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World Heritage Sites

Mr. Vaizey: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will take steps (a) to develop comprehensive visual studies and (b) to designate buffer zones in order to protect areas that hold World Heritage Site status from possible adverse impacts caused by the development of tall buildings. [143404]

Mr. Lammy: In March 2007 the Government published ‘Heritage Protection for the 21st Century’, which sets out proposals to strengthen and clarify protection for world heritage sites. These measures include a commitment to produce a planning circular which will clarify policy on world heritage sites including the use of buffer zones. This will be published for consultation later this year.

It is for each world heritage site steering group, in consultation with the relevant local authorities, to decide how best to protect the setting and outstanding universal value of the site in question. In some cases, a comprehensive visual study may be appropriate as a tool for achieving this. In some cases, also, buffer zones are one of the approaches which can be used for protecting the setting but they may not be appropriate for all world heritage sites.

Education and Skills

Adoption

John Hemming: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the target is for each local authority classified by relevant Government office for numbers of adoptions from care in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08. [142137]

Mr. Dhanda: No adoption targets have been set by central Government for individual local authorities, though some authorities have chosen to develop adoption targets as part of the local area agreement/local public service agreement process.

I refer the hon. Member to the reply given by my hon. Friend the Minister of State at the Department
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for Communities and Local Government on 13 June 2007, Official Report, column 1073W.

Local public service agreements are based entirely around reward targets. They have now been largely merged into local area agreements, which contain non-reward and reward targets, and typically run for three years. No local authority has a reward target specifically on adoptions which is dependent on performance in either 2006-07 or 2007-08. There is no detailed central record of non-reward targets in local area agreements, although the agreements themselves are available on the Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) website.

Apprenticeships

Mr. Willetts: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to the answer of 26 March 2007, Official Report, column 1272W, on apprentices, how many pupils in (a) apprenticeships and (b) advanced apprenticeships achieved separate technical certificates in each year since 1997. [131377]

Phil Hope [holding answer 16 April 2007]: Data on Apprenticeships and Advanced Apprenticeships are collected on the Learning and Skills Council’s (LSC) Individualised Learner Record (ILR). As reported in the answer of 26 March 2007, Official Report, column 1272W, this can record all of the individual learning
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aims that an Apprentice is undertaking as part of the framework, including those identified as separate technical certificates. However, although in principle it is possible to identify those learners who have achieved both the full framework and a technical certificate, the required information is not contained on the framework record which is used to calculate success rates. The analysis would require the creation of a new methodology for bringing the information on technical certificates forward from the raw data to the framework record. The undertaking of this work would require a significant resource in terms of analyst time and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. Additionally it is not possible to identify those learners who have already obtained the technical certificate through prior learning.

Children in Care

Mr. Vara: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) how many children were taken into care in each local authority in each of the last 10 years; [133507]

(2) when he will reply to question number 133507, on children in care, tabled by the hon. Member for North West Cambridgeshire on 18 April 2007. [143680]

Mr. Dhanda: The information requested is shown in the following table.

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Looked after children taken into care during the years ending 31 March 1997 to 2006( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) , England
Number
	1997( 2)	1998( 3)	1999( 3)	2000( 3)	2001 ( 3)	2002( 3)	2003( 3)	2004( 2)	2005( 2)	2006( 2)
England	6,100	7,100	7,200	7,700	7,000	7,400	8,100	7,500	7,700	7,600
North East	320	390	370	450	350	460	450	450	440	470
Darlington	10	35	20	15	30	25	35	20	20	20
Durham	35	40	80	75	35	60	100	100	80	65
Gateshead	30	45	45	40	30	25	55	25	25	55
Hartlepool	15	15	35	35	30	15	15	25	20	15
Middlesbrough	15	15	10	25	20	30	20	40	35	30
Newcastle upon Tyne	25	20	25	45	45	55	35	55	40	45
North Tyneside	25	25	15	35	30	20	15	20	15	35
Northumberland	25	50	20	20	20	60	60	45	55	45
Redcar and Cleveland	15	25	10	15	20	45	30	10	25	35
South Tyneside	30	40	30	20	30	35	40	40	35	45
Stockton-on-Tees	20	30	30	40	15	30	20	45	25	35
Sunderland	70	50	55	75	50	65	35	35	60	40
North West	1,000	1,130	1,170	1,310	1,070	1,260	1,200	1,260	1,330	1,260
Blackburn with Darwen	25	60	30	15	45	50	35	50	50	55
Blackpool	25	25	35	40	30	30	20	25	35	35
Bolton	35	50	35	40	20	60	30	55	70	45
Bury	15	15	30	30	30	45	25	45	45	30
Cheshire	35	50	65	55	60	25	55	35	45	55
Cumbria	45	60	85	90	60	135	105	65	50	60
Halton	10	10	15	40	20	25	10	15	15	15
Knowsley	20	10	20	35	25	15	20	35	45	20
Lancashire	175	185	130	150	105	145	200	160	210	205
Liverpool	90	60	120	135	115	75	55	80	40	50
Manchester	200	245	200	180	175	200	185	170	195	205
Oldham	25	35	30	50	45	40	40	45	55	55
Rochdale	20	30	45	60	15	30	35	60	40	30
Salford	75	60	50	100	70	55	65	70	75	70
Sefton	25	35	40	35	30	20	70	35	45	75
St. Helens	20	25	10	30	30	45	10	30	40	60
Stockport	35	25	80	55	65	55	45	60	55	40
Tameside	20	20	20	20	20	8 30	50	55	60	25
Trafford	20	40	15	25	45	40	25	20	25	15
Warrington	15	15	—	25	—	20	15	25	15	5
Wigan	45	40	60	40	20	35	30	70	50	50
Wirral	15	35	45	65	55	100	65	55	65	65
Yorkshire and the Humber	850	920	950	1,060	920	940	990	840	920	760
Barnsley	25	70	40	45	65	35	40	45	40	35
Bradford	80	70	120	110	130	115	110	115	120	90
Calderdale	30	20	20	35	20	35	30	30	35	20
Doncaster	65	60	50	110	45	80	50	70	85	80
East Riding of Yorkshire	45	40	25	40	25	35	35	10	50	30
Kingston Upon Hull, City of	95	145	90	55	45	70	95	40	45	60
Kirklees	45	40	45	85	50	50	50	60	55	55
Leeds	190	210	180	205	180	180	220	205	200	130
North East Lincolnshire	40	25	50	45	30	40	20	25	25	10
North Lincolnshire	15	15	45	10	—	20	35	25	20	25
North Yorkshire	45	35	50	45	55	35	60	35	55	45
Rotherham	40	40	30	55	70	35	55	45	65	40
Sheffield	65	60	100	130	125	125	110	55	60	70
Wakefield	60	85	75	35	30	65	70	55	35	50
York	20	—	25	40	30	20	15	25	20	20
East Midlands	460	590	640	610	610	550	550	490	470	450
Derby	60	50	45	45	50	20	40	30	30	35
Derbyshire	30	80	110	115	80	100	80	70	75	50
Leicester	45	70	50	80	105	70	70	80	70	65
Leicestershire	25	20	45	50	35	65	60	40	35	40
Lincolnshire	105	120	165	65	105	85	75	75	70	60
Northamptonshire	65	60	70	100	60	105	85	105	95	115
Nottingham	55	110	90	85	60	65	65	55	40	20
Nottinghamshire	70	85	70	55	105	40	70	30	50	60
Rutland	0	0	0	—	5	0	0	—	—	—
West Midlands	660	930	940	810	820	920	1,060	800	890	910
Birmingham	185	420	360	260	225	265	280	190	250	255
Coventry	50	40	50	75	55	55	55	60	70	65
Dudley	55	55	55	65	55	70	75	45	75	55
Herefordshire	15	25	35	30	20	15	20	30	15	10
Sandwell	60	40	65	50	60	70	85	80	55	80
Shropshire	5	5	10	10	15	40	25	15	35	15
Solihull	15	10	30	20	30	30	20	25	30	25
Staffordshire	60	65	60	80	70	65	105	80	85	125
Stoke-on-Trent	30	65	55	45	40	55	85	60	65	50
Telford and Wrekin	5	10	10	—	35	10	20	15	5	20
Walsall	25	50	50	50	45	75	110	55	55	70
Warwickshire	20	30	15	15	20	70	35	40	35	35
Wolverhampton	50	50	50	25	65	35	50	65	45	45
Worcestershire	80	55	100	90	90	65	90	45	65	50
East of England	640	620	580	710	630	690	680	680	690	650
Bedfordshire	15	30	30	45	50	70	45	50	25	15
Cambridgeshire	55	50	45	40	30	35	30	50	55	50
Essex	165	135	120	220	105	115	155	160	200	170
Hertfordshire	115	135	105	120	110	100	105	135	80	110
Luton	40	5	30	20	55	55	90	50	40	25
Norfolk	55	65	60	75	135	160	110	100	135	105
Peterborough	40	60	25	95	20	30	20	25	40	40
Southend-on-Sea	50	25	50	20	30	35	20	20	40	30
Suffolk	65	90	85	50	85	75	95	60	55	100
Thurrock	30	10	20	20	10	15	15	30	15	15
London	960	1,070	1,170	1,220	1,200	1,310	1,740	1,540	1,550	1,570
Inner London	440	530	570	600	590	660	920	860	790	810
Camden	30	30	45	40	60	85	95	85	60	75
City of London	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—
Hackney	30	40	60	50	45	20