House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 22 July 2008 (pt 0071)

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Family Law

Mr. Bellingham: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what proportion of family court cases involved a Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service representative in the last period for which figures are available. [220761]

Kevin Brennan: The information requested is not available. Separate statistics are collected by the Ministry of Justice and CAFCASS; proportions cannot be calculated from the statistics because they are collected for different business purposes.

Food

Mr. Paice: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much his Department spent on (a) food and (b) food of British origin in each of the last five years. [214887]

Kevin Brennan: The Department for Children, Schools and Families was created on 28 June 2007. It spent £495,176 on food in 2007-08.

Information on the amount of spend broken down into food of British origin could be provided only at disproportionate costs. A report was produced by DEFRA and issued to Parliament on the proportion of domestically produced food used in Government departments during the period 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007. DEFRA proposes to publish data on the value of contracts let for food and catering contracts (including the value of food provided under the catering contracts) by the end of 2008 which will allow calculations to be made.

Literacy: Hearing Impaired

Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) what arrangements are in place to ensure that the teaching of literacy is accessible to deaf children, with particular regard to the use of phonics; [220143]

(2) what arrangements are in place to ensure deaf children who fail to attain level 3 at key stage 2 English are receiving catch-up support tailored to their needs; [220144]

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Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) what steps he is planning to implement to reduce the gap in attainment between deaf children and their hearing peers; and if he will make a statement. [220683]

Kevin Brennan: Our key priority is to personalise learning by focusing on each pupil's progression so that every child achieves their potential. Our renewed literacy strategy builds on Sir Jim Rose’s independent review of the teaching of early reading by putting phonics at the heart of ‘teaching reading in order to help to raise attainment levels amongst all pupils.

The review found that there was a wide range of expert support and guidance available to help schools match provision to need regarding the teaching of literacy.

Through the national strategies we will continue to encourage teachers to apply inclusive principles to address issues of accessibility, including the needs of children with severe sensory impairment such as deafness.

The primary national strategy and other partners provide a range of intervention programmes to help those children who struggle most in reading and writing. These include the Every Child a Reader and Every Child a Writer programmes. The former provides intensive one to one support in reading for five and six year olds, the latter is a new pilot currently under development but will include one-to-one intervention in years three and four in the areas of writing that children find hardest to master.

Extra help is available for those children who need it to prevent them from falling behind: we provide early literacy support (ELS—year 1), Y3 literacy support (Y3LS) and further literacy support (FLS—year 5). These three packages are designed to help those children who, without additional help would not reach level 4 at the end of year 6.

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Overseas Students

Hugh Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what assessment he has made of the contribution made by overseas gap year students to the education sector in the United Kingdom. [216759]

Bill Rammell [holding answer 7 July 2008]: I have been asked to reply.

The Department does not have any information on the numbers of people from overseas undertaking gap years in the United Kingdom, nor can we mate any assessment of the contribution that they make to the education sector here.

Pre-school Education

David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many free early education places have been available in (a) Kingston-Upon-Hull, (b) East Riding of Yorkshire, (c) north Lincolnshire and (d) north east Lincolnshire in each year since 1997. [220899]

Beverley Hughes: The available information on the number of part-time funded places filled by three and four-year-olds in Kingston-upon-Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire and north-east Lincolnshire local authority areas is shown in the tables.

All three and four-year-olds are entitled to a free part-time early education place for 12.5 hours per week for 38 weeks of the year. From 2010, this offer will be extended from 12.5 to 15 hours per week for 38 weeks of the year.

Part-time equivalent number of free early education places^{( 1, 2)} fitted by three and four-year-olds. Local authority: Kingston upon Hull, City of: Position in January each year
	3-year-olds			4-year-olds
	Maintained nursery and primary schools^{( 3)}	Other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers	Total 3-year-olds	Maintained nursery and primary schools^{( 4)}	Other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers	Total 4-year-olds
1997	2,200	n/a	2,200	n/a	n/a	^{(5, 6)}3,500
1998	2,300	n/a	2,300	n/a	n/a	^{(5, 6)}3,500
1999	2,300	n/a	2,300	n/a	n/a	^{(5, 6)}3,300
2000	2,100	⁽⁷⁾460	2,600	n/a	n/a	^{(5, 6)}3,500
2001	2,000	⁽⁷⁾520	2,600	n/a	n/a	^{(5, 6)}3,200
2002	1,900	⁽⁷⁾650	2,600	2,700	⁽⁵⁾270	3,000
2003	1,800	⁽⁷⁾760	2,600	2,600	⁽⁸⁾290	2,900
2004	1,700	⁽⁹⁾740	2,500	2,500	⁽¹⁰⁾280	2,800
2005	1,700	⁽⁹⁾810	2,500	2,400	⁽¹⁰⁾260	2,700
2006	1,600	⁽⁹⁾790	2,400	2,400	⁽¹⁰⁾270	2,700
2007	1,700	⁽⁹⁾870	2,600	2,300	⁽¹⁰⁾280	2,600
2008	1,800	⁽⁹⁾940	2,700	2,500	⁽¹⁰⁾300	2,800
^{(1 )}A place is equal to five or more sessions and can be filled by more than one child. ⁽²⁾ Figures are rounded to the nearest 100 if they exceed 1,000 and to the nearest 10 otherwise. ^{(3 )}Headcount of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the School Census. ^{(4 )}Headcount of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the School Census. ^{(5 )}Part-time equivalent number of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Nursery Education Grant data collection exercise. ^{(6 )}For the years 1997 to 2001, four-year-old sub-national figures from the Nursery Education Grant data collection exercise can not be disaggregated between the maintained and private, voluntary and independent sectors. ^{(7 )}Part-time equivalent number of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Nursery Education Grant data collection exercise. ^{(8 )}Part-time equivalent number of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Early Years Census supplementary data collection exercise and the School Census. ^{(9 )}Part-time equivalent number of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Early Years Census and the School Census. ^{(10 )}Part-time equivalent number of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Early Years Census and the School Census.

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Part-time equivalent number of free early education places^{( 1, 2)} fitted by three and four-year-olds. Local authority: East Riding of Yorkshire : Position in January each year
	3-year-olds			4-year-olds
	Maintained nursery and primary schools^{( 3)}	Other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers	Total 3-year-olds	Maintained nursery and primary schools^{( 4)}	Other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers	Total 4-year-olds
1997	1,100	n/a	1,100	n/a	n/a	^{(5, 6)}3,200
1998	1,100	n/a	1,100	n/a	n/a	^{(5, 6)}3,400
1999	1,100	n/a	1,100	n/a	n/a	^{(5, 6)}3,400
2000	1,000	⁽⁷⁾—	1,000	n/a	n/a	^{(5, 6)}3,500
2001	1,000	⁽⁸⁾140	1,200	n/a	n/a	^{(5, 6)}3,400
2002	1,100	⁽⁸⁾140	1,200	2,800	⁽⁵⁾730	3,500
2003	1,100	⁽⁸⁾1,200	2,200	2,700	⁽⁹⁾900	3,600
2004	1,000	⁽¹⁰⁾1,200	2,200	2,600	⁽¹¹⁾820	3,400
2005	1,000	⁽¹⁰⁾1,500	2,500	2,400	⁽¹¹⁾710	3,100
2006	960	⁽¹⁰⁾1,800	2,700	2,500	⁽¹¹⁾740	3,200
2007	990	⁽¹⁰⁾1,900	2,900	2,400	⁽¹¹⁾730	3,100
2008	1,100	⁽¹⁰⁾1,900	3,000	2,400	⁽¹¹⁾820	3,200
^{(1 )}A place is equal to five or more sessions and can be filled by more than one child. ⁽²⁾ Figures are rounded to the nearest 100 if they exceed 1,000 and to the nearest 10 otherwise. ^{(3 )}Headcount of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the School Census. ^{(4 )}Headcount of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the School Census. ^{(5 )}Part-time equivalent number of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Nursery Education Grant data collection exercise. ^{(6 )}For the years 1997 to 2001, four-year-old sub-national figures from the Nursery Education Grant data collection exercise can not be disaggregated between the maintained and private, voluntary and independent sectors. ⁽⁷⁾ Less than five. ⁽⁸⁾^{( )}Part-time equivalent number of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Nursery Education Grant data collection exercise. ⁽⁹⁾^{( )}Part-time equivalent number of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Early Years Census supplementary data collection exercise and the School Census. ⁽¹⁰⁾Part-time equivalent number of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Early Years Census and the School Census. ⁽¹¹⁾^{( )}Part-time equivalent number of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Early Years Census and the School Census.

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