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Departmental Travel
Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much was spent on first-class travel for (a) Ministers and (b) staff of each grade in (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies in the last 12 months. [325106]
Ms Diana R. Johnson: No Ministers or DCSF officials took first- class air travel during the period April 2009 to March 2010.
DCSF agency officials spent £8,640 on first class air travel during this period.
DCSF Ministers spent £8,146 on first class rail travel during this period.
DCSF officials spent £2,447,616 on first class rail travel during this period.
DCSF agency officials spent £3,816,469 on first class rail travel during this period.
The data have been provided by the Department's contractor for travel booking, Carlson Wagonlit Travel.
Devolved Schools Grant
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families for what purposes the retained element of the devolved schools grant will be used; and if he will make a statement. [318228]
Mr. Coaker: In accordance with the school finance (England) regulations, local authorities in England are permitted to deduct funding from their schools budget for the purposes of central expenditure. Schedule 2 of the school finance (England) regulations sets out the areas of expenditure that local authorities can retain centrally such as: special educational needs provision, pupil referral units, behaviour support services, education out of school, expenditure on the provision of nursery education other than in maintained schools, threshold and performance pay for teachers' salaries, expenditure on the administration of the local authority's admissions and appeals system for their schools, and school contingencies.
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 were entered for A-levels in each subject in 2009. [318406]
Mr. Coaker: The information requested is given in the following table. Please note that this information covers pupils in school sixth forms only; pupils entered for A-level examinations in sixth form or further education colleges are excluded from the figures.
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