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Departmental Work Experience
Luciana Berger: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many interns his Department has engaged in the last 12 months; and how many were (a) unpaid, (b) remunerated with expenses only and (c) paid a salary. [17215]
Chris Grayling: DWP has not engaged either unpaid internships, or unpaid interns receiving expenses only in the last 12 months (according to the best information available).
The Department has employed a total of 110 interns on salary equivalent above the national minimum wage. This number is made up of several managed programmes consisting of summer placements or professional routeways managed at civil service level, short-term internships and the graduate internship programme as part of Backing Young Britain.
Disability Living Allowance
Bridget Phillipson: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether he has assessed the merits of bringing forward proposals for a means test for disability living allowance; and if he will make a statement. [15618]
Maria Miller: Commitments were made in the Emergency Budget to reform DLA, which is a universal benefit. We will introduce an objective assessment from 2013 to ensure that it supports those with the greatest need on a consistent and transparent basis.
Katy Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with which representative organisations his Department has had discussions on its proposed reforms to disability living allowance. [16721]
Maria Miller: We have held initial discussions on proposed reforms with disabled people and a broad range of representative organisations including representatives of Equality 2025, Radar and the Disability Benefits Consortium.
In developing the new assessment announced by the Chancellor in the Emergency Budget, we are working with an independent group of specialists in the fields of health and disability and representatives of the disabled people.
We will have ongoing discussions to ensure that our reforms will assess more accurately and consistently who would benefit most from additional support, while continuing to tackle the inequalities that can arise from severe disability.
Caroline Lucas: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answers to the hon. Member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd of 16 September 2010, Official Report, column 1154W, on social security benefits: welfare examinations, whether his Department provided the figures given in the June 2010 Budget Red Book for the projected savings from the new assessment to be introduced for all disability living allowance claimants from 2013-14; and what account the present process of developing options for the new assessment is taking of such projected savings. [17184]
Maria Miller: The projected savings from a new assessment for disability living allowance are based on DWP forecasts of working age disability living allowance benefit expenditure. The methodology to estimate the savings was agreed by DWP and HMT officials and was subject to scrutiny by the Office for Budget Responsibility. The methodology for estimating the savings is set out in the Budget 2010 policy costings document(1).
The new assessment, which we are developing with the help of specialists in the fields of health and disability and representatives of disabled people, is being designed to assess more accurately, objectively and consistently those disabled people who would benefit from support to reduce the barrier they face to participating in society as a result of their disability. One factor being considered in developing options for the new assessment is the need for reform of disability living allowance to deliver savings of 20% of working age expenditure.
Employment Schemes
Meg Munn: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will take steps to ensure that skills identified by local enterprise partnerships are reflected in the development of the single Work Programme. [17584]
Chris Grayling: The precise Work Programme design is still in the process of being finalised. However, we are committed to working directly with local enterprise partnerships with an interest in worklessness to discuss ideas around the Work Programme and explore how we can work most effectively together.
Our framework for commissioning the Work Programme sets out clearly our commitment to engaging with local partners. We are actively encouraging potential Work Programme providers to work with local partners, including local enterprise partnerships, to understand local labour market and skills needs. That detailed knowledge of local needs will ensure the Work Programme offers the best mix of personalised support to help people back to work.
Meg Munn: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will discuss with the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills the mechanism whereby his Department's single Work Programme can contribute to the objectives of local enterprise partnerships. [17585]
Chris Grayling: The Department for Work and Pensions and Jobcentre Plus will be embarking upon a series of meetings with the Department for Business Innovation and Skills, the Department for Communities and Local Government and others to evaluate the specific requests made of Departments within the local enterprise partnerships proposals.
Government will publish shortly a White Paper on our approach to sub-national economic development. This will set out further detail of local enterprise partnerships policy.
Future Jobs Fund: East Ayrshire
Cathy Jamieson: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many residents of East Ayrshire aged (a) between 18 and 24 years and (b) over 24 years who had been out of work and claiming jobseeker's allowance for more than six months have found employment through the future jobs fund since the Fund was established. [17523]
Chris Grayling: The Young Person's Guarantee statistics were published on 13 October 2010 and are available here:
Statistics are available on the future jobs fund which cover the period from October 2009 to July 2010. They show that 5,870 people were placed in temporary roles via the future jobs fund in Scotland. The information requested for East Ayrshire is not available.
Incapacity Benefit
Miss Begg: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether the transitional protection given to former invalidity benefit claimants when incapacity benefit arrangements were changed will be applied when incapacity benefit is migrated to employment and support allowance. [15973]
Chris Grayling: When invalidity benefit customers had their benefit changed to incapacity benefit in 1995, they received transitional protection that meant they had their existing level of benefit protected. Their awards then continued to be uprated in line with the arrangements for incapacity benefit. This meant that their benefit maintained its value but that they continued to be paid incapacity benefit at a higher rate than many new claimants to incapacity benefit. This remains the case.
These transitional arrangements will not continue on conversion to employment and support allowance. However, new transitional arrangements will be put in place.
When a customer moves from any of the old-style incapacity benefits to employment and support allowance, the cash level of their benefit will be protected. However, it will not continue to be uprated beyond the protected level. If the employment and support allowance rate they are entitled to is less than the amount they received on their old benefit, they will receive a transitional addition to make up the difference. The amount of benefit they receive will then not rise with annual uprating, but will be frozen until the rate of employment and support allowance catches up. Over time, all recipients of employment and support allowance will therefore receive comparable awards, dependent on capability.
Incapacity Benefit: Aberdeen
Miss Begg: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many residents of (a) Aberdeen South constituency and (b) Aberdeen city have been on incapacity benefit since before April 1995. [16007]
Chris Grayling: The information is provided in the following table:
| Incapacity benefit (IB) and severe disablement allowance (SDA) claimants in Aberdeen local authority and Aberdeen South parliamentary constituency, by duration, as of February 2010 | ||
| All durations | Claimants on IB/SDA since April 1995 or earlier | |
| Notes: 1. Case load has been rounded to the nearest 10. 2. Data do not include claimants of employment and support allowances (ESA). 3. Durations refer to IB/SDA awards. 4. Parliamentary constituency at May 2010. Source: DWP Information Directorate 100% WPLS. | ||
As there is no parliamentary constituency for Aberdeen city, we have provided figures for the number of people in the Aberdeen local authority area in receipt of incapacity benefit and severe disablement allowance.
Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit
Gregg McClymont: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether the industrial injuries disablement benefit will be included in the proposed cap on total household benefits. [17572]
Maria Miller: We expect the benefit cap to apply to the combined income from all main out-of-work benefits. However, we will exempt all households with someone entitled to disability living allowance, which will include many of those receiving industrial injuries disablement benefit.
Jobcentre Plus: Gloucester
Richard Graham: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the transport and associated costs were of processing paperwork from the Jobcentre Plus centre in Gloucester at the Jobcentre Plus Benefit Delivery Centre in St Austell, Cornwall in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. [16111]
Chris Grayling: The administration of Jobcentre Plus is a matter for the chief executive of Jobcentre Plus, Darra Singh. I have asked him to provide the hon. Member with the information requested.
The Secretary of State has asked me to reply to your question asking what the transport and associated costs were of processing paperwork from the Jobcentre Plus centre in Gloucester at the Jobcentre Plus Benefit Delivery Centre in St Austall, Cornwall in each of the last five years.
Prior to January 2010 there was a mixture of centrally and locally purchased couriers and Jobcentre Plus's own fleet of delivery vehicles.
Since January 2010 the transport of benefit processing paperwork between Gloucester Jobcentre (at Cedar House, Spa Road, Gloucester) and St Austell Benefit Delivery Centre (at Treleaven House, South Street, St Austell), has been carried as part of the Cross Government Courier (CGC) Contract with TNT. This contract provides a range of courier services to the Department for Work and Pensions and to HM Revenue and Customs.
Costs related to the current CGC contract, and prior arrangements for courier services made over the past five years, are generally charged centrally within the Department of Work and Pensions, and are unfortunately not sufficiently detailed to show the movement of documents between these sites.
Jobseeker's Allowance: Fraud
Gareth Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people were prosecuted for fraudulent claims for jobseeker's allowance in each of the last three years; and how many of those had addresses in Dartford constituency. [15717]
Chris Grayling: Information on the number of people in England and Wales prosecuted for benefit fraud in each of the last years is as follows:
| Number | |
The number of prosecutions arising from fraudulent claims for jobseeker's allowance is not available.
The reduction in prosecution levels over the last three years arises from changes to DWP's sanctions regime. More low-value, first-time, admitted frauds are now dealt with by way of a caution or administrative penalty, allowing resources to be re-directed to higher-value, complex and more serious cases.
Information on the number of people prosecuted for benefit fraud with addresses in Dartford constituency is not available.
Jobseeker's Allowance: Lone Parents
Gregg McClymont: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many lone parents are in receipt of jobseeker's allowance in Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East constituency. [16318]
Chris Grayling: In July 2010 there were 120 lone parents claiming jobseeker's allowance in Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East.
The figure has been rounded to the nearest five.
Occupational Pensions
Priti Patel: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what plans he has for automatic enrolment into workplace pensions in 2012. [17441]
Steve Webb: The Government remain committed to introducing automatic enrolment to bring about a step change in our savings culture.
We have now received the recommendations of our independent review into how best to support the implementation of automatic enrolment, and will make a statement on our plans shortly.
Pension Funds: Trusts
Luciana Berger: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will bring forward legislative proposals to ensure that pension fund trustees and their agents are required to (a) design and (b) follow a strategy to discharge the duties of ownership of their funds and promote their good governance. [17239]
Steve Webb: The law already requires that an occupational pension scheme's "Statement of Investment Principles" must include a declaration of the extent to which social, environmental and ethical considerations are taken into account in the scheme's investments. The statement must also include the scheme's policy (if any) in relation to the exercise of the rights (including voting rights) attaching to the investments. We have no current plans to introduce additional prescriptive legislative requirements on pension funds.
Social Security Benefits
Mr Umunna: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether he has made a recent estimate of the number of households which will be affected by the planned cap on total benefit payments (a) nationally, (b) in London, (c) in Lambeth borough and (d) in Streatham constituency. [17785]
Chris Grayling: The information requested is not available.
The Chancellor's announcement about the benefit cap was informed by high-level consideration of the broad impacts. We are now working up the more detailed design of the cap as part of the spending review. When we introduce legislation for the implementation of the caps, we shall publish a full impact assessment.
Social Security Benefits: Dartford
Gareth Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many households in Dartford constituency include one or more (a) disability living allowance and (b) jobseeker's allowance claimants. [17635]
Maria Miller: The information requested is not available by household. The number of claimants of jobseeker's allowance and disability living allowance (in payment) in Dartford constituency is in the following table
| Caseload | |
| Notes: 1. Caseload data for disability living allowance are rounded to the nearest 10. 2. Figures on disability living allowance are available in the House of Commons Library. 3. Jobseeker's allowance data are published at: https://www.nomisweb.co.uk Disability living allowance data are published at: http://83.244.183.180/100pc/tabtool.html 4. JSA figures are unrounded as this is the approved convention followed by ONS for this particular data source. 5. Parliamentary constituency of claimant (Westminster) is for the Westminster Parliament of May 2010. 6. For jobseeker's allowance, the latest data currently available are September 2010. For disability living allowance, the latest data currently available are February 2010. Source: Jobseeker's allowance: Count of unemployment-related benefits, Jobcentre Plus computer systems (including clerically held cases). Disability living allowance: DWP Information Directorate 100% WPLS | |
Social Security Benefits: Fraud
Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many non-UK residents have been prosecuted for fraudulent benefit claims in each of the last three years. [15604]
Chris Grayling: Information on the number of non-UK residents prosecuted for fraudulent benefit claims in each of the last three years is not available. At the time a summons (also known as a requisition) is issued each person would have an address in England or Wales.
Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations
Guto Bebb: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether there is provision for disability benefit claimants to have medical examinations undertaken by Welsh speakers. [16141]
Chris Grayling: There is provision to provide a Welsh language service for those claimants who are resident in Wales for correspondence, telephone and face-to-face communications as well as published and printed materials.
State Retirement Pensions: Uprating
Andrew Gwynne: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the effect on private sector pension liabilities of the planned change in uprating from the consumer prices index to the retail prices index. [15543]
Steve Webb: The consumer prices index (CPI) will be used to determine the minimum amounts for indexation and revaluation of private sector pension schemes going forward. The impact will vary depending on how individual schemes respond to changes to the minimum amounts, and that will be a matter for them to decide within the terms of their scheme rules. The Government expect to consult shortly on whether or not to make provision for schemes that find it difficult to change their rules.
Priti Patel: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will estimate the financial effect on a pensioner of average income of the restoration of a link between pensions and earnings. [17440]
Steve Webb: On top of restoring the earnings link the triple guarantee will ensure that the basic state pension will be increased each year by the highest of earnings, prices or 2.5%.
This will mean that the average person reaching state pension age in 2011 can expect to receive an additional £15,000 in basic state pension over their retirement.
Vocational Training
Mr Reed: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what account his Department takes of (a) geographical and (b) individual circumstances in determining the criteria for the employment training grants it funds. [15714]
Chris Grayling: The question refers to "employment training grants" which is not a term used for any training provision offered by the Department.
The Skills Funding Agency, part of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, funds skills training throughout England delivered by colleges of further education and other training organisations. Eligibility generally depends upon the type of benefit in payment and on the length of time the benefit has been in payment. Skills and training in Scotland and Wales are the responsibility of the devolved Administrations, working in partnership with Jobcentre Plus.
The new Work Programme will radically simplify the array of existing employment programmes to deliver coherent, integrated support more capable of dealing with complex and overlapping barriers to work.
Voluntary Work: Industrial Health and Safety
Bob Stewart: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps he is taking to ensure health and safety regulations do not have unintended consequences which deter individuals from participating in voluntary groups; and if he will make a statement. [17548]
Chris Grayling:
The Government do not want health and safety law to be seen as a barrier to the volunteering that is so important to the Big Society. The Prime Minister asked Lord Young to review the operation of
health and safety laws and the growth of the compensation culture. His report was published on Friday 15 October and includes recommendations to this end.
We are also looking forward to receiving recommendations from the taskforce being chaired by Lord Hodgson that is looking at easing burdens on the voluntary sector.
Welfare State: Reform
Ms Ritchie: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what benefit schemes he plans to (a) end and (b) retain under his proposed changes to the benefits and welfare system. [16600]
Chris Grayling: Full details of the changes to the working age benefits system will be set out in the spending review on 20 October and a Welfare Reform White Paper to be published in the next few weeks.
Ms Ritchie: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the implementation of his proposals to change the welfare and benefit system; and from what budgets that cost will be met. [16602]
Chris Grayling: Full details of the costs of implementing the universal credit will be set out in the spending review on 20 October and the Welfare Reform White Paper that will be published in the next few weeks.
Welfare to Work: Glasgow
Ann McKechin: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions which contractors provide services under the welfare to work programme in the Glasgow city council area; and what services are provided in each case. [16734]
Chris Grayling: The following table lists the providers who are delivering welfare to work programmes in Glasgow, and the programme type. Other organisations may deliver employment services on an ad hoc basis.
| Provider name | Programme type |
|
Backing Young Britain, Jobcentre Plus Support Contracts and Employment Zones | |
Winter Fuel Payments
Chris Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate his Department has made of the average percentage of pensioners' energy bills which will be met by the winter fuel allowance in (a) the UK, (b) Wales and (c) Islwyn constituency in 2010-11. [17603]
Steve Webb: It is estimated that the average percentage of pensioner households' energy bills likely to be met by the winter fuel payment in 2010-11 in (a) the UK and (b) Wales, are as follows:
| UK | Wales | |||
| Aged up to 79 | Age 80 and over | Aged up to 79 | Age 80 and over | |
|
Percentage of annual energy bill met by the winter fuel payment | ||||
(c) The information requested is not available.
Additional support is available through cold weather payments for regions that suffer particularly cold weather.
Notes:
1. The Family Spending Survey 2009 is used to determine household expenditure on fuel by age.
2. The difference in energy bills in Wales and the UK is calculated by looking at the percentage difference an average household spent on energy bills in 2008.
3. The fuel and light inflation rate, published by the ONS, is used to estimate the energy bills as at September 2010.
4. The winter fuel payment figures include the additional payments for 2010-11.
Work Capability Assessment: Per Capita Costs
Tom Brake: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what his most recent estimate is of the average cost to the public purse of the participation of one claimant in the work capability assessment process. [16733]
Chris Grayling: The information required to provide an estimate of the average cost to the public purse of the participation of one claimant in the work capability assessment process is not available.
The introduction of employment and support allowance in October 2008 was accompanied by the new work capability assessment. These assessments are delivered as part of the medical services provided by the Department for Work and Pensions' contractor, ATOS Healthcare. Jobcentre Plus, part of the Department for Work and Pensions, is responsible for referring both incapacity benefit and employment and support allowance claimants to ATOS for medical testing.
Information regarding the ATOS costs of individual work capability assessments is commercially sensitive. However, the total cost of the services provided by ATOS Healthcare to the Department for Work and Pensions for all benefit streams covered under the medical services contract amounts to approximately £100 million per annum.
For Jobcentre Plus the annual direct staff administration cost relating to all medical testing for 2009-10, the latest complete financial year, was approximately £10 million.
Jobcentre Plus systems do not currently capture volume data specific to work capability assessments; therefore it is not possible to estimate the average administration cost of one claimant in this process.
State Retirement Pensions: Uprating
John Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will estimate the likely change in pension payments in (a) cash terms in each financial year from 2011-12 to 2016-17 and (b) 2010-11 prices over the course of retirement for a public sector pensioner aged 60 with a public sector pension of (i) £2,500, (ii) £5,000, (iii) £10,000 and (iv) £20,000 as a result of the proposed move to the consumer prices index for the indexation of public sector pensions. [16692]
Danny Alexander: I have been asked to reply.
The Government have not estimated the effect of indexing based on the consumer prices index (CPI) instead of the retail price index (RPI) over the course of retirement for specific groups in the public service pension schemes. However, the overall estimated savings in annually managed expenditure for public service pension expenditure were made available in answers to the right hon. Member for Stirling (Mrs McGuire) on 27 July 2010, Official Report, column 991W.
The table shows the likely change in cash terms for each financial year from 2011-12 to 2016-17 for public service pensioners as requested. It is based on the OBR forecasts for CPI and RPI to 2016-17.
| 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | |
Individual public service pension schemes are the responsibility of the relevant administering Departments and in the case of the civil service pension scheme this would be the Cabinet Office.
Education
Academies: Dartford
Gareth Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many expressions of interest in academy status his Department has received from schools in the Dartford constituency. [9877]
Mr Gibb: As of 11 October 2010, the Department has received registrations from five schools in the Dartford constituency expressing an interest in converting to academy status. Of these, Dartford grammar school is the only school judged as outstanding by Ofsted. The school submitted an application to convert in June 2010 and an academy order was issued on 10 August 2010. It aims to convert on 1 December 2010.
Curriculum
Chi Onwurah: To ask the Secretary of State for Education pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Colchester of 7 June 2010, Official Report, column 42W, what definition of a broad and balanced curriculum he uses. [11830]
Mr Gibb: Maintained schools are required by section 78 of the Education Act 2002 to provide a broad and balanced curriculum. Academies are required to satisfy this requirement via their funding agreement.
Departmental PFI
Andrew Stephenson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will estimate the revenue cost of each project sponsored by his Department under the private finance initiative over the lifetime of the project. [1823]
Mr Gibb: The estimated revenue funding of each project with a signed private finance initiative contract sponsored by the Department is contained in tables, copies of which have been placed in the Libraries. The total funding is for the length of the concession, which is typically 25-30 years. With the exception of the grants paid to the 11 voluntary aided schools projects at the bottom of the table, grants are paid to local authorities by the Department for Communities and Local Government.
On 5 July, the Department announced that BSF projects that have reached financial close will continue, together with repeat projects which have outline business case approval prior to 1 January. All projects that have not reached close of dialogue will stop with immediate effect. On 6 August, the Department announced that all sample schools would also go ahead.
Departmental Regulation
Mr Anderson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education which of his Department's regulations are under review; and if he will make a statement. [7156]
Mr Gibb: In order to make a real impact on reducing bureaucratic burdens on the front line we are reviewing all of the duties, regulations and statutory guidance that schools, colleges and local authorities have to follow in relation to education and children's services.
Education Maintenance Allowance
Mr Nuttall: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what his most recent assessment is of the effectiveness of the education maintenance allowance in widening access to further education. [14838]
Mr Gibb: The most recent evidence of the effectiveness of the education maintenance allowance (EMA) in widening access to further education was the research report on "Barriers to Participation in Education and Training" which was published on the Department's website on 24 June 2010. The report can be found at
The research, which was commissioned by the previous Administration, surveyed a large number of young people. The survey included questions about EMA. A
key finding was that only 12% of young people overall receiving an EMA believe that they would not have participated in the courses they are doing if they had not received an EMA.
Kate Green: To ask the Secretary of State for Education whether students in receipt of education maintenance allowance who are commencing two-year courses in September 2010 will receive the allowance for the duration of the course. [15713]
Mr Gibb: Where eligible young people aged 16-19 in England fulfil the conditions required to receive education maintenance allowance (EMA), it will be paid in full in the 2010-11 academic year. Future spending decisions are subject to the spending review, which will conclude later this autumn.
Foreign Language
Mike Weatherley: To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) how many foreign language A-levels were sat in (a) England, (b) Sussex, (c) Hove constituency and (d) Brighton and Hove in each year from 2002 to 2009; [13716]
(2) how many foreign language AS levels were sat in (a) England, (b) Sussex, (c) Hove constituency and (d) Brighton and Hove in each year from 2002 to 2009; [13717]
(3) how many foreign language GCSEs were sat in (a) England, (b) Sussex, (c) Hove constituency and (d) Brighton and Hove in each year from 2002 to 2009. [13718]
Mr Gibb: The information available is given in the following tables:
| Number students( 1 ) entered for foreign language A-levels from 2002-09 | ||||
| England | Sussex | Hove constituency | Brighton and Hove | |
| (1). Figures represent number of entries, so if a student had entered two foreign languages, they would be represented twice. Source: Achievement and Attainment tables. | ||||
| Number students( 1) entered for foreign language AS-levels from 2002-09 | ||||
| England | Sussex | Hove constituency | Brighton and Hove | |
| (1) Figures represent number of entries, so if a student had entered two foreign languages, they would be represented twice. Source: Achievement and Attainment tables. | ||||
| Number students( 1) entered for foreign language GCSEs from 2002-09 | ||||
| England | Sussex | Hove Constituency | Brighton and Hove | |
| (1). Figures represent number of entries, so if a student had entered two foreign languages, they would be represented twice. Notes: 1. The GCSE figures for 2002-04 are for pupils aged 15. The figures for 2005-09 are based on pupils at the end of KS4. 2. Figures are based on entries in all school types. Source: Achievement and Attainment tables. | ||||
History: A-level
Chris Skidmore: To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) how many and what proportion of pupils were entered for history A-level in (a) comprehensive schools, (b) maintained selective schools and (c) independent schools in each year since 1997; [15950]
(2) how many and what proportion of pupils obtained a grade C or above in history A-level in (a) comprehensive schools, (b) maintained selective schools and (c) independent schools in each year since 1997. [15951]
Mr Gibb: The information requested is given in the following table and covers candidates aged 16-18 entered for A-levels during the academic year:
History: GCSE
Chris Skidmore: To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) in how many mainstream secondary schools no pupil obtained grade C or above at history GCSE in the most recent 12-month period for which figures are available; [15168]
(2) how many mainstream secondary schools did not enter a single pupil for a history GCSE in the last 12 months. [15169]
Mr Gibb: Of the 3,989 mainstream secondary schools with any pupils at the end of key stage 4, 310 such schools had no pupil reach the end of key stage 4 with a pass in GCSE history at grade A*-C.
At 269 of these schools, none of the pupils at the end of key stage 4 had been entered for GCSE history.
Chris Skidmore: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many and what proportion of pupils obtained a grade C or above in history GCSE in each local authority in the most recent year for which figures are available. [15948]
Mr Gibb: The requested information is given in the following table.
Chris Skidmore: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many and what proportion of pupils in mainstream maintained secondary schools were entered for history GCSE in each local authority in the most recent year for which figures are available. [15949]
Mr Gibb: The requested information is given in the following table.
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