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224692

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of the amount (a) her Department and (b) its agencies and non-departmental public bodies spent on procurement was paid to small and medium-sized enterprises (i) directly and (ii) through the supply chain in the last year for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
	uin	226057
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>The Government has overhauled public procurement to open it up to businesses of all sizes. On 25 February 2015, we announced that central government spent £11.4 billion with SMEs in 2013-14, a record 26.1% of direct and indirect spend. This meets our aspiration, set in 2010, that 25% of government procurement spend would be with SMEs by the end of this Parliament.</p><p>The data on central government spend with SMEs in 2013-14 is available on GOV.UK: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/central-government-spend-with-smes-2013-to-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/central-government-spend-with-smes-2013-to-2014</a></p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 09/03/2015 16:53:50 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

224851

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Billing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of suppliers to her Department and its agencies and non-departmental public bodies paid subcontractors within 30 days in the last period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
	uin	226182
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>An answer could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 09/03/2015 16:58:14 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

224849

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Billing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what requirements her Department and its agencies and non-departmental public bodies place on suppliers in respect of their payment terms to subcontractors as part of their standard terms and conditions.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
	uin	226166
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education’s standard terms and conditions contain a clause requiring contractors to pay subcontractors within 10 days where the subcontractor is an SME, or 30 days either where the subcontractor is not an SME or both the contractor and the subcontractor are SMEs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 09/03/2015 16:59:20 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

224848

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Billing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of undisputed invoices her Department and its agencies and non-departmental public bodies paid within five days in the last period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
	uin	226073
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education and Education Funding Agency (EFA) report this information via their Annual Report and Accounts. Both links are below:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dfe-consolidated-annual-report-and-accounts-2013-to-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dfe-consolidated-annual-report-and-accounts-2013-to-2014</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/efa-annual-report-and-accounts-1-april-2013-to-31-march-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/efa-annual-report-and-accounts-1-april-2013-to-31-march-2014</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>From the first link above, on Page 57 the core Department reports 86.2% of undisputed invoices were paid within 5 calendar days during the 2013 to 2014 financial year. The Government’s target is to pay 80% of undisputed invoices within five days. The core Department is performing above this target.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>From the second link above, on Page 44 the EFA reports 33% of invoices were paid within 5 calendar days during the 2013 to 2014 financial year. The EFA does not differentiate between valid and invalid invoices. This explains the lower performance figure as the majority of invoices received did not meet the “submitted correctly requirement”. The EFA is taking action to resolve these issues and there has been significant improvement, with 50% of invoices paid within five days in the final quarter of the year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The information requested is not available for all of our agencies and non-departmental public bodies as there is no current requirement for them to report on their prompt payment performance.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 09/03/2015 17:01:50 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

227285

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Research
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what amount her Department and its agencies spent on research and development in each year since 2010-11; and what proportion such spending was of total departmental spending.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
	uin	227557
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2015 answer text <p>The total amount the Department for Education and its agencies has spent on formal research and development in each year since 2010-11; and what proportion such spending was of total Departmental spending, can be found in the table below:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Research Spend Actual (£M)</p></td><td><p>Research expenditure as a proportion of total Departmental expenditure</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>0.046%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>0.023%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>0.027%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>0.026%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The 2010-2013 data is available from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) online at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-352137" target="_blank">http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-352137</a>. The figures we have supplied for research spend for the financial year 2013/14 have already been supplied to the ONS as part of the 2014 Government Research and Development Survey. This survey has yet to be published.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 20/03/2015 13:46:38 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

417258

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Department for Education: Consultants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what policy evaluations have been carried out by external organisations for her Department and its agencies in each financial year since 2010-11; whether the output of those evaluations was published; which organisation carried out each such evaluation; and what the value of each contract to provide that evaluation was.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
	uin	9247
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education commissions external organisations to carry out policy research and evaluation. All of the commissioned research and evaluation feeds into policy strategy, development and refinement.</p><p> </p><p>The department follows Government Social Research (GSR) commissioning and publication protocol and ensures research and evaluation products are made publicly available and released promptly upon completion.</p><p> </p><p>Between 2010/11 and 2014/15, the department spent a total of £71.1 million on policy research and evaluation undertaken by external organisations.</p><p> </p><p>The department predicts an expenditure of c.£12,000,000 on policy research and evaluation in 2015/16.</p><p> </p><p>The information below covers all research and evaluation commissioned by the Department for Education and its agencies. The agencies are: the National College for Teaching and Leadership, the Standards and Testing Agency and the Education Funding Agency.</p><p> </p><p>Since May 2010 the department’s commissioned work and the work commissioned by its agencies has been published on the following websites:</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>Department for Education (March 2010-March 2013): <a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130403150653/https:/www.education.gov.uk/publications/RSG/AllRsgPublications/Page1" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130403150653/https://www.education.gov.uk/publications/RSG/AllRsgPublications/Page1</a></p></li><li><p>Department of Education: (Since April 2013): <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications?keywords=&amp;publication_filter_option=research-and-analysis&amp;departments%5B%5D=department-for-education" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications?keywords=&amp;publication_filter_option=research-and-analysis&amp;departments%5B%5D=department-for-education</a></p></li><li><p>Completed policy evaluation and research carried out by departmental agencies can also be found at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications</a></p></li></ul><p> </p><p>The department also funded three research centres until March 2013. The evaluations and research carried out by the research centres can be found on the following websites:</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>Childhood Wellbeing Research Centre: <a href="http://www.cwrc.ac.uk/resources/773.html" target="_blank">www.cwrc.ac.uk/resources/773.html</a></p></li><li><p>Centre for Understanding Behaviour Change: <a href="http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cubec/researchreports/" target="_blank">www.bristol.ac.uk/cubec/researchreports/</a></p></li><li><p>Centre for Analysis of Youth Transitions: <a href="http://www.ifs.org.uk/search/publications?centres%5B0%5D=325&amp;sorting=newest" target="_blank">www.ifs.org.uk/search/publications?centres%5B0%5D=325&amp;sorting=newest</a></p></li></ul><p> </p><p>Details of which organisation carried out the research or evaluation studies can be found on the front page of each report.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 14/09/2015 15:58:21 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

456101

	registered interest
	date	29/02/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how she plans to respond to the Concluding Observations of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC); and whether her Department has made an assessment of the submission to the CRC by the Children's Rights Alliance England in their See It, Say It, Change It report, published in July 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
	uin	29019
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2016 answer text <p>As part of the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child, the UK Delegation will attend an oral hearing with the UN Committee in May 2016. Following this, the UN will produce concluding observations, which the UK will consider.</p><p>The Government welcomes the views of children and young people. Senior officials, including the UK State Party’s delegation, have read and noted the contents of the ‘<em>See It, Say It, Change It’</em> report and the Minister for Children and Families will meet with the group of young people who produced it to hear more about the issues that concern them.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 08/03/2016 15:14:22 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

535200

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when her Department plans to publish the findings of the first phase of its consultation on a national schools funding formula; and when the second phase of that consultation is planned to commence.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
	uin	42318
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2016 answer text <p>We received a high number of responses to the first stage of our consultation on the principles and building blocks of the schools national funding formula. Those will inform our detailed proposals for the design of the formula, which we will put forward later this year. We must allow appropriate time to consider what would be significant reforms, and we remain committed to introducing the formula from 2017-18 so that schools can start to benefit from fairer funding as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 19/07/2016 16:39:59 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

577499

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Department for Education: EU Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many citizens of other EU countries work in her Department, its agencies and non-departmental public bodies.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
	uin	45508
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not keep records of whether its employees are citizens of other EU countries. Departmental staff includes Executive Agencies, but excludes Non-Departmental Public Bodies and all non-payroll staff as this information is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 16/09/2016 13:32:58 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

1127305

	registered interest
	date	17/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Charitable Donations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate he has made of the proportion of comprehensive primary school funding which comes from donations by parents or guardians of pupils.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
	uin	255676
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>The information requested, regarding the proportion of funding which comes from donations by parents or guardians of pupils, is not held centrally. Schools’ financial returns show that overall income from donations and voluntary funds has remained steady at about 0.7% of schools’ overall budgets since 2011-12.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 23/05/2019 13:52:15 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna