HC Deb 27 July 1999 vol 336 cc167-8W
Mr. Baker

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment on what date he last used a train in the course of his official duties. [92648]

Mr. Mudie

[holding answer 23 July 1999]: In accordance with the terms of the Ministerial Code, Ministers are required always to make efficient and cost-effective travel arrangements. Trips in and around London, which account for the majority of my working week, will normally be made by Government Car. The

Numbers and proportion of permanent exclusions in schools in the Greater London local education authority areas January 1999 (provisional)
Primary1 Secondary1 Special2
Number of permanent exclusions Per 1000 of the school population3 Number of permanent exclusions Per 1000 of the school population3 Number of permanent exclusions Per 1000 of the school population3
City of London 0 0.0 4— 4— 4— 4—
Camden 11 1.0 34 3.1 5 16.2
Hackney 22 1.2 21 2.9 3 6.9
Hammersmith & Fulham 12 1.3 39 6.3 1 3.3
Haringey 5 0.2 38 3.7 3 7.8
Islington 8 0.5 38 5.0 1 3.7
Kensington & Chelsea 5 0.7 33 9.7 0 0.0
Lambeth 15 0.8 40 5.9 7 10.9
Lewisham 22 1.0 50 4.5 5 9.3
Newham 12 0.4 42 2.6 0 0.0
Southwark 15 0.6 76 8.1 5 10.9
Tower Hamlets 5 0.2 39 2.9 5 10.0
Wandsworth 10 0.6 59 6.3 7 9.1
Westminster 3 0.3 60 7.8 0 0.0

Mr. Andrew Smith

New Deal is not a job creation scheme. However, in the Bolton Unit of Delivery for the period ending April 1999, 298 people have found sustained work through the New Deal for 18 to 24-year-olds and New Deal for those aged 25-plus.