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date	15/05/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	University of Chester Academies Trust
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria were applied when deciding which schools within the University of Chester Academies Trust should be rebrokered.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	144317
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2018 answer text <p>The department is working closely with University of Chester Academy Trust to re-broker four of its seven academies. They are University Primary Academy Weaverham, University Primary Academy Kidsgrove, University Academy Kidsgrove and University of Chester Academy Northwich. These academies were identified after carefully considering the following:</p><ul><li>Support already in place – these academies, were already receiving support and had the capacity to respond to additional support, with the potential to improve more quickly than the others following a re-brokerage.</li><li>Geography - the four academies identified for re-brokerage are located furthest away from University of Chester Academy Trust Head office and the University of Chester.</li><li>Financial position – the trust’s financial position was scrutinised as a whole, alongside that of each academy within the trust.</li><li>Impact on the wider trust - the department considered whether University of Chester Academy Trust would be able to continue operating as a three-school trust and how it could service its debts.</li></ul><p>Whilst the decision has been made to re-broker the above four academies, the department has made it clear to the trust that the academic and financial health of each academy remains its responsibility until the re-brokerage takes place.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 23/05/2018 08:39:01 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

850177

registered interest
date	26/02/2018
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, how many pupils were entitled to free school meals in (a) Ellesmere Port and Neston constituency and (b) England in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	129745
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text <p>The proportion of pupils eligible for and claiming free school meals is published at the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release,</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2017</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Data is not summarised by parliamentary constituency, but data for each school is available in the Underlying data: SFR28/2017 of the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release, contained in file ‘SFR28_2017_Schools_Pupils_UD’. The figures can be filtered by school phase, school type and parliamentary constituency.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information for earlier years (from 2010 onwards) can be found at</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 06/03/2018 09:38:53 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

829986

registered interest
date	24/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Public Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department spent on (a) art, (b) wine and (c) hospitality in each of the last seven financial years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	124714
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2018 answer text <p>The department has spent the following on hospitality in the last seven financial years:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>Amount (£)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>1,952.51</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>8,151.45</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>3,237.68</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>625.73</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>928.86</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>68.63</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>3,903.53</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The department does not hold specific data for how much has been spent on art and wine in the last seven financial years, only information on items that have been ordered from the government wine cellar (one occasion in 2014-15 totalling £113.05).</p><p><strong><br> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 02/02/2018 14:48:02 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders