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1136877

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
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 steps he is taking to implement the recommendations of A better deal: boosting competition to bring down bills for families and firms, November 2015, Cm 9164, in relation to school uniforms.
tabling member constituency	Peterborough
tabling member printed	Ms Lisa Forbes
uin	273500
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>It is for the governing body of a school (or an academy trust, in the case of academies) to decide rules relating to appearance including whether there should be a school uniform, what it will be and how it is sourced.</p><p>The Department has issued best practice guidance on school uniform, which emphasises the need for schools to give highest priority to cost considerations. The guidance sets out that no school uniform should be so expensive as to leave pupils or their families feeling unable to apply to, or attend, a school of their choice, due to the cost of the uniform. The Department’s guidance is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-uniform" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-uniform</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 09/07/2019 14:12:10 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4717 label Biography information for Ms Lisa Forbes

1136995

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
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 recent assessment he has made of the affordability of school uniforms for people on low incomes.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	273490
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>It is for the governing body of a school (or an academy trust, in the case of academies) to decide whether there should be a school uniform policy, and if so, what it should be. It is also for the governing body to decide how the uniform should be sourced.</p><p>In 2015, the Department commissioned the ‘Cost of School Uniform Survey’ which provides the most recent information the Department holds on the cost of school uniform. The findings of the survey are available here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/436576/RR474_Cost_of_school_uniform.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/436576/RR474_Cost_of_school_uniform.pdf</a>.</p><p>The cost of uniform should not act as a barrier to obtaining a good school place. No school uniform should be so expensive as to leave pupils or their families feeling unable to apply to, or attend, a school of their choice. The current guidance on uniform sets out that a school should ensure that its school uniform policy is fair and reasonable for all its students.</p><p>The Department’s guidance is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-uniform" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-uniform</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 09/07/2019 12:06:37 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1137004

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Breakfast Clubs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding to support breakfast clubs in primary schools.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	273492
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>The department is investing up to £26 million in a breakfast club programme, using funds from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy revenues. This money will kick-start or improve breakfast clubs in over 1,700 schools. The focus of these clubs has been to target the most disadvantaged areas of the country – including the Department for Education’s Opportunity Areas – to help make sure every child gets the best start in life.</p><p>A contract was awarded to Family Action in March 2018 and will run until March 2020. Family Action, in partnership with Magic Breakfast, have been named as the leading charities responsible for running the breakfast club programme. Family Action are distributing the appropriate funding to participating schools who meet the eligibility criteria. In March 2019, Family Action indicated that by the start of the summer term, over 250,000 children would be benefiting from the programme.</p><p>The programme is available to primary schools, as well as secondary schools, special schools and pupil referral units that are eligible to take part. We monitor management information from the programme on an ongoing basis and will also review the effectiveness of the programme fully once the programme concludes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 09/07/2019 11:51:42 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1137067

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of (a) primary and (b) secondary schools (i) are eligible for and (ii) receive the full amount of funding under the sparsity element of the national funding formula; and what the average amount was that each eligible school received in the latest period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	273496
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>The table below shows the number and proportion of mainstream schools in England that received sparsity funding in 2018-19.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Primary</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Secondary</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of schools</p></td><td><p>16,758</p></td><td><p>3,109</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number eligible for sparsity funding<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>992</p></td><td><p>112</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Proportion eligible for sparsity funding<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>5.90%</p></td><td><p>3.60%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number eligible for maximum sparsity funding<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>234</p></td><td><p>18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Proportion eligible for maximum sparsity funding<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>1.40%</p></td><td><p>0.60%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Average sparsity funding for eligible schools (£)<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>14,766</p></td><td><p>34,625</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>[1] Schools are only counted as eligible for sparsity funding if the local authority has included the factor in their funding formula. The maximum amount of sparsity funding under the national funding formula is £25,000 for primary schools and £65,000 for secondary schools.</p><p>[2] This is the mean value for schools receiving sparsity funding where the local authority has included the factor in their funding formula.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 09/07/2019 14:15:14 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1137068

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many mainstream (a) primary and (b) secondary schools received a lump sum payment, and for how many schools that lump sum represented (i) less than one per cent, (ii) 2 to five per cent; (iii) five to 10 per cent, (iv) 10 to 20 per cent, (v) 20 to 30 per cent, (vi) 30 to 40 per cent, and (vii) over 50 per cent of their total income.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	273497
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>The table below shows the number of mainstream schools in England that received a lump sum payment in 2018-19 and the proportion of their total income (from the schools block allocation) this represented.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Primary</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Secondary</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of schools</p></td><td><p>16,756[1]</p></td><td><p>3,109</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lump Sum</p></td><td><p>16,756</p></td><td><p>3,098</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Less than 1%</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1% to 5%</p></td><td><p>601</p></td><td><p>2,788</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>5% to 10%</p></td><td><p>5,332</p></td><td><p>230</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10% to 20%</p></td><td><p>7,482</p></td><td><p>55</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>20% to 30%</p></td><td><p>2,060</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>30% to 40%</p></td><td><p>808</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>40% to 50%</p></td><td><p>326</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Over 50%</p></td><td><p>147</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>[1] In line with the published data the figures exclude two primary schools whose data has been suppressed.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 09/07/2019 14:41:59 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1136516

registered interest
date	03/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children in Care: Missing Persons
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 27 June 2019 to Question 268391, if he will make an estimate of the number of looked-after children placed (a) inside and (b) outside the borough that were reported (i) missing and (ii) away without authorisation in each local authority area in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Ann Coffey
uin	272767
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2019 answer text <p>The attached table shows the number of looked-after children in children’s homes who were missing or away without authorisation status, and by placement location, from 2015 to 2018, for each local authority. The figures presented in the table are higher than those presented in response to PQ <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2019-06-24/268391/" target="_blank">268391</a>, as a child may have an incident that is ‘missing’ and an incident that is classified as ‘away without authorisation’ in their care history. These incidents may also vary by placement location over the same period. A child will be counted once for each variation of incident that is recorded.</p><p>The latest figures nationally on children looked after who go missing and the number of incidents are published in table G1 of the statistical release ‘Children looked after in England including adoption: 2017 to 2018’, which can be found at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2017-to-2018</a>.</p><p>All figures on the overall number of children who were looked after during the year, who were missing or away from placement without authorisation, are still classified as experimental statistics. This is the fourth year these statistics have been collected in this way, and local authorities have reported some variation over recent years in how these incidents are recorded.</p><p>As experimental statistics, figures are not comparable across years. Local authority comparisons should be treated with the same degree of caution and firm conclusions cannot be drawn about local practice. Some authorities have informed the department that they do not record any incidents as ‘away without authorisation’ but instead report all incidents as ‘missing information’. We estimate that around 1 in 3 local authorities record this data in this way. We will continue to assess whether the figures are considered robust enough to be classed as national statistics, rather than experimental.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 08/07/2019 15:36:25 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 272767_Children_looked_after_in_children's_homes_subject_to_children's_homes_regulations_who_were_missing_or_away_without_authorisation_during_the_year_ending_31_March (1).pdf title 272767_Table
tabling member	458 label Biography information for Ann Coffey

1136555

registered interest
date	03/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Sanitary Products
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 1 July 2019 to Question 269008 on Pupils: Sanitary Protection, what criteria his Department uses to assess the environmental friendliness of those products.
tabling member constituency	Orkney and Shetland
tabling member printed	Mr Alistair Carmichael
uin	272791
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2019 answer text <p>As noted in the answer to question 269008, the Invitation to Tender for the Period Products scheme in England has set out that environmentally friendly sanitary pads should be provided as a minimum and that the provision of further sustainable products is encouraged.</p><p>When determining whether period products are environmentally friendly, consideration will be given to the extent to which the materials used in the products are sustainable, whether the products are biodegradable and whether the products are reusable.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 08/07/2019 13:58:00 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1442 label Biography information for Mr Alistair Carmichael

1136571

registered interest
date	03/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the value of apprenticeship levy funds expiring from employers' accounts was in June 2019; and what plans the Government has for those funds.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	272836
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>The amount of funds expiring in employers’ digital apprenticeship service accounts in June 2019 was £26 million.</p><p> </p><p>As well as funding apprenticeships in levy-paying employers, levy contributions are also used to fund training for existing apprenticeship learners and new apprenticeships in non-levy paying employers. We do not anticipate that all employers who pay the levy will need or want to use all the funds in their accounts, however they are able to do this.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 09/07/2019 15:17:12 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton previous answer version 127749 answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

1136579

registered interest
date	03/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish a response to the petition entitled, Give schools the money they need, that was presented to the House on 5 June 2019.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	272792
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2019 answer text <p>My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education will publish a response to the petition entitled, ‘Give schools the money they need’, which was presented to the House on 5 June 2019.</p><p>As per the recommendation in the ‘Procedure Committee’s First Report on Public Petitions and Early Day Motions’, July 2007, my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State, intends to reply within two months of the petition’s presentation.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 08/07/2019 16:16:54 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1136591

registered interest
date	03/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Educational Exchanges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to encourage secondary schools and their pupils to take part in student exchange programmes with schools in other countries.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	272743
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2019 answer text <p>In January, my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education announced a new £2.5 million programme to provide more opportunities for young people, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, to take part in an international school exchange.</p><p>State schools in England can apply for grants to take pupils aged 11 and above to visit partner schools around the world, giving them the chance to experience different cultures, improve language skills and build independence, character and resilience.</p><p>​Some of the first exchanges have already taken place, to destinations including Toulon in France, and Heinsberg in Germany. More information about the programme is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/25-million-to-boost-international-exchanges-for-schools" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/25-million-to-boost-international-exchanges-for-schools</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 08/07/2019 16:02:26 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham