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Minister of State, Home OfficePaymaster General
Minister of State for the Armed Forces, Ministry of Defence Minister of State, Scottish Office
Minister of State, Department for Education
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Welsh Office
Others, including the Minister for Overseas Development and Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State from the Departments of the Environment and Employment, may be invited to attend as appropriate and receive all papers.
Terms of reference
"To coordinate the Government's national and international policies for tackling drugs misuse, and report as necessary to the Ministerial Committee on Home and Social Affairs"
Ministerial Sub-committee on Women's Issues (EDH (W))
Composition
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (chairman)
Secretary of State for Education
Minister of State, Home Office
Paymaster General
Minister of State, Department of the Environment (Minister for Construction and Planning)
Minister of State, Scottish Office
Minister of State, Department of Employment
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office Parliamentary Secretary, Office of Public Service and Science Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Social Security
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Technology, Department of Trade and Industry
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Transport Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Welsh Office
The Minister of State for the Armed Forces, Ministry of Defence, and Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, also receive papers and may be invited to attend as necessary. The Minister without Portfolio also receives papers.
Terms of reference
"To review and develop the Government's policy and strategy on issues of special concern to women: to oversee their implementation; and to report as necessary to the Ministerial Committee on Home and Social Affairs".
Ministerial Sub-committee on London (EDL(L))
Composition
Secretary of State for the Environment (chairman)
Minister without Portfolio
Minister of State, Home Office
Financial Secretary, Treasury
Minister of State, Department of Trade and Industry (Minister for Industry and Energy)
Minister of State, Department of the Environment (Minister for Local Government, Housing and Urban Regeneration)
Minister of State, Department of Health (Minister for Health) Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Education Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State, Department of Employment Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of the Environment
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of National Heritage
Parliamentary Secretary, Office of Public Service and Science Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Social Security
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Transport (Minister for Transport in London)
Terms of reference
"To coordinate the Government's policies on London"
Ministerial Group on Sanctions Against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Gen 27)
Composition
Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (chairman) Paymaster General
Minister of State, Treasury
Minister of State, Department of Trade and Industry (Minister for Trade)
Minister of State for Defence Procurement, Ministry of Defence Minister of State, Department of Transport
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Terms of Reference"To keep under review the implementation of the sanctions against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia imposed under United Nations Security Council Resolutions 757, 787 and 820, and to report to the Ministerial Committee on Overseas and Defence Policy as necessary." Ministerial Group on Competitiveness (GEN 29)
Composition
President of the Board of Trade (chairman)
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Secretary of State for the Environment
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Secretary of State for Scotland
Secretary of State for Education
Secretary of State for Employment
Secretary of State for Wales
Secretary of State for Transport
Representatives of other Departments may be invited to attend as necessary. The Minister without Portfolio also receives papers. Terms of Reference
"To keep issues affecting the United Kingdom's competitiveness under review; and to update, in whole or part, as appropriate, from time to time the White Paper on Competitiveness for consideration by the Ministerial Committee on Economic and Domestic Policy." Ministerial Group on Card Technology (GEN 34)
Composition
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (chairman)
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Secretary of State for the Home Department
President of the Board of Trade
Lord President of the Council
Secretary of State for Social Security
Secretary of State for Scotland
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
Secretary of State for Health
Secretary of State for Employment
Secretary of State for Wales
Secretary of State for Transport
Chief Secretary, Treasury
Parliamentary Secretary, Office of Public Service and Science The Minister without Portfolio also receives papers.
Terms of Reference
"To consider the developing technology of card systems, and the potential demand for such systems from Government Departments, to ensure a co- ordinated approach across the Government taking account of the impact on the individual citizen".
Hillsborough Castle
Mr. Mackinlay: To ask the Prime Minister if he, or the Cabinet Secretary, was consulted and gave prior approval to the making available of Hillsborough castle for an event organised by the Conservative Political Centre on 4 November.
The Prime Minister [holding answer 21 November 1994]: Advice from officials is confidential. The use of Hillsborough castle for this event was in accordance with the conventions governing the use of ministerial residences.
Student Maintenance Awards
Mr. Bryan Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what is the latest available figure for the total assessed parental contribution to student maintenance awards.
Mr. Boswell: The total assessed parental contribution to mandatory awards made by local education authorities in England and Wales for the academic year 1992 93 was £208 million in respect of partial maintenance grants and £392 million in respect of nil maintenance grants.
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Access Funds
Mr. Bryan Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will publish the results of the monitoring returns from higher education institutions on their use of discretionary access funds in 1993 94.
Mr. Boswell: My right hon. Friend has no plans to do so. However, if the hon. Member has particular questions about the returns, I shall see whether we can answer them.
Student Loans Company
Mr. Bryan Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) what guidelines her Department issues to institutions of higher education regarding their responsibility to notify the Students Loans Company Ltd. of students who have ceased attendance on a course; (2) what provisions exist for notifying the Student Loans Company of the circumstances of students who have temporarily withdrawn or deferred attendance on a higher education course but who have not permanently ceased to attend.
Mr. Boswell: Under the Education (Student Loans) (No.2) Regulations 1993, higher education institutions have a duty to notify the Student Loans Company promptly if a borrower ceases to be an eligible student before the end of his course. The guidelines issued to institutions state that when considering whether a student has ceased to attend a course, an institution should have regard to any internal regulations governing attendance. Institutions therefore have discretion to decide when a student has permanently ceased to attend.
Ethnic Minorities
Mr. Robert Ainsworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what action she is taking to ensure the ongoing educational value of section 11 activity now that much of the funding is contained within the single regeneration budget.
Mr. Robin Squire: My right hon. Friend will continue to monitor, through Ofsted, the standard of educational provision in all maintained schools, including provision for those pupils for whom English is not their first language. Additional support for the latter category through section 11 and single regeneration budget grants is a matter for my right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment, respectively.
Mr. Robert Ainsworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what moneys are allocated within grants for education support and training to provide for the needs of those teaching bilingual pupils from ethnic minority backgrounds; and what monitoring is planned on how it is spent.
Mr. Robin Squire: The size of the grants for education support and training--GEST--programme for 1995 96, and the grants within it, will be considered in the light of decisions on education standard spending generally following the unified budget on 29 November. The GEST programme will include a new grant to provide in-service training for mainstream teachers of bilingual pupils from minority ethnic backgrounds. LEAs will be required to report by 30 June 1996 on the training provided under this activity. In addition, Ofsted will be invited to inspect a sample of courses and report to the Department.
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Higher Education Review
Mr. Bryan Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what are the terms of reference of her Department's review of higher education.
Mr. Boswell: The review of higher education is part of the normal programme of reviews which the Department undertakes from time to time. It has no formal terms of reference, but will begin by looking at the aims and purposes of higher education with a view to determining its appropriate size and shape at the turn of the century and beyond. Later on, the review will address the appropriate funding and student support arrangements.
Officials wrote last week to invite views on the first of those matters from organisations with an interest in the development of higher education. I am arranging for the text of the letter and the list of bodies formally consulted to be placed in the Library.
Funding Bids
Mr. Robert Ainsworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what input she has had with regard to the bidding guidance issued for single regeneration budget bids concerning existing educational initiatives.
Mr. Robin Squire: The bidding guidance for the single regeneration budget, which was issued in April, took account of advice from the Department. Education figures prominently among the objectives.
Further Education
Mr. Bryan Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will publish a table showing the number of students in each local education authority in England undertaking courses of further education (a) aged 16 to 18 years and (b) 19 years and over; and what proportion of each of these age groups was not in receipt of any discretionary award.
Mr. Boswell: The number of students in each LEA in England who are undertaking further education (a) aged 16 to 18 years and (b) 19 years and over and the estimated proportion of each of these age groups who do not receive an award under section 2 of the Education Act 1962, are shown in the following table.
Numbers of FE students by home LEA showing proportion of students
not receiving grants under section 2 of the 1962 Education Act
(England 1992-93)
FE students not
in
Total numbers of receipt of
FE section 2
students by discretionary
awards
LEA of domicile Percentage of age
group
LEA |Aged 16-18|Aged 19+ |Aged 16-18|Aged 19+
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Corporation of London |24 |147 |96 |99
Camden |1,051 |7,494 |100 |100
Greenwich |1,812 |2,751 |76 |93
Hackney |2,228 |4,325 |69 |98
Hammersmith |1,093 |3,712 |68 |97
Islington |1,224 |3,487 |47 |98
Kensington |694 |6,346 |100 |98
Lambeth |2,493 |6,811 |100 |99
Lewisham |2,157 |4,690 |85 |100
Southwark |2,082 |4,393 |98 |99
Tower Hamlets |2,583 |3,981 |100 |98
Wandsworth |2,245 |5,794 |48 |100
Westminster |1,028 |3,897 |100 |100
Barking |1,344 |1,657 |71 |97
Barnet |2,736 |12,827 |85 |97
Bexley |2,258 |2,247 |90 |86
Brent |2,519 |7,642 |99 |98
Bromley |2,228 |2,768 |91 |98
Croydon |2,893 |4,271 |72 |98
Ealing |3,894 |5,942 |93 |95
Enfield |2,695 |9,830 |91 |98
Haringey |2,052 |7,338 |100 |100
Harrow |3,628 |8,749 |100 |100
Havering |2,724 |3,215 |65 |93
Hillingdon |2,379 |3,842 |100 |100
Hounslow |2,041 |3,282 |76 |100
Kingston upon Thames |1,123 |1,868 |84 |99
Merton |1,584 |3,041 |75 |96
Newham |2,738 |6,119 |100 |100
Redbridge |2,207 |4,257 |100 |99
Richmond upon Thames |2,154 |12,901 |86 |100
Sutton |1,684 |9,227 |84 |98
Waltham Forest |2,065 |4,733 |83 |94
Birmingham |10,133 |22,910 |100 |92
Coventry |3,381 |7,820 |83 |98
Dudley |4,752 |12,614 |72 |99
Sandwell |3,221 |5,931 |97 |95
Solihull |2,240 |5,434 |100 |95
Walsall |2,569 |5,238 |63 |89
Wolverhampton |2,716 |6,878 |100 |100
Knowsley |1,965 |3,581 |40 |85
Liverpool |3,954 |14,704 |79 |93
St Helens |2,231 |5,803 |57 |96
Sefton |3,411 |8,690 |84 |99
Wirral |3,068 |11,676 |80 |95
Bolton |2,723 |4,257 |61 |88
Bury |2,715 |3,095 |62 |82
Manchester |3,787 |9,922 |56 |87
Oldham |2,313 |2,460 |70 |87
Rochdale |2,903 |4,776 |71 |76
Salford |1,633 |7,030 |83 |97
Stockport |2,200 |4,159 |64 |81
Tameside |2,350 |6,446 |82 |95
Trafford |2,760 |9,393 |76 |97
Wigan |4,541 |6,715 |46 |97
Barnsley |3,372 |4,961 |32 |65
Doncaster |2,827 |12,114 |72 |94
Rotherham |2,954 |11,039 |62 |95
Sheffield |6,806 |21,729 |79 |97
Bradford |4,786 |21,092 |100 |95
Calderdale |2,148 |4,103 |95 |97
Kirklees |4,931 |15,486 |43 |94
Leeds |7,530 |19,318 |98 |91
Wakefield |3,313 |9,803 |29 |99
Gateshead |2,107 |4,515 |97 |97
Newcastle upon Tyne |2,079 |4,428 |77 |93
North Tyneside |1,726 |3,456 |68 |85
South Tyneside |2,325 |3,660 |100 |95
Sunderland |4,290 |7,076 |100 |100
Avon |9,994 |28,355 |72 |94
Bedfordshire |5,980 |13,260 |93 |92
Berkshire |8,060 |23,794 |99 |99
Buckinghamshire |6,627 |9,960 |96 |98
Cambridgeshire |7,234 |12,063 |100 |97
Cheshire |11,094 |29,702 |90 |91
Cleveland |6,743 |16,134 |84 |98
Cornwall and IoS |6,040 |4,919 |71 |85
Cumbria |5,117 |8,794 |82 |100
Derbyshire |12,438 |20,284 |33 |93
Devon |11,989 |16,421 |100 |68
Dorset |7,131 |9,763 |78 |84
Durham |6,803 |15,031 |100 |89
East Sussex |5,922 |22,689 |63 |94
Essex |15,906 |24,038 |64 |91
Gloucestershire |6,495 |19,123 |80 |95
Hampshire |18,111 |30,650 |100 |94
Hereford and Worcester |7,597 |23,326 |100 |98
Hertfordshire |11,032 |40,626 |98 |99
Humberside |9,856 |21,461 |72 |87
Isle of Wight |1,467 |4,268 |85 |95
Kent |15,611 |14,574 |59 |78
Lancashire |21,166 |60,468 |100 |86
Leicestershire |8,313 |17,532 |80 |79
Lincolnshire |7,255 |8,579 |94 |87
Norfolk |7,460 |8,537 |77 |86
North Yorkshire |7,617 |22,480 |59 |89
Northamptonshire |6,689 |17,099 |100 |98
Northumberland |2,419 |3,666 |69 |72
Nottinghamshire |11,265 |42,538 |87 |89
Oxfordshire |6,282 |13,752 |100 |98
Shropshire |5,178 |15,328 |92 |96
Somerset |6,708 |13,801 |88 |93
Staffordshire |12,731 |27,327 |87 |98
Suffolk |6,270 |18,242 |90 |96
Surrey |8,710 |10,137 |95 |92
Warwickshire |6,479 |16,441 |100 |100
West Sussex |6,458 |7,602 |71 |81
Wiltshire |7,932 |22,567 |85 |96
Student Loans Scheme
Mr. Bryan Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Education when she now expects total levels of borrowing and repayments under the student loans scheme to be brought into balance.
Mr. Boswell: It has been understood from the outset that repayments will never equal loan outgoings. That would assume no deferment of repayments or cancellation of debt, as concessions allowed under the scheme, and no default.
The loans scheme produced public expenditure savings, when compared with previous policies, in the first full financial year of its operation. On present estimates, the effect of the loan scheme will be to produce public expenditure savings again as from the academic year 2001 02 and annually thereafter.
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