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Marriage and Relationship Support

Andrew Selous: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills for what reasons the funding application to the Marriage and Relationship Support programme by Care for the Family for a National Couple Support Network was turned down. [168162]

Margaret Hodge: The Care for the Family (CFF)—National Couple Support Network application was a partnership bid involving CFF and two other organisations. The objective of this project was to network with registrars and other agencies to access couples preparing for marriage and/or requiring relationship support. Although a strong bid both in presentation and concept, the application was rejected because of an overlap with pilot projects currently being funded by through the Marriage and Relationship Support (MARS) Grant programme.

Nurseries

Mr. Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many new nurseries have been established in Birkenhead since 1997. [167647]

Margaret Hodge: Wirral metropolitan borough council is responsible for determining local need for nursery provision in Birkenhead and holding information on current provision. Under the Neighbourhood Nurseries scheme 348 new nursery places have been created in the Wirral, of which 175 are in Birkenhead.

Mr. Randall: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many new nurseries have been established in the London borough of Hillingdon since 1997. [168989]

Margaret Hodge: The London Borough of Hillingdon is responsible for determining local need for nursery provision in Hillingdon and holding information on current provision. Under the Neighbourhood Nurseries scheme 8,737 new nursery places have been created in London, of which 70 are in the Hayes Early Years Centre in the London borough of Hillingdon.

Pathfinder Areas

Helen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills when he expects to announce the results obtained in the 14 to 19 Pathfinder areas. [169453]

Mr. Ivan Lewis: The Report '14–19 Pathfinders: An Evaluation of the First Year' was published in January. A copy is available on the 14–19 pathfinders website www.dfes.gov.uk/14–19pathfinders and can also be accessed at www.dfes.gov.uk/research/.
 
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The second year's evaluation of the complete pathfinder programme, including Warrington's and the other phase two ones which started last September, is currently being undertaken. The Report is expected to be published in February 2005. In the meantime, we are monitoring all pathfinders1 progress through their termly reports which they are required to submit as a condition of their receiving grant. We publish these periodically on the pathfinders website.

Post-16 Education

Martin Linton: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will list the names of the members of the working party on provision of post-16 education and training; how many times it has met; and what its remit is. [166718]

Mr. Ivan Lewis: The Working Group on 14–19 Reform was established in spring 2003, to develop proposals for the long-term reform of 14–19 learning. Its members are: Mike Tomlinson CBE (Chair); John Berkeley OBE, Senior Fellow and Director National Apprenticeship Monitoring Unit, SEMTA (Sector Skills Council for science engineering and manufacturing technologies); Simon Culmer, Operations Director, Cisco Systems UK and Ireland; David Eastwood, Vice Chancellor, University of East Anglia; Carmel Flatley (up to June 2003), Director of HR and Training, McDonald's Restaurants Ltd.; Ian Ferguson (from July 2003), Chairman Data Connection Ltd.; Dr. Helen Gilchrist CBE, Principal, Bury College; Edward Gould, Master, Marlborough College; John Guy, Principal, Farnborough 6th Form College; Carolyn Hayman OBE, Chief Executive, the Foyer Federation; Colin Hilton, Executive Director, Liverpool City council; Professor David Melville CBE, Vice Chancellor, University of Kent; David Raffe, Professor of Sociology of Education, University of Edinburgh; Jennifer Slater, Principal, Northallerton College; Ken Spours, University of London Institute of Education; Kathleen Tattersall OBE, former Director General, Assessment and Qualifications Alliance.

The Working Group has met 13 times to date. It was set up in spring 2003, following publication of "14–19: Opportunity and Excellence", the Government's strategy for reform of 14–19 learning, and asked to make proposals for reforms to achieve:

strengthened structure and content of full-time vocational programmes, and to offer greater coherence in learning programmes for all young people throughout their 14–19 education;

assessment arrangements for 14 to 19-year-olds that are appropriate to different types of courses and styles of teaching and learning, with the overall amount of assessment manageable for learners and teachers alike; and

a unified framework of qualifications that stretches the performance of learners, motivates progression, and recognises different levels of achievement.

Pupil Attainment (London)

Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many and what percentage of 11-year-old pupils in London, broken down by local education authority, have reached level 4 in (a) mathematics and (b) English in each of the last seven years. [170496]

 
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Mr. Miliband: The information requested is as follows:
 
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Key Stage 2 test results for 1997–2003 (provisional), analysed by local education authority and Government Office Region

Percentage of pupils achieving level 4 or above
	2003(49)		2002		2001		2000
	English	Maths	English	Maths	English	Maths	English	Maths
London GOR	75	71	73	72	74	70	72	70
City of London	97	79	93	89	86	75	79	75
Camden	77	73	72	70	76	73	72	70
Hackney	62	58	65	65	62	60	61	60
Hammersmith and Fulham	77	75	74	76	77	74	72	70
Haringey	66	64	65	66	67	64	63	61
Islington	69	68	68	67	64	65	69	66
Kensington and Chelsea	83	78	80	79	80	79	83	80
Lambeth	71	66	67	67	68	66	68	65
Lewisham	73	69	69	66	71	65	68	65
Newham	66	65	63	68	65	64	64	63
Southwark	69	61	66	62	65	61	65	61
Tower Hamlets	73	70	70	67	72	69	67	68
Wandsworth	74	66	73	72	74	67	72	68
Westminster	78	76	77	77	77	76	77	76
Barking and Dagenham	70	68	69	73	72	72	71	70
Barnet	80	78	81	79	81	77	81	78
Bexley	77	69	75	72	78	71	77	72
Brent	75	70	74	75	74	72	74	72
Bromley	83	78	80	77	81	75	80	76
Croydon	77	70	74	71	75	70	73	70
Ealing	76	72	74	74	76	72	72	70
Enfield	76	71	73	74	74	71	72	68
Greenwich	69	66	68	66	64	61	63	62
Harrow	81	76	80	79	78	74	80	76
Havering	80	78	80	78	79	75	78	75
Hillingdon	80	74	78	77	81	75	78	74
Hounslow	75	72	71	71	73	69	72	69
Kingston upon Thames	81	76	80	77	80	76	80	76
Merton	75	66	73	68	74	66	75	69
Redbridge	77	73	78	75	77	72	76	73
Richmond upon Thames	87	82	84	83	85	81	84	81
Sutton	81	76	80	78	80	72	80	74
Waltham Forest	69	68	66	65	68	63	66	65
England (all schools)	75	73	75	73	75	71	75	72

Percentage of pupils achieving level 4 or above

	1999		1998		1997
	English	Maths	English	Maths	English	Maths
London GOR	68	67	64	56	60	59
City of London	81	81	89	85	80	80
Camden	69	70	62	58	60	65
Hackney	53	55	52	47	48	49
Hammersmith and Fulham	63	60	61	54	58	61
Haringey	60	61	56	49	55	54
Islington	65	65	58	51	56	57
Kensington and Chelsea	73	74	69	58	67	66
Lambeth	62	63	56	48	52	52
Lewisham	63	63	59	52	55	54
Newham	54	59	51	45	48	47
Southwark	58	57	54	46	50	50
Tower Hamlets	58	62	51	45	47	51
Wandsworth	65	63	64	56	61	59
Westminster	70	71	69	62	63	63
Barking and Dagenham	65	68	60	54	52	54
Barnet	76	76	73	66	70	68
Bexley	72	68	68	59	68	65
Brent	67	70	64	60	61	60
Bromley	77	74	73	66	74	72
Croydon	71	68	66	57	63	61
Ealing	70	70	66	57	62	60
Enfield	67	68	66	56	59	59
Greenwich	58	59	52	48	50	51
Harrow	76	72	74	65	70	69
Havering	78	76	71	65	71	67
Hillingdon	75	70	68	64	66	66
Hounslow	70	67	63	57	61	57
Kingston upon Thames	79	76	73	67	72	68
Merton	69	68	66	53	58	55
Redbridge	72	71	70	61	65	59
Richmond upon Thames	83	81	79	74	76	75
Sutton	78	73	68	61	70	66
Waltham Forest	62	60	60	51	57	54
England (all schools)	71	69	65	59	63	62

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