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Serlby Park School: Finance
John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what capital funding bids submitted to his Department by Nottinghamshire County Council in the last 12 months contained reference to Serlby Park 3-18 school. [292167]
Mr. Coaker [holding answer 12 October 2009]: Nottinghamshire county council has not submitted any bids for funding a three to 18 school at Serlby Park. Most capital funding is allocated by means of a formula rather than through a bidding process. Decisions about priorities for investment are rightly matters for local determination.
Specialised Diplomas
Mr. Greg Knight: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what recent assessment he has made of the standards of (a) English and (b) mathematics teaching for students studying for the diploma qualification. [291506]
Mr. Coaker: The Department does not routinely make assessments of standards in English and mathematics teaching. The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills makes these assessments. The recent Ofsted report, "Implementation of 14-19 reforms, including the introduction of Diplomas", published on 17 August 2009, includes an evaluation of the first year of teaching of functional skills in mathematics and English as part of the Diploma.
The Department has substantially increased its work for the 2009/10 academic year with schools and local authorities, through a programme of support provided by National Strategies, to support the teaching and learning of functional skills across all of the curriculum, and act on the findings of the Ofsted report. As part of offering this support, NS and LSIS work continually at a local level to assess training requirements in the light of readiness for functional skills teaching in local schools, colleges and other post-16 institutions.
Sure Start Programme: Finance
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what proportion of funding for Sure Start (a) children's centres and (b) local programmes has been retained by each local authority in each of the last three years for which figures are available; and what the total (i) revenue and (ii) capital allocation was in each case. [290452]
Dawn Primarolo: Local authorities do not retain unspent allocation of the Sure Start, early years and childcare grant (SSEYCG). The Department claws back any unspent allocation of revenue following receipt of audited statements of expenditure. The Department also does this for capital allocations but offers carry-forward of unspent capital each year until the end of March 2011 (2010-11 financial year).
The information requested has been placed in the Libraries. The Sure Start Local Programme (SSLP) and children's centres allocations for each local authority for the last three years are given in table 1. The spend by
local authorities for the last three years for which figures are available are given in table 2.
Teachers: Hemsworth
Jon Trickett: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the average full-time equivalent gross pay of teachers was in schools in Hemsworth constituency in (a) cash and (b) real terms in each year since 1997. [288810]
Mr. Coaker: The information requested is not available at the constituency level but can be provided by local authority where the data source is considered to be of sufficient quality.
Information on the average salary of teachers is available only for full-time regular qualified teachers in service in local authority maintained schools. The following table provides this information for Wakefield local authority in both cash and real terms in each year, March 1997 to 2007, the latest year for which information is available by local authority.
| Average salary of full-time regular qualified teachers in local authority maintained schools, March 1997 to 2007, Wakefield local authority | ||
| Gross average salary (£)( 1) | ||
| Actual | Real terms( 2) | |
| (1) Gross salary of teachers of all grades including allowances. (2 )Adjusted using HM Treasury GDP deflator. (3) Provisional. Note: Figures are rounded to the nearest £100. Source: Database of Teacher records | ||
Teachers: Training
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) how many entrants to postgraduate certificate of education courses had a lower second class degree or better in the last year for which figures are available; [288244]
(2) how many entrants to postgraduate certificate of education courses had a third class or lower classification degree in the last year for which figures are available. [288245]
Mr. Coaker: The following tables show the number of first year trainees in 2006-07 by the classification of their first degree for:
1. Postgraduate ITT trainees
2. Employment Based Routes (EBR) trainees.
| Table 1: Proportion of postgraduate trainees in their first year of mainstream ITT courses by classification of first degree 2006-07, England | ||
| First year ITT entrants | ||
| Classification of first UK degree | Number | Percentage |
| Notes: 1. First year entrants to post graduate ITT courses. Includes Universities and other Higher Education Institutions, SCITT and Open University. Excludes employment based routes and cases where QTS was granted without a course in ITT. 2. Classification of first UK degree only. 3. Unclassified includes cases where degree class was undefined or unknown. 4. Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10. Source: TDA's Performance Profiles | ||
| Table 2: Proportion of postgraduate trainees in their first year of employment based routes to ITT by classification of first degree 2006-07, England | ||
| First year ITT entrants | ||
| Classification of first UK degree | Number | Percentage |
| Notes: 1. Excludes Universities and other Higher Education Institutions, SCITT and Open University and cases where QTS was granted without a course in ITT. 2. Classification of first UK degree only. 3. Unclassified includes cases where degree class was undefined or unknown. 4. Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10. Source: TDA's Performance Profiles | ||
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many entrants for B.Ed degree courses had no A level passes, excluding equivalents, in the last year for which figures are available. [288341]
Mr. Coaker: The available information is given in the table and shows the number and percentage of entrants to undergraduate initial teacher training (ITT) courses by their highest qualification on entry. Qualifications included in the "Other" category might be higher than A/AS level and can include trainees who have A/AS levels. Information relating specifically to entrants with no qualifications at advanced level is therefore not available.
Undergraduate trainees represent 24 per cent. of trainees on mainstream ITT courses.
| Undergraduate entrants to ITT courses by their highest qualification on entry 2006-07-England | ||||
| Mainstream | Employment b ased | |||
| Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | |
| (1) Less than 5, or a rate based on less than 5. Notes: 1. Mainstream includes Universities and other higher education institutes and Open University, but excludes Employment based ITT (EBITT). 2. EBITT includes trainees through the Registered Teacher programme. Source: TDA's Performance Profiles | ||||
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what average number of hours of continuous professional development training was received by teachers in the last year for which figures are available. [288345]
Mr. Coaker: The Department does not collect these data in the manner requested centrally. However, the Teachers' Workloads Diary survey, managed until recently by the Office of Manpower Economics and funded by the Department, does include time spent on training and/or development activity, including INSET, peer observation or being mentored. The survey results reflect each individual's definition of continuing professional development (CPD) and, as such, will not necessarily record many activities that would constitute CPD such as coaching or reading teaching and learning material.
The latest results from that survey, for 2008, showed that the average time per week spent on this activity was:
| Hours | |
The full report is available at:
Justice
Asylum and Immigration Tribunal
Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many files were destroyed by the fire at the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal Centre in London on 19 March 2009; how many such files have yet to be reconstructed; how many cases have been delayed as a consequence of that fire; and when he expects those cases to have been determined. [290262]
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