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Music: Finance

Volume 468: debated on Monday 3 December 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 15 November 2007, Official Report, column 420W, on music: finance, how many local education authorities supplemented their music standards fund grants with additional spending in the last 12 months. (168987)

The requested information is contained in the following table.

Planned net expenditure on music services (not standards fund supported)1 by local authorities in England, 2007-082

Local authority name

Music service (not standards fund supported)1, 2, 3 (£)

England

29,790,000

Barking and Dagenham

484,000

Barnet

0

Barnsley

253,000

Bath and North East Somerset

92,000

Bedfordshire

835,000

Bexley

182,000

Birmingham

313,000

Blackburn and Darwen

0

Blackpool

0

Bolton

80,000

Bournemouth

74,000

Bracknell Forest

37,000

Bradford

0

Brent

101,000

Brighton and Hove

399,000

Bromley

446,000

Buckinghamshire

467,000

Bury

0

Calderdale

125,000

Cambridgeshire

151,000

Camden

125,000

Cheshire

242,000

City of Bristol

86,000

City of Kingston-upon-Hull

462,000

City of London

50,000

Cornwall

254,000

Coventry

792,000

Croydon

250,000

Cumbria

74,000

Darlington

122,000

Derby

11,000

Derbyshire

89,000

Devon

76,000

Doncaster

118,000

Dorset

187,000

Dudley

997,000

Durham

410,000

Ealing

0

East Riding of Yorkshire

395,000

East Sussex

219,000

Enfield

390,000

Essex

805,000

Gateshead

67,000

Gloucestershire

60,000

Greenwich

67,000

Hackney

101,000

Halton

0

Hammersmith and Fulham

0

Hampshire

779,000

Haringey

153,000

Harrow

340,000

Hartlepool

0

Havering

241,000

Herefordshire

0

Hertfordshire

1,486,000

Hillingdon

429,000

Hounslow

60,000

Isle of Wight

137,000

Isles of Scilly

0

Islington

0

Kensington and Chelsea

29,000

Kent

414,000

Kingston upon Thames

134,000

Kirklees

0

Knowsley

249,000

Lambeth

0

Lancashire

35,000

Leeds

612,000

Leicester

0

Leicestershire

0

Lewisham

101,000

Lincolnshire

638,000

Liverpool

(129,000)

Luton

214,000

Manchester

0

Medway

0

Merton

70,000

Middlesbrough

0

Milton Keynes

510,000

Newcastle upon Tyne

12,000

Newham

0

Norfolk

151,000

North East Lincolnshire

0

North Lincolnshire

20,000

North Somerset

103,000

North Tyneside

0

North Yorkshire

553,000

Northamptonshire

254,000

Northumberland

0

Nottingham City

11,000

Nottinghamshire

1,247,000

Oldham

185,000

Oxfordshire

988,000

Peterborough

0

Plymouth

0

Poole

52,000

Portsmouth

27,000

Reading

0

Redbridge

867,000

Redcar and Cleveland

0

Richmond upon Thames

98,000

Rochdale

175,000

Rotherham

0

Rutland

0

Salford

577,000

Sandwell

554,000

Sefton

290,000

Sheffield

232,000

Shropshire

269,000

Slough

0

Solihull

456,000

Somerset

49,000

South Gloucestershire

5,000

South Tyneside

117,000

Southampton

603,000

Southend

0

Southwark

0

St. Helens

0

Staffordshire

200,000

Stockport

4,000

Stockton-on-Tees

113,000

Stoke on Trent

183,000

Suffolk

360,000

Sunderland

59,000

Surrey

223,000

Sutton

56,000

Swindon

3,000

Tameside

0

Telford and Wrekin

49,000

Thurrock

70,000

Torbay

0

Tower Hamlets

0

Trafford

229,000

Wakefield

127,000

Walsall

357,000

Waltham Forest

246,000

Wandsworth

0

Warrington

0

Warwickshire

1,307,000

West Berkshire

0

West Sussex

475,000

Westminster

0

Wigan

0

Wiltshire

0

Windsor and Maidenhead

48,000

Wirral

163,000

Wokingham

58,000

Wolverhampton

92,000

Worcestershire

295,000

York

189,000

1 Includes planned expenditure (not standards fund supported) on the provision of music tuition or other activities which provide opportunities for pupils to enhance their experience of music. This is drawn from local authorities’ 2007-08 section 52 Budget Statements (Table 1 line 2.4.11) submitted to the DCSF (formally DfES).

2 2007-08 figures are subject to change by the local authority.

3 Figures are rounded to the nearest £1,000 and may not sum due to rounding.

Note:

Cash term figures as reported by local authorities as at 26 November 2007.

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much of the annual budget for the music standards fund was allocated for (a) instrumental and (b) voice tuition in each of the last five years. (169016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much of the annual budget for the music standards fund was (a) devolved to schools and (b) given to local authority music services in the latest period for which figures are available. (169017)

Since 2006 the Music Standards Fund has comprised two elements. First the baseline grant to local authorities of £59 million to enhance opportunities for pupils to access high quality music education, with a priority on instrumental and vocal opportunities at Key Stage 2. Second local authorities received a new allocation through the Music Standards Fund grant, of £3million in 2006-07 and £23 million in 2007-08, to be devolved to schools serving Key Stage 2 pupils. This allocation allows primary and special schools themselves to begin buying in instrumental and vocal tuition at Key Stage 2, either from the Local Authority Music Service or from other local providers. We understand that in many local authorities schools have decided to buy in support from their local music service. In each of the years from 2008-09 to 2010-11 the whole £82 million available will go to local authorities to support the new music education ambitions set out on 21 November. However, they will be expected to secure the agreement of the School Forums as to its precise use.