§ Dr. CableTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many year 11, 10 and 9 pupils were expelled from schools in London and the South East over the last three years and for the first quarter of 1999. [81169]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisThe information is not available in the form requested. However, the number of permanent exclusions for pupils aged 13, 14 and 15 is shown in the following table.
as fast stream by the Civil Service Selection Board; and how many have been granted chartered statistician status by the Royal Statistical Society. [81206]
§ Mr. MudieStatistical work is undertaken by a range of specialists including Research Officers, Social Survey Officers and Economists. Within this Department, there are 6 Senior Civil Servants, 25 Grade 7s and 16 Assistant Statisticians employed as "professional" statisticians. In addition, our Department employs 6 Statistical Officers.
"Professional statistician" has been defined as those staff who were recruited as fast streamers to the Statistician Group via CSSB. By this definition it follows that all of those staff have been accepted as fast streamers.
Of those listed, 1 member of the SCS and 4 Grade 7s have been granted chartered statistician status by the RSS.