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Malcolm Bruce: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) what the terms of reference are for the Green Minister in her Department; and if she will make a statement; [3983]
- (2) on what date a Green Minister was first appointed in her Department; when subsequent appointments were made; and if she will make a statement. [3972]
Mr. Ivan Lewis [holding answer 13 July 2001]: I refer the hon. Member to the replies given by my right hon. Friend the Minister for the Environment on 13 July 2001, Official Report, column 690W.
Malcolm Bruce: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills on what dates her Department's Green Minister attended meetings of the Green Ministers' Committee during the current Session of Parliament; on what dates subsequent meetings are planned to take place; and if she will make a statement. [4826]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: I refer the hon. Member to the reply given by my right hon. Friend the Minister for the Environment on 17 July 2001, Official Report, column 165W.
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Nursery Places
Mr. Pope: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what plans she has to bring forward proposals to provide for free nursery places for all three-year-olds in England. [4270]
Mr. Timms: Since September 1998 all four-year-olds have been able to access a free, part-time nursery education place. This Government are committed to providing all three-year-olds with a free place by September 2004. We are currently on target to provide 66 per cent. of all three-year-olds with a part-time place by March 2002.
Early Years Places (Chorley)
Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many day care places in nurseries have been created in Chorley since 1997. [4362]
Mr. Timms: Early Years Development and Childcare Partnerships have only provided details of the new child care places that have opened by constituency since April 1999. Between April 1999 and March 2001 Lancashire Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership has reported the creation of 267 day care places 1 in the constituency of Chorley.
- 1 This figure includes day care places created in day nurseries, pre-schools and playgroups. No separate figure is available for nurseries only.
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Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many out of school hours child care places have been created since 1997; and how much money has been provided for them in Chorley. [4363]
Mr. Timms: Early Years Development and Childcare Partnerships have only provided details of the new child care places that have opened by constituency since April 1999. Between April 1999 and March 2001 Lancashire Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership has reported the creation of 322 new out of school hours places 1 in Chorley.
We are not able to identify the exact amount of funding made available to support these out of school places. Since April 1999 the New Opportunities Fund has made four awards totalling over £947,000 in response to applications for funding from the Chorley area for out of school child care projects. However, two of these were consortium bids covering the whole of Lancashire. In addition since April 1999, Lancashire Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership has spent around £404,000 of Childcare Grant to fund new out of school hours childcare places across the county.
- 1 Data include places created in out of school clubs and holiday schemes.
Education Action Zones
Mr. McNamara: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the (a) targeted and (b) actual private sector funding for each education action zone. [4413]
Mr. Timms [holding answer 17 July 2001]: Each large education action zone aims to raise up to £250,000 pa from the private sector; each small education action zone aims to raise £50,000 pa from the private sector.
The amounts of actual private sector sponsorship obtained by each education action zone to the end of the last financial year, along with the zone's start date, is shown in the following tables:
(23) These figures are compiled taking account of a mixture of audited annual accounts and, where unavailable, unaudited annual accounts up to March 2001
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(24) 2000–01 to date
Note:
These figures are compiled from pledged sponsorship to date
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