§ Mr. SteenTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the annual budget was for(a) staffing and (b) administering the Children and Young People's Unit in each year since it was established; and how much funding has been allocated by the CYPU to projects referred by the Children's Fund over the same period, broken down by region.[135028]
§ Margaret Hodge[holding answer 28 October 2003]The information requested is as follows.
Staffing/Admin
The Children's and Young People's Unit had a combined staffing and administration budget over financial years 2001–2, 2002–03 & 2003–04 of:
- Financial year 2001–02: £2.66 million
- Financial year 2002–03: £4.43 million
- Financial year 2003–04: £4.40 million
This equates to approximately 2.6 per cent. of the Unit's overall budget.
70WChildren's Fund
There are 149 Children's Fund partnership areas in England and individual partnership allocations were based on a formula derived from the number of children in households claiming means-tested benefit/allowance (as defined by Income Support, income-based Jobseekers Allowance, Family Credit and Disability Working Allowance).
The Children's Fund was rolled out across England in three waves. £67.65 million was allocated to partnerships in 2001–02; £121.37 million in 2002–03; and £166.78 million in 2003–04. The attached table lists each of the 149 partnerships and their annual allocation since each partnership was implemented. Partnership allocations are the same for SR2000 and SR2002. Wave 1 partnerships began operating from 1 July 2001. Wave 2 partnerships began operating from 1 April 2002. Wave 3 partnerships began operating from 1 April 2003.
Partnership (Wave 1) Annual allocation(£) Birmingham 6,000,000.00 Blackburn with Darwen 900,000.00 Blackpool 600,000.00 Bolton 1,200,000.00 Bradford 2,750,000.00 Bristol 1,610,000.00 Camden 800,000.00 Cornwall 1,770,000.00 Doncaster 1,350,000.00 Gateshead 800,000.00 Greenwich 1,290,000.00 Hackney 1,400,000.00 Halton 600,000.00 Haringey 1,410,000.00 Hartlepool 500,000.00 Islington 900,000.00 Kent 3,700,000.00 Kingston upon Hull 1,550,000.00 Knowsley 1,050,000.00 Lancashire 4,000,000.00 Leeds 2,650,000.00 Leicester 1,600,000.00 Lincolnshire 1,750,000.00 Liverpool 2,800,000.00 Manchester 2,960,000.00 Middlesbrough 850,000.00 Newcastle upon Tyne 1,250,000.00 Newham 1,900,000.00 Norfolk 2,100,000.00 Nottingham 1,700,000.00 Oldham* 1,370,000.00 Portsmouth 1,010,000.00 Rochdale 1,330,000.00 Salford 1,100,000.00 Sandwell 1,610,000.00 Sheffield 2,060,000.00 Southwark 1,450,000.00 Stockton-on-Tees 750,000.00 Sunderland 1,530.000.00 Tower Hamlets 1,700,000.00 Total 67,650,000.00 71W
Partnership (Wave 2) Average annual allocation (£) Barking and Dagenham 800,000.00 Barnsley 900,000.00 Bournemouth 400,000.00 Brent 1,250,000.00 Brighton 1,010,000.00
Partnership (Wave 2) Average annual allocation (£) Calderdale 700,000.00 Cheshire 1,600,000.00 County Durham 1,890,000.00 Coventry 1,200,000.00 Cumbria 1,300,000.00 Darlington 407,000.00 Derby 1,000,000.00 Derbyshire 1,900,000.00 Devon 1,800,000.00 East Sussex 1,300,000.00 Hammersmith and Fulham 3,008,006.00 Isle of Wight 400,000.00 Kirklees 1,600,000.00 Lambeth 1,300,000.00 Lewisham 1,100,000.00 Luton 1,090,000.00 Medway 800,000.00 North East Lincolnshire 700,000.00 North Lincolnshire 500,000.00 North Tyneside 700,000.00 North Yorkshire 1,410,000.00 Northamptonshire 1,810,000.00 Northumberland 900,000.00 Nottinghamshire 2,200,000.00 Peterborough 700,000.00 Plymouth 900,000.00 Redcar and Cleveland 600,000.00 Rotherham 1,100,000.00 Sefton 1,000,000.00 Solihull 850,000.00 South Tyneside 700,000.00 Southampton 800,000.00 St. Helens 700,000.00 Stoke-on-Trent 1,100,000.00 Suffolk 1,730,000.00 Tameside 900,000.00 Telford and Wrekin 600,000.00 Torbay 400,000.00 Trafford 600,000.00 Walsall 1,200,000.00 Waltham Forest 1,000,000.00 Wandsworth 700,000.00 Westminster 500,000.00 Wirral 1,570,000.00 Wolverhampton 1,100,000.00 Total 53,725,006.00 72W
Partnership (Wave 3) Average annual allocation (£) Barnet 700,000.00 Bath and North East Somerset 360,000.00 Bedfordshire 800,000.00 Bexley 500,000.00 Bracknell Forest 194,000.00 Bromley 600,000.00 Buckinghamshire 800,000.00 Bury 600,000.00 Cambridgeshire 1,000,000.00 City of London 35,000.00 Croydon 1,100,000.00 Dorset 800,000.00 Dudley 900,000.00 Ealing 1,000,000.00 East Riding of Yorkshire 700,000.00 Enfield 900,000.00 Essex 3,100,000.00 Gloucestershire 1,200,000.00 Hampshire 2,400,000.00 Harrow 479,000.00 Havering 500,000.00 Herefordshire 448,000.00 Hertfordshire 2,000,000.00
Partnership (Wave 3) Average annual allocation (£) Hillingdon 600,000.00 Hounslow 700,000.00 Kensington and Chelsea* 360,000.00 Kingston upon Thames 236,000.00 Leicestershire 1,100,000.00 Merton 488.000.00 Milton Keynes 600,000.00 North Somerset 398,000.00 Oxfordshire 1,100,000.00 Poole 355,000.00 Reading 445,000.00 Redbridge 700,000.00 Richmond uponThames 222,000.00 Rutland 40,000.00 Shropshire 600,000.00 Slough 443,000.00 Somerset 1,200,000.00 Southend-on-Sea 500,000.00 South Gloucestershire 461,000.00 Staffordshire 2,000,000.00 Stockport 800,000.00 Surrey 1,300,000.00 Sutton 400,000.00 Swindon 494,000.00 Thurrock 451,000.00 Wakefield 1,200,000.00 Warrington 500,000.00 Warwickshire 1,100,000.00 West Sussex 1,400,000.00 West Berkshire 224,000.00 Wigan 1,000,000.00 Wiltshire 800,000.00 Windsor and Maidenhead 187,000.00 Wokingham 144,000.00 Worcestershire 1,300,000.00 York 450,000.00 Total 45,414,000.00