HC Deb 18 March 2002 vol 382 cc106-7W
Mr. Lidington

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the circular documents that have been sent by(a) the Office for Standards in Education, (b) the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority and (c) the Teacher Training Authority to (i) primary schools and (ii) secondary schools since 7 June 2001; and how many pages each document contained. [44080]

Mr. Timms

Information provided by Ofsted, the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority and the Teacher Training Agency is as follows.

Ofsted HMCI's Annual Report, 2000–01 (sent to all maintained schools in February 2002, 138 pages) Key Stage 3 Strategy: Pilot Year 1 (sent to all secondary schools and special schools with secondary-age pupils in January 2002, 32 pages) Good Teaching, Effective Departments (sent to all secondary schools in January 2002, 82 pages) Improving Inspection, Improving Schools: Consultation Results (sent to all maintained schools in January 2002, 14 pages) Providing for Gifted and Talented Children: An Evaluation of Excellence in Cities and other grant-funded programmes (sent to all maintained schools in December 2001, 52 pages) Improving Inspection: Letter from HMCI (sent to all maintained schools in December 2001, 2 pages) National Numeracy Strategy: Second Year (sent to all maintained schools in December 2001, 40 pages) National Literacy Strategy: Third Year (sent to all maintained schools in December 2001, 52 pages) Managing Support for the Attainment of Pupils from Ethnic Minority Groups (sent to all maintained schools in October 2001, 52 pages) Improving Inspection, Improving Schools: Questionnaire (sent to all maintained schools in September 2001, 10 pages) Improving Inspection, Improving Schools: Consultation on the Framework (sent to all maintained schools in September 2001, 20 pages) Extending Work-related Learning at Key Stage 4 (sent to secondary schools in June 2001, 48 pages)

The Qualifications & Curriculum Authority Advanced Extension award leaflets (sent to secondary schools in February 2002, 4 pages) Schemes of work for citizenship at Key Stage 3 (sent to secondary schools in February 2002, 135 pages) Circular 137, Arrangements to secure consistent standards across Key Stage 1 schools through the process of audit and verification of assessment results for statutory tasks and tests in 2002 (sent to relevant independent primary schools in February 2002, 1 page) Circular 136, Key Stage 1, 2 and 3 Standards Reports and testbase 2001 CD (sent to all schools in January 2002, 1 page) Circular 135, 2002 Key Stage 1 statutory tasks for English and mathematics (sent to schools with pupils in year 2 in December 2001, 95 pages) Circular 121, National Curriculum in action: focus on pupils' work (sent to all maintained schools in December 2001, 1 page) Circular 134, Implications for Teaching and Learning from the 2001 Key Stage 3 tests, in English, mathematics and science (sent to schools with year 9 pupils in November 2001, 7 pages) Circular 133, Implications for Teaching and Learning from the 2001 Key Stage 1 tests in English and mathematics, and Key Stage 2 tests in English, mathematics and science (sent to schools with pupils in years 2 and/or 6 in November 2001, 11 pages) Circular 132, 2002 Guidance on administering the years 7 and 8 tests (sent to schools with pupils in years 7 and 8 on 1 November 2001, 57 pages) Circular 131, 2002 Key Stage 3 Assessment and reporting arrangements (sent to schools with pupils in year 9 in October 2001, 70 pages) Circular 130, 2002 Key Stage 2 Assessment and reporting arrangements (sent to schools with pupils in year 6 in October 2001, 70 pages) Circular 129, 2002 Key Stage 1 Assessment and reporting arrangements (sent to schools with pupils in year 2 in October 2001, 64 pages) Circular 128, Schemes of work for citizenship at Key Stage 3 (sent to secondary schools in October 2001, 194 pages) Circular 127. Data collection-monitoring of regulations allowing disapplication at Key Stage 4, 2001–02 (sent to maintained schools with pupils in years 10 and 11 in September 2001,2 pages) Circular 126, Managing curriculum 2000 for 16–19 students (sent to secondary schools in September 2001, 32 pages) Circular 124, Statutory test dates for 2003 for Key Stages 2 and 3 (sent to schools with pupils in years 6 and/or 9 in July 2001, 2 pages) Circular 123, KS3 and Y7 level thresholds, 2002 test dates (sent to schools with pupils in years 7 and 9 in July 2001, 11 pages) Circular 122, KS2 and Y7 level thresholds, 2002 test dates (sent to schools with pupils in years 6 and 7 in July 2001, 18 pages)

Teacher Training Agency Information about Special Educational Needs CD-ROM (sent to all schools in December 2001, 1 page).