Severn Bridge

HC Deb 05 December 1988 vol 143 cc3-4W

Mr. Aspinwall

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he will invite tenders for the second Severn bridge.

Mr. Peter Bottomley

The Department has sent a notice to the Official Journal of the European Communities for publication today asking groups of firms interested in bidding:

	Academic year beginning in
	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987
API
Universities	7.4	7.5	7.2	6.8	6.6	6.8	6.9	7.0	7.3
PSHE	5.0	5.2	5.9	6.5	6.6	6.9	7.0	7.0	7.3
All higher education	12.4	12.6	13.1	13.4	13.2	13.7	13.9	14.0	14.6
QPI
Universities	50.4	50.3	47.7	44.4	40.7	41.3	41.8	43.2	44.9
PSHE	33.6	34.8	39.5	42.4	40.9	41.5	42.0	42.9	44.5
All higher education	84.0	85.0	87.1	86.8	81.5	82.8	83.9	86.1	89.4

Note:

¹ Provisional figures.

Mr. Andrew F. Bennett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish in theOfficial Report the young mature entry index and the older mature participation index from 1979 to the most recent date for

	Academic year beginning in
	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	19871
Young Mature Entry Index
All higher education	8.8	7.6	7.5	7.2	6.9	7.2	7.8	7.4	7.5
Universities	2.7	2.4	2.0	1.7	1.5	1.6	1.7	1.7	1.7
P.S.H.E.	6.1	5.2	5.5	5.5	5.3	5.6	6.1	5.8	5.8
Older Mature Participation Index
All higher education	0.218	0.219	0.245	0.246	0.261	0.261	0.272	0.281	0.295
Universities	0.054	0.051	0.052	0.046	0.048	0.051	0.053	0.056	0.057
P.S.H.E.	0.165	0.168	0.193	0.199	0.213	0.208	0.219	0.226	0.238
1 Provisional figures.

Mr. Andrew F. Bennett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many advanced level secondary school pupils from(a) local education authority maintained secondary schools and (b) private sector maintained secondary schools, applied for a place at

Cambridge	Maintained	3Direct grant	Independent	FE Institutions	Scottish and Irish	Other and OSEAS	Total
1979
Applications	2,410	697	1,385	110	211	416	5,229
Acceptances	906	363	733	24	99	114	2,239

(i) for the design, construction financing and operation and (ii) for the design and construction only of a second Severn crossing to submit themselves for selection as tenderers. This initial selection process has been introduced at the request of the industry to cut down wasted effort in preparing a full tender. Applications to be considered for selection must be returned to the Department of Transport by mid-January. The groups selected to submit full tenders will be announced towards the end of February. Guidelines for these tenders will be published in the spring.