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522906

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date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Diesel Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they intend to take about the reported proposal by Dean Trust to educate children with special educational needs and disability who have been admitted to one of its schools at another of its schools six miles away.
tabling member printed	Lord Lucas
uin	HL457
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2016 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for drawing up Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) and are responsible for making sure the special educational provision set out in them is delivered, including admission to the named school. Once named in a final EHCP, a school is obliged to admit the child or young person. Should a school fail to meet this duty the Department can direct them to do so.</p><p>We are aware of concerns raised by parents and others about The Dean Trust’s proposal that pupils due for admission in September 2016 who have an EHCP which names Ashton on Mersey School should be educated at Broadoak School. We are determined to support the parties to satisfactorily resolve the situation regarding the currently affected pupils as well as in the longer term, and ensuring that the legal rights of families are enforced. For that reason officials will be meeting with the authority and trust on 20 June. Our priority is ensuring that the transition from primary to secondary school for pupils is as smooth as possible.</p><p>We are also determined to ensure that all schools are mindful of their responsibilities towards their pupils and act in accordance with the Children and Families Act 2014 and the statutory Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Code of Practice in ensuring the best possible outcomes for children and young people with special educational needs. All schools should also act in line with their responsibilities under the Equality Act 2010, which in part 6 states that the responsible body of a school must not discriminate against a child or young person: in the arrangements it makes for deciding who is offered admission; the terms on which admission is offered; nor, by not admitting.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 15/06/2016 12:19:47 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	1879 label Biography information for Lord Lucas

523015

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals: Copeland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children living in the Copeland constituency have been eligible to receive free school meals in each of the last six years.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	39296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>Data for the number of pupils eligible for free school meals in each school in England are available in the underlying data in each of the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical releases.[1]</p><p> </p><p>The number and proportion of pupils attending schools in Copeland who were known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals in each of the last six years is given in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals</p></td><td><p>Percentage of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>1,423</p></td><td><p>12.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>1,420</p></td><td><p>12.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>1,362</p></td><td><p>11.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>1,395</p></td><td><p>12.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>1,354</p></td><td><p>12.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>1,253</p></td><td><p>11.1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: School Census</p><p> </p><p>[1] <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> - click on the relevant year and then ‘underlying data.’ The data is contained in files with ‘Schools_Pupils’ in the title.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 13/06/2016 14:47:33 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

523016

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Lancashire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children with special needs or disabilities are in mainstream schools in (a) Lancashire and (b) Burnley.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	39362
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>The number of children with either Special Education Needs (SEN) support, a statement of SEN or an Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan attending mainstream schools in (a) Lancashire and (b) Burnley are shown in the table below. These figures are from the January 2015 school census data. The figures for Lancashire can be found in tables 12 and 13 of the local authority tables which accompany the Special educational needs in England: 2015 publication, available on GOV.UK at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england-january-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england-january-2015</a>.</p><p>The figures for Burnley can be found in the accompanying underlying data file.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Number of children with either SEN support, a statement of SEN or EHC plan by establishment type</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>Lancashire Local Authority</p></td><td><p>Burnley Parliamentary Constituency</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>State funded primary schools</p></td><td><p>12,223</p></td><td><p>1,118</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>State funded secondary schools</p></td><td><p>7,145</p></td><td><p>763</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>19,368</p></td><td><p>1,881</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Source: schools census 2015.</em> <em>Rounding and suppression are used in the published underlying data file.</em></p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 13/06/2016 16:22:24 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

523017

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Breakfast Clubs: Lancashire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many school breakfast clubs there are in (a) Burnley and (b) Lancashire.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	39363
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2016 answer text <p>The most recent results of the <em>Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey</em> suggest that in England in 2013, there were 12,800 before school settings. Of these 1,900 were in the North West. However, it is not possible to identify within this total the number of settings in Burnley and Lancashire.</p><p> </p><p>The findings of the Survey can be found online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childcare-and-early-years-providers-survey-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childcare-and-early-years-providers-survey-2013</a></p><p> </p><p>Later this year we will update the school performance tables and plan to publish alongside them information about all schools’ childcare provision including breakfast clubs.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 15/06/2016 16:01:19 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

523018

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Pre-school Education
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 number of qualified early years teachers in nurseries.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	39347
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>The department delivers early years initial teacher training places through the National College for Teaching and Leadership. There are four training routes available: undergraduate, assessment only, graduate entry and graduate employment based. To encourage take up, the Department funds course fees, pays bursaries to eligible trainees on the graduate entry route and provides financial support to employers for those trainees on the graduate employment based route.</p><p> </p><p>As part of our thinking on the early years workforce strategy we will be considering how best to continue to grow the graduate workforce, including supporting improved career progression.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 09/06/2016 15:27:10 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

523019

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
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 recent assessment she has made of the level of affordability of childcare.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	39348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>The Government uses a range of information from a number of different sources to consider the affordability of childcare, including: our ‘Childcare and early years survey of parents’ (<a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childcare-and-early-years-survey-of-parents-2012-to-2013" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childcare-and-early-years-survey-of-parents-2012-to-2013</a>), independent surveys, such as the Family and Childcare Trust Annual Childcare Cost Surveys (<a href="http://www.familyandchildcaretrust.org/childcare-cost-survey-2015" target="_blank">www.familyandchildcaretrust.org/childcare-cost-survey-2015</a>), and the recent House of Lords Select Committee’s report on affordable childcare – to which we responded on 17 December 2015 (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/affordable-childcare-response-to-the-select-committee-report" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/affordable-childcare-response-to-the-select-committee-report</a>).</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to supporting hard-working parents with the costs of childcare and to make it more affordable. That is why we will be investing an extra £1 billion per annum by 2019-20 to help hardworking families with the cost of childcare. Since 2008 nursery costs have been increasing well above inflation, but the latest survey from the Family and Childcare Trust suggests that the nursery costs of childcare in England for both under and over two-year-olds have remained largely flat across all settings in the last year.</p><p> </p><p>We are already funding 15 hours a week of free early education for all three- and four-year-olds and for disadvantaged two-year-olds – this saves families around £2,500 per child per year. From September 2017, we will go further, delivering an additional 15 hours of free childcare for the working parents of three- and four-year olds (with early implementation in some areas from September 2016) – worth around another £2,500 per child per year. We also continue to invest in the Early Years Pupil Premium.</p><p> </p><p>We are also introducing Tax-Free Childcare from early 2017, under which around 2 million families could benefit by up to £2,000 per child per year or £4,000 per child per year if a child is disabled.</p><p> </p><p>For working parents on low and middle incomes, working tax credit pays up to 70% of their childcare costs and, as of April 2016, this has increased to 85% under Universal Credit. This support will be available, for the first time, to those working fewer than 16 hours per week.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 09/06/2016 15:29:42 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

523020

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
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 she has taken to implement the provision of 15 additional hours of free childcare for working parents provided for under the Childcare Act 2016.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	39349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>At the 2015 Spending Review, the Government announced that we would provide £300 million for a significant uplift to the rate paid for the free childcare entitlements for two-, three- and four-year-olds from 2017-18. Together with the funding announced at last summer’s Budget, we will be investing over £1 billion more per year by 2019-20 to fund our commitments on the entitlements.</p><p> </p><p>The Childcare Act, which provides the legal framework for the extended entitlement, received Royal Assent in March. We also announced in February the eight early implementer local authorities which will offer the extended free childcare entitlement from September 2016. This means around 5,000 children will be able to benefit from 30 hours of high-quality free childcare places a year earlier than planned.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is also consulting on key elements of the operation and delivery of the extended free entitlement. This includes how the entitlement will be delivered, and how it will meet and be responsive to the needs of working parents. To date we have received over 1000 responses from a wide range of childcare providers, local authorities and provider organisations. We will use these views to inform our thinking as we move to delivering the 30 hours policy. The consultation is available at: <a href="https://consult.education.gov.uk/early-years-funding/childcare-free-entitlement" target="_blank">https://consult.education.gov.uk/early-years-funding/childcare-free-entitlement</a></p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 09/06/2016 15:26:18 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

523021

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Numbers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the National pupil projections statistics release, published on 22 July 2015, if she will publish updated pupil projection data prior to 23 June 2016.
tabling member constituency	Hazel Grove
tabling member printed	William Wragg
uin	39373
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>The national pupil projections are only produced for the whole of England and do not break down projected pupil numbers by local education authority or region. They are derived from the 2012-based national population projections for England produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS)[1] who used assumptions which were considered to best reflect demographic patterns at that time.</p><p> </p><p>The ONS uses assumptions on the levels of future fertility, net migration and life expectancy in the production of their population projections. They use central assumptions for the principal projections and alternative high and low assumptions to produce variant projections.</p><p> </p><p>New national pupil projections, based on the ONS’s mid-2014 national population projections[2], are scheduled to be published on 14 July 2016. The timing and content of National Statistics releases are a matter for the Head of Profession for statistics. The month of publication was pre-announced in 2015 and the specific date of publication was pre-announced on 26 February 2016.</p><p> </p><p>[1] Mid-2012 ONS national population projections available at <a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationprojections/bulletins/nationalpopulationprojections/2013-11-06" target="_blank">http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationprojections/bulletins/nationalpopulationprojections/2013-11-06</a></p><p>[2] Mid-2014 ONS national population projections available at <a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationprojections/bulletins/nationalpopulationprojections/2015-10-29" target="_blank">http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationprojections/bulletins/nationalpopulationprojections/2015-10-29</a></p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 39371 39372 39374 question first answered 09/06/2016 15:35:56 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4429 label Biography information for Mr William Wragg

523022

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Migrants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the National pupil projections statistics release, published on 22 July 2015, if she will publish the (a) assumptions and (b) estimated total migration figures that were used in the calculation of the (i) migrant component of the principal population projection and (ii) high migrant variant in Table 3a of that data release.
tabling member constituency	Hazel Grove
tabling member printed	William Wragg
uin	39372
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>The national pupil projections are only produced for the whole of England and do not break down projected pupil numbers by local education authority or region. They are derived from the 2012-based national population projections for England produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS)[1] who used assumptions which were considered to best reflect demographic patterns at that time.</p><p> </p><p>The ONS uses assumptions on the levels of future fertility, net migration and life expectancy in the production of their population projections. They use central assumptions for the principal projections and alternative high and low assumptions to produce variant projections.</p><p> </p><p>New national pupil projections, based on the ONS’s mid-2014 national population projections[2], are scheduled to be published on 14 July 2016. The timing and content of National Statistics releases are a matter for the Head of Profession for statistics. The month of publication was pre-announced in 2015 and the specific date of publication was pre-announced on 26 February 2016.</p><p> </p><p>[1] Mid-2012 ONS national population projections available at <a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationprojections/bulletins/nationalpopulationprojections/2013-11-06" target="_blank">http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationprojections/bulletins/nationalpopulationprojections/2013-11-06</a></p><p>[2] Mid-2014 ONS national population projections available at <a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationprojections/bulletins/nationalpopulationprojections/2015-10-29" target="_blank">http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationprojections/bulletins/nationalpopulationprojections/2015-10-29</a></p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 39371 39373 39374 question first answered 09/06/2016 15:35:56 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4429 label Biography information for Mr William Wragg

523023

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: North of England
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 close attainment gaps within schools in the north of England that are rated good or outstanding.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	39369
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>The Department’s recent White Paper, <em>Educational excellence everywhere</em>, sets out the action we are taking to support all pupils to reach their full potential and close the gaps in attainment that exist between different groups.</p><p> </p><p>The gap in attainment between disadvantaged pupils and their peers is closing at both Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 4. Our protection of the pupil premium at current rates for the remainder of the Parliament will help schools to build on this success. In 2015-16 we provided schools in the north of England with £768 million of pupil premium funding. We are supporting schools to make more effective use of the pupil premium, including by appointing a teaching school in each region to champion the use of the pupil premium. These schools will train successful school leaders to review the way schools are using the pupil premium and to act as regional hubs for effective practice.</p><p> </p><p>Schools will continue to be held to account for the standard of education they provide for all pupils, including disadvantaged pupils, through performance tables and Ofsted inspection. Our new headline measure of school performance, Progress 8, will encourage schools to push every child to achieve their best. The results of disadvantaged pupils will be reported separately in the school performance tables, ensuring a focus on the attainment of this group. In line with our high expectations for all pupils, performance data will emphasise the difference between disadvantaged pupils in the school and other pupils nationally, rather than focussing on gaps within the school. Data on the performance of disadvantaged pupils will feed into the risk assessment process that Ofsted uses to assess whether good and outstanding providers have declined since their last inspection. This will inform Ofsted’s prioritisation of short inspections for good schools and the identification of any concerns about outstanding schools.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 09/06/2016 15:31:36 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis