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Written Answers
26 OCTOBER 2009
Written Answers
190W
Vetting
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the
Home Department what guidance his Department has
issued to employers and employees in England and
Wales seeking a basic disclosure check. [294256]
Alan Johnson: Guidance from the Criminal Records
Bureau advises individuals seeking a basic disclosure
check to contact Disclosure Scotland.
CHILDREN, SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES
Children: Databases
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for
Children, Schools and Families when he expects
ContactPoint to be fully operational. [295514]
Dawn Primarolo: ContactPoint is already operational.
From late October, local authorities can start training
ContactPoint users across England. The speed at which
practitioner use of ContactPoint builds up over time
will be agreed jointly with local authorities and national
partners.
Access to ContactPoint is strictly limited to those
who need it as part of their work, and who have been
security vetted and trained. Our latest evidence-based
analysis suggests that the number of users will be 390,000.
The ultimate number of users will be determined by
local authorities and national partners. Those decisions
will be governed by regulations and guidance and,
ultimately, by capacity and resources.
Children: Poverty
Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for
Children, Schools and Families what estimate his
Department has made of the number of children in
rural areas living in poverty in each year since 1997.
[293210]
Helen Goodman: I have been asked to reply:
Estimates of the number of children in rural areas
living in poverty are derived from the Family Resources
Survey produced by the Department for Work and
Pensions. The survey is available on the Department’s
website at
http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/frs/2007_08/
frs_2007_08_report.pdf
A copy is also in the Library.
Data on rurality are only available on the Family
Resources Survey since 2004/05, so no information is
available prior to 2004/05.
The information that is available is given in the tables.
Due to different definitions of rurality in Scotland
compared to England and Wales, and the fact that no
information is collected on the Family Resources Survey
covering rurality in Northern Ireland, it has not been
possible to present figures for the United Kingdom as a
whole. This also means that the figures in table 4 are not
comparable with figures presented in the other tables.
Table 1: Number of children in rural areas in England in households with
incomes below 60 per cent. of contemporary median income, 2004/05 to 2007/08,
before and after housing costs
Million
Period Before housing costs After housing costs
2004/05 0.3 0.4
2005/06 0.3 0.4
2006/07 0.3 0.4
2007/08 0.3 0.5
Table 2: Number of children in rural areas in Wales in households with incomes
below 60 per cent. of contemporary median income, 2004/05 to 2006/07 and
2005/06 to 2007/08, before and after housing costs
Million
Period Before housing costs After housing costs
2004/05 to 2006/07 — 0.1
2005/06 to 2007/08 0.1 0.1
Table 3: Number of children in rural areas in England and Wales in households
with incomes below 60 per cent. of contemporary median income, 2004/05 to
2007/08, before and after housing costs
Million
Period Before housing costs After housing costs
2004/05 0.3 0.4
2005/06 0.3 0.5
2006/07 0.4 0.5
2007/08 0.3 0.5
Table 4: Number of children in rural areas in Scotland in households with
incomes below 60 per cent. of contemporary median income, 2004/05 to 2006/07
and 2005/06 to 2007/08, before and after housing costs
Million
Period Before housing costs After housing costs
2004/05 to 2006/07 — —
2005/06 to 2007/08 — —
Notes:
1. These statistics are based on Households Below Average Income, sourced
from the Family Resources Survey.
2. Small changes should be treated with caution as these will be affected by
sampling error and variability in non-response.
3. The reference period for Households Below Average Income figures are single
financial years. For Wales and Scotland, three years of data have had to be
combined due to small sample size.
4. A ‘—’ in the table indicates that the number of children in low income
households is less than 50,000 in the period.
5. The income measures used to derive the estimates shown employ the same
methodology as the Department for Work and Pensions publication “Households
Below Average Income”’ (HBAI) series, which uses disposable household
income, adjusted (or ‘equivalised’) for household size and composition, as an
income measure as a proxy for standard of living.
6. For the Households Below Average Income series, incomes have been
equivalised using Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD) equivalisation factors.
7. Number of children in low income have been rounded to the nearest hundred
thousand.
Departmental Publications
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for
Children, Schools and Families what the cost of production
of his Department’s publication Schools of the Future:
Inspirational design for kitchen and dining spaces was;
and how much was spent on (a) research, (b) preparation
and (c) distribution of the publication. [295667]
Mr. Coaker: The cost of producing Inspirational
Design for Kitchen and Dining Spaces was around
£108,000, broken down as follows:
Research, writing and graphics—£91,000
Preparation (printing, editing and professional photography)—
£15,000
Distribution (including to every local authority)—approx £2,000