HC Deb 30 March 2004 vol 419 cc1397-400W
Mr. Alan Campbell

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many students living in North

18 March 2004, Official Report, column 475W, on school innovation, how many schools have been granted the power to innovate, broken down by area of innovation. [164624]

Mr. Miliband

There have been four schools whose applications to the Power to Innovate have been granted. These are as follows:

Tyneside local education authority have benefited from New Opportunities bursaries since the scheme was set up. [164370]

Alan Johnson

Information about Opportunity Bursaries is held at the level of institutions that provide higher education provision. Apart from that, it is not possible to extract from the data the number of awards for students in any given area.

Mr. Alan Campbell

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what investment there has been in(a) sports and (b) music in schools in North Tyneside local education authority in each of the last seven years. [164377]

Mr. Stephen Twigg:

The information is not held centrally. Within the context of the statutory National Curriculum, where music is compulsory for pupils aged 5 to 14, and Physical Education (PE) is compulsory for pupils aged 5 to 16, it is for individual schools to use their budgets as they judge appropriate.

The Government are investing more than £1 billion in England to transform PE, school sport and club links. The funding will help deliver an ambitious Public Service Agreement target, shared with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, to increase the percentage of 5 to 16-year-olds who spend a minimum of two hours each week on high quality PE and school sport within and beyond the curriculum to 75 per cent. by 2006.

The Department is providing £909,086 to support the delivery of 2 School Sport Partnerships in the North Tyneside LEA area. The partnerships include 12 secondary and 51 primary schools and provide enhanced sports opportunities for all young people and ensure that their pupils spend a minimum of two hours a week on high quality PE and School Sport.

The Music Standards Fund (MSF) supports Local Education Authority Music Services, which provide activities including workshops, festivals, small group and ensemble tuition and curriculum support. Since 1999, the following MSF payments have been made to North Tyneside LEA Music Service.

£
2003–04 213,983
2002–03 203,983
2001–02 154,000
2000–01 73,470
1999–2000 53,375

Note:

£203,983 has been allocated for 2004–05.

Furthermore, the New Opportunities Fund has provided schools in the North Tyneside LEA area with £3,528,950 to specifically enhance music, PE and school sport facilities.

Mr. Alan Campbell

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many(a) teaching assistants, (b) teachers and (c) teaching vacancies there were in schools in North Tyneside local education authority in each of the last seven years. [164380]

Mr. Miliband

The following table shows the number of full-time equivalent teaching assistants, regular teachers and full-time teacher vacancies in maintained schools in North Tyneside Local Education Authority in each January between 1997 and 2003.

Teaching assistants Teachers Teachers vacancies
1997 105 1,650 0
1998 216 1,640 0
1999 217 1,630 26
2000 237 1,600 16
2001 274 1,820 14
2002 184 1,690 8
2003 305 1,650 5

Source: Annual School Census and the annual survey of teacher in service and teacher vacancies(618G)

Mr. Alan Campbell

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the level of local education authority funding per pupil in Tyneside(a) is for 2004–05 and (b) was in 1996–97. [164418]

Mr. Miliband

The following table provides total revenue funding per pupil (age three to 19) figures for North Tyneside and South Tyneside for 2004–05 and 1997–98—the first year for which comparative data are available. 2004–05 figures are still provisional.

North Tyneside South Tyneside
1997–98 2,620 2,750
2004–05 3,570 3,820

Mr. Alan Campbell

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much North Tyneside schools have received in Standards Fund Grant in each year since its introduction. [164362]

Mr. Miliband

Standards Fund grants are allocated to local education authorities (LEAs), not directly to schools. It is not possible to identify separately the amounts allocated to schools by LEAs. The following table shows allocations for the Standards Fund for North Tyneside local education authority since the Standards Fund was introduced in 1998–99. The allocations include both Government and local authority contributions. The figures for 1998–99 to 2002–03 include class size grant, worth £0.4 million in 2002–03. Since 2003–04, funding for class size grant is distributed via Education Formula Spending Shares (EFSS).

Standards fund allocations to North Tyneside local education authority
£
Revenue Capital
1998–99 2.1 1.5
1999–2000 3.8 2.2
2000–01 7.9 4.8
2001–02 10.0 6.8
2002–03 12.2 8.5
2003–04 12.6 9.1