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Medical Students

Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the attrition rates for medical school undergraduates were in each year of training since 1997. [162096]

Alan Johnson: Information on non-completion rates for higher education students broken down by subject is not held centrally. For full-time first degree students who began their studies in 2000/01, the overall non-completion rate for the UK was estimated by the Higher Education Funding Council for England to be 16 per cent., one of the lowest in the OECD.

Part-time Undergraduates

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the age profile is of part-time undergraduate students in the UK. [152684]

Alan Johnson: The available information is given in the table.
 
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Part time undergraduate enrolments⁽²⁷⁾ at UK institutions 2002/03

Age band	Number
Under 18 years	2,285
18 to 24 years	73,926
25 to 34 years	138,599
35 to 44 years	141,947
45 to 54 years	77,916
55 to 64 years	33,839
65 years and over	21,446
Unknown	9,935
Total	499,893

Source:
Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).

School Location

Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many (a) primary and (b) secondary school pupils in Greater London live more than three miles from the school they attend, broken down by local education authority. [165838]

Mr. Miliband [holding answer 19 April 2004]: The information requested is shown in the table.
Numbers of pupils living more than three miles ⁽²⁷⁾from the maintained primary and secondary schools⁽²⁸⁾that they attend—January 2003

	Primary		Secondary
	Number of pupils	Percentage of pupils	Number of pupils	Percentage of pupils
Barking and Dagenham	269	1.4	662	5.7
Barnet	847	3.3	5,571	26.4
Bexley	450	2.1	2,230	12.6
Brent	1,034	4.5	2,291	14.1
Bromley	748	3.1	4,113	18.8
Camden	226	2.0	1,253	13.0
City of London	30	13.5	n/a	—
City of Westminister	487	4.6	1,841	22.1
Croydon	844	2.7	2,889	15.6
Ealing	459	1.7	1,550	9.9
Enfield	725	2.7	2,982	14.1
Greenwich	359	1.7	1,786	12.2
Hackney	270	1.5	312	3.9
Hammersmith and Fulham	218	2.2	1,940	26.5
Haringey	364	1.7	671	6.2
Harrow	576	2.9	889	9.9
Havering	734	3.6	2,712	16.6
Hillingdon	625	2.5	2,159	12.4
Hounslow	450	2.3	2,774	16.8
Islington	250	1.7	699	9.0
Kensington and Chelsea	292	4.2	736	20.7
Kingston upon Thames	204	1.7	1,615	17.8
Lambeth	460	2.3	1,224	16.5
Lewisham	348	1.5	1,191	10.2
Merton	229	1.6	1,264	14.8
Newham	237	0.8	612	3.4
Redbridge	580	2.4	2.194	11.1
Richmond upon Thames	227	1.8	1,016	13.7
Southwark	324	1.4	1,016	9.4
Sutton	215	1.4	2.322	15.1
Tower Hamlets	388	1.8	682	4.7
Waltham Forest	346	1.6	582	4.2
Wandsworth	562	3.2	1,568	15.5
Greater London total	14,379	2.3	55,346	13.2

⁽²⁷⁾ Distances calculated are straight line
⁽²⁸⁾ includes middle schools as deemed
Source: Pupil Level Annual Schools' Census

Speech Therapists

Angela Watkinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many colleges in London offer speech therapy courses; and how many places are available on each course. [164162]

 
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Miss Melanie Johnson: The latest available information from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) website (www.ucas.ac.uk). shows that two institutions in London, University College London and City University offer courses in Speech Therapy or Speech Science. The number of students on these courses is not held centrally.

Angela Watkinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) how many students started speech therapy courses at colleges in London in each year from 1997 to 2004; [164163]

(2) how many students dropped out of speech therapy   courses at London colleges in each year since 1997; [164172]

(3) how many students (a) qualified as speech therapists from London colleges and (b) entered the profession in each year since 1997. [164173]

Alan Johnson: Information on the number of students entering and qualifying from speech therapy courses is not held centrally. The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HECFE) publish non-completion rates of students on all full-time undergraduate courses but these are not calculated for individual subjects or courses.

Student Drop-out Rate

Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the drop out rate was for each (a) higher education and (b) further education institution in the latest year for which figures are available. [157565]

Alan Johnson: For higher education institutions, the available information on non continuation rates is contained in "Performance Indicators in Higher Education", published by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). The figures cover full-time first degree courses only, and show, for each individual HE institution in the UK, the numbers and proportion of entrants who failed to complete their course. Copies of the HEFCE publication are available for students starting courses in 1996–97, 1997–98, 1998–99 and 1999–2000, and are available from the House Library; data for 2000–01 is available from the HEFCE website at http://www.hefce,ac,uk/learning/perfind/2003/

In Further Education, figures are routinely presented in terms of the percentage of learners who are retained. In-year retention rates for Further Education Institutions in England can be found in the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) publication "Summary Statistics for Further Education Institutions: England 2000/2001", available at http://www.lscdata.gov.uk/summary statistics/. A printed version of the relevant table showing in-year retention rates for each institution, along with summary information will be placed in the Commons Library.
 
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CABINET OFFICE

Civil Servants

Chris Ruane: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many civil servants are employed in each constituency listed in descending order. [166676]

Mr. Alexander: Data on numbers of Civil Servants employed in each constituency is not collected centrally. A breakdown of the number employed in each Government Office Region is published annually in the Civil Service Statistics. Copies of Civil Service Statistics are available in the Library and at www.civil-service. gov.uk/statistics.

New Deal

Mr. O'Hara: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office How many New Deal 50 plus clients were employed in each of the last three years by (a) his Department and (b) all other central Government Departments. [167193]

Mr. Alexander: Data on the number of people starting employment under the New Deal 50 plus scheme has been collected on a quarterly basis by the Cabinet Office since July 2002. The available information is shown in the following table.

Annual	Number of New Deal 50 plus—Cabinet Office	Number of New Deal 50 plus—central Government Departments(29)
2 January 2003– 1 January 2004	0	40
2 July 2002– 1 January 2003(30)	1	8

⁽²⁹⁾ Number of people starting employment under the New Deal 50 plus scheme in all central Government Departments and agencies excluding Cabinet Office.
⁽³⁰⁾ Information is not available prior July 2002 when collection began.
Source:
Cabinet Office—New Deal Data Collection.

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