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Month Monitoring Service and Public Affairs Contract Consultancy | ||
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Month Monitoring Service and Public Affairs Contract Consultancy | ||
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Month Monitoring Service and Public Affairs Contract Consultancy | ||
There have been three contractual arrangements between the East of England Development Agency (EEDA) and Fishburn Hedges since 2006 (the period to which the question relates). The following documents will be placed in the Libraries of the House.
Contract 2006062-Public Affairs contract
This contract was for the period 1 April 2006 to 31 August 2006. It was an extension of a previous arrangement, under contract reference number 04/57, which ran from November 2004 to March 2006.
This document has been modified only:
(a) to protect individuals' personal data; and
(b) to remove information relating to EEDA's internal processes. This information is commercially sensitive, in that it relates to EEDA's general approach to procurement strategy and supplier selection, and disclosure would not be in the public interest, as it would undermine the ability of EEDA to effectively conduct future procurement activities, and to achieve effective use of public money.
This is the contract agreement for the multi-disciplinary marketing support call off contract that lasted for two years up to November 2008. This document has been amended to remove the specific daily rate referred to in paragraph 3. Please take the following into account:
The amount of the daily rate in offer letter has been removed because it is information that is still of commercial significance to the contractor and to which a duty of confidentiality applies.
The contractor's Proposal (Attachment 1) has not been supplied. This document contains:
i. the personal data of individuals
ii. information relating to projects carried out by third parties, and
iii. information on the commercial and business method and interests of the contractor which retain commercial sensitivity and are subject to a duty of confidentiality
The list of key personnel (Appendix D) has not been supplied because it contains the personal data of individuals.
Contract 2006084-Public Affairs
This is a public affairs call-off contract.
Two documents relate to this contract.
The first is the original contract. It has been amended to remove the specific daily rate referred to in paragraph 3.
The amount of the daily rate in offer letter has been removed because it is information that is still of commercial significance to the contractor and to which a duty of confidentiality applies.
The contractor's Proposal (Attachment 1) has not been supplied. This document contains:
i. the personal data of individuals
ii. information relating to projects carried out by third parties, and
iii. information on the commercial and business method and interests of the contractor which retain commercial sensitivity and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
The list of Key Personnel (Appendix D) has not been supplied because it contains the personal data of individuals.
A second document extends the length of the contract noted above. It has not been modified.
Employment
Hugh Bayley: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what percentage of people aged 24 years or under in (a) the City of York, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber and (c) England are in education, employment or training. [321728]
Kevin Brennan: Table 1 shows the number and percentage of people aged(1) 16 to 24 in education, employment or training in Yorkshire and Humber and England in quarter 4 2009. This information is from the Labour Force Survey (LFS).
Estimates for small geographies such as local authorities are available from the Annual Population Survey (APS), for which the latest data available relate to 2008. Estimates for York are given in table 2.
Please note that all of these estimates are subject to sampling variability, which is larger for smaller geographies, and should therefore be treated with caution and viewed in conjunction with their Confidence Intervals(2) (CIs), which indicate how accurate an estimate is. For example, a CI of +/-2.8 percentage points (pp) means that the true value is between 2.8pp above the estimate and 2.8pp below the estimate.
(1) Age used is respondents' academic age, which is defined as their age at the preceding 31 August.
(2 )Those given are 95 per cent. confidence intervals
| Table 1: People aged 16 to 24 in education, employment or training, Q4 2009 | |||
| Number of 16 to 24-year-olds in EET | Percentage of all 16 to 24-year-olds in EET | Confidence Interval | |
| Source: Q4 2009 Labour Force Survey. | |||
| Table 2 : People aged 16 to 24 in education, employment or training, 200 8 | |||
| Number of 16 to 24-year-olds in EET | Percentage of all 16 to 24-year-olds in EET | Confidence Interval | |
| Source: 2008 Annual Population Survey. | |||
Estate Agents: Regulation
Grant Shapps: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what assessment he has made of the Office of Fair Trading's recent recommendation against the introduction of further regulation of estate agents. [323284]
Kevin Brennan: The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) published its market study report on "Home buying and selling" on 18 February 2010.
I am grateful to the OFT for its report. We will consider the recommendations which have been addressed to the Government and publish a response in due course.
Higher Education
Mr. Willis: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills whether the Higher Education Funding Council for England has instructed universities to cease to provide higher education courses through an education college since September 2009. [323024]
Mr. Lammy: I can confirm that the Higher Education Funding Council for England have not instructed universities to cease to provide higher education courses through an education college since September 2009.
Higher Education: Student Numbers
Mr. Hayes: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many people resident in each (a) constituency and (b) local authority area (i) applied for and (ii) were accepted for a place at university in each of the last three years. [321697]
Mr. Lammy: The information will be placed in the Libraries of the House.
National Skills Academies
Mr. Hayes: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many expressions of interest have been received to set up new National Skills Academies; and if he will make a statement. [321820]
Kevin Brennan: The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) received 12 Expressions of Interest (EoI) to set up new National Skills Academies (NSAs), in response to the NSA Fifth Round Prospectus. The bidding round is an independent process led and managed by the LSC and an announcement of the EoIs selected for further development is expected to be made very shortly.
National Skills Academies are successful in shaping skills provision in their sectors and in attracting employer commitment and investment in skills. This further expansion of the NSA network will build on that success, establishing NSAs as the leading employer-led skills delivery, and in taking us a step further towards the aspiration of having at least one NSA for every major sector of the economy as resources allow.
Non-Domestic Rates: Empty Property
Justine Greening: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what discussions his Department has had with the Department for Communities and Local Government on (a) empty property rates and (b) empty property relief since January 2007. [323164]
Mr. McFadden: The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has regular discussions with other Government Departments on matters affecting business, including with Communities and Local Government on business rates and rate relief schemes.
Post Offices: Closures
Mr. Atkinson: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (1) on how many occasions a sub-post office temporarily closed has been reclassified as a permanent closure since the first quarter of 2008; [321352]
(2) in what circumstances a post office classified as temporarily closed is reclassified as a permanent closure; [321353]
(3) how many sub-post offices which have temporarily closed in each quarter since the first quarter of 2008 remain closed; [321354]
(4) what the average time taken to provide a replacement branch in place of a sub-post office which had been temporarily closed was in each quarter since the first quarter of 2008; [321355]
(5) how many post offices classified as temporarily closed have been reintroduced as outreach services rather than re-opened; [321356]
(6) how many post offices temporarily closed have been replaced with the Post Office Essential Service. [321357]
Mr. McFadden: I have asked Alan Cook, managing director of Post Office Ltd., to respond directly to the hon. Member and a copy of his reply will be placed in the Libraries of the House.
Regional Development Agencies: Trade Unions
Grant Shapps: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much funding (a) his Department and its predecessors and (b) regional development agencies have given to support the regional union network. [311474]
Mr. McFadden: This Department does not provide funding directly in support of the regional union network.
Regional Development Agencies (RDA) fund initiatives through a variety of third party organisations to deliver projects to increase economic growth, such as on workforce
development and economic inclusion. The specific focus and priorities of such activities are set out in each region's Regional Economic Strategy and will differ according to the needs, opportunities and priorities for economic growth in each region.
The following table shows RDA funding to trade unions for 2003-09. The RDAs retain records of the last six years. To provide records before this period will incur disproportionate costs.
| Total amount of RDA funding to trade unions 2003-09 | |
| £ | |
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