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Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to the Answer of 28 June 2005, Official Report, column 1446W, on spending per pupil, what the figures were for the London borough of Sutton. [10187]
Jacqui Smith: The information requested is contained within the following table:
Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what progress has been made in encouraging a common understanding of enterprise among secondary school teachers. [11497]
Jacqui Smith: Our guidance for teachers on the Teachemet website clearly sets out our definition on Enterprise Education. This definition is being reinforced at the 47 regional conferences we are currently running for all secondary schools in England, in which we emphasise the importance of whole-staff discussion of enterprise.
Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what guidance she has issued on the priority to be given to entrepreneurship within the teaching of enterprise. [11501]
Jacqui Smith: In the past two years we have been working with over 700 Pathfinder schools in order to generate national guidance based on the experience of the schools on ways of effectively teaching enterprise. We have also been holding a series of Enterprise in Schools conferences in all of the 47 LSC areas. These conferences, with the guidance, have clarified and defined the importance of entrepreneurship as part of enterprise education.
Mr. Cameron: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of (a) secondary school students and (b) secondary modern school students aged 15 years at the start of the school year obtained the equivalent of Level 2 (five or more grade A*-C GCSEs) in (i) 2001, (ii) 2002, (iii) 2003 and (iv) 2004. [10768]
Jacqui Smith: The information requested can be found in the following table:
Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many school children receive free school milk in (a) England and (b) Lancashire. [11078]
Jacqui Smith: The information requested is not collected centrally.
Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many litres of milk are provided free each day in (a) English and (b) Lancashire schools. [11079]
Jacqui Smith: The information requested is not collected centrally.
Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many schools are participating in the free school milk scheme; how many deliveries are made per week to these schools; and what percentage of milk supplied to schools under the scheme is sourced from (a) national suppliers and (b) overseas suppliers. [11354]
Jacqui Smith:
The information requested is not collected centrally.
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Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills when she expects the report commissioned by her Department to assess the feasibility of disaggregating the Higher Education Initial Participation Rate by ethnicity, disability, social class and region to be published; and if she will make a statement. [11100]
Bill Rammell: Professor Brian Ramsden's report on whether the Higher Education Initial Participation Rate (HEIPR) should be disaggregated is expected to be published on 25 August 2005.
Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills under what circumstances students whose domicile is (a) non-UK and (b) unknown areincluded in the Higher Education Initial Participation Rate; and how many students there were in each category in each year between 19992000 and 200304. [11101]
Bill Rammell: The Higher Education Initial Participation Rate (HEIPR) is a measure of initial participation for 17 to 30-year-old English domiciled first-time entrants to Higher Education and is produced in accordance with the recommendations of a National Statistics Quality review (National Statistics Quality Review SeriesReport No. 24). No students recorded with non-UK or unknown domiciles have been included in the HEIPR in any year. The HEIPR includes only students recorded as English domiciled or United Kingdom" domiciled and attending courses at English institutions, with the assumption that latter group are likely to be English.
The following table records the number of students included in the HEIPR who are listed as United Kingdom" domiciled:
Academic year | 1999/2000 | 2000/01 | 2001/02 | 2002/03 | 2003/04 |
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No prior HE | 575 | 1,380 | 670 | 980 | 700 |
Unknown prior HE(39) | 235 | 145 | 110 | 170 | 200 |
Academic year | Number of initial entrants (000) |
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1999/2000 | 246 |
2000/01 | 249 |
2001/02 | 255 |
2002/03 | 268 |
2003/04 | 269 |
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