§ Mr. Simon HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list those local learning and skills councils to which no elected local authority member has been appointed. [148625]
§ Mr. Wicks[holding answer 7 February 2001]: To date, I am pleased to report that 62 candidates with experience as elected local authority members have been appointed to the local learning and skills councils (LSCs). With a number of vacancies still to be filled, those local LSCs where no elected local authority members have been appointed are:
- Hampshire, Portsmouth, Southampton and the Isle of Wight;
- Berkshire;
- Northumberland;
- Gloucestershire; and
- London West.
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Applicants1 and accepted applicants through UCAS to full-time and sandwich first-degree courses in the United Kingdom by social class and subject Social class Year of entry 2000 Professional Intermediate Skilled manual Skilled non-manual Partly skilled Unskilled Not known Grand total Applicants1 Pre-clinical medicine 2,823 2,979 699 702 360 79 915 8,557 Nursing 515 2,731 1,079 915 1,089 146 1,342 7,817 Psychology 2,877 9,582 3,853 3,254 2,064 486 2,663 24,779 Veterinary science 377 792 178 157 72 14 116 1,706 Engineering2 3,449 8,351 3,795 2,388 1,913 366 2,776 23,038 Law 2,532 7,483 2,866 2,527 1,472 427 2,518 19,825 Accountancy 1,002 3,535 1,840 1,528 898 265 1,317 10,385 Education3 1,381 6,625 3,575 2,628 2,026 404 2,141 18,780 with over 4,000 (18 per cent.) in January 1998. This confirms that the Government are meeting the pledge in West Sussex.
In addition, 46 candidates who are currently local authority officials have been appointed across the 47 local LSCs. This combination of elected members and officials from local authorities will ensure that local LSCs are well placed to work closely in partnership with local authorities.