§ Jeremy CorbynTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list all acting and dance schools approved by her Department for grant purposes; if she will list all those applying for this status; and if she will make a statement. [5907]
§ Mr. TimmsThe DfES approves acting and dance schools as providers for the vocational element of the Dance and Drama Awards and for the Music and Ballet Scheme. All other further and higher education provision is arranged and approved by the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Learning and Skills Council.
The schools currently providing the vocational element of the Dance and Drama Awards are:
- Academy of Live and Recorded Arts
- Arts Educational Schools (London)
- Arts Educational School (Tring)
- Central School of Ballet
- Doreen Bird College of Performing Arts
- Elmhurst, The School for Dance and the Performing Arts
- English National Ballet School
- Hammond School
- Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts
- Laine Theatre Arts Liverpool Theatre School
- London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
- Merseyside Dance and Drama Centre
- Midlands Academy of Dance and Drama
- Millennium Dance 2000
- Northern Ballet
- Oxford School of Drama
- Performers College Stella Mann College Studios La Pointe Urdang Academy
- Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.
The schools in the Music and Ballet Scheme providing dance training are:
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- The Royal Ballet School
- Elmhurst the School for Dance and Performing Arts
- The Arts Educational School, Tring Park.
It is not possible for the Department to list schools applying to be providers of Dance and Drama Awards or within the Music and Ballet Scheme as their applications are treated as "Commercial-in-Confidence".