§ Mr. WillisTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many schools use temporary mobile classroom accommodation, broken down by region; and if he will make a statement. [161907]
§ Mr. Miliband[holding answer 17 March 2004]: The attached table shows the number of schools with temporary classrooms in each Local Education Authority. It is based on data provided to the Department by Authorities as part of the asset management planning process. The bulk of schools capital is now allocated by formula to Authorities and schools so that they can address their local priorities, including the replacement of decayed temporary accommodation. Prioritisation of need through asset management planning should be an open, rigorous and consultative process based on surveys of the needs of all schools. The Department does not collect detailed information on investment plans or timetables of Authorities. The Dpartment does not encourage the replacement of defective permanent accommodation with temporary mobile classroom accommodation but accepts the necessity in some cases to respond to short term need or emergencies.
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Numbers of schools with temporary buildings LEA Schools with temporary buildings Barking and Dagenham 7 Barnet — Barnsley 26 Bath and North East Somerset — Bedfordshire 108 Bexley 56 Birmingham 196 Blackburn with Darwen 1 Blackpool 1 Bolton 6 Bournemouth 17 Bracknell Forest 20 Bradford 52 Brent 36 Brighton and Hove 27 Bristol, City of 65 Bromley 16 Buckinghamshire 49 Bury — Calderdale — Cambridgeshire 80 Camden 0 Cheshire 154 City of London — 484W
Numbers of schools with temporary buildings LEA Schools with temporary buildings Cornwall 97 Coventry 13 Croydon 60 Cumbria 35 Darlington — Derby 25 Derbyshire 177 Devon 175 Doncaster — Dorset 35 Dudley 59 Durham 36 Ealing 54 East Riding of Yorkshire 63 East Sussex 96 Enfield — Essex 340 Gateshead 35 Gloucestershire — Greenwich — Hackney 10 Halton 13 Hammersmith and Fulham 0 Hampshire 263 Haringey 21 Harrow 58 Hartlepool 5 Havering 1 Herefordshire 47 Hertfordshire 188 Hillingdon 44 Hounslow 40 Isle of Wight 53 Isles of Scilly — Islington 9 Kensington and Chelsea 3 Kent 358 Kingston Upon Hull, City of 35 Kingston upon Thames 0 Kirklees 69 Knowsley — Lambeth 28 Lancashire 28 Leeds 119 Leicester 56 Leicestershire 196 Lewisham 22 Lincolnshire 160 Liverpool 25 Luton — Manchester 23 Medway — Merton 3 Middlesbrough 17 Milton Keynes 15 Newcastle upon Tyne — Newham 46 Norfolk 308 North East Lincolnshire 26 North Lincolnshire 58 North Somerset 50 North Tyneside 21 North Yorkshire — Northamptonshire 148 Northumberland 1 Nottinghamshire 99 Oldham 24 Oxfordshire 128 Peterborough 34
Numbers of schools with temporary buildings LEA Schools with temporary buildings Plymouth 40 Poole 23 Portsmouth 5 Reading 1 Redbridge 0 Redcar and Cleveland 0 Richmond upon Thames 12 Rochdale — Rotherham 63 Rutland 3 Salford 4 Sandwell 25 Sefton 26 Sheffield 60 Shropshire 55 Slough 19 Solihull 48 Somerset 187 South Gloucestershire — South Tyneside — Southampton 29 Southend-on-Sea 25 Southwark 8 St. Helens 9 Staffordshire 181 Stockport 38 Stockton-on-Tees 31 Stoke-on-Trent 78 Suffolk — Sunderland 18 Surrey — Sutton 44 Swindon 52 Tameside 36 Telford and Wrekin 46 Thurrock — Torbay 27 Tower Hamlets 9 Trafford — Wakefield — Walsall 10 Waltham Forest 11 Wandsworth 9 Warrington 21 Warwickshire 142 West Berkshire 40 West Sussex 170 Westminster 0 Wigan 23 Wiltshire 102 Windsor and Maidenhead 27 Wirral 58 Workingham 40 Wolverhampton — Worcestershire 109 York 30 Where no figures are shown, either no data have been supplied by LEAs, or there are clearly significant data anomalies.