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Children's Workforce Development Council: Finance
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much funding his Department allocated to the Children's Workforce Development Council for (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06, (c) 2006-07, (d) 2008-09 and (e) 2009-10. [322802]
Dawn Primarolo
[holding answer 18 March 2010]: The Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) was established in 2005. There was therefore no funding allocation for the 2004-05 financial year. The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) funding allocations for each of CWDC's first three financial years, when it was an employer-led workforce reform body were; 2005-06, £960,000; 2006-07, £31,921,000 million and 2007-08, £55,181,000 million. The funding allocations for the next two years, when CWDC became an executive non departmental public body of the DCSF
and experienced significant expansion to its remitted activities were; 2008-09, £82,454,000 million and 2009-10, £108,228,000 million.
Departmental Buildings
Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much his Department and its predecessor spent on interior design in relation to office refurbishments undertaken in each of the last five years. [324671]
Ms Diana R. Johnson: The Department for Children, Schools and Families financial system does not hold information on the amount of spend incurred purely for interior design as a separate cost from other construction management and design fees.
Departmental Ministerial Policy Advisers
Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what records his Department maintains of the reimbursable expenses paid to its special advisers. [325117]
Ms Diana R. Johnson: Records of expenses paid to the Department's special advisers are kept on the Department's Resourcing Management System which was introduced in November 2009, and previously on the Department's financial system, IFIS.
Departmental Publicity
Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much his Department has spent on (a) ministerial photoshoots and (b) production of videos in which Ministers appear in the last three years for which figures are available. [305511]
Mr. Coaker: In the last three years for which figures are available, this Department and its predecessor, the Department for Education and Skills, spent the following on (a) ministerial photoshoots:
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and (b) production of videos in which Ministers appear:
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Departmental Taxis
Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many miles (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department and its predecessors have travelled by taxi in the course of their official duties in each year since 1997; and at what cost to the public purse in each such year. [302709]
Mr. Coaker: The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) was established under the machinery of Government on 28 June 2007, therefore the response covers its predecessor the Department for Education and Skills (DFES) which was established on 8 June 2001.
Accounting records are not available for mileage covered by taxis for both Ministers and Officials.
No taxi expenditure has been recorded against Ministers use of taxis within the DCSF's accounting system or its predecessor the DFES. However, the Government Car and Despatch Agency (GCDA) an executive agency of the Department for Transport supplies official cars for Ministers during the course of their official duties. Unfortunately, GCDA is only able to supply data for the latest financial year of 2008-09. Data for earlier years are not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate costs.
Due to the accounting system used by the Department prior to 2004 only being able to hold a number of charges under one account code of "travel and subsistence" individual charges were not specific to the type of travel.
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| Financial years | Ministers official car costs | Officials taxi costs |
Expenditure, however, has to be incurred in accordance with the principles of "Managing Public Money" and the Treasury handbook on "regularity and propriety".
Free School Meals: A-Levels
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals at (a) comprehensive and (b) all mainstream maintained schools achieved three A-levels at A grade in the last year for which figures are available. [318470]
Mr. Coaker: The information available is provided in the following table:
| Number and proportion of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals at (a) comprehensive( 1) and (b) all maintained mainstream schools( 1) achieving three or more A grades at GCE/Applied A level or Double Award in 2008/09 | ||
| Number of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals achieving three or more A grades at GCE/Applied A level or Double Award | Proportion of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals achieving three or more A grades at GCE/Applied A level or Double Award | |
| (1) Includes city technology colleges and academies. Source: National Pupil database (2008/09 Revised Data) | ||
The figures relate to 16 to 18-year-olds (age at start of academic year, i.e. 31 August 2002) in maintained schools only who were eligible for free school meals. The figures do not include the achievement of students in Further Education Sector Colleges previously eligible for free school meals.
GCE A-Level: Disadvantaged
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 10 February 2010, Official Report, column 1088W, on free school meals: mathematics, if he will provide the information from the earliest year in the last 30 years for which data relating to ethnicity and eligibility for free school meals is available. [318420]
Mr. Coaker: Full information for the whole cohort of A-level students is not available, because the information comes from two distinct sources. The information the Department has readily available is for schools.
In the 2002-03 academic year, the number of white males eligible for free school meals attending maintained(1) schools and non maintained special schools who achieved an A grade in GCE A-Level further mathematics was less than five. The number of white females eligible for free school meals attending maintained(1) schools and non-maintained special schools who achieved an A grade in GCE A-level further mathematics was also less than five. The exact figures cannot be given to preserve confidentiality.
(1) Maintained Schools including City Technology Colleges
GCSE and GCE A-level
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what percentage of comprehensive schools did not enter any students for (a) physics, (b) chemistry and (c) biology GCSE in the last year for which figures are available. [304901]
Mr. Coaker: Of the 2,741 comprehensive schools published in the 2009 Achievement and Attainment Tables that have at least one pupil on roll at the end of Key Stage 4:
1,296 (47.3 per cent.) entered no pupils for GCSE physics.
1,302 (47.5 per cent.) entered no pupils for GCSE chemistry
1,247 (45.5 per cent.) entered no pupils for GCSE biology
The Government have introduced a statutory entitlement for all pupils in maintained schools(1) to be able to study at least two science GCSEs, specifically this includes core and additional science or the three separate science GCSEs of physics, chemistry and biology.
(1) Not including Academies and City Technology Colleges.
Keith Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many schools achieved GCSE results above the national average in the most recent period for which figures are available; and how many such schools in (a) Leicester, (b) the east midlands and (c) England are scheduled to be closed in 2010. [312228]
Mr. Coaker: In maintained schools in England in 2009, 50.7 per cent. of pupils at the end of key stage 4 achieved five or more GCSEs at grade A*-C or the equivalent, including English and mathematics GCSEs.
The following table counts the number of schools performing above this average.
| Leicester | East Midlands | England | |
| Notes: 1. The seven schools in Leicester are included in the count of schools in east midlands, which are included in the England count. 2. The school approved for closure is in Rochdale local authority and is to address an issue of surplus places there. | |||
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what percentage of eligible pupils received five A* to C grades at GCSE including English and mathematics but excluding equivalents in (a) local authority schools and (b) academies where the per capita spend per pupil was (i) up to £4,500, (ii) from £4,501 to £5,000, (iii) from £5,001 to £5,500 and (d) more than £5,500 in the most recent year for which figures are available. [312790]
Mr. Coaker: The following tables provide a breakdown of the number and percentage of pupils achieving five or more A* to C grades in their GCSEs by the end of key stage 4, banded by expenditure per pupil in local authority maintained secondary schools and academies respectively.
| Number and percentage of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 achieving five A* to C grades at GCSE, excluding equivalents, including English and maths GCSEs, banded by expenditure( 1) per pupil in academies( 2) | ||
| Expenditure( 1) per pupil | Number of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 achieving five or more GCSEs at grade A* to C, excluding equivalents, including English and maths GCSEs( 3) | Percentage of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 achieving five or more GCSEs at grade A* to C, excluding equivalents, including English and maths GCSEs( 3) |
| (1) Academy allocations include a VAT grant and a Local Authority Central Services Equivalent Grant (LACSEG), local authority maintained schools do not receive these grants. Academies receive a VAT grant because they incur VAT on purchases and services, whereas local authority maintained schools in general do not or can reclaim it. LACSEG is paid to academies to enable them to purchase/provide services normally funded and provided to maintained schools from the local authority's central budget, which an academy does not have access to. (2) The number of schools within each banding (ascending) are 1, 11, 29 and 81 respectively. (3) Including attempts and achievements in previous academic years. Source: GCSE details are from the Achievement and Attainment Tables (AAT). | ||
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