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Assisted Places Scheme

Volume 264: debated on Tuesday 24 October 1995

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Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many pupils attended each school taking part in the assisted places scheme in the last academic year; how many in each case were on an assisted place; and what was the percentage on the assisted places scheme. [37933]

Mrs. Gillan

[holding answer 19 October 1995]: The information requested, which relates to England only and to the academic year 1994–95, is given in the following table.

Assisted places scheme 1994–95 academic year
School nameNumber of pupils on roll1Number of APsPercentage of APs
Abbey School, Reading991474.74
Abingdon7619612.61
Ackworth470265.53
Aldenham350298.29
Alice Ottley7008912.71
Alleyn's, Dulwich1,10120718.80
Ardingly College668314.64
Arnold School, Blackpool1,145806.99
Ashford556427.55
Ashville College725152.07
Austin Friars298155.03
Bancroft's943808.48
Barnard Castle624233.69
Bath High GPDST63210015.82
Batley Grammar58227046.39
Bedales6463.46
Bedford1,1191049.29
Bedford High91611312.34
Bedford Modern1,17114412.30
Belvedere GPDST65317727.11
Berkhamstead Girls529213.97
Berkhamsted694284.03
Birkenhead1,08617916.48
Birkenhead High GPDST97325125.80
Bishop's Stortford College564508.87
Blackheath High GPDST5969616.11
Bloxham, Banbury339267.67
Bolton School Boys1,00825325.10
Bolton School Girls1,16224020.65
Bootham, York334308.98
Bradfield College59261.01
Assisted places scheme 1994–95 academic year
School nameNumber of pupils on roll1Number of APsPercentage of APs
Bradford Girls Grammar911657.14
Bradford Grammar School1,10723120.87
Brentwood School1,2591138.98
Brighton College47211424.15
Brighton and Hove High School GPDST75015520.67
Bristol Cathedral47113228.03
Bristol Grammar1,22528022.86
Bromley High GPDST79210212.88
Bromsgrove1,156272.34
Bruton Girls53813725.46
Burgess High Girls610304.92
Bury Grammar Boys82020925.49
Bury Grammar Girls1,09225323.17
Canford467316.64
Carmel College2137635.68
Casterton3595615.60
Caterham47013328.30
Central Newcastle High School GPDST88712313.87
Charterhouse70091.29
Cheadle Humle95813614.20
Cheltenham Ladies' College853232.70
Chigwell6687210.78
Christ's Hospital818313.79
Churcher's College69713118.79
City of London87713915.85
City of London Freemans716152.09
City of London Girls64012519.53
Clifton College, Bristol1,063666.21
Clifton High, Bristol715547.55
Colfe's97120421.01
Colston's Girls49917835.67
Colston's Bristol6329815.51
Coventry, Bablake85918821.89
Cranleigh691355.07
Croham Hurst496275.44
Croydon High GPDST1,029969.33
Culford612518.33
Dame Alice Harpur94314415.27
Dame Allans Boys45811324.67
Dame Allans Girls44314031.60
Dauntseys620609.68
Denstone College29611940.20
Derby High530254.72
Douai, Reading1972814.21
Dover College2212511.31
Downe House, Newbury553162.89
Dulwich College1,40627519.56
Durham4294410.26
Edgbaston College Girls319278.46
Edgehill College47014130.00
Ellesmere College352174.83
Eltham College, London SE976912115.73
Emanuel, London SW1170228039.89
Epsom College657233.50
Assisted places scheme 1994–95 academic year
School nameNumber of pupils on roll1Number of APsPercentage of APs
Exeter82816920.41
Farnborough Hill53615128.17
Felsted, Dunmow598549.03
Forest School1,22913911.31
Framlingham College728131.79
Francis Holland376307.98
Friends, Saffron Walden34110129.62
Giggleswick, Settle438214.79
Godolphin and Latymer70617224.36
Godolphin, Salisbury434296.68
Gresham's743121.62
Guildford High Girls730304.11
Haberdashers' Aske's Boys1,30123518.06
Haberdashers' Aske Girls1,13811710.28
Haileybury585284.79
Hampton94720421.54
Harrogate College342226.43
Headington768273.52
Hereford Cathedral63424037.85
Highgate1,077413.81
Hipperholme Grammar353185.10
Holy Child295258.47
Hulme Grammar Boys80721226.27
Hulme Grammar Girls62018930.48
Hurstpierpoint College331267.85
Hymers College92015516.85
Ipswich7317510.26
Ipswich High GPDST67111216.69
James Aliens Girls1,00417217.13
John Lyon's50311522.86
Kent College6848812.87
Kimbolton Schools730324.38
King Edward VI High54113124.21
King Edward VI Norwich76211214.70
King Edward VI Southampton93723324.87
King Edward VII Lytham53021941.32
King Edward's at Bath86910211.74
King Edward's Birmingham86923927.50
King Edward's Witley5155811.26
King Henry VIII1,049938.87
King's College Wimbledon1,181544.57
King's High Girls, Wark56413523.94
King's Bruton312278.65
King's, Chester6718913.26
King's Macclesfield1,25517914.26
King's, Rochester6536610.11
King's Tynemouth894262.91
King's, Worcester92117819.33
Kinglsey566244.24
Kingston Grammar59717128.64
Assisted places scheme 1994–95 academic year
School nameNumber of pupils on roll1Number of APsPercentage of APs
Kingswood School, Bath4374410.07
Kirkham Grammar7428010.78
La Sagesse Convent46617036.48
Lady Eleanor Holies867424.84
Latymer Upper1,06526424.79
Laxton19794.57
Leeds Girls High959818.45
Leeds Grammar1,17817214.60
Leicester Grammar584457.71
Leighton Park377277.16
Leys, Cambridge41138925
Liverpool College99718618.66
Lord Wandsworth College4558117.80
Loreto Convent Grammar683416.00
Loughborough Grammar94013013.83
Loughborough High5349517.79
Magdalen College51312524.37
Malvern College83410112.11
Manchester Grammar1,41426418.67
Manchester High93418119.38
Marist Convent Senior372195.11
Maynard54016831.11
Merchant Taylors' Girls91419721.55
Merchant Taylors', L'pool82322327.10
Merchant Taylors', N'wood7488311.10
Mill Hill5277514.23
Monkton Combe3114113.18
Mount Carmel, Cheshire545305.50
Mount St. Mary's College2977023.57
Mount, York2743010.95
Newcastle under Lyme1,29338329.62
Newcastle upon Tyne Church High651304.61
North London Collegiate971899.17
Northampton High83116720.10
Norwich High GPDST89417619.69
Notting Hill and Ealing High GPDST84011713.93
Nottingham Girls High GPDST1,09120418.70
Nottingham High84117120.33
Oakham1,005282.79
Old Palace, Croydon81722627.66
Oxford High GPDST650578.77
Pangbourne College392256.38
Perse School for Boys643406.22
Perse School for Girls7107810.99
Plymouth College82420224.51
Pocklington73515220.68
Polam Hall409409.78
Assisted places scheme 1994–95 academic year
School nameNumber of pupils onroll1Number of APsPercentage of APs
Portsmouth Grammar1,17317815.17
Portsmouth High GPDST74313818.57
Prior Park College491306.11
Putney High School GPDST8499711.43
Queen Elizabeth's Hospital, Bristol50117935.73
Queen Elizabeth's, Blackburn1,13226723.59
Queen Elizabeth, Wakefield74913317.76
Queen Mary, Lytham63823136.21
Queen's College, London3677921.53
Queen's College, Taunton675679.93
Queen's School, Chester634589.15
Ratcliffe College4797415.45
Red Maids', Bristol58117830.64
Redland High, Bristol63810215.99
Reed's School, Cobham351267.41
Reigate Grammar7759912.77
Rendcomb College2472911.74
Repton5705810.18
Rossall657436.54
Royal Grammar, Guildford83412414.87
Royal Grammar, Newcastle upon Tyne1,09821819.85
Royal Grammar, Worcester79528736.10
Ryde School689172.47
Salesian College4907515.31
Scarborough College381307.87
Sedbergh3764511.97
Sevenoaks, Kent931262.79
Sheffield High GPDST7809612.31
Shrewsbury High GPDST5829115.64
Silcoates595152.52
Sir William Perkin's5918915.06
Solihull994363.62
South Hampstead High GPDST883778.72
St. Albans63513921.89
St. Albans High Girls697568.03
St. Ambrose College908545.95
St. Anselm's College83919323.00
St. Bede's College1,16922018.82
St. Bees2877425.78
St. Benedict's5447413.60
St. Catherine's603345.64
St. Dunstan's College83716319.47
St. Edmund's College5358014.95
St. Edward's College1,04739637.82
St. Felix, Southwold3083210.39
Assisted places scheme 1994–95 academic year
School nameNumber ofpupils onroll1Number of APsPercentage of APs
St. George's College499367.21
St. Helen and St. Katharine, Abingdon5308415.85
St. Helen's, Northwood939525.54
St. John's College, South sea77720326.13
St. John's, Leatherhead383174.44
St. Joseph'sCollege, Ipswich7147710.78
St. Joseph'sCollege, Stoke on Trent470255.32
St. Joseph's Convent, Reading37213034.95
St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate357328.96
St. Margaret's, Bushey419276.44
St. Margaret's, Exeter429317.23
St. Mary and St. Anne281258.90
St. Mary's College, Crosby87027131.15
St. Mary's Convent, Cambridge57112421.72
St. Mary's Hall, Brighton4227217.06
St. Maur's Convent, Weybridge6076410.54
St. Paul's Girls, Hammersmith6046911.42
St. Paul's, Barnes1,213766.27
St. Peter's, York75610714.15
St. Swithun's, Winchester6282.32
Stafford Grammar288258.68
Stamford92210211.06
Stamford High95611311.82
Stockport Grammar1,28524318.91
Stonyhurst College391379.46
Stowe54461.10
Streatham Hill and Clapham High GPDST61116426.84
Surbiton High885273.05
Sutton High GPDST755709.27
Sutton Valence3496919.77
Sydenham High GPDST69912417.74
Talbot Heath52513726.10
Taunton944525.51
Teeside High553244.34
Tonbridge6583.46
Tormead610284.59
Trent College68813219.19
Trinity School of John Whitgift85414917.45
Truro79311514.50
Truro High3926917.60
University College School816708.58
Upton Hall Convent60116928.12
Ursuline Convent, Kent2163013.89
Assisted places scheme 1994–95 academic year
School nameNumber of pupils on roll1Number of APsPercentage of APs
Ursuline High, Ilford36814238.59
Wakefield High1,06114413.57
Walthamstow Hall528468.71
Warwick99314514.60
Wellingborough766678.75
Wellington College810394.81
Wellington, Somerset77823029.56
Wells Cathedral806739.06
West Buckland5488214.96
Westholme1,009302.97
Westminster664619.19
Whitgift, Croydon1,06311310.63
William Hulme Grammar78922128.01
Wimbledon High GPDST810789.63
Winchester College667233.45
Wisbech Grammar63833652.66
Withington Girls5937813.15
Wolverhampton Grammar69626738.36
Woodbridge74412817.20
Woodhouse Grove77412716.41
Worksop326257.67
Wrekin College248156.05
Wycliffe College607437.08
Yarm473449.30
1 As at January 1995.

Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what were the fees charged by each school taking part in the assisted places scheme in the last academic year. [37931]

Mrs. Gillan

[holding answer 19 October 1995]: The information requested, which relates to England only and to the academic year 1994–95, is given in the following table:

Assisted places scheme 1994–95 academic year
School nameAnnual fees charged for assisted pupils £
Abbey School, Reading3,615
Abingdon4,472
Ackworth4,093
Aldenham7,742
Alice Ottley4,092
Alleyn's Dulwich5,461
Ardingly College7,379
Arnold School, Blackpool3,405
Ashford4,790
Ashville College4,520
Austin Friars3,966
Bancroft's4,440
Barnard Castle4,230
Bath High GPDST3,405
Batley Grammar3,189
Bedales8,158
Bedford5,866
Bedford High4,401
Bedford Modern4,056
Belvedere GPDST3,405
Berkhamstead Girls4,903
Berkhamsted5,926
Assisted places scheme 1994–95 academic year
School nameAnnual fees charged for assisted pupils £
Birkenhead3,249
Birkenhead High GPDST3,405
Bishop's Stortford College6,861
Blackheath High GPDST3,825
Bloxham, Banbury6,846
Bolton School Boys4,071
Bolton School Girls4,071
Bootham, York5,426
Bradfield College8,612
Bradford Girls Grmmar3,720
Bradford Grammar School3,619
Brentwood School4,633
Brighton College6,326
Brighton and Hove High School GPDST3,405
Bristol Cathedral3,813
Bristol Grammar3,613
Bromley High GPDST3,825
Bromsgrove5,140
Bruton Girls3,315
Burgess Hill Girls4,896
Bury Grammar Boys3,216
Bury Grammar Girls3,216
Canford8,250
Carmel College7,344
Casterton5,011
Caterham4,910
Central Newcastle High School GPDST3,405
Charterhouse9,459
Cheadle Hulme3,786
Cheltenham Ladies' College6,875
Chigwell6,029
Christ's Hospital6,480
Churcher's College4,656
City of London5,365
City of London Freeman's5,431
City of London Girls4,633
Clifton College, Bristol7,049
Clifton High, Bristol3,962
Colfe's4,220
Colston's Girls3,384
Colston's, Bristol4,978
Coventry, Bablake3,315
Cranleigh7,068
Croham Hurst3,925
Croydon High GPDST3,825
Culford5,512
Dame Alice Harpur3,807
Dame Allan's Boys3,300
Dame Allan's Girls3,300
Dauntsey's5,841
Denstone College6,037
Derby High4,137
Douai, Reading4,987
Dover College5,488
Downe House, Newbury7,032
Dulwich College5,954
Durham6,191
Edgbaston College Girls4,309
Edgehill College4,706
Ellesmere College5,999
Eltham College, London SE94,791
Emanuel, London SW114,352
Epsom College6,675
Exeter3,789
Farnborough Hill4,022
Felsted, Dunmow7,758
Forest School4,396
Framlingham College5,718
Francis Holland4,417
Friends, Saffron Walden5,657
Giggleswick, Settle5,067
Assisted places scheme 1994–95 academic year
School nameAnnual fees charged for assisted pupils £
Godolphin & Latymer5,166
Godolphin Salisbury5,821
Gresham's7,568
Guildford High Girls4,530
Haberdashers' Aske's Boys5,010
Haberdashers' Aske's Girls3.505
Haileybury6,735
Hampton4,237
Harrogate College5,400
Headington4,079
Hereford Cathedral4,185
Highgate5,939
Hipperholme Grammar2,951
Holy Child4,476
Hulme Grammar Boys3,426
Hulme Grammar Girls3,426
Hurstpierpoint College7,711
Hymers College3,259
Ipswich4,534
Ipswich High GPDST3,405
James Allen's Girls5,216
John Lyon's4,721
Kent College4,932
Kimbolton Schools4,572
King Edward VI High3,756
King Edward VI Norwich3,976
King Edward VI Southampton4,116
King Edward VII Lytham3,135
King Edward's at Bath3,765
King Edward's Birmingham4,134
King Edward's Witley5,423
King Henry VIII3,302
King's College Wimbledon5,802
King's High Girls, Wark3,530
King's Bruton6,450
King's Chester3,684
King's Macclesfield3,942
King's Rochester5,652
King's Tynemouth3,312
King's Worcester4,797
Kingsley3,845
Kingston Grammar4,491
Kingswood School, Bath4,919
Kirkham Grammar3,229
La Sagesse Convent3,515
Lady Eleanor Holies4,281
Latymer Upper4,476
Laxton4,506
Leeds Girls High3,814
Leeds Grammar3,729
Leicester Grammar3,378
Leighton Park7,720
Leys, Cambridge7,537
Liverpool College3,984
Lord Wandsworth College6,468
Loreto Convent Grammar2,671
Loughborough Grammar3,762
Loughborough High3,399
Magdalen College4,288
Malvern College7,297
Manchester Grammar3,704
Manchester High3,589
Marist Convent Senior3,650
Maynard3,637
Merchant Taylors' Girls3,420
Merchant Taylors', Liverpool3,418
Merchant Taylors', Norwood5,972
Mill Hill6,509
Monkton Combe6,970
Mount Carmel, Cheshire3,056
Mount St Mary's College5,020
Assisted places scheme 1994–95 academic year
School nameAnnual fees charged for assisted pupils £
Mount, York5,608
Newcastle Under Lyme3,190
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Church High3,426
North London Collegiate4,302
Northampton High3,858
Norwich High GPDST3,405
Notting Hill and Ealing High GPDST3,825
Nottingham Girls High GPDST3,405
Nottingham High3,865
Oakham5,833
Old Palace, Croydon3,681
Oxford High GPDST3,405
Pangbourne College6,878
Perse School for Boys4,150
Perse School for Girls3,672
Plymouth College3,958
Pocklington4,377
Polam Hall3,887
Portsmouth Grammar3,701
Portsmouth High GPDST3,420
Prior Park College4,378
Putney High School GPDST3,825
Queen Elizabeth's Hospital, Bristol3,758
Queen Elizabeth's, Blackburn3,588
Queen Elizabeth, Wakefield3,615
Queen Mary, Lytham3,135
Queen's College, London4,920
Queen's College, Taunton5,245
Queen's School, Chester3,291
Ratcliffe College4,864
Red Maids', Bristol3,665
Redland High, Bristol3,602
Reed's School, Cobham6,131
Reigate Grammar4,170
Rendcomb College6,361
Repton7,640
Rossall5,588
Royal Grammar, Guildford5,467
Royal Grammar, Newcastle-upon-Tyne3,330
Royal Grammar, Worcester4,146
Ryde School3,966
Salesian College2,662
Scarborough College4,694
Sedbergh7,369
Sevenoaks, Kent6,033
Sheffield High GPDST3,405
Shrewsbury High GPDST3,405
Silcoates4,997
Sir William Perkins's3,517
Solihull3,978
South Hampstead High GPDST3,825
St Albans4,521
St Albans High Girls4,182
St Ambrose College3,094
St Anselm's College3,003
St Bede's College3,654
St Bees6,202
St Benedict's4,484
St Catherine's5,297
St Dunstan's College4,231
St Edmund's College5,106
St Edward's College3,297
St Felix, Southwold5,537
St George's College5,953
St Helen and St Katherine, Abingdon3,603
St Helen's, Northwood4,401
St John's College, Southsea3,340
St John's, Leatherhead6,402
St Joseph's College, Ipswich3,798
St Joseph's College, Stoke-on Trent3,051
St Joseph's Convent, Reading3,527
Assisted places scheme 1994–95 academic year
School nameAnnual fees charged for assisted pupils £
St Lawrence College, Ramsgate5,999
St Margaret's, Bushey4,763
St Margaret's, Exeter3,489
St Mary and St Anne6,423
St Mary's College, Crosby3,413
St Mary's Convent, Cambridge3,515
St Mary's Hall, Brighton5,349
St Maur's Convent, Weybridge4,077
St Paul's Girls, Hammersmith5,521
St Paul's, Barnes6,452
St Peter's, York5,533
St Swithun's, Winchester5,964
Stafford Grammar3,843
Stamford3,762
Stamford High3,765
Stockport Grammar3,695
Stonyhurst College6,729
Stowe7,743
Streatham Hill and Clapham High GPDST3,825
Surbiton High4,296
Sutton High GPDST3,825
Sutton Valence6,620
Sydenham High GPDST3,825
Talbot Heath4,101
Taunton5,978
Teesside High3,259
Tonbridge7,761
Tormead4,315
Trent College5,418
Trinity School of John Whitgift4,786
Truro4,074
Truro High3,630
University College School5,895
Upton Hall Convent2,652
Ursuline Convent, Kent4,616
Ursuline High, Ilford3,915
Wakefield High3,615
Walthamstow Hall5,062
Warwick4,048
Wellingborough5,020
Wellington College7,757
Wellington, Somerset4,019
Wells Cathedral4,886
West Buckland4,392
Westholme3,282
Westminster6,933
Whitgift, Croydon4,928
William Hulme Grammar3,828
Wimbledon High GPDST3,825
Winchester College8,545
Wisbech Grammar4,270
Withington Girls3,357
Wolverhampton Grammar4,130
Woodbridge5,127
Woodhouse Grove4,458
Worksop5,434
Wrekin College5,757
Wycliffe College7,350
Yarm4,318

Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will state for each year in which the assisted places scheme has been operating the number of places available and the number actually taken up, the amount budgeted each year for the scheme and the amount actually spent. [37932]

Mrs. Gillan

[holding answer 19 October 1995]: The information requested is given in the following table:

YearPlaces 1 availablePlaces 1 taken upBudget2estimate £millionActual2outturn £million
1981–825,4464,1853.33.0
1982–8311,0588,6169.38.7
1983–8415,86613,10216.515.0
1984–8520,69917,38622.522.2
1985–8625,21021,41231.129.6
1986–8729,29524,47837.437.9
1987–8833,22826,89947.846.0
1988–8933,21727,08355.150.9
1989–9033,28027,00857.056.5
1990–9133,30226,74060.463.4
1991–9233,31227,64164.975.7
1992–9333,47928,67487.1392.8
1993–9433,88329,29194.992.3
1994–9533,13929,747101.5101.5
The figures are for England only.
1 Academic year.
2 Financial year.
3 includes £4.9 million brought forward from financial year 1993–94.