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177831

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	GCSE: Blackpool
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students in schools under the control of Blackpool Education Authority in Blackpool South constituency received five GCSEs Grade A* to C including mathematics and English in the (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2009-10 academic year; and what those numbers represent as a proportion of the total number.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Mr Gordon Marsden
	uin	223477
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>GCSE attainment figures for the academic year 2014/15 are not yet available. Figures for the 2013/14 academic year were published in January 2015.</p><p> </p><p>Attainment at constituency and local authority level are only published for all state funded schools including academies and city technical colleges. Further school type breakdowns below national level are not published.</p><p> </p><p>The latest publication including constituency figures can be found in the GCSE statistics series on GOV.UK.[1] Figures for Blackpool South parliamentary constituency in 2009/10 were published in the In Your Area website.[2]</p><p> </p><p>Figures for the number of pupils in state-funded schools in Blackpool South constituency who achieved five or more A* - C grades including English and mathematics GCSEs in the academic years 2013/14 and 2009/10 can be found in the following table, with figures for Blackpool local authority and England as comparators.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Achievements at GCSE and equivalent for pupils<sup>1</sup> at the end of key stage 4 <del class="ministerial">in Blackpool local authority and in England</del><ins class="ministerial">by parliamentary constiuency of school location</ins></strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Years: 2009/10 to 2013/14 (revised)<sup>2,3,4</sup></strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Coverage: England, state-funded schools (including academies and CTCs)</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>Warning: 2013/14 figures not comparable to earlier years</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="2"><p>Number of eligible pupils<sup>1</sup></p></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Number achieving 5+ A*-C grades inc. <br />English and mathematics GCSEs</p></td><td><p>% achieving 5+ A*-C grades inc. <br />English and mathematics GCSEs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Blackpool South</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">601</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">253</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">42.1</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Blackpool LA</p></td><td><p>1,440</p></td><td><p>633</p></td><td><p>44.0</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>National</p></td><td><p>556,002</p></td><td><p>315,873</p></td><td><p>56.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2009/10</strong></p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"> Blackpool South</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">605</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">263</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">43.5</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Blackpool LA</p></td><td><p>1,607</p></td><td><p>768</p></td><td><p>47.8</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>National</p></td><td><p>575,970</p></td><td><p>318,720</p></td><td><p>55.3</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p><em>Source: National pupil database (2009/10) and key stage 4 attainment data (2013/14)</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><br />1. Pupils at the end of key stage 4 in each academic year.</p><p>2. Figures for 2009/10 are based on final data. Figures for 2013/14 are based on revised data.</p><p>3. New 2014 methodology applied to 2013/14 data (see SFR main text).</p><p>4. In 2013/14, two major reforms were implemented which affect the calculation of key stage 4 performance measures data: Professor Alison Wolf’s Review of Vocational Education recommendations and an early entry policy to only count a pupil’s first attempt at a qualification. Consequently, <del class="ministerial">I</del><ins class="ministerial">i</ins>t is not possible to directly compare 2013/14 figures with earlier years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/gcse-and-equivalent-attainment-by-pupil-characteristics-2014" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/gcse-and-equivalent-attainment-by-pupil-characteristics-2014</a></p><p>[2] <a href="http://www.education.gov.uk/inyourarea/index.shtml" target="_blank">www.education.gov.uk/inyourarea/index.shtml</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 09/02/2015 16:44:25 question first ministerially corrected 10/02/2015 11:56:15 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws previous answer version 43519 answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

1353364

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2021
	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 recent steps his Department has taken to reduce the attainment gap between state and independent schools in (a) Enfield North constituency, (b) London and (c) England.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield North
	tabling member printed	Feryal Clark
	uin	44463
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2021 answer text <p>Since 2010, this government has been committed to raising educational standards in all state schools across the country. In March 2020, 86% of schools were Good or Outstanding compared to just 68% in 2010. When it comes to raising standards, evidence shows that teachers are the most important in-school factor affecting attainment.</p><p>In June 2021, we announced an investment of over £250 million in teacher<ins class="ministerial"> development</ins> <del class="ministerial">quality</del>, which includes investment in our National Professional Qualification and Early Career Framework programmes. School leadership is the second most important in-school influence on pupil learning. Since 2010 the number of academies has grown from 200 to over 9,400, enabling more leaders of good schools to make decisions based on local need and the interests of their pupils, and more previously underperforming schools to receive the support they need to raise standards for all pupils as part of a strong multi-academy trust.</p><p>We know that COVID-19 and disruption to education has created an additional challenge for schools, and that the impact of the COVID-19 has been felt most significantly by disadvantaged pupils, which is why we have targeted much of our education recovery funding specifically at this group. Through the recovery premium, schools will directly receive over £300 million in the 2021/22 academic year for them to use flexibly to support disadvantaged pupils.</p><p>This is in addition to the funding we already target towards disadvantaged pupils as part of the National Funding Formula. The pupil premium targets further funding to disadvantaged pupils and plays a crucial role in the work of schools across England, to ensure they have the resources they need to boost the progress and attainment of disadvantaged pupils. Through this, we will be providing £2.5 billion nationally for the 2021/22 financial year. The pupil premium allocation for London is £405 million, and £19.2 million for Enfield for the 2021/22 financial year.</p><p>In Enfield, we know there are a higher number of pupils who are eligible for free school meals, with an average of 37.6% of secondary pupils eligible, compared to the national average of 27.7%. This year, Enfield is receiving £283.4 million, or £5,<ins class="ministerial">640</ins><del class="ministerial">283</del> per pupil, in funding. This is an increase of 2.0% per pupil in the local authority’s pupil-led funding compared to the 2020/21 financial year, and is above the national average in per pupil funding of £5,228.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 20/09/2021 16:35:17 question first ministerially corrected 25/10/2021 09:15:16 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker previous answer version 20670 answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	4822 label Biography information for Feryal Clark

823725

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2018
	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, how many Pupil Referral Units there are for early years pupils.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	123172
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>Alternative provision (AP) is education put in place for children of compulsory school age who would not otherwise receive suitable education because of illness, exclusion or any other reason. AP is arranged by local authorities (and in some circumstances schools) and can be delivered by a range of providers, for example, pupil referral units, AP free schools and AP academies.</p><p><br /> As at <ins class="ministerial">24 </ins>January 2018, the Department’s <em>Get Information about schools</em> website shows there are <ins class="ministerial">42</ins><del class="ministerial">10</del> pupil referral units, AP free schools and AP academies that cater to early years pupils aged four and under. <ins class="ministerial">Of these 42 institutions, 10 offer provision for early years pupils aged three and under. </ins><em>Get Information about schools</em> is available at: <a href="https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 19/01/2018 14:58:25 question first ministerially corrected 29/01/2018 11:15:01 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi previous answer version 35502 answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

830527

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Educational Psychology
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many educational psychologists were employed in all local authorities in 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	125058
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p><ins class="ministerial">Figures for educational psychologists in service in all local authorities in 2017 are not available until Summer 2018.</ins></p><p>The attached table provides the number of Educational Psychologists (EPs) that were reported as being directly employed by each local authority in November 2016. The list excludes local authorities where EP provision has been outsourced or the provision has been shared with other local authorities. It would also be open to academies and free schools to obtain their own provision.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 30/01/2018 17:51:10 question first ministerially corrected 07/02/2018 09:06:40 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 125058 - Full-time equivalent educational psychologists in service in state funded schools..xlsx title No. Educational Psychologists previous answer version 38114 answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 125058 - Full-time equivalent educational psychologists in service in state funded schools..xlsx title Number of Educational Psychologists
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

903971

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free Schools: Closures
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many free schools have closed in each year for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton North East
	tabling member printed	Sir David Crausby
	uin	143670
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>There are currently 393 free schools open. Since 2010, eight free schools have closed. and one closure is planned for summer 2018. The primary objective of the department when making a decision to close a school is to ensure the best possible educational outcomes for pupils and to secure value for money for the taxpayer.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Academic year</p></td><td><p>Free school closures</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>Discovery New School</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>The Durham Free School, Dawes Lane Academy, Stockport Technical School</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>St Michael’s Secondary School</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>Bolton Wanderers Free School, Collective Spirit Free School</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Southwark Free School</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">2017/18</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">Southwark Free School</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 22/05/2018 16:02:35 question first ministerially corrected 15/06/2018 08:12:03 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi previous answer version 59530 answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	437 label Biography information for Sir David Crausby

909163

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Academies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which academy chains are banned from sponsoring any more schools.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	146287
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2018 answer text <p>An academy sponsor is an organisation or person who has received approval from the department to support an underperforming academy or group of academies. A range of bodies and institutions, including multi-academy trusts, can apply to become academy sponsors.</p><p> </p><p>An academy sponsor is paused if any or all of the following conditions exist:</p><ul><li>significant concerns with educational impact;</li><li>serious financial concerns, for example where the Education and Skills Funding Agency has issued a financial notice to improve due to financial non-compliance, breaches of funding agreements; and/or</li><li>serious concerns about the leadership or governance of the sponsor, which may include due diligence and counter extremism issues.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Academy sponsors remain on pause unless and until the concerns that led to them being paused have been resolved. Just because a sponsor is not on pause does not mean it is automatically allowed to take on more schools. A rigorous process is followed for all sponsorship decisions.</p><p>The following list shows all academy sponsors that are paused as of 22 May 2018:</p><ol><li>Bright Futures Educational Trust;</li><li>Grace Foundation;</li><li>CfBT Schools Trust;</li><li>City of Wolverhampton Academy Trust;</li><li>Future Schools Trust;</li><li>The Education Fellowship Trust;</li><li>University of Chester Academies Trust;</li><li>Wakefield City Academies Trust;</li><li>The Silver Birch Academy;</li><li>Plymouth CAST;</li><li>TBAP Trust;</li><li>Zail Enterprises Ltd;</li><li><del class="ministerial">Bradfield School; </del>and</li><li>Chrysalis Multi-Academy Trust.</li></ol><p> </p><p><strong><br /> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 24/05/2018 16:53:27 question first ministerially corrected 10/07/2018 16:59:17 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi previous answer version 60178 answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

780446

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2017
	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 registered foster carers there have been in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	110271
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2017 answer text <p>This is a matter for Ofsted. I have asked Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Amanda Spielman, to write to my hon. Friend the Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton) with the information requested.<ins class="ministerial"> A copy of the letter will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.</ins></p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 02/11/2017 17:03:59 question first ministerially corrected 19/01/2018 09:15:36 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill previous answer version 19649 answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

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 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill attachment 1 file name 119091 - table.docx title The full-time number of contracted staff
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

806067

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Department for Education: Written Questions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of her Department's Answers to Written Parliamentary Questions have advised that the requested information was not available on the grounds of disproportionate cost associated with data collection and collation in the current session.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	119165
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>In the current parliamentary session (as at 13 December 2017) <del class="ministerial">2,365</del> <ins class="ministerial">2,258</ins> written PQs have been answered by the Department. 33 <del class="ministerial">(1.4%)</del> <ins class="ministerial">(1.46%)</ins> of which were answered advising that the requested information was not available due to disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 19/12/2017 20:05:37 question first ministerially corrected 08/01/2018 10:28:23 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill previous answer version 30513 answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1077720

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Department for Education: Apprentices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the (a) number and (b) proportion of staff employed in each group of his Department that are apprentices.
	tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
	tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
	uin	226124
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2019 answer text <p>The department currently employs 209 apprentices. This can be broken down into the following groups in the attached table, which also shows the proportion against the total number of employees.</p><p>Regarding the proportion of apprentices employed at the Institute for Apprenticeships, this is a matter for the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education. I have asked the Chief Executive, Sir Gerry Berragan, to write to the hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne and a copy of his reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.</p><p>Within the Education and Skills Funding Agency, 5 employees working on apprenticeships strategy, policy and delivery are apprentices, which represents 1.6% of the total of 317 employees.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 04/03/2019 15:34:53 question first ministerially corrected 07/03/2019 17:32:32 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton attachment 1 file name 226124_226125_226126_table_of_apprentices_employed_by_the_Department_for_Education.doc title 226124_125_126_Table_of_apprentices previous answer version 104932 answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton attachment 1 file name 226124_226125_226126_table_of_apprentices_employed_by_the_Department_for_Education.doc title 226124_226125_226126_table_of_apprentices
	tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner