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OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
Global Environment Facility
Mr. Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what his Department's policy will be in respect of funding for the global environment facility at the meeting of the ad hoc working group of the Commission on Sustainable Development on 24 February. [13820]
Dr. Liam Fox: The Government remain strongly committed to the global environment facility and will be encouraging support for a satisfactory replenishment of it during the forthcoming negotiations.
Mr. Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is his Department's policy on the global environment facility replenishment negotiations in Paris in March. [13809]
Dr. Fox: The global environment facility replenishment negotiations will begin in Paris on 12 March with a meeting to outline the process and timetable. The UK intends to take a positive role in the negotiations.
EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
Sustainable Development
Mr. Matthew Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how her Department has used the UK indicators for sustainable development in (a) the production of the Department's annual report, (b) monitoring progress towards meeting the objectives set out in the UK sustainable development strategy and (c) assessing the environmental implications of policy options; and what plans it has to extend their use in future within the Department. [12276]
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Mr. Robin Squire: The Department is primarily concerned with raising standards of educational achievement and skill and with promoting an efficient and flexible labour market. The environmental impact of our work is therefore relatively slight. None the less, we use the indicators for sustainable development to inform policy options and will continue to do so.
Hawksworth Hall School
Mr. Alton: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) what factors underlay her decision that the behaviour of teachers at Hawksworth Hall school had not fallen below the standards of propriety expected of the teaching profession; and if she will make a statement; [13511]
- (2) what consideration she gave to whether there was fraud or deception by teachers at Hawksworth Hall school under the terms of the teachers misconduct circular 11/95; and she will make a statement. [13512]
Mrs. Gillan: The Department gave careful consideration to all the evidence available to it about events at Hawksworth Hall school, including the report of the independent inquiry commissioned by Scope. That evidence did not warrant action by the Secretary of State against any teachers at the school on grounds of misconduct.
College Funding
Mr. Bryan Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what estimate of the likely size of the claim for the funding of the demand-led element of colleges by the Further Education Funding Council was made by her Department prior to the submission of the claim. [13565]
Mr. Paice: Expenditure on the demand-led element programme depends on the termly claims made by individual colleges to the Further Education Funding Council for England. The funding council then advisers the Department of its net funding requirement in February, April and July each year. The next claim from the funding council is therefore expected shortly. On the basis of advice from the funding council, the Department estimated that it would need to provide an additional £82 million to meet the likely size of the February claim.
GCSE Grades
Mr. Pearson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list for each local education authority in rank order the percentage change in the number of students gaining five or more GCSEs at grade C or above from 1995 to 1996. [13387]
Mrs. Gillan: The percentage change in the number of 15-year-old pupils in maintained schools gaining five or more GCSEs at grade C or above from 1995 to 1996 by local education authority in England is as follows:
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| Percentage change 1995-1996 | |
|---|---|
| Isles of Scilly | 72.7 |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 44.7 |
| Islington | 37.6 |
| Newham | 25.2 |
| Westminster | 21.8 |
| Knowsley | 19.8 |
| Isle of Wight | 19.5 |
| Manchester | 19.1 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 17.3 |
| Redbridge | 16.9 |
| Southwark | 16.9 |
| Rochdale | 16.3 |
| Tower Hamlets | 16.1 |
| Doncaster | 15.3 |
| Richmond upon Thames | 15.0 |
| Coventry | 14.3 |
| Wandsworth | 13.7 |
| Dudley | 13.4 |
| Northamptonshire | 12.8 |
| Hillingdon | 12.4 |
| Stockport | 11.6 |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 11.4 |
| Trafford | 11.1 |
| Brent | 11.1 |
| Bexley | 11.0 |
| Bedfordshire | 11.0 |
| Lambeth | 10.5 |
| Sutton | 10.3 |
| Somerset | 10.3 |
| Staffordshire | 10.1 |
| Tameside | 10.1 |
| Cambridgeshire | 10.1 |
| Birmingham | 9.9 |
| Bury | 9.6 |
| Hounslow | 9.5 |
| Calderdale | 8.9 |
| Salford | 8.9 |
| Camden | 8.8 |
| Oldham | 8.7 |
| Bromley | 8.7 |
| Dorset | 8.6 |
| Enfield | 8.3 |
| Derbyshire | 8.3 |
| Cumbria | 8.3 |
| Wirral | 8.3 |
| Hereford and Worcester | 8.2 |
| St. Helens | 7.7 |
| Nottinghamshire | 7.5 |
| Hackney | 7.3 |
| Waltham Forest | 7.3 |
| Kent | 7.0 |
| Leeds | 7.0 |
| Lewisham | 6.9 |
| Rotherham | 6.7 |
| Kingston upon Thames | 6.6 |
| North Tyneside | 6.4 |
| Bradford | 6.4 |
| Cheshire | 6.0 |
| Bolton | 5.9 |
| Oxfordshire | 5.8 |
| Gloucestershire | 5.7 |
| Liverpool | 5.6 |
| Ealing | 5.5 |
| Hampshire | 5.4 |
| Wigan | 5.4 |
| Barnet | 5.3 |
| Hertfordshire | 5.3 |
| Lancashire | 5.3 |
| Sheffield | 5.2 |
| Warwickshire | 5.2 |
| Suffolk | 5.2 |
| Croydon | 5.1 |
| Walsall | 5.1 |
| East Sussex | 5.1 |
| Havering | 5.0 |
| Haringey | 5.0 |
| Leicestershire | 5.0 |
| Solihull | 4.9 |
| Kirklees | 4.9 |
| Durham | 4.7 |
| Merton | 4.5 |
| Buckinghamshire | 4.4 |
| Barking and Dagenham | 4.3 |
| Devon | 4.2 |
| South Tyneside | 4.1 |
| Cornwall | 4.1 |
| Surrey | 3.3 |
| Essex | 3.2 |
| Harrow | 3.1 |
| Northumberland | 3.0 |
| Sefton | 3.0 |
| Shropshire | 3.0 |
| Wakefield | 2.7 |
| Wiltshire | 2.0 |
| West Sussex | 2.0 |
| Lincolnshire | 1.9 |
| Sunderland | 1.8 |
| Sandwell | 1.8 |
| Berkshire | 1.7 |
| Gateshead | 1.1 |
| Norfolk | 0.9 |
| Barnsley | -1.2 |
| Wolverhampton | -3.0 |
| Greenwich | -4.1 |
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Education Wastage Rates
Dr. Hampson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what are the most recent estimated United Kingdom education wastage rates for full-time students studying for first degrees. [13563]
Mr. Forth: The wastage rates for full-time and sandwich students for first degrees in the UK in 1994-95, the latest year for which figures are available, is estimated to be in the range of 17 to 18 per cent.
School Performance (Southend)
Sir Teddy Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what was the performance of schools in Southend-on-Sea on A-level, GCSE, and the test for seven-year-olds on reading and spelling relative to the national average. [13510]
Mrs. Gillan: The performance of maintained schools in Southend-on-Sea on A-level and GCSE in 1996 are as follows. School-by-school key stage 1 national curriculum assessment results for seven-year-olds are not published centrally.
| GCSE Results | GCE A/AS Results | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percentage of 15-year-olds pupils achieving | Average GCE A/AS point score of 16-18 year olds entered for | |||||
| 5 A*-C | 5 A*-G | 1 A*-G | less than 2 GCE A/AS | 2 or more | Score per entry | |
| Belfairs community college | 29 | 79 | 90 | 3.1 | 9.0 | 3.6 |
| Cecil Jones high school | 19 | 76 | 86 | 1.5 | 11.0 | 3.6 |
| Eastwood county high School and VI form centre | 20 | 80 | 90 | 4 | 6.0 | 1.4 |
| Kingsdown school | 0 | 50 | 88 | |||
| Lancaster school | -- | -- | -- | |||
| Priory school | 0 | 0 | 30 | |||
| Shoeburyness county high school | 19 | 81 | 89 | 2.0 | 8.1 | 3.3 |
| Southend high school for boys | 98 | 100 | 100 | 2.9 | 18.6 | 5.8 |
| Southend high school for girls | 96 | 98 | 98 | 2.7 | 20.4 | 5.5 |
| St. Bernard's high school | 53 | 93 | 95 | 6.0 | 10.5 | 3.9 |
| St. Nicholas school | 0 | 0 | 22 | |||
| St. Thomas More high school for boys | 35 | 92 | 97 | |||
| The Prittlewell school | 27 | 90 | 95 | |||
| The St. Christopher school | -- | -- | -- | |||
| The Thorpe Bay school | 15 | 72 | 88 | |||
| Thorpe Hall school | 63 | 83 | 83 | |||
| Westcliff high school for boys | 96 | 99 | 99 | 26.8 | 6.7 | |
| Westcliff high school for girls | 94 | 96 | 96 | 20.7 | 7.0 | |
| Total (Southend schools) | 44.5 | 84.6 | 91.2 | 2.7 | 19.3 | 5.8 |
| National (all schools) | 44.5 | 86.0 | 92.1 | 3.2 | 18.3 | 5.5 |
| LEA averages (LEA-maintained, grant-maintained schools and CTCs) | 43.1 | 88.9 | 93.6 | 2.4 | 17.5 | 5.4 |
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