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Education: Finance
Dr. Evan Harris:
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills on the merits of transferring the
multi-professional education and training budget from that Department to the Higher Education Funding Council for England. [275654]
Mr. Lammy: I have been asked to reply.
The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) is the responsibility of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills. As such it would be for this Department to discuss the transfer of this budget from the Department of Health. However, there have been no discussions on this subject in recent years.
Foster Care
Mr. Steen: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many foster parents have fostered (a) trafficked children, (b) unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and (c) children from other EU countries in each of the last three years. [275847]
Beverley Hughes: Information about the numbers of foster carers who have fostered children in the three categories listed is not collected centrally.
GCE A-Level
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many pupils eligible for free school meals sat (a) mathematics and (b) further mathematics A-level in each of the last five years. [268490]
Jim Knight: The answer is provided in the following table:
| Pupils eligible for free school meals who sat mathematics and further mathematics at A-level for the period 2004-08 | ||||
| Number | Percentage | |||
| Maths | F-Maths | Maths | F-Maths | |
| Notes: 1. The figures are based on pupils aged 16 to 18 years. 2. Percentages are based on the cohort of pupils eligible for free school meals who sat at least one GCE A-level. Source: National Pupil Database. | ||||
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what estimate he has made of the number of pupils in maintained schools who gained five or more GCSEs at grade A or A* in 2006 who gained three or more A-levels at Grade A in 2008. [260540]
Jim Knight: The most readily available analysis is given in the following table:
GCSE: Young Offender Institutions
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 29 April 2009, Official Report, column 1387W, on the General Certificate of Secondary Education: young offender institutions, how many young people housed in young offender institutions achieved (a) one A* to G grade, (b) five A* to G grades, (c) five A* to C grades and (d) five A* to C grades, including English and mathematics at GCSE in each year for which the Learning and Skills Council holds figures. [273426]
Beverley Hughes [holding answer 7 May 2009]: The individualised learning record (ILR) data LSC collected for 2006/07 do not allow us to answer the specific questions on the range of grades achieved. However these data show that during the 2006/07 academic year there were a total of 68 GCSE achievements by 15 to 17-year-olds in Prison Service YOIs, of which:
19 people achieved one GCSE;
Five people achieved two GCSEs;
13 people achieved three GCSEs;
The LSC’s young persons’ learning 1 (YOL1) data show that during the 2007/08 academic year, for young people under the age of 18, there were 106 GCSE achievements between grades A and C, and 159 GCSE achievements below grade C. However the data set allowing us to break this down into the number of people achieving different numbers of GCSEs (i.e. ILR) is not yet available for the 2007/08 academic year.
Also, note that the figures quoted will not include all of the GCSEs achieved by young people in juvenile custody, as some young people in custody are still registered at schools and colleges and any GCSEs that they achieve while in custody will be reflected in achievement figures of schools and colleges, rather than the figures reported by the LSC in these statistics.
Also, many young people stay in custody only for a very short time, and therefore it is not realistic for them to achieve long-term qualifications while they are in custody, especially as GCSEs can only be taken at certain points of the year.
Members: Correspondence
Sir Michael Spicer: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families when he will reply to the letter from the hon. Member for West Worcestershire dated 27 March 2009, transferred from the Home Office on 2 April 2009, reference: M7547/9, on a nationwide database of children. [275842]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: A response to the letter, from Baroness Delyth Morgan, was sent to the hon. Member on 5 May 2009.
National Curriculum Tests: Disadvantaged
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) how many pupils in receipt of free school meals achieved level (a) 7 and (b) 8 in Key Stage 3 examinations in (i) English, (ii) mathematics and (iii) science in (A) 1997, (B) 2002, (C) 2005 and (D) the latest year for which figures are available; [262262]
(2) how many and what percentage of pupils (a) eligible and (b) ineligible for free school meals achieved level 8 at Key Stage 3 in each of the last three years. [268489]
Jim Knight: The requested information is not available for 1997 as prior to 2002 individual pupil characteristic information was not collected. The introduction of the Pupil Level Annual School Census (PLASC) in January 2002, which collects such information, meant that from 2002, pupil characteristic data could be matched to attainment data, allowing analyses of different groups of pupils.
The 2002 information is shown as follows:
| Eligible pupils | Number of pupils achieving KS3 level 7 | Number of pupils achieving KS3 level 8 | Percentage of pupils achieving KS3 level 8 | |||||||||
| English | Maths | Science | English | Maths | Science | English | Maths | Science | English | Maths | Science | |
| (1 )Includes pupils for whom FSM information was not sought or for which information was refused | ||||||||||||
The 2005 information is shown as follows:
| Eligible pupils | Number of pupils achieving KS3 level 7 | Number of pupils achieving KS3 level 8 | Percentage of pupils achieving KS3 level 8 | |||||||||
| English | Maths | Science | English | Maths | Science | English | Maths | Science | English | Maths | Science | |
| (1) Includes pupils for whom FSM information was not sought or for which information was refused. | ||||||||||||
The 2006 information is shown as follows:
| Eligible pupils | Number of pupils achieving KS3 level 7 | Number of pupils achieving KS3 level 8 | Percentage of pupils achieving KS3 level 8 | |||||||||
| English | Maths | Science | English | Maths | Science | English | Maths | Science | English | Maths | Science | |
| (1) Includes pupils for whom FSM information was not sought or for which information was refused. | ||||||||||||
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