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Mr. George Osborne: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office (1) how much was paid to consultants carrying out staff surveys in the Department in each year since 1997; [213662]
(2) what the cost of staff surveys in the Department was in each year since 1997. [213685]
Mr. Miliband: The Cabinet Office and its agencies carry out regular Staff Surveys as part of good management practice in developing people to deliver more efficient and better quality services. Staff Surveys are usually carried out by external consultants.
Consultant costs are set out in the table.
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Mr. George Osborne: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how much the Department spent on (a) stationery and (b) office supplies in each year since 1997. [213850]
Mr. Miliband: Detail of the Department's spend on stationery in each year since 1997 are shown in the table.
Stationery expenditure (£000) | |
---|---|
199798 | 392 |
199899 | 565 |
19992000 | 823 |
200001 | 756 |
200102 | 610 |
200203 | 712 |
200304 | 637 |
The cost of office supplies is not separately identifiable on the Department's Accounting System.
Mr. Nicholas Brown: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office if he will make a statement on his recent visit to Swan Hunter shipyard. [215820]
Mr. Miliband: My visit to the Swan Hunter ship yard was in my capacity as constituency MP for South Shields and not as Minister for the Cabinet Office.
Tom Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many children were adopted in the United Kingdom in each of the last three years. [209410]
Margaret Hodge: The tables show the number of adoptions in the UK for the last four calendar years for which numbers are available, and the number of looked after children adoptions in England for the last five years ending 31 March.
Calendar year ending | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 |
---|---|---|---|---|
United Kingdom | 5,503 | 6,588 | 6,240 | 5,429 |
England | 4,671 | 5,657 | 5,265 | 4,479 |
Wales | 269 | 324 | 416 | 342 |
Scotland | 391 | 468 | 385 | 468 |
Northern Ireland | 172 | 139 | 174 | 140 |
England | Number |
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2000 | 2700 |
2001 | 3100 |
2002 | 3400 |
2003 | 3500 |
2003 | 3700 |
While the total number of children adopted in England has fallen between the calendar years 2001 and 2003, the number of looked after children adopted in England has increased by 37 per cent. between the years ending 31 March 2000 and 2004.
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what assessment the Government have made of the impact of the Children Act 2004 on the costs of local authorities. [216268]
Margaret Hodge: Details of the costs associated with the Children Act 2004 are set out in the regulatory impact assessment which is available on the Department's website. The resources which the Government will be providing to support the reforms introduced by Children Act 2004 are set out in Every Child Matters: Change for Children (paragraphs 4.164.25), a copy of which is in the Library.
Mr. Reed: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what progress has been made in reducing infant class sizes for five, six and seven-year-olds in Leicestershire since 1997. [216932]
Derek Twigg:
The age of individual pupils in classes is not collected centrally. The available information is shown in the table.
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Mr. George Osborne: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much has been spent on congestion (a) charges and (b) penalty charge notices by the Department since the commencement of the congestion charging scheme. [213821]
Derek Twigg: Since the commencement of the congestion charging scheme the Department has spent,
Departmental employees incurring congestion charges while on official business claim these on an individual basis. Information regarding this expenditure
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is not held centrally. Such information could be provided only at disproportionate cost. It is departmental policy that penalty charges are not reimbursed to individuals.
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills when she will reply to the letter dated 5 March 2004 sent to her predecessor by the hon. Member for Brent, East regarding Mr. Christopher McMahon. [215628]
Derek Twigg: My right hon. Friend the then Minister for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education replied to the hon. Member's letter dated 5 March on 30 March.
Ms Dari Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many free nursery and pre-reception class places have been created for three, four and five-year-olds in the constituency of Stockton, South since 1997. [215305]
Margaret Hodge: All four-year-olds in England have been entitled to a free part-time early education place since September 1998. All three-year-olds in England have been entitled to a free part-time early education place since April 2004.
The available information on the numbers of free part-time early education places taken up by three and four-year-olds in Stockton-on-Tees local education authority area and parliamentary constituencies within Stockton-on-Tees local education authority area since 1997 is shown in the tables.
The latest figures on early education places for three and four-year-olds in England were published in Statistical First Release 39/2004 Provision for children under five years of age in EnglandJanuary 2004 (final)", which is available on the Department's website www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/.
Changes in pupil figures may arise from changes to the underlying population in the local education authority area and other factors. However, my Department does not publish population figures for individual age cohorts at sub-national level because of the unreliability of the underlying population estimates. The Office for National Statistics publish sub-national population estimates in five-year age bands.
Mr. Patrick Hall: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many free early years education places were taken up in Bedford and Kempston in (a) 1997 and (b) 2004. [207222]
Margaret Hodge: All four year olds in England have been entitled to a free part-time early education place since September 1998. All three-year-olds in England have been entitled to a free part-time early education place since April 2004.
The available information on the numbers of free part-time early education places taken up by three and four year olds in Bedford parliamentary constituency and Bedfordshire local education authority area is shown in the tables. Information for private and voluntary providers is available for Bedfordshire but not for Bedford constituency.
Changes in pupil figures may arise from changes to the underlying population in the local education authority area and other factors. However, my Department does not publish population figures for individual age cohorts at sub-national level because of the unreliability of the underlying population estimates. The Office for National Statistics publish sub-national population estimates in five-year age bands.
The latest figures on early education places for three and four-year-olds in England were published in Statistical First Release 39/2004 Provision for children under five years of age in EnglandJanuary 2004 (final)", which is available on the Department's website www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/.
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