House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 5 Jun 2000 (pt 37)

Investors in People

Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment which Careers Service contractors hold (a) a Charter Mark, (b) an Investors in People award and (c) an International Standards Organisation registration. [120779]

Mr. Wicks [pursuant to his reply, 5 May 2000, c. 218-20W]: Three of the careers companies were inadvertently omitted. The correct response is as follows.

The Careers Service accreditations, according to the best information I have available, are contained in the following table.

Careers services Charter mark Investors in people International standards organisation

North East

Future steps No Yes Yes

County Durham Careers No Yes No

Northumberland Guidance No Yes No

City of Sunderland Careers No Yes Yes

Tyneside Careers No Yes No

North West

Lifetime Careers (Bolton, Bury and Rochdale) Yes Yes No

Cheshire Guidance Yes Yes Yes

Cumbria Careers Yes No No

East Lancashire Careers Yes No No

Career Decisions Yes No No

Careers Partnership Yes No Yes

Oldham Careers Yes Yes No

St. Helens Careers Services Yes No No

Lifetime Careers (Stockport and High Peak) Yes No No

CareerLink Yes Yes No

Wigan Careers Yes Yes Yes

Career Connections Yes No No

Yorkshire and The Humber

Lifetime Careers (Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham) No Yes No

Careers Bradford No Yes No

Calderdale and Kirklees Careers Yes Yes Yes

Humberside Partnership No Yes No

Leeds Careers No Yes No

Guidance Enterprises (York and North Yorkshire) Yes Yes Yes

Sheffield Careers No Yes No

Guidance Enterprises (Wakefield) Yes Yes No

West Midlands

Careers and Education Business Partnership No Yes No

Prospects Careers (Black Country) No Yes No

Quality Careers Yes Yes No

Hereford and Worcester Careers No Yes No

Shropshire Careers No Yes No

Central Careers No Yes No

3S Strategies No Yes Yes

Warwickshire Careers No Yes No

East Midlands

Derbyshire Careers No Yes No

Leicestershire Careers No Yes No

Lincolnshire Careers No Yes No

Career Path (Northamptonshire) No Yes No

GuideLine Careers No Yes No

Eastern

CfBT Bedfordshire No Yes No

Cambridgeshire Careers No Yes No

Essex Careers and Business Partnership Yes Yes Yes

Hertfordshire Careers No Yes Yes

Norfolk Careers No Yes No

Suffolk Careers No Yes No

South West

Learning Partnership West (Avon) No Yes No

Cornwall and Devon Careers Yes Yes No

Dorset Careers No Yes No

Learning Partnership West (Gloucestershire) No Yes No

Somerset Careers Yes Yes No

Lifetime Careers Wiltshire Yes Yes No

South East

CfBT Thames Careers No Yes No

Buckingham Careers Yes Yes No

Sussex Careers No Yes No

VT Southern Careers No Yes No

Kent Careers No Yes No

Surrey Careers No Yes No

VT West Sussex Careers No Yes No

London

Lifetime Careers Brent and Harrow No Yes No

Prospects Careers (North London) No Yes No

Enterprise Careers No Yes No

Futures Careers No Yes No

London South Bank Careers No Yes No

Prospects Careers (South London) No Yes No

Search No Yes No

CfBT West London Careers No Yes No

Capital Careers No No Yes

Careers services	Charter mark	Investors in people	International standards organisation
North East
Future steps	No	Yes	Yes
County Durham Careers	No	Yes	No
Northumberland Guidance	No	Yes	No
City of Sunderland Careers	No	Yes	Yes
Tyneside Careers	No	Yes	No
North West
Lifetime Careers (Bolton, Bury and Rochdale)	Yes	Yes	No
Cheshire Guidance	Yes	Yes	Yes
Cumbria Careers	Yes	No	No
East Lancashire Careers	Yes	No	No
Career Decisions	Yes	No	No
Careers Partnership	Yes	No	Yes
Oldham Careers	Yes	Yes	No
St. Helens Careers Services	Yes	No	No
Lifetime Careers (Stockport and High Peak)	Yes	No	No
CareerLink	Yes	Yes	No
Wigan Careers	Yes	Yes	Yes
Career Connections	Yes	No	No
Yorkshire and The Humber
Lifetime Careers (Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham)	No	Yes	No
Careers Bradford	No	Yes	No
Calderdale and Kirklees Careers	Yes	Yes	Yes
Humberside Partnership	No	Yes	No
Leeds Careers	No	Yes	No
Guidance Enterprises (York and North Yorkshire)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Sheffield Careers	No	Yes	No
Guidance Enterprises (Wakefield)	Yes	Yes	No
West Midlands
Careers and Education Business Partnership	No	Yes	No
Prospects Careers (Black Country)	No	Yes	No
Quality Careers	Yes	Yes	No
Hereford and Worcester Careers	No	Yes	No
Shropshire Careers	No	Yes	No
Central Careers	No	Yes	No
3S Strategies	No	Yes	Yes
Warwickshire Careers	No	Yes	No
East Midlands
Derbyshire Careers	No	Yes	No
Leicestershire Careers	No	Yes	No
Lincolnshire Careers	No	Yes	No
Career Path (Northamptonshire)	No	Yes	No
GuideLine Careers	No	Yes	No
Eastern
CfBT Bedfordshire	No	Yes	No
Cambridgeshire Careers	No	Yes	No
Essex Careers and Business Partnership	Yes	Yes	Yes
Hertfordshire Careers	No	Yes	Yes
Norfolk Careers	No	Yes	No
Suffolk Careers	No	Yes	No
South West
Learning Partnership West (Avon)	No	Yes	No
Cornwall and Devon Careers	Yes	Yes	No
Dorset Careers	No	Yes	No
Learning Partnership West (Gloucestershire)	No	Yes	No
Somerset Careers	Yes	Yes	No
Lifetime Careers Wiltshire	Yes	Yes	No
South East
CfBT Thames Careers	No	Yes	No
Buckingham Careers	Yes	Yes	No
Sussex Careers	No	Yes	No
VT Southern Careers	No	Yes	No
Kent Careers	No	Yes	No
Surrey Careers	No	Yes	No
VT West Sussex Careers	No	Yes	No
London
Lifetime Careers Brent and Harrow	No	Yes	No
Prospects Careers (North London)	No	Yes	No
Enterprise Careers	No	Yes	No
Futures Careers	No	Yes	No
London South Bank Careers	No	Yes	No
Prospects Careers (South London)	No	Yes	No
Search	No	Yes	No
CfBT West London Careers	No	Yes	No
Capital Careers	No	No	Yes

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Connexions Service

Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what proposals he has for the remuneration of learning mentors and Personal Advisers in the Connexions Service. [119266]

Mr. Wicks: Connexions Service Personal Advisers will be employed by partner organisations. Appropriate professional structures are being developed to support this emergent profession. As the role develops full account will be taken of the relevant structures, terms and conditions and labour market conditions in allied professions.

LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT

Northern Ireland Bar

Mr. McNamara: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, pursuant to the answer of 2 February 2000, Official Report, column 639W, on the Northern Ireland Bar, if he will (a) make a statement on dates of correspondence with the Lord Chief Justice and (b) place copies in the Library. [124104]

Mr. Lock: Since January 1997 there have been 16 letters between the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice about appointments to the Northern Ireland Senior Bar.

Two letters between the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice relating to appointments to the Senior Bar have already been disclosed in proceedings before the High Court in Northern Ireland (in the matter of an application by Seamus Treacy and Barry Macdonald) and will be placed in the Library. All of the remaining correspondence was conducted on a confidential basis and much of it relates to individuals' suitability for appointment to the Senior Bar or ministerial responsibility for such appointments. It will not, therefore, be placed in the Library.

Mr. McNamara: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, pursuant to the answer of 2 February 2000, Official Report, column 640W, on the Northern Ireland Bar, if he will make a statement on (a) consultation procedures, (b) responses made and (c) conclusions reached. [124103]

Mr. Lock: This related to the Report of the Committee (the Elliott Committee) established by the Bar Council in November 1996 to investigate and report on all aspects of the appointment of Senior Counsel in Northern Ireland. That Committee reported to the Bar Council the following year and a copy of the Report was provided to the Lord

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Chief Justice of Northern Ireland in May 1997. The Bar Council did not, however, provide a copy of the Report to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (who was responsible for matters relating to Queen's Counsel at that time) nor to the Lord Chancellor who subsequently assumed those responsibilities. Copies of the Report were, however, provided to the Northern Ireland Office and the Lord Chancellor by the Lord Chief Justice.

I am not in a position to know what responses the Bar Council received following publication of the Elliott Report. Although the Secretary of State and the Lord Chancellor had been invited to comment by the Elliott Committee as part of the Committee's original consultations, neither of them were invited to comment on the recommendations of the final report.

The Lord Chancellor is presently considering the effect of the judgment in the case brought by Seamus Treacy and Barry Macdonald. It would be premature to comment on the Declaration to be made by new Queen's Counsel and the Lord Chancellor's conclusions concerning the Elliott Report until final decisions have been reached concerning the issues raised in that case.

Special Advisers

Mr. Tyrie: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department on how many occasions since 24 March 1999 (a) departmental and (b) non- departmental special advisers have travelled abroad in an official capacity. [124120]

Mr. Lock: The Special Adviser in the Lord Chancellor's Department has not travelled overseas in an official capacity since being appointed.

Young Offenders

Mr. Tony Lloyd: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department what was the length of time taken to bring young offenders before the courts in each Metropolitan police authority area; and what were the corresponding figures for 1997. [123802]

Jane Kennedy: Information on the time taken in magistrates courts proceedings is collected by the Lord Chancellor's Department's Time Intervals Survey. The accompanying table shows the average number of days from charge or laying of information to first listing for Youth Court defendants in June 1997, June 1999 and February 2000. The only survey to cover all Youth Court defendants in 1997 was the June survey, and the most recent results available are from the February 2000 survey.

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Average number of days from charge or laying of information to first court listing for all criminal defendants dealt with at Youth Courts in Metropolitan police authority areas(19)

June 1997(20) June 1999 February 2000

Greater Manchester 30 23 12

Merseyside 30 23 8

Metropolitan(21) 38 20 18

Northumbria 31 20 13

South Yorkshire 29 14 9

West Midlands 29 16 13

West Yorkshire 29 24 18

	June 1997(20)	June 1999	February 2000
Greater Manchester	30	23	12
Merseyside	30	23	8
Metropolitan(21)	38	20	18
Northumbria	31	20	13
South Yorkshire	29	14	9
West Midlands	29	16	13
West Yorkshire	29	24	18

(19) From the start of 1999 analysis of the Time Intervals Survey has included certain longer cases than were previously excluded. In this table however the results presented are calculated on the pre-1999 basis for comparability. On the new basis of calculation the only figure in the table that would be different is the February 2000 figure for Merseyside which would be 9 days.

(20) In the June 1997 survey the sample sizes for Youth Court cases were less than 100 in Merseyside, South Yorkshire, the West Midlands and West Yorkshire and due to these small sample sizes these figures should be treated with added caution.

(21) Includes youths apprehended by City of London Police and proceeded against in London Youth Courts. Youth Courts are not held at the magistrates court in the City of London.

Source:

Lord Chancellor's Department Magistrates Courts Time Intervals Survey

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