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Deposited Paper HINF 2000/1971

Letter from Tessa Jowell MP to Graham Brady MP, dated 30 November 2000, regarding the New Deal for 18-24 year olds and the current work to address basic skill needs of young people. DFEE. 2000.

Deposited by

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Deposited papers

Date

20 December 2000

Reference

HINF 2000/1971

House

House of Commons

Deposited Paper HINF 2000/1974

[1] Letter from Chris Woodhead, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools, to Tim Boswell MP, dated 30 November 2000, regarding the inspection of special educational needs in mainstream schools and special schools. [2] Letter from Estelle Morris MP to Chris Woodhead, dated November 2000, regarding making a statement on the...

Deposited by

Office for Standards in Education; Department for Education and Employment

Type

Deposited papers

Date

20 December 2000

Reference

HINF 2000/1974

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what the cost was of the implementation of the ITT skills tests in numeracy, literacy and ICT; and if he will make statement. - Inc figure.

Asked by

Lord Willis of Knaresborough (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

20 December 2000

Reference

360 c233W; 143634

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

Statement on what improvements he (a) has made and (b) intends to make for meeting the special educational needs of dyslexic pupils. - Inc figures.

Asked by

David Kidney (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

6 December 2000

For answer on

18 December 2000

Answered on

18 December 2000

Mr. Kidney: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what improvements he (a) has made and (b) intends to make for meeting the special educational needs of dyslexic pupils. [141958] Jacqui Smith: We are committed as a Government to helping all children with special educational needs (SEN) to develop their full potential. We are taking a number of steps to raise the awareness of dyslexia and help teachers to improve the identification and assessment of children who have or may have dyslexia, including through baseline assessment, which--although this is not its primary purpose--can be a useful first screen to help teachers identify where a child has learning needs which may require further, more specialist investigation and assessment. The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority is now consulting on our proposals for revising statutory baseline assessment, including our proposal that the 90 current baseline assessment schemes be replaced by a single national scheme, which should help to improve the identification of learning needs. Any national scheme will incorporate the features of local schemes that have been most successful in identifying possible SEN. Training for teachers to support the new scheme would focus on how to use it to identify learning needs needing further investigation and how to devise strategy to help children progress. The National Literacy Strategy has raised standards for all children, including those with dyslexia, and we have started to build on this success by introducing pilot projects in September in 17 LEAs involving over 200 schools to transform standards in English and mathematics for 11 to 14-year-olds. We will implement this nationally in 2001. We are also taking work forward in partnership with some of the voluntary organisations that support children with dyslexia, including the British Dyslexia Association and the Dyslexia Institute. This includes the Department, together with the National Lottery Charities Board and WH Smith, funding a two year "Spell It" (Study Programme to Evaluate Literacy Learning through Individualised Tuition) research project run by the Dyslexia Institute to evaluate the effects of structured programmes of intervention, targeted at seven year old pupils who are experiencing specific difficulties in learning to read, write and spell. Two key aspects of the project are to develop activities that parents can do at home and to share the knowledge and skills of specialist teachers more widely. Following a seminar convened by the DfEE in July 1999 to bring together bodies with an interest and expertise in the field of teaching children with dyslexia, the Pathways Group was formed consisting of representatives from the DfEE and key partners in the field of dyslexia. The Group has been engaged in producing a leaflet designed to help teachers interested in pursuing further training on specific learning difficulties to access relevant training. It is envisaged that the leaflet will direct these teachers towards more detailed course information which will be available via the Department's Inclusion website. Children with dyslexia, along with all children with SEN, will also benefit from more general measures we are taking to support children with SEN. These include: the SEN and Disability Rights Bill, announced in the Queen's Speech in 6 December; the revision of the SEN Code of Practice; and the Standards Fund, through which we are spending £82 million in 2001-02 to improve support for children with special educational needs, which represents a 50 per cent. increase from the £55 million this year.

Date

18 December 2000

Reference

360 c20-1W; 141958

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will set out his strategy for improving adult basic skills with particular reference to (a) the costs of the programme, (b) methods of delivery, (c) professional development for those involved in tuition and (d) the criteria for its...

Asked by

Lord Boswell of Aynho (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

14 December 2000

Reference

359 c237W;359 c235W; 141556

House

House of Commons

Lords debate on Queens Speech (third day) on education, agriculture and the environment

Lords debate on Queens Speech (third day) on education, agriculture and the environment.

Lead member

Baroness Blackstone

Answering member

Baroness Blatch

Department

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Queen's speech debates

Date

11 December 2000

Reference

620 c103-19,135-210

House

House of Lords

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what the total budget for skills training was in each of the last 15 years; and what is the estimated budget for the next three years. - Will write.

Asked by

Chris Ruane (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

30 November 2000

Reference

357 c817W;357 c818W; 137732

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what action he intends to take to improve the level of skills training on the rail network.

Asked by

Eric Martlew (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

27 November 2000

Reference

357 c413W; 140414

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

Supplementary on Learning and Skills Councils and how rail staff lack basic skills.

Asked by

Eric Martlew (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Oral questions - 1st Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

23 November 2000

Reference

357 c434

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, What assessment he has made of the impact of the numeracy and literacy hours in primary schools. (Failed OPQ). - Inc figures.

Asked by

Brian Iddon (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

23 November 2000

Reference

357 c302W; 138391

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what assessment he has made of the impact of the introduction of the literacy hour and numeracy period on academic achievement. - Inc figures.

Asked by

Stephen Hesford (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

23 November 2000

Reference

357 c302-3W;357 c303W; 139049

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

Answered by

Malcolm Wicks (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Oral answers to questions

Date

23 November 2000

Reference

357 c434

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, What plans he has to reduce the number of adults who lack basic literacy and numeracy skills. (Failed OPQ). - Includes figures.

Asked by

Desmond Turner (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

23 November 2000

Reference

357 c298W; 138375

House

House of Commons

Bassam of Brighton, Lord

Whether they intend to extend literacy and numeracy classes to children and young people in secure training centre and young offenders institutions. [HL 4555].

Asked by

Baroness David (Labour)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

16 November 2000

Reference

HL 4555; 619 c43WA

House

House of Lords

The New Deal for Young People: two years on. Education and Employment Select Committee eighth special report. Government response to the Committee's eighth report of session 1999/2000 (HC 510).

Type

Select Committee reports (Government responses); House of Commons papers; Parliamentary committees

Committee

Education and Employment Committee

Notes

Received 14.11.00

Date

7 November 2000

Reference

HC 969 1999/2000

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the phonetic approach to the teaching of reading. - Inc figures and ref to 'Progression on Phonics'.

Asked by

John Bercow (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

6 November 2000

Reference

356 c43W; 136194

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what assessment he has made of internet-based teaching programmes that can develop literacy and numeracy for post-16 year olds in education. (Further information on 06.11.2000 at 356 c44W)

Asked by

Jonathan Sayeed (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

6 November 2000

Reference

356 c44-5W; 136540

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what steps he is taking to improve basic numeracy and literacy skills through the New Deal.

Asked by

Christine Russell (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

26 October 2000

Reference

132602; 355 c190W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what his Department's criteria are for judging an entrant to New Deal for 18 to 24 year olds to be functionally illiterate; what percentage of entrants to the New Deal for Young People are functionally illiterate; and what was the...

Asked by

Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

28 July 2000

Reference

354 c1062W; 128819;128820

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what funding plans he has made to improve (a) levels of literacy and numeracy and (b) IT skills among the adult population of Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland; and if he will make a statement. - (Holding answer 18 July...

Asked by

Ashok Kumar (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

13 July 2000

For answer on

20 July 2000

Answered on

20 July 2000

Dr. Kumar: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what funding plans he has made to improve (a) levels of literacy and numeracy and (b) IT skills among the adult population of Middlesbrough, South and Cleveland, East; and if he will make a statement. [131207] Mr. Wicks: [holding answer 18 July 2000]: Government support to improve adult basic skills in Middlesbrough, South and Cleveland, East includes funding for family learning, which supports programmes like `Story Teller' and `Computers Together'. Additional funding for family literacy and numeracy announced by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Employment in May will mean that Middlesbrough LEA will receive funding for an additional 41 `Keeping up with the Children' courses, five `Family Numeracy' courses, five `Family Literacy' courses and 13 `Family Numeracy' workshops. We recognise the importance of ensuring that there are opportunities for people of all ages to develop IT skills in areas such as Middlesbrough, South and Cleveland, East. That is why we have provided £252 million nationally to fund ICT Learning Centres. Within the Middlesbrough, South and Cleveland, East areas we have received one full application to establish two centres in the Skinningrove area, and three expressions of interest for later phases of the initiative. The Government have already announced an additional £37 million nationally for improvements in the quality and range of adult basic skills provision, including family literacy and numeracy, over the past year. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Employment plans to announce later this year the Government's full strategy to help adults with poor basic skills.

Date

20 July 2000

Reference

354 c302-3W; 131207

House

House of Commons

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