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Pupil Exclusions: Gloucestershire
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many pupils from (a) primary, (b) secondary and (c) special schools were (i) temporarily and (ii) permanently excluded in (A) Stroud constituency and (B) Gloucestershire in academic year 2008-09. [312751]
Mr. Coaker: Exclusions data for 2008/09 are not yet available. A Statistical First Release including national and local authority level data is due to be published in July showing this information.
Information on exclusions for the 2007/08 school year are provided in the following table.
| Maintained primary schools, state-funded secondary schools and special schools( 1,2,3) number of pupil enrolments( 4) with fixed period and permanent exclusions 2007/08 | ||||
| Stroud parliamentary constituency | Gloucestershire local authority | |||
| Fixed period exclusions | Permanent exclusions( 5) | Fixed period exclusions | Permanent exclusions( 6) | |
| "*" = Less than 5. (1) Includes middle schools as deemed. (2) Includes city technology colleges and academies (including all through academies). (3) Includes maintained and non-maintained special schools. Excludes general hospital schools. (4) Pupils may be counted more than once if they were registered at more than one school or moved schools during the school year. (5) Figures are reported by schools and are known to be incomplete. (6) Estimates based on confirmed local authority figures. Note: Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10. Source: School Census | ||||
Northern Ireland
Departmental Manpower
Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many employees in (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies are in transition prior to being managed out; how long on average the transition window between notification and exit has been in (i) his Department and (ii) each of its agencies in each of the last five years; what estimate he has made of the salary costs of staff in transition in each such year; and what proportion of employees in transition were classed as being so for more than six months in each year. [313236]
Paul Goggins: The following information relates to surplus staff.
(a) No Northern Ireland Office (NIO) staff have been "managed out" in the last five years.
(b) In 2009, 16 staff were "in transition" prior to being managed out to the Youth Justice Agency. The transition window between notification and exit was eight months. Salary costs were approximately £350,000. Five per cent. of these staff were "in transition" for more than six months.
Driving Offences: Sentencing
David Simpson:
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland pursuant to the answer of 25 January 2010, Official Report, columns 511-12W, on driving
offences, how many custodial sentences were handed down for causing grievous bodily injury by driving carelessly (a) when unfit and (b) with excess alcohol; and what the (i) average, (ii) longest and (iii) shortest custodial sentence was in each of those years. [314517]
Paul Goggins: The following table documents the number convicted, the number sentenced to immediate custody and the average, the shortest and longest custodial sentence length (in months) given for each of the offences 'cause grievous bodily injury by driving carelessly when unfit' and 'causing grievous bodily injury by driving carelessly with excess alcohol'.
Data cover the calendar years 2005 and 2006 and are collated on the principal offence rule; so only the most serious offence for which an offender is convicted is included.
David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland pursuant to the answer of 25 January 2010, Official Report, columns 511-12W, on driving offences, what the (a) average, (b) longest and (c) shortest custodial sentence handed down for a motoring offence causing death was in (i) 2005 and (ii) 2006; and how many custodial sentences were handed down in each of those years. [314518]
Paul Goggins: The following table documents the number convicted, the number sentenced to immediate custody and the average, the shortest and longest custodial sentence length (in months) given for motoring offences causing death for each of the requested years.
Data are collated on the principal offence rule; so only the most serious offence for which an offender is convicted is included.
| Number convicted, number sentenced to immediate custody and the average, shortest and longest custodial sentence length (in months) given for motoring offences causing death | |||||
| Sentence length (in months) | |||||
| Number convicted | Number given immediate custody | Average | Shortest | Longest | |
| (1) Sentence lengths have been rounded to the nearest whole number. | |||||
Newspaper Licensing Agency
Mr. Hurd: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what payments were made by his Department and each of its agencies to the Newspaper Licensing Agency in each of the last 10 years. [315615]
Paul Goggins: The following table shows the expenditure to the Newspaper Licensing Agency by the Northern Ireland Office including its agencies, but excluding non-departmental public bodies and the Public Prosecution Service for Northern Ireland. Figures cover the last seven years for which records are available.
| £ | |
Sexual Offences: Sentencing
David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland pursuant to the answer of 25 January 2010, Official Report, columns 512-14, on sexual offences, in respect of each category of offence, (a) what the average length of custodial sentence was, (b) how many custodial sentences were handed down and (c) what the (i) longest and (ii) shortest custodial sentence for each category of offence was. [314678]
Paul Goggins: The following tables document the number convicted, the number sentenced to immediate custody and the average, the shortest and longest custodial sentence length (in months) given for serious sexual assault offences broken down by offence.
Data cover the calendar years 2004 to 2006 and are collated on the principal offence rule; so only the most serious offence for which an offender is convicted is included.
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