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Written Answers to Questions
Thursday 15 February 1990
EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
South Bank Polytechnic
Mr. Viggers : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if, in view of current industrial action by polytechnic lecturers, he will take steps to ensure that students at the polytechnic of the South Bank are able to sit their final examinations during the current academic year and that such examinations will be marked in order to enable successful candidates to obtain degree qualifications.
Mr. Jackson : This is a matter for the authorities of the polytechnic. Proposals for an interim settlement of the dispute are currently subject to a ballot.
Special Educational Needs
Mr. Bermingham : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) how calculations are made of special educational support grant in budgeting for special educational needs ; and if he will make a statement ;
(2) what allowances are made to local education authorities for special educational needs ; and if he will make a statement ; (3) what allowances have been made available to local education authorities for special educational needs in the last five years for which figures are available ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Alan Howarth : My right hon. Friend determines each year the distribution of education support grants
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(ESGs) and local education authority training grants (LEATGs) in the light of current needs and priorities, including those relating to special educational needs (SEN). Over the past five years, allocations have been made under the ESGs and LEATGs programmes (and the latter's predecessor, the in-service teacher training grant scheme) for a variety of activities to promote SEN provision and training in both the schools and further education sectors. The allocations of supported expenditure totalled :
Year |Total expenditure supported
|under SEN-related ESG and
|LEATGs activities (£ million)
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1985-86 |4.3
1986-87 |3.8
1987-88 |6.3
1988-89 |10.8
1989-90 |8.6
These specific grants are additional to the general rate support grant (RSG) allocations which each local authority received in the years in question. The distribution of RSG between authorities takes account of additional education needs, including SEN. But it is for each authority to determine the deployment of its RSG allocation, and the pattern of spending between different aspects of its services, including SEN provision.
Teaching Vacancies
Mr. Jack : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will give the latest information he has on teaching post vacancies broken down by school type and subject area for (a) England and Wales, and (b) Lancashire.
Mr. Alan Howarth : The numbers of vacancies in January 1989 for full -time permanent teachers in maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools in England and Wales and in Lancashire are shown in the table.
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England and Wales Lancashire
|Number |As a percentage |Number |As a percentage
|of full-time |of full-time
|teachers in post|teachers in post
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Nursery and primary schools |3,297 |1.8 |105 |2.1
Of which, main age group of deployment:
nursery |197 |2.2 |7 |-
infant |1,122 |2.2 |34 |-
junior |1,159 |1.5 |37 |-
more than one age group |819 |- |27 |-
Secondary schools |2,529 |1.2 |88 |1.6
Of which:
head and deputy head teacher posts |264 |1.6 |12 |-
main scale posts, by subject:
mathematics |263 |1.1 |8 |-
sciences |310 |1.1 |7 |-
languages |261 |1.7 |9 |-
English |253 |1.1 |15 |-
history, geography or social studies 180 0.8 6 -
CDT, craft or art |180 |0.9 |9 |-
music |103 |2.1 |2 |-
physical education |165 |1.2 |5 |-
remedial |90 |1.6 |6 |-
other subjects |460 |1.5 |9 |-
|--- |-- |-- |--
Total nursery, primary and secondary schools 5,826 1.5 193 1.8
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Independent Schools
Mr. Tony Banks : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list all the schools which receive pupils paid for in whole, or in part, under the assisted places scheme ; and what was the number of assisted place pupils at each school in 1988-89.
Mr. Alan Howarth : The information requested is as follows :
Number of Assisted Place Pupils in 1988-89 (Subject to final adjustment) Name of school |Number ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Abbey School, Reading |72 Abingdon School |89 Aldenham School, Elstree |29 Alice Ottley School, Worcester |72 Alleyns School, Dulwich |199 Arnold School, Blackpool |78 Ashford School, Kent |38 Bancrofts School, Woodford |80 Bath High School |93 Batley Grammar School |256 Bedales School, Petersfield |8 Bedford High School |89 Bedford Modern School |155 Bedford School |88 Dame Alice Harpur School |52 Belvedere School, Liverpool |159 Berkhamstead School |30 Berkhamstead School for Girls |28 Birkenhead High School |259 Birkenhead School |251 Bishop's Stortford College |36 Blackheath High School |105 Bolton School (Boys) |249 Bolton School (Girls) |246 Bradfield College, Reading |0 Bradford Girls' Grammar |59 Bradford Grammar School |209 Brentwood School |95 Brighton and Hove High School |153 Brighton College |98 Bristol Cathedral School |138 Bristol Grammar School |270 Bromley High School |108 Bruton School for Girls |117 Bury Grammar School (Boys) |188 Bury Grammar School (Girls) |246 Canford School, Wimborne |29 Carmel College, Wallingford |86 Casterton School, Cumbria |42 Caterham School |114 Central Newcastle High School |109 Charterhouse, Nr Godalming |9 Cheadle Hulme School |135 Chigwell School |70 Churchers College, Petersfield |115 City of London School |133 City of London School for Girls |104 Clifton College, Bristol |69 Clifton High School, Bristol |48 Colfes School, London SE12 |186 Colston's School, Bristol |86 Colston's Girls' School |154 Coventry School, Bablake |181 Cranleigh School |38 Croydon High School |116 Culford School, Bury St Edmunds |47 Dame Allans Boys' School, Newcastle upon Tyne |133 Dame Allans Girls' School |125 Dauntseys School, Devizes |55 Denstone College, Uttoxeter |123 Dulwich College |277 Edgehill College, Bideford |133 Eltham College, London SE9 |92 Emanuael School, London SW11 |295 Epsom College |28 Exeter School |167 Farnborough Hill School |188 Felsted School, Dunmow |49 Forest School, London E17 |142 Friends School, Saffron Walden |66 Godolphin and Latymer School, London W6 |174 Greshams School, Norfolk |9 Haberdashers Askes School, Elstree |218 Haberdashers Askes Schools for Girls, Elstree |128 Hampton School |191 Harrogate College |19 Hereford Cathedral School |227 Highgate School |37 Hulme Grammar, boys, Oldham |218 Hulme Grammar, Girls, Oldham |191 Hymers College, Hull |158 Ipswich high School |133 Ipswich School |76 James Allens Girls' School, Dulwich |165 John Lyon School, Harrow |90 Kent College, Canterbury |83 King Edwards School at Bath |114 King Edwards School, Birmingham |226 King Edward IV High School, Birmingham |171 King Edward VII School, Lytham |214 King Edward VI School, Norwich |110 King Edward VI School, Southampton |228 King Edwards School, Witley |75 King Henry VIII School |76 Kings College School, Wimbledon |88 Kings High School for Girls, Warwick |170 Kings School, Chester |88 Kings School, Macclesfield |168 Kings School, Rochester |53 Kings School, Worcester |165 Kingston Grammar School |114 Kingswood School, Bath |38 Kirkham Grammar School |77 Lady Eleanor Holles School, Hampton |65 La Sagesse Convent School, Newcastle upon Tyne |144 Latymer Upper School, London W6 |316 Leeds Girls' High School |123 Leeds Grammar School |194 Leys School, Cambridge |29 Liverpool College |167 Lord Wandsworth College, Basingstoke |82 Loreto Convent Grammar School, Altrincham |72 Loughborough Grammar |125 Loughborough High School |91 Magdalen College School, Oxford |124 Malvern College |56 Manchester Grammar School |237 Manchester High School |178 Maynard School, Exeter |160 Merchant Taylors, Liverpool |188 Merchant Taylors Girls', Liverpool |167 Merchant Taylors, Northwood |78 Mill Hill School |63 Monkton Combe School, Bath |40 Mount St. Mary's College, Near Sheffield |54 Newcastle Under Lyme School, Staffordshire |464 Northampton High School |167 North London Collegiate School, Edgware |77 Norwich High School |172 Nottingham Girls' High School |189 Nottingham High School |115 Notting Hill and Ealing High |110 Old Palace School, Croydon |208 Oxford High School |95 Perse School for Boys, Cambridge |59 Perse School for Girls |73 Plymouth College |183 Pocklington School, Nr. York |128 Portsmouth Grammar School |172 Portsmouth High School |149 Putney High School |100 Queen Elizabeth Grammar, Blackburn |243 Queen Elizabeth Grammer, Wakefield |160 Queen Elizabeth Hospital School, Bristol |170 Queen Mary School, Lytham |234 Queens College, Taunton |62 Queens College, London W1 |63 Queens School, Chester |72 Ratcliffe College, Leicestershire |57 Redland High School, Bristol |76 Red Maids School, Bristol |157 Reigate Grammar School |101 Repton School, Nr. Derby |45 Rossall School, Fleetwood |45 Royal Grammar School, Guildford |112 Royal Grammar School, Newcastle |290 Royal Grammar School, Worcester |221 St. Albans School |123 St. Albans High School for Girls |57 St. Ambrose College, Altrincham |93 St. Anselms College, Birkenhead |179 St. Bede's College, Manchester |222 St. Bees School, Cumbria |79 St. Benedict's School, Ealing |75 St. Catherine's School Bramley |44 St. Dunstan's College, Catford |153 St. Edmund's College, Ware |64 St. Edward's College, Liverpool |393 St. George's College, Weybridge |25 St. Helen's School, Northwood |30 St. John's College, Southsea |179 St. John's School, Leatherhead |12 St. Joseph's College, Ipswich |71 St. Joseph's Convent, Reading |103 St. Mary's College, Crosby |244 St. Mary's Convent, Cambridge |102 St. Mary's Hall, Brighton |49 St. Maurs Convent, Weybridge |61 St. Paul's School, Barnes |81 St. Paul's Girls' School, Hammersmith |59 St. Peter's School, York |135 St. Swithun's School, Winchester |0 Salesian College, Farnborough |81 School of St. Helen and St. Katherine, Abingdon |100 Sedbergh School, Cumbria |75 Sheffield High School |95 Shrewsbury High School |76 Sir William Perkins School, Chertsey |90 South Hampstead High School |56 Stamford School |71 Stamford High School |74 Stockport Grammar School |260 Stonyhurst College, Nr. Blackburn |26 Stowe School, Nr. Buckingham |5 Streatham Hill and Clapham High |162 Sutton High School |69 Sutton Valence School, Nr. Maidstone |58 Sydenham High School |111 Talbot Heath School, Bournemouth |134 Taunton School |50 Tonbridge School |3 Trent College, Derbyshire |126 Trinity School of John Whitgift, Croydon |146 Truro School |155 Truro High School |57 University College School, London NW3 |68 Upton Hall Convent School |169 Ursuline High School, Ilford |129 Wakefield High School |144 Walthamstow Hall, Sevenoaks |74 Warwick School |145 Wellingborough School |59 Wellington College, Berkshire |38 Wellington School, Somerset |193 Wells Cathedral School |74 West Buckland School, Barnstaple |64 Westminster School |30 Whitgift School, Croydon |106 William Hulme Grammar School, Manchester |220 Wimbledon High School |65 Winchester College |22 Wisbech Grammar School |266 Withington Girls' School, Manchester |81 Wolverhampton Grammar School |263 Woodbridge School, Suffolk |115 Woodhouse Grove School, Bradford |113 Wycliffe College, Stonehouse |40
In addition, the following schools joined the assisted places scheme in September 1989. Each one has a quota of five assisted place pupils per year at their normal age of entry.
Ackworth School
Ardingly College
Bloxham School
Bootham School
Bromsgrove School
Blue Coat School
Burgess Hill School for Girls
Cheltenham Ladies' College
Christ's Hospital School
City of London Freemans School
Crohan Hurst School
Douai School
Dover College
Downe House School
Durham School
Edgbaston Church of England College for Girls
Ellerslie School
Felixstowe College
Francis Holland School
Giggleswick School
Godolphin School
Guildford High School for Girls
Haileybury and Imperial Service College
Headington School
Hurstpierpoint College
Kimbolton School
Kings School, Bruton
Laxton School
Leicester Grammar School
Leighton Park School
Marist Convent Senior School
Mount School
Mount Carmel School
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Church High School
Oakham School
Pangbourne College
Polam Hall School
Prior Park College
Reed's School
Rendcomb College
St. Felix School, Southwold
St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate
St. Margarets School, Bushey
St. Margarets School, Exeter
Scarborough College
Solihull School
Surbiton High School
Tormead School
Ursuline Convent School
Westholme School
Worksop College
Yarm School
Mr. Tony Banks : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the local education authorities which pay for places for pupils residing in their areas to attend independent schools, excluding special schools ; and what are the numbers of pupils each supported in whole or in part during 1988-89.
Mr. Alan Howarth : On the basis of returns made to the Department by local education authorities in January 1989 the number of pupils being funded by local education
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authorities to attend independent schools, excluding pupils either at special schools or receiving special educational treatment, were as follows :
Independent School Pupils
January 1989
|Number of
|Pupils
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201 City |0
202 Camden |7
203 Greenwich |4
204 Hackney |4
205 Hammersmith and Fulham |3
206 Islington |6
207 Kensington and Chelsea |5
208 Lambeth |5
209 Lewisham |11
210 Southwark |1
211 Tower Hamlets |3
212 Wandsworth |12
213 Westminster |7
301 Barking |0
302 Barnet |0
303 Bexley |0
304 Brent |0
305 Bromley |0
306 Croydon |31
307 Ealing |0
308 Enfield |5
309 Haringey |0
310 Harrow |0
311 Havering |4
312 Hillingdon |4
313 Hounslow |3
314 Kingston-upon-Thames |0
315 Merton |0
316 Newham |7
317 Redbridge |65
318 Richmond-upon-Thames |1
319 Sutton |0
320 Waltham Forest |0
330 Birmingham |7
331 Coventry |0
332 Dudley |0
333 Sandwell |3
334 Solihull |0
335 Walsall |5
336 Wolverhampton |0
340 Knowsley |2
341 Liverpool |0
342 St. Helens |7
343 Sefton |0
344 Wirral |613
350 Bolton |8
351 Bury |1
352 Manchester |0
353 Oldham |1
354 Rochdale |5
355 Salford |5
356 Stockport |0
357 Tameside |4
358 Trafford |1,491
359 Wigan |3
370 Barnsley |0
371 Doncaster |0
372 Rotherham |0
373 Sheffield |0
380 Bradford |0
381 Calderdale |87
382 Kirklees |0
383 Leeds |3
384 Wakefield |0
390 Gateshead |2
391 Newcastle-upon-Tyne |0
392 North Tyneside |0
393 South Tyneside |13
394 Sunderland |0
420 Isles of Scilly |0
901 Avon |12
902 Bedfordshire |0
903 Berkshire |0
904 Buckinghamshire |6
905 Cambridgeshire |23
906 Cheshire |916
907 Cleveland |8
908 Cornwall |0
909 Cumbria |3
910 Derbyshire |0
911 Devon |1
912 Dorset |3
913 Durham |4
914 East Sussex |32
915 Essex |6
916 Gloucestershire |33
917 Hampshire |9
918 Hereford and Worcester |139
919 Hertfordshire |10
920 Humberside |3
921 Isle of Wight |4
922 Kent |8
923 Lancashire |47
924 Leicestershire |17
925 Lincolnshire |610
926 Norfolk |5
927 North Yorkshire |12
928 Northamptonshire |16
929 Northumberland |0
930 Nottinghamshire |12
931 Oxfordshire |1
932 Shropshire |8
933 Somerset |14
934 Staffordshire |0
935 Suffolk |0
936 Surrey |35
937 Warwickshire |0
938 West Sussex |21
939 Wiltshire |93
FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
Western European Union
Mr. Hill : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will approach the Western European Union Council to urge it to take immediate steps to halt the arms race in the middle east and draw up a list of products and technologies which member countries would undertake not to supply to any country in the near or middle east.
Mr. Waldegrave : We remain concerned about the proliferation of armaments in the middle east but do not believe the Western European Union would be an appropriate forum to take the action proposed.
Mr. Hill : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make it his policy to support in the WEU Council the proposal that the French Prime Minister's 7 September 1989 proposal be taken up and a WEU programme prepared for purposeful verification and disarmament co-operation.
Mr. Waldegrave : The United Kingdom fully supports the WEU's work on European collaboration on verification. The subject is due to be discussed at the forthcoming WEU Ministeral.
Mr. Hill : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make it his policy to support the Western European Union Assembly recommendation that the Western European Union Council
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instructs a working group to conduct, in consultaton with the European Commission, a detailed study of the problems that will arise for the security of member states when the single European market is created and report to the Assembly on its conclusions.Mr. Waldegrave : The main impact on the security of EC member states of the Single European Act will arise from the removal of frontier controls and will relate to problems of crime, drugs and terrorism. These are already being discussed within the EC and in other fora such as the Pompidou Group of the Council of Europe.
Mr. Hill : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what action has been taken on the WEU Assembly recommendation urging the WEU Council to request the Chinese Government to accede to the international covenant on civil and political rights and the international covenant on economic, social and cultural rights.
Mr. Waldegrave : The WEU Council has yet to discuss the Assembly's recommendation in detail.
Prevention of Military Risks
Mr. Hill : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is his policy on the conditions and framework in which a European centre for preventing military risks might be set up, as proposed by the Belgian Government.
Mr. Waldegrave : Discussions are in train at the talks in Vienna on confidence and security building measures (CSBMs) about the possible establishment of dedicated communications links among all 35 participants to deal with security-related issues ; and the conventional forces in Europe (CFE) talks are likely to result in the creation of some kind of joint consultative commission among the 23 members of NATO and the Warsaw Pact. It remains to be seen whether any further body would be useful.
Ivory
Mr. Malcolm Bruce : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Gordon of 2 February, Official Report, column 404, what steps he has taken to establish that any ivory obtained directly or through intermediaries did not originate from illegally poached elephants.
Mr. Waldegrave : I refer the hon. Member to the reply that I gave to the hon. Member for Newham, North-West (Mr. Banks) on 2 February, Official Report, column 405
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on what grounds the United Kingdom has given approval to Hong Kong to reopen its markets in the ivory trade.
Mr. Waldegrave : Hong Kong banned imports of ivory in June 1989 and this is unaffected by the reservation that we have entered on behalf of Hong Kong. Also, in disposing of its stocks of ivory, Hong Kong will export only to countries which are not parties to CITES or which are parties to CITES and have entered appropriate reservations.
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Mr. Tony Banks : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if the computerisation of the current ivory stocks in Hong Kong is now complete ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Waldegrave : So far, data covering two thirds of the commercial stocks of ivory have been entered into the computer system.
Romania
Mrs. Gorman : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he has any information on the privatisations planned by the Romanian Government.
Mr. Waldegrave : The Romanian authorities have not so far made any specific proposals.
Mrs. Gorman : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what plans Her Majesty's Government have to assist the Romanian Government to achieve the privatisation of some of their industries.
Mr. Waldegrave : The Romanians have not so far asked for such help. We shall certainly consider carefully and sympathetically any such request that we receive.
Overseas Visits
Mr. Harry Barnes : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which countries differing categories of employees in his Department are prohibited from visiting without obtaining prior permission ; and for what reason.
Mr. Sainsbury : It has been long-standing practice to give advice to all staff on the problems they may face in travelling to certain countries, and to require them to give notice of such visits, particularly if they have access to classified information. On security grounds we do not publish the list of countries concerned, but it is kept regularly under review.
European Community
Mr. Dykes : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the need for institutional progress within the European Community beyond the single market programme, as a result of (a) the impetus within the Community itself and (b) the developments occurring in the neighbouring countries of eastern Europe.
Mr. Sainsbury : I refer my hon. Friend to the reply given by my hon. Friend the Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on 7 February to my hon. Friend the Member for Daventry (Mr. Boswell), Official Report, column 693.
Nicaragua
Mrs. Mahon : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make it his policy to resume normal trading links with Nicaragua after the elections in the current month.
Mr. Sainsbury : Our trading relations with Nicaragua are already normal.
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Uganda
Miss Hoey : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make representations to the Ugandan Government on the reported violations of human rights which continue to occur in the Teso region of Uganda.
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