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Autism: Children
Paul Maynard: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will take steps to ensure that child and adolescent mental health services are able adequately to meet the needs of children with autism through (a) availability of specialist autism support and (b) autism training for all staff working in such services. [8377]
Mr Burstow: Staff working in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) should have the necessary values, competencies, skills, and ongoing training to enable them to recognise and respond to the identified needs of children, including those with autism. We are looking at what might need to be done to ensure CAMHS offer proper support to those with autism spectrum disorders.
Baby Care Units: Standards
Mrs Grant: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how his Department assesses the quality of services provided by maternity units. [9518]
Anne Milton: The Care Quality Commission is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England and is therefore responsible for assuring the safety and quality of services provided by maternity units.
Change4Life Programme
Ian Mearns: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what factors he took into account on his decision to end his Department's funding for the Change4Life programme. [9019]
Anne Milton: The Department will continue to provide funding for the Change4Life campaign. The amount of taxpayers' money spent on Change4Life will be scaled back to focus on the core business of extending the campaign's reach and effectiveness.
Ian Mearns: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much funding for the Change4Life programme he expects to be raised from the food industry. [9023]
Anne Milton: How much funding the food industry will contribute to the Change4Life campaign has yet to be discussed with representatives from food companies. Discussions will be taking place over the coming months to consider how funding arrangements will be developed from the existing support provided.
Departmental Buildings
John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many buildings his Department occupies in (a) London and (b) the UK. [6853]
Mr Simon Burns: The Department occupies five buildings in London. It wholly occupies Richmond House, Skipton House, and Wellington House and partly occupies New Kings Beam House and Eastbourne Terrace. The Department occupies a total of 16 buildings in the United Kingdom which includes the London buildings listed above and additionally wholly occupies Hexagon House (Exeter), Vantage House (Leeds) and Units 8 and 9Hi Tech Village (Newcastle) and partially occupies Quarry House (Leeds), Premier Buildings (Nelson, Lancashire), Premier House (Reading), Castle View House (Runcorn), Hembury House (Exeter), Princes Exchange (Leeds), Prospect House (Redditch), and 1 Whitehall (Leeds) .
The response includes buildings occupied by staff in NHS Connecting for Health. In addition the Department has a number of staff in located in each on the Government Offices of the Regions.
Depressive Illnesses
Kate Hoey: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of (a) women and (b) men aged (i) under 19, (ii) between 19 and 35 and (iii) over 35 years who were diagnosed with depression were subsequently referred to talking therapies and mutual support groups in each of the last five years. [8731]
Mr Burstow: Although the Department does not collect these statistics centrally, we do have access to the most recent Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (2007) figures. This provides data around the numbers of people with a common mental health disorder (CMD) by age and gender. It also provides this information by historic intervals. The following tables indicate the relevant data for the years 1993, 2000 and 2007:
| Prevalence of CMD in past week in 1993, 2000 and 2007-Men | |||
| Percentage | |||
| Aged 16-34 | Aged 35-44 | All men | |
| Prevalence of CMD in past week in 1993, 2000 and 2007-Women | |||
| Percentage | |||
| Aged 16-34 | Aged 35-44 | All women | |
| Prevalence of CMD in past week in 1993, 2000 and 2007-All | |
| All (percentage) | |
| Source: Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey, 2007 | |
We do not collect data to indicate the proportion of these individuals who are subsequently referred to talking therapies. However, we do know that from October 2008 to March 2010 the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme received 765,491 referrals. If the numbers referred for treatment continue to increase at the current rate in excess of 1.65 million people will be referred for talking therapies by March 2011. This is in line with the plans to see 900,000 people in the first three years of the programme. In year two, we have launched a further 111 sites and by 2011, we expect all 152 primary care trusts to begin to be implementing an IAPT service. Information on the number of people accessing psychological therapy services in primary and community settings was not collected centrally prior to the IAPT programme.
Kate Hoey: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of (a) women and (b) men aged (i) under 19, (ii) between 19 and 35 and (iii) over 35 years who are registered with a GP have been treated for depression by each primary care trust in each of the last five years. [8736]
Mr Burstow: We do know that as of April 2010 765,000 referrals had been made to Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services, with 321,000 people going on to enter the service. The most recent prevalence rates for common mental health disorder as recorded by the Psychiatric Morbidity Survey in 2007 is 17.6% (of the adult population aged 16 to 64).
The information requested is not collected centrally.
Kate Hoey: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many and what percentage of (a) women and (b) men aged (i) under 19, (ii) between 19 and 35 and (iii) over 35 years who were diagnosed with depression were prescribed anti-depressants by each primary care trust in each of the last five years; [8737]
(2) what proportion of people aged (a) under 19, (b) between 19 and 35 and (c) over 35 years who were diagnosed with depression were female in the latest period for which figures are available; [8738]
(3) how much each primary care trust spent on anti-depressants for (a) women and (b) men aged (i) under 19, (ii) between 19 and 35 and (iii) over 35 years in each of the last five years; [8739]
(4) how much his Department has spent on anti-depressants for (a) women and (b) men in each of the last five years. [8742]
Mr Burstow: Information on the net ingredient cost of antidepressant prescription items(1 )dispensed in the community in England for the period requested is shown in the following table.
(1) Antidepressants have been defined as those products included in British National Formulary (BNF) chapter 4.3 (antidepressant drugs).
Source:
Prescribing Cost Analysis
| Net ingredient cost (£000) | |
Information on the number and net ingredient cost of antidepressant prescription items dispensed in the community by primary care trust has been placed in the Library.
Information on the gender of people with a current diagnosis of depression and information on the numbers, age and gender of people prescribed a medicine and the condition for which a medicine is prescribed, is not collected centrally.
Drugs: Misuse
Andrew Griffiths: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what definition the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse uses of the term dependency in its official publications. [8751]
Anne Milton: The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse uses the World Health Organisation's definition of dependency, which is contained in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10):
"A cluster of behavioural, cognitive, and physiological phenomena that develop after repeated substance use and that typically include a strong desire to take the drug, difficulties in controlling its use, persisting in its use despite harmful consequences, a higher priority given to drug use than to other activities and obligations, increased tolerance, and sometimes a physical withdrawal state."
This definition is also used in the United Kingdom guidelines on clinical management of drug misuse and dependence and by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
Eating Disorders: Finance
Kate Hoey: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much his Department spent on treatment for eating disorders with regard to (a) women and (b) men in each of the last five years. [8743]
Mr Burstow: The commissioning of services, including those to address self-harm is a local issue for primary care trusts and strategic health authorities. We do not collect this information centrally.
Food: Labelling
Ian Mearns: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what representations he has received (a) for and (b) against the inclusion of traffic light warnings on labels for food and drink since May 2010; and if he will make a statement. [9022]
Anne Milton: Three letters have been received regarding traffic light labelling on food products. All were in favour of traffic light labelling. No representations have been received against the use of traffic light labelling on food products.
General Practitioners
Mr Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what estimate he has made of the number of managerial and administrative staff who will be employed to operate the GP consortia proposed in the White Paper proposals for new commissioning; and if he will make a statement; [8996]
(2) whether his Department plans to provide funding for capital expenditure to establish the GP consortia proposed in the White Paper proposals for new commissioning; and if he will make a statement. [8997]
Mr Simon Burns: The White Paper, "Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS", published on 12 July 2010, sets out our intention to devolve power and responsibility for commissioning services to local consortia of general practitioner (GP) practices. To support GP consortia in their commissioning decisions, we will also create an independent NHS Commissioning Board.
We will shortly issue a document setting out our proposals in more detail. This will provide the basis for fuller engagement with primary care professionals, patients and the public. It is therefore too early at this stage to say what this means for the numbers of managerial and administrative staff employed to operate the GP consortia.
Thus plans for funding for capital expenditure for GP consortia have not yet been made.
Health Services: Children
Meg Munn: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which organisations will assume the regulatory and policy functions of primary care trusts in respect of safeguarding children after the abolition of primary care trusts. [9464]
Anne Milton: The White Paper, "Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS" sets out our strategy for reforming the national health service and a timetable of action to achieve it. The Health Bill to be introduced in the autumn will detail which organisations will assume the functions of primary care trusts, including those in respect of safeguarding, once they are abolished.
Health Services: Finance
Charlotte Leslie: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much funding his Department allocated per head to acute care in each of the primary care trust review areas in each year since 2000. [8683]
Mr Simon Burns: Revenue allocations cover hospital and community health services, prescribing (the Drugs Bill) and, since 2006-07, primary medical services. The Department does not break down primary care trust (PCT) allocations by policy or by service area. PCTs make decisions on investment in health care for their communities, taking into account both local and national priorities.
Revenue allocations were first made to PCTs in 2003-04. Prior to 2003-04, revenue allocations were made to health authorities (HAs).
A table, setting out allocations per head to HAs from 2000-01 to 2002-03, and to PCTs from 2003-04 to 2010-11, has been placed in the Library.
Hospitals: Parking
Charlotte Leslie: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many car parking spaces at NHS hospitals in each region are available for use by (a) managerial staff, (b) members of the public, (c) consultants and (d) other clinical staff. [9475]
Mr Simon Burns: The information is not available in the format requested.
Data on car parking spaces provided by the national health service are collected centrally through the Estates Returns Information Collection (ERIC). These data are provided on a voluntary basis by NHS foundation trusts and will therefore not be complete. The latest available data for 2008-09 are provided as follows by strategic health authority (SHA):
| Strategic health authority | Total disabled parking spaces( 1) | Total parking spaces available for patients/visitors( 2) | Total parking spaces available for staff( 3) |
| The ERIC data definitions used were: ( 1 ) Total disabled parking spaces. Total number of disabled car parking spaces available within the organisational grounds for disabled staff and visitors. ( 2 ) Total parking spaces available for patients/visitors Total number of car parking spaces available for use by patients and visitors within the organisational grounds, inclusive of relevant disabled parking spaces. ( 3 ) Total parking spaces available for staff Total number of car parking spaces available for use by staff within the organisational grounds, inclusive of relevant disabled parking spaces. | |||
The information provided has been supplied by the NHS and has not been amended centrally. The accuracy and completeness of the information is the responsibility of the provider organisation.
The provision of hospital car parking is decided locally by individual trusts to best support their services.
Kingston Hospital: Finance
Zac Goldsmith: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans his Department has for the (a) future and (b) future funding of Kingston Hospital. [9220]
Mr Simon Burns: We are informed by NHS London that there are no plans for significant changes to Kingston hospital.
The Department does not allocate funding directly to hospitals. Revenue allocations are made to primary care trusts (PCTs), and it is for PCTs to commission services from hospitals and other providers to meet the health care needs of their local communities, taking account of national and local priorities.
This Government will devolve power and responsibility for commissioning services to the health care professionals closest to patients: general practitioners and their consortiums.
Medical Consultants: Sick Leave
Charlotte Leslie: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many medical consultants were recorded as taking stress-related leave in each region in each year since 2000. [8682]
Mr Simon Burns: This information is only available from local national health service organisations. If medical consultants are on the national pay scale they can be identified on the Electronic Staff Records System (ESR) but there is no standard reporting tool to enable extraction of national ESR data on sickness absence by reason.
Medical Records: Databases
Dr Wollaston: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his most recent estimate is of the cost of the summary care records programme. [6109]
Mr Simon Burns: I refer the hon. Member to the written answer I gave the hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden (Mr David Davis) on 5 July 2010, Official Report, column 44W.
Mental Health Services
Kate Hoey: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of GP consultations held with (a) female and (b) male patients aged (i) under 19, (ii) between 19 and 35 and (iii) over 35 years were related to common mental disorders in each of the last five years. [8730]
Mr Burstow: This is information is not collected centrally.
Kate Hoey: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how much talking therapies have cost each primary care trust in each of the last five years; [8735]
(2) how much each primary care trust spent on cognitive behavioural therapy for (a) women and (b) men aged (i) under 19, (ii) between 19 and 35 and (iii) over 35 years in each of the last five years. [8740]
Mr Burstow: At a national level the Government have invested significant resources as part of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme. This investment was £33 million in 2008-09, £103 million in 2009-10 and £173 million in 2010-11. The £173 million per annum funding will be recurrent following the end of the current comprehensive spending review period.
These data are not centrally collected.
Mental Health Services: Waiting Lists
Kate Hoey: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average waiting times for talking therapies were for (a) women and (b) men aged (i) under 19, (ii) between 19 and 35 and (iii) over 35 years in each of the last five years. [8734]
Mr Burstow: A key aim of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme is to improve access to talking therapy services. This entails reducing levels of unmet need and waiting times for services for people who do come forward and seek treatment. The intention of the IAPT programme is to provide rapid access for assessment and treatment for people with diagnosable conditions. While the waiting times standards to be achieved by each service are locally derived (and therefore locally collected), national best practice indicates that the end-to-end waiting time from referral to treatment commencing should be no more than four weeks.
Mental Health: Death
Mr Sanders: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what research has been undertaken to establish the average age of death for people with severe mental illness in England since publication of the 2006 Disability Rights Commission report, Closing the Gap. [8537]
Mr Burstow: We are unaware of any research which has been undertaken in this field, however we recognise that this is a serious problem. We expect to address it in our future plans for public health.
Mental Health: Patients
Mr Sanders: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the rates of readmission of mental health in-patients within (a) 30 days and (b) 90 days were in each primary care trust in each of the last three years. [8555]
Mr Burstow: The information requested is not collected.
Mental Health: Psychotherapists
Mr Sanders: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans there are to extend access to psychological therapies recommended by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence to people with severe mental illness who are not eligible for treatment through the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme. [8553]
Mr Burstow: The Government set out in the Coalition agreement, 'our programme for government', a commitment to ensure greater access to talking therapies to reduce long-term costs for the national health service. This is a clear public health priority for us and we are currently working to identify how best to take it forward.
Revised National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidance on schizophrenia was published in March 2009. This outlines the best way to treat and manage adults with schizophrenia in primary and secondary care. The guidance recommends that treatments such as cognitive behavioural therapy should be offered to all people with schizophrenia.
Psychological therapies can be a key element of the treatment of people with severe and enduring mental health conditions, particularly when these conditions are experienced alongside depression and anxiety disorders. In these cases, the delivery of cognitive behavioural therapy and other NICE-compliant therapies is the recommended treatment. Services for these clients is largely provided by psychology departments in specialist mental health trusts. The implementation of Improving access to Psychological Therapies services for people in community settings with mild to moderate conditions can reduce the number of referrals to specialist mental health trusts and enable them to focus on providing services to those with severe and enduring mental illness.
General practitioners or consultant psychiatrists can prescribe any medicine or treatment which they consider to be necessary for treating NHS patients, including NICE-approved treatments, provided that the local primary care trust or NHS trust agree to supply it on the NHS. Clinicians are responsible for deciding on the most appropriate form of treatment for their patients, and in doing so they are expected to take NICE guidance fully into account. The Department does not become involved in making clinical decisions.
NHS: Discharges
Mr Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what his estimate is of the cost to the NHS of delayed discharges in each year since 1997; [8673]
(2) what assessment his Department has made of the effect of delayed discharges in the NHS on (a) cost to the NHS, (b) waiting times for operations and (c) the incidence of hospital-acquired infections in the most recent period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. [8675]
Mr Burstow: We have made no estimate of the cost to the national health service of delayed discharges, or the effect these delays have on waiting times for operations and the incidence of hospital-acquired infections.
Since 5 January 2004, if social services are solely responsible for a patient being delayed in hospital, the local authority is liable to pay the NHS a charge per day of £100 (£120 in London and certain areas of the south- east) for the delay.
Mr Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of delayed discharges in the NHS; [8674]
(2) what steps his Department is taking to work with those local authorities which operate care homes for the elderly to reduce the number of delayed discharges in the NHS; and if he will make a statement; [8691]
(3) what recent assessment his Department has made of the effects of delayed discharges from hospital on (a) local authority and (b) private sector elderly care homes in (i) England and (ii) Southend on Sea. [8692]
Mr Burstow: Since 5 January 2004, if social services are solely responsible for a patient being delayed in hospital, the local authority is liable to pay the national health service a charge per day of £100 (£120 in London and certain areas of the south-east) for the delay.
A wide range of services known as intermediate care are offered to help people recuperate after an in-patient stay with a view to, wherever possible, enabling the individual to continue to live independently in the community. Where appropriate, some or all of the intermediate care package may include a time-limited stay in a care home.
The Community Care (Delayed Discharges, etc.) Act 2003 placed new duties on the NHS and councils relating to joint working between health and social care systems and with patients and carers around hospital discharge. Councils were allocated an extra £100 million a year to defray the cost of reimbursement. To the extent that they are able to reduce delays they can retain any cash "saved" from the £100 million to invest in new services locally.
We have made no assessment of the effects of delayed discharges from hospital on local authority and private sector elderly care homes.
NHS: Employment Agencies
Priti Patel: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his policy is on the practice of NHS staff working as agency staff in the same hospital in which they are employed by the NHS. [8045]
Mr Simon Burns: There are no national policies, which prevent staff from legitimately working for both the national health service and a private agency at the same NHS trust.
It is for local NHS organisations to plan and deliver a workforce appropriate to the needs of their local population, based on clinical need and sound evidence.
The appropriate use of agency staff and effective management of agency costs is a high priority in the NHS, and the Department and NHS Employers will shortly be issuing joint guidance to NHS organisations on the best practice use of flexible staff.
We will be looking into this matter carefully.
Nutrition: Health Education
Ian Mearns: To ask the Secretary of State for Health on what conditions food and drinks companies will be engaged to provide funding for new programmes on food and health. [9018]
Anne Milton: The conditions under which food and drinks companies will be engaged to provide funding for new programmes on food and health have yet to be finalised. Discussions will be taking place over the coming months to consider this issue.
Ian Mearns: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) whether he has received recent indications of interest in funding health education programmes from food and drinks companies; [9020]
(2) what recent meetings he has had with representatives of food and drink companies to discuss health education programmes; and when each such meeting was held. [9021]
Anne Milton:
The Secretary of State for Health has not received any recent indications of interest nor had any recent meetings with representatives of food and
drink companies to discuss health education programmes. We intend to meet with representatives and other partners in the coming weeks and months to discuss their contribution to improving public health.
Obesity: Children
Nicky Morgan: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his policy is on the role of schools on engaging parents in discussions on their children's weight. [9357]
Anne Milton: As part of the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP), primary care trusts (PCTs) are currently responsible for weighing and measuring children aged four-five years and 10-11 years, informing parents about their child's results and providing follow-up advice and support to parents. Schools do not receive data that would enable them to identify the results for an individual child.
In March this year, the Department of Health and Department for Education issued guidance to schools, "Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives: National Child Measurement Programme Guidance for Schools 2010/11". This guidance states the purpose of the programme and what schools can do to support the programme. It also provides details of additional material which might be helpful for explaining the NCMP to children and parents/carers.
The guidance explains that schools may want to use the NCMP as a tool to help engage pupils and parents/carers in whole school activities and programmes that support a healthy weight. A copy of the guidance has been placed in the Library.
Schools can request feedback on the results of the programme for their school from the PCT. However schools will not receive raw data. This is because small numbers of children in the school mean that school-level analysis of obesity prevalence is unreliable. There is also a risk that individual children may be identified, especially where data is broken down by sex or ethnicity.
Schools will usually receive school-level feedback that shows how prevalence of overweight and obesity compares with their local or regional average, for example, whether the prevalence of obesity at the school is higher than or lower than the local or regional average. This approach maintains the confidentiality of individual children's results.
Patients' Rights
Andrew Gwynne: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he plans to take to increase the information available to NHS patients to enable them to make choices about their treatment programmes. [9214]
Mr Simon Burns: The White Paper 'Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS', published on 12 July 2010, set out the Government's plans for an information revolution in the national health service. The Information Strategy, which will be published later this year, will provide further detail on how the Government plan to implement the changes set out in the White Paper.
Self-harm
Mrs Moon: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will assess the merits of a cross-departmental Government strategy to reduce the incidence of self-harm, including the provision of (a) training for front-line staff and (b) information and education services; and if he will make a statement. [9030]
Mr Burstow: We will be assessing our priorities carefully and will announce details on mental health policy, in due course. Our focus will be on making services patient-led, based on the best clinical evidence, responsive to patients' choice and management of their own care, and delivering best 'health' outcomes.
The national health service will be backed with increased real resources yet we recognise that there are still efficiencies to be made, however, we intend to make sure front-line services in the NHS as a whole are protected from cuts.
Mrs Moon: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will discuss with Ministerial colleagues in the devolved administrations the merits of jointly-agreed public health strategy to address self-harm; and if he will make a statement. [9086]
Mr Burstow: We will be assessing our priorities carefully and will announce details on mental health policy, including self-harm, in due course. Our focus will be on making services patient-led, based on the best clinical evidence, responsive to patients' choice and management of their own care, and delivering best 'health' outcomes.
The national health service will be backed with increased real resources yet we recognise that there are still efficiencies to be made, however, we intend to make sure front-line services in the NHS as a whole are protected from cuts.
Self-harm: Finance
Kate Hoey: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much each primary care trust spent to address self harm with regard to (a) women and (b) men aged (i) under 19, (ii) between 19 and 35 and (iii) over 35 years in each of the last five years. [8741]
Mr Burstow: The commissioning of services, including those to address self-harm is a local issue for primary care trusts and strategic health authorities. We do not collect this information centrally.
Tobacco: Sales
Luciana Berger: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has for the further regulation of tobacco vending machines. [8975]
Anne Milton: Provisions already in place in the Health Act 2009 and related regulations will prohibit sales of tobacco products from vending machines from 1 October 2011.
However, discussions are taking place across Government to decide how best to tackle smoking prevalence in the context of our focus on public health and our priorities, given the challenges facing business competition and costs.
Luciana Berger: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to remove tobacco displays from the point of sale. [8976]
Anne Milton: Provisions already in place in the Health Act 2009 and related regulations will prohibit tobacco displays in large shops from 1 October 2011 and in small shops from 1 October 2013.
However, discussions are taking place across Government to decide how best to tackle this issue in the context of our focus on public health and our priorities, given the challenges facing business competition and costs.
Education
Academies: Dudley
Ian Austin: To ask the Secretary of State for Education which schools in Dudley have applied for academy status; and if he will make a statement. [1512]
Mr Gibb: No schools in Dudley have yet applied.
Children: Databases
Ian Austin: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how much his Department spent on first quarter grant payments to each local authority in the West Midlands in respect of the ContactPoint database in June 2010; and if he will make a statement. [8404]
Tim Loughton: The Department for Education has provided grant funding to local authorities and national partners to support the local implementation of ContactPoint. The following amounts were made in grant payments to the 14 children's services authorities in the West Midlands in the first quarter of the 2010-11 financial year.
| £ | |
Departmental Electronic Equipment
Graham Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how much (a) his Department and its predecessors and (b) its non-departmental public bodies spent on televisions in each year since 1997. [7508]
Tim Loughton: Details of the amount spent on televisions in each year since 1997 by the Department for Education, its predecessors and all NDPBs are unable to be provided within the requested deadline as this would incur disproportionate costs.
The amount spent on televisions within the Department for Education and its predecessors within the last three years is £19,912.
Departmental Legal Costs
Graham Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how much (a) his Department and its predecessors and (b) its non-departmental public bodies spent on legal advice in each year since 1997. [7571]
Tim Loughton: Legal advice to the Department for Education and its predecessors, the Department of Children, Schools and Families, the Department for Education and Employment, and the Department for Education and Skills, is provided primarily by the Department's Legal Directorate. The annual cost, rounded to the nearest pound, of running Legal Directorate is as follows. There are no centrally-held figures for any financial years before 2004-05. The Legal Directorate provided a shared service to the former Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills from June 2007 to November 2009.
The figures include this cost.
| £ | |
The Department's NDPBs hold their own information on expenditure on legal advice. This information is being collected and a letter with these details will be placed in the House Libraries by the end of July.
Departmental Lighting
Graham Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how much (a) his Department and its predecessors and (b) its non-departmental public bodies spent on light bulbs in each year since 1997. [7628]
Tim Loughton: Details of the amounts spent on light bulbs since 1997 by DFE, its predecessors and all NDPBs are unable to be provided within the requested deadline as this would incur disproportionate costs.
The DFE head office building in London has retained records of expenditure on light bulbs since 2007. Details of those costs are as follows:
| £ | |
| (1) To date | |
Departmental Relocation
Ian Austin: To ask the Secretary of State for Education whether he plans to relocate (a) civil servants and (b) Government bodies for which his Department is responsible (i) out of London and (ii) to the West Midlands; and if he will make a statement. [8300]
Tim Loughton: The location of public sector activity and plans for the Government's estate will be considered alongside other public spending issues over the course of the spending review.
Departmental Stationery
Graham Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how much (a) his Department and its predecessors and (b) its non-departmental public bodies spent on stationery in each year since 1997. [7465]
Tim Loughton: The information requested is as follows:
(a) The information requested is not separately identified within the Department's published resource accounts. The requested information could be obtained through a detailed analysis of local buying records and contracts with suppliers but this could be achieved only at disproportionate cost.
(b) The Department does not obtain information at that level of detail from each of our non departmental public bodies. It could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
GCE A-level
Chris Skidmore: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many pupils resident in the (a) bottom and (b) top 10 per cent. of lower super output areas gained three A grades at A-level in 2009. [5448]
Mr Gibb: The requested information is available in the following table.
| Number of candidates resident( 1) in the bottom and top 10% of IDACI deciles( 2 ) achieving three or more A grades at A-level, 2008/09 | |||
| IDACI decile( 2) | Resident 16 to 18-year-old candidates( 1, 3 ) entered for GCE/Applied GCE A-levels and Double Awards | Number of resident candidates achieving 3 or more A grades( 4) at GCE/Applied GCE A-level and Double Awards | Percentage of resident candidates achieving 3 or more A grades( 4) at GCE/Applied GCE A- level and Double Awards |
| (1) Includes pupils resident in England attending LA maintained schools with sixth forms, CTCs and FE sector colleges. (2) Income Deprivation Affecting Children Indices 2007. Each SOA in England is given a score which ranks it between 1 and 32,482, 1 being the most deprived. (3) Age at the start of the 2008/09 academic year ie 31 August 2008. (4) An Applied Double Award at grade AA counts as two grade As, an award at grade AB counts as one. Source: National Pupil Database (final data) | |||
GCSE
Chris Skidmore: To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) how many pupils in each decile of the index of multiple deprivation eligible for free school meals gained five GCSEs at grades A* to C, including English and mathematics in each of the last 10 years; [5444]
(2) what percentage of pupils in (a) the lowest (i) 10 per cent. and (ii) one per cent. and (b) the highest (A) 10% and (B) one% of lower super output areas gained five GCSEs at grades A* to C, including English and mathematics in 2009; [5445]
(3) how many pupils in the (a) bottom and (b) top 10 per cent. of lower super output areas gained five GCSEs at grades A* to C, including English and mathematics, a science and a modern language in 2009. [5447]
Mr Gibb: The information available by each decile of the Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index (IDACI) (a subset of the Indices of Multiple Deprivation) has been placed in the House of Commons Library, alongside a selection of data available on the Department's In Your Area web site. The Department uses IDACI to analyse pupil attainment in deprived areas and information about whether a pupil achieved five or more GCSEs or equivalent including English and maths GCSEs has only been available on the Department's National Pupil Database since the 2003/04 academic year. The information has been split into two separate tables as IDACI deciles for the years 2003/04 to 2006/07 are based on the 2004 IDACI scores, while IDACI deciles for the years 2007/08 to 2008/09 are based on the 2007 IDACI scores. The 2007 IDACI scores are updated versions of the 2004 scores, however there were some changes in the scoring criteria which means that care should be taken when comparing the two.
| Number of pupils resident( 1) in the bottom and top 10% of IDACI deciles( 2) achieving five or more GCSEs at grades A* to C including equivalents, including English and mathematics, science and a modern language( 3) , 2008/09 | ||||
| Percentage | Number of pupils at the end of KS41 | Number of pupils achieving 5+ A*-C grades at GCSE and equivalent, including English and maths, science and a modern language( 3) | Percentage of pupils achieving 5+ A*-C grades at GCSE and equivalent, including English and maths, science and a modern language( 3) | |
| (1) Includes pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 in 2008/09 and resident in England, attending LA maintained schools, including CTCs and academies. (2) Income Deprivation Affecting Children Indices. Each SOA in England is given a score which ranks it between 1 and 32,482, 1 being the most deprived. (3) Pupils achieving 5+ A*-C grades at GCSE and equivalent, including English and maths (GCSE only), science (GCSE only) and a Modern Foreign Language (GCSE and equivalents). Source: National Pupil Database (final data) | ||||
Schools: Admissions
Annette Brooke: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many (a) primary and (b) secondary short stay school places are available in each local authority area. [7552]
Mr Gibb [holding answer 12 July 2010 ]: The legislative provision which changed the name of pupil referral units to short stay schools was to be commenced on 1 September 2010. We have decided to delay commencement and plan to introduce provisions in Parliament in due course to repeal the name change. In the meantime pupil referral units will continue to be called by that name.
Information on the number of places available in pupil referral units (PRUs) is not available, however, information on the number of pupils in PRUs is shown in the following table.
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