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Mr. Rooney: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will introduce a module on health and safety as part of the teacher training curriculum and as a professional development tool for teachers. [100371]
Jim Knight: It has not proved possible to respond in the time available before Prorogation.
Harry Cohen: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many (a) teachers and (b) teaching assistants were employed in (i) Redbridge and (ii) Waltham Forest in (A) 2005-06 and (B) each of the preceding five years. [96690]
Jim Knight: It has not proved possible to respond in the time available before Prorogation.
Vocational Training
Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will take steps to ensure that young people injured on practical vocational training within educational establishments are reported as trainees and not as members of the public; and if he will make a statement. [99513]
Phil Hope:
Specified major injuries arising from work activities suffered by people who are not employees,
including young people undertaking practical vocational training within educational establishments, are reportable under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) 1995. The Learning and Skills Council places a contractual obligation on colleges and other providers who have the primary "duty of care" for the health and safety of learners that this duty is fully met, as defined by the Health and Safety (Training for Employment) Regulations 1990. The Government have no plans to change the legal status of young people on practical vocational training within educational establishments from members of the public to trainees.
Work Placements
Mr. Rooney: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what steps his Department takes to ensure that (a) schools, (b) colleges and (c) local authorities meet European network of training organisations standards to ensure that employers and workplaces taking young people on work placements are suitable. [100151]
Jim Knight: Work experience is our single biggest, co-ordinated engagement between employers and education. Education Business Partnerships and the Trident Trust help schools to organise work placements, including ensuring that health and safety and child protection requirements are met. We would advise schools, colleges and local authorities to think carefully about their provision if they organise work experience placements without such expert help.
Health
Accident and Emergency Departments
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many attendances at type one accident and emergency departments there were in each quarter since the quarter ended June 1997; and how many admissions to hospital from accident and emergency departments there were in each quarter over the same period. [92038]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The information is not available in the format requested.
Mr. Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what guarantees were given on the future of the accident and emergency department at the Princess Royal Hospital, Haywards Heath arising from the Best Care, Best Place document and its conclusions. [100325]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: The configuration of local health services is a matter for the local national health service.
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average size of catchment area was for accident and emergency departments in England in (a) 1997, (b) 2001, (c) 2005 and (d) the most recent period for which figures are available in terms of (i) geographical area and (ii) number of people. [98631]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The data requested are not available in the format requested. Population data at hospital level or trust level are not collated centrally as national health service trusts do not have specific catchment areas.
Accident and Emergency Treatment Statistics
Nick Herbert: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the (a) forecast and (b) outturn figures were for admissions to the accident and emergency departments of (i) the Princess Royal Hospital, Haywards Heath, (ii) the Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, (iii) the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, (iv) St Richard's Hospital, Chichester and (v) Worthing Hospital in each of the last five years. [94837]
Ms Rosie Winterton: Information on attendances at and admissions via accident and emergency (A&E) departments is collected only at trust level and no forecast data are collected.
The table shows the number of attendances at, and admissions through, all the types of A&E departments at Brighton and Sussex University hospitals national health service trust, Portsmouth hospitals NHS trust, Royal West Sussex NHS trust and Worthing and Southlands hospitals NHS Trust for the last five years.
Abortions
Mr. Rob Wilson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many abortions were carried out at (a) 21, (b) 22, (c) 23 and (d) 24 weeks of pregnancy in the UK in the last 12 months; and how many of those abortions (i) were carried out on the grounds of disability, (ii) cited disabilities of the palate and (iii) cited Down’s Syndrome. [99105]
Caroline Flint: The available information is set out in the tables.
| Abortions performed at 21 to 24 weeks’ gestation: totals; totals performed under Section 1(1 )(d)( 1) of the Abortion Act 1967; and totals by selected medical conditions, residents, England and Wales 2005 | |
| Weeks gestation | Total abortions |
| (1) that there is a substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped (2 )includes 24 weeks and 0 days gestation | |
| Weeks gestation | Total performed under Section 1(1 )(d)( 1) | Total with a principal medical condition of cleft lip and/or cleft palate | Total with a principal medical condition of Down’s syndrome |
| (1) that there is a substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped (2 )includes 24 weeks and 0 days gestation (3) less than 10 (0 - 9 cases). Data suppressed for reasons of confidentiality, in line with the Office for National Statistics’ guidance on the disclosure of abortion statistics (2005). | |||
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many abortions have been performed under the Abortion Act 1967 as amended by section 37 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 in England; how many and what percentage of such abortions were performed (a) to save the life of the mother and (b) where the unborn child would have been seriously handicapped; and how many and what percentage of these abortions were where the unborn child was suffering from cleft (i) palate and (ii) lip. [99253]
Caroline Flint: The number of abortions performed in England and Wales on residents of England and Wales in the 38 years, 1968 to 2005 was 5.3 million (5,289,701). Of these 23,726 (0.4 per cent.) were performed under sections l(l)(c) and 1(4) of the Abortion Act 1967. These are cases where the continuance of the pregnancy would involve risk to the life of the pregnant woman, greater than if the pregnancy were terminated, or where the termination is immediately necessary to save the life or to prevent grave permanent injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman. 70,200 abortions (1.3 per cent, of the total) were performed under section l(l)(d); that there is a substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped.
In the period between 1995(1) and 2005 there were 42 (0.002 per cent.) terminations where the foetus was recorded as having a primary diagnosis of cleft lip and/or cleft palate.
(1) Information prior to 1995 is not available.
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what (a) representations she has received and (b) studies she has evaluated on the psychological effects of abortion since January; and if she will make a statement. [99259]
Caroline Flint: Due to the way we record correspondence topics, we cannot supply information on representations received on this topic without disproportionate cost.
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