HC Deb 10 April 2002 vol 383 cc184-8W
Mr. Chope

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list by education authority the number of children of asylum seekers and refugees with English language difficulties who are not being counted as being at school for the purposes of calculating annual primary and secondary performance tables. [47990]

Mr. Ivan Lewis

We received a number of requests from schools to discount children who had recently arrived from overseas (including children of asylum seekers and refugees) from the 2001 school performance tables.

For the primary school tables, a total of 1,648 children were discounted from the published results in the performance tables.

For the secondary school tables, a total of 1,559 children were discounted. A breakdown by local education authority, for the primary school and secondary school tables respectively, is provided.

Numbers of children recently arrived from overseas discounted from 2001 performance tables
Local education authority Number of children discounted
Primary school performance tables
Barking and Dagenham 23
Barnet 43
Barnsley 3
Bath and North East Somerset 3
Bedfordshire 7
Bexley 5
Birmingham 42
Blackburn with Darwen 5
Bolton 8
Bournemouth 7
Bracknell Forest 3
Bradford 23
Brent 78
Brighton and Hove 7
Bristol, City of 9
Bromley 4
Buckinghamshire 5
Calderdale 1
Cambridgeshire 2
Camden 13
Cheshire 3
Coventry 24
Croydon 33
Cumbria 1
Derby City 6
Derbyshire 2
Devon 2
Doncaster 4
Dorset 1
Dudley 5
Durham 1
Ealing 53
East Sussex 4
Enfield 55
Essex 12
Gateshead 2
Gloucestershire 3

Numbers of children recently arrived from overseas discounted from 2001 performance tables
Local education authority Number of children discounted
Greenwich 28
Hackney 44
Halton 1
Hammersmith and Fulham 27
Hampshire 7
Haringey 66
Harrow 32
Havering 6
Hertfordshire 12
Hillingdon 14
Hounslow 34
Islington 7
Kensington and Chelsea 23
Kent 26
Kingston upon Hull, City of 6
Kingston upon Thames 21
Kirklees 4
Lambeth 19
Lancashire 8
Leeds 12
Leicester City 40
Leicester 4
Lewisham 31
Lincolnshire 3
Liverpool 24
Luton 16
Manchester 41
Medway 2
Merton 10
Milton Keynes 10
Newcastle upon Tyne 22
Newham 116
Norfolk 3
North East Lincolnshire 1
North Lincolnshire 1
North Tyneside 2
North Yorkshire 3
Northamptonshire 11
Nottingham City 9
Nottinghamshire 3
Oldham 10
Oxfordshire 19
Peterborough City 8
Plymouth 8
Portsmouth 1
Reading 10
Redbridge 32
Redcar and Cleveland 2
Richmond upon Thames 2
Rochdale 3
Salford 11
Sandwell 4
Sefton 4
Sheffield 33
Slough 4
Solihull 2
Somerset 1
South Gloucestershire 2
South Tyneside 2
Southampton 3
Southend-on-Sea 4
Southwark 51
Staffordshire 1
Stockport 2
Stockton on Tees 2
Stoke on Trent 4
Suffolk 8
Sunderland 4
Surrey 5
Sutton 7
Swindon 7

Numbers of children recently arrived from overseas discounted from 2001 performance tables
Local education authority Number of children discounted
Tameside 2
Tower Hamlets 25
Trafford 4
Wakefield 1
Walsall 3
Waltham Forest 30
Wandsworth 36
Warrington 1
Warwickshire 4
West Berkshire 1
West Sussex 4
Westminster, City of 20
Wigan 3
Wiltshire 2
Wolverhampton 2
Worcestershire 2
York, City of 1
Secondary school performance tables
Barking and Dagenham 20
Barnet 41
Bedfordshire 14
Bexley 1
Birmingham 32
Blackburn with Darwen 1
Blackpool 2
Bolton 2
Bournemouth 1
Bradford 10
Brent 60
Brighton and Hove 23
Bristol, City of 6
Buckinghamshire 2
Bury 2
Calderdale 5
Cambridgeshire 8
Camden 16
Cheshire 2
Coventry 20
Croydon 78
Cumbria 6
Derbyshire 10
Dorset 7
Dudley 2
Durham 4
Ealing 63
East Sussex 16
Enfield 30
Essex 18
Gateshead 2
Gloucestershire 14
Greenwich 23
Hackney 25
Hammersmith and Fulham 40
Hampshire 6
Haringey 59
Harrow 41
Havering 2
Hertfordshire 11
Hillingdon 7
Hounslow 34
Islington 49
Kensington and Chelsea 33
Kent 27
Kingston upon Thames 7
Lewisham 20
Lincolnshire 1
Liverpool 1
Luton 17
Manchester 30
Medway 5

Numbers of children recently arrived from overseas discounted from 2001 performance tables
Local education authority Number of children discounted
Merton 22
Milton Keynes 7
Newcastle upon Tyne 4
Newham 72
Norfolk 6
North East Lincolnshire 2
North Tyneside 3
North Yorkshire 8
Northamptonshire 10
Nottingham City 2
Nottinghamshire 1
Oldham 2
Oxfordshire 14
Peterborough City 2
Plymouth 4
Reading 5
Redbridge 29
Redcar and Cleveland 1
Rotherham 1
Sandwell 2
Sheffield 26
Shropshire 22
Slough 7
Solihull 1
Somerset 6
South Gloucestershire 1
Southwark 69
Staffordshire 1
Suffolk 16
Surrey 16
Swindon 1
Tameside 2
The Wrekin 2
Torbay 4
Tower Hamlets 20
Trafford 1
Waltham Forest 68
Wandsworth 16
Warrington 1
West Berkshire 1
West Sussex 3
Westminster, City of 4
Wiltshire 2
Wolverhampton 17
Worcestershire 2

Mr. Chope

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list by education authority the amount of money paid in 2001–02 by her Department to support the education costs of children of asylum seekers dispersed to cluster areas under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. [47991]

Mr. Ivan Lewis

£1.5 million was made available in 2000–01 to support the education costs of children of asylum seekers dispersed to cluster areas under the Immigration and Asylum Act. This amounted to £500 per child and was to be used to help settle these children into school quickly. This funding was rolled forward into 2001–02 and, due to a greater number of eligible children, was increased to £2,377,000. Thus allowing this Department to continue to make a payment of £500 per child.

In addition, all schools with children of asylum seekers on their school roll, including those in the dispersal areas, receive funding for them in the same way as they do for all other children through the education standard spending assessment. In addition, there is support through the ethnic minority achievement grant. All local education authorities are eligible for this grant which totals around £154 million this year. The purpose of this grant is to support minority ethnic children at risk of underachieving and provide support to those for whom English is an additional language, including the children of asylum seekers and refugees.

The list of authorities in receipt of funding is as follows:

Asylum seekers grant allocations 2001–02
LEA name Amount of funding
Barnsley 23,500
Birmingham 75,500
Blackburn 13,500
Bolton 65,000
Bradford 78,500
Brighton 7,500
Bristol 10,000
Bury 26,500
Calderdale 16,500
Coventry 36,500
Darlington 500
Derby 64,000
Doncaster 35,000
Dudley 11,000
Gateshead 41,000
Hants 2,000
Hartlepool 9,000
Kingston 31,500
Kirklees 31,000
Lancashire 4,500
Leeds 108,000
Leicester 51,000
Leicestershire 1,500
Lincolnshire 2,500
Liverpool 124,000
Manchester 425,500
Middlesbrough 44,500
Newcastle 131,500
Newham 1,500
North Tyneside 34,000
Nottingham 128,000
Oldham 9,000
Peterborough 6,000
Plymouth 9,500
Portsmouth 4,000
Redcar 30,500
Rochdale 51,500
Rotherham 21,000
Salford 101,500
Sandwell 30,000
Sefton 10,000
Sheffield 148,500
South Tyneside 20,500
Stockport 17,000
Stockton-on-Tees 10,500
Stoke-on-Trent 16,000
Sunderland 30,000
Tameside 11,500
Trafford 19,000
Wakefield 29,000
Walsall 19,000
Wigan 50,500
Wolverhampton 98,000
Total 2,377,000