Covering Education, Children S Services and Training Issues

Covering education, children’s services and training issues

Weekly Statistics – Westminster

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Monday 4 February, 2008 No. 350 ISSN 1748-7625

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This issue of EPM Weekly Statistics - Westminster covers all answers to written questions on education from the House of Commons and the House of Lords where the answer is given as a statistical table with data by local authority, local learning and skills council, region, university or constituency. All other questions are covered in EPM Weekly PQs – Westminster. The period covered by this report is 28 January to 1 February 2008.

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Answers to the following questions are given in this issue:

Subject Institution Date Page

Children who met basic skills targets, by London borough Commons/DCSF 29.1.08 2

Children who gained GCSEs at grades A* to C, by EA Commons/DCSF 30.1.08 3

Number of parenting orders issued, by EA Commons/DCSF 30.1.08 4

DCSF Department for Children, Schools and Families

DIUS Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills

EA Education Authority

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The House of Commons

Department for Children, Schools and Families

Literacy: Greater London

Tom Brake: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what percentage of children met the Government’s literacy and numeracy targets in each London borough in each of the last five years. [180608]

Jim Knight: Tables 1 and 2 provide the information requested on the percentage of pupils achieving national curriculum level 4 or above at key stage 2 in English and in mathematics; and level 5 or above in English and in mathematics at key stage 3. Level 4 is the level expected to be reached by pupils at the end of key stage 2 (i.e. about age 11), and level 5 is that expected by pupils at the end of key stage 3 (at age 14). There are no targets for the current comprehensive spending review that relate to literacy and mathematics at key stage 4 (i.e. when pupils take GCSEs and equivalent qualifications). However, the information on the percentage of pupils achieving five or more higher grades at GCSE including English and mathematics in each London borough is published and is included in table 3.

Information on the number of pupils achieving the target levels in each local authority is not available.

Table 1: Percentage of pupils attaining level 4 or better at the end of key stage 2 for each London authority, 2003 to 2007

2003 / 2004 / 2005 / 2006 / 2007( 1)
LA name / English / Maths / English / Maths / English / Maths / English / Maths / English / Maths
Barking and Dagenham / 71 / 69 / 73 / 71 / 75 / 70 / 74 / 73 / 77 / 76
Barnet / 81 / 78 / 84 / 81 / 84 / 81 / 85 / 82 / 85 / 82
Bexley / 77 / 69 / 79 / 71 / 80 / 74 / 81 / 75 / 84 / 79
Brent / 77 / 72 / 78 / 74 / 78 / 73 / 79 / 73 / 80 / 75
Bromley / 83 / 78 / 83 / 78 / 84 / 77 / 85 / 79 / 84 / 78
Camden / 78 / 74 / 77 / 73 / 79 / 73 / 75 / 72 / 78 / 76
City of London / 97 / 79 / 80 / 73 / 83 / 74 / 64 / 71 / 96 / 96
Croydon / 78 / 71 / 79 / 74 / 78 / 72 / 81 / 75 / 81 / 75
Ealing / 77 / 73 / 78 / 73 / 79 / 75 / 79 / 75 / 80 / 78
Enfield / 78 / 72 / 77 / 73 / 77 / 73 / 79 / 72 / 78 / 75
Greenwich / 70 / 67 / 70 / 68 / 73 / 68 / 74 / 71 / 73 / 72
Hackney / 63 / 59 / 70 / 65 / 69 / 64 / 71 / 64 / 73 / 66
Hammersmith and Fulham / 79 / 76 / 77 / 73 / 79 / 74 / 81 / 74 / 81 / 78
Haringey / 67 / 66 / 70 / 67 / 73 / 68 / 75 / 70 / 76 / 74
Harrow / 82 / 77 / 84 / 80 / 82 / 78 / 85 / 79 / 82 / 79
Havering / 80 / 78 / 81 / 78 / 85 / 81 / 84 / 80 / 84 / 81
Hillingdon / 80 / 75 / 79 / 77 / 80 / 77 / 81 / 77 / 82 / 77
Hounslow / 76 / 73 / 77 / 73 / 79 / 75 / 80 / 77 / 79 / 77
Islington / 69 / 68 / 71 / 68 / 74 / 68 / 74 / 68 / 77 / 74
Kensington and Chelsea / 84 / 79 / 87 / 82 / 84 / 81 / 85 / 80 / 87 / 83
Kingston upon Thames / 83 / 77 / 85 / 80 / 86 / 82 / 86 / 82 / 85 / 81
Lambeth / 72 / 67 / 76 / 70 / 76 / 68 / 78 / 70 / 77 / 71
Lewisham / 73 / 69 / 73 / 70 / 77 / 72 / 79 / 71 / 76 / 74
Merton / 75 / 66 / 75 / 72 / 78 / 74 / 81 / 75 / 79 / 77
Newham / 68 / 67 / 71 / 70 / 75 / 72 / 76 / 72 / 75 / 73
Redbridge / 78 / 74 / 79 / 77 / 83 / 79 / 82 / 78 / 84 / 81
Richmond upon Thames / 87 / 82 / 87 / 83 / 88 / 85 / 89 / 85 / 88 / 84
Southwark / 70 / 62 / 69 / 64 / 72 / 67 / 74 / 69 / 76 / 72
Sutton / 81 / 77 / 80 / 76 / 83 / 78 / 83 / 79 / 85 / 82
Tower Hamlets / 74 / 71 / 77 / 75 / 78 / 76 / 80 / 78 / 81 / 78
Waltham Forest / 70 / 68 / 73 / 69 / 73 / 69 / 77 / 72 / 76 / 75
Wandsworth / 75 / 67 / 75 / 71 / 80 / 72 / 78 / 73 / 80 / 77
Westminster / 80 / 77 / 82 / 77 / 81 / 76 / 84 / 76 / 83 / 77
National average / 75 / 73 / 78 / 74 / 79 / 75 / 79 / 76 / 80 / 77

(1) Amended figures following publication of the Primary Achievement and Attainment Tables in December 2007.

29 January 2008

General Certificate of Secondary Education: Newcastle Upon Tyne

Jim Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what percentage of children at local education authority maintained schools gained GCSEs at grades A* to C, including English and mathematics in (a) Newcastle upon Tyne Local Education Authority, (b) England and (c) each English region in each year since 1997. [181059]

Jim Knight [holding answer 22 January 2008]: The information on the number of pupils achieving five GCSEs or equivalent at grades A* to C, including English and mathematics are shown in the tables.

The information is collected for the Statistical First Release ‘GGSE and Equivalent Examination Results in England (Revised)’ which is published annually and can be accessed at: http://www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000768/index.shtml

GCSE or equivalent results by local authority and government office region: 1997 to 2007 , n umber and percentage of 15-year- olds gaining 5+ GCSEs or equivalent at grades A*- C including English and Maths

1997 / 1998 / 1999 / 2000 / 2001 / 2002
No. / % / No. / % / No. / % / No. / % / No. / % / No. / %
Newcastle Upon Tyne / 673 / 24.9 / 671 / 25.0 / 757 / 27.5 / 731 / 27.9 / 829 / 29.7 / 823 / 29.6
North East / 8,758 / 28.0 / 8,642 / 28.4 / 9,433 / 30.8 / 10,026 / 32.9 / 10,684 / 33.6 / 11,030 / 34.8
North West / 25,718 / 32.2 / 26,128 / 32.9 / 28,378 / 35.1 / 29,477 / 36.7 / 30,907 / 36.8 / 32,259 / 38.4
Yorkshire and the Humber / 16,765 / 28.8 / 17,023 / 29.9 / 18,220 / 31.6 / 19,228 / 33.2 / 20,076 / 33.6 / 21,067 / 34.9
East Midlands / 15,272 / 31.9 / 15,345 / 33.1 / 16,462 / 35.1 / 17,018 / 36.1 / 18,137 / 37.2 / 19,173 / 38.8
West Midlands / 18,493 / 30.1 / 18,994 / 31.2 / 20,966 / 33.8 / 21,530 / 35.1 / 22,864 / 35.8 / 23,950 / 37.5
East of England / 21,004 / 35.4 / 21,917 / 38.0 / 22,758 / 39.5 / 23,559 / 40.4 / 24,919 / 41.3 / 25,759 / 42.2
Inner London / 4,436 / 21.4 / 4,741 / 22.8 / 5,132 / 24.3 / 5,472 / 25.5 / 6,150 / 28.3 / 6,491 / 30.0
Outer London / 15,288 / 33.8 / 16,514 / 37.0 / 17,270 / 38.3 / 18,014 / 39.6 / 18,989 / 40.6 / 20,081 / 42.4
London / 19,724 / 29.9 / 21,255 / 32.4 / 22,402 / 33.9 / 23,486 / 35.1 / 25,139 / 36.7 / 26,572 / 38.5
South East / 30,883 / 37.2 / 31,066 / 38.9 / 33,254 / 40.9 / 34,052 / 42.1 / 36,388 / 43.1 / 37,428 / 44.1
South West / 18,373 / 36.1 / 19,123 / 37.9 / 19,927 / 39.4 / 20,771 / 40.8 / 22,131 / 41.7 / 23,225 / 43.2
England (Maintained Sector) / 174,990 / 32.5 / 179,493 / 34.0 / 191,800 / 39.4 / 199,147 / 37.3 / 211,245 / 38.1 / 220,463 / 39.5
2003 / 2004 / 2005 / 2006 / 2007
No. / % / No. / % / No. / % / No. / % / No. / %
Newcastle Upon Tyne / 886 / 30.4 / 888 / 31.9 / 870 / 33.2 / 957 / 33.3 / 1,079 / 37.9
North East / 11,125 / 34.7 / 11,584 / 35.7 / 11,785 / 38.0 / 12,779 / 40.3 / 13,585 / 41.7
North West / 32,345 / 37.9 / 34,298 / 39.0 / 35,209 / 40.7 / 37,049 / 42.0 / 39,777 / 44.5
Yorkshire and the Humber / 21,611 / 35.0 / 23,006 / 36.5 / 24,114 / 39.0 / 25,357 / 40.2 / 27,077 / 42.3
East Midlands / 19,328 / 38.3 / 20,414 / 39.0 / 21,187 / 40.7 / 22,595 / 42.8 / 23,920 / 44.2
West Midlands / 24,266 / 37.2 / 25,435 / 38.1 / 26,741 / 40.3 / 28,095 / 41.5 / 29,651 / 43.1
East of England / 26,333 / 41.9 / 27,619 / 42.5 / 28,897 / 44.8 / 30,472 / 46.5 / 31,868 / 48.2
Inner London / 7,012 / 31.7 / 7,803 / 34.5 / 8,307 / 36.6 / 9,090 / 39.1 / 9,684 / 42.2
Outer London / 20,833 / 42.8 / 22,298 / 43.9 / 23,083 / 45.9 / 24,756 / 48.6 / 25,799 / 50.2
London / 27,845 / 39.3 / 30,101 / 41.0 / 31,390 / 43.0 / 33,846 / 45.6 / 35,483 / 47.7
South East / 39,329 / 44.7 / 40,693 / 42.3 / 41,947 / 46.3 / 43,652 / 47.6 / 45,313 / 49.2
South West / 23,781 / 42.8 / 25,313 / 43.6 / 26,090 / 45.4 / 26,763 / 46.0 / 27,289 / 47.0
England (Maintained Sector) / 225,963 / 42.8 / 238,463 / 40.4 / 247,360 / 46.7 / 260,608 / 43.9 / 273,963 / 45.7

30 January 2008

Parenting Orders

Helen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many parenting orders have been issued in each region in each year since 2004. [183574]

Beverley Hughes: The information requested is detailed in the Annex. The Department has since September 2004 collected data on the number of applications made by local authorities to the courts for education-related parenting orders in cases of irregular school attendance and exclusions.

By local authority area, by government office region in England

School academic year
2004-05 / 2005-06 / 2006-07 / Number of education-related parenting orders made between 1 September 2004 and 31 August 2007
England / 1,446
North East / 12 / 35 / 44 / 91
841 / Darlington / 1 / 2 / 2 / 5
840 / Durham / 0 / 3 / 1 / 4
390 / Gateshead / 0 / 0 / 4 / 4
805 / Hartlepool / 0 / 0 / 2 / 2
806 / Middlesbrough / 0 / 4 / 7 / 11
391 / Newcastle upon Tyne / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
392 / North Tyneside / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
929 / Northumberland / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
807 / Redcar and Cleveland / 1 / 6 / 13 / 20
393 / South Tyneside / 6 / 4 / 3 / 13
808 / Stockton-on-Tees / 0 / 1 / 0 / 1
394 / Sunderland / 4 / 15 / 12 / 31
North West / 103 / 110 / 112 / 325
889 / Blackburn with Darwen / 0 / 6 / 0 / 6
890 / Blackpool / 10 / 10 / 8 / 28
350 / Bolton / 1 / 0 / 0 / 1
351 / Bury / 0 / 1 / 3 / 4
875 / Cheshire / 2 / 0 / 0 / 2
909 / Cumbria / 7 / 3 / 8 / 18
876 / Hatton / 0 / 2 / 4 / 6
340 / Knowsley / 1 / 0 / 5 / 6
888 / Lancashire / 15 / 12 / 15 / 42
341 / Liverpool / 7 / 5 / 23 / 35
352 / Manchester / 3 / 4 / 1 / 8
353 / Oldham / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
354 / Rochdale / 1 / 4 / 4 / 9
355 / Salford / 14 / 16 / 28 / 58
343 / Sefton / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
342 / St. Helens / 0 / 0 / 1 / 1
356 / Stockport / 5 / 4 / 0 / 9
357 / Tameside / 7 / 6 / 1 / 14
358 / Trafford / 6 / 4 / 8 / 18
877 / Warrington / 0 / 2 / 0 / 2
359 / Wigan / 17 / 29 / 3 / 49
344 / Wirral / 7 / 2 / 0 / 9
Yorkshire and The Humber / 56 / 57 / 56 / 169
370 / Barnsley / 15 / 9 / 11 / 35
380 / Bradford / 6 / 5 / 9 / 20
381 / Calderdale / 3 / 10 / 2 / 15
371 / Doncaster / 3 / 13 / 11 / 27
811 / East Riding of Yorkshire / 6 / 5 / 3 / 14
810 / Kingston Upon Hull, City of / 4 / 2 / 0 / 6
382 / Kirklees / 2 / 0 / 1 / 3
383 / Leeds / 15 / 10 / 14 / 39
812 / North East Lincolnshire / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
813 / North Lincolnshire / 0 / 2 / 2 / 4
815 / North Yorkshire / 0 / 1 / 0 / 1
372 / Rotherham / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
373 / Sheffield / 2 / 0 / 2 / 4
384 / Wakefield / 0 / 0 / 1 / 1
816 / York / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
East Midlands / 32 / 43 / 18 / 93
831 / Derby / 0 / 0 / 3 / 3
830 / Derbyshire / 6 / 7 / 2 / 15
856 / Leicester / 19 / 31 / 12 / 62
855 / Leicestershire / 3 / 4 / 1 / 8
925 / Lincolnshire / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
928 / Northamptonshire / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
892 / Nottingham / 4 / 0 / 0 / 4
891 / Nottinghamshire / 0 / 1 / 0 / 1
857 / Rutland / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
West Midlands / 12 / 10 / 12 / 34
330 / Birmingham / 2 / 0 / 1 / 3
331 / Coventry / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
332 / Dudley / 0 / 0 / 1 / 1
884 / Herefordshire / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
333 / Sandwell / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
893 / Shropshire / 1 / 1 / 1 / 3
334 / Solihull / 0 / 0 / 1 / 1
860 / Staffordshire / 0 / 2 / 0 / 2
861 / Stoke-on-Trent / 4 / 5 / 0 / 9
894 / Telford and Wrekin / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
335 / Walsall / 0 / 2 / 6 / 8
937 / Warwickshire / 0 / 0 / 1 / 1
336 / Wolverhampton / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
885 / Worcestershire / 5 / 0 / 1 / 6
East of England / 26 / 26 / 20 / 72
820 / Bedfordshire / 5 / 7 / 7 / 19
873 / Cambridgeshire / 2 / 0 / 0 / 2
881 / Essex / 14 / 13 / 5 / 32
919 / Hertfordshire / 0 / 0 / 1 / 1
821 / Luton / 0 / 1 / 1 / 2
926 / Norfolk / 0 / 5 / 5 / 10
874 / Peterborough / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
882 / Southend-on-Sea / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
935 / Suffolk / 5 / 0 / 1 / 6
883 / Thurrock / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
London
Inner London / 29 / 35 / 37 / 101
202 / Camden / 0 / 1 / 0 / 1
201 / City of London / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
204 / Hackney / 1 / 5 / 6 / 12
205 / Hammersmith and Fulham / 6 / 8 / 8 / 22
309 / Haringey / 0 / 1 / 2 / 3
206 / Islington / 0 / 1 / 1 / 2
207 / Kensington and Chelsea / 6 / 3 / 0 / 9
208 / Lambeth / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
209 / Lewisham / 14 / 15 / 9 / 38
316 / Newham / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
210 / Southwark / 1 / 1 / 2 / 4
211 / Tower Hamlets / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
212 / Wandsworth / 0 / 0 / 6 / 6
213 / Westminster / 1 / 0 / 3 / 4
Outer London / 43 / 81 / 69 / 193
301 / Barking and Dagenham / 0 / 0 / 3 / 3
302 / Barnet / 0 / 0 / 1 / 1
303 / Bexley / 4 / 5 / 9 / 18
304 / Brent / 4 / 15 / 7 / 26
305 / Bromley / 9 / 1 / 3 / 13
306 / Croydon / 2 / 0 / 4 / 6
307 / Ealing / 1 / 1 / 1 / 3
308 / Enfield / 1 / 4 / 7 / 12
203 / Greenwich / 9 / 28 / 13 / 50
310 / Harrow / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
311 / Havering / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
312 / Hillingdon / 1 / 4 / 1 / 6
313 / Hounslow / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
314 / Kingston upon Thames / 6 / 3 / 5 / 14
315 / Merton / 0 / 2 / 2 / 4
317 / Redbridge / 0 / 0 / 2 / 2
318 / Richmond upon Thames / 3 / 3 / 3 / 9
319 / Sutton / 3 / 14 / 8 / 25
320 / Waltham Forest / 0 / 1 / 0 / 1
South East / 64 / 73 / 91 / 228
867 / Bracknell Forest / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
846 / Brighton and Hove / 4 / 2 / 2 / 8
825 / Buckinghamshire / 7 / 1 / 0 / 8
845 / East Sussex / 1 / 0 / 0 / 1
850 / Hampshire / 19 / 23 / 20 / 62
921 / Isle of Wight / 2 / 1 / 2 / 5
886 / Kent / 12 / 25 / 40 / 77
887 / Medway / 0 / 1 / 0 / 1
826 / Milton Keynes / 0 / 2 / 0 / 2
931 / Oxfordshire / 2 / 3 / 2 / 7
851 / Portsmouth / 5 / 7 / 7 / 19
870 / Reading / 0 / 0 / 3 / 3
871 / Slough / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
852 / Southampton / 12 / 7 / 13 / 32
936 / Surrey / 0 / 0 / 1 / 1
869 / West Berkshire / 0 / 1 / 1 / 2
938 / West Sussex / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
868 / Windsor and Maidenhead / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
872 / Wokingham / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
South West / 48 / 41 / 51 / 140
800 / Bath and North East Somerset / 5 / 0 / 3 / 8
837 / Bournemouth / 7 / 3 / 3 / 13
801 / Bristol, City of / 8 / 9 / 3 / 20
908 / Cornwall / 0 / 6 / 0 / 6
878 / Devon / 6 / 3 / 4 / 13
835 / Dorset / 0 / 2 / 10 / 12
916 / Gloucestershire / 1 / 0 / 0 / 1
420 / Isles of Scilly / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
802 / North Somerset / 7 / 1 / 3 / 11
879 / Plymouth / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
836 / Poole / 1 / 1 / 6 / 8
933 / Somerset / 0 / 2 / 0 / 2
803 / South Gloucestershire / 2 / 9 / 5 / 16
866 / Swindon / 5 / 3 / 3 / 11
880 / Torbay / 3 / 0 / 2 / 5
865 / Wiltshire / 3 / 2 / 9 / 14

31 January 2008