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WALES
Antisocial Behaviour Orders
Mr. Wiggin: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many antisocial behaviour orders have been breached in Wales in each year since their introduction. [195697]
Mr. Touhig:
The available information is given in the following table.
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(4) Breach data are compiled from breaches reported on the Home Office Court Proceedings Database. Home Office are reviewing the breach methodology and Data for 2003 has yet to be published.
Note:
Individuals breaching their ASBO more than once in the same year are counted only once for that year. Individuals breaching more than once, but in different years, are counted separately for each year.
Mr. Llwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list by police area in Wales the number of antisocial behaviour orders in force; and if he will make a statement. [195776]
Mr. Touhig: Data are not collected centrally on the number of ASBOs in force at any given time.
The number issued from 1 April 1999 to 30 June 2004 was as follows:
| Magistrates Courts Committee Area | Number issued |
|---|---|
| Dyfed Powys | 16 |
| Gwent | 18 |
| North Wales | 28 |
| South Wales | 52 |
| Total | 114 |
Police Numbers
Mr. Wiggin: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many police officers there were in Wales in each year since 1996. [195677]
Mr. Touhig: Police officers in Wales in each year since 1996 are as follows:
| As at March | Police officer numbers in Wales |
|---|---|
| 1996 | 6,440 |
| 1997 | 6,592 |
| 1998 | 6,617 |
| 1999 | 6,645 |
| 2000 | 6,633 |
| 2001 | 6,927 |
| 2002 | 7,194 |
| 2003 | 7,268 |
| 2004 | 7,414 |
Press Releases
Pete Wishart: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many press releases have been issued by his Department in each month of 2004; and if he will make a statement. [195448]
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Mr. Touhig: The Wales Office has issued the following number of press releases for each month of 2004 thus far:
| Number | |
|---|---|
| January | 7 |
| February | 3 |
| March | 16 |
| April | 7 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 6 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 5 |
| October | 6 |
These figures do not include operational notes or contributions to joint press releases with other organisations.
EDUCATION AND SKILLS
Teenage Pregnancy
Mrs. May: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much each local authority in Greater London spent on tackling teenage pregnancy in (a) 1997, (b) 2002 and (c) 2003. [194898]
Margaret Hodge: Figures are not available for years before the launch of the Government's teenage pregnancy strategy in 1999. Details of the teenage pregnancy local implementation grant allocated to each local authority in Greater London for 2002–03 and 2003–04 are provided in the following table. Where indicated, figures for 2003–04 include monies to support young parents through the Sure Start Plus pilots operating in authorities with the highest under-18 conception rates.
(5) Includes allocation for Sure Start Plus pilots
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Assertive Discipline
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what assessment has been made of the effectiveness of assertive discipline. [194770]
Mr. Stephen Twigg: The Department has not carried out an assessment of the effectiveness of assertive discipline. However, the Key Stage 3 Behaviour and Attendance strand has provided training and support for all secondary and middle schools since September 2003. Schools use an audit tool to identify their key priorities for action and use a range of materials and measures to address these.
Council Tax
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what estimate he has made of the financial contribution that local education authorities made to school funding from council tax in England in 2004–05. [194694]
Mr. Miliband: The funding for local authorities is in the form of general revenue grant and covers education, social services, transport, and other local services. It is administered by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. The formula takes into account each authority's relative need to spend on each service and each authority's ability to raise resources. The authority decides how much resource to raise locally and what budget to set for each service. The budget for each service is not divided up into central Government resource and council tax.
Education Maintenance Allowances (Ilford, North)
Linda Perham: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many students in Ilford north constituency are receiving education maintenance allowances. [194119]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: By the end of September 677 young people from the Redbridge local authority area had received an EMA Notice of Entitlement. Of those, 482 had enrolled for EMA at a school or college and 397 had received an EMA payment. These figures continue to improve as those who applied late have had their applications assessed and are enrolled for payment.
Ethnic Minority Pupils
Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what estimate he has made of the proportion of pupils attending (a) state and (b) independent schools who are from an ethnic minority. [194195]
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Mr. Stephen Twigg: In January 2004, 16.9 per cent. of pupils (of compulsory school age and above) in maintained primary and secondary schools were classified as minority ethnic origin.
Information on pupils' ethnic origin is not collected from independent schools.
EU Education Committees
Angus Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many times during the Greek presidency of the EU (a) the Advisory Committee on veterinary training, (b) the Advisory Committee on training in architecture and (c) the Committee on the second general system for the recognition of professional education and training met; when and where these meetings took place; which UK Government expert was present at each meeting; what (i) technical and (ii) financial issues were raised by the UK Government expert at each meeting; what recommendations each Committee produced during that period; what actions were (A) proposed and (B) taken by (1) the EU and (2) the UK Government as a result of each Committee's recommendations; and if he will make a statement. [194350]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: There have been no meetings of the EU Advisory Committee on veterinary training or the EU Advisory Committee on training in architecture during the Greek presidency.
A meeting of the committee established under the second general system for the recognition of professional education and training was held on 25 June 2003 at which technical amendments were discussed. The following amendments to Annex C of that directive were adopted in respect of:
A Commission Decision of 28 January 2004 published these amendments in the Official Journal of the European Union.
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