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Schools: Earned Autonomy
Baroness Sharp of Guildford asked Her Majesty's Government:
- Whether they intend to implement the earned autonomy provisions in Sections 6 to 10 of the Education Act 2002.[HL3677]
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Education and Skills (Baroness Ashton of Upholland): The Government are considering how most appropriately to extend freedoms for schools beyond a limited focus on the two areas specified in the 2002 Act. In the mean time, all schools are free under the "power to innovate" to make proposals to set pay rates for their teaching staff. Pay rates for school support staff are already set at local level.
BBC: Funding
Lord Laird asked Her Majesty's Government:
- Who funds, and how, all the activities of the BBC; and who is responsible for enforcing the licence fee.[HL3789]
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Lord McIntosh of Haringey): The principal source of funding for the BBC Home Services is the television licence fee while the principal source of funding for the BBC World Service is grant-in-aid. BBC Worldwide and BBC Ventures are commercially funded. Further details of the BBC's full range of activities and funding are set out in the corporation's annual reports and accounts, copies of which are in the Library of the House.
The BBC has statutory responsibility for the collection of the television licence fee.
Litter and Road Safety
Lord Monson asked Her Majesty's Government:
- Whether they plan to curb the proliferation of litter caused by the placing of unsolicited advertising material under the windscreen wipers of parked cars; and whether this practice constitutes a threat to road safety.[HL3632]
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Lord Whitty): We do not have any plans to control such advertising material. Placing advertising material under car windscreen wipers is not considered to constitute a littering offence under Section 87 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.
We have no reason to suspect that the placing of advertisements under car windscreen wipers constitutes a road safety risk.
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