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Mr. Sainsbury [holding answer 23 April 1991] : It is for the firefighting contractors selected by the Kuwaitis to determine and make available the necessary equipment. As yet, British companies are not directly involved in firefighting, but the Government are actively supporting proposals from British groups to provide a wide range of services which are needed to deal with the oil fires.
Building Work
Mr. Fisher : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether he will list the number and location of all new buildings or extensions commissioned by his Department in each of the past five years which (a) had contracts worth between £3 million and £5 million and (b) had contracts worth more than £5 million.
Mr. Leigh [holding answer 25 April 1991] : Before 1 April 1988, my Department had no responsibility for funding major new buildings or extensions on the Government's civil estate. My Department has since commissioned one project covered by the question. This was for a new building at Newport in Gwent in the more than £5 million category, started in 1988-89.
Advertising
Mr. Dobson : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will give separate figures for the spending of his Department on (a) television advertising, (b) radio advertising, (c) newspaper advertising and (d) other promotional material in 1979-80 and in each following year ; and what are his latest estimates for 1990-91 and budgets for 1991-92.
Mr. Leigh [holding answer 25 April 1991] : I refer to the answer given to the hon. Member on 13 March 1990
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columns 173-74 . Expenditure from the Department's central publicity budget over the past two years was as follows :
£000s
|1989-90 |1990-91<2>
----------------------------------------------------------------
Television advertising |5,084 |3,938
Radio advertising |540 |141
Press advertising |3,506 |1,801
Other promotional materials<1> |4,037 |3,867
<1>Publication, Audio-visual materials and posters.
<2>Estimated.
Precise media allocations for the current year are not available, but expenditure is likely to be within the 1990-91 total.
Press and Public Relations
Mr. Dobson : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will give for each year from 1979-80, including 1991-92, the number of staff actually employed on 1 April and the full complement of staff, including vacant posts in the press and public relations office of his Department.
Mr. Leigh [holding answer 26 April 1991] : Separate figures for the years before 1987-88 are not readily available. The complement of the Department's press office on 1 April over the past five years has been as follows, with the number of staff in post shown in parenthesis :
Year ----------------------- 1987-88 |51 |(51) 1988-89 |51 |(51) 1989-90 |41 |(37) 1990-91 |39 |(37) 1991-92 |39 |(38)
The current total includes 16 clerical and other support posts.
WALES
Council Housing
14. Mr. Wigley : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many new houses were completed by district councils in Wales during 1991 ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Nicholas Bennett : The number of dwellings completed by district councils in January and February 1991 was 16 ; in 1990 a total of 551 dwellings was completed. Some 544 dwellings were under construction by district councils at the end of February 1991.
Foreign-owned Companies
15. Mr. Grist : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many employees in Wales work for (a) EC-owned firms and (b) other foreign-owned firms.
Mr. David Hunt : Some 63,000 people are currently employed at overseas-owned manufacturing plants in Wales. Of these, 14,000 are employed at plants in the ownership of EC countries other than the United Kingdom and 49,000 at other overseas-owned plants.
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Special Treatment Centres
17. Mr. Gareth Wardell : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will extend beyond April 1992 the funding by his Department of the special treatment centres for hip and knee replacements at Rhydlafar hospital, for hernias and varicose veins at Bridgend general hospital and for cataract surgery at Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor.
Mr. Nicholas Bennett : The existing treatment centres are already proving successful in providing speedy treatment for patients with key disabling complaints and are expected to remain an effective source of treatment under the recently introduced contracting arrangements. Decisions on future funding will be taken in the light of experience during 1991-92, but it is not intended that central funding should continue indefinitely.
Training Organisations
18. Mr. Ray Powell : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if, during his discussions with the chairmen of TECs in Wales on 7 May, he will include advice on the advisability of ensuring that chief executive officers and monitoring officers are not only experienced but qualified to determine whether approved training organisation status should be awarded to training organisations.
Sir Wyn Roberts : All TEC chairmen in Wales are aware of their responsibility to ensure that all staff are adequately qualified to perform the duties assigned to them.
Local Government Reform
19. Mr. Gwilym Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what propoals he has for another tier of local government in Wales.
21. Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many representations he has received on local government and constitutional reform in Wales.
Mr. David Hunt : Several, some in favour of reform and some against.
26. Mr. Simon Hughes : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make a statement on the conclusions he has reached in relation to the reorganisation of local government in Wales.
Mr. David Hunt : I have reached no conclusions. I propose to issue, early in the summer, a consultation paper identifying the factors which would need to be borne in mind in considering any reorganisation.
Local Government Finance
20. Mr. Murphy : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales when he last met leaders of local authorities in Wales to discuss local government finance.
Mr. David Hunt : On 23 April, to explain the Government's proposals for a new council tax to replace the community charge.
27. Mr. Ian Bruce : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what are the relative percentages of revenue raised for local government expenditure from charge payers, business rate payers and central Government grant.
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Mr. David Hunt : The overall effect of the local government finance settlement for 1991-92, taken together with the community charge reduction schemes that I have introduced this year, is that the average community charge payable in Wales will be around £92 before taking account of community charge benefit. This means that community charge payers are expected to contribute 8 per cent. towards budgeted spending with 21 per cent. being financed from non-domestic rates and the rest coming from a range of central Government grants.
Mr. Ron Davies : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what percentage of local government expenditure in Wales is currently raised by the poll tax.
Mr. David Hunt : Eight per cent.
Employment Training
22. Mr. Rowlands : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is his estimate for (a) Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney and (b) Mid Glamorgan of employment training expenditure in 1990-91 and 1991-92, respectively.
Sir Wyn Roberts : The employment training budget now administered by the Mid Glamorgan training and enterprise council for the financial year 1991-92 is £5.6 million. Comparative figures for 1990-91 are not available. Figures for the areas of Merthyr and Rhymney are not produced.
Prince of Wales Hospital, Rhydlafar
23. Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what provision he proposes to make to enable in-patients at St. Nicholas ward, Prince of Wales orthopaedic hospital, Rhydlafar, to remain there after its proposed closure date of 30 April to complete their in-patient treatment.
Mr. Nicholas Bennett : I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer I gave him on Friday 19 April 1991 at column 276.
As the implementation of approved service changes is a matter for health authorities, I have not discussed the timing of the transfer of the children's orthopaedic service in South Glamorgan with the chairman of the district health authority. Nor do I have plans to issue any general guidance on this particular aspect of service planning.
Information Technology
24. Mr. Simon Coombs : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make a statement on the growth of the information technology industry in Wales.
Mr. David Hunt : The information technology sector in Wales has grown from a limited base in the late 1970s into a substantial sector now. For example, in the electronic sector alone employment grew by 89 per cent. between 1978 and 1990.
Abattoirs
25. Mr. Livsey : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make a statement on the initiatives he intends to take to increase the number of EC-approved abattoirs in Wales by 1992.
Mr. David Hunt : Responsibility for complying with the EC measures to harmonise standards for abattoirs by 1
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January 1993 rests with the industry. The Government consider that the abattoir industry should plan for this urgently, and I have taken every opportunity to encourage those involved to take the necessary steps to ensure that they comply with the new standards.New Hospital, Neath
28. Mr. Hain : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales when he intends to make an announcement about the building of the new hospital for Neath.
Mr. Nicholas Bennett : My right hon. Friend has today announced his decision approving the proposal of West Glamorgan health authority to build a new district general hospital for Neath and Port Talbot at Baglan moors, Port Talbot.
Inward Investment
29. Mr. Dickens : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make a statement on the level of inward investment into Wales.
Mr. David Hunt : Inward investment has made a very significant contribution to the transformation of the Welsh economy in recent years, a contribution that is being maintained at very high levels. The financial year 1990-91 was again a record year for inward investment to Wales, with 147 projects secured promising nearly 15, 000 jobs.
Further Education
Dr. Thomas : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many representations he has received concerning the proposed change in funding and management of the further education sector in Wales.
Sir Wyn Roberts : The Department has received three representations on this matter.
Severn Estuary (Birds)
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what proposals he has to designate as a special protection area under the 1979 EEC wild birds directive the inter-tidal mudflats on the Welsh side of the Severn estuary so far proposed for designation ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Nicholas Bennett : I refer the hon. Gentleman to the reply given to him on Thursday 25 April by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment.
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School Nurses
Mr. Roy Hughes : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will take steps to bring schools into line with workplace law which stipulates that there must be a person on the premises with first aid qualifications for every 150 employees ; and whether he will give consideration to appointing fully qualified nurses in schools with over 500 pupils.
Sir Wyn Roberts : Local authorities have duties, as employers, to provide first aid facilities for all their employees, including those in schools. These duties are set out in the Health and Safety at Work, etc. Act 1974 and more specifically in the Health and Safety (Training for Employment) Regulations 1981 made under that Act. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Employment has no plans for extending these duties to cover non-employees.
However, the Health and Safety Commission's approved code of practice on first aid at work recognises that employers, such as local education authorities, whose premises are regularly attended by non-employees may wish to make some provision for them. The recommendation of both the Welsh Office and HSE is that such employers may consider, among other matters, the total number of people on a site when assessing first aid needs. In the case of schools, the responsibility for making such an assessment rests with the employer.
All local education authorities in Wales were sent the code of practice in February and asked to review the situation at the schools and colleges for which they have a general health and safety responsibility and to determine what practical measures needed to be given priority in order to reach or maintain the recommended minimum standards for first aid.
The appointment of qualified nurses in schools is a matter for determination locally.
Departmental Staff
Mr. Dobson : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will give for each year from 1979-80, including 1991-92, the number of staff actually employed on 1 April and the full complement of staff, including vacant posts, by grade, in the statistical divisions in his Department ; and if he will differentiate between staff in statistical posts and staff in administrative posts.
Mr. David Hunt : The information is as follows :
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1979 1980 1981 1982
|Staff |Complement|Staff |Complement|Staff |Complement|Staff |Complement
|in post |in post |in post |in post
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Professional posts
Senior economic adviser (Grade 5) |1 |1 |1 |1 |1 |1 |1 |1
Chief statistician (Grade 5) |1 |1 |1 |1 |1 |1 |1 |1
Statistician (Grade 6) |6 |7 |6 |6 |6 |6 |6 |7
Statistician (Grade 7)
Principal research officer (Grade 7) |1 |1 |1 |1 |1 |1 |1 |1
Economic adviser (Grade 7) |1 |1 |1 |1 |1 |1 |1 |1
Senior assistant statistician |3 |5 |2 |4 |2 |4 |- |4
Assistant statistician |2 |1 |- |1
Administrative posts
Higher executive officer |1 |4 |5 |4 |4 |2 |1 |-
Executive officer |14 |18 | 11.5 |14 |11 |14 |12 |15
Administrative officer |30 |33 |31 | 30.5 | 29.5 | 30.5 |28 |28
Senior data processor |1 |1 |1 |1 |1 |1 |1 |-
Administrative assistant | 4.5 | 5.5 |4 |4 |3 |4 |4 |6
Data processor | .5 | .5 | .5 | .5 | .5 | .5 | .5 |-
Personal secretary |2 |2 |2 |2 |2 |2 |2 |2
1983 1984 1985 1986
|Staff |Complement|Staff |Complement|Staff |Complement|Staff |Complement
|in post |in post |in post |in post
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Professional posts
Senior economic adviser (Grade 5) |1 |1 |1 |1 |1 |1 |1 |1
Chief statistician (Grade 5) |1 |1 |1 |1 |1 |1 |1 |1
Statistician (Grade 6) |5 |7 |5 |10 |6 |12 |9 |12
Statistician (Grade 7)
Principal research officer (Grade 7) |- |1 |- |- |-
Economic adviser (Grade 7) |1 |1 |1 |1 |-
Senior assistant statistician |14 |5.5 |8 |<1>6.5 |8 |<1>6.5 |8
Assistant statistician |2 |<2>3 |<2>2
Administrative posts
Higher executive officer |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Executive officer |14 |15 | 15.5 |17 |16 |17 |19 |19
Administrative officer |29 |28 | 23.5 |21 |23 |22 |26 |25
Senior data processor |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Administrative assistant |4 |4 |3 |5 |5 |5 |5 |5
Data processor | 2.5 |2 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2.5 |2
Personal secretary |2 |2 |2 |2 |2 |2 |2 |2
1987 1988 1989 1990 1991
|Staff |Complement|Staff |Complement|Staff |Complement|Staff |Complement|Staff
|in post |in post |in post |in post |in post
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Professional posts
Senior economic adviser (Grade 5) |1 |1 |1 |1 |1 |1 |1 |1 | 0.5
Chief statistician (Grade 5) |1 |1 |1 |1 |1 |1 |1 |1 |1
Statistician (Grade 6) |8.5 |13 |11 |11 |10.5
Statistician (Grade 7)
Principal research officer (Grade 7) |- |10.5 |13.5 |1.5 |1.5 |12 |13.5 |1.5
Economic adviser (Grade 7) |- |1 |1 |1
Senior assistant statistician |<1>7 |9.5 |8.5 |9.5 |6 |8.5 |7.5 |9.5 |6
Assistant statistician |<2>3 |1 |1 |2 |- |3
Statistical computing officer |- |- |- |- |- |- |2 |- |2
Administrative posts
Grade 7 |19 | 19.5 |15 | 16.5 |- |- |- |- |1
Higher executive officer | 25.5 | 29.5 |22 | 21.5 |1 |- |1 |- |2
Executive officer |- |- |- |- |16 | 16.5 | 11.5 | 16.5 | 14.5
Administrative officer | 6.5 |6 | 5.5 |5 |19 | 21.5 | 19.5 | 21.5 |24
Administrative assistant |- |- |- |- | 7.5 |5 | 5.5 |5 |6
Personal secretary |2 |2 |- |2 |2 |2 |2 |2 | 1.5
Typist |- |- |1 |- |- |- |- |- |-
<1>Senior assistant statistician and senior research officer combined.
<2>Assistant statistician and research officer combined.
Note:
Since the introduction of delegated budgeting arrangements, the formal complement is no longer the basis for staffing.
Accidents in Children's Play Areas
Mr. Win Griffiths : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what information he has about accidents in children's play areas ; and what steps he intends to take to make them safer.
Mr. Nicholas Bennett : The Department of Trade and Industry compiles statistics relating to accidents in a wide range of recreational environments including playgrounds. A copy of its 12th annual report of home accident surveillance systems, that for 1988, is in the Library of the House. Table LASS 2, page 46 presents accidents in playgrounds split by age. Information on playground
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accidents is also held by the Health and Safety Executive. I expect that a joint Department of Education and Science and Welsh Office advice on safety in school play areas will be issued to local authorities later this year.Expenditure in Schools
Ms. Richardson : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish a table showing the expenditure per pupil on (i) books and (ii) equipment in (a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools in cash and real terms since 1976.
Sir Wyn Roberts : Local authority expenditure per pupil on text books, library books, educational equipment,
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stationery and materials in primary and secondary schools since 1976-77 is shown in the table. Reliable information on text books and equipment is not separately available.
Primary<1> Secondary
|cash |constant prices<2>|cash |constant prices<2>
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1976-77 |9.3 |27.4 |16.9 |49.8
1977-78 |10.2 |26.5 |18.0 |46.7
1978-79 |11.9 |27.8 |20.9 |48.9
1979-80 |12.7 |25.5 |22.8 |45.7
1980-81 |14.6 |24.7 |25.2 |42.7
1981-82 |16.2 |25.0 |28.4 |43.9
1982-83 |18.5 |26.7 |33.5 |48.3
1983-84 |19.8 |27.3 |37.4 |51.6
1984-85 |17.9 |23.5 |39.9 |52.4
1985-86 |20.0 |24.9 |41.3 |51.4
1986-87 |22.5 |27.1 |57.4 |69.1
1987-88 |23.9 |27.3 |58.2 |66.4
1988-89 |25.3 |26.9 |64.4 |68.5
<1> Primary includes nursery schools.
<2> Cash prices revalued to 1989-90 prices using the GDP deflator.
EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
Head Teachers (Appraisal)
Mr. Simon Hughes : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what are his plans for the appraisal of head teachers.
Mr. Fallon : My right hon. and learned Friend's plans are set out in the drafts of the regulations he proposes to make on school teacher appraisal and of the associated departmental circular. The drafts were sent out for consultation to representatives of the employers, teacher associations and others on 23 April 1991 : copies have also been placed in the Libraries of both Houses.
Special Schools (London)
Mr. Simon Hughes : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the number of places in special schools in each local authority in London by category (a) as at 1 April 1990 and (b) as at 1 April 1991.
Mr. Fallon : Information on the number of special school places is not available centrally. The number of pupils in maintained special schools within the London boroughs is given in the table. These figures reflect the position as at January 1990, the latest date for which information is available.
Number of pupils in special schools by LEA for Inner and
Outer
London boroughs
|Maintained
|special schools
|Number of
|pupils
-----------------------------------------------------------
201 City |-
202 Camden |421
203 Greenwich |732
204 Hackney |663
205 Hammersmith and Fulham |481
206 Islington |333
207 Kensington and Chelsea |98
208 Lambeth |956
209 Lewisham |505
210 Southwark |578
211 Tower Hamlets |484
212 Wandsworth
|213 Westminster
Inner London boroughs |6,210
301 Barking |186
302 Barnet |343
303 Bexley |268
304 Brent |369
305 Bromley |384
306 Croydon |479
307 Ealing |439
308 Enfield |416
309 Haringey |326
310 Harrow |244
311 Havering |257
312 Hillingdon |377
313 Hounslow |495
314 Kingston upon Thames |251
315 Merton |240
316 Newham |471
317 Redbridge |405
318 Richmond upon Thames |177
319 Sutton |285
320 Waltham Forest |734
Outer London boroughs |7,146
Greater London |13,356
Youth Service (London)
Mr. Simon Hughes : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will set out the amount of money spent in (a) Greater London, (b) inner London and (c) Southwark on the youth service in each of the financial years from 1979 to 1991 inclusive ; and what was the amount budgeted in each of the same areas for 1991-92, both absolutely and as a proportion of the total education budget.
Mr. Atkins : The available information is shown in the table. The latest year for which information on actual spending is available is 1988- 89. This information is taken from local education authorities' spending returns and is not collected for particular areas within a local education authority. The information requested on amounts budgeted is not collected.
Net recurrent spending<1> on the Youth
Service
|Greater |ILEA
|London |(£000)
|(£000)
----------------------------------------
1979-80 |18,500 |11,338
1980-81 |22,998 |14,168
1981-82 |27,011 |16,597
1982-83 |30,712 |19,300
1983-84 |34,505 |21,699
1984-85 |35,584 |22,726
1985-86 |<3>36,568|23,725
1986-87 |<2>43,054|27,193
1987-88 |<3>46,545|30,535
1988-89 |<2>53,559|35,377
<1>Excluding costs of financing capital
expenditure, and specific grant income.
<2>One Outer London authority did not
submit a return.
<3>Two Outer London authorities did not
submit a return.
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Pupil Numbers (Southwark)
Mr. Simon Hughes : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the projection of population of all residents, residents under 11 years, pupils between 11 and 18 years and pupils under 11 years on which his Department is working for each of the years 1990-91 to 2000-1 inclusive in (a) Southwark and (b) each of the parliamentary constituencies within the London borough of Southwark.
Mr. Fallon : The Department does not engage in the planning of educational services at local education authority or constituency level. This is a matter for the individual authorities concerned.
Special Educational Needs
Mr. Simon Hughes : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many pupils are awaiting assessment of their special educational needs in each London local education authority at the latest date for which figures are available ; what is the average delay between requests for and issuing of statements ; what additional financial and human provision is made in each case to ensure statementing as soon as possible ; what proposals he has for speeding up the procedure ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Fallon : This information is not collected centrally. The responsibility for carrying out assessments of special educational needs rests with the local education authorities. Advice and guidance in relation to the procedures for assessments and statements made under the Education Act 1981 is given in circular 22/89, which was issued jointly by the Department of Education and Science and the Department of Health in September 1989.
Southwark (Official Visits)
Mr. Simon Hughes : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list all official visits made by Ministers, in each case with the name of the Minister and the date, to schools or institutions of education in the London borough of Southwark in each year from 1979 to 1991 inclusive.
Mr. Fallon : Records of ministerial visits are not available as far back as 1979. However, in the last two years DES Ministers have visited a number of schools and colleges in inner London boroughs, including Southwark. The then Minister of State visited Sumner nursery and Surrey Square junior and infants schools in Southwark on 23 January 1990. Earlier this year, on 26 March, my hon. Friend the present Minister of State visited the London Nautical School.
Tuition Fees
Mr. Peter Griffiths : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) if he will list the information he has available on the names of those local authorities which have not made full payment of tuition fees to institutions of higher education for the current academic year ; and if he will indicate the amounts of the sums unpaid ;
(2) what information he has on the percentage of fee payments due to institutions of higher education from local authorities for the autumn term 1990 and the spring term 1991 which remains unpaid ;
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(3) if he will take steps to ensure that those local authorities which have not paid in full the tuition fees owed to institutions of higher education for the first two terms of the current academic year do so.Mr. Alan Howarth : The Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 1990 require local education authorities to pay tuition fees promptly to academic institutions on behalf of their mandatory award holders. I understand that a significant proportion of the autumn term 1990 fee instalments remained unpaid at the end of that term and that there were delays in paying the spring term 1991 instalments, but that the majority of both instalments have now been paid. I am awaiting further information from the bodies representing universities and polytechnics on the amounts still outstanding and the individual local authorities at fault. I deplore unnecessary delays in payment. The Department issued clear guidance last year on good practice deadlines for fee payment. All authorities have recently been reminded again of this guidance and the statutory requirements, and urged to settle outstanding fees. The Department is taking action with any individual authorities found to have substantial payments still overdue. Measures are being developed to improve the processing of fee payments for the coming academic year.
Women Scientists
Mr. Dalyell : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what study he has made of the census, why more women are not doing scientific and technical work since August 1990 ; and what action Her Majesty's Government are taking to convince girls and young women that such opportunities for physicists are open to all, in the light of demographic changes.
Mr. Eggar : The employers concerned have the prime responsibility for making scientific and technical careers attractive to women. Nevertheless, this Government's education reforms include some relevant initiatives. The science component of the national curriculum will reinforce that aspect of the education of pupils to age 16, both boys and girls. This will help to ensure that pupils will be less likely to have career options prematurely closed to them and will be better placed to make informed choices about whether to follow a career in a scientific discipline.
The Women into Science and Engineering campaign (WISE) fosters equal opportunity links between education and industry and stresses the importance of eliminating and stereotyping in option choice and careers advice. The WISE campaign has continued to be promoted and five WISE buses, sponsored and maintained by industry, and with support from the Government, continue to give careers advice to girls.
For mature students, there are available some access courses which cater exclusively for women ; for example, in micro-electronics, engineering, and information and industrial technology.
Teacher Training
Mr. Andrew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the initial teacher training courses upon which the Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education has made recommendations to him, categorised according to whether (a) all relevant criteria are satisfied, so that he was recommended
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to approve the course under schedule 5 to the Education (Teachers) Regulations Act 1982, (b) a recommendation for schedule 5 approval was made conditional upon further progress within a specific timetable, (c) no recommendation was made and (d) he was recommended to withhold or to withdraw approval ; and in each case whether he has accepted the Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education recommendation.Mr. Fallon : Since 1 January 1990, when the Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education was reconstituted, the Secretary of State has approved on its advice the courses listed in the table. He has also withdrawn aproval on the council's advice from work and the urban environment as a main subject specialism in the BEd (Hons) primary course at the polytechnic of North London. There are no courses where approval has been given subject to conditions. My right hon. and learned Friend is currently considering advice from the council on 17 further courses.
Courses accredited on the advice of CATE since 1 January 1990 Goldsmith's College
Art Teachers' Certificate (secondary) course.
PGCE primary course.
PGCE secondary course.
BEd (Hons) (primary) course.
BEd (Hons) (secondary) course.
Keele University
Biology as additional main subject method specialism in PGCE (secondary) course.
University of Cambridge and Homerton College
PGCE (primary, lower years) course.
BEd (Hons) (primary) course.
Polytechnic of North London
BEd (Hons) primary course : main subject specialisms in Health, Physical Education and Recreation Studies ; Language, Literature and Media Studies ; Mathematics, Computing and Technology.
University of Warwick
PGCE (secondary) course.
BA (Hons) with QTS (primary) course.
BA (Hons) with QTS (secondary) course.
Anglia College of Higher Education
Two year BEd (secondary) course in Music.
Kingston Polytechnic
Music as a main subject method specialism without a second subject method specialism in PGCE (secondary) course.
Manchester Polytechnic
Two year BEd (secondary, 11-16) course in Chemistry.
Two year PGCE (secondary, 11-16) course in Chemistry.
Two year part-time PGCE (secondary, 11-16) course in Chemistry. Brunel University
Two year part-time PGCE (secondary) in Physics.
West London Institute of Higher Education
BEd (Hons) (primary) course.
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