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1180869

registered interest
date	26/02/2020
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, what assessment he has made of the (a) adequacy and (b) effectiveness of consultation periods used by schools to consult parents on proposals to establish feeder arrangements.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	21343
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2020 answer text <p>School admission arrangements must comply with the School Admissions Code. The Code permits admission arrangements which give priority to children who attend named feeder schools. It also requires that the selection of feeder schools is transparent and made on reasonable grounds. In addition, the Code requires that admission arrangements are fair.</p><p>The School Admissions Code requires admission authorities to consult locally before making changes to their admission arrangements. They must consult for a minimum of 6 weeks between 1 October and 31 January in the school year before the arrangements come into effect. The Code specifies the people and organisations that the admission authority must consult. This includes local parents, other local schools and the local authority.</p><p>The admission authority must then determine its admission arrangements by 28 February and publish them on its website. Anyone who considers the determined admission arrangements are unlawful or unfair may complain to the Schools Adjudicator. Where the Adjudicator upholds a complaint, the admission authority is required to amend their admission arrangements.</p><p>In the Office of the Schools Adjudicator’s annual report for the 2016-17 school year, the Adjudicator stated, ‘If the giving of priority by a secondary school to children from certain feeder primaries means that other children will face a significantly longer or more difficult journey to different schools as a result, then the arrangements are likely to be found to be unfair.’ The report is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/osa-annual-report" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/osa-annual-report</a>.</p><p>The Department collects pupil forecasts from each local authority through the annual school capacity survey. The latest published data relates to the position in the 2017-18 school year. Secondary pupil numbers in Bromley local authority are forecast to increase by 3,214 (12%) from 23,618 in 2019-20 to 26,832 in 2024-25, as seen in the table below.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: Secondary pupil forecasts for Bromley local authority </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>School year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Bromley local authority secondary pupil total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019-20</strong></p></td><td><p>23,618</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2020-21</strong></p></td><td><p>24,415</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2021-22</strong></p></td><td><p>25,281</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2022-23</strong></p></td><td><p>25,991</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2023-24</strong></p></td><td><p>26,561</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2024-25</strong></p></td><td><p>26,832</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Further information can be found in the place planning tables at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-capacity-academic-year-2017-to-2018/" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-capacity-academic-year-2017-to-2018</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 21344 21345 question first answered 05/03/2020 10:02:59 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1167707

registered interest
date	31/10/2019
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, whether he has made an estimate of the number of children enrolling in schools in England in the event of extending freedom of movement to nations including (a) Morocco, (b) Switzerland, (c) Norway, (d) Turkey, (e) North Macedonia, (f) Bosnia, (g) Serbia, (h) Kosovo, (i) Albania and (j) Iceland.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	8211
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>Freedom of movement is already extended to Switzerland, Norway and Iceland.</p><p> </p><p>For Norway and Iceland, this is because they are members of the European Economic Area (EEA) and for Switzerland, this is because it is part of the single market.</p><p> </p><p>Regarding the other countries mentioned, no estimates have been made in relation to the possible scenario described.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 05/11/2019 16:51:18 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1147759

registered interest
date	02/10/2019
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, how much of his Department’s capital departmental expenditure limit was spent on creating new school places in each financial year since 2010-11.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	293601
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities are under a statutory duty to ensure that there is a school place available for every child. The Department provides basic need funding for every place that is needed, based on local authorities’ own data on pupil forecasts. Local authorities can use this funding to provide places in new schools or through expansions of existing schools, and can work with any school in their local area, including academies and free schools.</p><p>Basic need allocations to local authorities to provide new school places from 2011-2021 can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/basic-need-allocations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/basic-need-allocations</a>. Data for allocations prior to 2011-12 is not readily available.</p><p>The Department has also invested a total of £365 million through the Special Provision Capital Fund from 2018-19 to 2020-21. This funding will help local authorities to create new places and improve facilities for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities.</p><p>Special Provision Capital Fund allocations to local authorities can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/send-provision-capital-funding-for-pupils-with-ehc-plans" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/send-provision-capital-funding-for-pupils-with-ehc-plans</a>.</p><p>In addition, the Department has funded thousands of good new school places and opened schools across the country through the free schools programme. The Department’s total capital costs of establishing free schools are listed below. These annual costs include all aspects of site acquisition, design, and construction expended in that year.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total capital costs (million)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>£1m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£50m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£275m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£704m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>£761m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>£931m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>£965m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>£872m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>£1,004m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>To be confirmed [1]</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£5,563m</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There are also some much smaller additional capital programmes which have also created places, however this is not their primary objective. In total, the Department is on track to create one million places this decade (2010 to 2020), the largest increase in school capacity in at least two generations. This follows a decrease of 100,000 places between 2004 and 2010.</p><p>[1] This figure will be available once the Department lays its annual accounts before Parliament in 2020.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 08/10/2019 14:14:30 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb previous answer version 137549 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1146246

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
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, for what reasons children subject to Special Guardianship Orders do not benefit from the same rights of preferential access to schools currently enjoyed by children in care and adopted children; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	290556
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/10/2019 answer text <p>Looked-after children are amongst the most vulnerable in our society and, wherever possible, they should be admitted to the school which is most able to meet their needs.</p><p>That is why the School Admissions Code requires the admissions authorities of all schools, including academies, to give highest priority in their admissions criteria to looked-after children and previously looked-after children. This includes children who are subject to child arrangements orders and special guardianship orders.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 04/10/2019 12:29:42 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1140360

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
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, what recent steps he has taken to widen access to the highest performing schools in England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	278923
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>86% of schools in England are good or outstanding.</p><p>The Department has committed £7 billion to create new school places between 2015 and 2021, the vast majority of which are being created in the best existing schools or through good new schools. The Department is on track to create 1 million places this decade, the largest increase in school capacity in at least two generations.</p><p>Of the mainstream free schools approved between 2014 and 2017, 86% have been in areas where there was a need for more school places. 84% of free schools with inspection reports published by the end of May are rated good or outstanding.</p><p> </p><p>98% of grammar schools are also good or outstanding and the Department wants more disadvantaged pupils to be able to access a place at them. That is why it has made £100 million available through the Selective Schools Expansion Fund to create additional places, where needed, in selective schools that commit to a plan to improve access for disadvantaged children. In 2018 the Department announced 16 selective schools to be funded to expand, and it launched a second bidding round in 2019.</p><p>Education is a devolved matter and it is for the Welsh national assembly to decide on education in Wales.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 23/07/2019 15:45:06 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1135101

registered interest
date	26/06/2019
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when they expect to implement the recently-announced changes to the School Admissions Code introducing priority admission-status for inter-country adopted children.
tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
uin	HL16728
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2019 answer text <p>As stated in the recent Children in Need review, the government will be taking forward changes to the School Admissions Code, to ensure that all children, especially the most vulnerable, can access a school place as quickly as possible.</p><p> </p><p>As part of these changes, the government will also implement the changes previously announced by my right hon. Friend, the Minister for School Standards, to ensure that children who were previously in care outside of England receive highest priority for admission into a school in England.</p><p> </p><p>All changes will be subject to the full statutory process, including a public consultation, which will be launched in the autumn.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 08/07/2019 11:58:45 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie

1133711

registered interest
date	20/06/2019
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, how many new school places created since 2010 are in schools rated (a) outstanding, (b) good, (c) requires improvement and (d) inadequate by Ofsted.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	267342
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2019 answer text <p>The Department is on track to create one million places this decade, the largest increase in school capacity for at least two generations.</p><p>The Department collects pupil forecasts, existing school capacities, and plans to deliver additional school places from each local authority via the annual school capacity survey. Around 920,000 new school places have been created since 2010.</p><p>Of those new school places that were created in existing schools between 2016 and 2017, 91%[1] were in schools rated as good or outstanding by Ofsted and 9% of the new places were created in schools rated as requiring improvement or inadequate.</p><p> </p><p>[1] This figure will expire on the 27 June 2019 on publication of the latest local authority school places Scorecards 2018.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 26/06/2019 16:25:30 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb previous answer version 125033 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1132574

registered interest
date	17/06/2019
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, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of good school places in England.
tabling member constituency	North Antrim
tabling member printed	Ian Paisley
uin	265516
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>Delivering good quality school places is a top priority for this Government. The Department has committed £7 billion between 2015 and 2021 to deliver new school places, which is on top of investment in the free schools programme. The Department is on track to create one million places this decade, the largest increase in school capacity in at least two generations.</p><p> </p><p>As of March 2019, there are 1.9 million more children in ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ schools compared to 2010. This represents 85% of children compared to just 66% in 2010 - and that is in part down to the Department’s reforms.</p><p> </p><p>As of 14 June 2019, there are 446 open free schools, 50 University Technical Colleges and 27 studio schools. These will provide over 290,000 places when at capacity. The Department has approved a further 286 applications (including one UTC) from groups it is now working with to establish schools. In addition, in March 2019, the Department announced that it will run competitions in successful local authority areas to open and run 37 new special and two new alternative provision free schools.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 25/06/2019 15:58:58 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4129 label Biography information for Ian Paisley

1130520

registered interest
date	06/06/2019
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, how many school-age children whose parents or guardians have requested a school place have been out of school for more than a term in the (a) UK and (b) London Borough of Lambeth in the (i) 2017-18 and (ii) 2018-19 academic years.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
uin	261221
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2019 answer text <p>​The information requested is not held centrally. The Department does not hold data on the number of in-year admission applications made and the length of time a child has been out of school prior to their parents or guardians submitting an application.</p><p>Parents can apply for a place at any school, at any time. When parents apply for a school place outside of the normal admissions round, this is classed as an in-year admission. This process is managed at a local level by either the local authority, where it coordinates the in-year admissions for schools in their area, or directly by the admission authority of the school.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 13/06/2019 16:51:13 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

1130023

registered interest
date	05/06/2019
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, how many variations of Published Admission Numbers submitted by local authorities have been disallowed by the school adjudicator in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	260603
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2019 answer text <p>In each of the past three reporting years, the following number of variation requests in relation to Published Admissions Numbers (PAN) were submitted by local authorities, but were not approved by the Schools Adjudicator:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Variation to PANs</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018/19*</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017/18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016/17</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of variation requests made by local authorities</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Variation requests not approved</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>* This reporting year ends on 31 August 2019</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 14/06/2019 12:00:25 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies