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Offenders' Learning Skills Unit
Mrs. Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many people are working in the Offenders' Learning Skills Unit; and what their total annual budgets were for (a) 2004–05 and (b) 2005–06 expressed in (i) financial terms and (ii) as a percentage of the Learning and Skills Council budget. [14708]
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Beverley Hughes: 33 people currently work in the Offenders' Learning and Skills Unit within the Department for Education and Skills.
Funding outturn for offender learning and skills in 2004–05 was £126 million and is planned to be £151 million in 2005–06.
Expressed as a percentage of the Learning and Skills Council budget, the offender learning totals would be the equivalent of around 1.5 per cent. in each year.
Open University
Mr. Lancaster: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many overseas students from EU member states are enrolled with the Open university in Milton Keynes; and if she will make a statement. [12913]
Bill Rammell: In 2003/04 there were 11,177 students based in the EU (outside the UK) enrolled at the Open university 1 . The number of students from EU member states based in the UK and enrolled in the Open university is 270 for 2003/04 2 .
Opinion Surveys
Mr. Weir: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the (a) subject matter and (b) dates were of opinion survey research undertaken by the Department and its agencies in the last 12 months; if she will place copies of the results of each survey in the Library; which companies were used in conducting the research; and how much each was paid. [14809]
Bill Rammell: In the last 12 months the Department carried out the following pieces of research into public opinion of the education and skills system. Information about opinion survey research carried out by the Department's agencies is not held centrally.
The Department also carries out a range of research to inform the development and evaluation of specific policies, some of which includes surveys of opinion. The Department publishes its research on the last Thursday of each month and research reports are available at www.dfes.gov.uk/research
Overseas Students
Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many students from (a) China and (b) India took courses in (i) science and (ii) engineering at higher education institutions in England at (A) undergraduate and (B) postgraduate level in each year between 1994 and 2004. [11103]
Bill Rammell: The latest information is given in the following table:
(62)Based on a count of students as at 1 December each year.
(63)Excluding students from Hong Kong and Taiwan.
(64)In 2002/03, changes were made to the method used to allocate students to subjects of study. The main effect of this was to increase the number of students allocated to individual named subjects and to decrease those who were allocated to the Combined Course" category. This means that figures for 2002/03 and 2003/04 are not directly comparable with those for earlier years.
4.Science includes Biological and Physical Sciences.
Note:
Figures have been rounded to the nearest 5.
Source:
Higher Education statistics Agency (HESA).
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Physiotherapy Graduates
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many graduates from physiotherapy degrees approved by the Health Professions Council there have been in each academic year since 2000–01. [14983]
Beverley Hughes: The information is not held centrally. The Higher Education Statistics Agency produce annual summaries of newly qualified graduates by subject, but those with physiotherapy degrees are not separately identified.
Policy Costings
Dr. Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what costings of (a) Liberal Democrat and (b) Conservative party policies her Department has (i)undertaken, (ii) co-ordinated in the previous 12 months and (iii) advised upon in the previous 12 months. [7002]
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Bill Rammell: I refer the hon. Member to the reply given by my hon. Friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury on 18 July 2005, Official Report, column 1334W.
Prisoner Education
Mrs. Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the cost was in 2004–05 of education for foreign national prisoners. [14692]
Phil Hope: This information is not collected.
Mrs. Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what her Department's total expenditure has been on prisoner education in each financial year since it took over responsibility for prisoner education from the Home Office. [14707]
Bill Rammell: The following table sets out the expenditure by the Department for Education and Skills on offender learning and skills in each full year since 2001–02.
| Spend (£ million) | |
|---|---|
| 2001–02 | 57 |
| 2002–03 | 70 |
| 2003–04 | 114 |
| 2004–05 | (65)122 |
(65)Includes £10 million for offenders in the community.
Public Sector Education Provision
Mr. Davidson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what assessment she has made of the effect of the EU Directive on Services in the Internal Market on public sector provision of (a) primary, (b) secondary, (c) further and (d) higher education. [9557]
Beverley Hughes: I refer to the answer given by my hon. Friend the Minister for Trade on 21 July 2005, Official Report, column 1930W.
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