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To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many former students have outstanding loan accounts; how many of these are being repaid; how many are not being repaid because of the low income of the borrower; and what factors, apart from income, are taken into account when...

Asked by

Patsy Calton (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

4 February 2004

For answer on

23 February 2004

Answered on

23 February 2004

Mrs. Calton: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many former students have outstanding loan accounts; how many of these are being repaid; how many are not being repaid because of the low income of the borrower; and what factors, apart from income, are taken into account when repayment is demanded. [153825] Alan Johnson: Most borrowers who started their course from the 1998/99 academic year will repay income-contingent loans. Loans for those who started their course before 1998/99 are repayable on a mortgage-style basis. There are differences in the repayment terms for the two types of loan. Borrowers enter repayment status in the April following graduation or otherwise upon leaving their course. There were 1,492,000 student loan borrowers in the United Kingdom in repayment status at the end of the end of the financial year 2002-03. Of these, some 815,000 borrowers had mortgage-style accounts that were up to date with repayments, or income-contingent accounts which are repaid through the tax system. Some 559,000 borrowers who had mortgage-style loan accounts which they were liable to repay had been granted deferment because their income was below the threshold (£21,022 per annum from 1 September 2002, £21,364 from 1 September 2003). No repayments are collected from income-contingent borrowers whose income falls below £10,000 per annum. Repayments of income-contingent loans are collected through the tax system and are notified to the Student Loans Company after the end of the tax year for reconciliation with their records. Therefore the data on the number of borrowers with income-contingent loans, where repayments have not been deducted because the borrower's income is below the repayment threshold, are not yet available. The income-contingent loan repayment system takes into account whether the borrower is in receipt of disability related benefits, and whether they are covered by the Repayment of Teacher Loans scheme. Loans are cancelled: when the borrower reaches 65 years of age; if the borrower is in receipt of a disability related benefit and is permanently unfit for work; or if the borrower dies. The mortgage-style loan repayment system takes into account whether the borrower is in receipt of disability related benefits; whether they are covered by the Repayment of Teacher Loans scheme; and the number of loans taken out. Loans are cancelled: after 25 years or when the borrower reaches the age of 50 (60 if the borrower was aged over 40 when he/she last borrowed), whichever is the earlier; if the borrower is in receipt of a disability related benefit and is permanently unfit for work; or if the borrower dies.

Date

23 February 2004

Reference

418 c209-10W; 153825

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many charges and of what value have been made in error to graduates whose income did not reach a level where repayment was required for failure to make repayments of student loans. - Inc fact that information is not...

Asked by

Patsy Calton (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

12 February 2004

Reference

417 c1582W; 154001

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what arrangements will be made for the repayment of fees by graduates who choose to leave the country and work overseas.

Asked by

Patsy Calton (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

9 February 2004

Reference

417 c1188W; 152412

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 10th November 2003, 413 c64W on school sport, what assessment has been made of the percentage of school children who (a) were offered and (b) took up two hours per week of high quality physical education and...

Asked by

Patsy Calton (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

19 November 2003

Reference

413 c1138W; 139031

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what assessment has been made of the reasons why local authorities make reciprocal arrangements to pay for (a) nursery and (b) childcare facilities.

Asked by

Patsy Calton (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

14 July 2003

Reference

121264; 409 c95W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, which local authorities (a) have and (b) do not have reciprocal arrangements with other local authorities to pay for (i) nursery and (ii) childcare facilities. - Inc fact that this information is not collected centrally.

Asked by

Patsy Calton (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

23 June 2003

Reference

119694; 407 c546W;407 c548-9W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many Statutory Instruments subject to negative procedure made by his Department (a) came into force and (b) were considered by a delegated legislation committee in each of the last three sessions. - Includes figures.

Asked by

Patsy Calton (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

7 January 2003

Reference

88025; 397 c39W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what (a) the formula grant and (b) the spending per head in (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools in F40 authorities is in 2002-03. - Includes tables.

Asked by

Patsy Calton (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

31 October 2002

For answer on

6 November 2002

Answered on

6 November 2002

Patsy Calton: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what (a) the formula grant and (b) the spending per head in (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools in F40 authorities is in 2002-03. [79441] Mr. Miliband: The following tables show the Standard Spending Assessment and specific/special grants per head in f40 authorities in 2002-03. Information on actual spending will not be available until the autumn of 2003: 2002-03 Primary SSA & Grants per pupil _________________________________________________________________________________________________. SSA Grants Total £ £ £ Dudley £2,490 £410 £2,900 Solihull £2,460 £480 £2,940 Bury £2,520 £480 £3,010 Stockport £2,460 £460 £2,920 Tameside £2,600 £510 £3,100 Trafford £2,520 £460 £2,980 Wigan £2,500 £510 £3,010 Wakefield £2,530 £520 £3,050 North Tyneside £2,580 £570 £3,150 Bath and North East Somerset £2,440 £460 £2,900 North Somerset £2,460 £490 £2,950 South Gloucestershire £2,390 £420 £2,810 East Riding of Yorkshire £2,480 £490 £2,970 North Yorkshire £2,560 £500 £3,050 York £2,480 £460 £2,940 Derbyshire £2,490 £480 £2,980 Dorset £2,490 £460 £2,950 Poole £2,450 £410 £2,860 Hampshire £2,580 £400 £2,980 Leicestershire £2,410 £400 £2,820 Rutland £2,470 £610 £3,080 Staffordshire £2,450 £420 £2,870 Wiltshire £2,510 £440 £2,950 Swindon £2,500 £420 £2,910 West Berkshire £2,590 £490 £3,080 Wokingham £2,470 £410 £2,880 Cambridgeshire £2,530 £420 £2,950 Cheshire £2,470 £450 £2,920 Warrington £2,450 £440 £2,880 Devon £2,560 £460 £3,020 Worcestershire £2,470 £420 £2,890 Nottinghamshire £2,510 £460 £2,970 Shropshire £2,530 £470 £3,000 Cumbria £2,580 £520 £3,100 Gloucestershire £2,500 £470 £2,970 Northamptonshire £2,530 £420 £2,950 Northumberland £2,560 £490 £3,060 Somerset £2,530 £450 £2,980 Suffolk £2,530 £400 £2,930 Warwickshire £2,490 £460 £2,940 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Notes: 1. Figures reflect Education SSA primary sub-block plus all primary school related revenue grants in DfES's DEL relevant to pupils aged 5-10 (primary). 2. Grant figures include notional allocations for those grants in support of more than one sector. EMA and El 3. The SSA figures make no allowances for changes in the SSA methodology. 4. Pupil numbers underlying the £s per pupil are those underlying the SSA settlement calculations (primary sub-blocks). 5. Figures rounded to nearest £10. Difference figures may not sum due to rounding 2002-03 Secondary SSA & Grants per pupil _________________________________________________________________________________________________. SSA Grants Total £ £ £ Dudley £3,180 £310 £3,490 Solihull £3,120 £310 £3,420 Bury £3,220 £290 £3,510 Stockport £3,160 £300 £3,460 Tameside £3,310 £330 £3,640 Trafford £3,230 £310 £3,540 Wigan £3,190 £330 £3,510 Wakefield £3,250 £330 £3,580 North Tyneside £3,320 £480 £3,790 Bath and North East Somerset £3,060 £290 £3,360 North Somerset £3,170 £320 £3,490 South Gloucestershire £3,090 £290 £3,380 East Riding of Yorkshire £3,200 £300 £3,500 North Yorkshire £3,240 £320 £3,570 York £3,190 £340 £3,530 Derbyshire £3,200 £310 £3,510 Dorset £3,180 £330 £3,500 Poole £3,130 £300 £3,430 Hampshire £3,320 £290 £3,610 Leicestershire £3,090 £300 £3,400 Rutland £3,040 £350 £3,380 Staffordshire £3,140 £300 £3,450 Wiltshire £3,220 £310 £3,530 Swindon £3,200 £290 £3,490 West Berkshire £3,280 £310 £3,590 Wokingham £3,180 £290 £3,470 Cambridgeshire £3,230 £300 £3,520 Cheshire £3,150 £300 £3,450 Warrington £3,150 £290 £3,440 Devon £3,290 £300 £3,590 Worcestershire £3,160 £350 £3,510 Nottinghamshire £3,220 £290 £3,500 Shropshire £3,230 £320 £3,550 Cumbria £3,300 £370 £3,670 Gloucestershire £3,190 £320 £3,510 Northamptonshire £3,230 £330 £3,560 Northumberland £3,290 £460 £3,750 Somerset £3,240 £330 £3,570 Suffolk £3,220 £370 £3,590 Warwickshire £3,170 £300 £3,480 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Notes: 1. Figures reflect Education SSA (secondary sub-block) plus all school related revenue grants in DfES's DEL relevant to pupils 11-15 (secondary). 2. Grant figures include notional allocations for those grants in support of more than one sector. EMA and 3. The SSA figures make no allowances for changes in the SSA methodology. 4. Pupil numbers underlying the £s per pupil are those underlying the SSA settlement calculations (secondary sub-block). 5. Figures rounded to nearest £10. Difference figures may not sum due to rounding.

Date

6 November 2002

Reference

392 c391-2W;392 c411-3W; 79441

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what steps are being taken to ensure that schools provide sufficient curriculum time for school swimming in order to meet National Curriculum targets; when she will provide further details of the increased training of PE teachers in swimming and water...

Asked by

Patsy Calton (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

6 November 2002

Reference

392 c395-6W;392 c415-6W; 79276;79277;79278;79182

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what steps are being taken to ensure that teachers who take home school/LEA IT equipment for their work do not have to insure such equipment with their own private home and contents policies.

Asked by

Patsy Calton (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

17 July 2002

Reference

68204; 389 c378W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, when the rules governing school sponsorship were last reviewed.

Asked by

Patsy Calton (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

11 July 2002

Reference

67338; 388 c1172W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, for what reason schools cannot count funds raised by the school in their bids for specialist school status.

Asked by

Patsy Calton (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

11 July 2002

Reference

67477; 388 c1172W;388 c1173W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what ring fenced grants were made available to local authorities in financial year 2001-02. - Inc table.

Asked by

Patsy Calton (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

4 July 2002

For answer on

11 July 2002

Answered on

11 July 2002

Mrs. Calton: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what ring fenced grants were made available to local authorities in financial year 2001-02. [68290] Mr. Miliband: The following table shows the Department's ring-fenced grants made available to local education authorities in 2001-02. These are specific grants ring-fenced for specific purpose or activities or special grants paid under section 88B of the Local Government Finance Act 1988. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. £000 Standards Fund 1,583,000 School Standards Grant 631,307 Education Budget Support Grant 52,394 Teachers Pay Grants 479,275 Nursery Education Grant 184,000 Education Maintenance Allowance 98,000 Childcare Grant 148,750 GM Transitional Grants 10,335 Education Action Zone Grant 62,615 Capital Grants 704,000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Note: Figures are in cash terms. The Government have simplified the operation of the Standards Fund, by far the largest specific grant for education. Since April 2001, schools have had more freedom to move funds between the different Standards Fund activities; separate auditing of the Standards Fund is no longer required; and the spending period for the Standards Fund was extended from 12 months to 17 months to give schools even more flexibility in planning expenditure. The School Standards Grant offers further freedom to schools.

Date

11 July 2002

Reference

68290; 388 c1174W;388 c1175W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, If she will make a statement on the future of funding for schools education. (Failed OPQ).

Asked by

Patsy Calton (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

4 July 2002

Reference

388 c489W;388 c486-7W; 64426

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what proportion of young people who are profoundly deaf went into further and higher education in each of the last three years. - Inc tables. (Holding answer 16 May 2002).

Asked by

Patsy Calton (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

9 May 2002

For answer on

23 May 2002

Answered on

23 May 2002

Mrs. Calton: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of young people who are profoundly deaf went into further and higher education in each of the last three years. [56491] John Healey: [holding answer 16 May 2002]: Figures for people entering further or higher education who are profoundly deaf are not available, although we can provide those recorded as having a hearing impairment. The number of people in England registered as deaf or hard of hearing with their local authority, at 31 March 2001, is 194,840. However the true number of people in England with mild, moderate, severe or profound deafness is likely to be much more and was estimated by the Royal National Institute for Deaf People in 1996 to be 7,243,000. The number of people in Further Education recorded as having a hearing impairment is not available before 2000-01. Figures for 2000-01 are as follows: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Numbers in Further Education (FE) in Numbers in FE in England recorded as England having a hearing impairment as their main disability{ 1} All ages 3,537,620 9,291 Aged 16-18 inclusive{2} 621,542 1,217 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Based upon the students' own self-assessments {2} Age as at 31 August Source: Individualised Student Records collected by the Learning and Skills Council on 31 July 2001 The numbers of people in English domiciles, at UK Higher Education Institutions, recorded as deaf/having a hearing impairment are as follows: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Number starting Higher Education (HE){ 1} Number starting HE recorded as "deaf/have a hearing impairment"{ 2} 1998-99 All ages 555,300 1,320 Aged 16-18 inclusive{3} 120,200 190 1999-2000 All ages 554,400 1,340 Aged 16-18 inclusive{3} 118,200 220 2000-01 All ages 567,300 1,530 Aged 16-18 inclusive{3} 117,300 250 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} A census count of England domiciled students on the first year of higher education courses in UK HE institutions, as at 1 December, rounded to nearest 100. {2} Based upon the students' own self-assessments, rounded to nearest 10. {3} Age as at 31 August. Source: July Student Records collected by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)

Date

23 May 2002

Reference

56491; 386 c463W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many and what percentage of profoundly deaf young people achieved (a) five A to C GCSE grades and (b) 5 A to G GCSE grades, broken down by local authority in the last four years.

Asked by

Patsy Calton (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

16 May 2002

Reference

56492; 385 c761W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many deaf children were taught (a) with British sign language and (b) without access to British sign language in the last 12 months for which figures are available. - Includes table and fact that Dept does not collect this...

Asked by

Patsy Calton (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

16 May 2002

Reference

56493; 385 c760-1W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many teachers received backdated threshold pay before 1st April 2001, broken down by local authority; how many teachers received backdated threshold pay after 1st April 2001; what assessment she has made of the number of teachers who paid higher...

Asked by

Patsy Calton (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 January 2002

Reference

377 c953W;377 c955-6W; 25844;25845;25846

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to her Answer of 20th November 2001, Official Report, column 259W, on what evidence she based her Answer on the numbers of teachers having to pay higher rates of tax; and how this is reconciled with her Answer of...

Asked by

Patsy Calton (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 January 2002

Reference

25861; 377 c954W;377 c956W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to her Answer of 20th November, Official Report, column 259W, on threshold allowance awards, how many teachers received threshold back pay in the 2000-01 financial year in each local authority; how many teachers have paid higher rates of tax...

Asked by

Patsy Calton (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

30 November 2001

Reference

375 c1213W; 19250

House

House of Commons

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