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511338

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Curriculum
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of ending the national curriculum at the age of 14.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	33504
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government believes that the majority of pupils should study a core academic curriculum up to the age of 16. The core academic curriculum refers to the English Baccalaureate (EBacc). The Government’s ambition is for 90% of pupils to enter the EBacc subjects at GCSE. The national curriculum serves an important role in setting out the sort of knowledge-based, ambitious, academically rigorous education which every child should experience. It enables pupils to develop the knowledge, understanding, skills and attitudes necessary for their self-fulfilment and development as active and responsible citizens.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 20/04/2016 11:33:29 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

582487

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Education: Digital Technology
	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 support the use of digital technology for improving attainment across the curriculum.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	46303
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2016 answer text <p>The Government’s approach is not to be interested in technology for its own sake, but rather how it can help teachers work more effectively and children to achieve. The Department has an enabling role so schools can take advantage of the opportunities, but not promoting particular approaches.</p><p> </p><p>We are focused on three areas:</p><ul><li><p>Unlocking innovation in the ed-tech industry by moving to a common set of standards for data within schools and government.</p></li><li><p>Building the evidence base of what works so schools can make informed decisions.</p></li><li><p>Helping teachers and school leaders to build their knowledge and understanding of technology so that they are able confidently to make best use of it.</p></li></ul><p> </p><p>Technology presents a number of opportunities to improve outcomes for children. Used well, technology can be a huge aid to schools, but the international evidence shows that caution is needed to ensure technology is used to best effect.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 21/09/2016 16:40:03 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

830140

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Education: Digital Technology
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to harness digital technology to deliver educational services.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	124817
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2018 answer text <p>The Government is working with the education sector as well as researchers and the education technology industry to target the key challenges and highlight the opportunities that technology presents to empower teachers, leaders and providers to make better-informed decisions about the use of technology across education.</p><p> </p><p>Tackling specific challenges, we recently announced a £7.7 million curriculum fund to encourage the development of high quality and knowledge-rich teaching resources. These resources, which could include digital as well as traditional materials, will help teachers deliver the government’s new curriculum while reducing workload and giving them more time to focus on teaching.</p><p> </p><p>We are also investing £84 million of new funding over the next five years to deliver a comprehensive programme to improve the teaching of computing and drive up participation in computer science, particularly amongst girls.</p><p> </p><p>At the last budget, we announced a £30 million National Retraining Scheme fund to deliver digital skills training using edtech and artificial intelligence so that students and trainees can benefit from this emerging technology, wherever they are in the country.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 02/02/2018 11:42:02 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

833812

	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	Business: Education
	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 increase entrepreneurship and business education in schools.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	125570
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2018 answer text <p>Schools are free to cover enterprise and entrepreneurship within their personal, social, health and economic education.</p><p>The Government’s careers strategy, published in December 2017, aims to give young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to learn from employers about work and the skills that are valued in the workplace: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/careers-strategy-making-the-most-of-everyones-skills-and-talents" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/careers-strategy-making-the-most-of-everyones-skills-and-talents</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Statutory guidance sets out further details about the ambition that every school should offer every young person at least seven encounters with employers, including those who are self-employed, during their education as part of a high quality careers programme: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/careers-guidance-provision-for-young-people-in-schools" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/careers-guidance-provision-for-young-people-in-schools</a>. The Careers &amp; Enterprise Company’s network of Enterprise Advisers will support the delivery of this ambition. Enterprise Advisers are senior business volunteers who help schools to work with local businesses.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 07/02/2018 17:48:47 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

532235

	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

797995

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2017
	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, how many children in England (a) are in schools rated good or outstanding and (b) were in such schools in 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Havant
	tabling member printed	Alan Mak
	uin	116902
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2017 answer text <p>On 30 November 2017, Ofsted released their latest inspection data as at 31 August 2017, reporting there were 6,768,836 children in England in Good or Outstanding schools. The proportion of children in England in Good or Outstanding schools as at 31 August 2017, is 87%. The latest Ofsted First Release publication can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/maintained-schools-and-academies-inspections-and-outcomes-as-at-31-august-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/maintained-schools-and-academies-inspections-and-outcomes-as-at-31-august-2017</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Official statistics released by Ofsted showed there were 4,855,336 children in England in Good or Outstanding schools as at 31 August, 2010. The proportion of children in England in Good or Outstanding schools as at 31 August 2010, was 66%. See Ofsted’s Dataview site for details.</p><p><a href="https://public.tableau.com/profile/ofsted#!/vizhome/Dataview/Viewregionalperformanceovertime" target="_blank">https://public.tableau.com/profile/ofsted#!/vizhome/Dataview/Viewregionalperformanceovertime</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 116904 question first answered 08/12/2017 14:06:55 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4484 label Biography information for Alan Mak

797997

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2017
	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 proportion of children in England (a) are in schools rated good or outstanding and (b) were in such schools in 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Havant
	tabling member printed	Alan Mak
	uin	116904
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2017 answer text <p>On 30 November 2017, Ofsted released their latest inspection data as at 31 August 2017, reporting there were 6,768,836 children in England in Good or Outstanding schools. The proportion of children in England in Good or Outstanding schools as at 31 August 2017, is 87%. The latest Ofsted First Release publication can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/maintained-schools-and-academies-inspections-and-outcomes-as-at-31-august-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/maintained-schools-and-academies-inspections-and-outcomes-as-at-31-august-2017</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Official statistics released by Ofsted showed there were 4,855,336 children in England in Good or Outstanding schools as at 31 August, 2010. The proportion of children in England in Good or Outstanding schools as at 31 August 2010, was 66%. See Ofsted’s Dataview site for details.</p><p><a href="https://public.tableau.com/profile/ofsted#!/vizhome/Dataview/Viewregionalperformanceovertime" target="_blank">https://public.tableau.com/profile/ofsted#!/vizhome/Dataview/Viewregionalperformanceovertime</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 116902 question first answered 08/12/2017 14:06:55 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4484 label Biography information for Alan Mak

797998

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2017
	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 proportion of schools in England (a) are rated good or outstanding and (b) were so rated in 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Havant
	tabling member printed	Alan Mak
	uin	116905
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2017 answer text <p>This is a matter for Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Amanda Spielman. I have asked her to write to you and a copy of her reply will be placed in the libraries of the House.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 08/12/2017 14:07:43 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4484 label Biography information for Alan Mak

800596

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2017
	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, how many and what proportion of children are in schools rated good or outstanding in England in 2017; and how many children there were in schools so rated in 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Havant
	tabling member printed	Alan Mak
	uin	117217
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text <p>On 30 November 2017, Ofsted released their latest inspection data as at 31 August 2017, reporting there were 6,768,836 children in England in Good or Outstanding schools. The proportion of children in England in Good or Outstanding schools as at 31 August 2017, is 87%. The latest Ofsted First Release publication can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/maintained-schools-and-academies-inspections-and-outcomes-as-at-31-august-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/maintained-schools-and-academies-inspections-and-outcomes-as-at-31-august-2017</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Official statistics released by Ofsted showed there were 4,855,336 children in England in Good or Outstanding schools as at 31 August, 2010. The proportion of children in England in Good or Outstanding schools as at 31 August 2010, was 66%. See Ofsted’s Dataview site for further details:</p><p><a href="https://public.tableau.com/profile/ofsted#!/vizhome/Dataview/Viewregionalperformanceovertime" target="_blank">https://public.tableau.com/profile/ofsted#!/vizhome/Dataview/Viewregionalperformanceovertime</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 12/12/2017 17:56:18 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4484 label Biography information for Alan Mak

1082334

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2019
	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, how many schools which were classified at their previous inspection as (a) outstanding, (b) good, (c) requires improvement and (d) inadequate were subsequently classified in an inspection in 2018 or 2019 as (a) outstanding, (b) good, (c) requires improvement and (d) inadequate.
	tabling member constituency	Brentwood and Ongar
	tabling member printed	Alex Burghart
	uin	228748
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2019 answer text <p>This is a matter for Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Amanda Spielman. I have asked her to write to my hon. Friend and a copy of her reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 13/03/2019 17:35:05 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart