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registered interest false more like this
date less than 2014-07-15more like thismore than 2014-07-15
answering body
Department for Education remove filter
answering dept id 60 more like this
answering dept short name Education more like this
answering dept sort name Education more like this
hansard heading Pupils: Disadvantaged more like this
house id 1 more like this
legislature
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pref label House of Commons more like this
question text To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress her Department has made on closing the attainment gap between pupils receiving free school meals and others; and if she will make a statement. more like this
tabling member constituency North Tyneside more like this
tabling member printed
Mrs Mary Glindon remove filter
uin 904972 more like this
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is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2014-07-21more like thismore than 2014-07-21
answer text <p>The gap between free school meals (FSM) pupils and others 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 FSM pupils and others achieving at least five A*-C grade GCSEs including English and mathematics has narrowed from 27.4 to 26.7 percentage points over the same period.</p><p> </p><p>The most recent Ofsted assessment is that school leaders are spending the pupil premium more effectively than at any time since the funding was introduced in 2011. Of 151 schools in the assessment, the attainment gap between free school meal pupils and their peers was closing, sometimes quite quickly, in all 86 schools judged by Ofsted to be good or outstanding. Gaps are also closing, albeit more slowly, in two thirds of the 50 sampled schools rated ‘requires improvement’.</p> more like this
answering member constituency Yeovil more like this
answering member printed Mr David Laws remove filter
question first answered
less than 2014-07-21T16:43:21.9782654Zmore like thismore than 2014-07-21T16:43:21.9782654Z
answering member
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label Biography information for Mr David Laws more like this
tabling member
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label Biography information for Mary Glindon more like this