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169318

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date	10/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Drinks
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the health and behavioural effects of the sale of sugar-based drinks in schools.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL3604
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education has made no formal assessment of the health and behavioural effects of the sale of sugar-based drinks in schools.</p><p> </p><p>Widely available public health evidence is used to underpin statutory school food standards, which bar the provision of drinks with significant quantities of sugar.</p><p> </p><p>Revised standards come into force from January 2015 (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-food" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-food</a>).</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 18/12/2014 12:36:49 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

169319

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Premium
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consideration they have given to extending the measure of disadvantage for school pupils to include factors beyond eligibility for free school meals and the Pupil Premium.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL3605
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>The Government currently defines the term ‘disadvantaged pupil’ in national statistics to be those pupils known to be eligible for free school meals at any point in the last 6 years or children looked after for six months or more. These are the pupils who attract pupil premium funding.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>From April 2014, eligibility for the pupil premium was extended to all looked after children, and to children who have left care through adoption, special guardianship orders or child arrangements orders. The Government is considering widening the national statistics definition of “disadvantaged pupil” to this group for the publication of test and examination results from 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We recognise that educational disadvantage extends beyond eligibility for free school meals and the pupil premium. This is why the Government has given local authorities the discretion to allocate dedicated schools grant funding for pupils with low prior attainment and pupils for whom English is not their first language. In addition, local authorities can choose to allocate funding through an area-based measure of deprivation, either alongside or instead of free school meals eligibility.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In considering future measures of disadvantage, the Department for Education commissioned RAND and the University of Cambridge to undertake a study to examine whether indicators other than free school meal eligibility may be used to identify which pupils are likely to underachieve. The report will be published soon.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 17/12/2014 14:42:09 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

169459

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Reading: Teaching Methods
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many state-funded primary schools whose phonics check results were below the national average have been judged (a) outstanding and (b) good in their most recent Ofsted inspection.
tabling member constituency	Stourbridge
tabling member printed	Margot James
uin	218095
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>Nationally 74 per cent of year one pupils met the required standard of phonic decoding in the 2013/14 academic year.</p><p> </p><p>Out of 15,658 state-funded primary schools[1] in England, 6,783 had year one phonics checks results that were below the national average. Of these, 780 schools were judged as outstanding and 4,341 were judged as good schools according to their most recent Ofsted inspection [2]<sup>,[3],[4]</sup> on overall effectiveness.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] Defined as schools with pupils with highest statutory age below 12.</p><p>[2] This covers inspection outcomes of September 2005 to August 2014 published at <a href="http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/latest-official-statistics-maintained-schools-and-academies-inspections-and-outcomes" target="_blank">http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/latest-official-statistics-maintained-schools-and-academies-inspections-and-outcomes</a>. The school type of an institution is as of 31 August 2014, which means that schools may have received their rating under a different school type.</p><p>[3] The inspections have taken place before the 2013/14 phonics results were available to Ofsted (late October 2014). As the phonics check was only introduced in 2011/12, the inspections may have taken place before any phonics results were available to Ofsted.</p><p>[4] There have been changes in the framework on how schools are inspected and ranked. Prior to September 2012, schools graded 3 were judged as ‘satisfactory’. Since 1 September 2012 they are judged as ‘requires improvement’. From 1 January 2012 inspections of maintained schools have taken place under a new framework, in accordance with sections 5 and 8 of the Education Act 2005. This framework was revised on 1 September 2012 and under the revised framework, schools can be judged as outstanding, good, requires improvement or inadequate.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 17/12/2014 16:50:42 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4115 label Biography information for Margot James

169460

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she last met the Minister for Education in the Northern Ireland Executive.
tabling member constituency	South Antrim
tabling member printed	Dr William McCrea
uin	218169
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>Ministers and officials maintain regular contact with the devolved administrations on matters of mutual interest. The Department for Education does not usually publish details of such exchanges.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 17/12/2014 16:53:08 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	655 label Biography information for Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown

169461

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Nurseries: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many nursery places have been available in (a) Bolton, (b) Greater Manchester and (c) England in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	218244
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>I have asked Ofsted to respond using the data they hold on registered nursery places. Sir Michael Wilshaw, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector will write to the Hon. Lady, and a copy of his response will be placed in the House Library.</p><p> </p><p>Some providers such as schools with nursery provision for children aged three or over are exempt from registration. The number of places therefore may not include the full range of early years provision available in the area.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education’s Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey collects data on all registered childcare places, including those in maintained schools and nurseries. These figures are therefore more comprehensive than the Ofsted figures; however data is only available at a national and regional level.</p><p> </p><p>The below link provides published data for 2010, 2011 and 2013 for England and the North West. The survey was not carried out in 2012 and so no figures are available for that year.</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childcare-and-early-years-providers-survey-2013" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childcare-and-early-years-providers-survey-2013</a></p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 16/12/2014 16:47:03 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

169462

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children's Centres
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which (a) voluntary sector providers, (b) community organisations and (c) private sector organisations run children's centres; and which such centres each such organisation runs.
tabling member constituency	Burton
tabling member printed	Andrew Griffiths
uin	218193
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for maintaining records of their main children’s centres (and any additional sites that are open to children and families that are providing children's centre services as part of a network) on the Department for Education’s children’s centre database.</p><p>Information from the database about the governance of main children’s centres, at 30 November 2014, was listed as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Governance</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>%</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Local Authority (LA)</p></td><td><p>1974</p></td><td><p>70%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Private, Voluntary or Independent provider (PVI)</p></td><td><p>665</p></td><td><p>24%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other Community Group</p></td><td><p>105</p></td><td><p>4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health</p></td><td><p>71</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NULL</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>2816</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Further details about governance and the list of children’s centre names by each governance type (giving the type and/or name of the organisation) have been provided in the attached Excel file.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 218194 question first answered 18/12/2014 13:11:08 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah attachment 1 file name Children's_Centres_By_Governance_Type.xls title Children's centres by governance type previous answer version 33764 answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths

169463

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children's Centres
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, (a) how many and (b) which children's centres in each local authority area are run by (i) local authorities, (ii) schools, (iii) voluntary sector providers, (iv) community organisations (v) private sector organisations and (vi) other organisations.
tabling member constituency	Burton
tabling member printed	Andrew Griffiths
uin	218194
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for maintaining records of their main children’s centres (and any additional sites that are open to children and families that are providing children's centre services as part of a network) on the Department for Education’s children’s centre database.</p><p>Information from the database about the governance of main children’s centres, at 30 November 2014, was listed as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Governance</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>%</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Local Authority (LA)</p></td><td><p>1974</p></td><td><p>70%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Private, Voluntary or Independent provider (PVI)</p></td><td><p>665</p></td><td><p>24%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other Community Group</p></td><td><p>105</p></td><td><p>4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health</p></td><td><p>71</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NULL</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>2816</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Further details about governance and the list of children’s centre names by each governance type (giving the type and/or name of the organisation) have been provided in the attached Excel file.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 218193 question first answered 18/12/2014 13:11:08 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah attachment 1 file name Children's_Centres_By_Governance_Type.xls title Children's centres by governance type previous answer version 33765 answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths

169464

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children's Centres
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which children's centres were judged (a) outstanding, (b) good, (c) requiring improvement and (d) inadequate at their most recent inspection.
tabling member constituency	Burton
tabling member printed	Andrew Griffiths
uin	218195
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>This question is a matter for Ofsted. I have asked Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, to write to the Hon. Member. Copies of his response will be placed in the House Library.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 16/12/2014 16:57:41 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths

169465

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Young Offender Institutions: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average number of hours of education provided per week was for a young offender in young offender institutions in (a) 2012-13 and (b) 2013-14.
tabling member constituency	Burton
tabling member printed	Andrew Griffiths
uin	218196
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>As part of the Transforming Youth Custody Programme, the Government will shortly announce the outcome of a competition for new education contracts in under-18 Young Offender Institutions, which will aim to more than double the average number of hours of education provided for young people each week. The Government is taking forward reforms of Young Offender Institutions to support a stronger focus on education and reduce interruptions that impact on the number of hours provided.</p><p> </p><p>The question asked about the average number of hours of education provided per week for a young offender in young offender institutions can only be answered at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 15/12/2014 14:55:29 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths

169466

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	South West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will estimate how much her Department has spent in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly in each year since 2007-08.
tabling member constituency	Truro and Falmouth
tabling member printed	Sarah Newton
uin	218205
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>Information in the form requested is not held centrally and cannot be compiled without incurring disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 15/12/2014 15:01:22 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton