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755714

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Loans
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 introduce the legislative proposals for the establishment of a Sharia-compliant alternative finance product based on the Takaful model before September 2018.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	7482
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>We are now working to deliver an alternative student finance system following the passage of Higher Education and Research Act 2017.</p><p> </p><p>We will be engaging with experts in Islamic Finance on the detail of the regulations, processes, IT and accounting systems that will be needed to create the new set of alternative student finance products. This detailed work will be complex but we remain keen to introduce the new alternative system as soon as we feasibly can.</p><p> </p><p>We will announce more detailed plans in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson grouped question UIN 7483 question first answered 12/09/2017 16:46:42 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

755715

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress her Department has made on the establishment of a Sharia-compliant alternative finance product based on the Takaful model.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	7483
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>We are now working to deliver an alternative student finance system following the passage of Higher Education and Research Act 2017.</p><p> </p><p>We will be engaging with experts in Islamic Finance on the detail of the regulations, processes, IT and accounting systems that will be needed to create the new set of alternative student finance products. This detailed work will be complex but we remain keen to introduce the new alternative system as soon as we feasibly can.</p><p> </p><p>We will announce more detailed plans in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson grouped question UIN 7482 question first answered 12/09/2017 16:46:42 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

746700

registered interest
date	29/06/2017
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 make an assessment of the potential merits of including in school admissions applications provision for disabled parents to give reasons for preferring a specific school.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	1953
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>School admission arrangements are set and applied locally.</p><p> </p><p>The School Admissions Code already enables admission authorities to give priority to children who have a particular social or medical need to attend their school. This could include circumstances where the parent has a disability.</p><p> </p><p>Where admission authorities wish to prioritise children on this basis, it must be clearly set out in their admission arrangements.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 05/07/2017 15:44:28 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

720410

registered interest
date	13/04/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Dental Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number of school days lost as a result of children's dental problems in each of the last five school years.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	70857
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2017 answer text <p>The Department does not hold data on absence due to children's dental problems. Figures for absence by reason, including authorised absence for illness and medical/dental appointments, are published in “Pupil absence in schools in England: 2015 to 2016”, available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/pupil-absence-in-schools-in-england-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/pupil-absence-in-schools-in-england-2015-to-2016</a></p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 21/04/2017 13:43:03 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

714088

registered interest
date	27/03/2017
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 guidelines her Department provides on the steps for admissions authorities to take to accommodate disabled parents' requests when engaging with the school admissions decision-making process.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	69160
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2017 answer text <p>The Department’s guidance for schools on the Equality Act 2010 makes it clear that it is unlawful to discriminate against a pupil due to the disability of another person with whom the pupil is associated, such as a parent.</p><p>It is for individual admission authorities to decide which admissions oversubscription criteria to specify within the parameters of the School Admissions Code (The Code). The Code allows admission authorities to prioritise applications based on medical and/or social need. It does not specify that this must include a parent’s medical needs or disability. Schools can, however, lawfully adopt admissions criteria that consider the disability of parents.</p><p>The Department is aware of case law which states that appeals about admissions will be successful if inflexible application of the published admission arrangements to the circumstances of a particular child results in an admission decision which is perverse. We are currently considering how to ensure that admission authorities and independent appeal panels are aware of the relevant case law.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 07/04/2017 13:08:02 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

712933

registered interest
date	21/03/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Period Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will commission a nationwide study to report on the prevalence of girls missing school because they cannot afford to buy sanitary protection; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	68644
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2017 answer text <p>We are aware of recent media reports and the government will look carefully at this issue. Schools have discretion over how they use their funding and if they wish to make these products available they are free to do so.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 28/03/2017 15:57:21 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

710977

registered interest
date	14/03/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Baverstock Academy
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 3 March 2017 to Question 64307, on Baverstock Academy, if she will publish her Department's review of the conditions at Baverstock Academy and the reasons those conditions posed a risk to interested sponsors.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	67978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2017 answer text <p>The Department will not be publishing anything in regards to the condition at Baverstock Academy. The Ofsted reports, the Financial Notice to Improve issued on 13 November 2015, and the Trust’s annual reports / financial statements are publicly available documents that provide an overall picture of the issues facing the academy trust. Potential sponsors would also have considered these documents and the following criteria in their due diligence and assessment of risks; current and projected pupil numbers; the quality of teaching and learning; overall financial position, condition of the buildings, and staffing numbers.</p><p>The primary objective of the department in making any decision about the future of Baverstock Academy is to secure value for money for the taxpayer whilst ensuring the best possible educational outcomes for the pupils and parents.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 20/03/2017 17:36:44 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

710978

registered interest
date	14/03/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Baverstock Academy
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 3 March 2017 to Question 64307, on Baverstock Academy, on how many occasions her Department has refused a sponsor because of the risk a school poses to that sponsor.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	67979
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2017 answer text <p>Although the Department holds detailed information on individual cases we do not record it in a way that allows us to quantify in how many instances a proposal for a sponsor to take on a failing school has not been approved because of the potential risk to the sponsor’s performance and financial health.</p><p>Regional Schools Commissioners are responsible for taking decisions on the creation and growth of Multi Academy Trusts. As such, they will take into account a number of factors about the capacity of the sponsor before reaching a decision to allow them to take on a failing school.</p><p>More information on this is detailed in the <em>Regional schools commissioners decision-making framework</em> (published April 2016) and in <em>Multi-academy trusts: good practice guidance and expectations of growth</em> (published December 2016), both are on gov.uk.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 20/03/2017 17:36:59 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

708933

registered interest
date	07/03/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Baverstock Academy: Closures
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 20 February 2017 to Question 63407, on Baverstock Academy: closures, for what reason her Department does not provide financial information on the estimated cost of proposed school closures when an academy is consulting on whether to close.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	66940
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2017 answer text <p>The estimated costs of a closure form only one element of a decision, which will take into consideration both the risks involved and dependencies required to deliver each of the options, and the best and most sustainable strategy for delivering good or outstanding school places for every child in the local area.</p><p>Releasing details of estimated closure costs could make factors that are equally influential in the arguments for and against closure seem less significant and give a misleading picture as to how the decision was made. The primary objective of the department in making such decisions is to secure value for money for the taxpayer whilst ensuring the best possible educational outcomes for the pupils and parents.</p><p>Releasing details of estimated closure costs would not provide a complete picture of the situation. In some cases, those details may also be commercially sensitive. The primary objective of the Department in making such decisions is to ensure the best possible educational outcomes for the pupils and parents whilst also securing value for money for the taxpayer.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 28/03/2017 16:38:12 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

708947

registered interest
date	07/03/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Loans
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 February 2017 to Question 65006, on students: loans, if she will publish details of the in-depth market testing exercise.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	66851
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2017 answer text <p>The Government ran a market testing process with a cross-section of potential investors in the student loan book from the end of September into November 2016. This sought feedback on potential sale structures and key features of the transaction and informed the design of the sale. This was a commercial rather than a public process and was conducted under non-disclosure agreements. We do not intend to publish a report of the details. Protecting the details of the conclusions of market testing will help the ongoing sale process achieve value for money for taxpayers.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 16/03/2017 12:34:25 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe