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Vetting: Standards
Tom Brake: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average time was for each police force to release (a) a standard disclosure and (b) an enhanced disclosure as part of Criminal Records Bureau checks in the latest period for which information is available. [268421]
Mr. Malik: Only enhanced disclosures are sent to police forces as part of the Disclosure Service. Data concerning the average time taken to complete a disclosure by police force area are not a performance target and are not collated by the CRB. Comparative police force performance data can be found on the CRB website at
Average figures do not give an accurate indication of performance, since any force's performance can be affected by a number of factors; the volume of cases sent to a force to process in any given month, the number of staff available to process the checks and the IT resources on hand to forces. With these variables, performance can fluctuate within individual forces from one month to the next.
Written Questions: Government Responses
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when she plans to answer Question 250112, on Operation Pentameter, tabled by my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Beaconsfield (Mr. Grieve) on 19 January 2009. [264897]
Jacqui Smith: My hon. Friend the Under-Secretary (Mr. Campbell) replied on 26 March 2009, Official Report, column 650W.
Children, Schools and Families
Building Schools for the Future Programme
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much funding has been allocated to each school under the Building Schools for the Future programme to date. [268367]
Jim Knight: In Building Schools for the Future, funding is allocated to local authorities and not directly to schools. Local authorities take decisions on how to allocate this funding to their schools in accordance with local need. The following table shows the funding which has been allocated to authorities which have reached financial close in their BSF projects.
| Funding | |||
| £000 | |||
| Local authority project | Conventional | PFI credits | Total |
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what his latest estimate is of expenditure on the Building Schools for the Future programme in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11. [268369]
Jim Knight: The following table shows the latest estimate of expenditure on the Building Schools for the Future programme. These estimates may change as projects progress through the procurement phase and into construction.
| £ billion | |||
| 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | |
| Notes: 1. These figures include estimated expenditure on academies delivered through the Partnerships for Schools national framework. 2. Capital grant payments are made following the financial close of the project in accordance with construction payment milestones. | |||
In addition, we expect to allocate £3.9 billion PFI credits to projects in this period. Credits are allocated following approval of the project’s outline business
case, but the revenue payments to local authorities to which they relate are not made until the new school building is completed.
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which banks are involved in the Building Schools for the Future programme. [268477]
Jim Knight: The following list sets out (i) financial institutions that are involved in BSF schemes that have already reached financial close; and (ii) financial institutions who are in the market to finance BSF schemes that have not yet reached financial close.
Funding to BSF schemes that have reached financial close:
Bank of Ireland
Barclays
BNP Paribas
European Investment Bank
HBOS
Abbey National
HSBC
NIB Bank
Royal Bank of Canada
SMBC
Depfa
In the market to fund BSF schemes that have not yet reached financial close:
Nationwide
SMBC
Barclays
National Australia Bank
European Investment Bank
Aviva
Co-op
Helaba Landesbank
Lloyds
Norddeutsche Landesbank
RBS
Santander
NIB Bank
Westdeutsche Landesbank
Deutsche Postbank
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which local authorities he expects to join the Building Schools for the Future programme after 2010; and if he will make a statement. [268677]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: On 2 March 2009, the indicative revised prioritisation of Building Schools for the Future (BSF) was published, based on the revised expressions of interest which authorities provided in November 2008. Partnerships for Schools (PfS) the body which assists local authorities procure their BSF investment, is already engaging with authorities to discuss their readiness to deliver. No project will formally enter BSF until PfS is satisfied that there is robust evidence that the authority is ready to deliver. It has therefore not yet been decided which will be the next authorities to enter the programme after 2010-11.
Children: Autism
Mr. Marsden: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the average age at which a child receives a diagnosis of autism was in the latest period for which figures are available. [268161]
Phil Hope: I have been asked to reply.
This information is not collected centrally.
In 2001, the Medical Research Council (MRC) undertook the first comprehensive review of the UK research into autism, called the MRC Review of Autism Research and is still considered to be a leading source of information about the causes and epidemiology of autism and autism spectrum disorders (ASDs).
The review report states at page 15:
“In a study of individuals aged 2 to over 40 years, the average age of diagnosis was 5 years for autism.”
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