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Schools: Nottinghamshire

John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what recent representations he has received from Nottinghamshire County Council on the future of three to 18 schools in Nottinghamshire. [290861]

Ms Diana R. Johnson: None. The planning of education provision in an area is the responsibility of the local authority (LA). Where LAs propose to make changes to local school provision, including closures, opening new schools and other alterations, they must follow a statutory process, which includes consultation with all those likely to be affected by the proposals. These are then decided under established local decision making arrangements. Ministers have no direct role in the process.

Schools: Transport

Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many children in (a) York, (b) North Yorkshire, (c) Yorkshire and the Humber and (d) England have received assistance with the cost of travel to school in each year since 1979. [290653]

Ms Diana R. Johnson: The Department does not collect information on the number of children who receive assistance with the cost of travel to school.

John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what estimate his Department has made of the average distance travelled to school by secondary school pupils using school buses to reach their catchment area school. [290862]

Ms Diana R. Johnson: The Department does not collect information on the average distance travelled by secondary school pupils using school buses to reach their school.

Secondary Education: Standards

John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the most recent value added score of each maintained secondary school in England is. [290854]

Mr. Iain Wright: The Department's standard measure for progress between Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 4 is Contextual Value Added.


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The CVA measure is a statistical means of assessing the relative effectiveness of a school and of measuring pupil progress. It shows how a school's results compare with the results achieved by similar pupils in other schools.

A school level CVA measure must always be interpreted alongside the confidence intervals (CI). Schools where the lower CI is above 1,000 represent schools where pupils on average made significantly more progress than pupils nationally, while schools where the upper CI is below 1,000 represent schools where pupils made significantly less progress.

Further information on CVA can be found at:

Figures for individual schools in 2008 are available on the departmental website:

Figures for all schools in 2008 are available in a publication file that has been added to the House Libraries. Note that this file contains independent schools as well as maintained schools.

Cabinet Office

10 Downing Street: Repairs and Maintenance

Mr. Pickles: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Ruislip-Northwood of 27 January 2009, Official Report, column 467W, on 10 Downing Street: repairs and maintenance, how much has been spent in the last 24 months on the refurbishment of lavatories in 10 Downing Street. [290809]

Angela E. Smith: Information on capital expenditure in 2007-08 and 2008-09 on improving Cabinet Office buildings, including the Downing street estate are included in the annual Cabinet Office resource accounts. Copies are available in the Library of the House.

Capacitybuilders

Mr. Maude: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the names are of the members of the selection panel for the Capacitybuilders Campaigning Research Programme fund. [290701]

Angela E. Smith: The members of the selection panel are: Angela Sarkis (chair on panel, member of Capacitybuilders Board), Titus Alexander (Novas Scarman), Rachael Stokes (NCVO) and Jessica Ellis (Capacitybuilders)

The panel have short listed 49 organisations at this stage in the process.

As this is an action research programme, short listing decisions were based largely on ensuring that the projects proceeding to the next stage of selection include a spread of; geographic location, the marginalised group which is the focus of the campaign, and the age, size and turnover of the nominated organisation. Not being short listed should in no way be seen as a judgment on the campaign's significance or potential.

The final programme will support up to 30 organisations through a package of grant funding, mentoring, peer support and training. The panel will meet again in
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October 2009 to make the final selection, which will again be based upon maintaining a diverse range of projects. Initial research findings will be available in spring 2010.

Census

Mr. Maude: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what (a) questions and (b) answer categories (i) used in the 2001 Census and (ii) to be used in the 2011 Census were not included in the 1991 Census. [290699]

Angela E. Smith: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Letter from Jil Matheson, 8 September 2009:

2001

(a) Questions

(b) Answer categories

2011


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Death: Drugs

Jenny Willott: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many deaths attributed to the use of each illegal drug there have been in each region in each year since 2000; and if she will make a statement. [290826]

Angela E. Smith: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Letter from Jill Matheson, dated 8 September 2009:


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Table 1. Numbers of deaths related to drug misuse,( 1) and numbers of deaths related to drug misuse where selected controlled substances were mentioned on the death certificate,( 2,3,4,5) government, office regions in England,( 6) 2000-08( 7)
Deaths (persons)

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

North East

Deaths related to drug misuse

64

108

108

76

83

90

95

91

104

Heroin and Morphine

40

73

67

42

36

44

42

29

47

Methadone

6

5

7

10

17

28

17

29

32

Cocaine

3

3

5

5

6

10

14

10

11

All amphetamines

2

6

10

7

3

7

8

9

6

MDMA/Ecstasy

0

6

9

7

1

5

5

4

4

Cannabis

0

1

1

0

0

0

0

1

0

All benzodiazepines

20

27

39

30

36

22

21

29

33

North West

Deaths related to drug misuse

253

288

235

214

218

226

269

225

307

Heroin and Morphine

135

160

126

92

101

106

105

120

148

Methadone

70

57

45

53

47

43

54

57

83

Cocaine

11

14

19

21

26

26

34

30

43

All amphetamines

11

11

17

10

14

18

18

21

20

MDMA/Ecstasy

4

6

6

5

6

10

7

9

7

Cannabis

0

2

0

3

4

5

6

4

5

All benzodiazepines

20

40

52

46

42

34

40

21

33

Yorkshire and the Humber

Deaths related to drug misuse

192

198

195

181

198

189

182

168

166

Heroin and Morphine

137

130

125

117

118

120

101

96

102

Methadone

20

14

19

19

27

21

22

37

43

Cocaine

6

5

14

16

23

29

24

17

19

All amphetamines

14

10

14

12

18

17

17

13

13

MDMA/Ecstasy

4

6

8

3

10

11

6

8

3

Cannabis

2

1

2

2

1

0

2

1

1

All benzodiazepines

21

22

21

23

37

14

15

21

25

East Midlands

Deaths related to drug misuse

98

106

123

96

109

93

95

110

111

Heroin and Morphine

58

71

77

57

62

54

53

65

60

Methadone

11

11

10

16

14

19

13

25

20

Cocaine

2

7

6

9

11

6

5

4

9

All amphetamines

3

7

10

6

8

7

6

7

9

MDMA/Ecstasy

1

6

3

1

4

1

5

2

4

Cannabis

0

1

0

0

2

0

0

0

0

All benzodiazepines

12

20

11

11

18

8

8

17

12

West Midlands

Deaths related to drug misuse

138

137

128

124

133

148

134

157

155

Heroin and Morphine

81

86

76

71

65

82

72

78

85

Methadone

26

16

15

15

21

15

19

32

35

Cocaine

9

4

12

5

4

9

15

12

20

All amphetamines

3

5

3

5

2

10

1

11

3

MDMA/Ecstasy

2

2

2

4

1

8

0

6

1

Cannabis

0

0

2

0

1

3

2

1

0

All benzodiazepines

23

24

28

17

13

23

13

27

19

East of England

Deaths related to drug misuse

133

146

147

116

126

139

99

129

161

Heroin and Morphine

70

80

82

48

50

65

46

67

76

Methadone

27

25

16

17

21

19

17

30

39

Cocaine

5

7

14

11

17

14

10

14

19

All amphetamines

2

9

5

3

6

8

2

5

7

MDMA/Ecstasy

1

7

4

2

2

2

1

3

2

Cannabis

0

4

1

0

1

0

1

0

5

All benzodiazepines

12

12

20

17

15

17

8

17

21

London

Deaths related to drug misuse

257

279

193

182

177

235

230

202

203

Heroin and Morphine

69

84

57

54

51

68

52

69

52

Methadone

46

44

34

17

26

20

39

30

26

Cocaine

30

35

29

29

30

43

38

60

54

All amphetamines

8

8

10

8

9

9

8

11

12

MDMA/Ecstasy

7

8

6

7

8

8

5

6

8

Cannabis

0

1

0

1

0

0

0

0

1

All benzodiazepines

22

18

10

7

5

12

8

7

8

South East

Deaths related to drug misuse

233

253

223

180

227

229

211

222

209

Heroin and Morphine

123

140

121

86

136

136

98

127

134

Methadone

43

40

26

30

27

30

29

40

37

Cocaine

10

8

17

14

23

21

31

25

39

All amphetamines

7

10

12

9

10

13

16

10

11

MDMA/Ecstasy

5

6

8

8

4

6

9

6

5

Cannabis

5

4

5

2

6

10

5

5

5

All benzodiazepines

42

42

31

30

33

39

28

33

32

South West

Deaths related to drug misuse

142

182

153

143

144

157

154

175

201

Heroin and Morphine

91

106

81

79

89

108

84

116

126

Methadone

8

17

19

12

16

14

19

25

40

Cocaine

3

7

3

9

6

6

9

8

11

All amphetamines

3

6

7

6

2

7

8

5

13

MDMA/Ecstasy

1

5

5

3

2

3

5

0

7

Cannabis

0

0

1

0

3

0

1

0

1

All benzodiazepines

17

17

16

17

19

7

18

16

16

(1) Cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) for the year 2000, and the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) from 2001 onwards. Deaths were included where the underlying cause was due to drug poisoning (shown in Box 1 following) and where a drug controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 was mentioned on the death certificate.
(2) Some deaths may be counted in more than one category. For example if heroin and cocaine are recorded on the death certificate, the death would be counted once under each substance. Where more than one drug is mentioned on the death certificate, it is not possible to tell which was primarily responsible for the death.
(3) Heroin breaks down in the body to morphine, and the latter may be detected at post mortem and recorded on the death certificate. Therefore, a combined figure for deaths where heroin or morphine was mentioned on the death certificate is given.
(4) The figures for deaths associated with cocaine include those associated with crack cocaine.
(5) The figure for all amphetamines includes deaths mentioning MDMA/Ecstasy.
(6) Based on boundaries as of 2009.
(7) Figures for deaths registered in 2008 are provisional.

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