Surveys

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list each information, promotional, marketing and opinion survey contract, with

Description of contract	Date	Type	Value (£)
Evaluation of Schools Update Newsletter	May—June 1997	Qualitative	22,407
Research into Design and Content of the National Record of Achievement	June 1997	Qualitative	35,720
Analysis of the Responses to the Excellence in Schools White Paper	July 1997	Quantitative	31,150
Consultation
Secondary Schools Performance Tables Development Research	September—November 1997	Desk Research	4,460
Research into Jobcentre Corporate Identity	September 1997	Desk Research	4,200
Research into New Jobcentre Corporate Identity	September 1997	Qualitative	43,908
Learning Entitlement Development Research	October 1997	Qualitative	13,137
Research to Explore the Reactions of Unemployed and Jobcentre Staff and	November 1997	Qualitative	43,152
Managers to the New Deal
Research to Explore Reactions to the New Deal Among Partners	November 1997	Qualitative	21,004
Student Support Advertising Campaign Awareness	December 1997	Quantitative	15,969
Research Among Students and Employers to the Government's proposals for	December 1997	Qualitative	32,736
16–19 Qualifications
Employment Service Values Staff Survey	December 1997	Data Processing	13,484
Career Development Loans Direct Mail Research	December 1997	Qualitative	16,650
New Deal Campaign Development Research	December 1997	Qualitative	26,003
Analysis of the Responses to the Consultation on the Government's Proposals	January 1998	Quantitative	27,262
16–19 Qualifications
Research Among Mature Students to the Government's Proposed Changes to	January 1998	Quantitative	9,336
Tuition Fees
Research into Levels of Awareness of the National Training Organisations	January 1998	Qualitative	19,693
Among Employers, Partners, and TECs
New Deal Leaflet Creative Development Research	January 1998	Qualitative	20,398
Careers Service Corporate Identity Research	January 1998	Qualitative	17,590
DfEE Website Evaluation	February—March 1998	Qualitative	37,530
Disability Discrimination Act Small Employers Consultation Analysis	February—March 1998	Quantitative	19,881
Disability Discrimination Act Creative Development Research	February 1998	Qualitative	14,335
Disability Discrimination Act Research Among General Public	February 1998	Quantitative	17,202
Research Among Potential Target Audience into Perceived Need for Individual	February 1998	Qualitative	17,496
Learning Accounts
National Traineeships Creative Development Research	February 1998	Qualitative	14,300
Disability Discrimination Act Information Line Research	March 1998	Quantitative	16,685
Careers Service Publications Research	March 1998	Qualitative	34,463
Career Development Loans Campaign Response Research	March 1998	Quantitative	12,500
Career Development Loans Awareness Research	March 1998	Quantitative	12,500

its value, concluded by his Department and its agencies for the years (a) 1997–98, (b) 1998–99, (c) 1999–2000, (d) 2000–2001 and (e) 2001–2002. [32014]

Details of each information, promotional, marketing and opinion survey contract concluded by the Department, through the Central Office of Information, for the year 1997–98 are as follows:

Information on research commissioned by my Department's agencies is not held centrally. The information requested for the years (b) 1998–99, (c) 1999–2000, (d) 2000–2001 and (e) 2001–2002 is not currently available.

Volume 308: debated on Friday 13 March 1998