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173905

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Bradford
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that Bradford has enough school places.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Mr David Ward
	uin	907048
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2015 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for planning and securing sufficient school places in their area. We have committed £5 billion between 2011 and 2015 to help local authorities to create new school places, and an additional £2.35 billion up to 2017. Bradford has been allocated £88million in Basic Need funding for 2011 to 2017, in addition to centrally funded places through the Free Schools programme.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 19/01/2015 16:09:37 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	3923 label Biography information for Mr David Ward

166825

	registered interest
	date	25/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free School Meals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support her Department has made available to small primary schools for providing free school meals.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Eric Ollerenshaw
	uin	906349
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2014 answer text <p>We recognise some smaller schools will face particular challenges in implementing universal infant free school meals. We have therefore allocated an extra £22.5 million transitional funding in 2014-15 to help schools with 150 pupils or fewer to implement the policy. Each qualifying small school received a minimum of £3,000. This is on top of the £2.30 per meal taken which all schools have been given for their newly eligible infants.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 01/12/2014 17:09:40 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4141 label Biography information for Eric Ollerenshaw

166826

	registered interest
	date	25/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free School Meals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what additional capital funding she plans to make available to help schools provide free hot meals to all infant pupils.
	tabling member constituency	Chippenham
	tabling member printed	Duncan Hames
	uin	906348
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2014 answer text <p>We have provided substantial support to help schools deliver this policy. We initially allocated £150 million capital funding in 2014-15, and are now providing an additional £24.5 million for individual school projects.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 01/12/2014 17:08:19 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	3951 label Biography information for Duncan Hames

100950

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Primary Education: Admissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support her Department has given to primary schools to ensure that they can provide sufficient places.
	tabling member constituency	Winchester
	tabling member printed	Steve Brine
	uin	905650
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2014 answer text <p>We are investing £5 billion over this Parliament to support local authorities in their duty to secure sufficient school places for their area.</p><p> </p><p>This has already enabled local authorities to create 260,000 additional pupil places between May 2010 and May 2013, including 212,000 primary places, with more in the pipeline for September 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 27/10/2014 17:17:46 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine

100952

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2014
	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 steps she is taking to ensure there is an adequate number of school places; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
	tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
	uin	905641
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2014 answer text <p>260,000 additional school places have been created between May 2010 and May 2013. We are on track to meet the extra pressures for places across the country.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 27/10/2014 17:15:11 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

78980

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: Disadvantaged
	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 closing the attainment gap between pupils receiving free school meals and others; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
	tabling member printed	Mrs Mary Glindon
	uin	904972
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>The gap between free school meals (FSM) pupils and others achieving Level 4 or above in key stage 2 reading and mathematics has narrowed from 19.3 to 16.2 percentage points between 2011 and 2013. The gap in FSM pupils and others achieving at least five A*-C grade GCSEs including English and mathematics has narrowed from 27.4 to 26.7 percentage points over the same period.</p><p> </p><p>The most recent Ofsted assessment is that school leaders are spending the pupil premium more effectively than at any time since the funding was introduced in 2011. Of 151 schools in the assessment, the attainment gap between free school meal pupils and their peers was closing, sometimes quite quickly, in all 86 schools judged by Ofsted to be good or outstanding. Gaps are also closing, albeit more slowly, in two thirds of the 50 sampled schools rated ‘requires improvement’.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 21/07/2014 16:43:21 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

78982

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2014
	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, what her proposals are for the adoption of a revised funding formula for schools.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington South
	tabling member printed	David Mowat
	uin	904967
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>We remain committed to the introduction of a national funding formula after the next spending review, when we can give certainty to schools about how the formula will affect them over a number of years. In the meantime, our allocation of an extra £390 million to the least fairly-funded local authorities in the country will make a real difference to those local authorities, such as Warrington, that gain from the proposals.</p><p>According to our indicative figures, Warrington will gain an additional £500,000 in 2015-16.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 21/07/2014 16:41:17 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4080 label Biography information for David Mowat

61918

	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: Bedford
	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 funding for the transition to a two-tier school system in Bedford Borough.
	tabling member constituency	Bedford
	tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
	uin	904217
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>We are not aware of any representations made on this matter<strong>.</strong></p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 16/06/2014 16:55:51 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

173786

	registered interest
	date	14/01/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Buildings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will publish the data gathered through the Property Data Survey Programme before the end of February 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	220718
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2015 answer text <p>The Property Data Survey provides us with the most detailed picture to date of the condition of the school estate. The survey will be used to help ensure that the Department for Education, and those responsible for the maintenance and improvement of schools, are targeting investment most effectively.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Those responsible for schools have been sent copies of their survey data in draft, and our intention is to share final survey data with them later this year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 19/01/2015 13:56:45 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

173387

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Sixth Form Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools opened a new sixth form in the last four years.
	tabling member constituency	Calder Valley
	tabling member printed	Craig Whittaker
	uin	220526
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2015 answer text <p>Since September 2011, 58 new school sixth forms have been established and 111 academies’ requests to open a sixth form have been approved. Local authorities are responsible for making these decisions in relation to maintained schools. The Secretary of State (and more recently the Regional Schools Commissioners on her behalf) is responsible for making these decisions in relation to academies.</p><p> </p><p>The numbers of new sixth forms are as follows.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year &amp; Type</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>New school sixth forms</p></td><td><p>24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>New academy sixth forms</p></td><td><p>33</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>New school sixth forms</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>New academy sixth forms</p></td><td><p>18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>New school sixth forms</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>New academy sixth forms</p></td><td><p>31</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong></p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>New school sixth forms</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>New academy sixth forms</p></td><td><p>29</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 16/01/2015 12:06:16 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	3940 label Biography information for Craig Whittaker