Education and Skills

written question – answered on 28 January 2002.

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  • Individual Learning Accounts

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many investigations there have been to date into fraud by individual learning account holders.

  • Individual Learning Accounts

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills when access to the ILA website for providers of ILA courses will be restored.

  • Theft and Fraud

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what estimate her Department has made of the cost to its budget since 1 May 1997 of fraud; and if she will make a statement.

  • Theft and Fraud

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what her estimate is of the cost of theft and fraud to (a) her Department, (b) its agencies and (c) non-departmental public bodies in each...

  • Standard Spending Assessment (Cambridgeshire)

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list for Cambridgeshire (a) the difference between the education department budget and that county's education service block SSA...

  • White Hart Lane School, Tottenham

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what grants she has made to the White Hart Lane school in Tottenham to teach pupils in languages other than English; and if she will make a...

  • Modern Apprenticeships

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what assessment she has made of the development of Modern Apprenticeships.

  • LEA Grants

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will provide additional 100 per cent. funded grants to local education authorities within the F40 Groups.

  • Special Education Needs

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will make additional funds available to compensate for the costs of supplying services to special needs children in sparsely...

  • Specialist Schools

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many schools have been granted specialist status on the basis of their first application for such status (a) in total and (b) in each...

  • Specialist Schools

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many (a) joint and (b) associated applications for specialist school status have been received since May 1997; and how many of these...

  • Specialist Schools

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many bids for specialist school status have been received from each local education authority area since May 1997; what proportion of...

  • Central Pupil Database

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) which organisations and individuals will have access to the personal details of pupils stored on the central pupil database; (2) who...

  • Higher Education

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills which constituencies have no higher education establishments within their boundaries.

  • Administration

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the administrative cost was of those functions of her Department concerned with schools in each year since 1997; and how much that sum...

  • Administration

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the administrative cost was of those functions of her Department concerned with (a) further and (b) higher education in each year since...

  • Administration

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the administrative cost was of those functions of her Department concerned with early years in each year since 1997; and how much that...

  • Adult Education

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the administrative cost was of those functions of her Department concerned with adult education and basic skills in each year since...

  • Student Profiles

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the social class breakdown was in 2001 of students who (a) applied for and (b) were successful in obtaining places on degree courses at...

  • Special Measures

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list (a) the name and corresponding local education authority of each school placed under special measures since May 1997 and...

  • Financial Resources and Initiatives (Dorset)

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the financial resources and initiatives sponsored by her Department in the last 12 months for Dorset which are additional...

  • Direct Grants

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the direct grants for schools in north Lincolnshire and north-east Lincolnshire in (a) 2000–01 and (b) 2001–02.

  • Standards Funds

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the Standards Funds received by schools in north Lincolnshire and north-east Lincolnshire for the years (a) 2000–01...

  • Standards Funds

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to the answer of 21 January 2002, Official Report, columns 587–89W, on Standard Funds, if she will list the amounts...

  • Class Sizes

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the average (a) class size and (b) pupil:teacher ratio in (i) primary schools and (ii) secondary schools in (A) Yeovil constituency,...

  • Class Sizes

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the average pupil:teacher ratios for (a) primary and (b) secondary schools were for each of the shire counties in the last year for...

  • Pupil Referral and Learning Support Units

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to her answer of 8 January 2002, Official Report, column 713W, on pupil referral and learning support units, how many people are...

  • Early Learning Places

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to her answer of 5 December 2001, Official Report, column 415W, how many new free part-time early learning places will be made...

  • Pupil Achievement

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of pupils achieved Level 5 or above at Key Stage 3 (a) in England and (b) from schools based in the Buckingham constituency...

  • Pupil Achievement

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of pupils achieved Level 2 or above at Key Stage 1 (a) in England and (b) from schools based in the Buckingham constituency...

  • Departmental Expenditure (Publications)

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what her estimate is of the expenditure of her Department on newspapers, magazines and periodicals in each of the last four years.

  • Assaults on Teachers

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to her answer of 19 December 2001, Official Report, column 402W, how many assaults there were on teachers in each LEA in each year...

  • Education Spending (Portsmouth)

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the Portsmouth local education authority spending on education (a) above SSA per pupil for the primary and secondary...

  • Teachers (Returners' Bonus)

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much money has been allocated for returners' bonuses for people returning to the teaching profession.

  • Standard Spending Assessment (Swindon)

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what Swindon's SSA per pupil for (i) post-16 and (ii) four-year-olds was for 1997–98 to 2002–03; and what the average figures...

  • Student Financing

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will compensate students and former students who started their degrees in the years 1998 to 2002, if the review of student financing...

  • School Transport

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills when the study of post-16 school transport arrangements was completed; what indications it gave as to the number of education authorities...

  • Deregulation

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what deregulatory measures have been taken by the DFEE and the DFES in each of the last five years.

  • Coalfield Areas

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what plans she has to extend education maintenance allowances to each English coalfield area.

  • Golden Jubilee

    Tony Wright: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what plans there are to give school children a commemorative mug to mark the Queen's Golden Jubilee.

  • School Closures

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many (a) primary and (b) secondary schools have closed since 1997.

  • School Pupils (Extended Holidays)

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what (a) legislation and (b) guidance requires a head teacher to take off a school's roll pupils taking extended holidays outside the United...

  • Examination Boards

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what recent communications she has had from (a) the Edexcel examination board and (b) the QCA about (i) that board's history A-level...

  • Examination Boards

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many complaints and appeals were lodged with the Edexcel examinations board relating to the A-level history (syllabus code 9267)...

  • Examination Boards

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what performance targets she sets and performance standards she expects of examination boards; when they were last reviewed; and what...

  • Examination Boards

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the average time taken by each examination board to handle appeals and requests for re-marking was in the last 12 months.

  • FE Colleges

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will make a statement on the implications for FE colleges of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.

  • FE Colleges

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what plans she has to change the proportion of own resources further education colleges have to find for large capital projects.

  • FE Colleges

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will review the levels of auditing and evaluation to which FE is subject to.

  • Holocaust Memorial Day

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will make a statement on how schools are marking Holocaust Memorial Day.