The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Mendelsohn on 2014-05-07.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government which official, with what job title, is responsible and accountable for departmental management information in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Lord De Mauley
Departmental Management Information (MI) is generated for a wide variety of business functions. Checking and sign off of MI produced is carried out within relevant areas of the Department.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Mendelsohn on 2014-05-07.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government which official, with what job title, is responsible and accountable for departmental management information in the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
Baroness Verma
Angie Ridgwell, Director General for Finance and Corporate Services, is the lead official responsible and accountable for management information within DECC.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Mendelsohn on 2014-05-07.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government which official, with what job title, is responsible and accountable for departmental management information in the Department for Education.
Lord Nash
A number of officials across the Department are involved with producing, analysing and using management information that is relevant to their areas of responsibility.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Quirk on 2014-05-07.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many teachers have resigned from their posts in each of the past 10 years, citing disruptive behaviour as a factor in their resignation.
Lord Nash
The information requested is not held by the Department for Education.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Quirk on 2014-05-07.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many pupils were excluded from (1) primary, and (2) secondary, schools in 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010 and during the latest year for which figures are available.
Lord Nash
The requested information for the 2009/10[1] and 2011/12[2] academic years is published in the permanent and fixed period exclusions statistical first releases for each year.
Information on permanent exclusions for the 1999/2000[3] academic year is publicly available in the 1999/2000 permanent exclusions statistical first release. Information on exclusion rates prior to 2005/06 was collected via the Termly Exclusions Survey rather than the School Census.
Information on permanent and fixed period exclusions for the 1979/80 and 1989/90 academic years is not held by the Department for Education.
[1]https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-from-schools-in-england-academic-year-2009-to-2010 (table 1 and 6)
[2]https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-from-schools-in-england-2011-to-2012-academic-year (table 1 and 8)
[3]http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20120504203418/http://education.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000275/index.shtml (table 1)
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Quirk on 2014-05-07.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to mitigate any reduction in staffing provision, acquisitions, and essential services in the British Library resulting from reductions in funding since 2010.
Lord Gardiner of Kimble
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has an arm’s length relationship with its sponsored bodies such as the British Library, and operational and management decisions are therefore a matter for the Board and Executive. In the Spending Review of 2010, funding for the British Library was protected by limiting resource cuts to 15% in real terms over four years, and at the Spending Round of 2013, the 5% reduction in capital and resource budgets was below average. The Chancellor signalled in his 2014 Budget announcement that there would not be any further reductions to departmental spending at this time, so that sponsored bodies will maintain current levels of planned spending in 2014/15 and 2015/16.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Berkeley on 2014-05-07.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what time period of asset use they have assumed in calculating the cost benefit of the Thames Tideway Tunnel.
Lord De Mauley
The Government has used 100 years, in line with the Treasury Green Book recommendation that the appraisal period should be taken as the useful life of the assets. Further detail can be found in the November 2011 Defra document “Costs and Benefits of the Thames Tunnel”.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Berkeley on 2014-05-07.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government for how many spills a year the Environment Agency has licensed the upgraded Mogden sewage works; and how many were achieved in the first year of operation.
Lord De Mauley
Mogden Sewage Treatment Works has an Environmental Permit issued by the Environment Agency to discharge treated and storm effluent to the Thames Estuary at Isleworth. The discharge of storm effluent is permissible only when the capacity of onsite facilities for treatment and containment are exceeded. This includes a 77,000m³ storm tank.
The permit does not specify a number of spills per year. It requires the works to provide secondary treatment for a specific flow rate of incoming sewage.
The current version of the permit came into effect on 31 March 2013. During the subsequent 12 months, Thames Water reported 54 occasions when the works discharged storm sewage to the Thames. Thirty-four of these were during the wet weather in January and February.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Berkeley on 2014-05-07.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether there is a requirement in the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive to treat surface rainwater runoff.
Lord De Mauley
The Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive requires the collection and treatment of urban waste water. The Directive defines urban waste water as ‘domestic waste water or the mixture of domestic waste water with industrial waste water and/or run-off rain water’. Therefore, the treatment of surface rainwater runoff is required where it is mixed with domestic or industrial waste water and collected in a collecting system.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by FALSE on 2014-05-07.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the nature of the urgent consideration” they are giving to improve the attainment outcomes of Gypsy
Lord Nash
The draft Child Poverty Strategy document references measures currently under consideration to improve the attendance of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) pupils. Attendance levels for many of these pupils are unacceptably low. In 2012/13, the overall absence rate for Gypsy / Roma pupils (15.3%) was around three times the national rate for all pupils (5.3%) and for Traveller of Irish Heritage pupils, was around four times the national rate (21.4%). Poor attendance at school is a real barrier to improving attainment for this group of pupils and there is an urgent need for improvement. GRT families, stakeholder groups, schools and local authorities – working in partnership – have an important role to play in fostering the highest expectations when it comes to attendance so that all GRT children can benefit from their full educational entitlement.
The Government is investing £2.5 billion in the pupil premium this year to improve the attainment of pupils from low-income families and so improve their future life chances. Most GRT pupils are benefiting from the pupil premium on the basis of their economic circumstances. In 2013, three quarters of Traveller of Irish Heritage and 60% of Gypsy / Roma pupils attracted pupil premium funding. There are no plans to change the pupil premium funding criteria.
The summer term meeting of the Department for Education’s reference group on GRT will provide an opportunity for further discussion on improving the attainment of GRT pupils.