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Ministerial Engagements/Visits
Mr. Gummer: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the ministerial engagements (a) out of London and (b) in London that she has cancelled since her appointment. [209224]
Derek Twigg: According to records four ministerial engagements have been cancelled by the Secretary of State since 1 January, these are listed:
Where the Secretary of State has not been able to fulfil other engagements an alternative Minister has attended or the engagement has been rearranged for a later date.
Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what ministerial visits are planned for each Minister in her Department in the next six months; and if she will make a statement. [207302]
Derek Twigg: The following tables show the ministerial visits for six months from January 2005. These visits are subject to change due to parliamentary commitments and final confirmation.
| Date | Venue |
|---|---|
| January 2005 | No visits |
| February 2005 | |
| 1 | Montgomery High School, Blackpool |
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Mobile Phones
Mr. Win Griffiths: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what plans she has to distribute Government guidance on the use of mobile phones in schools. [214623]
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Derek Twigg: My Department publicised the original report of the Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones (IEGMP) in 2000 through the Teachernet website. The Department of Health leaflet 'Mobile Phones and Health' is also included on the same site, which focuses on the paragraphs relating to children and young people under 16.1 shall consider what, if anything, we could do once the Department of Health has responded to the recent report.
Literacy and Numeracy (London)
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many and what percentage of 11-year-old pupils in London reached Level 4 in (a) mathematics and (b) English in each of the last seven years, broken down by local education authority. [214571]
Mr. Stephen Twigg: The information requested has been placed in the Libraries.
Salt Consumption
Mr. Kevin Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) whether support is provided in schools to young people with (a) diabetes and (b) kidney-related illnesses to educate them about the dangers of over-consumption of salt; [214179]
(2) what initiatives are being undertaken in schools to raise awareness of the dangers of over-consumption of salt by young people. [214181]
Derek Twigg: The joint Department for Education and Skills and Department of Health guidance 'Supporting pupils with medical needs' helps schools put in place effective management systems to support individual pupils, including those with diabetes and kidney-related conditions.
The National Healthy Schools programme is promoting clear and consistent messages about diet, nutrition, food safety and hygiene, food preparation and cooking, as well as where food comes from, throughout all aspects of school life. This includes teaching pupils about the need for a moderate consumption of sugar, fat and salt.
The Food Standards Agency launched the 'Sid the Slug' programme last September to raise awareness of the dangers of high salt intake, including a campaign pack that over 800 schools have so far applied for.
School Budgets (London)
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many school budgets in Greater London, were in deficit in each of the last seven years, broken down by local education authority. [214642]
Mr. Stephen Twigg:
The information requested is available from 1999–2000 onwards. Prior to this school level data was not collected by my Department. Data from 1999–2000 onwards are contained within the following table:
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(21) Financial data used to determine budget is taken to the nearest pound.
(22) Due to changes in data items recorded on Section 52, school level balance data is now reported as the combination of any unspent allocations (including unspent Standards Fund grants) and the cumulative balance of income less expenditure from revenue funding sources during the financial year and any balances carried forward from previous years. Previously unspent allocations were excluded from the calculation of school balances but from 2003–04 onwards we are not able to split these out and as a result these figures for 1999–2000 to 2002–03 may differ from figures released previously by the department.
(23) School level data has only been collected by the DfES since the inception of Section 52 in 1999–2000.
(24) Figures for 1999–2000 to 2002–03 are for LEA maintained primary, secondary and special schools. 2003–04 figures also include those LEA maintained nursery schools with delegated budgets.
(25) 2003–04 data is still undergoing data cleaning and is therefore subject to charges by the LEA which may after the results for that period.
Note:
As reported by LEAs as at 3 February 2005.
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