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456954

registered interest
date	02/03/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that local authorities have the (a) financial and (b) other capacity to deliver free childcare to those people who are most deprived.
tabling member constituency	Bury South
tabling member printed	Mr Ivan Lewis
uin	29529
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2016 answer text <p>Since September 2014 around 40% of disadvantaged two-year-olds have been entitled to an early education place. In 2012 the Government contracted ‘Achieving 2-year-olds’ to support local authorities in expanding the two-year-old entitlement. This support is working, and data from the latest voluntary survey of local authorities shows that an estimated 182,000 children were funded during the seven week period in the autumn of 2015, as take-up of the entitlement has increased to 72% of eligible children. This is building on local authorities’ successful delivery of 15 hours of early education per week to all three- and four-year olds, with 99% of four-year-olds and 94% of three-year-olds taking up a place.</p><p>The Government is investing in childcare at record levels, and total Government spend on childcare will increase from £5 billion in 2015-16 to over £6 billion by 2019-20. This includes almost £4 billion for the current free entitlement for three- and four-year-olds, disadvantaged two-year-olds and the early years pupil premium for three- and four-year-olds, as well as funding for the extended entitlement for working parents of three- and four-year-olds. The funding also includes £300 million for a significant uplift to the rate paid for the two, three and four-year-old entitlements, including for children from deprived backgrounds.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 09/03/2016 10:45:34 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	441 label Biography information for Mr Ivan Lewis

457080

registered interest
date	02/03/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Migrants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children are being supported under section 17 of the Children Act 1989 where their parents have no recourse to public funds.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
uin	29517
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2016 answer text <p>Information on children supported under section 17 of the Children Act 1989 is published in the annual Children in Need Census statistical first release. This data collection does not identify the number of children supported where their parents have no recourse to public funds.</p><p>Information in the form requested is therefore not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 11/03/2016 17:32:08 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith

456469

registered interest
date	01/03/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	National Curriculum Tests
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has consulted teachers' unions on implementation of the new assessments at Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2.
tabling member constituency	Blaydon
tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
uin	29198
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2016 answer text <p>Throughout the introduction of our important reforms to primary assessment, we have worked closely with teachers, head teachers and their union representatives.</p><p>In addition to regular discussion between teacher unions and officials, we launched two public consultations ahead of the changes: one on primary assessment and accountability from July to October 2013 and another on teacher assessment arrangements from October to December 2014. We received a large volume of diverse feedback, including from teachers unions, and this was given proper consideration in developing the new arrangements.</p><p>We continue to listen to the concerns of the profession as the details of the new arrangements are finalised. On 9 February, I met Russell Hobby, General Secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, to discuss teacher assessment arrangements. I subsequently wrote to Mr Hobby to summarise our discussion and address some of his concerns; that letter was published on 19 February and can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teacher-assessments-letter-from-nick-gibb-to-the-naht" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teacher-assessments-letter-from-nick-gibb-to-the-naht</a>. I am also due to meet representatives from the Association of Teachers and Lecturers and the National Union of Teachers in the coming weeks.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 09/03/2016 15:59:38 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson

456470

registered interest
date	01/03/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	National Curriculum Tests
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what evidence her Department holds that increasing the national expectations in writing from 4b to 5c will improve the outcomes in writing for children at the end of Key Stage 2.
tabling member constituency	Blaydon
tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
uin	29199
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2016 answer text <p>The Government has set a more a challenging expected standard for assessment at the end of Key Stage 2 (KS2) to reflect the high expectations set by the new national curriculum. The curriculum standards align with the highest performing jurisdictions internationally and have been raised because too many children who met the old expected standard at the end of primary school did not go on to achieve at least five good GCSEs.</p><p>The new expected standard is not, however, equivalent to the old level 5c for KS2 English writing or any other subject. While there will be no need to make comparison to the old national curriculum levels once the new system is established, we have been clear that the new expected standard is broadly equivalent to 4b.</p><p>The Standards and Testing Agency published exemplification materials for KS2 writing in early February to support teachers in making their teacher assessment judgements. These were developed in consultation with a number of teacher panels and are real examples of work by pupils currently in year 6. The materials show two examples of pupils assessed as working at the expected standard: one shows work that has met the expected standard and is broadly equivalent to the old 4b, while another shows work at the higher end of the expected standard. We have published these two different examples to show the breadth of competence covered by ‘meeting the expected standard’. I have asked the Standards and Testing Agency to issue further guidance to schools shortly to clarify the assessment arrangements and eliminate any misunderstandings.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 09/03/2016 16:00:31 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson

456497

registered interest
date	01/03/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Prime Minister's oral contribution of 10 February 2016, Official Report, column 1576, what the evidential basis is for the statement that there are 47,500 fewer pupils in overcrowded schools than in 2010.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Tristram Hunt
uin	29204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>The department collects information from each local authority on the number of schools, the number of places in those schools and the number of pupils on roll through the annual school capacity survey (SCAP). The data is published annually, and the main tables contain national and local authority level data. The latest published data, relating to the position as reported by local authorities at May 2014, can be found on GOV.UK at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-capacity-academic-year-2013-to-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-capacity-academic-year-2013-to-2014</a></p><p>Previous years are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-capacity" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-capacity</a></p><p>In both the 2014 and 2010 data publications, the table below shows capacity in state funded primary and secondary schools. In 2010 there were a total of 97,230 primary and secondary pupils in excess of capacity. In 2014 this had reduced to 49,717, meaning that 47,513 fewer pupils were excess of capacity in 2014 than in 2010.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Number of pupils in excess of school capacity</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>State-funded primary schools</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>41,680</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>State-funded secondary schools</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>55,550</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>State-funded primary schools</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>30,737</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>State-funded secondary schools</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>18,980</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>State-funded primary schools</p></td><td><p>Change 2010 to 2014</p></td><td><p>10,943</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>State-funded secondary schools</p></td><td><p>Change 2010 to 2014</p></td><td><p>36,570</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong> <strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Change 2010 to 2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>47,513 </strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em> </em></p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 04/03/2016 11:20:46 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4111 label Biography information for Tristram Hunt

456521

registered interest
date	01/03/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Disadvantaged
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential effect on disadvantaged students of the Education Funding Agency discontinuing funding for summer school programmes.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	29050
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2016 answer text <p>The recent Spending Review confirmed that we will protect the pupil premium at its current rates for the duration of this Parliament, so that schools will continue to attract additional funding for their disadvantaged pupils. To achieve this settlement for schools, we have had to make difficult decisions about a number of smaller grants. The grant for the summer schools programme will therefore not continue next financial year. Secondary schools can continue to run a summer school if they wish to, and will be able to use their pupil premium allocation to fund places for their disadvantaged pupils.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 08/03/2016 14:39:39 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

456092

registered interest
date	29/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2016 to Question 25802, for what reasons her Department does not provide SEN or disability breakdowns in the revised A-level and other level 3 results in England statistical first release.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	28836
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2016 answer text <p>At present, this statistical first release only publishes data for A level and other Level 3 qualifications. Overall, the number of pupils with SEN and disabilities taking qualifications at this level is limited. Therefore, we have not deemed it appropriate to publish separate breakdowns for these groups given the small numbers involved. We will review this decision for future publications.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 08/03/2016 15:20:45 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

456094

registered interest
date	29/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Runaway Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) looked after children went missing and (b) incidents there were of looked after children going missing from their placement there were for each (i) type of placement and (ii) age of child in each of the last five years; and whether each such child who went missing was in a distant placement.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Ann Coffey
uin	28975
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2016 answer text <p>Figures on the number of children who had a missing incident in the year ending 31 March 2015, and the number of incidents by placement type and age, are attached. Data for earlier years was only collected for children who were missing for a period of at least 24 hours. Information on the distance of the placement from which a looked after child went missing is not readily available.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 08/03/2016 15:15:08 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson attachment 1 file name 28975 Attachment.xlsx title 28975 - attachments
tabling member	458 label Biography information for Ann Coffey

456096

registered interest
date	29/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many local authority maintained nurseries there were in (a) London, (b) Brent, (c) Camden and (d) Hampstead and Kilburn constituency in each year since 2009-10; how many staff were employed in those nurseries in each of those years; and how much funding was allocated to those nurseries in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	28961
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2016 answer text <p>According to data at January each year, the number of local authority maintained nurseries in each area is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Number of Local Authority Maintained Nurseries</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London Region</p></td><td><p>80</p></td><td><p>81</p></td><td><p>80</p></td><td><p>80</p></td><td><p>80</p></td><td><p>80</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Brent Local Authority</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Camden Local Authority</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hampstead and Kilburn Parliamentary Constituency</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Local authorities determine the allocations made to different early years providers, including maintained nursery schools. The Early Years Funding Benchmarking Tool provides information at local authority level on their planned funding for different types of early years settings, including maintained nursery schools. This is available for financial year 2015-16 at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-benchmarking-tool" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-benchmarking-tool</a></p><p>Information for 2014-15 is available at: <a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20150603151716/https:/www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-benchmarking-tool" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20150603151716/https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-benchmarking-tool</a></p><p>Information for 2013-14 is available at: <a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140321072700/https:/www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-benchmarking-tool" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140321072700/https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-benchmarking-tool</a></p><p>Information prior to 2013-14 is not available.</p><p>Data regarding full-time equivalent and head count number of workforce staff in service in local authority maintained nursery schools in London region, Brent local authority, Camden local authority, Hampstead and Kilburn parliamentary constituency and England, November 2010 to 2014 are recorded in the School Workforce Census. The figures for 2010 to 2014 are available on GOV.UK at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-workforce" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-workforce</a></p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 08/03/2016 13:47:04 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

455715

registered interest
date	26/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Social Workers: Graduates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Prime Minister's announcement of 14 December 2015, We will not stand by - failing children's services will be taken over, how the Government plans to spend the £100 million to be invested in attracting more high-calibre graduates into social work.
tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
uin	28764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2016 answer text <p>This Government is investing in Step Up to Social Work and Frontline, our fast-track graduate entry programmes, to attract future high-calibre graduates into social work. We aim to train over 3,000 new social workers through fast-track schemes over the Spending Review period.</p><p>The cost for the continuation of the Frontline pilot from April 2016 – end March 2019 is estimated at around £10m.</p><p>In October 2015, Government issued a tender for a national fast-track social work programme to succeed the Frontline pilot. Funds will be allocated for delivery once the contract is confirmed. Costs will vary according to actual numbers recruited.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 03/03/2016 15:13:56 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon