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Northern Ireland

Blind and Partially Sighted Pupils

Sammy Wilson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what steps are being taken to ensure that blind and partially sighted pupils in Northern Ireland have adequate access to suitable school text books. [102356]

Maria Eagle: I have recently announced the commencement of research into the availability of textbooks and other materials for visually impaired schoolchildren. A project team will consider and scope the scale of the difficulties in Northern Ireland in making available such provision, for example in large print, audio and Braille formats.

The project team comprises membership from the education sector and from stakeholder groups, such as the Royal National Institute for the Blind and the Jordanstown Schools for children with auditory and visual impairments. The team will present its report and recommendations, with an action plan for the way forward, by the end of March 2007.

Children: Maintenance

Lady Hermon: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many parents in each Northern Ireland parliamentary constituency defaulted on their
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child support payments in each of the last 18 months for which figures are available. [125038]

Mr. Hanson: The number of parents in each Northern Ireland parliamentary constituency who have defaulted on their child support payments in each of
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the last 18 months is shown in the following tables. The information has been broken down to show the number of non-resident parents who have defaulted on their child support payments by either not complying at all or by only partially complying.

Number of nil and partially compliant non-resident parents by parliamentary constituency
	Belfast East		Belfast North		Belfast South		Belfast West		East Antrim		East Londonderry
	Nil	Partial	Nil	Partial	Nil	Partial	Nil	Partial	Nil	Partial	Nil	Partial
August 2005	144	72	239	116	119	55	257	112	196	80	178	80
September 2005	147	87	234	143	129	87	266	156	194	93	185	109
October 2005	142	78	231	115	116	65	238	121	179	69	176	72
November 2005	159	65	245	94	133	58	255	112	191	59	185	66
December 2005	176	95	285	189	147	106	308	188	218	101	203	104
January 2006	155	44	276	88	132	58	275	90	216	46	190	59
February 2006	190	59	310	111	164	56	328	97	260	67	235	54
March 2006	164	95	279	176	144	70	293	192	215	92	204	91
April 2006	172	69	300	105	154	62	300	111	214	67	214	50
May 2006	174	91	293	169	145	76	303	155	210	80	205	87
June 2006	180	115	286	187	143	85	296	211	210	112	191	102
July 2006	179	71	298	102	146	63	306	124	220	65	202	83
August 2006	171	89	292	136	159	52	293	150	200	81	210	79
September 2006	191	93	311	185	142	92	293	192	215	116	213	106
October 2006	200	68	326	111	151	78	299	120	221	82	222	79
November 2006	205	74	329	107	161	71	315	142	224	74	218	66
December 2006	204	110	333	200	175	88	340	226	224	109	236	107
January 2007	206	75	334	151	184	66	325	160	210	70	226	82

	Fermanagh and South Tyrone		Foyle		Lagan Valley		Mid Ulster		Newry and Armagh		North Antrim
	Nil	Partial	Nil	Partial	Nil	Partial	Nil	Partial	Nil	Partial	Nil	Partial
August 2005	99	47	228	114	157	86	141	55	158	67	208	77
September 2005	104	63	253	109	163	90	141	79	171	83	190	122
October 2005	98	34	220	118	163	74	132	52	152	57	193	76
November 2005	117	28	281	101	171	61	149	42	177	52	223	74
December 2005	121	66	286	192	183	119	160	84	190	115	233	113
January 2006	114	34	269	77	189	51	152	41	184	43	223	45
February 2006	140	30	313	80	214	75	167	54	205	62	240	60
March 2006	131	61	267	179	183	95	159	88	183	87	209	122
April 2006	129	49	288	107	187	66	162	53	191	60	226	63
May 2006	135	50	268	151	177	93	163	72	193	84	205	91
June 2006	126	58	269	157	173	121	170	75	187	113	207	126
July 2006	118	40	272	107	177	84	174	59	182	67	217	65
August 2006	123	48	269	115	179	69	160	50	197	57	207	77
September 2006	125	60	280	179	189	114	169	80	192	120	216	134
October 2006	123	42	286	110	186	75	162	70	199	67	229	77
November 2006	119	42	311	113	191	81	145	64	213	55	229	76
December 2006	135	66	313	178	200	114	160	92	222	135	239	125
January 2007	126	56	314	123	190	68	177	53	214	82	240	94

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