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Mr. Dismore: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the schools in Hendon which have received funding from New Deal for Schools, indicating the work concerned and the amount awarded. [84931]
Mr. Charles Clarke:
The information requested is shown in the following table.
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School name | New Deal for Schools Phase 1 allocation (£) | New Deal for Schools Phase 2 allocation (£) | New Deal for Schools Phase 3 allocation (£) | Project details |
---|---|---|---|---|
Broadfields Junior School | 3,000 | -- | -- | Improve information and communication technology access |
St. Joseph's | 20,200 | -- | -- | Refurbish toilets |
Broadfields Junior; St. Mary's Junior St. John's Infants | -- | -- | -- | Package to renew boiler systems at 4 schools including Our Lady of Lourdes School which is not situated within the Hendon constituency: the allocation cannot be disaggregated. The total package amounted to £197,581 and was allocated in the second phase of New Deal for Schools |
Colindale Junior Mixed and Infant | -- | 50,000 | -- | Replacement of 3 structurally unsound timber demountable classrooms |
Copthall School | -- | 642,000 | -- | Structural repairs to, and rewiring of, 1930s school |
Deansbrook Junior School | -- | -- | 1,388,500 | New extension and replacement of demountable units |
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Mr. Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the documents produced by his Department for distribution to schools in England and Wales, which detail the workings of the British parliamentary system. [84739]
Mr. Charles Clarke: The Department has produced no such documents. The Department's role in the area of educational materials and resources is one of advice and guidance. It remains the responsibility of school governing bodies to decide on the materials and resources they wish to use. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Employment published proposals on 13 May for consultation as part of the review of the National Curriculum on a framework for citizenship education in schools. This includes knowledge about the working of parliamentary democracy.
Mr. Nicholls: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many NVQ Level 3 have been de-accredited since 1 September 1998; what is his estimate of the number of small and medium-sized businesses which no longer have their preferred NVQ available to them for modern apprenticeships; and if he will make a statement. [85125]
Mr. Mudie:
Since 1 September 1998, 99 level 3 NVQs have exhausted their agreed accreditation spans, and 101 re-accreditation or new accreditations have taken
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place. Since 1 September 1998, four new Modern Apprenticeship frameworks have been agreed, and ten have been revised. There is no statistical information on the NVQ preferences of each small or medium-sized business, so I cannot give the information requested.
If the hon. Member has particular cases in mind, I would be very happy to investigate them.
Mr. Peter Ainsworth:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what plans he has to co-ordinate further Government support for training programmes in the hospitality sector. [85294]
Mr. Mudie:
Government recognise the Hospitality Training Foundation as the National Training Organisation (NTO) for the hospitality sector. NTOs are independent employer-led sector organisations working strategically with their sectors and with Government on education and training matters.
Mr. Cox:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what funding has been given by her Department to develop political and human rights parliamentary discussion groups in Commonwealth countries in each of the last three years. [84745]
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Clare Short:
We support the strengthening of parliamentary institutions in order to develop political and human rights. In 1997-98 we allocated £280,000 to the Commonwealth Secretariat to develop the awareness of parliamentarians in political and human rights. In 1998-99 so far, we have provided £600,000 in South Africa and £312,000 in Uganda in support of open accountable government and improvement in parliamentary administration.
We are not able to identify what portion of these grants was spent specifically on discussion groups.
Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what changes he proposes in the modus operandi of the Joint Cabinet Consultative Committee following the establishment of joint working between Labour and the Liberal Democrats in the Scottish Parliament. [84680]
Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to his answer of 28 January 1999, Official Report, column 316, on the Joint Consultative Committee, if he will publish the unclassified minutes of the JCC. [84679]
Dr. Jack Cunningham: None of the minutes of the Joint Consultative Committee are unclassified.
Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office if he will list the membership of the Joint Cabinet Consultative Committee. [84982]
Dr. Jack Cunningham: I refer my hon. Friend to the answer my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Midlothian (Mr. Clarke) on 21 October 1998, Official Report, columns 1123-35.
Mr. Baker: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office (1) if he will set out the terms of reference of the Biotechnology Presentation Group; [85284]
(3) on what date he decided to establish the Biotechnology Presentation Group; [85282]
(4) on what dates the Biotechnology Presentation Group has met; and who was present on each occasion. [85283]
Dr. Jack Cunningham:
The Government agree with the Science and Technology Select Committee that we need an informed, balanced debate on biotechnology. As Ministers, we meet regularly to discuss how we can promote such a debate.
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Mr. Baker:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office if he has contacted the National Consumer Council to seek its endorsement of the Government's approach to genetic modification; and if he will make a statement. [85280]
Dr. Jack Cunningham:
I have spoken to the National Consumers Council and to other interested organisations to explain to them the measures which I announced to the House on 21 May 1999.
Mr. Baker:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office for what purposes he proposes to make alterations prior to publication to the report of the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Scientific Adviser on genetic modification. [85281]
Dr. Jack Cunningham:
The joint paper by the Chief Medical Officer and the Chief Scientific Adviser on genetically modified foods and public health was published on Friday 21 May 1999. The authors revised the paper to ensure that it was intelligible to the lay reader and included recommendations for action.
Mr. Rammell: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what was the outcome of the Agriculture Council held in Brussels on 17 to 18 May; and if he will make a statement. [85239]
Mr. Nick Brown: I represented the United Kingdom at a meeting of the EU Agriculture Council in Brussels on 17 May 1999.
The Council formally adopted all the legal instruments giving effect to the Agenda 2000 reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) as agreed by EU Heads of Government in Berlin in late March. Now that this important stage has been reached, work can begin on the detailed texts which will put the CAP reform measures into operation with effect from next year.
The Council discussed the present state of the EU pigmeat market. The Council requested experts to examine the issues affecting the market further at the level of the management committee, a position I supported on behalf of the United Kingdom.
Agriculture Commissioner Fischler informed the Council of the current position with regard to WTO rulings on bananas and growth hormones in beef. On the former, I stressed the need for a WTO-compatible outcome which also had regard for the interests of the vulnerable Caribbean ACP producers. On the latter, I urged the Commission to take a measured approach with the US authorities, and to conduct a full exchange of information between the two sides on the underlying science.
On veterinary medicines, the Council supported a resolution calling for action on the problems of antibiotic resistance in veterinary and human medicine. The resolution will be taken forward to the EU Health Council in June for adoption. The Council adopted a resolution setting out measures designed to avoid the loss of
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veterinary medicinal products when the deadline for setting maximum residue limits in foodstuffs of animal origin expires at the end of December 1999.
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