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Mr. Laws:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many people below the age
of 19 years have received support from Connexions in (a) Yeovil constituency and (b) Somerset in the past 12 months. [82179]
Mr. Dhanda: The Department collects data on the number of interventions provided but not on the number of young people receiving support. In the past 12 months 33,433 young people were counted in the Connexions cohort of young people in Somerset. They received a total of 37,935 interventions. The Department does not hold this information at constituency level.
Departmental guidance is that, to count as an intervention there needs to be some element of assistance involving a substantial or meaningful exchange with the young person. This should be of enough significance to be noted in their client record. It would normally exclude straightforward referrals to specific opportunities, e.g. job submissions, the provision of factual information and simple follow up to find out if the young person still wanted assistance.
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the average cost to his Department was of replying to a letter written (a) by an hon. Member and (b) by a member of the public in the latest period for which figures are available; and how much of that sum is accounted for by (i) officials time, (ii) cost of stationery and (iii) postage costs. [80477]
Bill Rammell: The Cabinet Office, on an annual basis, publishes a report to Parliament on the performance of departments in replying to Members/peers correspondence. The report for 2005 was published on 30 March 2006, Official Report, columns 76-78WS. The information requested is not recorded and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Clegg: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will list the criminal offences created in legislation sponsored by his Department since April 2005, broken down by Act. [76907]
Mr. Dhanda: I refer the hon. Member to the replies given on 11 January 2005, Official Report, column 450W, and 14 December 2005, Official Report, column 2072W.
Since 1 April 2005 eight new offences were created in legislation sponsored by the Department for Education and Skills.
The Education Act 2005 created five new offences relating to the obstruction of an inspection. These provisions are found in sections 4(3), 10(2), 23(3), 24(4) (which relate to the inspection of schools) and in section 57(5) (which relates to the inspection of careers services in Wales).
Two further offences were also created by sections 109 and 111 of the Education Act 2005. These concern the unauthorised disclosure of certain information arising from provisions introduced by the 2005 Act
which permitted tax and social security information to be shared for the purpose of deciding on or checking eligibility for Education Maintenance Allowances and free school meals. Unauthorised disclosure of such information was therefore made an offence.
The Children and Adoption Act 2006 received Royal Assent on 21 June 2006. By section 12(3) of the Act, which is not yet in force, one new offence concerning adoptions from abroad was created. An offence is committed when a British resident brings or causes another to bring a child into the United Kingdom and conditions specified by the Secretary of State have not been met.
Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many Department-owned vehicles have been issued to his staff in the last 12 months; to whom they were issued; for what reason; and at what cost. [81908]
Mr. Dhanda: The Department for Education and Skills (DfES) has not issued any vehicles owned by the Department to staff during the last 12 months.
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of (a) GCSE, (b) AS and (c) A-level examinations sat in 2006 will be written by Edexcel. [82002]
Jim Knight: These data are collected by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) in the autumn following each examination series and are normally published in March the following year. Consequently, data on the summer 2006 examination series are not yet available.
The data for 2005 are shown as follows:
Total of examination papers set by Edexcel | |||
Qualification for which examination papers were sat | Total of examination papers set | Number | Percentage |
Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much Government funding for education services was administered centrally by Lancashire local education authority (LEA) in each of the last three years; and how much was administered on average by all LEAs in each year. [81412]
Jim Knight: The available information has been placed in the Libraries.
Mr. Kidney: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the membership is of the School Funding Implementation Group. [81435]
Jim Knight: The School Funding Implementation Group advises the Department on matters relating to school funding, in the context of the wider policy objectives for schools and the Every Child Matters agenda. The members of the group are organisations representing school leaders, school governors, local authorities and the managers of the local education service, and these organisations are responsible for nominating their individual representatives.
The current membership is: the Association of School and College Leaders, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, the National Association of Head Teachers and the National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers (representing school leaders); the National Governors Association (representing school governors); the Local Government Association (representing local authorities); and the Confederation of Education and Childrens Services Managers (representing the management of the local education service). Representatives of the Audit Commission, the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Learning and Skills Council also attend meetings as appropriate.
Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many educational premises have been declared unfit for use since 1997. [81905]
Jim Knight: Information on the number of educational premises that have been declared unfit for use since 1997 is not held by the Department.
John Hemming: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) how many emergency protection orders have been applied for by each social services local authority in each of the last three years; and how many of those were applied for ex parte; [80567]
(2) how many emergency protection orders were applied for by each local authority in each of the last three years; how many were applied for ex-parte; of the ex-parte orders granted how many of each were granted; and how many were for children (a) under and (b) over the age of one year. [81580]
Beverley Hughes: Information on the number of emergency protection order (EPO) applications made by local authorities is not collected by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES). Information on the number of children starting to be looked after for each social services local authority, as a result of an EPO made by the family courts, during the years ending 31 March 2003, 31 March 2004 and 31 March 2005 are presented in the following table. The DfES does not collect information about the numbers of ex-parte EPO applications.
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