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61328

registered interest
date	11/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Asbestos
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assistance his Department makes available to schools to survey for and remove asbestos.
tabling member constituency	Wyre and Preston North
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Wallace
uin	200229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>The Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 set out the standards and duties to manage asbestos in non-domestic premises including schools. This includes the need to assess and manage the risks through the formulation of a site-specific asbestos management plan.</p><p> </p><p>On 24 January I announced the 2014-15 maintenance allocations, which are released as a non-ringfenced capital grant. The priorities for its use are decided locally and this can include supporting schools with asbestos issues.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 16/06/2014 14:30:33 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace

61371

registered interest
date	11/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
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 10 June 2014 Official Report, column 74W, on Members: Correspondence, when he expects to send a substantive reply to the letter of 30 April 2014 from the hon. Member for Walsall North about admissions to Walsall Academy which was separate from the letter sent to the Chief Executive of the Education Funding Agency; and for what reason that Answer does not mention that there was separate correspondence on the subject.
tabling member constituency	Walsall North
tabling member printed	Mr David Winnick
uin	200309
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>My noble Friend, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools, responded to the hon. Member's other letter of 30 April about admission arrangements at Walsall academy on 16 June. On behalf of the Department I would like to apologise for the delay in answering this letter.</p><p> </p><p>My reply of 10 June related to the letter with the reference (2014/0036207) quoted in the question.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 16/06/2014 14:02:24 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	316 label Biography information for Mr David Winnick

60913

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals: North East
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much capacity funding for universal infant free school meals has been (a) requested by and (b) disbursed to schools in (i) Washington and Sunderland West constituency, (ii) the Sunderland local authority area and (iii) the North East region.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	199863
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>On 18 December 2013, the Government announced capital allocations for universal infant free school meals for the 2014-2015 financial year. This included allocations of (a) £562,850 to Sunderland City Council and (b) £6.1 million to all local authorities in the North East region. We do not allocate funding at a constituency level.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, academies have received capital funding through the Academies Capital Maintenance Fund. This includes allocations of (a) £162,380 to academies within the Sunderland local authority area and (b) £311,608 to academies within the North East region. Across the country, £2.5 million has also been made available to multi-academy trusts.</p><p> </p><p>Of the capital funding that has been allocated to Sunderland, the authority has confirmed to the Department that 75% or more has been disbursed to specific projects to support universal infant free school meals. We do not hold information on the precise amount disbursed, and nor do we hold this data at a regional level.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 16/06/2014 14:39:47 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

61029

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Extracurricular Activities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what additional funding his Department makes available to schools to commission extra-curricular activities and projects.
tabling member constituency	Wyre and Preston North
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Wallace
uin	199837
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>The two main grants to schools to fund their day-to-day activities are the Dedicated Schools Grant and the Education Services Grant. The Education Services Grant is given to local authorities to provide education services for pupils in maintained schools, and is given directly to academies. When a school receives either of these grants, the funding is not ring-fenced: the school can spend it as it chooses. Schools are therefore free to decide how much of this funding they want to spend on extra-curricular activities and projects.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education also provides specific ring-fenced funding, through the primary PE and sport premium, for the improvement of PE and sport in primary schools. Headteachers are free to use this funding, an investment of over £150 million a year to 2015/16, to provide extra-curricular clubs for activity and sport, and for sport-related projects.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 16/06/2014 14:44:38 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace

61031

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Arts: GCSE
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many GCSE entries there were in (a) music, (b) drama and (c) art and design in England in (i) 2009-10 and (ii) 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
uin	200043
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>Information for the 2009/10 academic year is published in the “GCSE and equivalent results in England, 2012 to 2013 (revised)”[1] statistical first release.</p><p> </p><p>Provisional information for the 2013/14 academic year will be available in October 2014 and provisional information for the 2014/15 academic year will be available in October 2015.</p><p> </p><p>[1]<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/gcse-and-equivalent-results-in-england-2012-to-2013-revised" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/gcse-and-equivalent-results-in-england-2012-to-2013-revised</a>, Subject time series tables</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 16/06/2014 16:55:14 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

61142

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Faith Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of pupils in (a) Ribble Valley constituency, (b) Lancashire and (c) the UK attended faith schools in the latest year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Ribble Valley
tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Evans
uin	200166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>Education is a devolved matter and data on pupils held by the Department for Education refers to schools in England only. Information on pupils attending state-funded schools in England is collected via the school census. Information on pupils attending independent schools is collected via the school level annual school census. The latest data is for January 2014.</p><p> </p><p>In January 2014, the proportion of pupils that attended schools with a religious character declared on Edubase was (a) 50% in Ribble Valley constituency, (b) 45% in Lancashire and (c) 26% in England.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 16/06/2014 14:27:19 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	474 label Biography information for Mr Nigel Evans

61156

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Local Education Authorities: Disclosure of Information
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 ensure that local education authorities have proper procedures in place to protect whistleblowers.
tabling member constituency	South Staffordshire
tabling member printed	Gavin Williamson
uin	199821
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Communities and Local Government has the overall responsibility for local authorities' whistleblowing procedures. The Department for Education does take steps to ensure that the schools maintained by local authorities have adequate arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>Maintained schools are required to submit to their local authorities a Schools Financial Value Standard return. Question 20 of the return requires schools to confirm that all staff are aware of the school's whistleblowing arrangements and to whom they should raise concerns. The return defines whistleblowing as the confidential raising of problems or concerns within an organisation. The accompanying guidance suggests that schools' arrangements should be based on local authority policies and that staff should be made aware of the protections that are available to them.</p><p> </p><p>The Department also requires that local authorities' Schemes for Financing Schools should contain a provision requiring authorities to set out the procedure to be followed by persons working at a school or school governors who wish to complain about financial management or financial propriety at the school, and how such complaints will be dealt with.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 16/06/2014 14:14:17 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4108 label Biography information for Sir Gavin Williamson

61660

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Unemployment: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress his Department has made in reducing the number of young people not in education, employment or training since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Southend West
tabling member printed	Mr David Amess
uin	904220
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>Latest quarterly figures published in May show that the proportion of 16-18 year olds NEET is 6.7% - down a third since 2010 and the lowest on record.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 16/06/2014 16:56:30 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	44 label Biography information for Sir David Amess

61915

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Exclusions: Autism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent representations he has received on the number of children with autism informally excluded from school.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough
tabling member printed	Andy McDonald
uin	904221
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>The Secretary of State has received several recent parliamentary questions about the informal exclusion of children with autism. Officials from the department have also met with Ambitious about Autism in March 2014, to discuss its concerns about this issue, raised in the report, Ruled Out.</p><p> </p><p>The government's view remains clear. No child should be unlawfully excluded. Ofsted and the department would take seriously evidence that a school had acted unlawfully in excluding a pupil. In addition, most children on the autism spectrum would be considered disabled under the Equality Act 2010. Where disabled children are discriminated against through unlawful exclusion their parents can make a claim to the First-tier Tribunal (Special Educational Needs and Disability). The Tribunal has wide ranging powers, including the power to require the reinstatement of a pupil.</p><p> </p><p>Awareness of autism and appropriate skills are essential to meeting the needs of autistic children. The reforms we are introducing through the Children and Families Act will provide for earlier and better assessment of children and young people's needs. We're also investing more than £3 million of funding over two years to raise awareness of autism and help schools and colleges deliver the support these children and young people need. This includes £1.5 million for the Autism Education Trust to provide tiered training to early years, school and further education college staff, as well as £440,000 to the National Autistic Society, part of which is being used to provide advice to professionals and parents on exclusion.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 16/06/2014 16:57:44 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4269 label Biography information for Andy McDonald

61917

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
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 support children with special educational needs.
tabling member constituency	Daventry
tabling member printed	Chris Heaton-Harris
uin	904219
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>The Children and Families Act - to be implemented from September – introduces the most fundamental reform to the system for SEN and disability for 30 years, placing children and families at the heart of a more integrated system focused on improving outcomes for children and young people.</p><p> </p><p>Families will be more involved in decision making and there will be greater clarity about local services provided in each area.</p><p> </p><p>We're providing substantial funding to local areas to deliver the reforms. Last week we announced a further £45.2m - on top of the £70m already provided this year - for implementing the reforms.</p><p> </p><p>We are also providing £30m over two years to provide independent supporters to families.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 16/06/2014 16:57:16 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris