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Mr. Clwyd: To ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to paragraphs D1.27 and D1.28 of the Scott report, if he will list those matters relating to the work of his Department since 1979 classified as matters about which successive administrations have refused to answer. [17418]
Mr. Lang [holding answer 26 February 1996]: The Principal Clerk to the Table Office gave evidence in 1972 to a Select Committee appointed
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On 9 November 1979, the then Secretary of State for Trade and the Under-Secretary of State for Industry stated that it was not possible to provide an exhaustive list of subjects on which they would decline to answer and that each question would be considered on its merits, Official Report, columns 365 and 338. This is still the case.
Mrs. Dunwoody: To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will list the research projects relating to the aviation industry undertaken by the Warren Springs laboratory in the five years prior to its closure. [19086]
Mr. Ian Taylor: The information could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Ian McCartney: To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will list the cost and number of items of equipment and furniture that (a) have been stolen and (b) are otherwise unaccounted for from his Department and its agencies in each of the past five years, listing by name any such items valued at £5,000 or more, and showing information technology material separately. [19040]
Mr. John M. Taylor: Details of equipment stolen or otherwise unaccounted for from the Department during the last five years are set out.
All incidents involving losses exceeding £5,000 are listed individually, to the nearest £1,000.
Value (£) | |
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1991-92 | |
It equipment incidents: 24 | 30,000 |
Other equipment incidents: 46 | 66,000 |
Items over £5,000: Theft of chairs | 49,000 |
1992-93 | |
It equipment incidents: 11 | 15,000 |
Other equipment incidents: 5 | 1,000 |
Items over £5,000: Theft of personal computers | 7,000 |
1993-94 | |
IT equipment incidents: 20 | 59,000 |
Other equipment incidents: 35 | 9,000 |
Items over £5,000: Theft of computer chips | 42,000 |
1994-95 | |
It equipment incidents: 35 | 69,000 |
Other equipment incidents: 26 | 17,000 |
Items over £5,000: Theft of vehicle | 5,000 |
Theft of computer components | 26,000 |
Mr. Spearing: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will place in the Library for each of the local education authority areas participating in her scheme for early years education, the names of the providers who have agreed to supply
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existing, or new places, for the scheme together with the number of full-time equivalent places offered and the nature of their settings. [17869]
Mr. Robin Squire [holding answer 28 February 1996]: A list of providers classified by type has been placed in the Library of the House. The estimated number of four-year-olds in the maintained sector in each of the phase 1 authorities is listed below.
LEA | Estimates number of four year-olds in maintained provision at January 1995 |
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Kensington and Chelsea | 800 |
Wandsworth | 2,600 |
Westminster | 1,100 |
Norfolk | 6,300 |
Mr. Ian McCartney: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what factors underlay her decision to extend the qualifying period of unemployment to be eligible for assistance under the travel to interview scheme from four to 13 weeks. [19101]
Mr. Forth: From April 1996, the travel to interview scheme will form part of a package of measures for people who have been unemployed for 13 weeks. It will support jobseeker's who are required to widen their search for jobs after they have been unemployed for 13 weeks and who, after the introduction of jobseeker's allowance, will be interviewed and expected to review their jobseeker's agreement at that point.
Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many eligible young people in (a) Doncaster and (b) the Mexborough area of South Yorkshire are currently unable to obtain a place on a youth training scheme; and what this figure was 12 months ago. [19350]
Mr. Paice: The information is not available in the format requested.
In the Barnsley and Doncaster training and enterprise council area, no young person within the youth training guarantee group was awaiting a place on youth training at January 1996. At the same time last year only one young person in the guarantee group had been waiting more than eight weeks for a training place.
Mr. Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list all cases since 1987 where his Department has bought computer capacity from (a) other Departments and (b) the private sector, giving the value of each contract and the name of the private sector contractors. [19466]
Mr. Robin Squire: The information requested is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
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Mr. Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to her answer to the hon. Member for Tatton (Mr. Hamilton) of 14 December 1995, Official Report, column 738, what research her Department has undertaken into how many people will not be able to participate in the access to work scheme as a result of the priority setting; and if she will review the possibility of making available extra funding for the scheme. [19321]
Mr. Forth: Responsibility for the subject of the question has been delegated to the Employment Service Agency under its chief executive. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Mike Fogden to Mr. Frank Field, dated 11 March 1996:
The Secretary of State has asked me to reply to your question about research into the number of people participating in the Access to Work programme; and about funding for the programme.
We have not undertaken research into how many people will not be able to particpate in the programme as a result of the priority setting announced by the secretary of state on 14 December; although we know that about 80% of new applicants were employed.
The report of major research on Access to Work overall after its first year of operation will be published imminently.
By the end of January 1996 12,749 people (of whom 8,799 were new applicants) had been helped by Access to Work compared to 10,394 in the whole of 1994/5. Significant extra funds have been provided to make this possible.
I hope this is helpful.
Mr. Cummings: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment on how many occasions in each of the past five years Ministers in her Department have passed (a) hon. Members' letters and (b) hon. Members' questions to agencies for response; and what this figure is as a percentage of the total number of letters and questions received. [19427]
Mr. Robin Squire: The information requested is a matter of public record, but it could be extracted in the form requested only at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Devlin: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what additional assisted places are to be made available, by school, in the north of England. [19622]
Mrs. Gillan: The information requested for schools already participating in the assisted places scheme is given in the table:
Number of additional entry places in September 1996 | |
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North-east | |
Barnard Castle school | 10 |
Central Newcastle high school | 5 |
Dame Allan's boys' school | 7 |
Dame Allan's girls' school | 7 |
King's school, Tynemouth | 28 |
Newcastle upon Tyne church high | 30 |
Polam Hall school | 10 |
Royal Grammar school | 5 |
Teeside high | 7 |
Yarm school | 10 |
North-west | |
Arnold school | 25 |
Austin Friars school | 8 |
Belverdere school | 20 |
Birkenhead high school | 5 |
Birkenhead school | 5 |
Bolton school boys' division | 10 |
Bolton school girls' division | 10 |
Bury Grammar school (boys) | 10 |
Bury Grammar school (girls) | 10 |
Casterton school | 8 |
Cheadle Hulme School | 5 |
Hulme Grammar school for boys | 5 |
Hulme Grammar school for girls | 5 |
King Edward VII school | 5 |
King's school Chester | 4 |
King's school Macclesfield | 35 |
Kirkham Grammar | 5 |
Manchester Grammar school | 10 |
Manchester High school for girls | 10 |
Merchant Taylors' boys' school | 20 |
Merchant Taylors' school for girls | 15 |
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar school | 20 |
Queen Mary school | 10 |
Sedbergh school | 15 |
St. Ambrose college | 22 |
St. Bede's college | 25 |
St. Bees | 4 |
St. Edward's | 25 |
Stockport Grammar school | 5 |
Stonyhurst college | 29 |
Westholme school | 40 |
William Hulme's Grammar | 30 |
Withington Girls' school | 3 |
Yorkshire and Humberside | |
Ashville college | 13 |
Batley Grammar school | 30 |
Bootham | 12 |
Bradford Girls' Grammar school | 3 |
Bradford Grammar school | 20 |
Giggleswick school | 10 |
Harrogate Ladies' college | 14 |
Hymers college | 5 |
Leeds Girls' high school | 5 |
Leeds Grammar school | 15 |
Mount school | 13 |
Queen Elizabeth Grammar school | 10 |
Scarborough college | 33 |
Sheffield High school for girls | 12 |
St. Peter's school | 5 |
Wakefield girls' high school | 10 |
Woodhouse Grove | 5 |
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