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438212

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Working Hours
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will commission or undertake a review into whether school teachers' working hours are excessive; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	20064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2015 answer text <p>Removing unnecessary workload for teachers is a priority for this government. We are commissioning a biennial survey to track teacher workload, starting in spring 2016.</p><br /><p>This is an important part of our action plan, published in our <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/415874/Government_Response_to_the_Workload_Challenge.pdf" target="_blank">response to the Workload Challenge survey</a>, to remove unnecessary teacher workload. In total, 43,832 people accessed the survey and 20,533 of those provided substaitive answers to one or more of the open questions. We have set up three review groups to address the three biggest issues emerging from the Workload Challenge – ineffective <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/teacher-workload-marking-policy-review-group" target="_blank">marking</a>, use of <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/teacher-workload-planning-and-resources-review-group" target="_blank">planning and resources,</a> and <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/teacher-workload-data-management-review-group" target="_blank">data management</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 17/12/2015 17:01:06 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

438213

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Class Sizes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase the ratio of teachers to students in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	19914
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2015 answer text <p>The number of teachers in our schools is at an all-time high. There are now 454,900 full time equivalent (FTE) teachers, up 5,200 from last year and 13,100 from 2010.</p><br /><p>Pupil teacher ratios (PTRs) remain low in both primary and secondary schools and have stayed relatively stable despite the growing number of pupils. A time series of the latest pupil teacher ratios can be found online at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2014" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2014</a></p><br /><p>More information can be found in the published TSM model and model user guide, which is available online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teacher-supply-model" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teacher-supply-model</a>.</p><br /> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 17/12/2015 17:03:14 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

437134

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Cybercrime: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the page on the National Crime Agency website entitled, Cyber crime: Preventing young people from getting involved, what discussions she has had with the Home Secretary on interest in coding and possession of independent learning material on computing being considered possible indicators of risk of involvement in cyber crime.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	19545
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2015 answer text <p>The Secretary of State holds discussions on a range of topics with Cabinet Ministers.</p><br /><p>The National Crime Agency (NCA) has recently published guidance on preventing young people from becoming involved in cyber-crime: <a href="http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/crime-threats/cyber-crime/cyber-crime-preventing-young-people-from-getting-involved" target="_blank">www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/crime-threats/cyber-crime/cyber-crime-preventing-young-people-from-getting-involved</a></p><p><br></p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 17/12/2015 17:16:25 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier

436731

registered interest
date	09/12/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Truancy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many parents have taken their children off the school roll after being threatened with prosecution for their child truanting in (a) academies and (b) local authority schools in the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	19292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not hold information on the number of parents that have taken their children off the school roll after being threatened with prosecution for their child truanting.</p><br /><p>The department holds information on penalty notices for unauthorised absence at local authority level. The most recently published information is available in the “Parental responsibility measures: academies year 2012 to 2013”[1] report.</p><br /><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/parental-responsibility-measures-academic-year-2012-to-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/parental-responsibility-measures-academic-year-2012-to-2013</a></p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 16/12/2015 17:11:43 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

436732

registered interest
date	09/12/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Japanese Language
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans the Government has to increase the study of Japanese in schools.
tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
uin	19314
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2015 answer text <p>The government supports the efforts of the Japan Foundation to help schools teaching Japanese. Since September 2014, maintained primary schools in England must teach a modern or ancient foreign language to pupils at key stage 2 (ages 7 to 11). Schools can choose which language or languages to teach and should enable pupils to make substantial progress in one language by the end of primary school.</p><p>The government took action in 2010 to halt the decline in the number of school children taking language GCSEs by including it within the English Baccalaureate. This has had a positive effect on the take up of languages in schools. The proportion of the cohort in state funded schools entered for a modern foreign language has risen from 40 per cent in 2010 to 49 per cent in 2015. The government’s goal is that, in time, at least 90 per cent of pupils enter GCSEs in the EBacc subjects of English, maths, science, humanities and languages.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 14/12/2015 14:42:28 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

436226

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education: Disadvantaged
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase educational attainment among white boys from low-income socio-economic groups.
tabling member constituency	Calder Valley
tabling member printed	Craig Whittaker
uin	19090
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>We are determined to deliver educational excellence everywhere so that every child, regardless of background, reaches their potential. The latest statistics show that more white boys eligible for FSM are achieving the expected standard in reading, writing and mathematics at the end of primary school, rising from 51 per cent in 2012 to 59 per cent in 2015.</p><br /><p>It is unacceptable, however, that fewer than one in four white boys eligible for free school meals (FSM) achieves the expected standard at the end of secondary school.</p><br /><p>Through the pupil premium, the government is providing additional targeted money, worth £2.5 billion in this year, to help schools support their disadvantaged pupils and improve their progress and attainment.</p><br /><p>We are raising expectations further for all pupils. We are determined to ensure that every child masters the basics of literacy and numeracy at primary school, and that those who do not will re-sit the tests at secondary school. We are also committed to introducing an expectation that every child who is able studies the EBacc combination of subjects – maths, English, history or geography, a language and the sciences - up until the age of 16.</p><br /><p>We are also introducing reforms that will further help ensure high standards throughout every child’s education and tackle entrenched underperformance, particularly amongst schools serving deprived communities.</p><br /><p>The National Teaching Service (NTS) will deploy the country’s best teachers and leaders to underperforming schools that struggle to attract and retain the professionals they need. 1,500 outstanding teachers will be part of NTS by 2020.</p><br /><p>The introduction of the national funding formula for schools will ensure that funding is transparently and fairly linked to children’s needs, ending the unfair system where children from identical disadvantaged circumstances attract significantly different levels of funding, simply because of where they live.</p><br /><p>We have also made a commitment to double the percentage of disadvantaged pupils accessing higher education by 2020, and this will include a focus on children from disadvantaged backgrounds.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 16/12/2015 17:33:34 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	3940 label Biography information for Craig Whittaker

435838

registered interest
date	07/12/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	History: Curriculum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of the history curriculum in state schools is comprised of British history.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	18975
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2015 answer text <p>All young people should, as part of a broad and balanced education, acquire a firm grasp of the history of the country in which they live, and learn how different events and periods relate to each other. That is why the history curriculum, taught in maintained schools for key stages 1 to 3 from September 2014, sets out, within a clear chronological framework, the core knowledge that will enable pupils to know and understand the history of Britain from its first settlers to the development of the institutions that help to define our national life today.</p><p>The new GCSE content criteria require a minimum of 40 per cent British history, an increase from the 25 per cent required under the previous GCSE. The A level content criteria require a minimum of 20 per cent British history. The new GCSE will be taught from 2016, with first examination in 2018. The new A level has been taught since September 2015, with first examination in 2017.</p><p>Alongside geography, history is one of the two subjects in the humanities pillar of the EBacc. The EBacc consists of the core group of subjects that provide a rigorous academic education and the government’s goal is that, in time, 90 per cent of pupils will enter GCSEs in the EBacc subjects. The numbers studying GCSE history had been stagnant for a decade before the introduction of the EBacc. With the introduction of the EBac performance measures the proportion of the cohort entered for history in state fundedschools has risen from 30 per cent of pupils in 2010 to a provisional figure of 40 per cent in 2015.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 14/12/2015 14:52:38 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

434206

registered interest
date	04/12/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Spanish Language: GCSE
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils took a GCSE in Spanish in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Beverley and Holderness
tabling member printed	Graham Stuart
uin	18794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2015 answer text <p>Information on the total entries for GCSEs in Spanish is published at national level as part of the “GCSE and equivalent results in England” statistical first release [1]<sup>,[2],[3],[4],[5]</sup></p><br /><p>[1] 2014/15 provisional table can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/467610/SFR37_2015_Subject_Timeseries.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/467610/SFR37_2015_Subject_Timeseries.xls</a>. (Years: 2009/10 - 2014/15)</p><p>[2] 2008/09 revised table 8 can be found at: <a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130401151655/http:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/allstatistics/a00196306/ks4-results-in-england-2008-09-(revised)" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130401151655/http:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/allstatistics/a00196306/ks4-results-in-england-2008-09-(revised)</a>. (Year: 2008/09)</p><p>[3] 2007/08 revised table 10 can be found at: <a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130401151655/http:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/allstatistics/a00195931/gcse-and-equivalent-results-in-england" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130401151655/http:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/allstatistics/a00195931/gcse-and-equivalent-results-in-england</a>. (Year: 2007/08)</p><p>[4] 2006/07 revised table 10 can be found at: <a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130401151655/http:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/allstatistics/a00195692/dcsf-gcse-and-equivalent-examination-results-in-en" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130401151655/http:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/allstatistics/a00195692/dcsf-gcse-and-equivalent-examination-results-in-en</a>. (Year: 2006/07)</p><p>[5] 2005/06 revised table 10 can be found at: <a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130401151655/http:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/allstatistics/a00195387/gcse-and-equivalent-examination-results-in-england" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130401151655/http:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/allstatistics/a00195387/gcse-and-equivalent-examination-results-in-england</a>. (Year: 2005/06)</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 09/12/2015 15:28:25 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart

434207

registered interest
date	04/12/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Spanish Language
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans the Government has to increase the number of students studying Spanish in schools.
tabling member constituency	Beverley and Holderness
tabling member printed	Graham Stuart
uin	18795
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2015 answer text <p>Since September 2014, maintained primary schools in England must teach a modern or ancient foreign language to pupils at key stage 2 (ages 7 to 11). According to the annual language trends surveys conducted by the Centre for British Teachers, 20 per cent of primary schools taught Spanish in 2014, up from 16 per cent in 2012. In order to support the new curriculum, the government is funding nine projects across the country providing continued professional development for primary and secondary teachers, including training and resources for the teaching of Spanish.</p><br /><p>The government took action in 2010 to halt the decline in the number of school children taking language GCSEs by introducing the English Baccalaureate. This has had a positive effect on the take up of languages in schools. The proportion of the cohort in state funded schools entered for a modern foreign language has risen from 40 per cent in 2010 to 49 per cent in 2015. Over the same period, there has been a 46 per cent rise in the number of entries for Spanish GCSE in schools in England.</p><br /><p>The government’s goal is that, in time, at least 90 per cent of pupils enter GCSEs in the EBacc subjects of English, maths, science, humanities and languages.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 09/12/2015 17:06:46 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart

433950

registered interest
date	03/12/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teachers or trainee teachers received each of the scholarship and bursaries for teacher training courses in each subject in each of the last four years.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	18678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>Initial teacher training (ITT) bursaries of varying amounts are available to eligible trainees, depending on the academic year in which they undertake their ITT, the subject in which they are training to teach and their highest relevant academic award. The amounts and eligible subjects change each year based on assessment of need informed by the targets and past performance.</p><br /><p>Scholarships are awarded to those trainees who have gone through an additional selection procedure over and above that of their chosen ITT provider. These were available in 2012/13 in physics, and from 2013/14 in chemistry, computing, maths and physics.</p><br /><p>The table below shows a breakdown of the total number of trainees who have received training bursaries and scholarships (where relevant) over the last full four academic years, 2011/12, 2012/13, 20/13/14 and 2014/15.</p><p><br></p><p>Table 1: Summary of the number of trainees that received training bursaries or scholarships in academic years 2011/12, 2012/13, 2013/14 and 2014/15</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Academic year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Bursary</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Scholarship</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>6348</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p><strong>6,348</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>16759</p></td><td><p>87</p></td><td><p><strong>16,846</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>17434</p></td><td><p>201</p></td><td><p><strong>17,635</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>16359</p></td><td><p>422</p></td><td><p><strong>16,781</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br></p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 08/12/2015 17:28:38 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin