§ Mr. ChaytorTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills whether information collected by the Connexions Service can be matched with the National Pupil Database at pupil level; and whether the two databases can be used to produce information matching the later destinations of young people with their achievements on National Curriculum Tests, secondary school they attended and other pupil characteristics. [155569]
§ Margaret Hodge[holding answer 1 March 2004]: Information collected by the Connexions Service cannot be accurately matched with data held by the National Pupil Database.
84WCurrently there is no national Connexions Service database as in the case of the National Pupil Database and without a commonly agreed identifier, linking records to the 47 different partnership databases would be extremely difficult.
However, as part of work to improve systems for young people and learners as well as providers, my Department is currently exploring the feasibility of establishing systems which would enable information held by different organisations to be shared and analysed more effectively. The results of the feasibility work should be available in the summer.