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Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the average administrative cost was of issuing a statement of special educational needs in each local authority in the last year for which figures are available. [252671]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: This information is not collected centrally.
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many pupils with special educational needs were given free transport to school in each of the last 10 years broken down by local authority. [253355]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The Department does not collect information on the provision of free transport to children with special educational needs.
Teachers: Training
Mr. Sanders: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much funding has been (a) allocated and (b) spent under the Assessment for Learning programme for teacher training. [253299]
Jim Knight: From 2008-11, £50 million per year is being allocated to schools via local authorities through the Standards Fund for teachers' professional development in Assessment for Learning.
Information on expenditure is not collected centrally.
Truancy: Hillingdon
Mr. Randall: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many days of truancy there were in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in the London Borough of Hillingdon in each of the last three years. [250778]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The Department does not maintain records of “truancy”. Information is collected on unauthorised absence.
Unauthorised absence is absence without leave from a teacher or other authorised representative of the school. This includes all unexplained or unjustified absences, such as lateness, holidays during term time not authorised by the school, absence where reason is not yet established and truancy.
The latest available published information on absence is published as SFR30/2008
‘Pupil Absence in Schools in England: Autumn Term 2007 and Spring Term 2008’ at:
Health
Abortion
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many women aged (a) 18, (b) 17, (c) 16, (d) 15, (e) 14, (f) 13 and (g) 12 years who had had an abortion in (i) 2006 and (ii) 2007 had had (A) one, (B) two, (C) three, (D) four and (E) five or more previous abortions. [252976]
Dawn Primarolo: The information requested is shown in the following table:
| Number of repeat abortions by age under 18, residents, England and Wales | |||||||
| 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | |
| (1 )Due to previously released data, figures for 16 year olds in 2006 have been suppressed. Revealing the figure for 16 year olds will result in inadvertently disclosing small numbers for the younger ages. Note : “—”= suppressed value less than 10 (between 0-9) or where a presented figure would reveal a suppressed value. This is in line with the Office for National Statistics’ guidance on the release of abortion statistics (2005) | |||||||
Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people undergoing NHS alcohol treatment courses in (a) Hemel Hempstead and (b) Hertfordshire (i) have and (ii) have not completed the treatment successfully in each of the last five years. [253785]
Dawn Primarolo: On 1 April 2008, a National Alcohol Treatment Monitoring System (NATMS) begun operation to collect and report local and national information on the provision of structured care-planned treatment for alcohol misuse in England. Prior to 1 April 2008 there was no routine collection of data on numbers receiving alcohol treatment in England.
The first year’s data will be reported in October 2009 and will include data on the number of individuals who have completed their treatment.
Limited NATMS data are reported on the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System website, at:
Ambulance Services
Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the effects of the implementation of the Licensing Act 2003 on the shift patterns used by ambulance services in (a) Lancashire and (b) England and Wales. [253281]
Mr. Bradshaw: No such assessment has been made.
Mr. Greg Knight: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the Answer of 26 January 2009, Official Report, column 219W, if he will provide the correct web link for his Department’s statistical bulletin Ambulance Services, England 2007-08. [253934]
Mr. Bradshaw: The annual statistical bulletin “Ambulance Services, England 2007-08”, has already been placed in the Library and is available at the following link:
I regret the error in my pervious reply to the right hon. Member.
Autism
Roger Berry: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) by what means his Department plans to ensure that the evaluation of the individual budgets' pilots will capture people with specific conditions; and if he will make a statement; [253678]
(2) how people with autism were classified in the recent individual budget pilots; [253679]
(3) whether data from the recent individual budgets pilots can be used to determine the effect of individual budgets on people with (a) autism and (b) sensory impairments. [253680]
Phil Hope: The independent individual budget evaluation was not designed to examine the outcomes for specific groups of service users, but for broad categories of people: older people, people with learning disabilities, people with physical disabilities and people with mental health problems. It was a randomised controlled trial, in which all those people potentially eligible for individual budgets within each pilot site were allocated at random to an individual budget or a comparison group. Sites varied in the groups of service users for whom they intended to pilot individual budgets.
The final report of the independent individual budget was published on 21 October 2008 and can be obtained via the Department's website. A copy has been placed in the Library.
The evaluation team was highly dependent on local authorities collecting the data and they allocated study participants to the broad user groups. These allocations to user groups would have reflected convention and practice within specific local authority teams. While some people with autism and sensory impairments are likely to have been included within the sample , it is not possible to identify people with specific conditions from the information the evaluation team collected.
Blood: Donors
Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the planned target for blood donation was in each year since 1992; how many units of blood were collected in each year; and what percentage of demand the National Blood Service met in each year. [254150]
Dawn Primarolo: The information is not available for the entire time period requested. Figures for blood collection against planned targets and percentage of demand met for red blood cells is only available from the financial year 2000-01, as information was not collated centrally prior to this date.
| Blood donation targets and the actual amount of blood donated | ||
| Thousand | ||
| Donations target | Donations actual | |
Data on the percentage of demand for red blood cells met by the National Blood Service are only available from 2000-01, as figures were not collated centrally prior to this date. Data for platelet demand met are only available from 2005-06.
| Percentage demand met for red cells and platelets requested | ||
| Red cells issued as percentage of red cells requested | Platelets issued as percentage of platelets requested | |
| (1) Figure unavailable. Source: The National Blood Service. | ||
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