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	date	31/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Supply Teachers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her Department's policy is on the use of umbrella companies for supply teachers.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	Mr John Spellar
	uin	212792
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2014 answer text <p>Schools and local authorities are responsible for the recruitment of their supply teachers and deciding whether to use private supply agencies to recruit and employ supply teachers. If a supply teacher is employed by a private agency, this is a private commercial arrangement between the school and the agency.</p><p>The Department for Education is not responsible for the regulation of teacher supply agencies or their umbrella organisations. Teacher supply agencies are regulated by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills under the employment agency provisions in the Employment Agencies Act 1973 and the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 05/11/2014 16:14:02 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

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	registered interest
	date	30/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Lighting
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will issue guidance to schools and sixth form colleges that they should implement a replacement programme to introduce LED lighting in their buildings.
	tabling member constituency	Colchester
	tabling member printed	Sir Bob Russell
	uin	212610
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education has no plans at present to issue guidance to schools and sixth form colleges to replace all lighting in schools with LED lights. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) together with the Carbon Trust and the Energy Saving Trust take the lead for government on research and publication of advice on LEDs. DECC are currently funding research and product development of LED lighting technology.</p><p>Departmental specifications quote the guidance on lighting design for schools produced by the Society of Light and Lighting (SLL), specifically <em>Lighting for education</em>, Lighting Guide No 5, published in 2011 (LG5). The Department worked with SLL to produce LG5 which replaced the Department’s Building Bulleting 90 <em>Lighting Design for Schools</em> in 2011. SLL has also published Guidelines for <em>Specification of LED Lighting Products</em>, 2012.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 05/11/2014 16:22:00 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	35 label Biography information for Sir Bob Russell