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347319

registered interest
date	28/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to paragraph 1.2 of Free Schools: how to apply, published by her Department in February 2015, what definition her Department uses for the term, local demand for new provision.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Tristram Hunt
uin	339
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2015 answer text <p>Wave 9 free school applications will be assessed against the criteria set out in “<em>Free school applications: criteria for assessment</em>”, which is published on the Gov.UK website: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/401234/free-school-applications-criteria-for-assessment-mainstream-and-16-to-19_feb_2015_final.pdf" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/401234/free-school-applications-criteria-for-assessment-mainstream-and-16-to-19_feb_2015_final.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The criteria make clear that the assessment of an application will include an assessment of the extent to which the proposed school addresses any shortage of school places in the area (“need for pupil places”). The assessment will also judge the extent to which the school will add to the diversity of local provision, offer higher standards than other local schools and respond to parental demand (“local demand for new provision”).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>All wave 9 applicants will be notified in writing of the outcome of their free school application. In due course, the successful applications and outcome letters sent to successful applicants will be published on the GOV.UK website.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 340 370 378 question first answered 02/06/2015 16:40:11 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4111 label Biography information for Tristram Hunt

347320

registered interest
date	28/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to paragraph 1.2 of Free Schools: how to apply, published by her Department in February 2015, what definition her Department uses for the term, need for pupil places.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Tristram Hunt
uin	340
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2015 answer text <p>Wave 9 free school applications will be assessed against the criteria set out in “<em>Free school applications: criteria for assessment</em>”, which is published on the Gov.UK website: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/401234/free-school-applications-criteria-for-assessment-mainstream-and-16-to-19_feb_2015_final.pdf" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/401234/free-school-applications-criteria-for-assessment-mainstream-and-16-to-19_feb_2015_final.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The criteria make clear that the assessment of an application will include an assessment of the extent to which the proposed school addresses any shortage of school places in the area (“need for pupil places”). The assessment will also judge the extent to which the school will add to the diversity of local provision, offer higher standards than other local schools and respond to parental demand (“local demand for new provision”).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>All wave 9 applicants will be notified in writing of the outcome of their free school application. In due course, the successful applications and outcome letters sent to successful applicants will be published on the GOV.UK website.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 339 370 378 question first answered 02/06/2015 16:40:11 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4111 label Biography information for Tristram Hunt

347330

registered interest
date	28/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish the applications to Wave 9 free schools and all correspondences between her Department's officials and Wave 9 applicants; and by what process applicants will learn of the outcome of their applications.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Tristram Hunt
uin	370
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2015 answer text <p>Wave 9 free school applications will be assessed against the criteria set out in “<em>Free school applications: criteria for assessment</em>”, which is published on the Gov.UK website: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/401234/free-school-applications-criteria-for-assessment-mainstream-and-16-to-19_feb_2015_final.pdf" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/401234/free-school-applications-criteria-for-assessment-mainstream-and-16-to-19_feb_2015_final.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The criteria make clear that the assessment of an application will include an assessment of the extent to which the proposed school addresses any shortage of school places in the area (“need for pupil places”). The assessment will also judge the extent to which the school will add to the diversity of local provision, offer higher standards than other local schools and respond to parental demand (“local demand for new provision”).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>All wave 9 applicants will be notified in writing of the outcome of their free school application. In due course, the successful applications and outcome letters sent to successful applicants will be published on the GOV.UK website.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 339 340 378 question first answered 02/06/2015 16:40:11 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4111 label Biography information for Tristram Hunt

347331

registered interest
date	28/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Priority School Building Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) school places and (b) schools have been created by the Priority School Building Programme to date.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Tristram Hunt
uin	371
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>The Priority School Building Programme (PSBP) will address the condition needs of 537 schools.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>PSBP1 is a centrally managed programme set up to address the needs of the schools in worst condition across the country. Through the programme, 260 schools will be rebuilt or have their condition needs met by the Education Funding Agency (EFA).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>25 PSBP1 schools have now opened providing rebuilt or refurbished buildings for 11,216 school places.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In May 2014 the Government announced a further £2 billion for the second phase of the programme, PSBP2. A list of the 277 schools to benefit from this second phase was published on 9 February 2015.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 04/06/2015 16:02:36 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4111 label Biography information for Tristram Hunt

347332

registered interest
date	28/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Priority School Building Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) school places and (b) schools will be created by the Priority School Building Programme by September (i) 2016, (ii) 2017 and (iii) 2018.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Tristram Hunt
uin	372
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>The Priority School Building Programme (PSBP) will address the condition needs of 537 schools.</p><p> </p><p>PSBP1 is a centrally managed programme set up to address the needs of the schools in the worst condition across the country. Through the programme, 260 schools will be rebuilt or have their condition needs met by the Education Funding Agency (EFA).</p><p> </p><p>25 PSBP1 schools have now opened providing rebuilt or refurbished buildings for 11,216 school places. PSBP is primarily a rebuild and refurbishment programme and has not been designed to provide additional school places.</p><p> </p><p>The construction timescales for each school are dependent on a number of factors, including, for example, ground conditions and planning permission.</p><p>In May 2014 the Government announced a further £2 billion for the second phase of the programme, PSBP2. A list of the 277 schools to benefit from this second phase was published on 9 February 2015.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 04/06/2015 16:01:22 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4111 label Biography information for Tristram Hunt

347333

registered interest
date	28/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many of her Department's employees are working on the free school programme; and what the annual cost of such work is.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Tristram Hunt
uin	373
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>Of the total number of employees in the Department of Education, the equivalent of 95.24 full-time free schools group staff assess free school applications, work with successful applicants as they prepare to open their free schools and support the schools once opened. In 2014-15, the cost of the free schools group was £6.15 million.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 04/06/2015 15:59:25 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4111 label Biography information for Tristram Hunt

347334

registered interest
date	28/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Jon Wood and Quantum Securities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on what occasions and dates she has held meetings with (a) Jon Wood and (b) representatives of Quantum Securities Ltd; and which such meetings have been held on her Department's premises.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Tristram Hunt
uin	374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Education has held no official meetings with Jon Wood or representatives of Quantum Services Limited.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 04/06/2015 15:35:25 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4111 label Biography information for Tristram Hunt

347336

registered interest
date	28/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Private Education: Regulation
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 ensure that all independent schools are abiding by the Independent Schools Regulations.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Tristram Hunt
uin	375
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>Meeting the independent school standards is a condition of continued registration for independent schools. All of them are inspected on a regular cycle. If a school does not meet the required standards, the Department for Education takes appropriate regulatory action to ensure that the situation is rectified in the shortest possible time, or the school is closed.</p><p>The department has underpinned this approach by commencing the relevant provisions of the Education and Skills Act 2008 (‘the Act’), so that the role of the three independent inspectorates, and Ofsted’s role in quality assurance of those inspectorates, is put on a statutory footing. In accordance with the Act, the independent school standards were revised and strengthened from January 2015, introducing a new leadership and management standard. These changes form part of the reform programme outlined by Lord Nash in his letter of 28 March 2014 to the Chair of the Select Committee.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 04/06/2015 14:42:14 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4111 label Biography information for Tristram Hunt

347337

registered interest
date	28/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) primary and (b) secondary school places have been created through the free school programme.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Tristram Hunt
uin	376
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2015 answer text <p>When the schools are at full capacity, around (a) 58,000 primary schools places, (b) 104,000 secondary school places and 50,000 places at all-through schools will be created by the free schools that have already opened or that are working towards opening in September 2015 and beyond. Special, 16-19 and alternative provision free schools will provide an additional 15,000 places.</p><p> </p><p>The table below summarises the number of primary, secondary school and all-through places created in each free school application wave. 46,150 primary places (80%) are in areas with a projected shortfall of primary places at the time the free school application was approved.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Application wave</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Places created (to nearest 1,000)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wave 1</p></td><td><p>13,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wave 2</p></td><td><p>31,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wave 3</p></td><td><p>43,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wave 4</p></td><td><p>45,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wave 5</p></td><td><p>5,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wave 6</p></td><td><p>19,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wave 7</p></td><td><p>20,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wave 8</p></td><td><p>34,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 399 question first answered 02/06/2015 16:41:50 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4111 label Biography information for Tristram Hunt

347340

registered interest
date	28/05/2015
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, if she will publish all departmental forecasts for projections of high and severe shortages of (a) primary and (b) secondary school places in (i) 2015, (ii) 2016, (iii) 2017, (iv) 2018 and (v) 2019.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Tristram Hunt
uin	377
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education publishes forecasts for pupil numbers in each local authority annually. The latest available data can be found in the 2014 capacity tables published online at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-capacity-academic-year-2013-to-2014" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-capacity-academic-year-2013-to-2014</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 4 provides local authority forecasts of pupils of primary school age through to 2018/19. Table 5 provides local authority forecasts of pupil of secondary school age through to 2020/21.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>For primary school places, the department has published information on the number of places added by local authorities, the number of places for which there are firm plans for delivery, and the number of places that the department estimates are still needed. This information is published in the local authority basic need scorecards which are published online at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/primary-school-places-local-authority-basic-need-scorecards" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/primary-school-places-local-authority-basic-need-scorecards</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The way in which the department estimates the shortfall of places is described in the technical annex of the scorecards. The department no longer articulates the shortfall of places in terms of ‘severe’, ‘high’ or ‘moderate’. Instead, it focuses on the estimated number of additional places needed to meet demand. The department’s aim is to ensure that all children have access to a good school place.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The basic need scorecard published in April 2014 focused on the estimated number of additional places needed to meet demand in 2015/16. It is our intention to continue to publish local authority pupil forecasts, school capacity data and shortfall calculations in a similar way.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 398 400 question first answered 02/06/2015 16:38:09 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4111 label Biography information for Tristram Hunt