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Mr. Hutton: To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what contingency plans exist to ensure the payment of benefits during industrial action at Royal Mail sorting offices. [4581]
Mr. Andrew Mitchell: This is a matter for Peter Mathison, the chief executive of the Benefits Agency. He will write to the hon. Member with the information requested.
Letter from Peter Mathison to Mr. John Hutton, dated 7 December 1995:
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The Secretary of State for Social Security has asked me to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question about what contingency plans exist to ensure the payment of benefits during industrial action at Royal Mail sorting offices.
The Benefits Agency (BA) has long standing instructions for staff covering disruption of postal delivery and collection services.
The instructions cover the impact of postal disruption, the options for dealing with girocheques and order books issued by Area Computer Centres and North Fylde Central Office, liaison within the BA and between the BA and the Post Office, and the arrangements for local BA offices to deal with the increase in callers and telephone queries. The instructions also cover local disputes and
the arrangements for customers to either collect payment from their local BA office, or where they are unable to attend the office, for payment to be delivered by local office staff.
I hope you find this reply helpful.
Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) what was (a) the number and (b) the percentage of four-year-olds in maintained pre-school provision (i) in each local education authority and (ii) nationally at January 1995; [3998]
(2) what was (a) the number and (b) the percentage of three-year-olds in maintained pre-school provision (i) in each local education authority and (ii) nationally at January 1995; [3997]
(3) what was (a) the number and (b) the percentage of three and four-year-olds in maintained pre-school provision (i) in each local education authority and (ii) nationally in January 1995. [3999]
Mr. Robin Squire: Information on pupils aged three and four in maintained nursery schools and nursery classes in each local education authority in England in January 1995 is shown in the following table. The Department does not publish information on participation rates of individual age cohorts by local education authority.
Pupils (age at 31 August 1994) | Percentage of population aged 3 and 4 at 31 December | ||
---|---|---|---|
Age 3(11) | Age 4(12) | 1994 | |
Camden | 845 | 4 | 25 |
Greenwich | 2,229 | 746 | 48 |
Hackney | 1,898 | 11 | 35 |
Hammersmith and Fulham | 1,069 | 271 | 46 |
Islington | 1,473 | 80 | 37 |
Kensington and Chelsea | 603 | 153 | 27 |
Lambeth | 1,603 | 490 | 31 |
Lewisham | 1,869 | 612 | 37 |
Southwark | 2,323 | 91 | 42 |
Tower Hamlets | 2,456 | 267 | 58 |
Wandsworth | 2,056 | 54 | 35 |
Westminster | 801 | 187 | 31 |
Barking and Dagenham | 2,046 | 6 | 46 |
Barnet | 2,024 | 44 | 32 |
Bexley | 1,413 | 6 | 23 |
Brent | 2,459 | 17 | 37 |
Bromley | 162 | 2 | 2 |
Croydon | 1,999 | 12 | 21 |
Ealing | 3,143 | 7 | 46 |
Enfield | 1,620 | 3 | 22 |
Haringey | 2,354 | 50 | 44 |
Harrow | 1,006 | 3 | 18 |
Havering | 464 | 3 | 9 |
Hillingdon | 1,430 | 1,923 | 49 |
Hounslow | 2,362 | 0 | 40 |
Kingston upon Thames | 1,028 | 14 | 35 |
Merton | 1,860 | 387 | 55 |
Newham | 2,925 | 1,206 | 52 |
Redbridge | 970 | 310 | 20 |
Richmond upon Thames | 653 | 1 | 18 |
Sutton | 816 | 1,147 | 41 |
Waltham Forest | 1,738 | 899 | 39 |
Birmingham | 10,471 | 17 | 34 |
Coventry | 1,910 | 0 | 24 |
Dudley | 2,626 | 11 | 37 |
Sandwell | 3,844 | 136 | 54 |
Solihull | 1,877 | 3 | 36 |
Walsall | 3,505 | 2 | 59 |
Wolverhampton | 3,175 | 6 | 54 |
Knowsley | 2,336 | 23 | 62 |
Liverpool | 4,941 | 4 | 46 |
St. Helens | 1,489 | 3 | 35 |
Sefton | 2,290 | 5 | 36 |
Wirral | 2,156 | 1 | 26 |
Bolton | 2,703 | 3 | 41 |
Bury | 1,448 | 0 | 30 |
Manchester | 5,116 | 1,764 | 54 |
Oldham | 2,455 | 3 | 37 |
Rochdale | 2,074 | 10 | 33 |
Salford | 2,922 | 22 | 53 |
Stockport | 1,972 | 3 | 27 |
Tameside | 2,377 | 1 | 39 |
Trafford | 2,056 | 30 | 43 |
Wigan | 2,050 | 4 | 25 |
Barnsley | 1,975 | 869 | 48 |
Doncaster | 3,647 | 1 | 44 |
Rotherham | 2,176 | 1,110 | 46 |
Sheffield | 3,888 | 1,473 | 42 |
Bradford | 5,142 | 634 | 44 |
Calderdale | 1,945 | 1 | 36 |
Kirklees | 3,985 | 31 | 40 |
Leeds | 7,147 | 549 | 47 |
Wakefield | 3,389 | 976 | 54 |
Gateshead | 1,675 | 2 | 36 |
Newcastle upon Tyne | 2,761 | 7 | 39 |
North Tyneside | 2,306 | 0 | 55 |
South Tyneside | 1,971 | 3 | 53 |
Sunderland | 3,300 | 1 | 42 |
Avon | 4,844 | 52 | 21 |
Bedfordshire | 3,010 | 2,003 | 32 |
Berkshire | 3,043 | 3,721 | 32 |
Buckinghamshire | 1,785 | 1,201 | 16 |
Cambridge | 2,174 | 8 | 12 |
Cheshire | 4,528 | 75 | 21 |
Cleveland | 7,179 | 5 | 60 |
Cornwall(13) | 1,393 | 175 | 15 |
Cumbria | 2,971 | 40 | 25 |
Derbyshire | 6,515 | 2,168 | 38 |
Devon | 1,998 | 855 | 12 |
Dorset | 726 | 0 | 5 |
Durham | 6,356 | 29 | 46 |
East Sussex | 1,424 | 54 | 10 |
Essex | 1,604 | 981 | 7 |
Gloucestershire | 27 | 0 | 0 |
Hampshire | 1,750 | 67 | 5 |
Hereford and Worcester | 868 | 770 | 9 |
Hertfordshire | 6,734 | 2,673 | 34 |
Humberside | 6,343 | 2,308 | 38 |
Isle of Wight | 150 | 3 | 7 |
Kent | 1,853 | 43 | 5 |
Lancashire | 7,235 | 24 | 21 |
Leicestershire | 3,119 | 1,913 | 21 |
Lincolnshire | 1,917 | 33 | 14 |
Norfolk | 1,119 | 119 | 7 |
North Yorkshire | 3,096 | 489 | 22 |
Northamptonshire | 3,024 | 4 | 18 |
Northumberland | 2,411 | 7 | 41 |
Nottinghamshire | 7,807 | 4,995 | 50 |
Oxfordshire | 1,668 | 1,521 | 19 |
Shropshire | 1,332 | 669 | 18 |
Somerset | 521 | 2 | 5 |
Staffordshire | 6,602 | 94 | 25 |
Suffolk | 1,650 | 1,422 | 17 |
Surrey | 2,423 | 345 | 12 |
Warwickshire | 2,109 | 4 | 17 |
West Sussex | 828 | 308 | 7 |
Wiltshire | 397 | 158 | 4 |
England(13)(14) | 277,376 | 46,064 | 27 |
(11) Includes pupils who became four years of age by 1 January 1995.
(12) Excludes pupils who became five years of age by 1 January 1995.
(13) Includes Isles of Scilly.
(14) Includes Corporation of London.
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Mr. Cynog Dafis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what statutory provisions govern the responsibility of university authorities for damage done by students to student accommodation. [4311]
Mr. Forth: None. As independent bodies, universities are responsible for their own internal affairs. In the private rented sector landlords have recourse for damage caused by students through tenancy agreements and the legal system, as the would for any other renting accommodation.
Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) if she will make a
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statement on the local authority allocations and capital grants to (a) voluntary-aided and (b) grant-maintained schools in 1996-97; [4506]
(2) if she will give a breakdown of the capital budget for schools for 1996-97. [4505]
Mrs. Gillan: Central Government support for schools in 1996-97 is broken down as follows:
Type of school | Capital budget £ million |
---|---|
Grant-maintained schools | 138 |
City technology colleges | 2 |
Aided schools | 61 |
County and controlled schools | 423 |
Non-maintained special schools | 1 |
Total | 625 |
The figures do not include the capital element included within the budget for the "specialised schools" programme, which includes both capital and recurrent expenditure on specialist schools in the grant-maintained and maintained sectors, and which has been allocated £23 million in 1996-97.
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