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346883

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date	27/05/2015
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 the cost to the public purse of doubling the free childcare allowance for three and four year olds to 30 hours per week will be by 2020; and from which areas of departmental expenditure this will be funded.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	89
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2015 answer text <p>The cost of the new childcare entitlement of 30 hours per week for working families will be considered as part of the normal Budget and Spending Review process.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 174 question first answered 02/06/2015 11:39:50 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

346936

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
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 the timetable is for the implementation of 30 hours of free childcare to working parents of three and four year-olds; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2015 answer text <p>The changes will be implemented to all working parents of three- and four-year-olds from September 2017. We are also developing plans to introduce the changes for some families a year earlier than planned, in September 2016.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 02/06/2015 10:42:32 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

346998

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Daycare
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to extend free childcare for working parents.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	173
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2015 answer text <p>The Government will increase the amount of free childcare available to working parents of three- and four-year-olds to 30 hours per week in 2017.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 02/06/2015 11:37:02 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

346999

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Daycare
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 annual cost to the public purse of the proposal to extend free childcare to 30 hours per week to working parents.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	174
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2015 answer text <p>The cost of the new childcare entitlement of 30 hours per week for working families will be considered as part of the normal Budget and Spending Review process.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 89 question first answered 02/06/2015 11:39:51 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

347073

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to paragraph 23 of the paper, The Importance of Teaching, published in November 2010, Cm 7980, what steps her Department has taken to establish a new collaboration incentive, which financially rewards schools which effectively support weaker schools and demonstrably improve their performance; what level of incentive was offered to how many schools under that scheme; what her policy is on continuing that policy; and what level of incentive to how many schools she plans to offer over the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Tristram Hunt
uin	159
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2015 answer text <p>Collaboration and partnership working are essential components of the academies and free schools programme. Over 50% of academies are in multi-academy trusts and a Department for Education report last year showed that 87% of academies support other schools. The department has also supported collaboration through the development of system leaders, enabling the best school leaders to drive improvement.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The department has implemented the Teaching Schools programme, with 644 teaching schools as of 21 May 2015. Since 2011, when the Teaching Schools programme began, £100m has been committed to developing the Teaching Schools network. Teaching schools are required to establish alliances of schools with which they work directly to provide school based initial teacher training, school-to-school support, research and development activity, and continuous professional development.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The department has also grown the number of National Leaders of Education (NLEs) from 470 in 2010 to 1040 as of 21 May 2015. NLEs are outstanding leaders who support other schools in challenging circumstances to improve. Each NLE receives a £6,000 annual bursary which covers the costs their school incurs in providing collaborative support to underperforming schools.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The department also introduced a School-to-School Support Fund in September 2014. The School-to-School Support Fund provides grant funding for teaching schools and NLEs to support school improvement by working with underperforming schools in the areas of greatest need through specific time-limited interventions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 01/06/2015 16:31:24 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4111 label Biography information for Tristram Hunt

347096

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
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, what guidance her Department provides to local education authorities (LEAs) on school choices where parents are applying to local grammar and LEA schools.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	18
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education provides a national framework for school choice through the statutory School Admissions Code and related admissions law. It is for local authorities and other admission authorities (including grammar schools) to set their admission arrangements within the parameters of this framework.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The School Admissions Code requires local authorities to publish a composite prospectus for parents which contains the admission arrangements for each of the state funded schools in their area. Parents can then express a preference for at least three schools when applying for a school place as part of the normal admissions round.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The School Admissions Code is published online at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-admissions-code--2" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-admissions-code--2</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 01/06/2015 16:30:01 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

347129

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) primary free schools, (b) secondary free schools and (c) university technical colleges have been approved in each local authority area in England and Wales since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	277
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2015 answer text <p>The information requested can be found in the attached tables.</p><p>The figures provided are for England only. Education policy in Wales is devolved to the National Assembly for Wales.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 01/06/2015 14:11:59 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson attachment 1 file name PQ277 attachement - Free schools and UTCs in each local authority.xlsx title Free schools and UTCs in each local authority
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

347131

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	GCSE
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 trends in the number of students who take vocational GCSEs who go on to study at university.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2015 answer text <p>The requested information has been supplied below:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Number of pupils entering higher education having achieved at least one vocational GCSE qualification</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Pupils in HE with at least one vocational GCSE by the end of key stage 4</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>28,409</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>21,655</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: National Pupil Database, HESA dataset</p><p> </p><p>These changes are the result of reforms to performance tables which have removed the perverse incentives for schools to teach qualifications that were easy to achieve and/or had an inflated value in performance measures. This served only to devalue vocational education. Now, the qualifications which can count in performance tables are those that are of demonstrably high quality and promote progression.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 01/06/2015 16:56:14 question first ministerially corrected 02/06/2015 13:51:54 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles previous answer version 2084 answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

347132

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	GCSE
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many vocational GCSEs were taken in each year since 2007.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	281
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2015 answer text <p>The requested information has been provided in the table below.</p><p> </p><p>Results of GCSEs in Applied[1] (vocational) subjects of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Entries</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006/07</p></td><td><p>147,264</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007/08</p></td><td><p>114,582</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008/09</p></td><td><p>138,101</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>113,180</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>95,116</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>23,459</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>12,109</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14[2][3]</p></td><td><p>7,881</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Source: Key Stage 4 attainment data</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These changes are the result of reforms to performance tables which have removed the perverse incentives for schools to teach qualifications that were easy to achieve and/or had an inflated value in performance measures. This served only to devalue vocational education. Now, the qualifications which can count in performance tables are those that are of demonstrably high quality and promote progression.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] For the years 2008/09 to 2010/11 this includes entries in both single and double award applied GCSEs. All other years include entries for double award applied GCSEs only.</p><p>[2] Discounting has been applied where pupils have taken the same subject more than once and only one entry is counted in these circumstances. Further information is available from the GCSE statistical first release available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/revised-gcse-and-equivalent-results-in-england-2013-to-2014" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/revised-gcse-and-equivalent-results-in-england-2013-to-2014</a>. The first entry policy was introduced in 2013/14; this policy could have affected the total number of entries in 2013/14.</p><p>[3] Double Award vocational GCSEs are equivalent to 1 GCSE.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 01/06/2015 16:57:44 question first ministerially corrected 02/06/2015 13:52:03 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles previous answer version 2085 answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

347134

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what forecast her Department has made of the number of unfilled teacher training routes in (a) mathematics, (b) physics and (c) all combined teacher training routes beginning in September 2015.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Tristram Hunt
uin	76
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2015 answer text <p>Figures published by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service on 28 May 2015 show that the Department for Education is on course to exceed its recruitment target for primary trainee teachers. Good progress is also being made in recruiting secondary trainees.</p><p> </p><p>The department has increased bursaries and scholarships to up to £25,000 and is paying a £5,000 salary bonus to mathematics, physics and computing trainees on our School Direct salaried scheme. The Prime Minister announced on 11 March 2015 further investment of £67 million over the next five years to recruit an extra 2,500 mathematics and physics trainee teachers and retrain 15,000 existing teachers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 01/06/2015 16:30:49 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4111 label Biography information for Tristram Hunt