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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 | |
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(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.
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]
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:
£ | |
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199798 | n/a |
199899 | 111,766 |
19992000 | 130,437 |
200001 | 119,541 |
200102 | 99,794 |
200203 | 13,500 |
2003-04 | 35,000 |
A breakdown by (i) running, (ii) staffing, (iii) supply costs of each year could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
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 200102 and 200203 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 200304 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.
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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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.
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