§ Mr. Don FosterTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list for each of the years 1990 to 1998 the number of press releases issued by his Department's agencies and non-departmental public bodies. [71485]
§ Mr. MudieThe number of press releases issued between 1990 and 1998 for this Department's agencies and non-departmental public bodies are as follows:
Number Qualifications & Curriculum Authority (QCA)1 269 Further Education Funding Council (FEFCE) 194 Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE) 171 Funding Agency for Schools (FAS) 36 Teacher Training Agency (TTA) 79 Employment Service (ES)2 31 1 Includes figures for the previous bodies (SCAA, SEAC, NCC, NC VQ) 2 Figures since June 1997. Prior to that date press releases were included in Departmental releases and does not include releases put out regionally by the Employment Service. These are overall figures. A breakdown of figures year by year between 1990 and 1998 could not be supplied by the agencies concerned as no records were kept.