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	registered interest
	date	27/06/2016
	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, with reference to the press release of the Department for Education of 4 January 2016, entitled Parents to get greater say in the school admissions process, what assessment she has made of the potential effect that ensuring only local parents and councils can object to school admissions arrangements will have on overall levels of compliance with the School Admissions Code.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	41339
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2016 answer text <p>Our proposed changes are intended to ensure that the Adjudicator is able to focus on the concerns parents may have about the fairness of the admission arrangements of their local school, and is not held up by the need to consider objections referred by interest groups from outside the area.</p><p>We do not believe that limiting who is able to refer objections to the Adjudicator will have a detrimental impact.</p><p>Any changes will be subject to parliamentary scrutiny.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 05/07/2016 16:05:46 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

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	registered interest
	date	28/06/2016
	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, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that school standards in England match those of the best international competitors.
	tabling member constituency	Havant
	tabling member printed	Mr Alan Mak
	uin	905630
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2016 answer text <p>In 2014 we introduced a new, ambitious national curriculum to match the best education systems in the world. We are also reforming GCSEs, A Levels and primary school assessment to represent a new gold standard which enables students to compete with their peers in the world’s best school systems. From summer 2017 the standard of a GCSE “good pass” will be in line with the average performance in high-performing countries.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 05/07/2016 09:15:50 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4484 label Biography information for Alan Mak

528956

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Arts: Secondary Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to encourage the take-up of creative subjects in secondary schools.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	uin	41332
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2016 answer text <p>The Government believes that every child should experience a high quality education throughout their time at school including in creative subjects such as music, art and design. All state-funded schools must provide a broad and balanced curriculum that promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils at the school and of society.</p><p>In maintained schools music and art and design are compulsory subjects within the national curriculum for 5-14 year olds. Maintained schools are also required to teach their pupils dance, as part of the PE curriculum for 5-14 year olds and drama, as part of the English curriculum for 5-16 year olds.</p><p>We have reformed GCSEs to make them more rigorous and to match expectations in the highest performing jurisdictions around the world. Since the English Baccalaureate (Ebacc) was first introduced the proportion of pupils in state-funded schools taking at least one GCSE in an arts subject has increased, rising from 46 per cent in 2011 to 50 per cent in 2015. From September 2016, schools will be teaching new gold standard GCSEs in music, dance, drama and art and design and new AS and A levels in music, dance and drama and theatre.</p><p>Between 2012-16, the Department invested over £460 million in a diverse portfolio of arts and music education programmes that are designed to improve access to the arts for all children, regardless of their background, and to develop talent across the country.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 05/07/2016 16:06:53 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden