§ Mr. Damian GreenTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many schools have become(a)city academies and (b)beacon schools in each year since the beginning of the scheme, broken down by local education authority. [47493]
§ Mr. TimmsNo city academies have yet been established. It is expected that the first three will begin operating in September 2002. The beacon school programme was launched in 1998. The number of beacon schools established each year was:
- 1998: 75
- 1999: 125
- 2000: 350
- 2001: 450.
The network currently consists of 1,000 schools. The breakdown by local education authority is as follows:
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LEA Beacon schools Barking 2 Barnet 8 Barnsley 3 Bath and North East Somerset 4 Bedfordshire 7 Bexley 3 Birmingham 28 Blackburn with Darwen 4 Blackpool 4
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LEA Beacon schools Bolton 8 Bournemouth 4 Bracknell Forest 3 Bradford 13 Brent 7 Brighton and Hove 4 Bromley 6 Buckinghamshire 12 Bury 6 Calderdale 4 Cambridgeshire 9 Camden 9 Cheshire 14 City of Bristol 4 City of London 1 Cornwall 12 Coventry 4 Croydon 6 Cumbria 11 Darlington 2 Derby 6 Derbyshire 13 Devon 7 Doncaster 6 Dorset 3 Dudley 3 Durham 10 Ealing 5 East Riding of Yorkshire 4 East Sussex 7 Enfield 6 Essex 9 Gateshead 7 Gloucestershire 14 Greenwich 7 Hackney 4 Halton 3 Hammersmith 5 Hampshire 20 Haringey 4 Hartlepool 5 Havering 4 Herefordshire 4 Hertfordshire 14 Hillingdon 3 Hounslow 5 Isle of Wight 2 Islington 5 Kensington and Chelsea 8 Kent 18 Kingston upon Thames 4 Kingston-upon-Hull 5 Kirklees 7 Knowsley 8 Lambeth 10 Lancashire 26 Leeds 13 Leicester 5 Leicestershire 3 Lewisham 7 Lincolnshire 2 Liverpool 16 Luton 2 Manchester 12 Medway Towns 5 Merton 3 Middlesbrough 4 Milton Keynes 4 Newcastle upon Tyne 4 Newham 7 Norfolk 12 North East Lincolnshire 5 North Lincolnshire 3 North Somerset 2
LEA Beacon schools North Tyneside 8 North Yorkshire 11 Northamptonshire 9 Northumberland 8 Nottingham City 6 Nottinghamshire 8 Oldham 5 Oxfordshire 7 Peterborough 5 Plymouth 3 Poole 3 Portsmouth 5 Reading 3 Redbridge 4 Redcar and Cleveland 3 Richmond upon Thames 7 Rochdale 6 Rotherham 8 Rutland 2 Salford 7 Sandwell 4 Sefton 12 Sheffield 8 Shropshire 6 Slough 2 Solihull 8 Somerset 8 South Gloucestershire 4 South Tyneside 8 Southampton 5 Southend-on-Sea 4 Southwark 7 St. Helens 8 Staffordshire 10 Stockport 9 Stockton-on-Tees 3 Stoke-on-Trent 4 Suffolk 12 Sunderland 7 Surrey 19 Sutton 3 Swindon 2 Tameside 4 Telford and the Wrekin 5 Thurrock 2 Torbay 3 Tower Hamlets 8 Trafford 5 Wakefield 7 Walsall 2 Waltham Forest 5 Wandsworth 10 Warrington 4 Warwickshire 6 West Berkshire 4 West Sussex 14 Westminster 6 Wigan 7 Wiltshire 7 Windsor and Maidenhead 3 Wirral 15 Wokingham 1 Wolverhampton 4 Worcestershire 6 York 4