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886355

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children in Care
	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 6 April 2018 to Question 134364, on runaway children, how many looked-after children placed in children’s homes (a) inside and (b) outside the borough of the authority responsible for their care were reported missing.
	tabling member constituency	Stockport
	tabling member printed	Ann Coffey
	uin	136550
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>Information on the number of missing incidents of looked after children in children’s homes by the location of the placement is shown in the attached table.</p><p>These statistics are experimental statistics based on data collected for the first time in 2015 and should be treated with caution as local councils’ recording of this information is improving over time. The figures are therefore not comparable between years and any assessment of trends should take this into account. The information provided does not mean that the number of children going missing is increasing in the volumes indicated in the table.</p><p>Local councils have improved their reporting of missing incidents through increased collaboration with partner organisations and carers, updated recording systems, and further training for carers to improve understanding of reporting processes.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 23/04/2018 16:42:45 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 136550_Table.pdf title missing_incidents_in_children’s_homes
	tabling member	458 label Biography information for Ann Coffey

860736

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Academies: Alternative Education
	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 6 March 2018, to Question 129771 in which local authority the 117 alternative provision academies and free schools are located; for which years between 2013 to 2017 those academies have been open; and whether those such academies are new schools or convert academies.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	132093
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>As at end of February 2018, there are 117 open AP academies and free schools; 79 are schools that have converted as academies and 38 have opened as new free schools. The tables attached provide figures on the number of these establishments, split by local authority and the year they opened between 2012 and 2018.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name Table 1 132093.docx title Table 1 2 file name Table 2 132093.docx title Table 2 question first answered 20/03/2018 17:38:00 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

810536

	registered interest
	date	21/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Department for Education: Regulation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the title was of each set of regulations introduced by her Department in each month since May 2010; which of those regulations have been (a) subject to the (i) one in one out and (ii) one in two out procedure and (b) (i) revoked and (ii) amended; and what the net cost to (A) the public purse; and (B) business of those regulations is.
	tabling member constituency	Witham
	tabling member printed	Priti Patel
	uin	120881
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2018 answer text <p>The attached spreadsheet lists every regulation introduced by the department since May 2010, ordered by year (see tabs at the bottom of the spreadsheet), and indicates which of these regulations have been amended, and which have been revoked (including partial revocations and pending amendments).</p><p> </p><p>As requested, these regulations have been ordered by month. In the absence of further instructions, they have been ordered by the month in which they came into force (commencement date).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The changes to regulations affecting business during the 2010-15 parliament made by the department, and the associated costs or savings, are recorded in ‘Statements of New Regulation’ that were published every six months. These are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/one-in-two-out-statement-of-new-regulation" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/one-in-two-out-statement-of-new-regulation</a>. During the 2010-15 parliament, the department made five changes to regulation which had a total cost to business of £2.8 million, and made 16 deregulatory changes which had a total saving to business of £13.54 million, a net saving of £10.74 million. Any costs arising for the public sector are calculated in line with the guidance in the ‘Better Regulation Framework Manual’.</p><p> </p><p>For the 2015-17 Parliament, the government will shortly publish its final report on the savings to business delivered during that parliament. For the current parliament, the government is committed to maintaining a proportionate approach to regulation to enable business growth while maintaining public protections. This will be monitored through the target that the government is required to set under the ‘Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015’.</p><p> </p><p>In line with the government’s Principles of Regulation, regulations are not introduced or amended unless the department has demonstrated that satisfactory outcomes cannot be achieved by alternative approaches, that the regulatory approach is substantially superior to alternative approaches, and that the regulation and its enforcement framework can be implemented in a proportionate, accountable, consistent, transparent and targeted manner.</p><p> </p><p>The government has published guidance for departments on the statutory requirement that all new regulations contain a requirement for a review at a suitable point after their implementation. This can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/small-business-enterprise-and-employment-act-statutory-review-requirements" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/small-business-enterprise-and-employment-act-statutory-review-requirements</a>. The department has issued advice to its officials to explain and reinforce the statutory guidance. The impact assessment for a new regulation should set out the plan for a post-implementation review of the measure, typically within five years of it coming into force. The review should assess if the objectives of the regulation were achieved, remain valid and relevant, and whether they could be achieved in a less burdensome way.</p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li></li></ul> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 120912 question first answered 12/01/2018 14:59:27 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name Spreadsheet of regulation since May 2010.xlsx title Spreadsheet of regulations since 2010
	tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

810567

	registered interest
	date	21/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Department for Education: Regulation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what processes her Department has put in place to (a) monitor, (b) collate cost information on, (c) review and (d) respond to requests to amend or revoke regulations introduced by her Department.
	tabling member constituency	Witham
	tabling member printed	Priti Patel
	uin	120912
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2018 answer text <p>The attached spreadsheet lists every regulation introduced by the department since May 2010, ordered by year (see tabs at the bottom of the spreadsheet), and indicates which of these regulations have been amended, and which have been revoked (including partial revocations and pending amendments).</p><p> </p><p>As requested, these regulations have been ordered by month. In the absence of further instructions, they have been ordered by the month in which they came into force (commencement date).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The changes to regulations affecting business during the 2010-15 parliament made by the department, and the associated costs or savings, are recorded in ‘Statements of New Regulation’ that were published every six months. These are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/one-in-two-out-statement-of-new-regulation" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/one-in-two-out-statement-of-new-regulation</a>. During the 2010-15 parliament, the department made five changes to regulation which had a total cost to business of £2.8 million, and made 16 deregulatory changes which had a total saving to business of £13.54 million, a net saving of £10.74 million. Any costs arising for the public sector are calculated in line with the guidance in the ‘Better Regulation Framework Manual’.</p><p> </p><p>For the 2015-17 Parliament, the government will shortly publish its final report on the savings to business delivered during that parliament. For the current parliament, the government is committed to maintaining a proportionate approach to regulation to enable business growth while maintaining public protections. This will be monitored through the target that the government is required to set under the ‘Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015’.</p><p> </p><p>In line with the government’s Principles of Regulation, regulations are not introduced or amended unless the department has demonstrated that satisfactory outcomes cannot be achieved by alternative approaches, that the regulatory approach is substantially superior to alternative approaches, and that the regulation and its enforcement framework can be implemented in a proportionate, accountable, consistent, transparent and targeted manner.</p><p> </p><p>The government has published guidance for departments on the statutory requirement that all new regulations contain a requirement for a review at a suitable point after their implementation. This can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/small-business-enterprise-and-employment-act-statutory-review-requirements" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/small-business-enterprise-and-employment-act-statutory-review-requirements</a>. The department has issued advice to its officials to explain and reinforce the statutory guidance. The impact assessment for a new regulation should set out the plan for a post-implementation review of the measure, typically within five years of it coming into force. The review should assess if the objectives of the regulation were achieved, remain valid and relevant, and whether they could be achieved in a less burdensome way.</p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li></li></ul> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 120881 question first answered 12/01/2018 14:59:27 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name Spreadsheet of regulation since May 2010.xlsx title Spreadsheet of regulations since 2010
	tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

857778

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Academies: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department has spent from the public purse on grants and loans to academies and free schools since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Bootle
	tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
	uin	131679
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2018 answer text <p>As of January 2018, 3.76 million pupils were being taught in academies, including free schools – 47% of the English school population. The department’s spend and loans to academies and free schools in the last two full Financial Years, is as detailed in the table attached.</p><p> </p><p>We are in the process of making a routine update to the data that we hold on pre and post-opening grant allocations for free schools, university technical colleges and studio schools, following the opening of new schools in September. We will be publishing the latest data on GOV.UK in due course.</p><p> </p><p>Further information can be found in the Department's Consolidated annual report and accounts, for the year ended 31 March 2017, available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dfe-annual-reports" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dfe-annual-reports</a> and in the National Audit Office report on Converting maintained schools to academies, Feb 2018, which can be found at: <a href="https://www.nao.org.uk" target="_blank">https://www.nao.org.uk</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 14/03/2018 17:37:22 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 131679 Attach.docx title Spend and loans to academies and free schools previous answer version 47103 answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

821482

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: Absenteeism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many authorised pupil absences for illness were there in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in each (i) spring term and (ii) autumn term in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	122400
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2018 answer text <p>The accompanying table provides the number of absence sessions due to illness in state-funded primary and secondary schools in each spring and autumn term, for the 2010/11 to 2016/17 academic years.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 17/01/2018 17:55:02 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name PQ122400_TSiddiq.xlsx title Sessions of pupil absence for illness
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

835984

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Collective Spirit Multi-Academy Trust
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what related party transactions were registered by the Collective Spirit Multi Academy Trust in each year since its foundation.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
	tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
	uin	126339
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2018 answer text <p>Collective Spirit Multi Academy Trust has registered five related party transactions in its full annual accounts since its foundation in 2013.</p><p> </p><p>The full annual accounts are published on the Companies House website at: <a href="https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08178309/filing-history?page=2" target="_blank">https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08178309/filing-history?page=2</a>.</p><p> </p><p>A summary of what the related party transactions are can be found in the table attached.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 07/02/2018 17:50:35 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 126339 attachment.docx title Party transactions
	tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

850202

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupil Referral Units
	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 6 February 2018 to Question 125156, on Pupil Referral Units (PRUs), in which local authority areas the (a) 70 PRUs which applied to convert to academy status and (b) 76 PRUs which have converted to alternative provision academies are located.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	129770
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text <p>The 70 Pupil Referral Units (PRUs) which applied to convert to academy status between January 2013 and January 2018 spanned 45 local authorities (refer to attached Table 1).</p><p> </p><p>The 76 PRUs that converted to alternative provision academies during the same period spanned 47 local authorities (refer to attached Table 2).</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 129770 Table 1.docx title PRUs that applied to convert to an academy 2013-18 2 file name 129770 Table 2.docx title PRUs that converted to AP academy status 2013-18 question first answered 06/03/2018 10:22:33 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

805420

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Staff
	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 full time equivalent (a) pastoral care workers (b) counsellors (c) mentors and (d) educational psychologists working in (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools in England since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	119091
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2017 answer text <p>The full-time equivalent (FTE) number of contracted staff whose role is defined as that of ‘pastoral support’ or of ‘learning mentor’, employed by state funded primary and state funded secondary schools in England, November 2010 to 2016 is provided in the table attached.</p><p>Information for ‘educational psychologists’ is not available by phase. These figures may <ins class="ministerial">also </ins>undercount the actual number of educational psychologists<ins class="ministerial"> in England and do not provide a comparable national year-on-year</ins> <ins class="ministerial">series </ins>because it is based on a varying percentage of local councils returns in each year (between 68 and 74 per cent).</p><p> </p><p>Data is not available for ‘counsellors’.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 18/12/2017 17:48:03 question first ministerially corrected 07/02/2018 09:07:01 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 119091 - table to be attached - 060218.docx title Number of contracted staff previous answer version 30391 answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill answering member 1562 attachment 1 file name 119091 - table.docx title The full-time number of contracted staff
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

833881

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Foster Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children have been fostered in England in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Totnes
	tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
	uin	125639
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2018 answer text <p>The numbers of children looked after in foster placements at any time during the year ending 31 March in each of the last five years were published in Table B1, in the statistical release Children looked after in England including adoption: 2016 to 2017 at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2016-to-2017</a>.</p><p>The numbers of children, who ceased to be looked after because of a special guardianship order during the year ending 31 March in each of the last five years, are shown in the attached table.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 125640 question first answered 07/02/2018 17:55:41 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 125639, 125640 - Number of children who ceased to be looked after because of a special guardianship order.docx title Number of children who ceased to be looked after
	tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston