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Education and Skills
Adult Education
Martin Horwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what his most recent estimate is of the number of adults in the workplace without a first full Level 2 qualification, broken down by (a) Learning and Skills Council and (b) local education authority; and if he will make a statement. [108113]
Phil Hope: The Department publishes annual figures on Qualifications and Participation in Learning at a local level; the latest version for January-December 2005 can be found at:
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/STA/t000677/index.shtml
The table on Qualification Attainment of economically active adults includes the number and proportion of adults in the workforce without a Level 2 qualification broken down by LSC and local education authority area.
Nationally, we are making very good progress towards the Adult Level 2 PSA target. We expect to exceed comfortably the 2006 interim milestone—1 million more adults in the workforce with Level 2 or higher qualifications since 2003—when final Labour Force Survey results for 2006 are published in March 2007.
Apprentices: Darlington
Mr. Milburn:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many apprenticeships there
were in Darlington in each of the last five years for which figures are available. [108829]
Bill Rammell: Figures for those participating in Apprenticeships (previously called Modern Apprenticeships) funded by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) can be derived from the Individualised Learner Record (ILR). This was collated for the first time in 2001/02 (as an Interim ILR) and consistent and comparable figures are currently only available for the three following years.
The following table shows the total number of Apprentices in Darlington (based on the home postcode of the learner) for each year from 2002/03 to 2004/05.
| Darlington | Advanced apprenticeship | Apprenticeship | Total |
| Note: Figures rounded to nearest 10. | |||
BBC Jam
Mr. Vaizey: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills with whom responsibility lies for (a) setting the conditions for BBC Jam and (b) monitoring compliance with those conditions; and if he will make a statement. [108854]
Mr. Lammy: I have been asked to reply.
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State set the conditions for the approval of BBC Jam. The conditions were part of a letter approving the service (at that time known as the Digital Curriculum) from my right hon. Friend to the then Chairman of the BBC, dated 8 January 2003.
Primary responsibility for ensuring compliance with these conditions currently lies with the Board of Governors. Under the terms of the new Charter, the effect of conditions attached to approvals granted by the Secretary
of State must be incorporated into the service licence that the BBC Trust should issue to cover the service. Primary responsibility for ensuring compliance with the licence will rest in future with the BBC Trust.
Child Care
Mr. Paul Goodman: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many day nurseries have (a) closed and (b) opened since 2003. [107541]
Beverley Hughes: The available information is shown in the following table.
| Table 1: full day care providers | ||
| Opened | Closed | |
| Source: Data: Ofsted | ||
Ofsted data on closures include registered places in settings which are transferring ownership, and in settings which move from one Ofsted category to another, not just in those which are ceasing trading. For example, if a full day care provider moved to offering sessional provision, this would be recorded as a ‘closed’ full day care setting and an ‘opened’ sessional day care setting. The Ofsted data therefore exaggerate the true extent of turnover.
Ofsted have produced figures on the numbers of registered child care providers and places on a quarterly basis from March 2003. Their latest figures were published in their report “Registered Childcare Providers and Places, September 2006”, which is available on their website, www.Ofsted.gov.uk/
Mr. Paul Goodman: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many child care places have (a) opened and (b) closed since 2003. [107542]
Beverley Hughes: The available information is shown in the following table.
| Table 1: data provided by Ofsted | ||||
| Places | ||||
| 2003/04 | 2004/05 | 2005/06 | March 2006-September 2006 | |
| (1) The net steady state refers to registered providers whose registration status has not changed, but whose number of places has fluctuated over the period in question. | ||||
Ofsted data on closures include registered places in settings which are transferring ownership, and in settings which move from one Ofsted category to another, not just in those which are ceasing trading. For example, if a sessional provider moved to offering full day care provision, its places would be recorded as ‘closed’ sessional places and ‘opened’ full day care places. The Ofsted data therefore exaggerate the true extent of turnover.
Ofsted have produced figures on the numbers of registered child care providers and places on a quarterly basis from March 2003. Their latest figures were published in their report “Registered Childcare Providers and Places, September 2006”, which is available on their website, www.Ofsted.gov.uk/
Mr. Paul Goodman: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many (a) full-time and (b) part-time child care places have been available in each local authority area since March 2003. [107550]
Beverley Hughes: The Department is unable to provide details of the number of full-time or part-time child care places available as this data are not collected centrally.
Ofsted have produced figures on the number of registered child care places (by child care type) at local authority level on a quarterly basis from March 2003. Their figures are available on their website at www.Ofsted.gov.uk/
Children's Centres
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills when he expects the next children’s centres to open. [108543]
Beverley Hughes: Local authorities are responsible for the planning and delivery of Sure Start children’s centres, and they will continue to open them on an ongoing basis as they get the required facilities and services in place. There are currently 1,049 designated centres, with the figure rising every month as we progress towards our target of 2,500 by March 2008. By March 2010 there will be at least 3,500 children’s centres, one for every community in England.
Mr. Paul Goodman: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will list the children’s centres in (a) Aylesbury, (b) Beaconsfield, (c) Buckingham, (d) Chesham and Amersham and (e) Wycombe constituency. [107864]
Beverley Hughes:
There are two designated Sure Start Children’s Centres in Buckinghamshire local authority. Sure Start Wycombe Children’s Centre builds on a Sure Start Local Programme (SSLP) and a neighbourhood
nursery (NNI). The centre is located within the Wycombe constituency. Southcourt Children’s Centre is based on a neighbourhood nursery and a local primary school and is situated within the Aylesbury constituency.
There are currently no designated children’s centres in the constituencies of Beaconsfield, Buckingham and Chesham and Amersham. There are however, a further 22 centres planned in Buckinghamshire as part of the phase two (2006-08) children’s centre roll out with the following distribution: Aylesbury (five centres), Beaconsfield (four), Buckingham (three), Chesham and Amersham (three) and Wycombe (seven).
Day Care: Worthing
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the percentage take-up of places is in each child care facility in East Worthing and Shoreham. [108443]
Beverley Hughes: The information requested is not collected centrally.
Ofsted have produced figures on the number of registered child care places at local authority level on a quarterly basis from March 2003. Their latest figures were published in their report “Registered Childcare Providers and Places, September 2006”, which is available on their website at www.Ofsted.gov.uk/
Departmental Mail
Mr. Weir: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of his Department’s mail is shipped using private companies; and what the cost has been over the last 12 months. [107902]
Mr. Dhanda: In the financial year 2005-06 the Department for Education and Skills spent £390,882 on mail services. Of this total £28,798 was spent on private company couriers, amounting to 7.37 per cent. of total business.
Foundation Degree Courses
Mr. Boris Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the proportion is of those who have received a foundation degree since its inception who have gone on to enrol on an honours degree course, broken down by (a) year and (b) type of honours institution; and what proportion of such enrolment was into a (i) pre-1992 and (ii) post-1992 university. [105523]
Bill Rammell: The available information is shown in the table.
| Of those students who gained a foundation degree in the previous academic year, the number and proportion who are enrolled on a first degree course in a UK higher education institution | |||||
| Of which, first degree enrolments | Of which: | ||||
| Number foundation degree qualifiers in previous academic year | Number | Proportion (%) | Pre-1992 (%) | Post-1992 (%) | |
| Note: Numbers are rounded to the nearest five, and percentages are shown to the nearest integer. Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) | |||||
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