§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the running costs were of(a)her Ministers' private offices, separately identifying 113W expenditure on staff and (b)her Department in each year from May 1997 to the nearest date for which the information is available. [41035]
§ Mr. Ivan LewisRunning cost information for the Department for Education and Skills, created in June 2001, is not yet available. The information given in the table refers to the Department's predecessor, the Department for Education and Employment.
£ million (a) Ministers' private offices (b) Department1 Total Of which staff 2000–01 2.3 1.5 261 1999–2000 2.0 1.3 264
Full-time equivalent teaching assistants and ratios of teachers, adults and teaching assistants to pupils in schools in England, as at January each year FTE teaching assistants1,2 Pupil: teacher ratio3 Pupil: adult ratio4,5 Pupil: teaching assistant ratio6 1996 2001 1996 2001 1996 2001 1996 2001 Nursery 2,098 2,323 19.2 17.7 8.2 6.0 14.5 11.4 Primary7 37,318 63,176 23.2 22.9 18.0 15.0 113.4 67.3 Secondary7 6,434 15,467 16.6 17.1 14.6 14.0 467.9 209.0 Special8 10,609 14.227 6.5 6.4 3.1 2.0 9.1 6.6 Pupil referral units 234 623 4.3 4.4 3.4 3.0 29.4 14.9 1Includes both full-time and the full-time equivalent of part-time teaching assistants. 2Includes nursery assistants, special needs support staff, minority ethnic pupil support staff and non-teaching assistants. 3The pupil: teacher ratio is calculated by dividing the total number of full-time equivalent pupils on roll in schools by the total number of full-time equivalent qualified teachers employed in schools. 4The pupil: adult ratio is calculated by dividing the total number of full-time equivalent pupils on roll in schools by the total number of full-time equivalent qualified teachers and education support staff employed in schools. 5Education support staff includes instructors and student teachers, foreign language assistants, unqualified teachers, graduate or registered teachers, teachers entitled to qualify by service, teachers not recognised as qualified and all non-teaching staff excluding administrative and clerical staff. 6The pupil: teaching assistant ratio is calculated by dividing the total number of full-time equivalent teaching assistants employed in schools. 7Includes middle schools as deemed. 8Includes non-maintained special schools and special and general hospital schools. Source:
Annual schools census.