Education: Birmingham

House of Commons Hansard

29 March 2010

Volume 508

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Richard Burden

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much funding has been provided by his Department (a) for education maintenance allowances, (b) under the Entry to Employment programme and (c) under the Behaviour Improvement programme since the introduction of each such scheme; and how many people in Birmingham have received assistance under each of those schemes. [321573]

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Mr. Iain Wright

Investment in education maintenance allowance (EMA), Entry to Employment (E2E) and the Behaviour Improvement programme (BIP) provision since the introduction of the schemes is shown for each year in the following tables:

*EMA*
	£million
1999-2000	11
2000-01	52
2001-02	109
2002-03	120
2003-04	142
2004-05	260
2005-06	407
2006-07	503
2007-08	533
2008-09	532
2009-10	569

*E2E Funding*
	£
2002-03	73,588
2003-04	206,329
2004-05	246,583
2005-06	222,373
2006-07	186,815
2007-08	174,853
2008-09	170,000
2009-10	223,000

*BIP*
£
	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	Total
Phase 1	29,225,003	48,653,015	44,200,000	38,542,400	160,620,418
Phase 2	—	36,400,000	33,850,000	29,525,600	99,775,600
Phase 3	—	—	20,280,000	19,088,000	39,368,000
Phase 4	—	—	—	39,000,000	39,000,000
Total	29,225,003	85,053,015	98,330,000	126,156,000	338,764,018

The following tables show the number of young people in Birmingham who have benefited from EMA and E2E. Data are not held on the number of young people in Birmingham who have benefited from the BIP.

*EMA*
Area type	Area name		Number of people
LA	Birmingham	2004/05	12,749
		2005/06	14,182
		2006/07	16,593
		2007/08	17,117
		2008/09¹	17,516
		2009/10²	18,599
¹Year to date for 2009/10 (up-to-date as of 17 February 2010) ²Year to date - 28 August 2009 to 31 January 2010.

In 2008/09 and 2009/10 some applicants were not recorded against any particular local authority or region but were included in the total take-up figure for England. In consequence, LA and regional data may be underestimated.

*E2E*
	Number of young people
2003-04	1,694
2004-05	1,712
2005-06	1,570
2006-07	1,518
2007-08	1,587
2008-09	1,762
2009-10	¹906
¹Year to date for 2009/10 (up-to-date as of 17 February 2010)