| *1 |
Mr Michael Colvin (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will make a statement on (a) the gross cost of reducing to under 30 the class sizes of five, six and seven year olds and (b) the date by which this will be achieved. |
| 4088 |
| *2 |
Mr Michael Fabricant (Lichfield): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what assessment he has made of the employment prospects for unskilled manual workers over the coming three years; and if he will make a statement. |
| 4091 |
| *3 |
Mrs Diana Organ (Forest of Dean): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what plans he has to ensure that good practice in respect of teaching methods is disseminated throughout the education service. |
| 4092 |
| *4 |
Mr Ken Purchase (Wolverhampton North East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what proposals he has to move long-term unemployed young people in Wolverhampton, on welfare, into work. |
| 4093 |
| *5 |
Mr Eric Forth (Bromley and Chislehurst): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will pay the jobseeker's allowance to all those people unemployed and seeking work, according to the Labour Force Survey definition. |
| 4094 |
| *6 |
Mr John Healey (Wentworth): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what proposals he has to move young unemployed people on welfare into work. |
| 4095 |
| *7 |
Mr Lembit Opik (Montgomeryshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will make a statement on his plans to increase investment in training. |
| 4096 |
| *8 |
Mr Harry Barnes (North East Derbyshire): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what representations he has received regarding the funding of non-vocational education. |
| 4097 |
| *9 |
Angela Smith (Basildon): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what plans his Department has to ensure co-ordination between early years education and childcare. |
| 4098 |
| *10 |
Mr Andrew Dismore (Hendon): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what plans he has to help those pupils leaving primary school this summer who have fallen behind in their reading. |
| 4099 |
| *11 |
Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what plans he has to move young unemployed people into training. |
| 4100 |
| *12 |
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, when he plans to announce his decision concerning the current round of bids for technology college status. |
| 4102 |
| *13 |
Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what are the Government's plans to assist the young unemployed. |
| 4103 |
| *14 |
Mr Chris Mullin (Sunderland South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what plans he has for improving job security; and if he will make a statement. |
| 4104 |
| *15 |
Mr Michael Jack (Fylde): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what plans he has to review his Department's spending priorities on young people's education. |
| 4105 |
| *16 |
Dr Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will make a statement on the number of children who left primary school in 1996 able to read and write to their chronological age. |
| 4107 |
| *17 |
Mr Paul Stinchcombe (Wellingborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will make a statement on the remit of the welfare to work task force. |
| 4108 |
| *18 |
Paul Flynn (Newport West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what proposals he has to improve access to higher education for young people from low-income families. |
| 4109 |
| *19 |
Dr Tony Wright (Cannock Chase): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what plans he has to modify the assessment tests at Key Stage Two. |
| 4110 |
| *20 |
Mr James Murphy (Eastwood): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will make a statement on his main policy priorities for raising standards in schools. |
| 4111 |
| *21 |
Mr Christopher Chope (Christchurch): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will make a statement on the progress of local authorities in preparing interim early years development plans. |
| 4112 |
| *22 |
Mr Don Touhig (Islwyn): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if the early years development plans will cover early years education and childcare. |
| 4113 |
| *23 |
Mr Mark Oaten (Winchester): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what estimate he has made of the number of higher education students who will be unable formally to graduate in 1997 from higher education institutes because of debts owed to those institutes; and if he will make a statement. |
| 4114 |
| *24 |
Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will make a statement on the remit of the welfare to work task force. |
| 4115 |
| *25 |
Ms Helen Brinton (Peterborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will make a statement on the remit of the welfare to work task force. |
| 4117 |
| *26 |
Mrs Theresa May (Maidenhead): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will make a statement on the arrangements for providing and funding nursery education for four year olds following the abolition of the Nursery Voucher Scheme. |
| 4118 |
| *27 |
Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton and Cheam): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, when his Department's review of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 will be completed. |
| 4119 |
| *28 |
Jacqui Smith (Redditch): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list the members of the welfare to work task force. |
| 4120 |
| *29 |
Mr Ivan Lewis (Bury South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what plans he has to promote the integration of early years education and childcare. |
| 4121 |
| *30 |
Mr Dennis Canavan (Falkirk West): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will make a statement about the role of his Department in the plans for a university of industry. |
| 4122 |
| *31 |
Mr Martyn Jones (Clwyd South): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will increase the priority accorded to cooking skills within the national curriculum; and if he will make a statement. |
| 4123 |
| *32 |
Mr Robert Walter (North Dorset): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what plans he has for the replacement of the Nursery Voucher Scheme; and what are the financial implications of these plans. |
| 4124 |
| *33 |
Mr Andrew Reed (Loughborough): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what proposals he has to move long-term unemployed people from welfare into work. |
| 4125 |
| *34 |
Mr Tony McNulty (Harrow East): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will make a statement on the outcome of the recent International Labour Organisation conference. |
| 4126 |
| *35 |
Mr Ian Cawsey (Brigg and Goole): To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many schools are participating in the pilot literacy summer schools. |
| 4127 |
