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EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
Pupil Registration Regulations
Mr. Nigel Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what plans he has to amend the Pupil Registration Regulations; and if he will make a statement. [68624]
Ms Estelle Morris: My right hon. Friend has no immediate plans to amend the regulations. Advice on registration issues is however included in our new guidance on "Social Inclusion: Pupil Support", which was issued for consultation on 22 January 1999. We shall of course consider the case for any amendments in the context of responses to that document.
Departmental Spending
Mr. Maude: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will (a) account for the difference between outturn departmental spending in Table A1 of the Comprehensive Spending Review and outturn departmental spending in Table 1.2 of the 1998-99 Public Expenditure Statistical Analysis for his Department for (i) 1993-94, (ii) 1994-95, (iii) 1995-96 and (iv) 1996-97 and (b) provide forecast figures for departmental spending for his Department in (1) 1997-98, (2) 1998-99, (3) 1999-2000, (4) 2000-01 and (5) 2001-02 on a comparable basis to Table 1.2 of the 1998-99 Public Expenditure Statistical Analysis. [68380]
Mr. Mudie:
The figures in Table 1.2 in the Public Expenditure Statistical Analysis relating to DfEE include net lending to students but exclude subsidy payments and an element for bad debt. The equivalent figures in Table A1 of the Comprehensive Spending Review White paper exclude net lending to students but include subsidy payments and an element for bad debt.
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| Year | £ million |
|---|---|
| 1997-98(30) | 14,622 |
| 1998-99(31) | 14,166 |
| 1999-2000(31) | 15,473 |
| 2000-01(31) | 17,295 |
| 2001-02(31) | 18,612 |
(30) estimated outturn
(31) plans
Note:
1 The figure for 1997-98 is the Control Total for DfEE in Table 1.2 of the Public Expenditure Statistical Analysis 1998-99.
2 The figures for other years are the Department's Expenditure Limits in Table 6.1 of the Comprehensive Spending Review White Paper, Cm 4011.
TECs (North-east)
Mr. Cummings: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the cash balances held by each of the training and enterprise councils in the north-east Region, as at December 1998. [68317]
Mr. Mudie: The following table provides the cash balances held by each of the Training and Enterprise Councils in the north-east as at March 1998. Information as at December 1998 is not available.
| TEC | Cash balance as at March 1998 |
|---|---|
| County Durham | 8,919,543 |
| Northumberland | 3,145,209 |
| Tees Valley | 8,101,000 |
| Tyneside | 6,696,000 |
| Sunderland City | 3,357,671 |
| Total | 30,219,423 |
Disability Rights Commission
Mrs. May: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his answer of 11 January 1999, Official Report, column 97, if he will set out his Department's estimate of the associated costs of the proposals for the Disability Rights Commission to undertake (a) working towards the elimination of discrimination against disabled persons, (b) promoting the equalisation of opportunities for disabled persons in all fields of activity and (c) reviewing the working of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. [68532]
Ms Hodge
[holding answer 1 February 1999]: A provisional annual allocation of £11 million has been made for the Disability Rights Commission (DRC) in 2000-01 and 2001-02. It will be for the Commission when it is established to decide how to allocate its resources.
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Meanwhile interim estimates indicate some 10 per cent. of that annual budget may be devoted to administrative costs; 40 per cent. to advice and information, conciliation, assistance to individuals and formal investigations; 30 per cent. to promotional work, and 20 per cent. to policy work. Estimates are not available in the precise form requested by the hon. Member.
The Government will keep the annual allocations under view in the light of operational experience of the Commission.
Mr. Peter Ainsworth:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many New Deal places have been offered by the United Kingdom hospitality industry; and how many have been taken up. [68862]
Mr. Andrew Smith:
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 Richard Foster to Mr. Peter Ainsworth, dated 2 February 1999:
Mr. Chope:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his oral statement of 27 January 1999, Official Report, column 307, on Highcliffe School, what is the basis of the calculation that Dorset has been allocated a 7.3 per cent. increase in standard spending assessment for education in 1999-2000; and if he will express the increased allocation as a percentage per pupil. [68990]
Ms Estelle Morris:
Dorset's provisional education standard spending assessment for 1999-2000 represents an underlying increase of £9.2 million or 7.3 per cent.. These figures illustrate the effect of allowing for local authority changes of function and taking account of new arrangements for funding music and student support. The allocation represents a year-on-year increase in overall education SSA funding per pupil of 4.3 per cent..
Dr. David Clark:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many millennium bug-busters have successfully completed their training to date. [68727]
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Mr. Mudie:
The latest figures show that 8,916 trainees have started Bug Buster courses, and of these 7,209 have completed. A further 9,011 are booked.
Mrs. May:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what guidelines his Department has issued on the calculation of the value of gifts in kind donated by businesses to Education Action Zones. [68937]
Ms Estelle Morris:
We issued guidance in September 1998, and supplemented this in January 1999. I have placed copies of the guidance in the Library.
Mrs. May:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the targets set by his Department for the number of students entering teacher training in (a) 1997-98, (b) 1998-99 and (c) 1999-2000, by phase. [68936]
Ms Estelle Morris:
The following table shows the target intake to initial teacher training for the years 1997-98 to 1999-2000, by phase.
As the Employment Service is an Executive Agency, the Secretary of State for Education and Employment has asked Leigh Lewis to reply direct to your question regarding the number of New Deal places offered by the United Kingdom hospitality industry; and how many have been taken up. This is something which falls within the responsibilities delegated to Mr. Lewis as Chief Executive of the Agency. I am replying in his absence.
Up to the end of December some 57,000 young people between the ages of 18 and 24 had entered jobs after having started the New Deal. Of these the available data indicates that around 8 per cent. had entered jobs in the hospitality sector. No similar information is available specifically in respect of job offers or, as yet in relation to entrants to job under the New Deal for those aged over 25 and for lone parents.
I hope this is helpful.
| Primary | Secondary | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997-98 | 11,050 | 19,500 | 30,550 |
| 1998-99 | 11,500 | 19,100 | 30,600 |
| 1999-2000 | 12,000 | 17,210 | 29,210 |
Source:
DfEE
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