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New Deal (Translation Services)
Mr. Maclean: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what has been the cost of providing information and advisory services on the New Deal in (i) Vietnamese, (ii) Chinese and (iii) all languages other than English and Welsh. [71093]
Mr. Andrew Smith: It is impossible to give the cost for providing information in each individual language as most publications produced in languages other than English and Welsh are a compilation of English and seven languages. These are Bengali, Cantonese (Chinese), Gujerati, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, and Vietnamese. The cost of producing the publications was £73,395.
The cost of providing advisory services to New Deal clients is not broken down by detailed ethnic group.
New Deal (Advertising Costs)
Mr. Maclean: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what has been the total cost of advertising and marketing of the New Deal programme to date. [71188]
Mr. Andrew Smith: The cost of advertising and marketing New Deal up to 12 February is £12,872,815.
New Deal
Mr. Green: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what money was spent on advertising and publicity (a) in total and (b) on television for the New Deal by 31 December 1998. [70548]
Mr. Andrew Smith [holding answer 11 February 1999]: Out of a total of £12,501,848 spent and allocated on New Deal marketing and publicity up to 31 December 1998, a sum of £7,897,713 has been spent on television advertising.
Mr. Green: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what money he plans to spend on advertising and publicity for the New Deal in 1999. [70549]
Mr. Andrew Smith
[holding answer 11 February 1999]: Plans have still to be finalised for 1999. £1.75 million is provisionally allocated for marketing, advertising and publicity.
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Mr. Green:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) how many New Deal participants who had moved into employment were no longer in employment on 31 January; [70551]
(3) how many New Deal participants who moved into subsidised employment have left that employment within six months. [70557]
Mr. Andrew Smith
[holding answer 11 February 1999]: 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. Damian Green, dated 16 February 1999:
Mr. Brady:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many art foundation course students are undertaking a course in 1998-99 who will subsequently undertake a degree course commencing in 1999 and will be liable to pay tuition fees. [71802]
Mr. Mudie:
The data requested are not currently available. Information on the number of students who are undertaking an arts foundation course in 1998-99 will be available in April this year from the Higher Education Statistics Agency.
Mr. Brady:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many students have benefited from the exemption from tuition fees for Gap year students. [71801]
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Mr. Mudie:
The latest available figures from UCAS show that 18,960 UK domiciled students deferred entry to full-time and sandwich undergraduates courses from 1997 to 1998. However, not all of these students will necessarily have their fees paid as part of their mandatory award without reference to their income. The gap year concession applies only to those students who, by 1 August 1997, had received a firm offer of a place on a course deferred until 1998-99, or a conditional offer which was then confirmed when the student met the terms of that offer.
Mr. Jim Cunningham:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what measures the Government will take to ensure an adequate supply of youth workers. [70298]
Mr. Mudie:
The supply of trained youth workers is a matter for the relevant training institutions and employing local authorities.
Mr. Jim Cunningham:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what steps the Government will take to reduce the geographical disparity in the ratio of youth workers to young people. [70296]
Mr. Mudie:
It is for each local authority to decide its priorities and the level of funding for each of the services for which it is responsible, including the youth service, in the light of local needs.
Mr. Jim Cunningham:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will set up a Youth Work Ethics Committee to regulate the youth worker profession. [70297]
Mr. Mudie:
The Government have no plans to set up a Youth Work Ethics Committee.
Mr. Hancock:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what criteria will be used to allocate money to further education colleges in 1999-2000 from funds designed to replace discretionary grants previously paid to students by local education authorities. [70987]
Mr. Mudie:
The criteria for allocating student support funding to colleges in 1999-2000 are still being developed. These will be made clear when allocations are made to colleges in April.
Mr. Hancock:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) how many discretionary awards were made by each local education authority for students in further education in each of the last five years; [70984]
Mr. Mudie:
The numbers of, and expenditure on, discretionary awards made to students in further education by local education authorities in England and Wales in academic years 1992-93 to 1996-97 (latest available) are
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published in the annual "Statistics of Education, Student Support Volume, England and Wales"--copies of which are in the Library. The publications for 1992-93 and 1993-94 give data on numbers of further education awards in table 10 and data on expenditure in table 11; the equivalent tables for 1994-95 to 1996-97 are 9(a) and 9(b). Information on the budgeted figure for 1998-99 for each authority is not held centrally.
Mr. Hancock:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if the money allocated to further education colleges in 1999-2000 from funds designed to replace discretionary grants previously paid to students by local education authorities will be ring-fenced for that purpose. [70985]
Mr. Mudie:
I can confirm that funding will be allocated to colleges in 1999-2000 specifically for student support and must be used for that purpose.
Mr. Hancock:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) if all further education colleges will receive an allocation of money from funds designed to replace discretionary grants previously paid to students by local education authorities; [70981]
(3) if he will estimate how many colleges will receive money in 1999-2000 to replace discretionary awards previously made by local education authorities, the local authority for which has discontinued discretionary awards; [70983]
(4) how much money will be allocated to further education colleges in Portsmouth from funds designed to replace the money previously paid as discretionary grants. [70988]
Mr. Mudie:
Information on the allocation of funding to colleges for student support in 1999-2000 will not be available until April.
Mr. Chaytor:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what is the current average hourly rate for part-time teaching staff working in further education colleges (a) employed by agencies and (b) employed by further education colleges. [69583]
Mr. Mudie:
The information requested is not collected centrally.
Mr. Chaytor:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what is the current range of (a) starting salaries and (b) salaries at the highest point of the scale for teachers in further education colleges. [69581]
Mr. Mudie:
At March 1997, the latest year for which information is available, 80 per cent. of new full-time further education staff in England were paid between £14,000 to £22,200.
Information for the highest paid full-time lecturers in further education cannot be identified because the data available to my department do not distinguish between lecturers and senior staff in further education colleges.
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Mr. Chaytor:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what has been the average salary of teachers in further education colleges for each of the last three years. [69580]
Mr. Mudie:
The median salary of full-time lecturers and senior staff in further education colleges in England for each of the last three years for which figures are available were:
Information on the salaries of part-time lecturers is not available centrally.
Mr. Chaytor:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what proportion of all teaching staff in further education colleges have been employed on part-time or pro-rata contracts in each of the last five years. [69725]
Mr. Mudie:
The proportion of part-time teaching staff in further education colleges in England is as follows:
(2) how many New Deal participants who moved into subsidised employment have left that employment within nine months; [70556]
As the Employment Service is an Executive Agency, the Secretary of State for Education and Employment has asked Leigh Lewis to reply to your questions on the employment of participants on New Deal for 18-24 year olds. This is something which falls within the responsibilities delegated to Mr. Lewis as Chief Executive of the Agency. I am replying in his absence.
Unless an individual returns to the Jobseeker's Allowance, the Employment Service does not have a record of destinations after they have left New Deal from the subsidised employment option or gone into unsubsidised employment. They may, for example, have stayed with the company which provided their placement or moved to another job.
In response to your specific questions we do not therefore hold information on those New Deal participants who have left unsubsidised employment within nine months nor those who were no longer in employment on 31 January. I am, however, able to confirm that of the 12,492 who started on the Employment option between January 1998 and end November 1998, 2041 (16%) left that option within six months of starting it. As you will be aware, the reported statistics are revised to exclude those who do not stay in a New Deal job for 13 weeks--that is they are subsequently not counted as moving into employment.
As part of the overall evaluation of the New Deal we will however be looking at the numbers of young people who have left New Deal and have not returned to Jobseeker's Allowance, using the Evaluation Database. The number of young people who are in jobs 6, 12 and 18 months after they leave the New Deal will be one of the core measures of each area's success.
I hope this is helpful.
(2) how much was the total allocation of discretionary awards to students in further education by each local education authority in each of the last five years; and what is the budgeted figure for 1998-99 for each authority. [70986]
(2) how much further education colleges in each local authority area will receive in 1999-2000 from funds designed to replace discretionary grants previously paid to students by local education authorities; [70982]
March 1995: £21,300
March 1996: £22,400
March 1997: £22,900.
| Part-time | |
|---|---|
| 1994-95 | 59 |
| 1995-96 | 61 |
| 1996-97 | 62 |
It is not possible to provide data for the last five years as prior to 1994-95 the data were not collected in the format requested.
Mr. Chaytor:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what has been the proportion of all teaching staff in further education colleges employed on the senior lecturer grade in each of the last five years. [69724]
Mr. Mudie:
The information requested is not collected centrally.
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