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Management Consultancy Advertisements

Mr. Milburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will provide details of each management consultancy contract that has been advertised by NHS organisations in the supplement to the Official Journal of the European Community in each of the last five years. [35340]

Mr. Horam: There was no requirement on national health service or other United Kingdom public contracting authorities to advertise service contracts in the Official Journal prior to July 1993.

The following management consultancy contracts above the threshold value of £149,728 that were awarded by an NHS organisation in the calendar years 1994 and 1995 have been identified from Official Journal records:

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Description	Awarding body	Amount	Date	Supplier
Marketing Agency for health services	Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust	Up to £160,000	15 September 1995	Colin Geall
Business Advice	NHS Supplies	Not quoted	27 September 1995	Provex Consultancy Stourbridge
Project management	Royal Berkshire and Battle Hospitals	Not quoted	16 June 1995	Mouchel Management Ltd.
Financial and fiscal services	NHS Supplies	Not quoted	21 August 1995	Beachcroft Stanleys Solicitors, and KPMG
Business services	Dental Practice Board for England and Wales	Not quoted	21 December 1994	Coopers and Lybrand

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Special Transitional Grant

Mr. Milburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which authorities have been unable to spend 85 per cent. of their special transitional grant for 1993-94 in the independent sector. [35343]

Mr. Bowis: Barnsley, Bolton, Derbyshire, Durham, Ealing, Rochdale, Rotherham, Staffordshire and St. Helens.

EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT

UNESCO

Mr. MacShane: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) what representations she has received from educational institutions about the United Kingdom rejoining UNESCO; [34822]

(2) what disadvantages to educational institutions have been represented to her as resulting from Britain staying out of UNESCO. [34832]

Mr. Forth: None.

Ms Hodge: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) if she will make a statement on the transition to comprehensive status of the nine grammar schools in Norfolk between 1979 and 1982; [34769]

(2) what action was taken by Norfolk county council's education committee in response to the letter from the Department of Education after the general election in 1979 removing the compulsion on local education to reorganise their secondary schools along comprehensive lines; [34773]

(3) if she will make a statement on the merger of Paston school and North Walsham girls school to become a sixth form college; [34774]

(4) whether she will make a statement on the transition from grammar to comprehensive of (a) Diss grammar school in Norfolk, (b) Fakenham grammar school, (c) Wymondham college, (d) Oriel grammar school, (e) Great Yarmouth grammar school and (f) Gorleston grammar school, Gorleston. [34775]

Mrs. Gillan [holding answer 1 July 1996]: The changes referred to are a matter for the public record. The details of how they were implemented were the responsibility of Norfolk education authority. The decisions taken by that authority about the character of its secondary schools reflected the circumstances and policies of the time.

Ms Hodge: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment whether she has consulted the education authority of Norfolk county council over the 1996 proposals for the creation of selective schools in Norfolk. [34770]

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Mrs. Gillan [holding answer 1 July 1996]: The White Paper "Self-Government for Schools" has been sent to all local education authorities with any comments invited by 4 October. The Department discussed the broad issues to be covered in the White Paper in advance with the local authority associations and a range of other organisations, but not with any individual local authority.

Barred Teachers

Mr. Milburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to her answer of 13 June, Official Report, column 287, which schools cannot arrange checks against list 99 through their local education authority; and in what circumstances local education authorities have access to the Department of Health's consultancy index. [35249]

Mr. Robin Squire [holding answer 1 July 1996]: Schools that are maintained by a local education authority can make checks through their maintaining authority. Other schools are not entitled to this service, but can make checks through the Department.

The Department of Health's consultancy index is intended to provide checks on the suitability of people seeking appointments in the field of child care. It has not been used by local education authorities which rely on checks of list 99 and criminal background checks to help assess the suitability of candidates.

Mr. Milburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to her answer of 25 June, Official Report, column 99, if she will list the number of (a) adverse reports from employers made to the Department of Health's consultancy index for each year since 1979 and (b) notifications from the police for convictions for each year since 1979; and how many notifications to list 99 there have been for each year since 1979. [35250]

Mr. Squire [holding answer 1 July 1996]: The following table shows the number of reports about misconduct, or alleged misconduct, by teachers, and people whose work involves regular contact with children and young persons in education, that the Department has received in each year since 1 April 1979. Information about notifications to the Department of Health consultancy index is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health.

Year	Reports Received
1 April 1979-31 March 1980	435
1 April 1980-31 March 1981	422
1 April 1981-31 March 1982	340
1 April 1982-31 March 1983	360
1 April 1983-31 March 1984	338
1 April 1984-31 March 1985	325
1 April 1985-31 March 1986	348
1 April 1986-31 March 1987	320
1 April 1987-31 March 1988	350
1 April 1988-31 March 1989	333
1 April 1989-31 March 1990	334
1 April 1990-31 March 1991	373
1 April 1991-31 March 1992	387
1 April 1992-31 March 1993	382
1 April 1993-31 March 1994	542
1 April 1994-31 March 1995	636
1 April 1995-31 March 1996	561

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School Funding

Mr. Byers: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what is in each local education authority the average amount spent per (a) pupil, (b) primary pupil and (c) secondary pupil. [35448]

Mr. Robin Squire: The following table sets out, for each local education authority, net institutional expenditure per (a) pre-primary/primary and secondary pupil combined (b) pre-primary/primary pupil and (c) secondary pupil in LEA maintained schools in England for 1994-95, the latest for which figures are available.

£

	(a)	(b)	(c)
Net Institutional Expenditure Per Pupil 1994-95	Pre-Primary/ Primary and Secondary	Pre-Primary and Primary	Secondary
Corporation of London	3,635	3,635	0
Camden	2,376	2,057	2,790
Greenwich	2,331	2,028	2,772
Hackney	2,521	2,249	3,138
Hammersmith and Fulham	2,759	2,482	3,316
Islington	2,247	2,055	2,657
Kensington and Chelsea	2,672	2,397	3,327
Lambeth	2,750	2,573	3,782
Lewisham	2,304	2,097	2,677
Southwark	2,091	1,898	2,681
Tower Hamlets	2,664	2,393	3,194
Wandsworth	2,366	2,268	3,053
Westminster	2,613	2,440	2,825
Barking and Dagenham	2,069	1,891	2,353
Barnet	1,953	1,763	2,415
Bexley	1,792	1,536	2,232
Brent	1,752	1,718	2,033
Bromley	1,768	1,634	2,231
Croydon	1,835	1,725	2,165
Ealing	2,087	1,969	2,457
Enfield	1,969	1,761	2,359
Haringey	2,525	2,300	2,986
Harrow	2,205	2,043	2,598
Havering	2,019	1,715	2,570
Hillingdon	1,874	1,777	2,625
Hounslow	2,195	1,931	2,582
Kingston upon Thames	1,987	1,730	2,518
Merton	2,169	1,931	2,663
Newham	2,033	1,711	2,623
Redbridge	2,056	1,678	2,553
Richmond upon Thames	2,090	1,884	2,373
Sutton	2,045	1,860	2,514
Waltham Forest	1,989	1,792	2,395
Birmingham	1,925	1,721	2,356
Coventry	1,988	1,705	2,418
Dudley	1,781	1,575	2,205
Sandwell	1,876	1,666	2,244
Solihull	1,865	1,605	2,225
Walsall	1,877	1,664	2,314
Wolverhampton	1,894	1,648	2,341
Knowsley	1,783	1,575	2,227
Liverpool	1,988	1,634	2,603
St. Helens	1,820	1,521	2,247
Sefton	1,797	1,487	2,227
Wirral	1,846	1,567	2,294
Bolton	1,862	1,646	2,261
Bury	1,701	1,492	2,032
Manchester	1,841	1,558	2,435
Oldham	1,894	1,621	2,293
Rochdale	1,794	1,552	2,225
Salford	1,714	1,507	2,151
Stockport	1,792	1,566	2,152
Tameside	1,646	1,447	2,046
Trafford	1,743	1,477	2,319
Wigan	1,740	1,474	2,130
Barnsley	1,764	1,550	2,102
Doncaster	1,707	1,444	2,025
Rotherham	1,938	1,719	2,220
Sheffield	1,799	1,612	2,110
Bradford	1,869	1,681	2,041
Calderdale	1,775	1,651	2,104
Kirklees	1,864	1,607	2,256
Leeds	1,873	1,645	2,223
Wakefield	1,779	1,590	2,046
Gateshead	1,886	1,638	2,257
Newcastle upon Tyne	1,945	1,660	2,314
North Tyneside	1,877	1,636	2,145
South Tyneside	1,792	1,623	2,062
Sunderland	1,802	1,576	2,142
Isles of Scilly	3,356	2,471	4,484
Avon	1,898	1,613	2,336
Bedfordshire	1,930	1,674	2,231
Berkshire	1,869	1,630	2,238
Buckinghamshire	1,834	1,636	2,256
Cambridgeshire	1,734	1,540	2,160
Cheshire	1,796	1,529	2,176
Cleveland	1,758	1,505	2,172
Cornwall	1,865	1,615	2,202
Cumbria	1,714	1,541	2,034
Derbyshire	1,832	1,596	2,290
Devon	1,818	1,554	2,203
Dorset	1,743	1,510	2.061
Durham	1,905	1,757	2,122
East Sussex	1,964	1,692	2,359
Essex	1,864	1,734	2,321
Gloucestershire	1,416	1,274	1,937
Hampshire	1,825	1,645	2,177
Hereford and Worcester	1,841	1,643	2,063
Hertfordshire	1,918	1,717	2,264
Humberside	1,917	1,652	2,304
Isle of Wight	1,859	1,.607	2,030
Kent	1,765	1,555	2,276
Lancashire	1,918	1,661	2,345
Leicestershire	1,890	1,612	2,274
Lincolnshire	1,846	1,588	2,384
Norfolk	1,862	1,600	2,342
North Yorkshire	1,838	1,577	2,180
Northamptonshire	1,894	1,618	2,265
Northumberland	1,773	1,528	1,944
Nottinghamshire	1,986	1,692	2,396
Oxfordshire	1,959	1,680	2,285
Shropshire	1,910	1,605	2,413
Somerset	1,857	1,660	2,113
Staffordshire	1,787	1,565	2,104
Suffolk	1,949	1,690	2,182
Surrey	1,906	1,744	2,234
Warwickshire	1,876	1,665	2,349
West Sussex	1,913	1,668	2,240
Wiltshire	1,735	1,548	2,125
England	1,890	1,661	2,270

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