HC Deb 30 October 2002 vol 391 cc803-7W
Mr. Willis

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will list for each initiative funded through the Standards Fund the(a) budget for 2001–02, (b) outturn for 2001–02 and (c) budget for 2002–03.[76598]

Mr. Miliband

The tables show the grant allocated for each initiative funded through the Standards Fund, and the amounts finally accepted by local education authorities, for 2001–02 and 2002–203. Expenditure figures are not available for 2001–02.

Standards Fund Grants 2001–02
Initiative Original Grant Allocation £ Final Grant Allocation £
Truancy buster awards 406,000 406,000
School improvement 116,519,051 116,481,951
Social inclusion: pupil support 86,311,859 85,803,112
Social educational needs 38,703,686 38,682,375

(c) other secondary schools and (d) special schools in each year since 1988; how many of these exclusions were taken to appeal; and how many of these exclusions were successfully overturned by an appeals panel.[76777]

Mr. Miliband

The available information is shown in the table. Data on permanent exclusions have only been recorded reliably for the academic year 1995–96 onwards

Number of permanent exclusions by type of school (England
Year1 Primary2 Maintained Secondary2 Special3 Total
1995–96 1,608 10,344 524 12,476
1996–97 1,573 10,463 632 12,668
1997–98 1,539 10,187 572 12,298
1998–99 1,366 8,636 436 10,438
1999–2000 1,226 6,713 384 8,323
2000–014 1,436 7,305 394 9,135
1Year in which the permanent exclusion fell after appeal procedures had been concluded.
2Includes middle schools as deemed.
3Includes maintained and non-maintained special schools.
4Estimates have been made for 2000–01 because the data are known to be incomplete.Source:Annual Schools Census

Standards Fund Grants 2001–02
Initiative Original Grant Allocation £ Final Grant Allocation £
Children in public care 3,710,003 3,710,003
Sick children 2,000,000 2,000,000
Teenage pregnancies 5,001,700 5,001,700
Drug, alcohol and tobacco prevention 9,677,087 9,662,712
Youth service 1,059,105 1,053,805
Study support 41,458,609 41,046,276
Adult ethnic minority achievement 753,825 742,107
Child protection co-ordinators 990,000 990,000
National literacy and numeracy strategies 112,763,910 112,761,235
Key Stage 3 strategy 38,336,093 38,212,677
Literacy and numeracy scummer schools 12,078,700 11,499,940
Year 9 booster classes 13,320,000 13,320,000
Ethnic minority achievement 81.603,966 81,603,966
Traveller children achievement 8,291,488 8,291,488
Family literacy and numeracy 3,677,511 3,640,689
Booster classes 46,000,100 46,000,100
National curriculum: implementation 1,624,495 1,618,508

Standards Fund Grants 2001–02
Initiative Original Grant Allocation £ Final Grant Allocation £
National curriculum: personal social and health education/citizenship 7,829,484 7,829,484
Education health partnerships 5,700,000 5,700,000
Qualifications 1,545,158 1,545,158
LEA music services 50,060,500 50,060,500
Playing for success 2,152,883 2,152,883
Early years training and development 7,154,995 7,154,995
Early excellence centres 9,245,175 9,245,175
Adult: pupil ratios in reception classes 14,853,526 14,421,322
School achievement awards 63,893,453 63,893,453
Maintained nursery school service 8,975,004 8,975,004
Children of asylum seekers 2,377,000 2,377,000
Excellence in cities 149,752,000 149,752,000
Excellence challenges 9,185,600 9,185,000
City learning centres 80,651,002 80,651,002
Small education zones 20,987,342 20,987,342
Gifted and talented children 3,825,000 3,825,000
Specialist schools 86,526,340 86,526,340
Beacon schools 30,685,830 30,685,830
Pupil support allowance 11,671,845 11,671,845
Pupil learning credits 14,499,999 14,499,999
Grammer/non-selective school partnerships 505,616 505,616
Diversity pathfinders 323,500 323,500
Induction of newly qualified teachers 34,223,840 34,223,840
Teacher recruitment measures (golden hellos) 2,565,954 2,565,954
Training schools 4,355,000 4,355,000
Advanced skills teachers 18,487,787 16,510,981
National professional qualification for headship 16,381,368 16,381,368
Leadership programme for serving heads 5,227,653 5,180,402
Performance management 28,000,002 28,000,002
Teaching assistants 104,652,809 104,345,784
Small schools fund 42,332,042 41,487,354
Supported early retirement scheme for heads 5,178,100 4,801,800
Recruitment and retention fund 33,000,000 33,000,000
Teachers sabbaticals 4,884,000 4,884,000
Early professional development 4,651,150 4,651,150
Welcome back bonus 454,033 454,033
National grid for learning 132,265,063 132,121,881
Key Stage 1 class size 177,455,982 177,455,982
Key Stage 2 class size recurrent funding 17,461,558 17,461,558
Devolved formula capital 409,009,065 409,009,065
Seed capital challenge 34,999,998 34,999,998
School laboratories 43,494,238 43,494,238
Learning support units 25,232,370 25,232,370
School security 11,650,857 11,416,297
Fresh start 25,519,748 25,519,748
New models for LEA services 1,266,757 1,266,757
NDS condition funding 239,788,348 239,788,348
Information management strategy 29,999,998 29,999,998
NDS capital projects 39,824,146 39,824,146
Classrooms of the future 5,425,000 5,425,000
Total: 2,704,475,306 2,698,354,746

Standards Fund Grants 2002–03
Initiative Original Grant Allocation £ Final Grant Allocation £
School improvement 131,562,975 131,562,975
Social inclusion: pupil support 84,683,332 84,549,663
Special educational needs 42,152,297 42,119,994
Sick children and children in public care 5,200,001 5,193,316
Teenage pregnancy 4,999,999 4,999,999
Drug, alcohol and tobacco prevention 9,600,003 9,583,860
Study support 48,119,999 47,637,893
Child protection co-ordinators 1,378,000 1,325,000
Behaviour and improvement programme 50,003,000 50,003,000
National literacy and numeracy strategies 77,744,611 77,744,611
Key Stage 3 strategy 97,126,316 96,464,450
Ethnic minority achievement 81,064,263 81,057,034
Traveller children achievement 8,155,841 8,135,041
Year 6 booster classes 42,000,000 42,000,000
Educational health partnerships 9,819,993 9,819,993
Qualifications 1,540,756 1,521,724
LEA music services 59,633,546 59,633,546
Playing for success 1,813,365 1,813,365
Early years training and development 7,020,009 7,020,009
Early excellence centres: recurrent 9,047,080 0,040,080
Adult: pupil ratios in reception classes 11,375,139 10,985,930
School achievement awards 58,885,040 58,885,040
Nursery school project 4,906,484 4,906,484
Training for educational visits co-ordinators 2,355,600 3,355,600
Excellence in cities 173,556,890 173,556,890
Gifted and talented summer schools 3,816,000 3,816,000
Specialist schools 108,978,953 108,978,953
Specialist schools (capital) 20,550,000 20,550,000
Beacon schools 40,168,850 40,168,850
Pupil support allowances 8,988,000 8,988,000
Pupil learning credits 19,623,621 19,623,621
Partnerships between grammer and non-selective schools 308,477 308,477
Excellence challenge 17,259,656 17,259,656
Small education action zones 26,768,968 26,768,968
Diversity pathfinders 920,150 920,150
Induction of newly qualified teachers 34,835,998 34,831,177
Teacher recruitment incentives 24,779,496 24,779,496
Training schools 4,203,000 4,203,000
Advanced skills teachers 20,058,558 18,926,163
Performance management and threshold assessment 14,560,001 14,474,890
Teaching assistants 103,098,945 102,757,478
Small schools fund 41,600,000 41,082,080
Teacher recruitment and retention fund 44,001,000 44,001,000
Teacher sabbaticals 9,752,000 9,762,000
Early professional development pilot programme 6,056,182 6,056,182
Welcome back bonuses 205,131 205,131
Transforming school workforce pathfinders 3,370,775 3,370,775
Fast track payments 318,000 318,000
National grid for learning 182,000,006 181,524,946
Key Stage 1 class size 144,834,655 144,834,655
Key Stage 2 class size 25,451,573 25,451,573
NDS devolved formula capital 360,254,267 360,254,267
Seed challenge capital 60,000,000 60,000,000
Staff workspaces 11,999,998 11,999,998
Learning support units 9,987,269 9,987,269
New school security projects 9,999,996 9,999,996
Fresh start and new partnerships 17,451,058 17,451,058

Standards Fund Grants 2002–03
Initiative Original Grant Allocation £ Final Gram Allocation £
NDS condition funding 346,500,441 346,500,441
Information management strategy 7,039,908 7,039,908
Capital funding for nursery education in disadvantaged areas 20,077,716 20,077,716
Capital projects 39,216,362 39,216,362
Laptops for teachers 59,846,307 59,846,307
Electronic registration systems in secondary school 9,656,820 9,656,820
Electronic registration systems in secondary schools 9,656,820 9,656,820
e-Learning credits 29,929,186 29,929,186
Total: 2,912,221,862 2,907,843,046