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Students: Fees and Charges
Mr. Boris Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what the total cost is of student grants to students who previously qualified for education maintenance grants; and what the estimated total cost is for the same cohort under his new student support proposals. [149088]
Bill Rammell: The information on students who receive a grant that previously qualified for an educational maintenance grant is currently not available.
From the 2008/09 academic year, a 16-year-old who qualifies for an educational maintenance allowance will be guaranteed a minimum level of support if they go on to higher education. The guarantee will support aspiration and provide certainty about the financial support available to students to fulfil their potential. The estimated cost will be around £15 million in 2010-11 in steady state.
Unemployment: Young People
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how many people over the age of 16 years and under the state retirement age are not in employment, education or training, or providing full-time child care for their children. [150084]
Mr. Lammy: According to estimates from the Labour Force Survey in quarter 4, 2006 there was a total of 30,710,000 people of working age in England. Of these 5,644,000 (18.4 per cent.) were not in employment, education or training (NEET). Of those who were NEET 913,000 had said that they were either not seeking or not available or not wanting work because they were looking after their family/home and had at least one child aged under five. This leaves a total of 4,731,000 (15.4 per cent. of the working age population) who were NEET and did not say they were unavailable to work because they were looking after a child under five.
Mr. Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how many and what proportion of people aged 18 to 24 years had been classed as not in employment, education or training for (a) up to three months, (b) between three and six months, (c) between six and nine months, (d) between nine and 12 months and (e) over 12 months in each quarter since 1992. [148360]
Mr. Lammy [holding answer 9 July 2007]: The information requested is not available. However, snapshot estimates are available from the Labour Force Survey. The following table gives for England the number and proportion of 18-24 year olds classed as not in employment, education or training for years and quarters available.
Vocational Training: Foreigners
Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how many non-UK nationals are undertaking vocational training at UK Government expense. [148215]
Bill Rammell:
The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) collects data on country of domicile of learners through the Individualised Learner Record (ILR). It is not possible to provide data on learners undertaking vocational training, particularly as a number of young
people follow a mixed programme involving both vocational and general subjects. For funding purposes, the LSC regards as ‘ordinarily resident’ any person who habitually, normally and lawfully resides in the UK or European Union or the European economic area for the three years prior to the start of their course as ‘home’ learners. The LSC only funds provision for home learners if they satisfy the three years residency criteria. In 2005-06 there were 44,630 non-UK nationals who were learners on publicly funded further education (FE) provision and 2,230 on work based learning (WBL) programmes. Non-UK nationals accounted for 1.3 per cent. of all LSC funded FE provision and 0.4 per cent. of all WBL learners. The data for 2006-07 are not yet available.
Justice
Appeals: Social Security Benefits
Dr. Gibson: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many single (a) women and (b) men with children had their benefits restored at appeal in each of the last five years. [148305]
Bridget Prentice: The information is not available in the format requested. Data are not collated by gender, nor whether the appeal relates to a benefit previously awarded.
The following tables show the total number of appeals cleared at a hearing for the last five years, and broken down by the type of hearing. The number of outcomes where it was favourable to the appellant is also given.
| Social security and child support appeals—outcomes by hearing type | ||||||
| Oral hearings | Paper hearings | |||||
| Tax year | Total cleared | Decided in favour | Percentage | Total cleared | Decided in favour | Percentage |
| Domiciliary | All hearings | |||||
| Tax year | Total cleared | Decided in favour | Percentage | Total cleared | Decided in favour | Percentage |
| Notes: 1. All figures are subject to change as more up to date data become available 2. Cases transferred onto the new appeals system G2 may not have been updated on GAPS 3. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10 4. Totals may not sum due to rounding Definitions: Total cleared—All appeals that went to a hearing and were cleared Decided in favour—All hearing decisions in favour of the appellant Source: 100 per cent. download of the Generic Appeals Processing System (GAPS) | ||||||
Coroners: Armed Forces
Mr. Dai Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding for the coroner to conduct inquiries into British military and auxiliary medical personnel killed in Iraq and Afghanistan respectively. [150378]
Bridget Prentice: Coroners are funded by the relevant local authority and police authority. Until 31 March 2007 bodies from Iraq and Afghanistan were repatriated via RAF Brize Norton in the Oxfordshire coroner’s jurisdiction and the Government exceptionally provided additional resources to the Oxfordshire coroner to deal with a backlog which had built up in his jurisdiction. Since 1 April 2007 bodies from Iraq and Afghanistan have been repatriated via RAF Lyneham to the jurisdiction of the Wiltshire and Swindon coroner. The coroner has transferred the majority of the inquests to coroners located more closely to the deceased’s next of kin. We are keeping the handling of these inquests under review and reporting to the House quarterly on progress. The Secretary of State and I plan to meet the Wiltshire and Swindon coroner before the recess and MOJ and MOD officials will also be meeting the coroner, Wiltshire county council and Wiltshire constabulary shortly.
Mr. Gray: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what plans he has to meet Mr. David Masters, the Wiltshire coroner, to discuss military inquests. [150518]
Bridget Prentice: The Secretary of State and I plan to meet Mr. Masters before the summer recess.
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