Education and Skills

written question – answered on 4 February 2002.

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  • Individual Learning Accounts

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the registered providers of individual learning accounts.

  • Individual Learning Accounts

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills for what reason information concerning the availability of a disc containing personal details and identification numbers of individual...

  • Individual Learning Accounts

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills when an alternative scheme to the individual learning accounts will be put in place.

  • Individual Learning Accounts

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will announce a successor to the individual learning accounts scheme; and if she will make a statement.

  • Pre-school and After-school Provision

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many (a) day nurseries, (b) playgroups, (c) child minders, (d) out of schools clubs and (e) holiday schemes have been provided in the...

  • Higher Education

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of higher education entrants in 2000–01 and 2001–02 (a) from Dartford and Gravesham and (b) in England were from...

  • Higher Education

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of students from socio-economic classes IIIm, IV and V she estimates higher education institutions will accept by (a) 2005...

  • Higher Education

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what her definition is of higher education.

  • Higher Education

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what criteria the Government use for determining which higher education courses qualify for meeting the university participation target of...

  • Sixth-forms

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will make a statement on the transfer of responsibility for post 16 education from Coventry city council to the Learning and Skills...

  • New Schools

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the new schools built since 1997; and if she will list those granted funding to be built in the next two years.

  • School Places

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to her answer of 30 November 2001, Official Report, column 1209W, on school places, what application her Department has received...

  • National Grid for Learning

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to her answer of 8 January 2002, Official Report, column 712W, what the average National Grid for Learning funding has been per...

  • Government-supported Training

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many young people were on Government training schemes in each of the last 10 years.

  • Sector Skills Development Agency

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills when the new Sector Skills Development Agency will be created.

  • Schools (Harwich)

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much funding has been given to (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in the Harwich constituency for the refurbishment of school...

  • School Sports Facilities

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many schools have private sports facilities built on school grounds.

  • Mobile Phone Masts

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many schools have sold land to mobile phone companies to build mobile phone masts since 1997.

  • Class Sizes (Lancashire)

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many five, six and seven-year old children were taught in classes of more than 30 pupils in Lancashire in (a) 1997 and (b) 2001.

  • Union Learning Fund

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will make a statement on the growth and development of the Union Learning Fund.

  • Mature Students

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will make a statement on the proportion of (a) part-time and (b) full-time mature students entering higher education in (i) 1999,...

  • School Expenditure

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the total expenditure per pupil was in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in (i) Westminster, (ii) Kensington and Chelsea and (iii)...

  • Coalfield Areas (Educational Attainment)

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will make a statement on the Government's strategies to raise educational attainment in present and former coalfield areas.

  • Pupil Mobility

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what measures she (a) has introduced and (b) plans to implement in response to the report of the Migration Research Unit into the effect of...

  • Departmental Payments

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the instances in which her Department, agencies and non-departmental public bodies failed to pay valid invoices within 30...

  • Teacher Training Courses

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many students failed to complete their teacher training courses; and what percentage of all the students on such courses this...

  • AS Levels

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many representations her Department has received since June 2001 critical of the AS Levels from (a) school governing bodies, (b)...

  • Maintenance Grants

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much grant was paid to higher education students in 1979.

  • Key Stage 4

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what plans she has to deregulate Key Stage 4; and if she will make a statement.