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93799

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Priority School Building Programme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether factors additional to geography, commercial viability and condition need are assessed by her Department when selecting schools in the Priority School Building Programme.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	uin	210856
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>On 24 May 2011, the then Secretary of State confirmed that 261 schools would be rebuilt, or have their condition needs met through the Priority School Building Programme (PSBP). These schools were selected on the basis of their condition need.</p><p>For delivery purposes, the 261 schools have been grouped into batches taking geography and commercial viability into consideration. We have sought to prioritise the delivery of those batches containing schools in the worst condition.</p><p>In June 2014, a second phase of the PSBP was launched. The schools to be included in this second phase of the PSBP will again be determined solely on the basis of their condition need.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 21/10/2014 13:44:28 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

93540

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupil Premium
	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 how many infant pupils (a) are eligible to receive pupil premium and (b) have been registered to receive pupil premium in the school year 2014-15.
	tabling member constituency	North Devon
	tabling member printed	Sir Nick Harvey
	uin	210677
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>Pupil premium funding is allocated to state-funded schools for each financial year rather than by school year, primarily on the basis of the number of pupils recorded in the January school census as having been registered for free school meals (FSM) at any point in the last 6 years. A smaller proportion of pupils attract the pupil premium on the basis of being looked after, or having left care through adoption or under a Special Guardianship, Residence or Child Arrangements Order.</p><p>The Department for Education has published illustrative pupil premium funding allocations for the financial year 2014-15, based on census data from 2013. Final allocations for 2014-15 will be published later in the year, based on pupil data gathered through the January 2014 school census and the spring 2014 children looked after data return (and also the October 2014 school census, for adopted and other previously looked after pupils who were not recorded as such in the January 2014 school census).</p><p>From the data on which the published illustrative allocations for 2014-15 are based, the Department estimates that 430,350 pupils in reception, year 1 and year 2 will attract pupil premium funding on the basis of having been registered for FSM at any point in the last 6 years.</p><p>Pupil premium final allocations for the financial year 2015-16 will be based on pupil data gathered through the forthcoming January 2015 school census and the spring 2015 children looked after data return. Final allocations for 2015-16 will be published towards the end of 2015. To ensure we have the best estimates, we are working with primary schools and local authorities so that registration rates for benefits-related FSM are maintained for pupils in reception, year 1 and year 2 classes.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 21/10/2014 13:46:51 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	231 label Biography information for Sir Nick Harvey

93541

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Education: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she plans to take to ensure greater consistency in educational outcomes (a) from each stage of provision and (b) across all regions.
	tabling member constituency	Belfast North
	tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Dodds
	uin	210718
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>This Government has introduced an ambitious, coherent programme of reforms to ensure greater consistency in educational outcomes across all stages and regions in England.</p><p>We are reforming assessment and the curriculum across the primary and secondary phases and general and vocational qualifications to ensure we have a system that prepares young people for life in modern Britain. We are reforming GCSEs and A levels to be robust and rigorous, to match the best education systems in the world and to keep pace with universities’ and employers’ demands. The new national curriculum, introduced from this school year, also sets out expectations for children at all four key stages that match the curricula used in the world’s most successful school systems.</p><p>We are improving the accountability framework to improve standards across the country. In addition, Ofsted has implemented a more rigorous inspection framework, with performance data being used to target inspections on the weakest schools and a recognition that any school rated less than ‘good' is not performing well enough.</p><p>Some schools are still not performing well enough. We issued revised statutory guidance[1] to local authorities in May that makes very clear our expectations that they should take swift and robust action when maintained schools are performing poorly. This includes our expectation that their assessment should include the achievement of disadvantaged pupils and that poorly performing schools should become sponsored academies.</p><p>In addition, the academies and free schools programmes are shifting power and responsibility to leaders of education, giving schools greater autonomy to drive improvements, within a strong framework of accountability. The growth in sponsored academies is raising standards by turning around some of the most disadvantaged and worst performing schools in the country. Increasingly, high performing schools are taking the lead as sponsors, sharing their expertise and experience to benefit others.</p><p>Regional Schools Commissioners (RSCs) are responsible for overseeing the performance of academies, free schools, university technical colleges and studio schools in their region. RSCs, along with their headteacher boards, are helping to build the capacity of the Department for Education to pick up local and regional soft intelligence which will contribute to the ability of the Department to oversee academies and free schools and hold them to account. The RSCs will be able to take decisions on academy issues whilst being immersed in the local context. This will enable them to make decisions based on the circumstances of the school(s) and sponsor(s) in question.</p><p>All of these reforms will also help raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils and close the gap with their peers at every phase and in every region in England. In particular, the Government introduced the pupil premium in April 2011 – worth a total of £6.25 billion to date – to give schools the resources to raise the attainment of mainly economically disadvantaged pupils and those in care.</p><p>[1] <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-causing-concern--2" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-causing-concern--2</a></p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 21/10/2014 13:48:27 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

93158

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Priority School Building Programme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria her Department has used to decide which schools will receive Priority School Building Programme funding.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	uin	210420
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2014 answer text <p>We have completed a comprehensive Property Data Survey of the school estate. We will use information from that survey, together with information regarding any significant structural or asbestos related issues included within schools’ expressions of interest, to prioritise schools or individual buildings for inclusion in the second phase of the Priority School Building Programme.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 20/10/2014 16:41:38 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws previous answer version 22721 answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

93159

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	School Meals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department issues to kitchen staff in schools on steps to prevent food-related illnesses.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	210372
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not issue guidance to kitchen staff in schools on steps to prevent food related illnesses. The Food Standards Agency is responsible for food safety and hygiene across the UK.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 20/10/2014 16:49:37 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

93160

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Nuneaton
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much schools in Nuneaton constituency received under the pupil premium in 2013-14; and how much such schools will receive in pupil premium in 2014-15.
	tabling member constituency	Nuneaton
	tabling member printed	Mr Marcus Jones
	uin	210414
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2014 answer text <p>Schools and academies in Nuneaton constituency have been allocated £3.181 million through the pupil premium for financial year 2013 to 2014, and £4.004 million for financial year 2014 to 2015.</p><p>This includes funding through the deprivation and service child elements of the pupil premium for financial year 2013 to 2014, and also the children adopted from care element for financial year 2014 to 2015. It excludes the looked-after children element in both years as this is not available at a parliamentary constituency level.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 20/10/2014 16:50:30 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones

93166

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2014
	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, when her Department plans to publish its detailed condition survey of schools in England.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	uin	210421
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2014 answer text <p>The Property Data Survey Programme, which carried out high-level condition surveys of the school estate in England, completed its last survey in July 2014. To ensure that the data is sufficiently robust before it is put to any further use, I asked officials to share the data that we had gathered with schools and responsible bodies and rectify any significant variances in the dataset.</p><p>The deadline for feedback from schools and responsible bodies has recently passed and officials are considering where the survey information needs to be updated. Once this is completed, the Department will give further consideration to the future publication of the data.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 20/10/2014 16:47:51 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws previous answer version 22703 answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

93169

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2014
	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 recent progress she has made towards the introduction of a national funding formula for schools; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
	tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
	uin	210556
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2014 answer text <p>On 17 July, I announced that the Department for Education will allocate £390 million to the least fairly funded local areas in 2015-16. This is the biggest step towards fairer schools funding in a decade. It puts us in a much better position to implement a national funding formula when the time is right – after the next spending review, when there are multi-year public spending plans, and the Department can give greater certainty to schools about how the formula will affect them.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 20/10/2014 16:39:10 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws previous answer version 22718 answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

92856

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many local authority controlled (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in the UK will receive new resources for informing and educating schoolchildren and teachers about the work of the armed forces; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	210169
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2014 answer text <p>The latest termly email to schools, including to local authority controlled schools, sent in September included information about the new British Armed Forces Learning Resource 2014 and a link to the online version of the resource.[1] The resource aims to help teachers introduce students to the work of the Armed Forces in Britain and abroad, exploring their role, history, current operations and what it is like to work as part of the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force. It includes background information, views and different perspectives from many longstanding members of the Armed Forces and includes lesson ideas, areas for discussion and links to other publications and information. We often highlight free resources but believe that schools are best placed to decide which materials they wish to use.</p><p>[1] <a href="http://www.armedforceslearningresources.co.uk/" target="_blank">www.armedforceslearningresources.co.uk</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 20/10/2014 15:26:19 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

92857

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how new resources for informing and educating schoolchildren and teachers about the work of the armed forces are distributed to schools; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	210167
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2014 answer text <p>The latest termly email to schools sent in September included information about the new British Armed Forces Learning Resource 2014 and a link to the online version of the resource.[1] The Department for Education has not published a hard copy of the resource and has not sent it to any schools. The resource aims to help teachers introduce students to the work of the Armed Forces in Britain and abroad, exploring their role, history, current operations and what it is like to work as part of the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force. It includes background information, views and different perspectives from many longstanding members of the Armed Forces and includes lesson ideas, areas for discussion and links to other publications and information. We often highlight free resources but believe that schools are best placed to decide which materials they wish to use.</p><p>[1] <a href="http://www.armedforceslearningresources.co.uk/" target="_blank">www.armedforceslearningresources.co.uk</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 20/10/2014 15:28:55 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham