House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 27 Oct 2009 (pt 0022)

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Table 2: Endowment Sponsorship Academies^{( 1)}
£
Academy	Total pledge	Actuals paid	Amount still expected
Barnfield South Academy	2,000,000	100,000	1,900,000
Barnfield West Academy	2,000,000	100,000	1,900,000
St. Aidan's CE Academy ( Eastbourne)	1,500,000	0	1,500,000
George Salter Collegiate Academy	1,500,000	0	1,500,000
Havelock Academy	2,000,000	500,000	1,500,000
Marsh Academy	850,000	750,000	100,000
New Line Learning Academy	1,500,000	650,000	850,000
St. Michael and All Angels CE Academy	2,000,000	500,000	1,500,000
Spires Academy	500,000	0	500,000
Walworth Academy	1,500,000	0	1,500,000
Abraham Darby Academy	750,000	0	750,000
Academy 360	2,250,000	2,000,000	250,000
Archbishop Sentamu Academy	250,000	0	250,000
The Hereford Academy	1,500,000	0	1,500,000
New Charter Academy	2,000,000	2,000,000	0
Oasis Academy Bristol Hengrove	1,500,000	0	1,500,000
Oasis Academy Media City: UK Salford	1,500,000	0	1,500,000
Priory Federation of Academies	2,000,000	0	2,000,000
Richard Rose Federation	2,000,000	0	2,000,000
RSA Academy at Tipton	1,500,000	0	1,500,000
Samworth Church Academy, Nottingham	1,500,000	0	1,500,000
St. Lawrence Academy	750,000	0	750,000
West Lakes Academy	2,000,000	0	2,000,000
All Saints	750.000	0	750.000
Castle View Enterprise Academy	1,350,000	0	1,350,000
Droylsden Academy	2,000,000	0	2,000,000
Fulwood Academy	2,000,000	0	2,000,000
Milton Keynes	2,000,000	500,000	1,500,000
Northumberland CE Academy	1,500,000	0	1,500,000
Nottingham Academy	500,000	0	500,000
Nottingham University Samworth Academy	2,000,000	0	2,000,000
Red House Academy	1,250,000	1,000,000	250,000
Strood Academy	500,000	0	500,000
University Chester Church of England Academy	100,000	0	100,000
⁽¹⁾ Figures are based on each academy's latest annual accounts (which were as at 31 August 2008).

Children In Care

Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families whether any financial incentives are available to families caring for a child under a special guardianship order. [295303]

Dawn Primarolo: Local authorities have discretion to provide financial support. There is no requirement for a local authority to provide financial support to an individual family. However, where an assessment of a person's need for financial support is made and it is decided that a person has such needs, the local authority must decide whether to provide the support and in making this decision they must act in accordance with regulations and must act reasonably. Financial support can be paid to help secure a suitable special guardianship arrangement where such an arrangement cannot be readily made because of a financial obstacle.

Children's Commissioner for England

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what account he has taken of the report of the Select Committee on
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Children, Schools and Families in his appointment of the Children's Commissioner for England. [295200]

Dawn Primarolo: The Secretary of State gave very careful consideration to the report, in accordance with Cabinet Office guidelines on pre-appointment hearings, before making a decision on the appointment of Maggie Atkinson as Children's Commissioner for England.

All the comments made by the Committee were taken into account. My right hon. Friend responded in detail to each of the issues in a letter to the chair of the Committee and made a statement on the appointment to the House of Commons on 19 October.

As set out in his response to the chair of the Committee, he also considered the transcript of the hearing; Maggie Atkinson's career history; and other evidence from the independent recruitment process, which was validated by an independent OPCA (Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments) assessor and which identified Maggie Atkinson as clearly the strongest candidate.

He concluded that the Committee's report did not put forward new relevant facts concerning Maggie Atkinson's suitability for the post such as to cause him to alter his nomination of her to the post of the Children's Commissioner.

Closed Circuit Television

Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) how many households have CCTV cameras installed inside their homes as part of family intervention projects; and whether he plans to extend the use of such cameras; [294895]

(2) which local authorities have installed CCTV cameras inside homes as part of family intervention projects. [294896]

Dawn Primarolo: Family Intervention Projects do not involve CCTV in people's homes. A small number (12) of the projects do have residential units where families are subject to 24 hour supervision with security staff and key workers always on site, but the majority of projects work with families in their own homes. Key workers do 'monitor' families and may visit unannounced, but this does not involve CCTV.

Damian McBride

Mr. Maude: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families on what date (a) he and (b) his special advisers last met Mr Damian McBride in the course of their official duties. [287367]

Ms Diana R. Johnson: Neither the Secretary of State nor his special advisers have met with Mr. McBride in the course of their duties since his resignation on 11 April 2009.

Departmental Energy

Dr. Whitehead: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families whether his Department has a strategy to encourage voltage optimisation on its estate. [295273]

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Ms Diana R. Johnson: The Department for Children, Schools and Families has installed Voltage Optimisation in its London building and is now evaluating the return on this investment. The findings of this evaluation will determine whether a roll-out strategy is appropriate for the Department.

Departmental Female Staff

Mrs. Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of his Department's senior civil service staff have been women in each year since the Department was established. [289796]

Ms Diana R. Johnson: Information for the Department since its creation on 28 June 2007 is set out in the following table:

	Number of SCS women	Proportion (percentage)
July 2007 to March 2008	57	45
April 2008 to March 2009	69	50

Departmental Postal Services

Mr. Carmichael: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which companies are under contract to his Department to provide mail services; and when each such contract expires. [296180]

Ms Diana R. Johnson: The Department for Children, Schools and Families currently has three contracts to provide mail services across its headquarter buildings located in London, Sheffield, Darlington and Runcorn.

Companies and contract expiry dates:

1. TNT UK Ltd. used for parcel carrier services: contract expires 30 April 2013.

2. Central Dispatch Services Ltd. used for courier services: contract expires 3 October 2010.

3. Copley Couriers used for courier services: contract expires 3 October 2010.

4. Royal Mail is our main provider of mail services.

Departmental Public Expenditure

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families with reference to table 8.4 of his Department's Annual Report 2009, page 175, to which programmes the safeguarding spending budget for 2010-11 has been allocated. [293270]

Ms Diana R. Johnson [holding answer 15 October 2009]: Detail on the constituent parts of the planned safeguarding spending, aggregated in DCSF's departmental annual report 2009, are provided in the table for the year 2010-11.

Departmental allocation, 2010-11
	£000
Teenage Pregnancy/Substance Misuse	10,185
Safeguarding Children and Supporting Families Grant	1,130

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