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42478

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the names are of the free school projects proposed to open in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15 that have been cancelled or withdrawn; and what the pre-opening expenditure was for each of those projects.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	191590
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2014 answer text <p>The revenue funding provided to free schools that opened, or projects that planned to open, in 2011 and 2012 is published online:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/revenue-expenditure-for-free-schools" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/revenue-expenditure-for-free-schools</a>.</p><p>This publication includes pre-opening expenditure levels. When a project is cancelled or withdrawn, the Department for Education seeks to reclaim as much pre-opening expenditure as possible.</p><p>The publication will be updated shortly to include free schools that opened, or projects that planned to open, in 2013.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 24/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

42660

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Prime Minister discussed with Chancellor Merkel during her recent visit to the United Kingdom the proposal by the European People's Party that students should be given a "European Union education".
	tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	uin	HL5929
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2014 answer text <p>The Prime Minister did not discuss the proposal by the European People's Party that students should be given a ‘European Union education' with Chancellor Merkel during her recent visit.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 26/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
	tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

42964

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what they are doing to ensure that children from less privileged backgrounds are not disadvantaged at school.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL6029
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2014 answer text <p>Raising the attainment of disadvantaged pupils is a top priority for this Government. That is why we have invested in the pupil premium for schools, which has risen from £625 million in 2011-12 to £2.5 billion in 2014-15, giving schools the additional resources they need to raise disadvantaged pupils' attainment, and give them a better start in life.</p><p> </p><p>We have extended eligibility for funding over the last three years, as well as raising the per-pupil funding rate. When the pupil premium was introduced in April 2011, schools received £488 for each pupil who was registered for free school meals or looked after by the local authority for six months or more. From April 2014, the funding will be £1,300 per primary aged pupil, £935 per secondary aged pupil and £1,900 for each pupil who is looked after for one day or more; or who left care through adoption or a Special Guardianship Order on or after 30 December 2005, or via a Residence Order.</p><p> </p><p>Headteachers are held accountable for the impact of this additional funding in three different ways. Firstly, the performance tables set out the attainment and progress of disadvantaged pupils and the gap between them and their peers. Secondly, Ofsted inspects the achievement of all pupils in a school. Where disadvantaged pupils are making insufficient progress, inspectors are likely to grade a school as requiring improvement and will recommend that the school undertakes a pupil premium review. Thirdly, schools are required to publish online how much pupil premium funding they receive, how they have used this funding and an evaluation of the impact that it has had.</p><p> </p><p>Our EBacc is driving up the number of pupils leaving school with the subjects most prized by employers and universities. Already, our introduction of the EBacc has seen the number of children studying at least 5 of the essential subjects rise.</p><p> </p><p>The free schools programme is another powerful way to ensure greater opportunity for more disadvantaged children. 174 free schools are open, 45% of which were set up in the 30% most deprived areas of the country; communities often poorly served for generations.</p><p> </p><p>Some of our most disadvantaged schools are seeing the improvements brought about by successful academy sponsors. 26.3% of pupils in secondary sponsored academies are eligible for free school meals, well above the national average for secondary schools of 15.1%, yet results in sponsored academies continue to improve faster than in local authority schools.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 04/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

43053

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of service leavers (a) applied to and (b) were accepted on initial teacher training in (i) 2008-09, (ii) 2009-10, (iii) 2010-11, (iv) 2011-12, (v) 2012-13 and (vi) the current academic year to date.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	192175
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2014 answer text <p>In the 24 month period between March 2011 and April 2013, 322 service leavers applied to postgraduate initial teacher training (ITT). 132 of these were successful. This is an average of six successful applicants per month.</p><p>In the current academic year we have introduced the new Troops to Teachers undergraduate route. This is not comparable to previous years as it is a dedicated undergraduate route which is only for service leavers.</p><p>982 service leavers applied to Cohort 1, and the application process ran for 4 months. 41 service leavers joined the programme in January 2014. This is an average of 10 successful applicants per month. We expect a higher acceptance rate for Cohort 2 as we develop this new programme.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 25/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

43055

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many service leavers have (a) applied to and (b) been accepted on the Troops to Teachers programme to date.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	192172
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2014 answer text <p>The Troops to Teachers undergraduate programme is a brand new programme, which started in January 2014. It provides a route into teaching for non-graduates with relevant skills and experience. It is a school-based two year programme, at the end of which service leavers will have both a degree and Qualified Teacher Status.</p><p>982 service leavers submitted an initial application to cohort 1 of the new undergraduate Troops to Teachers programme. 332 of these applications went forward to be considered by the initial teacher training provider, which is the normal first stage for initial teacher training applications. 41 service leavers joined the Troops to Teachers programme in January 2014.</p><p>These figures represent only the first cohort of Troops to Teachers trainees. We are looking forward to more service leavers joining the programme this September.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 03/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

43235

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	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 academy trusts have applied to open a free school.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	192221
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2014 answer text There are 2,581 academy trusts in England. 207 (8%) of the free school applications submitted in application waves 1 to 5 have been submitted by, or have links to, academy trusts. Some academy trusts have applied a number of times. answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 24/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

43281

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what customer, user and satisfaction surveys were conducted in the last 12 months in the Department for Education and the agencies that report to it; which of them have been reported to the management board in the last 12 months; and which were commissioned by the management board.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
	uin	HL6034
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education uses a range of feedback mechanisms across policy and delivery work to improve the experience of users and customers. Feedback is commissioned by the relevant teams; there is no central coordination of this activity. To collect details of this would incur disproportionate cost. The Department's management board considers papers covering the range of the Department's responsibilities, which reflect the results of the Department's feedback mechanisms.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 27/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
	tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

43361

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to help schools that are unable to deliver free infant school meals in September 2014 because of a lack of capital funding.
	tabling member constituency	Torbay
	tabling member printed	Mr Adrian Sanders
	uin	192335
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education has previously confirmed that it would be allocating £150 million in the 2014-15 financial year to support the implementation of the universal infant free school meals (UIFSM) policy. Local authorities (LAs) are also free to use their budgets for improvement and maintenance to support this objective. We allocated £1.4 billion to schools, LAs and the Academies Capital Maintenance Fund for maintenance and improvement in 2014-15.</p><p>On 6 March we launched a package of implementation support measures to help schools to provide meals to eligible pupils. This includes a national UIFSM support service, run by school food experts, which will offer advice and guidance to schools that need assistance in implementing UIFSM. The support will include a telephone helpline, the sharing of good practice, and intensive face-to-face support</p><p>The Department also announced on 6 March that it would be providing transitional funding to small schools with eligible pupils, worth a minimum of £3,000, which qualifying schools will be able to use to help them overcome delivery challenges.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 24/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	237 label Biography information for Mr Adrian Sanders

43365

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many academy trusts account returns remain outstanding.
	tabling member constituency	Eltham
	tabling member printed	Clive Efford
	uin	192304
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2014 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to the hon. Member for Coventry South, Mr Jim Cunningham, on 18 March, Official Report Column 555W.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 24/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	165 label Biography information for Clive Efford

43366

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many academy trusts did not submit their account returns on time in each year since 2011.
	tabling member constituency	Eltham
	tabling member printed	Clive Efford
	uin	192305
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2014 answer text <p>The number and proportion of academy trusts that did not submit an accounts return on time is detailed in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>Date due</p></td><td><p>Number late</p></td><td><p>Percentage late</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>31 January 2014</p></td><td><p>166</p></td><td><p>7.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>31 January 2013</p></td><td><p>119</p></td><td><p>8.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>31 January 2011</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>17.4%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Academies were not required to submit accounts returns prior to 2010-11.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 192306 question first answered 24/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	165 label Biography information for Clive Efford