HC Deb 31 March 2004 vol 419 cc1523-6W
Mr. Swire

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much money was given to schools in the Devon local education authority area from the Capital Modernisation Fund in each of the last seven years. [164785]

Mr. Miliband

The Department for Education and Skills does not hold this information centrally. Capital Modernisation Fund is allocated by projects and not by area.

Mr. Swire

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many students living in the Devon local education authority area have benefited from New Opportunities bursaries since the scheme was set up. [164789]

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. Swire

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what investment there has been in(a) sport and (b) music in schools in Devon Local Education Authority in each of the last seven years. [164794]

Mr. Stephen Twigg

The information is not held centrally. Within the context of the statutory National Curriculum, where music is compulsory for pupils aged 5–14, and Physical Education (PE) is compulsory for pupils aged 5–16, 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 5–16 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 £1,746,299 to support the delivery of three School Sport Partnerships in the Devon LEA area. The partnerships include 18 secondary and 114 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.

Furthermore, £3,953,000 is also being provided to to schools in the Devon LEA area specifically to enhance PE and school sport facilities through the New Opportunities Fund.

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 Devon LEA Music Service:

  • in 2003–04: £656,400
  • in 2002–03: £818,604
  • in 2001–02: £697,600
  • in 2000–01: £203,000 plus £121,050
  • in 1999–00: £124,000 plus £5,047

A total of £646,400 has been allocated for 2004–05.

Mr. Swire

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 Devon Local Education Authority in each of the last seven years. [164796]

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 the former Devon Local Education Authority area in each January between 1997 and 2003.

Teaching assistants Teachers Teacher vacancies
1997 810 7,700 26
1998 960 7,800 24
1999 1,090 7,890 16
2000 1,250 8,060 59
2001 1,930 8,210 57
2002 2,220 8,430 25
2003 2,670 8,450 6

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

Mr. Swire

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the level of local education authority funding is per pupil in Devon for 2004–05; and what the amount spent was in 1996–97. [164798]

Mr. Miliband

The estimated total level of revenue funding per pupil (age 3 to 19) for Devon for 2004–05 is £3,630. Devon's Net Current Expenditure on preprimary, primary, special and secondary pupils in

Maintained primary and secondary schools: average class size11997–2000
Position in January each year
1997 1998 1999 2000
Primary Secondary Primary Secondary Primary Secondary Primary Secondary
London 27.1 21.7 27.2 21.7 27.3 21.8 27.3 22.0
Inner London 26.3 22.4 26.5 22.3 26.7 22.6 26.9 22.3
City of London 26.0 0.0 24.8 0.0 24.7 0.0 26.3 0.0
Camden 27.1 20.3 27.0 19.5 26.8 20.2 27.1 19.8
Hackney 26.1 22.3 25.7 23.6 26.4 23.5 26.6 23.9
Hammersmith and Fulham 25.3 22.6 25.9 22.8 26.1 22.4 26.3 23.0
Haringey 26.9 21.6 27.3 21.6 27.3 21.3 27.7 21.3
Islington 26.6 24.0 27.1 23.9 26.9 23.6 27.1 23.1
Kensington and Chelsea 25.3 20.2 25.5 21.0 25.8 21.5 26.2 21.1
Lambeth 25.2 21.9 25.9 22.4 26.0 22.3 26.2 21.5
Lewisham 26.1 20.7 26.1 20.6 26.4 21.6 26.8 21.1
Newham 27.9 24.5 28.3 24.5 28.3 24.4 28.4 24.0
Southwark 26.4 24.4 26.6 22.4 26.8 23.2 26.7 23.4
Tower Hamlets 26.2 24.0 26.6 24.0 26.7 23.5 26.8 23.4
Wandsworth 25.8 22.0 25.6 22.2 26.0 22.8 26.1 22.4
Westminster 24.2 21.5 24.5 21.6 25.4 22.3 25.6 22.2
Outer London 27.5 21.4 27.6 21.4 27.5 21.5 27.4 21.8
Barking and Dagenham 27.0 20.8 27.0 21.9 27.2 21.9 27.0 21.7
Barnet 26.2 19.8 26.7 20.5 26.9 20.2 27.1 20.2
Bexley 28.8 21.8 29.1 21.9 28.3 21.4 28.3 22.2
Brent 26.5 20.5 26.5 20.2 27.2 20.0 27.4 20.5
Bromley 28.5 20.4 28.6 20.6 27.9 21.1 27.7 20.8
Croydon 28.3 22.2 28.2 22.0 28.0 22.6 27.8 22.9
Ealing 27.1 22.4 27.3 22.2 27.1 22.4 26.9 22.1
Enfield 29.1 20.7 29.0 20.6 28.9 20.9 28.7 21.3
Greenwich 26.0 22.5 25.8 21.6 26.2 21.8 25.9 22.8
Harrow 27.5 22.9 27.5 23.5 27.3 23.4 27.4 23.7
Havering 27.9 21.8 28.0 21.7 28.2 22.7 27.9 22.1
Hillingdon 27.2 21.1 27.3 20.3 26.7 20.7 26.4 20.7
Hounslow 26.8 21.1 26.9 21.6 27.0 21.6 27.1 21.5
Kingston-upon-Thames 29.4 20.2 29.0 21.0 29.3 21.0 28.1 20.9
Merton 27.3 22.7 27.8 22.9 27.2 22.4 26.7 24.1
Redbridge 28.4 21.0 28.6 20.9 28.5 20.9 28.5 21.4
Richmond-upon-Thames 27.2 24.0 27.0 24.1 27.3 23.4 26.7 24.6
Sutton 28.1 20.7 27.8 20.7 27.9 21.2 27.4 21.6
Waltham Forest 26.6 23.6 26.8 22.9 27.0 23.5 27.0 23.4
1 One teacher classes

1996–97 was £2,220, as recorded by the authority on its RO1 form. The figures are not directly comparable since the former reflects the total provision made available to the authority whereas the latter reflects what the authority actually spent within schools. 2004–05 funding figures are based OP pupil numbers used in the Education Formula Spending Share calculation. Expenditure figures are calculated using pupil numbers from the annual school census adjusted to the appropriate financial year.