House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 19 Jan 2006 (pt 41)

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Keith Hudson

Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills which (a) Minister and (b) official (i) advised on and (ii) signed the letter in relation to the decision on the List 99 determination in the case of Keith Hudson. [43409]

Ruth Kelly: The powers under section 142 of the Education Act 2002 whether or not to make a direction that an individual should be added to List 99 are exercised by the Secretary of State for Education and Skills. The Department for Education and Skills does not disclose the names of individual officials or Ministers, advising or exercising those power as a matter of policy.

Learning and Skills Council

Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the budget for learners with learning needs and disabilities is in each learning and skills council in 2005–06; and if she will make a statement. [42782]

Bill Rammell: My Department does not allocate separate budgets to meet the needs of most learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities. The majority of learners access mainstream programmes where their needs are met through core funding or through additional funding support where required. In the most recent year for which information is available the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) supported 579,000 learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities at a cost of around £1.3 billion. The figures for 2005/06 are not yet available. We do make available a separate budget for specialist colleges for learners with the most severe needs. We are providing £158 million for this purpose in 2006–07. Support for learners with learning

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difficulties and/or disabilities is a key priority identified in our grant letter to the LSC and is in turn reflected in the LSC's annual statement of priorities.

List 99

Mr. Willetts: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many people on List 99 have been given permission to teach GCSE courses only in the last 10 years. [43659]

Ruth Kelly: No one on List 99 has been given permission to teach GCSE courses specifically.

Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many (a) males and (b) females are on List 99. [43921]

Ruth Kelly: There were 449 females and 3,596 males on list 99 on 18 January 2006.

Local Education Authorities

Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what her most recent advice to local education authorities is on the employment of individuals before all (a) Criminal Records Bureau and (b) other character checks are completed; and if she will make a statement. [43919]

Ruth Kelly: Our guidance note 'Child Protection: Preventing Unsuitable People from Working with Children and Young Persons in the Education Service' gives comprehensive advice on the full range of pre-employment checks that local authorities ought to make before employing and individual. Supplementary advice relating to Criminal Records Bureau disclosures is provided in the guidance note 'Criminal Records Bureau:Managing the Demand for Disclosures'. Both documents can be found on the DfES website at http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/docbank/index.cfm?id= 2172 and http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/docbank/index.cfm?ID=3334

New Schools (Cumbria)

Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much funding has been awarded to Cumbria County Council for new buildings in schools in Cumbria in each of the last three years; how much was awarded to each school in each case; and if she will make a statement. [42395]

Jacqui Smith [holding answer 16 January 2006]: Cumbria county council and its schools have been awarded the following capital allocations in the last three years: £21.2 million (2003–04); £23.7 million (2004–05); and £19 million (2005–06).

The Department does not hold information on the amounts allocated for new buildings or at individual school level. We expect these decisions to be made locally by the County Council in accordance with its Assets Management Plan.

Overseas Trained Teacher Programme

Mr. Hands: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many teachers are placed in each local authority under the Overseas Trained Teacher Programme. [43604]

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Jacqui Smith: In 2004/05, 116 local authorities in England had 1,544 overseas trained teachers on programmes, the majority in London and the South East. A breakdown of the numbers by local authority is shown in the following table:

Local authority OTTs Percentage

Surrey 66 4

Southwark 62 4

Essex 58 4

Brent 51 3

Kent 50 3

Hertfordshire 44 3

Hackney 42 3

Hillingdon 42 3

Baling 41 3

Birmingham 38 2

Newham 38 2

Greenwich 33 2

Lambeth 32 2

Buckinghamshire 31 2

Croydon 31 2

Tower Hamlets 31 2

Haringey 29 2

Hounslow 29 2

Barking and Dagenham 28 2

Barnet 28 2

Waltham Forest 28 2

Enfield 27 2

Wandsworth 27 2

Slough 26 2

Lewisham 24 2

Redbridge 24 2

Westminster 24 2

Luton 23 1

Bexley 21 1

Medway 21 1

Islington 20 1

Hammersmith and Fulham 19 1

Harrow 19 1

Hampshire 18 1

Bedfordshire 17 1

Merton 17 1

Havering 16 1

Button 16 1

Thurrock 15 1

Suffolk 14 1

Northamptonshire 13 1

Cambridgeshire 12 1

Reading 12 1

Windsor and Maidenhead 12 1

Bromley 11 1

Lincolnshire 11 1

Norfolk 11 1

Doncaster 10 1

West Sussex 9 1

East Sussex 8 1

Nottingham 8 1

Richmond upon Thames 8 1

Warwickshire 8 1

West Berkshire 8 1

Camden 7 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Oxfordshire 7 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Peterborough 7 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Southend-on-Sea 7 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Wokingham 7 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Bradford 6 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Bristol City of 6 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Kensington and Chelsea 6 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Kirklees 6 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Milton Keynes 6 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Bracknell Forest 5 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Kingston upon Thames 5 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Leeds 5 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Leicester 5 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Leicestershire 5 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Solihull 5 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Staffordshire 5 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Wiltshire 5 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Southampton 4 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Brighton and Hove 3 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Isle of Wight 3 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Lancashire 3 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Manchester 3 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Nottinghamshire 3 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Sandwell 3 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Somerset 3 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Sunderland 3 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Walsall 3 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Worcestershire 3 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Cornwall 2 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Dudley 2 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Durham 2 ⁽³⁷⁾—

North Somerset 2 ⁽³⁷⁾—

North Tyneside 2 ⁽³⁷⁾—

North Yorkshire 2 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Poole 2 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Portsmouth 2 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Salford 2 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Swindon 2 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Wakefield 2 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Bath and North East Somerset 1 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Bournemouth 1 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Cheshire 1 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Coventry 1 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Cumbria 1 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Darlington 1 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Derbyshire 1 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Devon 1 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Gloucestershire 1 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Halton 1 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Hartlepool 1 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Rochdale 1 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Sefton 1 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Sheffield 1 ⁽³⁷⁾—

South Gloucestershire 1 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Stockton-on-Tees 1 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Stoke-on-Trent 1 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Telford and Wrekin 1 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Torbay 1 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Trafford 1 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Wigan 1 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Wirral 1 ⁽³⁷⁾—

Grand total 1,544 100

⁽³⁷⁾Indicates the percentage is below 1 per cent.

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Local authority	OTTs	Percentage
Surrey	66	4
Southwark	62	4
Essex	58	4
Brent	51	3
Kent	50	3
Hertfordshire	44	3
Hackney	42	3
Hillingdon	42	3
Baling	41	3
Birmingham	38	2
Newham	38	2
Greenwich	33	2
Lambeth	32	2
Buckinghamshire	31	2
Croydon	31	2
Tower Hamlets	31	2
Haringey	29	2
Hounslow	29	2
Barking and Dagenham	28	2
Barnet	28	2
Waltham Forest	28	2
Enfield	27	2
Wandsworth	27	2
Slough	26	2
Lewisham	24	2
Redbridge	24	2
Westminster	24	2
Luton	23	1
Bexley	21	1
Medway	21	1
Islington	20	1
Hammersmith and Fulham	19	1
Harrow	19	1
Hampshire	18	1
Bedfordshire	17	1
Merton	17	1
Havering	16	1
Button	16	1
Thurrock	15	1
Suffolk	14	1
Northamptonshire	13	1
Cambridgeshire	12	1
Reading	12	1
Windsor and Maidenhead	12	1
Bromley	11	1
Lincolnshire	11	1
Norfolk	11	1
Doncaster	10	1
West Sussex	9	1
East Sussex	8	1
Nottingham	8	1
Richmond upon Thames	8	1
Warwickshire	8	1
West Berkshire	8	1
Camden	7	⁽³⁷⁾—
Oxfordshire	7	⁽³⁷⁾—
Peterborough	7	⁽³⁷⁾—
Southend-on-Sea	7	⁽³⁷⁾—
Wokingham	7	⁽³⁷⁾—
Bradford	6	⁽³⁷⁾—
Bristol City of	6	⁽³⁷⁾—
Kensington and Chelsea	6	⁽³⁷⁾—
Kirklees	6	⁽³⁷⁾—
Milton Keynes	6	⁽³⁷⁾—
Bracknell Forest	5	⁽³⁷⁾—
Kingston upon Thames	5	⁽³⁷⁾—
Leeds	5	⁽³⁷⁾—
Leicester	5	⁽³⁷⁾—
Leicestershire	5	⁽³⁷⁾—
Solihull	5	⁽³⁷⁾—
Staffordshire	5	⁽³⁷⁾—
Wiltshire	5	⁽³⁷⁾—
Southampton	4	⁽³⁷⁾—
Brighton and Hove	3	⁽³⁷⁾—
Isle of Wight	3	⁽³⁷⁾—
Lancashire	3	⁽³⁷⁾—
Manchester	3	⁽³⁷⁾—
Nottinghamshire	3	⁽³⁷⁾—
Sandwell	3	⁽³⁷⁾—
Somerset	3	⁽³⁷⁾—
Sunderland	3	⁽³⁷⁾—
Walsall	3	⁽³⁷⁾—
Worcestershire	3	⁽³⁷⁾—
Cornwall	2	⁽³⁷⁾—
Dudley	2	⁽³⁷⁾—
Durham	2	⁽³⁷⁾—
North Somerset	2	⁽³⁷⁾—
North Tyneside	2	⁽³⁷⁾—
North Yorkshire	2	⁽³⁷⁾—
Poole	2	⁽³⁷⁾—
Portsmouth	2	⁽³⁷⁾—
Salford	2	⁽³⁷⁾—
Swindon	2	⁽³⁷⁾—
Wakefield	2	⁽³⁷⁾—
Bath and North East Somerset	1	⁽³⁷⁾—
Bournemouth	1	⁽³⁷⁾—
Cheshire	1	⁽³⁷⁾—
Coventry	1	⁽³⁷⁾—
Cumbria	1	⁽³⁷⁾—
Darlington	1	⁽³⁷⁾—
Derbyshire	1	⁽³⁷⁾—
Devon	1	⁽³⁷⁾—
Gloucestershire	1	⁽³⁷⁾—
Halton	1	⁽³⁷⁾—
Hartlepool	1	⁽³⁷⁾—
Rochdale	1	⁽³⁷⁾—
Sefton	1	⁽³⁷⁾—
Sheffield	1	⁽³⁷⁾—
South Gloucestershire	1	⁽³⁷⁾—
Stockton-on-Tees	1	⁽³⁷⁾—
Stoke-on-Trent	1	⁽³⁷⁾—
Telford and Wrekin	1	⁽³⁷⁾—
Torbay	1	⁽³⁷⁾—
Trafford	1	⁽³⁷⁾—
Wigan	1	⁽³⁷⁾—
Wirral	1	⁽³⁷⁾—
Grand total	1,544	100

Mr. Hands: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what procedures are in place for background checks on teachers taken on under the Overseas Trained Teacher Programme. [43606]

Ruth Kelly: Overseas teachers are subject to the same vetting procedures as UK teachers. The Department provides detailed guidance on the necessary checks which must be carried out before engaging any teacher, including a supply teacher. The guidance requires that employers conduct checks to confirm that a teacher has declared their true identity, that supply teachers have the necessary qualifications and experience and that foreign nationals have permission to work in the UK.

In the future we will require mandatory CRB checks as part of any appointment process on anyone selected for appointment who is or has been resident in the UK. However, it will not be possible to check someone who has never lived in this country because he/she will not

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have a criminal record here and will not be on List 99. We already advise employers to take extra care in other checks on overseas candidates and to seek information about the person's criminal history from their country of origin wherever possible. The CRB provides advice to employers about countries from which it is possible to obtain such information and how to obtain it.

We will be reviewing the process for vetting overseas teachers.

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