§ Chris GraylingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the(a) nationality and (b) future rights of those no longer eligible for the special voucher scheme. [46319]
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§ Angela EagleI refer the hon. Member to the comments made by my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary during the second reading of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill on 24 April 2002,Official Report, column 354.
§ Chris GraylingTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what consultation was carried out prior to the abolition of the special voucher scheme. [46318]
§ Angela EagleWe consulted with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and entry clearance posts abroad on the current use of the scheme and the implications of its abolition.
§ Mr. WoodwardTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which detention centres for asylum seekers(a) provide and (b) have provided on-site education; for each centre that provided on-site education which (i) private and (ii) public organisation provided the education; and what elements of the national curriculum are followed in each of the centres. [51136]
§ Angela EagleIn addition to the provision of adult education at removal centres, there is provision for on-site education of children at Harmondsworth and Dungavel removal centres. There was also provision for education at Yarl's Wood removal centre.
Harmondsworth removal centre is managed and operated by UK Detention Services. Dungavel removal centre is managed and operated by Premier Detention Services Ltd. In both cases, the contractor makes provision for education and employs suitably qualified staff as managers of education.
The profile and numbers of children at an immigration removal centre changes from day to day. Education provision at the centres needs therefore to be sufficiently flexible to cater for the needs of a variable number of children of variable ages and abilities.
In both Harmondsworth and Dungavel a programme of modular education is delivered. These programmes concentrate on numeracy and literacy and the national curriculum, and the Scottish equivalent for Dungavel, provides the framework from which these programmes have been developed.
§ Mr. WoodwardTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost per pupil of education provision in detention centres has been in the last year for which figures are available. [51659]
§ Angela Eagle[holding answer 23 April 2002]: No figures are available. The cost of adult and child education provision will differ from removal centre to removal centre and will form just one element of the overall cost of the contracts to run the individual centres.