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To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what budget she has allocated for the academies special educational needs dispute resolution service; for what period of time; and if she will make a statement.

Asked by

David Chaytor (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

30 January 2006

Reference

45393; 442 c96-7W;442 c96-7W

House

House of Commons

Departmental Staff/Research Budget

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list, for each of the last three years, (a) the total number of staff in his Department and (b) the total budget allocation related to all aspects of research into thermobaric weapons.

Asked by

David Chaytor (Labour)

Answering body

Ministry of Defence

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

26 January 2006

Reference

441 c2305-6W; 43053

House

House of Commons

Employer Training Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what assessment she has made of the Institute of Fiscal Studies evaluation of the employer training programme; and if she will make a statement.

Asked by

David Chaytor (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

12 January 2006

For answer on

26 January 2006

Answered on

26 January 2006

The IFS report identified a number of issues relating to the employer training pilots. The report has highlighted that we need to do more to attract the harder to reach employers and the subsequent phases of the pilots have shown us better how to do so. That has been one of the many real values of the pilots and their evaluation.In some ETP areas around 25 per cent. of eligible employers are now taking part in the pilots—a far higher penetration rate than the 8 per cent. that IFS estimated carried out similar training without the pilots. We therefore anticipate that a higher proportion will be additional. Skills brokers in the new national programme, Train to Gain, will have a target of at least half the employers they engage being ““hard to reach””, additional employers. We are making £15 million available in 2005–06 and £20 million in 2006–07 to develop the capacity of the brokerage network and implement a performance management system that focuses services on this priority and rewards achievement accordingly.A number of evaluations, including the IFS report, have shown that employers identify many benefits from ETP including productivity improvement, changed attitudes to learning, improved motivation and provided employers and employees with a platform for progression. Participating employers were more likely to train their low-skilled staff to the benefit of their business and say that ETP has allowed them to train more people over a shorter period of time. So we are confident that we are already involving more hard-to-reach learners.We expect Train to Gain to deliver over 40,000 additional level 2 qualifications in 2006–07; over 140,000 in 2007–08 and, by the time the programme reaches full capacity, 175,000 in 2008–09 and in each year thereafter.

Date

26 January 2006

Reference

441 c2285W; 43052

House

House of Commons

Carbon Capture

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what criteria were used to decide that £25 million was the appropriate amount for the initial investment in carbon capture and sequestration.

Asked by

David Chaytor (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

19 December 2005

Reference

36408; 440 c2326W

House

House of Commons

Nuclear Power

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what discussions have taken place in the Joint Research/Atomic Questions Working Party of the EU in respect of the draft council decision concerning the approval of the accession of the European Atomic Energy Community to a framework agreement for International...

Asked by

David Chaytor (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

15 December 2005

Reference

35653; 440 c2255-6W

House

House of Commons

Neighbourhood Renewal Funding

If he will make a statement on the future of neighbourhood renewal funding.

Asked by

David Chaytor (Labour)

Answering body

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Oral questions - Lead

Status

Answered

Date

16 November 2005

Reference

439 c958; 28528

House

House of Commons

Neighbourhood Renewal Funding

My hon. Friend will know that under the old regime access to neighbourhood funding was used as a barrier to stop certain smaller metropolitan districts accessing other regeneration funding streams. Can my hon. Friend assure the House that in future, regeneration funding will not be used as a barrier in this way?

Asked by

David Chaytor (Labour)

Answering body

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Oral questions - 1st Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

16 November 2005

Reference

439 c958

House

House of Commons

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