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523845

	registered interest
	date	08/06/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Apprentices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the funding caps for apprenticeship standards and frameworks will be in the new levy system.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
	tabling member printed	Rob Marris
	uin	39896
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In June 2016 we will be publishing provisional funding bands, which will set the maximum amount of funding which is available for each apprenticeship, as well as the provisional level of the government support that will be available towards the cost of apprenticeship training if you are not a levy paying employer, from April 2017. The final levels of funding and full, draft funding and eligibility rules will be published in October.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 14/06/2016 12:58:01 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb previous answer version 3463 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1468 label Biography information for Rob Marris

510037

	registered interest
	date	11/04/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Department for Education: Resignations
	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 officials of her Department resigned in each of the last six years.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	33288
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>The table below shows the number and proportion of officials who resigned in each of the last six financial years.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>DfE Resignations 2010-2016</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of resignations</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion of staff<strong>[1]</strong></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Headcount at year end (March)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010/11</strong></p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td><td><p>2,586</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p>47</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td><td><p>2,789</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p>117</p></td><td><p>4%</p></td><td><p>3,886</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td><td><p>3,476</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong></p></td><td><p>117</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td><td><p>3,477</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong></p></td><td><p>113</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td><td><p>3,545</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: RM</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s headcount increased from 2,789 in March 2012 to 3,886 in March 2013 following Arms Length Bodies reform, when the department closed a number of ALB and instead created three Agencies within the department.</p><p>[1] Proportion based on average of start and end year headcount figures.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 11/05/2016 16:26:43 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

424892

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Primary Education: Assessments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for how long a pupil must be present at a school to be included in its reception baseline assessment.
	tabling member constituency	Dudley North
	tabling member printed	Ian Austin
	uin	13983
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>The reception baseline assessment is administered within the first half-term of a pupil starting in reception. Information on reception baseline criteria can be found online at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/415142/Baseline_criteria.pdf" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/415142/Baseline_criteria.pdf</a></p><br /> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 05/11/2015 14:44:01 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

453711

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	National Curriculum Tests
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason her Department did not give one year's notice of the new system for assessment of pupils' achievement in reading, writing and mathematics at Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
	tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
	uin	27668
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>The new national curriculum tests at Key Stages 1 and 2 were first announced in March 2014, and since then we have provided schools with further information to help them adapt to the assessment arrangements. In addition to sample questions published in summer 2014, complete sample tests were published in summer 2015 to give primary schools nearly a year of lead-in time to ensure their pupils are adequately prepared.</p><p> </p><p>The new interim teacher assessment frameworks ay Key Stages 1 and 2 were published in September 2015 and were therefore provided at the start of the academic year in time for use this summer. Our public consultation on the frameworks received a large volume of diverse feedback, which we wanted to give proper consideration before introducing the important change for schools. Recent publications in January and February 2016 did not announce any change to assessment arrangements, but provided example materials to support teachers in making teacher assessment judgements.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 01/03/2016 16:54:40 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

426288

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Primary Education: Assessments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason it is her policy that scores attained through the Reception Assessment baseline will not be scaled for age; if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policy of the findings of research published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies in October 2013 on the academic performance in school of pupils born later in the academic year; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	14736
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2015 answer text <p>The reception baseline provides a score for each child, at the start of reception, which reflects their actual attainment at that point in time. The reception baseline outcome will be used as the basis for an accountability measure of the relative progress of the school’s cohort throughout primary school. If the results were to be scaled to a pupil’s age it would not be a true reflection of the pupil’s attainment at the start of school. For pupils born later in the academic year, scaling the score by age would disadvantage the school as it would result in a higher baseline from which the pupil’s progress would be measured.</p><p>Reception baseline criteria is published online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/415142/Baseline_criteria.pdf" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/415142/Baseline_criteria.pdf</a></p><br /> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 12/11/2015 15:30:03 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

426289

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Primary Education: Assessments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason the qualifying threshold for baseline assessment providers was set at 10 per cent of primary schools.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	14860
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2015 answer text <p>The reception baseline contracts contained a number of criteria for approving suppliers.</p><p>The 10 per cent threshold was set to ensure a statistically reliable sample size for each supplier when determining the relative progress measure for each pupil.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 12/11/2015 15:00:56 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

433956

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reasons targets and breakdown of recruitment by subject for undergraduate trainees were not included in the Initial Teacher Training census 2015-16.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
	tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
	uin	18685
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>In the academic year 2015 to 2016 there were 5,440 first year undergraduate trainees.</p><br /><p>The 2015 to 2016 Teacher Supply Model sets the target for postgraduate trainees and takes account of the number of undergraduate trainees completing a course in 2016 when meeting future teacher requirements. We allocated places for undergraduate courses using criteria as set out in the published guidance.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 18682 question first answered 08/12/2015 17:31:10 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

449355

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Politics: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reasons the proposed Politics draft AS and A level subject content published by her Department contains no substantive references to feminist ideology or the political achievements of women.
	tabling member constituency	Southport
	tabling member printed	John Pugh
	uin	25184
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2016 answer text <p>The final politics A level content will give all students the opportunity to study the core ideas of feminism, and will set out the female theorists whose work students should study. The consultation on the draft politics A level content closed on 15 December 2015; awarding bodies are currently making changes to the content to respond to the views expressed. The Government will publish its response to the consultation shortly.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 09/02/2016 15:20:35 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1454 label Biography information for John Pugh

458997

	registered interest
	date	09/03/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for which subjects there is the greatest need for additional teachers; and what steps she is taking to recruit such teachers.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	30514
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Education uses the Teacher Supply Model (TSM) to estimate the national requirements for the primary phase and each individual secondary subject for the number of postgraduate Initial Teacher Training (ITT) places to meet future demand.</p><p> </p><p>The 2016/17 version of the TSM, which was used to inform the 2016/17 ITT recruitment process, along with a user guide explaining the methodology in detail, is available at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teacher-supply-model" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teacher-supply-model</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The need for additional teachers will not only be met by new entrants to teaching as they only account for about half of all entrants. We are encouraged that the number of former teachers coming back to the classroom has continued to rise year after year – in 2014 we welcomed back more than 14,100 teachers, up from 11,700 in 2011.</p><p> </p><p>We continue to offer a range of generous financial incentives – including training bursaries of up to £30,000 tax-free – to trainee teachers in the subjects where there is the greatest need. Between now and 2020, we will invest a total of £1.3 billion in attracting and training new teachers.</p><p> </p><p>Last year, the Prime Minister announced a package to improve teaching in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects, worth up to £67 million over five years. This will train an additional 2,500 maths and physics teachers, and will improve the skills of a further 15,000 teachers in those subjects. We are making it easier for schools to play a leading role in selecting and training new teachers, including through the School Direct route, which this year will train over 10,000 new teachers.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 14/03/2016 15:18:19 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

523026

	registered interest
	date	06/06/2016
	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, how many children in (a) Burnley and (b) Lancashire eligible for free school meals attain level four or above at Key Stage 2 in reading, mathematics and writing.
	tabling member constituency	Burnley
	tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
	uin	39333
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>The percentage of pupils who are eligible for free school meals and attain level 4 or above in key stage 2 reading, mathematics and writing, is published in the “National curriculum assessments at key stage 2: 2015,” statistical first release[1].</p><p> </p><p>Burnley district level information is not available.</p><p> </p><p>[1] KS2 for 2014/15:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/483612/SFR47_2015_KS2_LA_Tables.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/483612/SFR47_2015_KS2_LA_Tables.xlsx</a> (Table 25 by local authorities)</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 13/06/2016 16:03:34 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper