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Education Maintenance Allowance

Volume 458: debated on Thursday 29 March 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many young people have been in receipt of education maintenance allowance (EMA) in each London local authority since its introduction; and how many were in receipt of EMA in 2005-06. (128672)

This is a matter for the Learning and Skills Council, who operate the education maintenance allowance (EMA) for the DfES and hold the information about take-up and payments made under the scheme. Mark Haysom, the Council’s Chief Executive, has written to my hon. Friend with the information requested and a copy of his reply has been placed in the House Library.

Letter from Mark Haysom, dated 28 March 2007:

I am writing in response to your recent Parliamentary Question that asked; “How many young people have been in receipt of educational maintenance allowance (EMA) in each London local authority since its introduction; and how many were in receipt of an EMA in 2005-06.”

EMA take-up is defined as young people who have received one or more EMA payments in the academic year.

National EMA was phased in over time to successive 16 year old age groups. 2004/05 was the first year of National EMA and therefore we can only give data for 16 year olds in that year.

The attached tables show EMA take-up data for each London Local Authority area during each academic year since the scheme’s inception.

I hope you find this information useful.

Scheme take-up

Area type

Area name

2004/05

2005/06

2006/07 to end February 2007

National

England

297,259

429,627

503,741

Region

London

50,896

70,480

79,303

LSC

London, Central

11,171

14,043

1,528

LA

Camden

1,550

1,749

1,886

LA

Islington

1,682

1,976

2,090

LA

Kensington and Chelsea

325

691

849

LA

Lambeth

2,791

3,406

3,666

LA

Southwark

2,647

3,138

3,469

LA

Wandsworth

1,607

1,948

2,103

LA

Westminster

569

1,135

1,465

LSC

London, East

18,871

24,229

26,335

LA

City of London

18

64

70

LA

Greenwich

2,161

2,479

2,672

LA

Hackney

2,841

3,262

3,444

LA

Lewisham

2,575

2,945

3,201

LA

Tower Hamlets

3,265

3,626

3,748

LA

Barking and Dagenham

1,408

1,917

2,196

LA

Bexley

834

1,552

1,826

LA

Havering

821

1,498

1,641

LA

Newham

3,774

4,601

4,823

LA

Redbridge

1,174

2,285

2,714

LSC

London, North

7,292

10,622

12,192

LA

Barnet

1,044

2,198

2,667

LA

Enfield

1,337

2,639

3,338

LA

Haringey

2,508

2,984

3,243

LA

Waltham Forest

2,403

2,801

2,944

LSC

London, South

4,253

8,332

10,235

LA

Bromley

936

1,698

1,983

LA

Croydon

1,375

2,874

3,646

LA

Kingston-Upon-Thames

370

706

867

LA

Merton

613

1,261

1,617

LA

Richmond-Upon-Thames

359

683

790

LA

Sutton

600

1,110

1,332

LSC

London, West

9,309

13,254

15,013

LA

Hammersmith and Fulham

1,247

1,429

1,524

LA

Brent

2,744

3,349

3,577

LA

Ealing

2,682

3,158

3,273

LA

Harrow

849

1,785

2,213

LA

Hillingdon

883

1,695

2,123

LA

Hounslow

904

1,838

2,303