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Gloucestershire Local Education Authority

Mr. Laurence Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much extra money in net terms is provided to the local education authority in Gloucestershire through the area cost adjustment; and if he will make a statement. [168063]

Mr. Miliband [holding answer 23 April 2004]: In 2004–05 Gloucestershire's Education Formula Spending Share includes provision of £5.345 million through the area cost adjustment.

GNVQs

Mr. Simmonds: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will make a statement on the future of intermediate and foundation GNVQs. [167873]

Mr. Miliband: The timetable for the withdrawal of the   individual 6-unit (foundation and intermediate) GNVQs was published by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority on 27 November 2003. The withdrawal is taking place in three stages from 2005 to 2007, starting with titles with extremely low numbers of candidate entries.

Graduate Employment

Phil Sawford: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many graduates left university in each of the last five years; and how many went into full-time employment. [164470]

Alan Johnson: Information on the number of students graduating, and their first destinations, is published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) in
 
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"Students in Higher Education Institutions" and "First Destinations of students leaving HE institutions" respectively. The latest editions cover students graduating in 2001/02; copies of these, and editions for earlier years, are available from the House Library.

Higher Education

Huw Irranca-Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what measures are in place in the proposed higher education reforms to ensure that students from (a) less advantaged and (b) other family backgrounds can attend the higher education institution of their choice. [165425]

Alan Johnson: We remain committed to fair access and believe that all those who have the potential to benefit from higher education should have the opportunity to do so. The social class gap among those entering higher education is unacceptably wide, particularly at the extremes. We are putting in place a range of measures, several of them through the HE Bill (so subject to Parliamentary approval), that support students' prospects of attending the higher education institution (HEI) of their choice.

(a) For students from less advantaged backgrounds, we will provide help in a number of ways:

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(b) For those from all family backgrounds there are a range of other measures that will help prospective students make and pursue their choice of higher education institution:

University Research

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will make a statement on the level of Government funding for university-based research in each of the past 10 years. [152629]

Alan Johnson: The latest available information, shown in cash terms, is given in the table. Comparable figures for 1993/94 are not held centrally.
Research income(36) of HEIs in the UK

£ thousand
1994/952,245,467
1995/962,356,831
1996/972,455,930
1997/982,616,607
1998/992,846,527
1999/20003,016,130
2000/013,277,808
2001/023,518,439
2002/033,772,504


(36) Covers income from Funding Research Grants, the Office of Science and Technology Research Grants, and Other Research Grants


Jobs (Burnley)

Mr. Pike: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many people were employed in tourism-related jobs in Burnley on the latest date for which figures are available. [167911]

Ruth Kelly: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.

Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Peter Pike, dated 26 April 2004:

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Learning Disabled Children

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many learning disabled children there are in England. [165538]

Margaret Hodge: The information requested is not available centrally at present.

Information on special educational needs by type of need was collected for the first time in January 2004 and provisional data will be available at the end of April.

Available information on the number of pupils with special educational needs is given in the table.
All schools(37): number of pupils with special educational needs—January 2003 England

Number of pupils and percentage
Number of pupils with a statement of SEN250,545
Percentage of pupils with a statement of SEN3.0
Number of pupils with SEN without a statement1,169,780
Percentage of pupils with SEN without a statement14.0


(37) Includes maintained nursery, primary, secondary and special schools, pupil referral units, independent schools, city technology colleges, city academies and non-maintained special schools
Source:
Annual Schools' Census




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