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Teaching Methods: Finance
Dr. Gibson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) how much funding has been made available by his Department for the promotion of the Learning Outside the Classroom Manifesto; [130208]
(2) what proportion of pupils studying science GCSEs have undertaken investigative fieldwork outside the classroom. [130221]
Jim Knight: Between 2006-08, the Department will make available £2.7 million to support the delivery of the aims of the Learning Outside the Classroom Manifesto. Other funding streams support a range of opportunities, for example, the joint DCMS/DFES Museums and Galleries and the London Challenge New Views programmes. Schools also use their own budgets to provide these experiences for their pupils. The Department does not collect information about the proportion of students undertaking investigative fieldwork outside the classroom.
Teaching Methods: Portsmouth
Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills when Admiral Lord Nelson Business and Enterprise College in Portsmouth adopted the two year Key Stage 3 approach referred to in the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority secondary curriculum review supporting materials; and what results were achieved at Key Stage 3 in (a) the year before adopting this approach and (b) each year since adopting this approach. [130317]
Jim Knight: Admiral Lord Nelson Business and Enterprise College in Portsmouth adopted a two year Key stage 3 approach five years ago.
Results achieved by schools at Key Stage 3 have only been published since 2002. The Admiral Lord Nelson Business and Enterprise College Key Stage 3 results from 2002 onwards are reproduced in the following table.
| Percentage of pupils achieving level 5 or above: English | Percentage of pupils achieving level 5 or above: Maths | Percentage of pupils achieving level 5 or above: Science | |
Train to Gain Programme
Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of the participants in the Train to Gain programme working towards qualifications have received (a) between 0 and 20 hours, (b) between 20 and 30 hours, (c) between 30 and 40 hours, (d) between 40 and 50 hours and (e) between 50 and 60 hours training. [130647]
Phil Hope: The information requested is not collected or held centrally. The cost of collecting such information would be disproportionate, and it would be overly bureaucratic to collect from colleges and training providers.
Truancy
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much his Department has spent on anti-truancy measures since 1997. [131644]
Jim Knight: “Truancy” is one of several reasons why a child may be absent from school without authorisation. My Department has spent the following on measures aimed solely at reducing absence from schools:
£11.25 million to help 530 secondary schools which had higher than average rates of unauthorised absence to purchase electronic registration systems;
£2.0 million on the National Strategies’ work to provide support to local authorities on their attendance strategies;
£0.3 million on eight advisers seconded from local authorities to the Department to work with 60 local authorities with high levels of unauthorised absence;
£48,000 on absence data collections (in addition to school census collections);
£0.1 million for publicity and promotion materials; and
£0.2 million on events for local authorities to share effective practice on attendance management.
In addition to these specific measures my Department has funded other initiatives such as the Behaviour Improvement Programme which have had, as part of their overall objectives, the reduction of absence and truancy.
Vocational Education
Martin Horwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the timetable is for the introduction of specialised diplomas; and if he will make a statement. [130874]
Phil Hope: We have met the milestones for development of the new diploma qualifications that we published in the 14-19 Education and Skills Implementation Plan (DfES 2037-2005DCL-EN). This means that we are on track for Diploma courses to be provided for the first time from September 2008.
Youth Services: Hartlepool
Mr. Iain Wright: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what schemes funded by his Department were instituted in Hartlepool constituency to provide young people with (a) activities and (b) somewhere to socialise in the last five years. [130898]
Mr. Dhanda: Youth programmes of a diversionary and/or development nature which have been funded by DfES, and instituted in Hartlepool, in the last five years include Children’s Fund, Local Network Fund, the Neighbourhood Support Fund (NSF), Positive Activities for Young People (PAYP), Millennium Volunteers (MV), Youth Opportunity and Youth Capital Funds. Local authority youth services and the voluntary and community sector also run youth provision with the aim of providing personal, social and educational development for young people. All activities listed provide opportunities for young people to socialise.
Youth Work: Tees Valley
Mr. Iain Wright: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many youth workers there were in each local authority in the Tees Valley area in each of the last 10 years. [130899]
Mr. Dhanda: Youth workers are recruited and employed locally by local authority youth services. Information is not held centrally on the number of youth workers directly employed at a local level.
Written Answers to Questions
Monday 16 April 2007
Health
Abortions
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many abortions have been performed by Marie Stopes International in the last three years, broken down by (a) grounds, (b) length of gestation, (c) location and (d) nationality of the pregnant woman; how many inspections were carried out on premises occupied by Marie Stopes International in each of the last three years; how many complaints have been received by her Department about Marie Stopes International in the same period; and if she will make a statement. [129525]
Caroline Flint: Information on the number of abortions performed by Marie Stopes International (MSI) in England by grounds, gestation and the woman’s place of residence is set out in the following table. The place of termination has been withheld in order to protect individuals’ confidentiality. This is in line with the Office for National Statistics’ guidance on the disclosure of abortion statistics, 2005.
Approved independent sector abortion clinics are inspected by the Healthcare Commission on an annual basis. Copies of the inspection reports can be viewed at:
The Department has received a small number of complaints during the last three years which were investigated. Under the Care Standards Act 2000, MSI is required to supply each patient with a written copy of its complaints procedure, fully investigate each complaint and maintain a detailed, written record of each complaint. MSI is also required to send the Healthcare Commission a statement every year with a summary of the complaints received.
In addition, the Healthcare Commission look at these records as part of a clinic inspection.
| Abortions performed by Marie Stopes International, England, 2003-05 | |||
| 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | |
Accident and Emergency Departments
Mr. Waterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 19 March 2007, Official Report, columns 727-28W on accident and emergency (A and E) admissions, how many attendances there were at Eastbourne District General Hospital A and E department in each of the last five years. [130969]
Andy Burnham: Information is not collected centrally at the level of individual hospitals. However, information on the total number of attendances at accident and emergency (A&E) departments at East Sussex Hospitals National Health Service Trust is shown in the table.
| Attendances at accident and emergency | |
| Note: 2006-07 data are for Q1, Q2 and Q3 only. Source: Department of Health dataset QMAE | |
Accidents: Fees and Charges
John Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what the start date was of the NHS Injury Cost Recovery Scheme; and if she will make a statement; [131126]
(2) how much the NHS Injury Cost Recovery Scheme is expected to cover each year; and if she will make a statement. [131127]
Andy Burnham: The regulations governing the operation of the national health service injury cost recovery (ICR) scheme came into force on 29 January 2007. The ICR scheme subsumes the existing road traffic accident (RTA) recovery scheme, and expands it to cover all cases where personal injury compensation is paid.
The existing RTA recovery scheme brings in more than £120 million for the NHS each year. We expect
that the expanded scheme will recover a further £150 million a year once it is properly bedded down.
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