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Parking
Mr. George Osborne: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much has been spent on (a) provision of parking spaces for civil servants and (b) parking tickets and penalties incurred by civil servants in the Department and its predecessors in each year since 1997. [213836]
Derek Twigg: The Department for Education and Skills provides 660 car parking spaces at its four headquarter sites, all of which, form part of the physical estate and therefore incur no additional costs.
Parking tickets and penalties incurred by civil servants remain the responsibility of the individuals.
Postage
Mr. George Osborne: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much has been spent on postage by the Department and its predecessors in each year since 1997. [215024]
Derek Twigg: The Department for Education and Skills has spent the following on postage since 1997:
| £ | |
|---|---|
| 2003–04 | 607,497 |
| 2002–03 | 763,931 |
| 2001–02 | 654,160 |
| 2000–01 | 749,150 |
| 1999–2000 | 806,590 |
| 1998–99 | (57)— |
| 1997–98 | (57)— |
(57)This information can be provided only at disproportionate cost.
The figures provided include first and second class postal/poundage charges and expenditure incurred through the use of business reply.
The departmental policy is that all outgoing mail is sent second class unless there is a business need for the item to be sent at premium rate.
Post-compulsory Education
Mr. Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of 16-year-olds were in post-compulsory education in England in (a) 2001–02, (b) 2002–03, (c) 2003–04 and (d) 2004–05, broken down by region. [216484]
Mr. Ivan Lewis
[holding answer 21 February 2005]: The latest published local participation estimates for 16-year-olds in education and Learning and Skills Council (LSC) funded work based learning (WBL) in England are for end 2001 (2001–02 academic year). Local participation estimates for end 2002 and end 2003
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(provisional) are due to be published in March 2005 together with a consistent historic participation time series.
Participation estimates of education and LSC funded WBL by 16-year-olds in England, broken down by region, for end 2001 are given in Table 1.
The data are taken from the Department's Statistical Bulletin entitled, Participation in education and training by 16 and 17-year-olds in each local area in England, end 2001".
Pre-school Funding (Warrington)
Helen Southworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what funding has been provided for (a) nursery and (b) pre-school education in Warrington in each of the last seven years. [211406]
Margaret Hodge: The information is not available in the form requested. Funding for nursery and pre-school education has been provided through a mixture of nursery education grant and education standard spending (up till 2002–03) and education formula spending (from 2003–04). The new education formula spending system is not directly comparable with the old education standard spending assessments at sub-block level. This is because the coverage of the sub-blocks and the amount of resources allocated within them changed significantly in 2003–04. Therefore the figures are not comparable between 2002–03 and 2003–04.
The figures in the following table provide details of the resources provided for Warrington from 1998–99 together with estimated figures for 1997–98 (Warrington was part of Cheshire in 1997–98). Funding through education standard spending assessments and education formula spending shares is unhypothecated.
Notes:
Price base: cash
1997–98 figures for LEAs subject to local Government reorganisation in that year have been estimated, pro-rata to their post LGR figures.
Figures reflect relevant sub-blocks of education SSA/EFS settlements and include the pensions transfer to EPS for 2003–04 and 2004–05
Total funding shown includes nursery education grant for 1998–99 to 2002–03 and nursery vouchers in 1997–98. Extra funding through schools standards grant and standards fund is not included as it is not possible to identify how much of these grants are spent on under fives.
Rounding: Figures are rounded to the nearest £0.1 million.
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Pupil Referral Units
Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many pupil referral units there are in (a) England, (b) each region and (c) each local education authority. [216866]
Derek Twigg: The information requested is shown in the following table.
Source:
Annual Schools' Census
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