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Academic Medicine
Dr. Murrison: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will make a statement on her plans to increase recruitment into academic medicine. [4422]
Margaret Hodge: I will write to the hon. Member and place a copy of my letter in the Library.
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Teachers (Early Leavers)
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many teachers left the profession in the last year for which figures are available; and what percentage of the total this represents. [3702]
Mr. Timms [holding answer 16 July 2001]: I will write to the hon. Member and place a copy of my letter in the Library.
SATs
Mr. Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of seven-year-old children in Sure Start areas achieved level 1 or above in key stage 1 English and maths tests in (a) 1999–2000 and (ii) 2000–01. [4801]
Yvette Cooper: Sure Start is expected to have an impact on children's performance at key stage 1 performance in the medium term. Baseline information to enable this to be measured is currently being collated from the 180 Sure Start programmes that are operational and should be available by the end of 2001.
School Exclusions
Mr. Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of pupils were excluded in 1999–2000. [4808]
Mr. Timms: The Department collects data on permanent exclusions but not on fixed term exclusions. Information on permanent exclusions is shown in the table.
| Percentage(83) | |
|---|---|
| Maintained Primary | 0.03 |
| Maintained Secondary | 0.21 |
| Special | 0.40 |
| All Schools | 0.11 |
(83) The number of permanent exclusions expressed as a percentage of the number (headcount) of full and part-time pupils of all ages (excluding dually registered pupils in special schools) in January
The latest permanent exclusions data were published in a Statistical First Release "Permanent Exclusions from Schools, England 1999/2000" on 19 July, copies of which are available from the Library, or alternatively can be accessed from the Department for Education and Skills statistical website www.dfes.gsi.gov.uk/statistics.
Linda Perham: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what guidance her Department provides to schools and local education authorities concerning temporary and permanent exclusion policies. [5019]
Mr. Timms: The Department's Circular 10/99, Social Inclusion: Pupil Support, contains the Secretary of State's guidance on the appropriate use of exclusion—both fixed term and permanent—procedures to be followed on exclusion and provides guidance on the duties and roles of those involved in the process. My right hon. Friend intends to consult schools on changing the guidance in order to provide more support for head teachers.
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Linda Perham: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what plans she has to collect statistics on the number of children and young people who receive fixed-term exclusions from schools. [5027]
Mr. Timms: Local education authorities collect data from their schools on fixed-term exclusions. These data are not collated nationally, nor are there currently plans to do so.
Qualifications
Mr. Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of 19-year-olds had at least one level 2 qualification or equivalent in 2000. [4806]
John Healey: The proportion of 19 to 21-year-olds in England with at least one level 2 qualification or equivalent, as measured by the autumn Labour Force Survey, was 75.3 per cent. in 2000.
Child Care
Caroline Flint: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of the first 1 million child care places provided under the National Childcare Strategy were taken up by under-fives using (a) daycare nurseries and (b) childminders. [4915]
Mr. Timms: The National Childcare Strategy has not reached a total of 1 million child care places yet. Since April 1997, 382,685 new child care places have been created. Of these, 132,538 have catered for under-fives. 82,298 of these were daycare places in day nurseries, pre-schools and playgroups 1 and 50,240 were with childminders.
- 1 Daycare is defined as child care of three and a half hours or more. It is not possible to break down the figures for new places to show those in nurseries only.
Caroline Flint: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what her Department's estimate is of the number of full-time child care places in the United Kingdom for children up to 5 years. [4912]
Mr. Timms: At the end of March 2000 the Survey of Children's Daycare Facilities in England showed that there were 264,200 places in day nurseries and 320,400 places with childminders 1 . We do not have figures for the United Kingdom as a whole.
- 1 The childminding places cater for children aged 0–8. We are not able to separate childminding places to show only those places that cater for 0–5-year-olds. These figures do not include full-time places in pre-schools and playgroups, which traditionally provide care for less than three and a half hours a day but are increasingly expanding into daycare, because a breakdown is not available.
Caroline Flint: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what estimate has been made of the proportion of families that require full-time day care for one or more children at some point in their working life. [4913]
Mr. Timms: The Department does not have a figure for the demand by families for child care over their working life but it does have information on the use of day care.
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The Department commissioned a survey of parents' use of and demand for child care. This survey shows that 28 per cent. of parents had used some formal child care in the last week of the survey. The survey shows that 31 per cent. of parents who had used some child care in the last year said there had been times when they would have needed or liked more child care but they were unable to obtain it.
Pupil Expenditure
Mr. Nigel Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much was spent per pupil in (a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools in each English local education authority in each year since 1990. [5332]
Mr. Timms: The information requested is contained in a table copies of which have been placed in the Library. Information based on net institutional expenditure per pupil is given in real terms for each local education authority from 1990–91 to 1999–2000, the latest year for which this information is available.
Ministerial Duties
David Maclean: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list for each week from Monday 23 July to Monday 8 October which departmental Ministers will be on duty (a) in the United Kingdom and (b) in London. [4890]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: In line with paragraph 72 of the Ministerial Code, a Minister for this Department will be on duty throughout the summer adjournment.
Student Hardship
Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what information she has collated on the earnings of (a) female graduates and (b) male non-graduates; and if she will make a statement on alleviating female student hardship. [4989]
Margaret Hodge: Latest Labour Force Survey figures, for Spring 2000, show average weekly earnings of £458 for female graduates with first degrees and above. Average earnings figures for the category of male non-graduates are not available from the Survey report but, within that category, men with no qualifications earn on average £293 per week. By comparison, women earn £217 per week on average.
The Government recognise that female single parents and some female mature students may have additional financial needs. They have benefited in particular from the fourfold increase in access and hardship funds since 1997–98 and will be major beneficiaries from the new child care package in 2001–02, including a child care grant typically covering 85 per cent. of actual costs. For student parents entitled to receive maximum student support, this could be up to £13,110—or £17,425 if student loans are taken into account—per year.
Medical Schools
Mr. Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many (a) men and (b) women are training to become medical doctors at medical schools in the Greater London area. [4882]
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Margaret Hodge: The information requested is shown in the following table.
| Number | |
|---|---|
| Men | 3,210 |
| Women | 3,286 |
| Total | 6,496 |
(84) Includes all home domiciled and overseas students studying at higher education institutions in Greater London.
(85) Includes pre-clinical and clinical medicine. Graduate entrants to medical schools apply to study under the standard undergraduate route, joining in year 3 of the 6 year course. They are therefore included in these figures.
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