To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make it his policy to ensure the provision of resources at the level necessary to maintain a rural education presence in isolated communities.
The Government continue to recognise that Northern Ireland require a relatively high number of small rural schools. Education authorities are required to ensure that their local management of schools arrangements provide adequate resources to all schools which must remain in operation, regardless of their size.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will publish details of the cash value and age-weighted pupil units allocated by each education and library board in Northern Ireland under the local management of schools to (a) pupils attending secondary schools and (b) pupils attending grammar schools.
The age-weighting of pupils depend on the form attended. There is no distinction between secondary and grammar school pupil weightings. The range of age-weightings in each education and library board is:
| Prisoners released on licence from indeterminate sentences imposed for terrorist murder of civilians | ||||||||||||
| Number released by years served | Total released | |||||||||||
| Year | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | |
| 1982 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 2 |
| 1983 | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 |
| 1984 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| 1985 | — | 4 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 7 |
| 1986 | — | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 10 |
| 1987 | — | 1 | — | 6 | 6 | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | — | 18 |
| 1988 | — | 1 | 3 | — | 4 | 7 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | 18 |
| 1989 | — | — | — | 1 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 5 | — | — | 26 |
| 1990 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 5 | 20 | 21 | — | 2 | — | 49 |
Form 1
| Form 2
| Form 3
| Form 4
| Form 5
| Form 6
| |
| BELB | 1·80 | 1·75 | 1·85 | 1·95 | 2·00 | 2·30 |
| NEELB | 1·83 | 1·75 | 1·83 | 1·92 | 2·02 | 2·50 |
| SEELB | 1·90 | 1·80 | 1·90 | 2·00 | 2·00 | 2·10 |
| SELB | 1·60 | 1·60 | 1·60 | 1·80 | 1·80 | 2·50 |
| WELB | 1·66 | 1·66 | 1·66 | 1·66 | 1·66 | 2·32 |
The cash value of each age-weighting pupil unit reflects the different approaches in each board area and values not, therefore, directly comparable.
AWPU £
| |
| BELB | 813·79 |
| NEELB | 788·75 |
| SEELB | 730·92 |
| SELB | 852·35 |
| WELB | 812·25 |
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what is the value in cash terms of the monies retained by each education and library board in Northern Ireland to provide advisory services to schools; and what percentage of the funds allocated to each board this cash sum represents.
I refer the hon. Gentleman to the reply that I gave on 17 June 1991 at column 34–35.