Lord Lexden received written answers from HM Government on teachers, employment in Northern Ireland and the Criminal Records Bureau:
Criminal Records Bureau
Lord Lexden (Conservative)
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (a) teachers, and (b) support staff in schools, have been checked (1) successfully, and (2) unsuccessfully, by the Criminal Records Bureau, in each of the last three years.
Lord Wallace of Saltaire
The Government do not hold this information. In processing a Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) certificate, the CRB will provide information from records held on thePolice National Computer (PNC) and other data sources to an employer and the employer makes a decision about the applicant's suitability. The employers do not notify the CRB of the outcome of their decisions and it is not therefore possible to indicate whether a person has been checked successfully or unsuccessfully. Having said that, the overwhelming majority of CRB certificates do not contain any police conviction information, with 92 per cent of checks being issued clear in 2010-11.
Employment: Northern Ireland
Lord Lexden (Conservative)
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people are employed in (a) the public sector, and (b) the private sector, in Northern Ireland.
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people working in the private sector in Northern Ireland are employed in indigenous firms; and how many in foreign-owned businesses.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the total size of the Northern Ireland Civil Service; and what percentage it represents of the total number in employment in Northern Ireland.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the total number of people employed by elected local councils and statutory boards in Northern Ireland; and what percentage it represents of the total number in employment in Northern Ireland.
Baroness Garden of Frognal
The statistical information the noble Lord has requested is not held by Her Majesty's Government. Employment matters and the Northern Ireland Civil Service are devolved and the responsibility of the relevant Northern Ireland Executive Minister.
Chapter two of the HM Treasury paper Rebalancing the Northern Ireland economy, which was drawn up in consultation with Northern Ireland Ministers, provides an analysis by Treasury Ministers of the current state of the Northern Ireland economy. This can be viewed at:
www.hmtreasury.gov.uk/consult_rebalancing_ni_economy.htm
Teachers: Qualifications
Lord Lexden (Conservative)
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many teachers have gained Qualified Teacher Status in each of the past three years.
Lord Hill of Oareford (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Education; Conservative)
The available information is given in the table.
Source: TDA Performance Profiles
1. Includes universities and other higher education institutions, School Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT), Open University and employment-based routes, but excludes cases where OTSwas granted on assessment without an ITT course.
2. Includes the OTS outcome of those trained through the fast-track programme (which started in 2001-02).
Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10 and totals may not equal the sum of component parts.