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Swine Flu: Health Education
Mr. Evennett: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of his Department’s effectiveness in the distribution to households of information on swine influenza; and if he will make a statement. [279433]
Gillian Merron: Independent research was carried out to check the receipt of the swine flu information leaflet by households, and recall of the leaflet’s information, after the household distribution had been completed. The findings confirmed that most people participating in the research when prompted recalled receiving the leaflet, and of these, the majority had read it.
Tracking research is being carried out to check awareness of the entire information campaign and knowledge and understanding of swine flu.
Tranquillisers
Jim Dobbin: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 18 May 2009, Official Report, columns 1228-30W, on tranquillisers, in what format information on the number of in-patient prescriptions dispensed is held. [279385]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The extract of the Hospital Pharmacy Audit Index held by the NHS Information Centre for health and social care shows only the total volume (in terms of packs) issued from hospital pharmacy departments in a month. Reporting the total number of packs for selected drugs has little meaning as pack sizes can differ for the same drug or between different drugs. The Department is unable to state the number of prescriptions dispensed or supplied for patients. In addition, the number of patients treated with each pack is not known as a pack could be used to treat one patient or more.
Children, Schools and Families
Children: Databases
Annette Brooke: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what assessment he has made of the reliability of the shielding process on the ContactPoint database; and if he will make a statement. [266743]
Dawn Primarolo: Shielding of a small proportion of children's records on ContactPoint is an additional security measure, above the significant security arrangements that apply to the system in general. It is appropriate in cases where there might be a risk of harm if the child's location became known.
The system processes to support shielding were assessed as part of the extensive testing of ContactPoint by the ContactPoint project team and a selection of future ContactPoint users drawn from local authorities and our national partners. The system processes were confirmed as working correctly. The ContactPoint project team has also considered feedback received from local authorities undertaking pre-deployment shielding activities.
All local authorities have confirmed completion of the initial shielding phase of ContactPoint, and early adopters have begun controlled practitioner use. We continue to take a measured approach to introducing ContactPoint, which includes assessment of the experience of use of the system by Early Adopters.
Children: Day Care
Shona McIsaac: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many (a) out-of-school and (b) holiday play schemes for children there were in (i) North East Lincolnshire and (ii) North Lincolnshire in each of the last five years. [279268]
Dawn Primarolo: Table 1 shows the number of out of school clubs in North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire in each of the last five years for which data were collected. The last year that Ofsted collected this information was 2008. Information on the number of holiday play schemes is not available as Ofsted do not collect this data.
Shona McIsaac: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many registered childcare places for children under eight years old there were in Cleethorpes constituency in (a) 1997 and (b) 2008. [279269]
Dawn Primarolo: The information requested is not available by parliamentary constituency. Data were collected at local authority level only. The tables show the number of child care places in North East Lincolnshire local authority for 1997 and 2008.
| Table 1 Number( 1,)( )( 2) of day care places for children under eight years of age by type of provider—North East Lincolnshire local authority area, p osition at 31 March 1997 | |
| Type of provider | Number |
| (1) Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10 if under 100, and to the nearest 100 if over 100. (2) Figures may not add up to total due to rounding (3) Data not collected Source: Children's Day Care Facilities Survey | |
| Table 2: Number( 1,)( )( 2) of registered child care places for children under eight years of age by type of care—North East Lincolnshire local authority area, p osition at 31 March 2008 | |
| Type of care | Number |
| (1) Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10 if under 100, and to the nearest 100 if over 100. (2) Figures may not add up to total due to rounding Source: Ofsted | |
Ofsted have collected information on the number of registered child care places available to children aged eight and under on a quarterly basis from March 2003. Their latest figures were published in their report ‘Registered Childcare Providers and Places, March 2009’, which is available on their website
Children: Protection
Mr. Bellingham: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what estimate he has made of the number of parents who were in care who have had their children removed from them as a result of care proceedings in the last 10 years. [278327]
Dawn Primarolo [holding answer 9 June 2009]: The Department holds no data on the number of parents who were in care, who have subsequently had their children removed from their care as a result of care proceedings so cannot provide an estimate of this.
The decision to take a child into care is never an easy one, and the decision to make a care order is taken by the courts. The parent’s background should not be a factor. Courts must be satisfied the threshold criteria are met before it can make a care order. The threshold criteria are that the child is suffering or likely to suffer significant harm and that is attributable to the care given to the child or likely to be given to the child, if the order were not made.
Departmental Energy
Gregory Barker: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which official is responsible for the energy efficiency of his Department's estate. [280569]
Ms Diana R. Johnson: The official responsible for the energy efficiency for the Department for Children, Schools and Families estate is Janet Young, Deputy Director for Estates and Facilities Management Division.
GCSE
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of GCSE entrants achieved each grade in (a) history, (b) citizenship, (c) physics, (d) English and (e) mathematics in each of the last five years. [280441]
Mr. Coaker: Numbers and proportions of GCSE entrants who achieved each grade in history, citizenship, physics, English and mathematics in each of the last five years can be found in the following publications:
In publications for 2004/05 to 2007/08, information regarding history, physics, English and mathematics is on table 13 and figures for citizenship are in table 15.
GCSE and Equivalent Examination Results in England 2007/08 (Revised)
GCSE and Equivalent Examination Results in England 2006/07 (Revised)
GCSE and Equivalent Examination Results in England 2005/06 (Revised)
GCSE and Equivalent Results and Associated Value Added Measures in England 2004/05 (Final)
In the publication for 2003/04 information regarding history, physics, English and mathematics is on table 12 and figures for citizenship are in table 14.
GCSE and Equivalent Results for Young People in England, 2003/04 (Final)
Grammar Schools: Admissions
Paul Holmes: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) how much has been spent from the public purse on petitioning and balloting procedures in relation to selective admission arrangements for grammar schools since the coming into force of the provisions of the Education (Grammar School Ballots) Regulations 1998; [280122]
(2) what costs his Department has incurred in respect of retaining the services of the Electoral Reform Society for (a) petitions and (b) ballots on selective admission arrangements to grammar schools. [280152]
Ms Diana R. Johnson: The report to Ministers on the grammar schools' ballot system was released in August 2007. It outlines annual expenditure, including the administrative costs—to date, these together have totalled £2.32 million.
Integrated Children’s System
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 25 March 2009, Official Report, columns 540-41W, on the integrated children’s system (ICS), who developed the requirements for local authorities to procure systems from IT suppliers to support the delivery of the model. [271470]
Dawn Primarolo: The ICS requirements were originally produced as part of the Quality Protects Management Information project, by a team comprising Department of Health (latterly, following machinery of government changes, Department for Education and Skills) officials, local authority officers, and academics working in collaboration. Frontline social workers and managers were involved in development through consultative workshops and local trialling of materials. Commercial suppliers of children’s social care systems were also consulted and informed.
In order to learn about the processes involved in the provision of children’s social care services the Department of Health consulted with local authorities and policy specialists. This enabled them to structure the broad information requirements in a logical, systematic way.
The requirements have been subsequently updated by the DCSF, through a collaboration of policy and practice advisers with frontline social work experience and contracted specialists with knowledge of the production of industry-standard requirements documentation. The most recent requirements have taken account of technical queries raised at earlier stages by local authority officers, and were partly informed by a dedicated workshop with a number of local authority officers involved in ICS implementation.
Olympic Games 2012
Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many full-time equivalent members of staff in (a) his Department and (b) its associated public bodies are working on projects relating to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games; how many of them are working on (i) project management, (ii) legacy planning, (iii) project oversight and (iv) financial oversight; and what plans he has for future staffing levels in each case. [279817]
Ms Diana R. Johnson: The education opportunities presented by the 2012 Games are being used to build on and add value to existing activity being undertaken by the DCSF. There are 1.3 full-time equivalent members of staff allocated to co-ordinating this work. They deal with all aspects of project management, legacy planning and project oversight. Future staffing levels for this work are expected to remain at this level.
The DCSF is supported in the delivery of the education legacy plan by an extensive range of strategic and delivery partners, such as the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, DIUS and the Government Olympic Executive, with some working with us across all elements of the plan, others on specific projects.
Play: Greater Manchester
Andrew Gwynne: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much funding his Department has allocated for children's play in (a) Tameside and (b) Stockport in 2009-10. [279770]
Mr. Coaker: Tameside has been allocated £393,306 capital funding and £19,802 revenue funding for 2009-10.
Stockport has been allocated £528,703 capital funding and £26,991 revenue funding for 2009-10.
Tameside began receiving play funding from April 2008, as part of the first wave of the children's plan play capital investment programme. The National Play Strategy, which was published in December 2008, announced that Government would be accelerating the capital programme so that all of the remaining 89 top tier local authorities in England would receive funding from April 2009 as wave two of the investment programme. This means that all 152 local authorities will be receiving play capital, and associated revenue, funding during the 2009-10 financial year. Stockport has joined the programme in this second wave.
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