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Qualifications
Mr. Rooney: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list for the latest date for which there are available figures from the training for work leavers survey, for (i) each standard region and (ii) England and Wales, the number of (a) full NVQs, (b) NVQ levels, (c) credits towards NVQs, (d) other full qualifications, (e) credits toward other qualifications and (f) no qualifications secured by those leaving the programme. [12432]
Mr. Paice
[holding answer 23 January 1997]: The information requested is given in the following table. As the information comes from surveys, it is only possible to give percentages and not actual number. The training for work national follow-up survey covers all qualifications not just NVQs. The table shows the highest NVQ or equivalent qualification gained.
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| Highest equivalent NVQ levels | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full qualification | Full literacy/ numeracy | Full level 1 | Full level 2 | Full level 3 | Full level 4 | Full other(4) | Credit towards a qualification | No qualification gained(5) | |
| South East | 46 | 1 | 8 | 23 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 49 |
| London | 39 | 2 | 6 | 17 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 54 |
| Eastern | 44 | 2 | 9 | 20 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 50 |
| South West | 45 | 1 | 11 | 20 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 49 |
| West Midlands | 43 | 2 | 10 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 50 |
| East Midlands | 38 | 1 | 8 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 56 |
| Yorkshire and Humberside | 38 | 1 | 7 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 56 |
| Merseyside | 44 | 2 | 7 | 21 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 51 |
| North West | 36 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 58 |
| North East | 45 | 3 | 8 | 20 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 49 |
| Wales | 39 | 2 | 9 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 55 |
| England and Wales(6) | 41 | 2 | 8 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 52 |
(4) Includes those achieving a full qualification who did not state the level.
(5) Includes those still awaiting their results.
(6) Includes trainees not separately identified to a region.
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Special Needs Teachers
Mr. Pickthall: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many qualified specialist teachers of the deaf are currently employed in mainstream schools. [12423]
Mrs. Gillan [holding answer 24 January 1997]: Returns submitted by schools in January 1996 show that approximately 1,000 qualified teachers of the deaf are currently employed in mainstream schools.
Discretionary Awards
Mr. Rooney: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many discretionary awards were made by each local authority (a) to people aged 16 to 17 years and (b) people aged 18 years and over in the last year for which figures are available. [12433]
Mr. Forth
[holding answer 23 January 1997]: Information in the age categories requested is not available. The numbers of discretionary awards made by local education authorities in England and Wales in the academic year 1994-95, the latest for which data are
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available, is published in tables 8(a) and 9(a) of "Statistics of Education, Student Support Volume, 1994-95"--copies of which are in the Library. Table 8(a) shows data for section 1(6) and section 2 awards in higher education; table 9(a) shows data for section 2 awards in further education and gives separate data on awards to students aged 16 to 18 years and to those aged 19 and over.
EU Budget Contributions
Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list for each member country net and gross contributions to the current EU budget, including net receipts or contributions broken down by (a) household and (b) population. [11486]
Mr. Oppenheim: The latest year for which information on member states' contributions is available is 1995. The information in respect of that year is set out in the form requested. As is evident from the table the average number of persons per household can vary significantly between member states.
Notes:
1. Sources: Court of Auditors Report on 1995 Community Budget and Eurostat.
2. The Court of Auditors uses ecu figures. These have been converted to sterling using the annual average £ sterling/ecu exchange rate for 1995, £ = 1.2211 ecu.
3. Contribution figures are after account has been taken of the UK's abatement.
4. The Court of Auditors Report does not allocate all Community spending to the Member States so that the receipts figures in the table may not represent the full amount of expenditure by the Commission in each Member State. Consequently the net figures in the table are likely only to be indicative of the amount of Member States' net contributions.
5. Figures for both population and the number of households are the latest available (Eurostat figures) and relate to 1990-91.
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Mr. Timms:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer in respect of which goods or services the rate of tax payable is dependent on the vendor from whom the product is purchased. [11651]
Mr. Oppenheim:
There are a number of occasions when the status of the vendor affects the chargeability to VAT of goods and services. No tax at all is due if the supplier is not registrable for VAT, or if the supplies are made outside the UK, and certain VAT reliefs are
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dependent on the status of the supplier, for example in the area of postal and education services. In addition, the Budget proposed a higher rate of insurance premium tax, as an anti-avoidance measure which depends on the status of the vendor.
Mr. Dalyell:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his letter of 17 December, when he expects to
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make a statement on a derogation from the sixth VAT directive in relation to Internet access services. [10830]
Mr. Oppenheim
[holding answer 23 January 1997]: All member states have now lodged a request for a general derogation from the sixth VAT directive in relation to telecommunications services, including Internet access services. The European Commission is expected to submit a proposal for such a derogation to the Council of Ministers later this month or shortly thereafter. Once the Council has agreed the proposal, UK secondary legislation giving effect to the derogation will follow.
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