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78290

registered interest
date	16/07/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Secure Accommodation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the funding for secure children's homes will be ring-fenced to maintain places.
tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
uin	HL1180
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Secure children’s homes (SCHs) are children’s homes that provide a locked environment and restrict a young person’s liberty. They provide care and accommodation to children and young people who have been placed there on welfare grounds by local authorities and the courts. They also accommodate and care for children and young people who have been detained or sentenced by the Youth Justice Board (YJB), and those who have been remanded to secure local authority accommodation.</p><p> </p><p>Funding for local authorities to purchase welfare beds is included in the Revenue Support Grant given to local authorities and is not ring-fenced, in line with our general policy to increase the control that local authorities have over their budgets to meet local needs.</p><p> </p><p>The YJB has a series of block-bed contracts with nine SCHs across England and Wales. A recent tendering exercise let a number of new two-year contracts.</p><p>The latest statistics on SCHs published on 4 June 2014 show that there were 298 approved places in England and Wales at 31 March 2014, an extra two places since 31 March 2013. These statistics are available online:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/317365/SFR14-2014_Text.pdf" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/317365/SFR14-2014_Text.pdf</a></p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 22/07/2014 12:26:54 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

78392

registered interest
date	16/07/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Offences against Children
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 9 June 2014, Official Report, column 63W, on teachers: offences against children, how many teachers have lost their job as a result of having a sexual or other relationship with a student under the age of 16 in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	206247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The responsibility for the dismissal of teachers rests with local authorities, school governing bodies and academy trusts, who are the employers of teachers in schools. Accordingly, the information requested about the dismissal of teachers is not held by the Department for Education.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Where a teacher has been dismissed, or resigned in the face of dismissal, as a result of serious misconduct all schools have a statutory duty to consider referring the matter to the National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL). In such cases involving child abuse, schools have a duty to refer the teacher to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) who will share the referral with the NCTL.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 22/07/2014 08:32:59 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

78419

registered interest
date	16/07/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Training: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average duration is of all completed traineeships to date.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	206126
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>In the June Statistical First Release we published data showing that there were 7,400 traineeships starts between August 2013 and April 2014 – the first nine months of the programme. We do not yet have reliable data to break this down further.</p><p> </p><p>Further information on traineeships data is published online at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/324016/traineeship-data-note-june14.pdf" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/324016/traineeship-data-note-june14.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 21/07/2014 16:31:24 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

78421

registered interest
date	16/07/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Employment Schemes: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what target she has set for the number of 16 to 17 year olds to (a) enrol on the Youth Contract programme, (b) be re-engaged into a positive outcome following the Youth Contract programme and (c) be retained in that positive outcome for five out of six months over the course of the Youth Contract programme.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	206128
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>For the Education Funding Agency (EFA)-managed strand of the Youth Contract programme for 16- and 17-year-olds, payments are made on a ‘payment by results’ basis, which has three outcome-related payments.</p><p> </p><p>In announcing the programme, the Government committed £126 million over three years to provide capacity to support up to 55,000 young people who are aged 16 or 17, not in education, employment or training (NEET) and who have no GCSEs at grades A*-C. As a result of efficiency savings made during the procurement for delivery of the programme, in January 2013 the eligibility for the programme was extended to provide capacity for up to an additional 15,500 young people aged 16 or 17 who are NEET and: who have up to one GCSE A*-C or; who are care leavers/young people in care or; who are young offenders released from custody or serving community sentences.</p><p> </p><p>Delivery data for the programme for the period September 2012 to the end of March 2014 was published on 26 June 2014 and published online here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/youth-contract-delivery-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/youth-contract-delivery-data</a></p><p> </p><p>This shows contractors delivered 18,570 enrolments, 9,949 re-engagements and 3,445 sustained engagements. The contracted profile for the period 1 April 2014 to 31 March 2016 shows: 21,500 participant enrolments; 23,000 participant re-engagements into positive outcomes of education, training or employment with training; and 23,500 participants to sustain in a positive outcome of education, training or employment with training for five out of six months.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 21/07/2014 15:41:25 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

78422

registered interest
date	16/07/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will estimate the annual cost to her Department of (a) stationery and (b) postage incurred when sending a ministerial reply to hon. Members; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	206145
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>Information is not available in the form requested. The report published by the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General (Official Report, 13 May 2014, 17WS) shows that Department for Education Ministers received 16,898 letters from parliamentarians in the 2013 calendar year. We do not keep records of the form in which replies to such letters are sent. As explained by the former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Education and Childcare in the reply given to the hon. Member on 7 July, Official Report Column 151W, most correspondence from hon. Members continues to be received as letters and is replied to in the same format. Ministers do, however, reply by email when they consider it appropriate to do so.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 21/07/2014 16:53:02 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

78423

registered interest
date	16/07/2014
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, pursuant to the Answer of 15 July 2014, Official Report, column 636W, on free schools, what assessment she has made of the feasibility of changes to the way personal information is recorded in free school applications to reduce the cost of redaction of that information; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	206239
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>The Department of Education keeps the format of free school application forms under review. In doing so, the most important consideration is to ensure that applicants provide information in a way that allows officials to make the best possible judgement about the quality and suitability of the application.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 21/07/2014 15:21:57 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

78424

registered interest
date	16/07/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Employment Schemes: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much has been paid to each provider of the Youth Contract for 16 to 17 year olds since September 2012.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	206180
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>The table below shows the amounts that have been paid since September 2012 by the Education Funding Agency (EFA) to the contractors delivering the EFA-managed element of the Youth Contract programme for 16- and 17-year-olds.</p><p> </p><p>This information relates only to the EFA-managed element of the Youth Contract for 16- and 17-year-olds. Funding for the Core Cities element of the programme, which is being delivered in Liverpool, Newcastle and Gateshead, and Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield, is devolved to the relevant local authorities.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Prime Contractor</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total amount paid since September 2012</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Skills Training UK Ltd</p></td><td><p>£2,060,685</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Prospects Services</p></td><td><p>£3,957,228</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Prevista Ltd</p></td><td><p>£298,344 (to 31 July 2013)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Consultancy Home Counties Ltd</p></td><td><p>£2,079,365</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Prospect Training Services (Gloucester) Ltd</p></td><td><p>£883,056</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pertemps People Development Group Ltd</p></td><td><p>£1,499,715</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Groundwork UK</p></td><td><p>£2,875,167</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 21/07/2014 15:35:52 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

78425

registered interest
date	16/07/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Haberdashers' Aske's Federation Trust
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will place in the Library a copy of the service level agreement between the Haberdashers' Aske's Federation Trust and the schools in which it operates.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
tabling member printed	Heidi Alexander
uin	206166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>The Trust reported to the Education Funding Agency (EFA) that a theft had occurred. The Trust undertook a full independent review, and the EFA monitored their response. The Department for Education’s most recent discussion with the Trust has been to confirm progress with the recovery of funds and the police investigation.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has not had recent discussions with the Trust’s auditors. The EFA reviewed the most recent audited accounts in early 2014.</p><p>The Department does not hold a copy of the service level agreement between the Federation Trust and its schools.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 206165 question first answered 21/07/2014 15:27:32 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander

78426

registered interest
date	16/07/2014
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 free schools have been approved by her Department which do not have identified sites; and in which local authority area each such school wishes to operate.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
tabling member printed	Heidi Alexander
uin	206167
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>There are currently 174 free schools open, with applications approved for a further 156 schools that are seeking to open in 2014/15 and beyond. Of these 330 schools, 4% do not currently have a permanent site identified. None of these schools are planning to open in September 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A full list of approved applications, showing the local authority, is published online:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/free-schools-successful-applications-and-open-schools-2014" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/free-schools-successful-applications-and-open-schools-2014</a></p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 21/07/2014 15:40:40 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander

78427

registered interest
date	16/07/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Land
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 23 June 2014, Official Report, column 75W, on academies: land, what (a) amount of public investment and degree of enhancement, (b) amount of private investment and degree of enhancement, (c) length of time the land has been in public use and (d) value of land at the date of determination would trigger a determination in order to protect the public investment in land where it ceases to be used by an academy.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	206202
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>All disposals of publicly funded land by an academy would be judged on their individual merits and the Department for Education places no absolute thresholds in such cases. My Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, would expect to balance the considerations listed against the circumstances under which the land in question is being disposed, and the future plans for it following disposal.</p><p>Guidance on academy land transfers is published online at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/254887/land_transfer_advice_april_2013.pdf" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/254887/land_transfer_advice_april_2013.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 21/07/2014 15:33:49 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff