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Ministerial Meetings
Mr. Rendel: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what meetings (a) he and (b) his ministerial colleagues have had with the Chief Executive of the Learning and Skills Council since 17 March to discuss funding for further education colleges. [182937]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: My ministerial colleagues and I have regular meetings with the Learning and Skills Council's Chief Executive, Mark Haysom, to discuss a wide range of issues relating to the LSC, including the funding of further education.
Public Service Agreements
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) pursuant to the answer of 4 May 2004, Official Report, columns 1429–30W, on schools (external controls), if he will list (a) the six public service agreements (PSAs), (b) the 27 components of PSAs, (c) the 13 further PSA related targets, measures and compliance requirements and (d) the 167 non-PSA related targets, measures and compliance requirements referred to in Chart 2.7 of Devolving decision making: Delivering better public services: refining targets and performance management; [171775]
(2) when he will reply to question reference 171775 from the hon. Member for Fareham. [183150]
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Mr. Miliband [holding answer 10 May 2004]: Information relating to the measures identified by the authors of the report and referred to in Chart 2.7 is available via the internet website addresses given below. The measures are relevant only to certain phases of school education, and are a mixture of information requirements and subjects for judgments made by Ofsted inspectors. The majority of the measures are attributable to Ofsted and their arrangements for conducting school inspections and can be found on their website at www.ofstedgov.uk/inspectors/
The PSAs and the PSA components are on the Treasury's website at www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/performance/
Information about the further PSA related and the non-PSA related targets, measures and compliance requirements can be found on the Department's website www.dfes.gov.uk/delivering-results/ and on the website for the Office for the Deputy Prime Minister www.bvpi.gov.uk/
CABINET OFFICE
Expatriate Retired Civil Servants
Mr. Webb: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office whether civil servants who retire abroad to a country where pensions are frozen for expatriates continue to have their guaranteed minimum pension uprated; and if he will make a statement. [182040]
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Mr. Alexander: When a pensioner covered by the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme (PCSPS) becomes permanently resident in a country where state pensions are frozen for expatriates, the Inland Revenue advises the PCSPS that the state pension will not attract uprating increases. The PCSPS will then uprate the Guaranteed Minimum Pension element of the PCSPS pension in line with increases under the Pensions Increase Orders.
Regulatory Offices
Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what measures he has taken to establish a comprehensive list of independent regulators following the October 2003 Better Regulation Task Force report. [181026]
Mr. Alexander: As indicated in our response to the Better Regulation Task Force Report, which I announced in a Written Ministerial Statement on Monday 9 February 2004, Official Report, column. 61WS, the Government is undertaking a review of the variety and complexity of public bodies sponsored by central government departments. As part of the review, we will consider identifying those which can be classified as independent regulators.
The review is currently in progress. We expect to complete the review and make the results available by the end of the year.