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Working Tax Credit

Mr. Gauke: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many claims for working tax credits for households without children there were in the most recent period for which figures are available; and what the total expenditure on those claims was in that period. [133844]

John Healey: Estimates of the number of families without children claiming working tax credits in 2004-05, including information on total expenditure on these claims, is available on the HMRC website at:

Figures for 2005-06 are due to be published on 22 May.

Youth for Europe

Mr. Hayes: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer which Youth for Europe projects have been financed by the EU in the UK in the last 12 months. [133095]

Bill Rammell: I have been asked to reply.

The Youth for Europe projects within the UK receiving EU funding in the last 12 months are shown in alphabetic order in the following list.


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Education and Skills

Business Link

Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much funding was given to Business Link in each of the last three years. [134432]

Margaret Hodge: I have been asked to reply.

In each of the last three years, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) have provided the following levels of funding for the Business Link service:


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£ million

2004-05

140

2005-06

140

2006-07

140

Source:
The Small Business Service Agency Annual Accounts and Reports

The budgets from the DTI are made available through the “single pot” of money allocated to Regional Development Agencies.

Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service

Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the 2007-08 Budget is for the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service; and what the budget was in each of the last five years. [134251]

Mr. Dhanda: I refer the hon. Member to the answer that I gave her on 19 April 2007, Official Report, column 719W. The information requested in respect of 2003-04 and 2002-03 is in the table.

£

2003-04

95,000,000 (on a resource basis, plus 2,500,000 provision for transition to resource accounting)(1)

2002-03

84,500,000 (on a cash basis)(1)

(1) Includes the budget for CAFCASS Cymru

Children in Care

Mr. Steen: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many children are in local authority care in England, broken down by ethnic background. [132749]

Mr. Dhanda [holding answer 23 April 2007]: The number of children who are in local authority care in England broken down by ethnic background at 31 March 2006 is shown in the following table.


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Children looked after at 3 1 M arch 2006 by ethnicity( 1,)( )( 2) , England
Ethnic origin All children looked after at 31 March 2006 (Number)

All children( 1,)( )( 2)

60,300

White

47,200

White British

45,100

White Irish

450

Any other White background

1,600

Mixed

5,000

White and Black Caribbean

1,900

White and Black African

420

White and Asian

730

Any other mixed background

2,000

Asian or Asian British

2,000

Indian

300

Pakistani

610

Bangladeshi

270

Any other Asian background

870

Black or Black British

4,900

Caribbean

1,600

African

2,400

Any other Black background

920

Other ethnic groups

1,200

Chinese

120

Any other ethnic group

1,100

(1) Figures exclude children looked after under an agreed series of short term placements.
(2) To preserve the confidentiality of each individual child, figures at national level have been rounded to the nearest 100 if they exceed 1,000 and to the nearest 10 otherwise.
Source:
SSDA903 return

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