HC Deb 05 February 2004 vol 417 cc1019-21W
Mr. Luff

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many schools in each local education authority area received Excellence Challenge funding in the current financial year; and what the total funding made available in the current financial year under the programme was in each local education authority area. [145432]

Alan Johnson

The Excellence Challenge programme is now known as "Aimhigher". The answer is given in the table. The figures in column 3 include funding for schools, sixth form colleges and further education colleges within each LEA area.

LEA name Number of schools receiving Aimhigher funding in 2003–04 Total Aimhigher allocation in 2003–04 (£)
City of London 0
Camden 10 470,001
Greenwich 14 560,000
Hackney 9 360,000
Hammersmith and Fulham 8 332,000
Islington 9 404,000

LEA name Number of schools receiving Aimhigher funding in 2003–04 Total Aimhigher allocation in 2003–04 (£)
Kensington and Chelsea 12 189,700
Lambeth 10 332,000
Lewisham 13 554,000
Southwark 13 407,191
Tower Hamlets 16 582,000
Wandsworth 9 552,000
Westminster 0 0
Barking and Dagenham 8 473,982
Barnet 4 229,571
Bexley 0 0
Brent 13 608,000
Bromley 7 77,000
Croydon 16 496,256
Ealing 13 649,000
Enfield 17 652,236
Haringey 11 464,000
Harrow 0 0
Havering 0 0
Hillingdon 5 205,784
Hounslow 14 497,870
Kingston upon Thames 0 0
Merton 0 0
Newham 15 793,000
Redbridge 0 0
Richmond upon Thames 0 0
Sutton 0 0
Waltham Forest 17 704,000
Birmingham 76 3,317.000
Coventry 9 270,030
Dudley 2 77,000
Sandwell 25 564,988
Solihull 4 404,478
Walsall 7 261,168
Wolverhampton 21 480,592
Knowsley 11 470,000
Liverpool 32 1,356,000
St. Helens 12 652,000
Sefton 22 961,000
Wirral 23 1,023,082
Bolton 2 77,000
Bury 0 0
Manchester 23 1,175,000
Oldham 15 442,195
Rochdale 14 611,000
Salford 17 606,000
Stockport 5 446,741
Tameside 6 253,313
Trafford 3 161,265
Wigan 7 426,343
Barnsley 18 480,493
Doncaster 17 696,134
Rotherham 17 912,000
Sheffield 27 1,352,000
Bradford 27 1,618,000
Calderdale 4 77,000
Kirklees 6 573,485
Leeds 43 2,134,000
Wakefield 6 77,000
Gateshead 10 35,0005
Newcastle upon Tyne 18 806,000
North Tyneside 18 614,000
South Tyneside 11 498,000
Sunderland 17 892,942
Isles of Scilly 0 0
Bath and North East Somerset 0 0
Bristol, City of 22 836,000
North Somerset 4 201,846
South Gloucestershire 0 0
Hartlepool 6 322,000
Middlesbrough 8 530,000
Redcar and Cleveland 11 500,000
Stockton-on-Tees 13 599,000
Kingston Upon Hull, City of 15 829,000
East Riding of Yorkshire 1 77,000
North East Lincolnshire 5 190,211
North Lincolnshire 0 0
North Yorkshire 0 0
York 0 0
Bedfordshire 12 77,000
Luton 12 408,894

LEA name Number of schools receiving Aimhigher funding in 2003–04 Total Aimhigher allocation in 2003–04 (£)
Buckinghamshire 4 337,340
Milton Keynes 4 226,393
Derbyshire 3 77,000
Derby 8 359,087
Dorset 0 0
Poole 0 0
Bournemouth 0 0
Durham 8 353,466
Darlington 0 0
East Sussex 6 77,000
Brighton and Hove 2 77,000
Hampshire 2 77,000
Portsmouth 3 277,894
Southampton 0 0
Leicestershire 0 0
Leicester 16 987,000
Rutland 0 0
Staffordshire 0 0
Stoke-on-Trent 17 734,000
Wiltshire 0 0
Swindon 0 0
Bracknell Forest 0 0
Windsor and Maidenhead 0 0
West Berkshire 0 0
Reading 0 0
Slough 9 77,000
Wokingham 0 0
Cambridgeshire 0 0
Cheshire 4 315,044
Halton 8 453,000
Warrington 0 0
Devon 0 0
Plymouth 2 77,000
Torbay 0 0
Essex 5 154,000
Southend-on-Sea 5 77,000
Thurrock 3 190,162
Herefordshire 3 123,304
Worcestershire 0 0
Kent 15 343,243
Medway 1 77,000
Lancashire 17 871,636
Blackburn with Darwen 12 414,056
Blackpool 11 331,106
Nottinghamshire 0 0
Nottingham 19 862,001
Shropshire 3 77,000
Telford and Wrekin 3 77,000
Cornwall 3 77,000
Cumbria 7 205,334
Gloucestershire 3 77,000
Hertfordshire 0 0
Lincolnshire 0 0
Norfolk 10 393,154
Northamptonshire 4 77,000
Northumberland 8 77,000
Oxfordshire 1 77,000
Somerset 3 77,000
Suffolk 0 0
Surrey 0 0
Warwickshire 0 0
West Sussex 0 0
Total 1,167 49,916,366