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Ms Coffey
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what assessment she has made of the effect of the measures contained in the Nursery Education and Grant Maintained Schools Act 1996 on the provision of PE facilities. [37940]
Mrs. Gillan
The Nursery Education and Grant Maintained Schools Act 1996 has no effect on the premises requirements for maintained schools or for other institutions offering nursery education. The Act allows grant-maintained schools to borrow commercially, which will allow such schools to invest more in their facilities for physical education.
| ANNEX 1 | |||||
| Name of workshop | Location | Number disabled workers supported by ES1 including blind | Number blind workers2 supported by ES1 | Number non disabled workers not supported by ES1 | Number other disabled workers not supported by ES1 |
| Beltane | Wishaw | 19 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| Blindcraft | Edinburgh | 73 | 45 | 41 | 0 |
| Dovetail Enterprises | Dundee | 70 | 28 | 48 | 0 |
| Matrix, Fife | Dalgety Bay | 47 | 8 | 6 | 0 |
| Blindcraft | Glasgow | 118 | 82 | 72 | 7 |
| The Sign Factory | Falkirk | 38 | 6 | 5 | 0 |
| Camphill | Newton Dec | 82 | 0 | 30 | 0 |
| Erskine Hospital Workshops | Bishopton | 32 | 1 | 27 | 3 |
| Hansel Village | Symington | 30 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| Haven Products3 | Glasgow | 90 | 3 | 81 | 6 |
| Lady Haig | Edinburgh | 27 | 3 | 10 | 0 |
| Lord Roberts | Edinburgh | 8 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| New Trinity Industries | Edinburgh | 53 | 1 | 20 | 0 |
| Blindcraft | Inverness | 21 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
| Glencraft Group (Blindcraft Aberdeen) | Aberdeen | 71 | 25 | 36 | 0 |
| Scottish Braille Press | Edinburgh | 26 | 7 | 7 | 1 |
| Totals | 805 | 212 | 410 | 17 | |
| 1 Employment Service. | |||||
| 2 Includes partially sighted workers. | |||||
| 3 Haven Products operates from four separate sites but has been counted as one workshop unit in the table above. | |||||
The Education (School Premises) Regulation 1996 recently revised many of the premises requirements for maintained schools. The requirements for PE facilities were, however, unaffected.