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167461

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date	02/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Premium
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools have received the pupil premium to date; and what assessment her Department has made of the results and performance of that policy.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	216825
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>We are not able, in the time available, to assess how many schools have received the pupil premium in total since its introduction in 2011 as this data is not held in the format requested. However, in the 2013-14 financial year, 19,986 schools attracted funding due to having one or more pupils who had been registered for free school meals at any point in the previous six years. There were also 1,349 schools (maintained special schools, special academies, pupil referral units (PRUs) or Alternative Provision academies) for which the local authority received any pupil premium funding due, in line with the conditions of grant. These figures do not take into account schools receiving pupil premium plus for looked after children, as this funding was also allocated to local authorities to distribute.</p><p> </p><p>The gap in pupils achieving Level 4 or above in key stage 2 reading and mathematics has narrowed from 19.3 to 16.2 percentage points between 2011 and 2013. The gap in pupils achieving at least five good GCSEs including English and mathematics has narrowed from 27.4 to 26.7 percentage points over the same period.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst it is too soon to see significant evidence of the impact of the policy on the national attainment statistics, our assessments of the policy show an improving picture. Ofsted concurs with this view, and in its most recent report of July 2014 stated that schools are using the funding more effectively than ever before to raise the attainment of their disadvantaged pupils, and that gaps in many schools are beginning to close, in some cases quite quickly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 05/12/2014 10:51:53 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

167462

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Veterans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many service leavers have (a) applied to and (b) been accepted onto the Troops to Teachers programme to date.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	216826
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>There are currently two cohorts for the Troops to Teachers programme. The first cohort started training in January 2014 with 41 trainees; the second started in September 2014 with 54 trainees. Cohort one attracted 982 applications, cohort 2 attracted 250. In total 1,232 Service Leavers have applied for the Troops to Teachers programme. The numbers of applications dropped between cohorts because we improved the process to eliminate applications from those who are ineligible.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 05/12/2014 10:50:15 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

167465

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Grammar Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the amount of funding available for a sixth form pupil at a grammar school in (a) 2010, (b) 2005 and (c) the latest date for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Faversham and Mid Kent
tabling member printed	Sir Hugh Robertson
uin	216868
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>In the academic year 2014/15 the base rate of funding for all full time 16-19 students funded by the Department for Education (including grammar school sixth forms) was £4,000. This is set out in the ‘Funding rates and formula’ guidance: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/funding-guidance-for-young-people-2013-to-2014-rates-and-formula" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/funding-guidance-for-young-people-2013-to-2014-rates-and-formula</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The funding allocation for each institution includes factors that allocate additional funding for disadvantaged students, the nature of the learning programme, and area costs. As these factors are particular to each institution, the average per student will differ in each institution.</p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to give an average for grammar schools, as the Department does not identify them as a separate category from school sixth forms.</p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to give figures for 2005 and 2010 that are comparable to 2014/15, as there were significant differences in the funding systems used in those years.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 05/12/2014 10:53:06 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	1415 label Biography information for Sir Hugh Robertson

167467

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Supply Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much was spent on supply teachers in England in the academic years (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12 and (d) 2012-13.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	216931
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>The available data for local authority maintained schools is shown in Table 1. Data for the 2013-14 financial year will be published on 11 December and will be available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-local-authority-school-finance-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-local-authority-school-finance-data</a>.</p><p>Table 1</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="8" rowspan="2"><p><strong>School expenditure on supply teachers <sup>(1)</sup> in Local Authority maintained nursery, primary, secondary and special schools </strong></p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Coverage: England</strong></p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Years: 2009-10 to 2012-13</strong></p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial years</p></td><td> </td><td><p>School expenditure on supply teachers £000s</p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td> </td><td><p>£1,043,302</p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td> </td><td><p>£1,049,209</p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td> </td><td><p>£917,309</p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td> </td><td><p>£893,389</p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="3"> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="10"><p><em>Source: Section 251 Outturn (9-10, 10-11 and 11-12), Consistent </em></p><p><em>Financial Reporting survey (12-13)</em></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="10"><p>(1) Includes supply teaching staff, agency supply teaching staff and supply teacher insurance.</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p>The available data for academies is shown in Table 2. The department does not hold data on academies’ income and expenditure before the 2010/11 academic year. Data for the 2013/14 academic year for academies will be available in the summer of 2015.</p><p>Table 2</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6" rowspan="2"><p><strong>School expenditure on supply teachers <sup>(1)(2)</sup> in academies<sup>(3)(4)</sup></strong></p></td><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Coverage: England</strong></p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Years: 2010/11 to 2012/13</strong></p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Academic years</p></td><td> </td><td><p>School expenditure on supply teachers £000s</p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td> </td><td><p>£31,228</p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td> </td><td><p>£101,573</p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td> </td><td><p>£176,384</p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="9"><p><em>Source: Academies Accounts Returns</em></p></td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="10"><p>(1) 2010/11 data includes salaries and wages for supply staff only.</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="10" rowspan="5"><p>(2) 2011/12 and 2012/13 data includes salaries and wages for supply teaching staff employed directly by the school, premiums paid to insurers for supply teacher cover and includes costs paid to an agency for teaching staff that have been brought in to cover teacher absence. Includes cover of any period and for all reasons including illness, absence for training, and any leave.</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="10"><p>(3) Figures include only those academies that were open for the whole of the respective reporting year.</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="10"><p>(4) Academies report finance data on an academic year basis, running September to August.</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><br>The information is provided in separate tables for academies and local authority maintained schools since there are some important differences between the two data collections. In particular, data for local authority maintained school funding covers financial years, whereas academy school funding data covers academic years.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 05/12/2014 10:55:03 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

166978

registered interest
date	01/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Buildings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when her Department expects to publish the data gathered through the Property Data Survey Programme.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	216569
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>The Property Data Survey Programme, which carried out high-level condition surveys of the school estate in England, completed its last survey in July 2014. To ensure that the data is sufficiently robust before it is put to any further use, I asked officials to share the data we had gathered with schools and responsible bodies and rectify any significant variances in the dataset.</p><p> </p><p>The deadline for feedback from schools and responsible bodies has recently passed and officials are presently considering where we need to update the survey information. Once this is completed, we will be giving further consideration to future publication of the data.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 05/12/2014 14:50:14 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

166980

registered interest
date	01/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Headteachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many participants there were in each recent intake of the National Professional Qualification for Headship programme; and what guidance is issued to participants in that programme on conducting their first round of monitoring and evaluating teachers in a new school.
tabling member constituency	Gravesham
tabling member printed	Mr Adam Holloway
uin	216574
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>In financial year 2012/13, 1202 participants commenced the NPQH programme. In financial year 2013/14, 1140 participants commenced the NPQH programme.</p><p>In the first half of the financial year 2014/15, 550 participants commenced the NPQH programme, there is a second application round opening on 11 December 2014. Further information can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/national-professional-qualification-for-headship-npqh#apply" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/national-professional-qualification-for-headship-npqh#apply</a>.</p><p> </p><p>NCTL licensed the delivery of leadership development, including the National Professional Qualification for Headteachers to School led consortiums in 2012. The qualifications are developed around a leadership curriculum combining a range of essential and elective modules. All qualifications have a rigorous final assessment process.</p><p> </p><p>There are no specific centrally-generated materials on the NPQH for participants on conducting their first round of monitoring and evaluating teachers in a new school. However the entry assessment process, which is administered by a commissioned provider, contains a leadership competence on “Holding to account”. Both this and the performance management of staff and appraisal are covered generically within the programme.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the NPQH Essential modules, ‘Leading an effective school’ and ‘Leading and improving teaching’, which are mandatory, include content on teacher quality and standards, monitoring and evaluating teaching and performance management/appraisal. Licensees can enhance the modules by including additional material.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 05/12/2014 14:59:50 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	1522 label Biography information for Adam Holloway

166981

registered interest
date	01/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Asbestos
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to publish the report on her Department's review of asbestos policy in schools.
tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
tabling member printed	Annette Brooke
uin	216666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department is working with stakeholders, experts and the Health and Safety Executive to consider the latest evidence, and determine appropriate policy responses. We will provide an update on the management of asbestos in schools in the new year.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 05/12/2014 14:55:41 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	1431 label Biography information for Annette Brooke

166983

registered interest
date	01/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reasons her Department has decided to refund VAT costs for schools and academies.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	216640
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text <p>Local authority maintained schools are able to recover VAT costs because they are part of local government and their expenditure is regarded as the expenditure of the local authority. Local authorities as a whole are able to recover VAT costs because they are subsidiary tax-raising authorities within the United Kingdom.</p><p> </p><p>When schools move outside local authority control to become academies they are no longer covered by this regime. Since 2011, legislation has been in force that ensures that in this respect academies are treated in the same way as maintained schools. Academies can recover directly from HMRC the VAT which they incur on goods and services<em>.</em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 04/12/2014 15:50:57 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

166984

registered interest
date	01/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which local authorities have signed up to the online free school meal eligibility checking service.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	216678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>All 152 English local authorities are signed up to the Eligibility Checking System (ECS).</p><p> </p><p>The ECS can be used to determine entitlement to both free school meals and free early education for two-year-olds, and the pattern of checks and frequency of use is different for each local authority.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 05/12/2014 14:54:44 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

166987

registered interest
date	01/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) full-time and (b) part-time teachers were working in publicly-funded schools at the beginning of the year and not working in schools the following year in the last 12 months for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Gravesham
tabling member printed	Mr Adam Holloway
uin	216544
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text <p>There were 26,850 full-time teachers and 16,190 part-time teachers in service in publicly-funded schools in England in March 2010 who were not similarly employed in March 2011. These figures include teachers who retired between March 2010 and March 2011.</p><p><br>These figures are the latest available. The information is provisional and sourced from the Database of Teacher Records.</p><p> </p><p>The information is published in table C1 from the additional tables in the Statistical First Release ‘School Workforce in England, November 2012’ and is available at the following web link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2012" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2012</a></p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 04/12/2014 18:15:03 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	1522 label Biography information for Adam Holloway