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Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Basic Skills (12 Nov 2009)

Kevin Brennan: Skills accounts are being trialled in the South East, East Midlands, West Midlands, South West and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England. Skills accounts are available to all adults in these regions. The purpose of the trials is to test, on a small scale, the effectiveness of skills accounts as a means of engaging and motivating adults to take up training. Within the trials, skills...

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Building Colleges for the Future Programme (12 Nov 2009)

Kevin Brennan: holding answer 16 July 2009 On 28 August, following the conclusion of its prioritisation exercise, the LSC confirmed that 12 college projects would commence immediately with their new building projects. Approval for the two remaining projects for Manchester (Wythenshawe) College and Skelmersdale and Ormskirk College was given in September. 13 of the 14 projects have now begun on site. For...

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Carers: Training (12 Nov 2009)

Kevin Brennan: The total budget for this entitlement is £9.2 million which is split equally across the financial years 2009-10 and 2010-11.

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Fireworks (12 Nov 2009)

Kevin Brennan: BIS has responsibility for firework safety and legislation and the promotion of safe and responsible use of fireworks. The Department has been running an annual fireworks safety campaign for many years, and this year we are working with the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) and the Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT) to promote our safety messages. This year's fireworks...

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Fireworks (12 Nov 2009)

Kevin Brennan: Figures for injuries recorded by age for the last available five years are shown in the following table. Figures are not available broken down by sex and age. There were no fatalities in this period. Age group 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 Over 20 422 516 482 380 508 18 to 20 69 79 66 54 67 13 to 17 213 197 220 230 337 Under 13 281 368 368 353 450 ...

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Fireworks (12 Nov 2009)

Kevin Brennan: The Health and Safety Executive have authorised 42 companies to manufacture fireworks. Manufacture in this case includes the preparation, assembly, disassembly and fusing of firework displays away from the place of intended use. Information on the number of companies authorised to sell fireworks is not held centrally.

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Further Education (12 Nov 2009)

Kevin Brennan: Table 1 shows LSC-funded further education participation by mode of attendance and level, for learners aged between 19 and 24 in 2008/09 (provisional). In 2007/08, of the 740,100 adult learners (aged 19+) participating on full level 2 courses, 542,800 were first full level 2. Of the 328,100 adult learners (aged 19+) participating on full level 3 courses, 248,000 were first full level 3....

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Further Education (12 Nov 2009)

Kevin Brennan: Information is not captured on the number of young people in foster care that enrol or complete a further education course. Information on the number of young people participating and achieving in further education is given in a statistical first release, the latest version of which was published on 22 October: http://www.thedataservice.org.uk/statistics/sfroct09

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Grocery Trade: Competition (12 Nov 2009)

Kevin Brennan: The Competition Commission's (CC) recommendation of 4 August on the establishment of a Groceries Supply Code of Practice (GSCOP) Ombudsman raises a number of complex and important issues for the grocery market and also to consumers and the wider economy. We will be responding shortly.

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Grocery Trade: Competition (12 Nov 2009)

Kevin Brennan: It is not the role of Ministers to monitor its effectiveness. The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is an independent competition authority.

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Train to Gain Programme (12 Nov 2009)

Kevin Brennan: The June 2009 Train to Gain Wave 4 employer survey estimates duplication and substitution to be 12 to 14 per cent. of training provided through Train to Gain a few months after the employer had been in contact with the service but only 5 per cent. a year later. This means that over 90 per cent. of employers who commit to Train to Gain training see an increase in the quantity or quality of...

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Train to Gain Programme: Leeds (12 Nov 2009)

Kevin Brennan: The national spend on Train to Gain for 2008-09 and Skills for Life for 2007-08, I refer my right hon. Friend to the answer I gave on 15 October 2009, Official Report, column 1049W, to my hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle upon Tyne, Central (Jim Cousins). We do not hold information on LSC spend by region centrally. I have asked the chief executive of the LSC to write to you giving...

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Unemployment: Young People (12 Nov 2009)

Kevin Brennan: Table 1 shows the number and percentage of people aged 16 to 24 not in education, employment or training in local education areas (LEA) in the south-east in 2006 to 2008. These estimates are from the Annual Population Survey. Due to small sample sizes, estimates cannot be provided small areas on a quarterly basis or for areas smaller than LEAs. Please note that these estimates are subject to...

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Vocational Training (12 Nov 2009)

Kevin Brennan: Skills accounts are being trialled, as planned, in the south east, east midlands, west midlands, south west and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England. The purpose of the trials is to test the effectiveness of skills accounts as a means of engaging and motivating adults to take up training. These national trials will be extended to cover all of England by January 2010. Learning from...

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Vocational Training: West Midlands (12 Nov 2009)

Kevin Brennan: The national spend on Train to Gain for 2008-09 and Skills for Life for 2007-08, I refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave on 15 October 2009, Official Report, column 1049W, to my hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle upon Tyne, Central (Jim Cousins). We do not hold information on LSC spend by region centrally. I have asked the chief executive of the LSC to write to you giving details of...

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Written Questions: Government Responses (12 Nov 2009)

Kevin Brennan: Due to an administrative error, question 262066 was not answered by the former Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills despite a draft reply being approved by Ministers. The question has now been answered. I apologise for this error. However, the Learning and Skills Council's, then chief executive, Mark Haysom, did write in response to question 262066 on 23 March 2009. A copy of...

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: GCSE and GCE A-Level: Young Offenders (11 Nov 2009)

Kevin Brennan: I have been asked to reply. For the most recent academic year for which data are available, the number of enrolments on GCSE and GCE A/AS/A2 level by offenders in the secure estate by age range is given in the following table: Table 1 England Number of enrolments in 2007/08 academic year Age groups GCSE GCE A/AS/A2 level Grand total 15 to 21 373 66 439 22 to...

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Higher Education: Finance (11 Nov 2009)

Kevin Brennan: The Strategic Investment Fund is helping to deliver the Government's strategy as set in the "Building Britain's Future - New Industry, New Job's framework document, published on 20 April, and will allow Government to support advanced industrial projects of strategic importance to the UK's economic renewal and growth. While there are no plans to allocate money specifically to skills training...

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Learning and Skills Council: Consultants (10 Nov 2009)

Kevin Brennan: The total cost of the activity including agency costs and materials was £21,000 (excluding VAT.) This piece of activity generated a significant amount of national, regional and online media coverage, as well as valuable opportunities within many broadcast programmes on national radio and TV which are vital to reaching the target audience. For this reason, the cost of this activity...

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Apprentices (9 Nov 2009)

Kevin Brennan: Work experience is an important aspect of all apprenticeships. The Government do not collect data at a national level about apprentices who have not been successful in gaining a work placement.