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101482

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Young Offender Institutions: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many hours per week of education juvenile boys in Hindley and Cookham Wood young offender institutions had in each week in June 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	212297
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Young Offender’s Institution</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Week 1</strong></p><p><strong>w/c 02/06/2014</strong></p><p><strong>(Hours per Learner)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Week 2</strong></p><p><strong>w/c 09/06/2014</strong></p><p><strong>(Hours per Learner)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Week 3</strong></p><p><strong>w/c 16/06/2014</strong></p><p><strong>(Hours per Learner)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Week 4</strong></p><p><strong>w/c 23/06/2014</strong></p><p><strong>(Hours per Learner)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Week 5</strong></p><p><strong>w/c 30/06/2014 (one day in June)</strong></p><p><strong>(Hours per Learner)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>HMYOI Hindley</strong></p></td><td><p>15.22</p><p> </p></td><td><p>14.85</p><p> </p></td><td><p>14.07</p><p> </p></td><td><p>14.73</p><p> </p></td><td><p>2.42</p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>HMYOI Cookham Wood</strong></p></td><td><p>8.29</p><p> </p></td><td><p>8.30</p><p> </p></td><td><p>9.87</p><p> </p></td><td><p>11.28</p><p> </p></td><td><p>2.93</p><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>The contracted number of hours per learner per (full) week is 15. The variation in the hours received results from legitimate absences, such as attending court, attending appointments and illness, and occasional provider cancellations (which we reconcile against for funding). The Education Funding Agency works closely with the providers, the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) and the Youth Justice Board to resolve issues affecting the delivery of education and training.</p><p> </p><p>The shortfall in hours per learner shown at HMYOI Cookham Wood is due to cancellations by the prison, rather than by the education provider.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 03/11/2014 17:56:35 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

169465

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Young Offender Institutions: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average number of hours of education provided per week was for a young offender in young offender institutions in (a) 2012-13 and (b) 2013-14.
	tabling member constituency	Burton
	tabling member printed	Andrew Griffiths
	uin	218196
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>As part of the Transforming Youth Custody Programme, the Government will shortly announce the outcome of a competition for new education contracts in under-18 Young Offender Institutions, which will aim to more than double the average number of hours of education provided for young people each week. The Government is taking forward reforms of Young Offender Institutions to support a stronger focus on education and reduce interruptions that impact on the number of hours provided.</p><p> </p><p>The question asked about the average number of hours of education provided per week for a young offender in young offender institutions can only be answered at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 15/12/2014 14:55:29 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths

64289

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Universal Credit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of extending entitlement to school clothing grants via (a) vouchers and (b) cash or cheque to all claimants of universal credit once universal credit has been fully rolled out.
	tabling member constituency	Rhondda
	tabling member printed	Chris Bryant
	uin	202668
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2014 answer text <p>There is no national school clothing grant operating currently in England.</p><p>Individual local authorities and academies may choose to provide school clothing grants or to help with the cost of school clothing in cases of financial hardship. In such cases, it is for the local authority or academy concerned to decide the criteria upon which pupils are entitled to this support. Local authorities and academies which choose to run such schemes must do so from within their existing delegated budgets.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 03/07/2014 16:30:57 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1446 label Biography information for Sir Chris Bryant

64305

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Universal Credit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of extending entitlement to benefits from the pupil premium to all claimants of universal credit once universal credit has been fully rolled out.
	tabling member constituency	Rhondda
	tabling member printed	Chris Bryant
	uin	202675
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>Universal credit will be fully rolled out in the next Parliament from 2017/18, and no pupil premium spending decisions for that period have yet been taken. For example, the per-pupil funding rates have not been decided beyond 2014/15. This means that it is not possible to estimate the potential cost of extending entitlement on the pupil premium budget.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 07/07/2014 14:48:36 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1446 label Biography information for Sir Chris Bryant

91615

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Unemployment: Young People
	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 students aged between 16 to 18 unable to participate in education, jobs or training because they are unable to afford the associated transport costs.
	tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
	tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
	uin	209148
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not hold this information. However, most young people have access to a discount or concession on local travel from their local transport providers, their local authority, or from their education or training provider. The £180million bursary fund is also available to support young people with the costs associated with attending education or training, and transport is the biggest single area of expenditure for which this fund is used.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 13/10/2014 10:14:56 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

91416

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Travel: Concessions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will bring forward proposals to extend the statutory entitlement for free transport for young people in education and training beyond the current age threshold of 16.
	tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
	tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
	uin	209015
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The statutory responsibility for transport to education and training for 16 to 19 year olds rests with local authorities, enabling them to make decisions which best match local needs and circumstances. Local authorities are expected to make reasonable decisions based on the needs of their population, the local transport infrastructure, and the resources they have available.</p><p>The Government has no plans at present to extend the home to school statutory entitlement beyond the age of 16.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 13/10/2014 10:11:38 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

177480

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Transport: Children
	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 effect on local authorities of planned policies to extend the rules governing transport for children in full-time education or undertaking an apprenticeship to 16 to 18 year olds.
	tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
	tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
	uin	223034
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>There are no planned policies to extend the rules governing school transport for children of compulsory school age to cover students in post-16 education or training.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The statutory responsibility for transport to education or training for 16- to-18-year-olds rests with local authorities, who are expected to make appropriate decisions bearing in mind local circumstances. Arrangements made by authorities do not have to include free or subsidised transport, although most young people do have access to a discount or concession on local bus or train travel, either from their local authority, transport provider, school or college.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 09/02/2015 15:41:10 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

156234

	registered interest
	date	18/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teaching Methods
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what arrangements she has in place to reclaim funds paid from the public purse which have been used to help develop teaching resources subsequently sold commercially.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	214914
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2014 answer text <p>It is the Department for Education’s policy to have copyright in materials produced under contracts or grants assigned to the Crown. Where it benefits the Department we allow contractors/grant recipients to retain ownership of copyright but to provide the Department with a copyright license in the material.</p><p> </p><p>Breaches of copyright in material assigned to the Crown are dealt with by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. Breaches of contract by contractors or grant recipients, including misuse of material which has been licensed to the Department, are dealt with by the Department subject to legal advice.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 21/11/2014 13:32:45 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

222929

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: York
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average pay for teachers was in York unitary authority area in 2008-09 and in each year since 2008-09.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Sir Hugh Bayley
	uin	224859
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2015 answer text <p>The following table provides the mean and median salaries (in cash terms) of full-time regular qualified teachers in service in publicly funded schools for York local authority and England, in each March, 2009 and 2010 and November 2010 to November 2013. The source of this information is the Database of Teacher Records (March 2009 and 2010) and the School Workforce Census (November 2010 to 2013).</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>York</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>England</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2013 [1]</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Mean</p></td><td><p>£37,500</p></td><td><p>£38,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Median</p></td><td><p>£37,100</p></td><td><p>£36,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2012 [1],[2]</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Mean</p></td><td><p>£36,300</p></td><td><p>£37,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Median</p></td><td><p>£35,900</p></td><td><p>£36,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2011 [1]</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Mean</p></td><td><p>£37,200</p></td><td><p>£37,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Median</p></td><td><p>£36,800</p></td><td><p>£36,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2010 [1]</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Mean</p></td><td><p>£37,600</p></td><td><p>£38,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Median</p></td><td><p>£36,800</p></td><td><p>£36,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2010 [3]</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Mean</p></td><td><p>£35,900</p></td><td><p>£37,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Median</p></td><td><p>£35,100</p></td><td><p>£36,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2009 [2]</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Mean</p></td><td><p>£36,800</p></td><td><p>£36,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Median</p></td><td><p>£36,600</p></td><td><p>£35,900</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] Source: School Workforce Census.</p><p>[2] November 2013 figures exclude one large academy in York.</p><p>[3] Source: Database of Teacher Records.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 02/03/2015 13:12:40 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	385 label Biography information for Sir Hugh Bayley

64479

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: York
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the gross average salary was of a full-time teacher in local authority schools in the City of York in (a) cash and (b) real terms in 1995-96 and in each year since.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Hugh Bayley
	uin	202873
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the reply given on 10 July 2013, Official Report 297W, which provided the gross average salary of full-time regular qualified teachers in service in local authority maintained schools in cash terms and real terms for York local authority, in each March, 1997 to 2009 and November 2010 to November 2011.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The gross average salary of full-time regular qualified teachers in service in local authority maintained schools in cash terms and real terms for York local authority, in November 2012 is £36,200 in both cash and real terms (rounded to the nearest £100). Figures cover all primary, secondary and special local authority maintained schools that were open but exclude academies. 2013 figures will be available in late July 2014. The source of this information is the November 2012 School Workforce Census.</p><p> </p><p>Real terms figures were calculated from HMT GDP deflators, financial year, published on 1 April 2014 at the following web link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/gdp-deflators-at-market-prices-and-money-gdp" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/gdp-deflators-at-market-prices-and-money-gdp</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 08/07/2014 13:58:11 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	385 label Biography information for Sir Hugh Bayley