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"Coalition for Citizenship"

Mr. Sheerman: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will make a statement on the report "Coalition for Citizenship". [14688]

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Mrs. Gillan: The recently formed "Coalition for Citizenship" is a group of organisations concerned with education for citizenship. I am not aware that it has produced a report. Its constituent organisations provide information, advice and support to schools in relation to citizenship and personal and social education.

GCSE Scores

Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list (i) by local education authority in England the percentage of pupils in (a) maintained schools, (b) voluntary-aided and (c) grant-maintained schools entitled to free school meals and (ii) the average proportion of pupils in all schools excluding the independent sector in each authority, gaining five or more GCSEs at grades A to C. [14903]

Mrs. Gillan: The information requested is shown in the table.

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Percentage of day pupils known to be eligible for free school meals and of 15-year-old pupils achieving five or more GCSE grade A* to C
England 1995-96

Percentage of day pupils known to be eligible for free school meals(15)
Local education authority areaCounty/controlled schoolsVoluntary aided schoolsGrant maintained schools (16)Percentage of 15-year-olds achieving five or more GCSEs grades A* to C (17)
Corporation of London--------
Camden43.034.815.243.0
Greenwich43.032.8--29.1
Hackney63.852.6--25.7
Hammersmith and Fulham54.330.9--35.3
Islington56.344.2--22.4
Kensington and Chelsea55.536.522.546.7
Lambeth53.841.542.025.1
Lewisham43.734.3--30.0
Southwark55.841.545.624.6
Tower Hamlets69.655.0--23.9
Wandsworth39.930.033.932.8
Westminster49.939.2--33.0
Barking27.821.9--27.1
Barnet23.017.411.853.4
Bexley17.212.810.346.8
Brent31.530.828.235.1
Bromley20.517.912.450.3
Croydon29.914.417.438.8
Ealing30.116.627.434.6
Enfield26.212.018.341.0
Haringey47.429.5--28.5
Harrow14.56.6--53.5
Havering16.66.76.544.1
Hillingdon17.44.714.040.9
Hounslow28.317.9--42.3
Kingston upon Thames10.66.610.059.9
Merton25.715.0 --38.3
Newham43.129.5--27.9
Redbridge21.28.8--50.8
Richmond upon Thames16.115.8--52.2
Sutton17.78.94.556.4
Waltham Forest38.220.516.133.4
Birmingham41.732.621.132.9
Coventry25.323.4--38.0
Dudley19.125.214.444.9
Sandwell29.121.3--26.5
Solihull15.314.8--49.6
Walsall30.719.410.232.2
Wolverhampton28.222.523.530.2
Knowsley53.347.6--23.6
Liverpool47.041.621.727.6
St. Helens30.226.0--40.9
Sefton23.726.7--44.0
Wirral31.931.96.444.4
Bolton23.817.611.341.9
Bury18.514.5--48.5
Manchester50.842.2--27.0
Oldham30.519.4--33.3
Rochdale36.023.422.635.4
Salford36.829.9--30.1
Stockport18.915.4--49.0
Tameside27.718.111.135.4
Trafford22.217.720.648.6
Wigan22.817.4--43.9
Barnsley26.918.5--28.2
Doncaster28.717.4--33.5
Rotherham24.020.7--36.2
Sheffield29.028.016.337.2
Bradford32.720.318.928.9
Calderdale26.518.410.739.7
Kirklees24.216.7--38.4
Leeds23.619.7--36.6
Wakefield21.514.4--35.3
Gateshead28.425.8--36.6
Newcastle upon Tyne37.729.6--32.7
North Tyneside23.522.5--41.1
South Tyneside37.230.8--35.2
Sunderland29.917.1--31.7
Isles of Scilly7.6----73.1
Bath and North-east Somerset14.813.9--47.4
City of Bristol28.922.3--30.9
North Somerset13.610.0--52.5
South Gloucestershire12.910.2--44.7
Hartlepool34.721.7--31.9
Middlesbrough39.629.5--26.9
Redcar and Cleveland29.725.6--37.6
Stockton on Tees27.819.2--37.2
City of Kingston upon Hull33.320.9--22.8
East Riding of Yorkshire11.37.66.143.6
North-east Lincolnshire24.822.6--32.4
North Lincolnshire19.114.1--37.6
North Yorkshire10.35.5--53.0
York14.912.9--47.7
Bedfordshire20.816.713.242.7
Berkshire12.89.110.648.8
Buckinghamshire10.43.610.050.5
Cambridgeshire16.217.113.246.7
Cheshire16.016.511.849.3
Cornwall20.416.5--46.7
Cumbria18.416.38.944.2
Derbyshire19.214.211.142.0
Devon18.415.510.244.2
Dorset11.56.58.849.3
Durham23.316.3--36.2
East Sussex21.119.5--43.3
Essex19.511.512.743.1
Gloucestershire16.29.09.250.2
Hampshire15.111.49.946.5
Hereford and Worcester11.37.06.744.6
Hertfordshire14.18.99.649.3
Isle of Wight21.719.9--44.5
Kent19.016.913.843.7
Lancashire26.417.88.142.6
Leicestershire16.69.612.539.7
Lincolnshire10.25.510.044.5
Norfolk15.613.513.641.9
Northamptonshire13.214.914.143.5
Northumberland17.411.6--46.1
Nottinghamshire25.315.529.436.4
Oxfordshire11.211.0--45.7
Shropshire16.314.814.548.0
Somerset12.29.911.650.0
Staffordshire18.014.213.740.9
Suffolk15.510.9--47.0
Surrey11.68.07.450.5
Warwickshire12.210.69.443.7
West Sussex12.810.1--50.6
Wiltshire13.912.09.648.3
England22.620.013.544.5

(15) Position on the annual schools' census date in January.

(16) Schools operating as GM on the annual schools' census date in January.

(17) Including maintained schools and city technology colleges.

Columns have been left blank where they would have contained two schools or fewer, in line with normal pupil confidentiality.


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Mr. Hendry: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what was the percentage of 16-year-olds passing five or more GCSEs at grade C or higher in Derbyshire in each year since 1992. [15162]

Mrs. Gillan: The percentage of 15-year-old 1 pupils in maintained schools passing five or more GCSEs at grade C or higher in Derbyshire in each year since 1992 is:

Percentage
199236.1
199337.8
199440.9
199539.8
199642.0

(18) Age at beginning of the academic year.


Skills Research

Mr. Sheerman: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what research her Department has undertaken to identify the skills required by industry in the past two years. [14694]

Mr. Paice: The Department commissions an annual survey of employers which asks about changing skill requirements and recruitment difficulties. In 1995 and 1996, it was published by Public Attitude Surveys Ltd. as the "Skill Needs In Britain" survey. The Department is also funding in-depth studies into changing skill

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requirements within specific occupations. There are in the process of being published by the Institute for Employment Studies under the banner "Skills Review".

Jobseeker's Allowance (Sanctions)

Ms Lynne: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment when she will publish the first analysis of adjudication officers' decisions relating to benefit sanctions against people not meeting the terms and conditions of the jobseeker's agreement and jobseeker's direction; if the published information will provide a breakdown of the specific reasons for benefit sanctions; and what the practice will be for the continuing release of such information. [15134]

Mr. Forth: Responsibility for the subject of the question has been delegated to the Employment Service under its chief executive. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.

Letter from Leigh Lewis to Ms Liz Lynne, dated 10 February 1997:



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