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Regulators: Criminal Prosecutions

Lord Lyell of Markyate asked Her Majesty's Government:

Further to the Written Answer by Lord Bassam of Brighton on 24 January (WA 74) on regulators: criminal prosecution, what were the categories of offences for which the prosecutions were brought. [HL2152]

Lord Bassam of Brighton: The information requested about Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) prosecutions is set out in the table below:

Category	Convictions	Acquittals	Total
Charges under the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 Section 2 (duties of employers to employees)	10	0	10
Charges under the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 Section 3 (duties of employers to other persons)	23	1	24
Other Regulations	3	0	3
Total	36	1	37

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The information requested about Civil Aviation Authority prosecutions is set out in the table below:

Categories	Convictions	Acquittals	Total
Illegal public transport	6		6
No Certificate of Airworthiness	12		12
FCL licence breaches	9		9
Endangering	6	1	7
No flying display authorisation	1		1
Airspace infringements	8		8
Training on foreign registered aircraft without Secretary of State's permission	2		2
Breaches of the Rules of the Air	17	2	19
Breaches of dangerous goods regulations	23		23
Failing to brief passengers	1		1
Fraudulent/falsifying documents	5		5
Pre-flight checks by a/c commander	1		1
			94

Lord Lyell of Markyate asked Her Majesty's Government:

Further to the Written Answer by Lord McKenzie of Luton on 28 January (WA 92) on regulators: criminal prosecution, what were the categories of offences for which the prosecutions were brought. [HL2154]

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Work and Pensions (Lord McKenzie of Luton):Tables providing a breakdown of offences prosecuted under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and other legislation for the three years 2004-05, 2005-06 and 2006-07 have been deposited in the Library.

The Pensions Regulator was established by the Pensions Act 2004 to replace the Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority (OPRA) on 6 April 2005.

In respect of the regulator, the one prosecution, in 2006, was onseven counts of fraudulent evasion—this offence was inserted into the Pension Schemes Act 1993 at Section 111A by Section 9 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999—andone count of knowingly or recklessly providing OPRA with false or misleading information—this offence was created by Section 101(5) of the Pensions Act 1995 and was

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intended to reinforce the powers of the regulator (OPRA at the material time). By virtue of the transitional provisions in the Pensions Act 2004 (Commencement No. 3, Transitional Provisions and Amendment) Order 2005, Section 101(5)of the Pensions Act 1995 continues to have effect for the purpose of enabling the Pensions Regulator to continue dealing with any matters not concluded by OPRA.

Schools: Teachers

Lord Quirk asked Her Majesty's Government:

Further to the Written Answer by Lord Adonis on 5 March (WA 185), what factors have been identified to explain (a) that since 1998 more than 50,000 newly qualified teachers left their posts within the first six years of working in maintained sector secondary schools; and (b) that the yearly rate of wastage has increased over the past decade by over 30 per cent; and [HL2373]

Further to the Written Answer by Lord Adonis on 5 March (WA 185), how many of the more than 50,000 newly qualified teachers who left their posts within the first six years of working in maintained sector secondary schools were teachers of (a) English; (b) mathematics; (c) foreign languages; (d) ICT; and (e) physics.[HL2374]

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Children, Schools and Families (Lord Adonis): The previous Answer (WA 185) provided numbers of secondary teachers leaving the maintained sector by total length of service in each year from 1997-98 to 2005-06, irrespective of when they qualified. It did not provide information specific to newly qualified teachers and so cannot be used to estimate how many newly qualified teachers left their posts within the first six years of working in maintained sector secondary schools.

It is not the case that more than 50,000 newly qualified teachers left their posts within the first six years of working in maintained sector secondary schools since 1998.

The following table shows the percentage of newly qualified secondary teachers who were still in service in local authority maintained schools a number of years after qualification.

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Percentage of full and part-time1 secondary teachers that qualified in a particular year and were still in service in the maintained sector in England a number of years later
Year qualified2	Newly qualified entrants	First year in service3	Percentage in full or part-time service the following number of years later
			1 year	2 years	3 years	4 years	5 years	6 years	7 years	8 years
1997	9,300	1997-98	89%	82%	77%	73%	70%	68%	67%	65%
1998	8,700	1998-99	89%	81%	76%	73%	71%	69%	67%
1999	8,800	1999-00	89%	82%	77%	74%	72%	70%
2000	8,900	2000-01	90%	83%	78%	76%	72%
2001	9,700	2001-02	91%	83%	79%	75%
2002	11,600	2002-03	91%	84%	80%
2003	13,000	2003-04	91%	85%
2004	13,300	2004-05	91%
Source: Database of Teacher Records (DTR). Figures relating to 2004-05 and 2005-06 are provisional; entrant numbers rounded to nearest 100. 1. Teachers in part-time service are under-recorded on the DTR by between 10 and 20 per cent and therefore these figures may be slightly underestimated. 2. Calendar year in which the teachers qualified. 3. Financial year during which the teachers entered service. The length of service may not have been continuous; for example, not all of those shown as teaching eight years after entering service in 1997-98 may have taught continuously for eight years, some may have taken periods of time outside of the maintained sector.

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