Parliamentary Questions
Thursday 4th June 2009
f40's chair, David Kidney MP asked the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families a Parliamentary Question about how many children were taught in classes of more than 30 pupils in each local authority area in each of the last 10 years. [Hansard reference 278341]
A written response to these questions was made by Vernon Coaker MP, Minister of State as follows:
The information requested has been placed in the House Libraries. The table supplied shows the numbers of pupils in classes of 31 or more, where the class is taught by one teacher for primary and secondary schools combined. Latest figures for classes taught by more than one teacher can be found on the departmental website at:
http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000786/LATablesWeb.xls (tables B12 and B14).
Thursday 4th June 2009
f40's chair, David Kidney MP asked the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families a Parliamentary Question regarding how many primary school pupils were educated in class sizes of between (a) 20 and 25 and (b) 26 and 30 pupils in the latest year for which figures are available.(Hansard reference 278337)
A written formal response from the Minister has yet to be produced.
Monday 23 February 2009
f40's chair, David Kidney MP asked the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families a Parliamentary Question whether:
a) he has plans to control the overall levels of school balances
b) what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of local eduaction authorities in preventing the accumulation of excessive school balances
c) what recent assessments he has made of the level of school balances
A written response to these questions is in the pdf below.
Document: Ministerial statement - 24 February 2009
Monday 26 January 2009
f40's chair, David Kidney MP asked the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families a Parliamentary Question about pupil per capita costs.
The Secretary of State has provided a written response in the form of the table below.
Table: DSG 2007/08 and 2008/09
Monday 18 February 2008
f40's chair, David Kidney MP asked the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families a Parliamentary Question about school and pupil funding.
The Secretary of State has provided a written response in the form of the table below. It shows the revenue funding allocated per pupil by local authorities to their individual schools (including grants) for 2006/07 and 2007/08, plus school-based expenditure per pupil figures for 2006/07 and 2007/08.
Table: DSG 2006/07 and 2007/08
Tueasday 12 February 2008
f40's chair, David Kidney MP asked the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families a Parliamentary Question about how much was (a) budgeted and (b) spent on average per pupil in (i) schools, (ii) primary schools and (iii) secondary schools in each local authority area in 2006-07; and how much has been budgeted in 2007-08.
The Secretary of State has provided a written response in the form of the table below. It shows the revenue funding allocated per pupil by local authorities to their individual schools (including grants) for 2006-07 and 2007-08 and (b) school based expenditure per pupil figures for 2006-07.
Table: DSG 2006/07 and 2007/08





