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Education Maintenance Allowance
Mr. Holloway: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many young people in Gravesham have been granted an education maintenance allowance. [32631]
Maria Eagle: This is a matter for the Learning and Skills Council, which operates education maintenance allowances for the DfES and holds the information about take-up of the scheme. Mark Haysom, the Council's chief executive, has written to the hon. Member with the information requested and a copy of his reply will be placed in the House Library.
Letter from Mark Haysom, dated 20 December 2005:
I am writing in response to your Parliamentary Question that asked how many young people in Gravesham have been granted an Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA)?"
Information on the number of young people who have applied, enrolled and received EMA is available at Local Authority level,but not at constituency level. The information relates to academic years.
By the end of October 2005, 7,872 young people in the Kent Local Education Authority area had received one or more EMA payments in the academic year 2005/06 so far.
During the academic year 2004/05, 5,317 young people in the Kent Local Education Authority received one or more EMA payments
I hope this information is helpful and addresses your question. If you would like further details please contact Chris Bradley at the LSC National Office on 0114 207 4512 or christopher. bradley@lsc.gov.uk
John Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many young people have been granted an education maintenance allowance in (a) Leeds, West constituency and (b) Leeds. [35136]
Maria Eagle:
As outlined in my response to my right hon. Friend on 27 June 2005, Official Report, columns 1216–17W, in respect of a similar question about education maintenance allowance, this is a matter for the Learning and Skills Council, which operates
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education maintenance allowances for the DfES and holds the information about take-up of the scheme. Mark Haysom, the council's Chief Executive has written to my right hon. Friend with the information requested and a copy of his reply has been placed in the House Library.
Letter from Mark Haysom, dated 22 December 2005:
I am writing in response to your Parliamentary Question that asked how many young people have been granted an education maintenance allowance in (a) Leeds West constituency and (b)Leeds?"
Information on the number of young people who have applied, enrolled and received EMA is available at Local Authority level, but not at constituency level. The information relates to academic years.
By the end of November 2005, 5,440 young people in the Leeds Local Education Authority area had received one or more EMA payments in the academic year 2005/06 so far.
During the academic year 2004/05, 5,651 young people in the Leeds Local Education Authority received one or more EMA payments. During academic year 2003/04 EMA was piloted in Leeds and 4,964 young people received EMA payments.
I hope this information is helpful and addresses your question. If you would like further details please contact Chris Bradley at the LSC National Office on 0114 207 4512 or Christopher.Bradley@lsc.gov.uk
ERASMUS Students
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many non-UK national ERASMUS students have studied at UK institutions in each year since 1990; and what the total cost to her Department was of such students in each year. [40953]
Bill Rammell: The numbers of non-UK Erasmus students at UK institutions from 1995 onwards are provided in the following table. Data prior to 1995 are unavailable.
Source:
UK SOCRATES ERASMUS Council (UKSEC).
As Erasmus students receive funding in the form of grants from the European Commission, there is no direct cost to the Department.
Further Education (Gravesham)
Mr. Holloway: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills which further education colleges inGravesham will receive (a) a decrease and (b) an increase in their funding for adult education, not including for basic skills courses, in 2005–06 compared to the previous academic year. [28884]
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Bill Rammell: The Department allocates funds for further education and training in the post-16 learning and skills sector, including 16 to 18 years participation, to the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) working through 47 local offices. The LSC was established in 2001 bringing the planning and funding of post-16 education together under one body within a framework set by Government.
My Department does not hold figures at local or regional levels and this is a matter for the LSC. Therefore, LSC's Chief Executive, Mark Haysom has written to the hon. Member with further details and a copy of his reply has been placed in the House Library.
Letter from Mark Haysom, dated 12 January 2006:
I write in response to your recent Parliamentary Question to the Secretary of State for Education and Skills where you asked which further education colleges in Gravesham will receive (a) a decrease and (b) an increase in their funding for adult education, not including for basic skills courses, in 2005–06 compared to the previous academic year.
The only FE College funded by the LSC in Gravesham is North West Kent College of Technology. In 2005–06 this college had its funding increased to almost £19.5 million, an increase of over 12 per cent. on 2004–05. However, within this increased funding, the amount spent on adult learning fell by about 0.5 per cent. to just under £4.7 million, which includes funding for adult skills for life learning.
The overall amount of skills for life learning being funded in this FE college in 2005–06 is currently just over £0.7 million (an increase on the previous academic year of over 300 per cent.), but this learning can be in respect of either young people or adults. Therefore, whilst the majority of the £4.7 million funding for adult learning will not be skills for life learning, the precise amount will not be known until the college submits student data after the year end.
Parenting Support
John Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what steps she has taken to increase parenting support available to vulnerable families with particular reference to those living in socio-economically deprived circumstances. [39405]
Beverley Hughes: We will increase the provision of parenting support across the country through the roll out of children's centres and extended schools. By 2008 we will have established 2,500 children's centres and, half of all secondary schools and one third of all primary schools will be providing extended services. By 2010, there will be 3,500 children's centres and pupils at all schools will be able to access extended services.
Children's centres serving the most disadvantaged communities must provide parenting support as part of their core offer.
Public Bodies
Julia Goldsworthy: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the former hon. Members who left Parliament in 2005 who have since been appointed to public bodies by her Department, broken down by party; and who was responsible for making each appointment. [36682]
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Maria Eagle: Information about the political activity of appointees is recorded and publicised in accordance with the independent Commissioner for Public Appointments' code of practice. This shows that no former hon. Members who left Parliament in 2005 have since been appointed to public bodies sponsored by the Department.
Qualifications and Curriculum Authority
Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Educationand Skills what discussions she has had with the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority on its location; and if she will make a statement. [39510]
Jacqui Smith: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to my hon. Friend the Member for Norwich, North (Dr. Gibson) on 9 January 2006, Official Report, column 428W.
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