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Supply Teachers
Mr. Gauke: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much was spent on supply teachers in each of the last three financial years; and what the forecast amount is for each of the next three years. [50969]
Jacqui Smith: The available information is contained within the table. The Department does not make forecasts of projected spend on supply teachers:
(161) Includes both the salaries and wages of all supply teaching staff employed directly by the school who are covering curriculum release, long term absence, sickness absence and training absence as well as the cost paid to an agency for supply teaching staff that have been brought in to cover teacher absence.
(162) Figures do not include any expenditure on supply teacher insurance. Nor do they net off any receipts from supply teacher insurance claims. Also excluded is any expenditure on supply teachers incurred centrally by the local authority.
(163) Figures only cover local authority maintained primary, secondary and special schools. LA maintained nursery schools were not recorded in 2002–03 while in 2003–04 and 2004–05 total expenditure on supply teachers by local authority maintained nursery schools was £2.8 million and £4.1 million respectively. However the coverage for these two years differs and hence figures have been excluded to provide a comparable time series.
(164) Figures are drawn from local authorities' Section 52 Outturn Statements submitted to the DfES and reported in cash terms as at 8 February 2006.
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Sure Start
Mr. Gauke: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the unit cost per child was of the Sure Start Local Programme (SSLP) and children's centres in SSLP areas in 2004–05; and what the estimated unit cost is for 2005–06 and 2006–07. [52326]
Beverley Hughes: We do not collect information on the unit cost per child for Sure Start local programmes or for Children's Centre services.
Mr. Gauke: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what measures she has taken to bring Sure Start Local Programme financial management and monitoring under local authority control; and what assessment she has made of the impact upon costs (a) to local authorities and (b) elsewhere in Government. [52394]
Beverley Hughes: From April 2006 revenue grants for Sure Start local programmes will be paid direct to local authorities as part of the General Sure Start Grant. These new arrangements will allow local authorities to make efficiency savings on their management and administration costs and will reduce central administration costs.
Mr. Paul Goodman: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many people who began SureStart courses completed them in each year for which figures are available. [52435]
Beverley Hughes [holding answer 16 February 2006]: Information on the number of parents completing courses provided by Sure Start local programmes is not collected centrally.
Teacher Convictions
Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to the answer of 19 January 2006, Official Report, column 1617W, on teacher convictions, how many relevant (a) convictions and (b) cautions were reported to her Department by police in accordance with Annex A, Schedule 2 of Home Office Circular 45/86 in each year since 1997; and how many of these were relating to (i) violence, (ii) indecency, (iii) dishonesty, (iv) drink and (v) drugs. [47431]
Maria Eagle: The information is not available. There is no central record to identify how many cautions and convictions were reported to the Department in each year since 1997 and to what type of offence each caution or conviction relates.
Mr. Gibb:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to the answer of 19 January 2006, Official Report, column 1617W, on teacher convictions, how many registered teachers have been reported for relevant (a) convictions and (b) cautions to her
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Department by police in accordance with annex A, schedule 2 of Home Office Circular 45/86 in each year since 1997; and how many of these were reported for offences relating to (i) violence, (ii) indecency, (iii) dishonesty, (iv) drink and (v) drugs. [47432]
Maria Eagle: The information is not available. There is no central record to identify how many cautions and convictions were reported to the Department in each year since 1997 and to what type of offence each caution or conviction relates.
Teachers
Mr. Gauke: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of those who completed a teacher training course in (a) 2004 and (b) 2005 are employed in England as teachers. [52105]
Jacqui Smith: The proportion of successful completers of conventional initial teacher training courses employed as a teacher within six months of completing their training is derived from the HESA Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education survey and data from initial teacher training providers.
There was no information for 12 per cent. of trainees who were awarded Qualified Teacher Status in England in 2004, but of the remaining 88 per cent., 80 per cent. were teaching in the maintained sector in the UK and 91 per cent. in any sector in the UK, 5 per cent. were seeking a teaching post and 5 per cent. were not actively seeking a teaching post (figures do not add to 100 per cent. due to rounding). For those who qualified in 2003, there was no information for 13 per cent., but for the remaining 87 per cent., the figures were the same as for 2004.
Information is not yet available for 2005.
Kate Hoey: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many teachers there were in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in the last year for which figures are available. [50927]
Jacqui Smith: The information requested was published in the Statistics of Education, School Workforce in England Volume, 2005 edition, on 26 January 2006, table D1 refers. A copy of this has been placed in the House of Commons Library. Alternatively this publication is available on the Department's website at the following URL: http://www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/VOL/v000633/index.shtml
Keith Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many teaching vacancies, including positions filled by temporary staff, there are in secondary schools in (a) Leicester and (b) England. [51008]
Jacqui Smith:
The following table gives the number of teacher vacancies and vacancies including temporarily filled posts in maintained schools in Leicester local authorities and England, January 2005, the latest year available.
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(165) Advertised vacancies for permanent appointments (or appointments of at least one term's duration). Includes vacancies being filled on a temporary basis of less than one term.
(166) Also includes posts covered by a teacher on a contract of no more than 3 terms.
Source:
DfES annual 618G survey.
Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much of the Teachers' Loans budget has been written off. [53122]
Jacqui Smith: The Repayment of Teachers' Loans Scheme spent £75,270,000 in the period between the start of the pilot scheme in September 2002 and end January 2006.
Mr. Gauke: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will make a statement on changes to the Teachers' Pension Scheme for new entrants. [50965]
Ruth Kelly: Negotiations are continuing with teacher union and employer representatives on a package of reforms to the Teachers' Pension Scheme that will include the introduction of a normal pension age of 65 for new entrants. The precise details of the reform package and the date from which changes will be implemented will be the subject of a statutory consultation exercise that is scheduled to begin in the spring.
Mr. Gauke: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what assessment she has made of the administration of the Teachers' Pension Scheme; and what the effect on costs was of re-tendering the contract to administer the scheme. [52042]
Jacqui Smith: The Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS) is administered on behalf of the Department by Capita Business Services Ltd. who were awarded a seven year contract following a competitive tendering exercise in 2003.
This contract is delivering significant service improvement and value for money benefits, including savings of some £500,000 a year compared to the previous contract price. Both the National Audit Office and the Office of Government Commerce Gateway Review process have confirmed the delivery of the expected business benefits from the re-tendering exercise.
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