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Dept for Education and Skills

Answer

Mr. Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will update the data prepared for each English constituency by the Basic Skills Agency in 2000; and what the updated information is for each constituency in the North East Region. [185169] Mr. Ivan Lewis: In May 2004 the DfES commissioned work to produce local level estimates of literacy and numeracy in England based on the results of the Skills for Life survey (published in October 2003). The survey mapped skill levels to the National Standards for Adult Literacy and Numeracy. These estimates will update those provided by the Basic Skills Agency and will be available via the DfES's website in autumn 2004. At the current time, based on the Skills for Life survey findings, we can provide estimates of literacy and numeracy levels for the North East and its constituent Learning and Skills Council areas: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Entry level 1 and 2 Entry level 3 (%) Level 1 (%) Level 2+ (%) Sample size (%) Literacy England 5 11 40 44 7,874 North East 8 14 41 37 877 Northumberland 8 21 38 33 182 Tyne and Wear 7 15 42 36 310 County Durham 5 10 39 46 191 Tees Valley 10 15 43 33 294 Numeracy England 21 26 28 25 8,040 North East 28 27 25 21 894 Northumberland 41 23 22 15 182 Tyne and Wear 24 26 24 26 317 County Durham 23 24 28 25 192 Tees Valley 31 30 24 15 303 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 please note the small sample size

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

424 c270W; 185169

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Databases North East Basic skills Basic Skills Agency

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