059 Sunderland 11,954 15,165
Excellence in Cities allocations £000 2001–02 Gateshead 1,542 Newcastle 1,943 North Tyneside 1,595 South Tyneside 1,497 Sunderland 2,655 £210 million is available under the School Improvement Grant in 2001–02. The majority of this will be devolved to all schools to fund locally identified school improvement priorities. Fifteen per cent. of the grant will be allocated to schools in challenging circumstances. These funds have been allocated to support secondary schools with low levels of attainment or free high school meals and schools in special measures. Allocations of School Improvement Grant (which includes allocations for schools in challenging circumstances) for each authority in the former county of Tyne and Wear are set out in the following table.
School Improvement Grant allocations—2000–01 £000 School Improvement Allocation of School Improvement for schools in challenging circumstances Gateshead 810 130 Newcastle 956 110 North Tyneside 667 0 South Tyneside 653 50 Sunderland 1,129 105 Under this Government, funding per pupil has already increased by over £ 300 in real terms, and it will increase by a further £ 150 per pupil for 2001–02. Under the last
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Number of permanent exclusions Maintained primary1 Maintained secondary1 Maintained special1 Total England 1,366 8,636 436 10,438 London 249 1,471 62 1,782 Inner London 109 500 30 639 City of London 0 0 0 0 Camden 3 24 5 32 Hackney 13 18 5 36 Hammersmith and Fulham 4 44 0 48 Haringey 11 30 2 43 Islington 8 28 0 36 Kensington and Chelsea 7 20 2 29 Lambeth 9 27 4 40 Lewisham 14 48 3 65 Newham 14 40 0 54 Southwark 12 94 2 108 Tower Hamlets 1 28 3 32 Wandsworth 11 61 4 76 Westminster 2 38 0 40 Outer London 140 971 32 1,143 Barking and Dagenham 13 25 1 39 Barnet 6 36 0 42 Bexley 18 42 1 61 Brent 6 69 2 77 Bromley 6 77 4 87 Croydon 16 109 6 131 Ealing 5 68 1 74 Enfield 5 71 0 76 Government, funding per pupil fell by £ 60 in real terms between 1994–95 and 1997–98. There will be further Increases in funding following the year 2000 spending review: a further £ 370 per pupil over the three year period, taking the total increase to nearly £ 700 between 1997–98 and 2003–04.