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451480

registered interest
date	09/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Ferndown
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will direct Ofsted to undertake re-inspections of (a) Parley First School and (b) Ferndown Upper School within two years of their last inspections.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
uin	26624
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>The scheduling of school inspections is a matter for Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector. Ofsted’s general policy is to inspect ‘requires improvement’ and ‘inadequate’ schools after approximately two years.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 22/02/2016 08:27:51 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

451481

registered interest
date	09/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Primary Education: Christchurch
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will place in the Library a copy of the application made by Twynham Learning Federation to establish a new primary academy in West Christchurch which is proposed to open from September 2016 and a copy of her response.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
uin	26625
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2016 answer text <p>The Secretary of State is happy to make available the proposal by Twynham Learning Federation and also a copy of the decision letter signed by Sir David Carter, the former Regional Schools Commissioner for the South West. These documents will be published on the department’s website in May, along with other successful central free school applications.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 23/02/2016 14:55:47 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

451639

registered interest
date	09/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of (a) primary and (b) secondary school budgets have been spent on tackling mental health problems in each of the last five years; and if the Government will take steps to protect such spending in future.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Hallam
tabling member printed	Mr Nick Clegg
uin	26418
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2016 answer text <p>The most recent prevalence survey estimated that 1 in 10 children have a diagnosable mental health disorder, and more have lower level problems. This is why the Government has made good mental health, character and resilience a high priority. The Department of Health is commissioning a new prevalence survey to update this estimate for a wider range of ages, from 2-19. It is due to report in 2018. We do not routinely collect data that allows us to measure the amount schools spend specifically on addressing mental health issues.</p><p>We are committed to better understanding what schools are doing on this matter, which is why my department is commissioning an extensive survey. This survey will provide a robust national picture of mental health support provided by schools and colleges.</p><p>It is for head teachers to determine how they spend their individual school budgets to best meet the needs of all their pupils. In the Spending Review we announced that the core schools budget will be protected in real terms through this Parliament. We are also protecting the Pupil Premium, which many schools use to fund mental health provision, at current pupil rates. Within these protections, we announced in December 2015 that an additional £92.5 million will specifically be provided in the high needs element of the Dedicated School Grant (DSG) next year.</p><p>We have also made £1.4 billion available over the next five years to transform local children and young people’s mental health services to deliver more integrated and accessible services. Clinical Commissioning Groups have been required to work with others services locally, including schools, to produce plans that set out how they will transform children and young people’s mental health services locally to make them more accessible and increase the focus on prevention.</p><p>We are also contributing to a £3 million joint pilot with NHS England for training single points of contact in schools and specialist mental health services, to ensure that children and young people have timely access to specialist support where needed. There are 22 pilot areas covering more than 200 schools across 27 CCGs.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 26419 26508 question first answered 23/02/2016 16:12:01 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1563 label Biography information for Mr Nick Clegg

451640

registered interest
date	09/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has allocated funding for primary and secondary schools to employ a dedicated mental health practitioner to provide services to pupils on site.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Hallam
tabling member printed	Mr Nick Clegg
uin	26419
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2016 answer text <p>The most recent prevalence survey estimated that 1 in 10 children have a diagnosable mental health disorder, and more have lower level problems. This is why the Government has made good mental health, character and resilience a high priority. The Department of Health is commissioning a new prevalence survey to update this estimate for a wider range of ages, from 2-19. It is due to report in 2018. We do not routinely collect data that allows us to measure the amount schools spend specifically on addressing mental health issues.</p><p>We are committed to better understanding what schools are doing on this matter, which is why my department is commissioning an extensive survey. This survey will provide a robust national picture of mental health support provided by schools and colleges.</p><p>It is for head teachers to determine how they spend their individual school budgets to best meet the needs of all their pupils. In the Spending Review we announced that the core schools budget will be protected in real terms through this Parliament. We are also protecting the Pupil Premium, which many schools use to fund mental health provision, at current pupil rates. Within these protections, we announced in December 2015 that an additional £92.5 million will specifically be provided in the high needs element of the Dedicated School Grant (DSG) next year.</p><p>We have also made £1.4 billion available over the next five years to transform local children and young people’s mental health services to deliver more integrated and accessible services. Clinical Commissioning Groups have been required to work with others services locally, including schools, to produce plans that set out how they will transform children and young people’s mental health services locally to make them more accessible and increase the focus on prevention.</p><p>We are also contributing to a £3 million joint pilot with NHS England for training single points of contact in schools and specialist mental health services, to ensure that children and young people have timely access to specialist support where needed. There are 22 pilot areas covering more than 200 schools across 27 CCGs.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 26418 26508 question first answered 23/02/2016 16:12:02 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1563 label Biography information for Mr Nick Clegg

451641

registered interest
date	09/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Mental Illness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the rates of mental illness among school-age children.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Hallam
tabling member printed	Mr Nick Clegg
uin	26508
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2016 answer text <p>The most recent prevalence survey estimated that 1 in 10 children have a diagnosable mental health disorder, and more have lower level problems. This is why the Government has made good mental health, character and resilience a high priority. The Department of Health is commissioning a new prevalence survey to update this estimate for a wider range of ages, from 2-19. It is due to report in 2018. We do not routinely collect data that allows us to measure the amount schools spend specifically on addressing mental health issues.</p><p>We are committed to better understanding what schools are doing on this matter, which is why my department is commissioning an extensive survey. This survey will provide a robust national picture of mental health support provided by schools and colleges.</p><p>It is for head teachers to determine how they spend their individual school budgets to best meet the needs of all their pupils. In the Spending Review we announced that the core schools budget will be protected in real terms through this Parliament. We are also protecting the Pupil Premium, which many schools use to fund mental health provision, at current pupil rates. Within these protections, we announced in December 2015 that an additional £92.5 million will specifically be provided in the high needs element of the Dedicated School Grant (DSG) next year.</p><p>We have also made £1.4 billion available over the next five years to transform local children and young people’s mental health services to deliver more integrated and accessible services. Clinical Commissioning Groups have been required to work with others services locally, including schools, to produce plans that set out how they will transform children and young people’s mental health services locally to make them more accessible and increase the focus on prevention.</p><p>We are also contributing to a £3 million joint pilot with NHS England for training single points of contact in schools and specialist mental health services, to ensure that children and young people have timely access to specialist support where needed. There are 22 pilot areas covering more than 200 schools across 27 CCGs.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 26418 26419 question first answered 23/02/2016 16:12:02 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1563 label Biography information for Mr Nick Clegg

451705

registered interest
date	09/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Uniforms
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her policy is on schools asking uniform suppliers for discounts or commission on school uniform sales; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
tabling member printed	Mrs Cheryl Gillan
uin	26585
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>The department has issued best practice guidance for all schools on the need to give high priority to the consideration of cost for parents. The guidance sets out that governing bodies should be able to demonstrate that they have obtained the best value for money from suppliers, and that any savings negotiated with suppliers should be passed on to parents wherever possible. It also makes clear that schools should not enter into cash back arrangements.</p><p>We have recently announced that we intend to put school uniform guidance on a statutory footing. The school uniform guidance is available at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-uniform" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-uniform</a></p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 22/02/2016 17:48:52 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	18 label Biography information for Dame Cheryl Gillan

451170

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
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 assessment she has made of the effect of super centres on smaller, privately-funded child care businesses located close to them.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	26253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>There is a duty on local authorities to judge what provision is appropriate to meet local needs in their areas. An overarching statutory framework places a legal duty on local authorities to have arrangements in place to secure sufficient children’s centres to meet local need and to consult where changes are planned to local children’s centre provision.</p><p>In deciding what arrangements to make, local authorities must have particular regard to the quality and quantity of early childhood services in the area. Local authorities are best placed to understand local needs and the different ways children and families can be supported locally.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 11/02/2016 10:10:21 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

451227

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: EU Grants and Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the amount of EU funding her Department received in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	26338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>For the period December 2013 to July 2015 (2007-2013 European Social Fund programme extended to 2015), £71 million of ring fenced European Social Fund monies was available to provide support for young people aged 14-19 who were not in education, employment or training or, who were at risk of being so. The funding was administered by the Skills Funding Agency on behalf of the Education Funding Agency.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 11/02/2016 10:03:30 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

451240

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
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 additional funding her Department plans to make available to small childcare facilities to help them meet the costs of the proposed free 30 hours of childcare per week.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	26280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>As part of the Spending Review in November 2015, we announced that we will be investing over £1billion more per year by 2019-20 to fund the government’s commitments on the early education entitlements. The funding includes £300 million per year for a significant increase to the rate paid for the two, three and four year old entitlements. From April 2017, the national average funding rates will increase to £4.88 for three and four year olds and £5.39 for two year olds. Local authorities are responsible for deciding how to distribute this funding across their area and for setting the rate paid to early years providers.</p><p>We will introduce a national funding formula for early years so that funding is transparently and fairly matched to need and fairly distributed between different types of providers and different parts of the country. We will be consulting on detailed proposals later this year.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 11/02/2016 10:10:39 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

451242

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: EU Grants and Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will estimate the number of schools which have been built using EU funds.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	26242
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>The department does not hold information on the number of schools which have been built using EU funds, nor does it hold information on the number of schools which have received funds from EU sources for improvements or maintenance.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 26243 question first answered 11/02/2016 09:53:04 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley