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EDUCATION AND SKILLS

Departmental Advertising

Michael Fabricant: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skillshow many advertising contracts were signed by her Department in the period (a) 1 September 2004 to 1 March 2005 and (b) 1 September 2003 to 1 March 2004, broken down by (i) television, (ii) radio, (iii) press, (iv) direct mail and (v) other advertising; and what the value was in each case. [218972]

Derek Twigg: All advertising undertaken by my Department is contracted through Central Office for Information (COI).

The information requested is outlined in the following table.

	(a) 1 September 2004 to1 March 2005	(b) 1 September 2003 to1 March 2004
(i) TV	747,781	—
(ii) Radio	994,658	853,921
(iii) Press	1,072,916	2,096,936
(iv) Direct mail	—	—
(v) Other	575,984	385,441

All financial information is exclusive of VAT.

Departmental Catering

Mr. George Osborne: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many departmental (a) canteens and (b) bars there are; and how much has been spent on the (i) running, (ii) staffing and (iii) supply costs of each in each year since 1997. [213623]

 
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Derek Twigg: The Department for Education and Skills has a total of five staff restaurants and one bar in its five headquarter buildings. The staff restaurants are operated by catering contractors whilst the bar is run by its members as a private club. The cost of providing these canteen facilities since 1997 is as follows:

	£
1997–98	n/a
1998–99	111,766
1999–2000	130,437
2000–01	119,541
2001–02	99,794
2002–03	13,500
2003-04	35,000

n/a = Not available

A breakdown by (i) running, (ii) staffing, (iii) supply costs of each year could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Disabled Facilities Grant

Mr. McNamara: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) what input she has had to the review of the disabled facilities grant; [218843]

(2) how much her Department contributed towards vital housing adaptations for disabled children in each of the past three years. [218844]

Margaret Hodge: DfES is working with ODPM and DH as one of the three government departments undertaking the review of the disabled facilities grant. ODPM is the lead department in the review.

Information is not collected centrally on contributions towards housing adaptations. The Chartered Institute of Public Finance Accountants holds information on expenditure by personal social services. CIPFA makes no distinction between children and adults when collecting information on adaptations which it lists together with information on equipment expenditure.

Actual expenditure" for 2001–02 and 2002–03 for 'Equipment and Adaptations' was £62,716,000 and £57,063,000 respectively, across 'Physical Disability or Sensory Impairment' and 'Learning Disabilities'. Estimated expenditure" for 2003–04 is £63,924,000. DfES contributes to these funds but exact figures for children and adaptations are indeterminable due to the way information is collected.

Child Care (Easington)

Mr. Cummings: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many child care places there were in the Easington constituency in each of the last three years; and what the occupancy rates were in each year. [214928]

Margaret Hodge: The information is not available in the form requested. The available information on child care places and nursery education places is shown in the tables.

The available information on child care places, for Durham local authority area, is shown in table 1.
 
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Table 1: Number^{(33)(5507500034)} of registered child care places for children under eight years of age by type of care—Durham local education authority area—position at 31 March each year—2003 and 2004

Type of care	2003	2004
Full day care	2,300	2,800
Sessional day care	1,400	1,400
Child minders	3,100	3,400
Out of school day care	1,700	1,900
Crèche day care	500	500

⁽³³⁾ Rounded to the nearest 100 places.
⁽³⁴⁾ Data Source: Ofsted

The figures for 2003 and 2004 were derived from the Ofsted database of registered child care providers. There are no figures for 2002.

Figures for the ratio of enrolments to places were published in the overview report on the 2002/03 Childcare and Early Years Workforce survey", which is available on the sure start website, www.surestart.gov.uk. The figures for full day care, sessional day care (playgroups), out of school clubs and child minders were 1.47, 1.43, 0.97 and 0.87 respectively.

With the introduction of the National Day Care Standards and the transfer of responsibilities for registration and inspection of childcare providers from Local Authority Social Service Departments to Ofsted in September 2001, child care places were classified according to the type of day care provided: full day care, sessional day care, child minder, out of school day care or crèche day care. Ofsted have produced figures based on this classification on a quarterly basis from March 2003. Their latest figures were published on 19 January 2005 in their report Registered Childcare Providers and Places, 31 December 2004", which is available on their website, www.ofsted.gov.uk/publications.

The available information on nursery education places, for Durham local authority area, is shown in tables 2 and 3.
Table 2: Number of free nursery education places⁽³⁵⁾ taken up three and four-year-olds Durham local education authority area—position in January each year

	2002	2003	2004
3-year-olds
Maintained nursery and primary schools(36)	3,800	3,500	3,400
Other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers	(37)940	(37)980	(38)1,000
Total 3-year-olds	4,700	4,500	4,400
4-year-olds
Maintained nursery and primary schools(39)	5,200	5,100	4,800
Other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers	(40)300	(41)380	(42)400
Total 4-year-olds	5,500	5,500	5,200

⁽³⁵⁾ Figures are rounded to the nearest 10 or 100 as appropriate.
⁽³⁶⁾ Headcount of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Annual Schools' Census.
⁽³⁷⁾ Part-time equivalent number of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the nursery education grant data collection exercise.
⁽³⁸⁾ Part-time equivalent number of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Early Years Census and the Annual Schools' Census.
⁽³⁹⁾ Headcount of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Annual Schools' Census.
⁽⁴⁰⁾ Part-time equivalent number of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the nursery education grant data collection exercise.
⁽⁴¹⁾ Part-time equivalent number of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Early Years Census supplementary data collection exercise and the Annual Schools' Census.
8 Part-time equivalent number of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Early Years Census and the Annual Schools' Census.





 
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Table 3: Number of free nursery education places⁽⁴²⁾ taken up three and four-year-olds by parliamentary constituency—Durham local education authority area—position in January 2004

	3-year-olds
Constituency	Maintained nursery and primary schools(43)	Other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers(44)	Total 3-year-olds
Bishop Auckland	580	220	800
City of Durham	460	280	740
Easington	600	110	710
North Durham	560	140	700
North West Durham	670	100	760
Sedgefield(47)	510	180	690
LEA total	3,400	1,000	4,400

	4-year-olds
Constituency	Maintained nursery and primary schools4	Other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers5	Total 4-year-olds
Bishop Auckland	840	90	940
City of Durham	750	150	890
Easington	860	50	910
North Durham	790	40	830
North West Durham	860	30	890
Sedgefield(47)	700	50	750
LEA total	4,800	400	5,200

⁽⁴²⁾ Figures are rounded to the nearest 10 or 100 as appropriate.
⁽⁴³⁾ Headcount of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Annual Schools' Census.
⁽⁴⁴⁾ Part-time equivalent number of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Early Years Census and the Annual Schools' Census.
⁽⁴⁵⁾ Headcount of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Annual Schools' Census.
⁽⁴⁶⁾ Part-time equivalent number of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Early Years Census and the Annual Schools' Census.
⁽⁴⁷⁾ Constituency does not include figures from providers within Darlington LEA

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