§ Lord Hanningfieldasked Her Majesty's Government:
For each local education authority in England and Wales, how many temporary buildings are currently used on school premises. [HL368]
§ Lord FilkinThe following table shows numbers of temporary buildings on school premises for each English local education authority. The figures are derived from data supplied to the department by authorities. Not all temporary buildings are used for teaching. They may accommodate one or more classrooms.
Central government capital support for investment in schools has increased from under £700 million in 1996–97 to £4.9 billion this year and will rise further to over £6.3 billion by 2007–08. Progress is being made year by year in improving the quality of the school building stock. The bulk of schools capital is now allocated by formula to authorities and schools so that they can addresss their local priorities, including the replacement of decayed temporary accommodation, on which we have set a high priority.
Modern, high quality mobile or demountable classrooms provide a good environment for teaching and learning where there is short-term need. They might, for instance, be needed to cope with a short-term increase in pupil numbers, or where extensive remodelling or rebuilding of permanent accommodation means providing temporary accommodation on the school site, rather than transporting children elsewhere.
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Parliamentary Question HL 368 Numbers of temporary buildings on school premises Temporary buildings Barking and Dagenham 9 Barnet Barnsley 34 Bath and North East Somerset Bedfordshire 205 Bexley 174 Birmingham 320 Blackburn with Darwen 1 Blackpool 1 Bolton 6 Bournemouth 38 Bracknell Forest 39 Bradford 107 Brent 70 Brighton and Hove 72 Bristol, City of 114 Bromley 28 Buckinghamshire 100 Bury Calderdale Cambridgeshire 128 Camden Cheshire 264 City of London Cornwall 174 Coventry 28 Croydon 116 Cumbria 42 Darlington Derby 39 Derbyshire 303 Devon 345 Doncaster 60 Dorset Dudley 115 Durham 65 Ealing 119 East Riding of Yorkshire 104 East Sussex 208 Enfield Essex 742 Gateshead 72 Gloucestershire Greenwich Hackney 10 Halton 20 Hammersmith and Fulham Hampshire 635 Haringey 30 Harrow 146 Hartlepool 6 Havering 2 Herefordshire 76 Hertfordshire 272 Hillingdon 90 Hounslow 53 Isle of Wight 90 Isles of Scilly Islington 11 Kensington and Chelsea 3 Kent 912 Kingston upon Hull, City of 77 Kingston upon Thames Kirklees 120 Knowsley Lambeth 41 Lancashire 29 Leeds 263 Leicester 67 Leicestershire 432 51WA
Parliamentary Question HL 368 Numbers of temporary buildings on school premises Temporary buildings Lewisham 32 Lincolnshire 294 Liverpool 40 Luton Manchester 42 Medway Merton 4 Middlesbrough 25 Milton Keynes 24 Newcastle upon Tyne Newham 89 Norfolk 837 North East Lincolnshire 81 North Lincolnshire 164 North Somerset 142 North Tyneside 29 North Yorkshire Northamptonshire 320 Northumberland 2 Nottingham Nottinghamshire 169 Oldham 33 Oxfordshire 239 Peterborough 63 Plymouth 107 Poole 46 Portsmouth 6 Reading 1 Redbridge Redcar and Cleveland 21 Richmond upon Thames 16 Rochdale Rotherham 151 Rutland 7 Salford 5 Sandwell 27 Sefton 46 Sheffield 98 Shropshire 56 Slough 33 Solihull 103 Somerset 431 South Gloucestershire South Tyneside Southampton 42 Southend-on-Sea 25 Southwark 11 St Helens 10 Staffordshire 334 Stockport 54 Slockton-on-Tees 63 Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk 109 Sunderland 26 Surrey Sutton 104 Swindon 63 Tameside 50 Telford and Wrekin 126 Thurrock Torbay 66 Tower Hamlets 12 Trafford Wakefield Walsall 15 Waltham Forest 19 Wandsworth 22 Warrington 45 Warwickshire 368 West Berkshire 73
Parliamentary Question HL 368 Numbers of temporary buildings on school premises Temporary building. West Sussex 336 Westminster Wigan 32 Wiltshire 193 Windsor and Maidenhead 52 Wirral 134 Wokingham 68 Wolverhampton Worcestershire 185 York 57 Where no figures are shown, either no data have been supplied by LEAs, or there are clearly significant data anomalies.