Education and Skills

written question – answered on 16 March 2006.

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  • School Repairs (Leicester)

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will visit Leicester to discuss school repairs.

  • Trust Schools

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what powers new trust schools will have beyond those already available to foundation schools; and if she will make a statement.

  • Three-tier Education

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will make a statement on the Government's policy on three-tier education.

  • Truancy (West Midlands)

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the truancy levels in schools in Coventry, South and the west midlands were in the last period for which figures are available.

  • Volunteering

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what steps the Government are taking to increase the numbers of young people involved in volunteering activities.

  • Adult Education

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of adults who enrolled for (a) further education courses and (b) adult and community learning courses already had...

  • Basic Skills

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what progress has been made towards (a) improving the basic skill levels of adults, (b) ensuring that one million adults in the work force...

  • Child Care

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what assessment she has made of the availability of child care for parents who work at weekends; and if she will make a statement.

  • Child Care

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many childminders have been registered since the introduction of the new light touch voluntary accreditation scheme announced in Budget 2004.

  • Child Care

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what capital investment from her Department has been spent on the provision of child care services for three and four-year-olds; and if she...

  • Child Care

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what child care services the additional capital investment in (a) 2006–07 and (b) 2007–08 will fund; and if she will make a...

  • Children's Centres

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) what types of early interventions children's centres are expected to offer families with a disabled child; (2) how many disabled...

  • Degree Systems

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what steps she plans to take to reconcile (a) the two year accelerated degrees proposed in the 2003 Higher Education White Paper and (b) the...

  • Degree Systems

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what plans she has to protect four-year mechanical engineering courses following the proposed three cycle degree system under the Bologna...

  • Degree Systems

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what guidance she has issued to higher education institutions on how best to engage with the Bologna process.

  • European Institute of Technology

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what representations she has received from higher education establishments on the European Commission's proposal to establish a European...

  • European Institute of Technology

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will make a statement on the European Commission's proposal to establish a European Institute of Technology.

  • Exam Results

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to the answer of 2 February 2006, Official Report, column 678W, on exam results, what the average A level attainment of entrants to...

  • Labour Market Needs

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what forecasts of future skills and labour market needs have been carried out in each of the local Learning and Skills Council areas; and...

  • Parliamentary Questions

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills when she expects to give a substantive answer to question reference 55453, on early years programme funds, tabled by the right hon. Member...

  • Special Advisers (Overseas Visits)

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many overseas visits special advisers in her Department made in an official capacity since January 2004; what places were visited; and...

  • Student Loans

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many graduates are waiting for their 2004–05 student loan repayments to be transferred from HM Revenue and Customs to the Student...

  • Sure Start

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many Sure Start places there are in each local authority area of England; and how many places there are per 10,000 children in each...

  • Sure Start

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills when the Government will report on progress on the Sure Start targets of an increase in the proportion of children with (a) satisfactory...

  • Teenage Pregnancies

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what steps she is taking to reduce the incidence of teenage pregnancy in the eastern region.

  • Top-up Fees

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what research her Department has commissioned on the likely impact of the new top-up fees regime on the number of EU domiciled students...