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Tuberculosis: Disease Control
Mr. Sharma: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what the cost to his Department of (a) implementing and (b) managing its pre-entry screening programme for tuberculosis has been since the programme's inception; [295001]
(2) what estimate he has made of the average cost to each applicant of undertaking the pre-entry screening programme for tuberculosis; [295002]
(3) whether he plans to extend the pre-screening programme for tuberculosis to migrants from more countries; [295003]
(4) what evaluation of the effectiveness of his Department's pre-entry screening programme for tuberculosis has been undertaken. [295004]
Mr. Woolas: The pre-entry TB screening pilot programme administered on behalf of the UK Border Agency by the International Organisation for Migration covers 15 countries, and complements the system of on-entry checks by port medical inspectors at major UK ports. The Home Office, with a contribution from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, met the start-up costs of $1,803,580 US. The scheme is now self-financing, applicants paying a fee of between $50 and $77 US (up to £50). The Department of Health and Health Protection Agency have undertaken preliminary assessments, and a final evaluation is now under way. Following this review decisions will be taken on the future of the programme.
Vetting
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what guidance his Department has issued to employers and employees in England and Wales seeking a basic disclosure check. [294256]
Alan Johnson: Guidance from the Criminal Records Bureau advises individuals seeking a basic disclosure check to contact Disclosure Scotland.
Children, Schools and Families
Children: Databases
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families when he expects ContactPoint to be fully operational. [295514]
Dawn Primarolo: ContactPoint is already operational. From late October, local authorities can start training ContactPoint users across England. The speed at which practitioner use of ContactPoint builds up over time will be agreed jointly with local authorities and national partners.
Access to ContactPoint is strictly limited to those who need it as part of their work, and who have been security vetted and trained. Our latest evidence-based analysis suggests that the number of users will be 390,000. The ultimate number of users will be determined by local authorities and national partners. Those decisions will be governed by regulations and guidance and, ultimately, by capacity and resources.
Children: Poverty
Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what estimate his Department has made of the number of children in rural areas living in poverty in each year since 1997. [293210]
Helen Goodman: I have been asked to reply:
Estimates of the number of children in rural areas living in poverty are derived from the Family Resources Survey produced by the Department for Work and Pensions. The survey is available on the Department's website at
A copy is also in the Library.
Data on rurality are only available on the Family Resources Survey since 2004/05, so no information is available prior to 2004/05.
The information that is available is given in the tables.
Due to different definitions of rurality in Scotland compared to England and Wales, and the fact that no information is collected on the Family Resources Survey covering rurality in Northern Ireland, it has not been possible to present figures for the United Kingdom as a whole. This also means that the figures in table 4 are not comparable with figures presented in the other tables.
| Table 1: Number of children in rural areas in England in households with incomes below 60 per cent. of contemporary median income, 2004/05 to 2007/08, before and after housing costs | ||
| Million | ||
| Period | Before housing costs | After housing costs |
| Table 2: Number of children in rural areas in Wales in households with incomes below 60 per cent. of contemporary median income, 2004/05 to 2006/07 and 2005/06 to 2007/08, before and after housing costs | ||
| Million | ||
| Period | Before housing costs | After housing costs |
| Table 3: Number of children in rural areas in England and Wales in households with incomes below 60 per cent. of contemporary median income, 2004/05 to 2007/08, before and after housing costs | ||
| Million | ||
| Period | Before housing costs | After housing costs |
| Table 4: Number of children in rural areas in Scotland in households with incomes below 60 per cent. of contemporary median income, 2004/05 to 2006/07 and 2005/06 to 2007/08, before and after housing costs | ||
| Million | ||
| Period | Before housing costs | After housing costs |
| Notes: 1. These statistics are based on Households Below Average Income, sourced from the Family Resources Survey. 2. Small changes should be treated with caution as these will be affected by sampling error and variability in non-response. 3. The reference period for Households Below Average Income figures are single financial years. For Wales and Scotland, three years of data have had to be combined due to small sample size. 4. A '-' in the table indicates that the number of children in low income households is less than 50,000 in the period. 5. The income measures used to derive the estimates shown employ the same methodology as the Department for Work and Pensions publication "Households Below Average Income"' (HBAI) series, which uses disposable household income, adjusted (or 'equivalised') for household size and composition, as an income measure as a proxy for standard of living. 6. For the Households Below Average Income series, incomes have been equivalised using Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) equivalisation factors. 7. Number of children in low income households have been rounded to the nearest hundred thousand. | ||
Departmental Publications
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the cost of production of his Department's publication Schools of the Future: Inspirational Design for Kitchen and Dining Spaces was; and how much was spent on (a) research, (b) preparation and (c) distribution of the publication. [295667]
Mr. Coaker: The cost of producing Inspirational Design for Kitchen and Dining Spaces was around £108,000, broken down as follows:
Research, writing and graphics-£91,000
Preparation (printing, editing and professional photography)-£15,000
Distribution (including to every local authority)-approx £2,000
The publication, which was well received by the School Food Trust, has proved extremely valuable to local authorities, schools and designers particularly those involved in Building Schools for the Future and the Primary Capital Programme.
Education: Tamworth
Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) what the intake of sixth form pupils to schools in Tamworth constituency was in each of the last 10 years; [293775]
(2) how many year 7 pupils entered secondary school in Tamworth in each of the last 10 years. [294096]
Mr. Coaker: The available information is shown in the table.
Data on pupils by national curriculum year group have been collected at pupil level since 2002. Comparable data are not available for earlier years.
GCE A-Level
Mr. Brady: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what percentage of A- levels in (a) chemistry, (b) physics, (c) mathematics and (d) modern languages were awarded to pupils at (i) grammar schools, (ii) comprehensive schools, (iii) sixth form colleges and (iv) independent schools in the 2008-09 academic year. [294644]
Mr. Coaker [holding answer 20 October 2009]: The information required is given as follows and relates to passes at grades A-E:
| Contribution of total GCE A-level passes by institution type in 2008/09 | ||||||||||
| Percentage | ||||||||||
| Comprehensive | Selective | Modern | Other maintained | All maintained | Independent | Sixth Form Colleges | Other FE Colleges | AII FE colleges | All schools and colleges (number) | |
| Notes: 1. Figures relate to 16 to 18-year-olds (age at start of academic year, i.e. 31 August 2008). 2. 'Other modern languages' include 'Arabic', 'Bengali', 'Chinese', 'Dutch', 'Gujarati', 'Italian', 'Japanese', 'Panjabi', 'Persian', 'Polish', 'Portuguese', 'Russian', 'Turkish' and 'Urdu'. Source: Achievement and Attainment Tables data (provisional). | ||||||||||
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