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I attach a table showing the gender pay gap in 2009 for median hourly earnings excluding overtime for all and full-time employees on adult rates of pay, whose pay for the survey period was not affected by absence, in each Government Office Region.

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Gender pay gap for employee jobs( 1) : Government office regions 2009
	Median hourly earnings excluding overtime (£)
	Men			Women			Gender pay gap (%)
	All	Full-time	Part-time	All	Full-time	Part-time	All	Full-time
North East	11.27	11.75	*7.71	9.00	10.26	7.49	20.1	12.6
North West	11.58	12.14	7.47	9.14	10.90	7.46	21.0	10.2
Yorkshire and the Humber	11.28	11.81	7.46	8.97	10.59	7.41	20.4	10.3
East Midlands	11.49	12.00	7.38	8.79	10.27	7.40	23.5	14.4
West Midlands	11.61	12.11	7.23	9.03	10.50	7.60	22.2	13.3
East	12.00	12.50	8.00	9.28	10.73	7.78	22.7	14.2
London	16.77	17.56	8.99	13.83	15.23	9.74	17.6	13.3
South East	13.22	13.89	7.42	9.93	11.65	8.16	24.9	16.1
South West	11.62	12.06	8.00	9.13	10.25	7.92	21.5	15.0
Wales/Cymru	11.16	11.75	7.26	8.94	10.26	7.39	19.9	12.6
Scotland	11.90	12.39	7.62	9.75	11.33	8.04	18.0	8.5
Northern Ireland	10.63	11.00	*7.72	9.29	10.61	8.06	12.7	3.5
(1) Employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey period was not affected by absence. As at April 2009. Guide to quality: The Coefficient of Variation (CV) indicates the quality of a figure, the smaller the CV value the higher the quality. The true value is likely to lie within +/- twice the CV-for example, for an average of 200 with a CV of 5 per cent., we would expect the population average to be within the range 180 to 220. Key: CV <= 5 per cent. * CV >5 per cent. and <= 10 per cent. Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Office for National Statistics

Ministers: Training

Mr. Maude: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office if she will place in the Library a copy of the Handbook for Ministers prepared by the National School of Government. [312284]

Tessa Jowell: This is a matter for the National School of Government. I have asked the principal and chief executive to assist by writing to the right hon. Member.

Letter from Rod Clark, dated January 2010:

In the Written Ministerial Statement to the House on 9 January 2007 (Official Report Col 5WS), the then Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office (Pat McFadden MP) announced that the National School of Government was now a Non Ministerial Department. Consequently, the Minister for the Cabinet Office has asked me to reply to your Parliamentary Questions about the National School of Government.

The National School operates in a commercial environment with a business model which requires the full operating costs of the department to be recovered from the products and services provided to clients and customers. The "Handbook for Ministers" will be published in due course with a cover price. At the moment it is still in draft form, and subject to revision; so I have concluded that it would not be appropriate at this stage to place a copy in the Library of the House.

I am sending you, however, the current draft of the Handbook, and will send you the final version when it is published.

Pay

Hugh Bayley: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the average annual salary was of full-time (a) members of the academic staff in further education colleges, (b) teachers in secondary schools, (c) public sector employees and (d) private sector employees in (i) cash and (ii) real terms in (A) 1997 and (B) the latest period for which figures are available. [312885]

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

Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated January 2010:

As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking what the average annual salary was of full-time (a) members of the academic staff in further education colleges, (b) teachers in secondary schools, (c) public sector employees and (d) private sector employees in (i) cash and (ii) real terms in (A) 1997 and (B) the latest period for which figures are available. (312885)

The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), carried out in April each year, is the most comprehensive source of earnings information in the United Kingdom. Annual levels of earnings are estimated from the ASHE, and are provided for employees on adult rates of pay, who have been in the same job for more than a year. ASHE estimates by occupation are based on the Standard Occupation Classification. The public and private sector breakdown is based on the Inter-Departmental Business Register legal status.

We have attached a table showing the median gross annual earnings for all full-time employees for each of the above occupations and sectors for 1999 and 2009, the earliest and latest periods for which figures are available. For the purposes of calculating real terms estimates we have used the all items Retail Price Index for April of each year.

Median gross annual earnings for full-time employee jobs( 1) : United Kingdom 1999 and 2009
£
	1999 at 1999 prices	1999 at 2009 prices( 2)	2009
Higher and further education teaching professionals(3)	23,400	30,000	-
Secondary (and middle school deemed secondary) education teaching professionals(3)	24,600	31,500	-
Further education teaching professionals(4)	-	-	32,600
Secondary education teaching professionals(4)	-	-	36,200
Public sector	19,300	24,700	27,700
Private sector	17,200	22,000	25,000
(1) Full-time employees on adult rates who have been in the same job for more than a year. As at April of each year. (2) Delated using all items RPI for April of each year. (3) Standard Occupation Classification 1990. (4) Standard Occupation Classification 2000. Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Office for National Statistics.

Senior Civil Servants: Pay

Mr. Maude: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many civil servants in (a) Government Departments, (b) executive agencies and (c) non-departmental public bodies are in receipt of a salary of over (i) £100,000, (ii) £150,000 and (iii) £200,000. [312299]

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

Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated 27 January 2010:

As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning, how many civil servants in (a) Government departments, (b) executive agencies and (c) non-departmental public bodies are in receipt of a salary of over (i) £100,000, (ii) £150,000 and (iii) £200,000. (312299).

The requested data are attached at Annex A. The estimates for non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) only include crown NDPBs. Employees of crown NDPBs are civil servants and are counted as being in the Civil Service for the purpose of ONS sector employee headcounts.

Annex A

Number of civil servants in (a) Government Departments, (b) executive agencies and (c) non-departmental public bodies in receipt of a salary of over (i) £100,000, (ii) £150,000 and (iii) £200,000( 1,2,3) All employees , 31 March 2009
Headcount
	Over £100,000	Over £150,000	Over £200,000
Government Departments	660	110	10
Executive agencies	140	20	(4)-
Non-departmental public bodies	20	(4)-	0
(1 )Numbers are rounded to the nearest ten. (2) Salaries represent actual annual gross salaries. (3) Includes ministerial and non-ministerial Government Departments. (4 )Less than five. Source: Annual Civil Service Employment Survey.

Children, Schools and Families

Higher Education: Admissions

Mr. Hepburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families which constituency had the highest number of its residents attending a university in each year since 1997. [313491]

Mr. Lammy: I have been asked to reply.

Using data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), it is possible to identify how many students entered HE from each parliamentary constituency. In each year from 1997/98, with the exception of 2007/08, Bristol West had the highest number of entrants to UK Higher Education Institutions. In 2007/08, Hornsey and Wood Green had the highest number of entrants.

Care should be exercised when interpreting this analysis as the number of entrants is not matched against the underlying population in these constituencies, and there are cases in which the constituency of the student cannot be established due to missing or invalid postcode information.

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