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The Earl of Northesk asked Her Majesty's Government:
Lord Macdonald of Tradeston: The e-GIF is regularly reviewed every six months, and at each review all content is updated as necessary. The next review is due in October 2003 when the current advice
on the use of wireless and mobile technologies will be revised if the current security concerns about the use of those technologies have been resolved.Lord Carter asked Her Majesty's Government:
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Work and Pensions (Baroness Hollis of Heigham): The Membership and terms of reference for the task force on pensions are set out below. We expect the task force to report in around 18 months.
Company/Organisation | Member |
J Sainsburys plc | Sir Peter Davis |
Group Chief Executive Task Force Chairman | |
BP plc | Dr David Allen |
Group Managing Director | |
Task Force Vice Chairman | |
Acme Whistles | Simon Topman |
Managing Director | |
Aircraft Research Group | Brian Timmins |
Group Chief Executive | |
Amicus | Lucy Anderson |
Deputy General Secretary | |
Co-operative Group | Mervyn K Pedelty |
Chief Executive | |
Corporation of London | Peter Derrick |
Finance Chamberlain | |
Emap | Ralph Turner |
Group Benefits Manager | |
ICI | Philip Gillett |
Tax Controller | |
Marks & Spencer | Graham Oakley |
Company Secretary | |
Scottish Catering Enterprises | Susan Karim |
Managing Director | |
Scottish Power | David Nish |
Finance Director | |
USDAW | Sir Bill Connor |
General Secretary | |
Whitbread | Geoff Mellor |
Pensions Director | |
Wimpey | Anna Edgeworth |
Group HR Director |
Role
Employer-led body with a mission to increase and extend occupational and private pension provision.
Aim
to work in partnership with government and individuals to help employees achieve security and independence in retirement by identifying and promoting employer-led solutions which enable and encourage employees to save more and for longer;
And to provide the Secretary of State with advice on the role of the employer in the pensions partnership.
Key Responsibilities
To develop and promote employers' role in pension provision and encourage employees to save, with particular emphasis on:
increasing employees' access to high quality pension schemes;
improving advice available to enable employees to make informed choices;
encouraging employees to take up pension provision;
identifying the needs of specific sectors to develop targeted pensions solutions.
To act as a catalyst in the development and promulgation of best practice; and
To advise the Secretary of State on the role of the employer in the pensions partnership.
Lord Skidelsky asked Her Majesty's Government:
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Education and Skills (Baroness Ashton of Upholland): The latest available information is shown in the table below.
Comparable data for earlier years are not held centrally.
of which, percentage from | |||||
Total Acceptances(1) | Maintained schools and colleges | Independent schools(2) | Other(3) | Total | |
Oxford | |||||
1970 | 2,417 | 43 | 55 | 2 | 100 |
1971 | 2,382 | 41 | 55 | 4 | 100 |
1972 | 2,497 | 42 | 55 | 3 | 100 |
1973 | 2,500 | 42 | 53 | 4 | 100 |
1974 | 2,537 | 41 | 53 | 6 | 100 |
1975 | 2,719 | 45 | 52 | 4 | 100 |
1976 | 2,744 | 45 | 52 | 3 | 100 |
1977 | 2,817 | 47 | 50 | 3 | 100 |
1978 | 2,850 | 47 | 50 | 3 | 100 |
1979 | 2,788 | 47 | 50 | 3 | 100 |
1980 | 2,814 | 49 | 48 | 3 | 100 |
1981 | 2,836 | 50 | 47 | 3 | 100 |
1982 | 2,840 | 49 | 47 | 4 | 100 |
1983 | 2,686 | 50 | 47 | 3 | 100 |
1984 | 2,853 | 49 | 48 | 4 | 100 |
1985 | 3,120 | 43 | 54 | 3 | 100 |
1986 | 2,940 | 47 | 45 | 8 | 100 |
1987 | 3,070 | 46 | 46 | 8 | 100 |
1988 | 3,226 | 45 | 48 | 8 | 100 |
1989 | 3,164 | 46 | 46 | 8 | 100 |
1990 | 3,110 | 45 | 48 | 7 | 100 |
1991 | 3,189 | 42 | 48 | 10 | 100 |
1992 | 3,184 | 43 | 49 | 9 | 100 |
1993 | 3,157 | 44 | 47 | 10 | 100 |
1994 | 3,276 | 43 | 46 | 11 | 100 |
1995 | 2,848 | 49 | 51 | n.a. | 100 |
1996 | 2,948 | 48 | 52 | n.a. | 100 |
1997 | 2,942 | 48 | 52 | n.a. | 100 |
1998 | 3,044 | 50 | 50 | n.a. | 100 |
1999 | 2,964 | 51 | 49 | n.a. | 100 |
2000 | 2,928 | 53 | 47 | n.a. | 100 |
2001 | 2,980 | 55 | 45 | n.a. | 100 |
2002 | 3,088 | 55 | 45 | n.a. | 100 |
Cambridge | |||||
1970 | 2,715 | 40 | 57 | 3 | 100 |
1971 | 2,868 | 40 | 53 | 7 | 100 |
1972 | 2,907 | 41 | 52 | 7 | 100 |
1973 | 2,887 | 44 | 49 | 7 | 100 |
1974 | 2,878 | 43 | 50 | 7 | 100 |
1975 | 2,948 | 44 | 49 | 7 | 100 |
1976 | 3,032 | 42 | 52 | 6 | 100 |
1977 | 3,004 | 41 | 52 | 7 | 100 |
1978 | 3,224 | 46 | 46 | 8 | 100 |
1979 | 3,066 | 43 | 47 | 10 | 100 |
1980 | 3,300 | 44 | 45 | 10 | 100 |
1981 | 2,905 | 42 | 49 | 9 | 100 |
1982 | 2,792 | 43 | 48 | 9 | 100 |
1983 | 2,899 | 44 | 46 | 10 | 100 |
1984 | 2,985 | 39 | 49 | 12 | 100 |
1985 | 3,098 | 39 | 50 | 10 | 100 |
1986 | 3,129 | 35 | 50 | 16 | 100 |
1987 | 3,020 | 41 | 47 | 13 | 100 |
1988 | 2,933 | 43 | 45 | 12 | 100 |
1989 | 3,013 | 47 | 43 | 11 | 100 |
1990 | 3,117 | 44 | 44 | 11 | 100 |
1991 | 3,015 | 48 | 47 | 5 | 100 |
1992 | 3,052 | 46 | 44 | 10 | 100 |
1993 | 3,068 | 45 | 45 | 9 | 100 |
1994 | 3,095 | 46 | 46 | 9 | 100 |
1995 | 2,989 | 53 | 47 | n.a. | 100 |
1996 | 2,767 | 55 | 45 | n.a. | 100 |
1997 | 3,001 | 54 | 46 | n.a. | 100 |
1998 | 2,982 | 53 | 47 | n.a. | 100 |
1999 | 2,985 | 55 | 45 | n.a. | 100 |
2000 | 2,999 | 55 | 45 | n.a. | 100 |
2001 | 3,088 | 56 | 44 | n.a. | 100 |
2002 | 3,053 | 57 | 43 | n.a. | 100 |
Source:
UCAS from 1995 to 2002 and Oxford Gazette and the Cambridge Reporter from 1970 to 1994.
Percentages may not sum to totals because of rounding. N.a. = not applicable.
(1) Figures for 1994 and earlier years include overseas students who cannot be separately identified. Figures since 1995 cover UK domiciled students only.
(2) Includes direct grant schools in years prior to 1982.
(3) Includes overseas students in the years up to 1994; and, (for Cambridge in years prior to 1987, and Oxford in years prior to 1978), students from Scotland and Northern Ireland whose school type was not specified.
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer asked Her Majesty's Government:
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Lord Whitty): Figures for slug pellet use in gardens are not collated.
Lord Harris of Haringey asked Her Majesty's Government:
Lord Whitty: Lord Haskins's Rural Delivery Review will help improve the way rural policies are delivered and make a real difference to local people.
The seven guiding principles of the review—the first outcome of Lord Haskins's work—were published today. They are:
Better accountability: policy development should be managed separately from policy delivery, whilst ensuring that proper communication exists at all stages between the two functions. Accountability for
success or failure cannot be determined if there is confusion between the two.Readiness for policy change: the Government must prepare for the delivery of a major new agri-environmental agenda in the coming years.
Devolution: delivery of economic and social policy must be devolved in accordance with the principles of public service reform.
Customer focus: the services available to rural businesses and rural communities, and visitors to the countryside, need to be more accessible and transparent.
Simplicity: the complex range of agencies currently engaged in delivering the Government's rural policies should be simplified.
Co-ordination: the environmental, social and economic elements of rural delivery should be better co-ordinated at a regional level.
Value for money: the taxpayer must get better value for money as a result of changes to the current arrangements.
Ministers are very grateful for all the work Lord Haskins has done so far, meeting hundreds of individuals and organisations throughout England, as
well as visiting Scotland, Wales, France, Germany and Belgium. The principles he has developed are a very useful first indication of his thinking and are consistent with existing work across government bringing services closer to local people, for example through devolution and decentralisation.Ministers want to see real improvements in service delivery to rural people and we expect the Rural Delivery Review to build on these principles to produce imaginative and effective proposals. We now look forward to receiving Lord Haskins's final conclusions in the autumn.
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