HC Deb 03 July 2002 vol 388 cc388-9W
Mr. Damian Green

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) if she will list the schools she has visited since she became Secretary of State; [65086]

(2) how many of the schools she has visited in England and Wales are unsatisfactory; [65087]

(3) what criteria she has used to decide which of the schools she has visited are unsatisfactory; [65088]

(4) if she will list the schools she has visited that are unsatisfactory; [65089]

(5) what her estimate is of the total number of schools in England and Wales that are unsatisfactory. [65090]

Mr. Willis

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills which secondary comprehensive schools she has visited since 1997; and which were unsatisfactory. [65399]

Mr. Miliband

[holding answer 1 July 2002]My right hon. Friend has visited 33 schools in England since becoming Secretary of State last year. These schools are as listed. She also visited many schools in her previous ministerial posts between 1997 and 2001. Two of the schools she has visited as Secretary of State were designated by Ofsted as requiring special measures because they were failing to provide pupils with an acceptable standard of education. Just under 300 schools in England—less than 1.3 per cent. of the total—are currently designated by Ofsted as requiring special measures. A further 2.4 per cent. of schools are designated by Ofsted as having serious weaknesses.

2001

  1. 1. 12 June—Henry Compton school, London, SW6 6SN
  2. 2. 15 June—Mapledene junior school, Birmingham
  3. 3. 15 June—Whittington Oval school, Birmingham
  4. 4. 21 June—St. Paul's Way community school, London E3 4AN
  5. 5. 22 June—Cottesbrooke junior school, Birmingham
  6. 6. 13 July—Redhill primary school, Birmingham
  7. 7. 5 September—Swanlea school, London. El 5DJ
  8. 8. 10 September—Hamilton special school, Birmingham
  9. 9. 17 September—Blatchington Mill school, East Sussex
  10. 10. 20 September—Golden Hillock school. Birmingham
  11. 11. 24 September—St. Thomas More school, Birmingham
  12. 12. 9 October—Langdon school, London E6 2PS
  13. 13. 19 October—Corpus Christi Catholic primary school, Birmingham
  14. 14. 2 November—Shaw Hill primary school, Birmingham
  15. 15. 15 November—Sheldon Heath school, Birmingham
  16. 16. 21 November—Lammas school, London, EIO 7LZ
  17. 17. 26 November—Whalley Range high school, Manchester
  18. 18. 10 December—Greensward college, Essex

2002

  1. 19. 18 January—Blakenhale infant school, Birmingham
  2. 20. 13 March—Stanley Technical high school, London, SE25 6AD
  3. 21. 14 March—Fawkham primary school, Kent
  4. 22. 20 March—Oaklands school, Tower Hamlets, London
  5. 23. 22 March—St. Bernadette's school, Birmingham
  6. 24. 10 April—Charles Edward Brooke primary school, London. SW9 6UL
  7. 25. 15 April—Norton primary school, Stoke
  8. 26. 15 April—Blurton primary school, Stoke
  9. 27. 19 April—Hall Green primary school, Birmingham
  10. 28. 13 May—St. Monica's primary school, London, N14 7HE
  11. 29. 21 May—Beacon Hill special school, Ipswich
  12. 30. 31 May—Yardley infant school, Birmingham
  13. 31. 10 June—Millennium school, London, SE 10 OBG
  14. 32. 14 June—Acock's Green infant school, Birmingham
  15. 33. 26 June—Oliver Goldsmith primary school, Camberwell, London.