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Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many teachers left the teaching profession in each of the last five years. [126316]
Ms Estelle Morris: The number of full and part-time teachers leaving the maintained nursery, primary, secondary, special and PRU sector 1 in England in each of the last five years for which data are available are shown in the following table.
| Moving out of service(28) | Retirements(29) | Other(30) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993-94 | 17,100 | 14,100 | 400 |
| 1994-95 | 18,000 | 14,100 | 400 |
| 1995-96 | 15,600 | 15,200 | 400 |
| 1996-97 | 15,800 | 16,900 | 400 |
| 1997-98 | 17,100 | 16,800 | 300 |
(27) Excludes those leaving sixth form colleges. Sixth form colleges became part of the FE sector at 1 April 1993.
(28) Teachers leaving the maintained nursery, primary, secondary, special and PRU sector to join FE, HE or the independent schools sector have been shown as moving out of service.
(29) Teachers retiring but then rejoining the maintained nursery, primary, secondary, special and PRU sector have not been shown as moving out of service or retiring. Teachers retiring and then joining the FE, HE or the independent schools sector have been shown as moving out of service.
(30) Teachers barred from service and dying in service.
Note:
Figures are rounded to the nearest 100.
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There has been a growth of 6,900 full time equivalent regular teachers in the maintained school sector between January 1998 and January 2000.
Dr. Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what are the estimated (a) administrative and (b) monitoring costs of the threshold pay scheme for teachers. [127155]
Ms Estelle Morris: Cambridge Education Associates (CEA) and the Centre for British Teachers (CfBT) have been contracted to work with the Department to administer and monitor the threshold assessment arrangements in England. The costs associated with these contracts are commercial in confidence. Threshold assessments in Wales will be managed by five consortia of Welsh local education
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authorities, on a slightly later timescale than in England. The cost of the Department's contracts with the Welsh consortia has not yet been finalised.
Dr. Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many teachers are directly employed by LEAs; what estimate he has made of the number that would apply for threshold pay; when he made that estimate; and how many have applied to date. [127140]
Ms Estelle Morris: There were about 15,000 teachers employed directly by local authorities in England in 1998, of which it is estimated that 75 per cent. were eligible to apply for the threshold this year. When we published the threshold application forms and guidance materials on 24 March 2000 we encouraged all eligible teachers to apply. We did not make any estimate on the numbers of eligible teachers employed directly by local authorities. We will be announcing details about the numbers of teachers that have applied to cross the threshold this year shortly.
Parliamentary Questions
Mr. Maclennan: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many written parliamentary questions were tabled to his Department between 19 October 1999 and 20 April 2000; and how many have not received substantive answers, on grounds of disproportionate costs. [127102]
Mr. Wills [holding answer 21 June 2000]: 1,390 Parliamentary questions were tabled to the Department for written reply during this period.
51 of the replies given advised that some or all of the information requested could either be provided only at disproportionate cost or was not held centrally.
Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment when he will give a substantive reply to the question of 6 June tabled by the hon. Member for Hertsmere (ref. 125303). [127729]
Mr. Wicks: I refer the hon. Member to my answer of 23 June 2000, Official Report, column 329W.
Summerhill School
Dr. Palmer: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will estimate the cost of the nine Ofsted inspections of Summerhill School between 1991 and 1999. [127624]
Ms Estelle Morris: This is a matter for Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools, Chris Woodhead. I have asked him to write to my hon. Friend and to place a copy of his letter in the Library.
Interactive Voice Response Systems
Mr. Ben Chapman: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many agencies of his Department use interactive voice response systems when dealing with telephone inquiries from the general public. [127551]
Mr. Wills: As far as we are aware, there are no interactive voice systems in use within the agencies of the Department for Education and Employment for dealing with telephone inquiries from the general public.
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Connexions Services
Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what the proposed timetable is for the testing of approaches to establish the Connexions Services in England; and what plans he has to publish the evidence. [127475]
Mr. Wicks: Activity began in pilots in April this year. This will continue for at least 12 months, but with the phased introduction of Connexions from April 2001, it may be necessary to extend the life of some of the pilots, so as to ensure continued testing until the service is in place throughout the country. Decisions on this will be taken when we know the areas that will launch the Connexions Service from April 2001. Where pilots are focusing on themes that we already know need longer testing, we have agreed extended contracts for this purpose (e.g. for Huntercombe Young Offenders Institution).
We have introduced a process of action based research, which will ensure the lessons learned from these pilots are communicated very quickly to the pilots themselves, to policy and planning officials and to the wider community who have an interest in these developments. We have already scheduled the first of a series of pilot conferences for the 4 and 5 July 2000, which will bring people together to learn from early piloting experience. In addition, we are developing other means to ensure wide circulation of information, including development of websites and use of existing publications.
Public-Private Partnerships
Mr. Coleman: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment by what mechanisms sub-regional private/public partnerships which have previously been supported by TECs will be sustained after March 2001. [127564]
Mr. Wicks: We have asked all TECs to produce transition plans which set out strategies for taking forward partnership work extending beyond March 2001, including what steps need to be taken to fill the gaps which may be left by the withdrawal of TEC support. Government Offices are in discussion with TECs about these plans.
The new Learning and Skills Council (LSC) will have an important role in ensuring learning and skills form an integral part of wider economic regeneration plans. Through provisions we are adding to the Learning and Skills Bill, each local LSCs will have to include in its annual plan a statement of how its activities will impact on the economic development and regeneration of the area.
In addition we are making arrangements with the Regional Development Agencies to help support some types of partnerships from April 2001.
Higher Education (Warrington, North)
Helen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what percentage of 18 year olds in the Warrington, North constituency have entered higher education in each of the last 10 years. [127321]
Mr. Wicks: These data are not collated centrally on a constituency basis.
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TREASURY
Overseas Assets
Mr. Mitchell: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what is his estimate of the total of UK residents' assets held (a) overseas and (b) in the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands; and what is his assessment of the effects of these holdings being overseas on the tax base in Britain; [124351]
- (2) if he will estimate the change in the amount of sterling deposits held by (a) foreigners and (b) UK residents in the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man in 1999. [124343]
Miss Melanie Johnson: I refer my hon. Friend to Table 18 of the Bank of England's Monetary and Financial Statistics.
Endowment Policies
Mr. Nicholas Winterton: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what recent discussions he has had with insurers, banks and building societies who advised on and sold under-performing endowment policies on redress for the purchasers of endowment policies which have underperformed; [127361]
- (2) if he will make it his policy to provide financial assistance to those people with projected shortfalls on their endowment mortgage policies. [127360]
Miss Melanie Johnson: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave my hon. Friend the Member for Monmouth (Mr. Edwards) on 23 May 2000, Official Report, columns 415-16W.
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