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106426

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Primary Education: Free School Meals
	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 potential costs and benefits of the introduction of universal infant free school meals in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	213397
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education is responsible for the introduction of the requirement that state-funded schools in England should offer universal infant free school meals, which came into effect on 1 September 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Between 2009 and 2011 the Department for Education and the Department of Health piloted the provision of universal free school meals in Durham and Newham. The independent evaluation of those pilots showed that there were a number of benefits arising from the provision of universal free school meals, including improved attainment, healthier eating habits and increases in the uptake of meals among children who would have been eligible for free school meals under the existing criteria. We also know, from research carried out by the School Food Trust (now Children’s Food Trust), that universal infant free school meals will save families who previously paid for school lunches up to £400 a year per infant child.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has used School Food Trust research into the costs of school meal provision, as well as feedback from local authorities and stakeholders, to inform the allocation of funding for this policy and the targeting of implementation support. In particular, this research informed the decision to allocate £2.30 of revenue funding per meal taken by newly eligible pupils.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 10/11/2014 17:27:32 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

105896

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2014
	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, how many places were distributed in the initial allocations for initial teacher training trainees to School Direct and HE providers in (a) 2011-12, (b) 2012-13, (c) 2013-14, (d) 2014-15 and (e) 2015-16; and what the target number of trainees estimated by the National College of Teaching and Leadership, the National College for School Leadership and the Teaching Agency was in each of those years.
	tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
	tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
	uin	212886
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>The data for initial teacher training (ITT) allocations for School Direct and HE providers over the last 5 years is shown in the table below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HE providers</p></td><td><p>28,669</p></td><td><p>28,841</p></td><td><p>26,790</p></td><td><p>23,095</p></td><td><p>22,224</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>School Direct</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>772</p></td><td><p>9,586</p></td><td><p>15,254</p></td><td><p>17,609</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 10/11/2014 17:23:23 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

105897

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many trainee teachers were recruited in the initial allocations to School Direct in each subject to (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in each of the last four years.
	tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
	tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
	uin	212887
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>The academic year 2013/14 was the first time School Direct information was available in the Initial Teacher Training (ITT) Census.<a title="" href="http://3dcpri-papp09/new_parliamentaryquestion/212887-%20Nic%20Dakin/Draft/212887%20QA%20Version%204%20-%205.11.14%20FINAL.docx#_ftn1" target="_blank">[1]</a> The information is published online at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-trainee-number-census-2013-to-2014" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-trainee-number-census-2013-to-2014</a></p><p>Information from the 2013/14 ITT Census shows that 6,580 new entrants were recruited to School Direct initial teacher training places. Of these, 2,890 (44%) were recruited to primary places (i.e. primary schools) and the remaining 3,690 (56%) to secondary schools.</p><p>The 2014/15 Census will be published on 27 November 2014.</p><p><a title="" href="http://3dcpri-papp09/new_parliamentaryquestion/212887-%20Nic%20Dakin/Draft/212887%20QA%20Version%204%20-%205.11.14%20FINAL.docx#_ftnref1" target="_blank">[1]</a> There was a small number of School Direct providers in the academic year 2012-13; however the data was aggregated for publication.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 10/11/2014 17:02:11 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

105895

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2014
	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, how much was spent on supply teachers in England and Wales in the academic year 2013-14.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne East
	tabling member printed	Mr Nicholas Brown
	uin	212870
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>Local authority (LA) maintained schools’ funding is allocated per financial year, whereas academy school funding is allocated on the basis of the academic year.</p><p>In the financial year 2012-13 the amount spent on supply teachers<a title="" href="http://3dcpri-papp09/new_parliamentaryquestion/212870-%20Nicholas%20Brown/Draft/212870%20QA%205.11.14.docx#_ftn1" target="_blank">[1]</a> in LA maintained schools in England was £893,389,000. The 2013-14 data for LA maintained schools will be available in December. The amount spent on supply teachers in academies<a title="" href="http://3dcpri-papp09/new_parliamentaryquestion/212870-%20Nicholas%20Brown/Draft/212870%20QA%205.11.14.docx#_ftn2" target="_blank">[2]</a> in England in the 2012-13 academic year was £176,384,000. The 2013/14 data for academies will be available in the summer of 2015.</p><p>Academies have responsibilities that maintained schools do not, particularly around services previously provided by the local authority (library services, behavioural support services, audit costs, etc.) and maintenance of capital assets. This can affect what the academy spends its funding on, meaning that an academy, by its nature, is likely to have a different pattern of spend than a maintained school. For this reason, figures for academies and maintained schools are not directly comparable.</p><p>Expenditure on supply teachers in Wales is a devolved matter.</p><p><a title="" href="http://3dcpri-papp09/new_parliamentaryquestion/212870-%20Nicholas%20Brown/Draft/212870%20QA%205.11.14.docx#_ftnref1" target="_blank">[1]</a> Includes salaries and wages for supply teaching staff employed directly by the school, premiums paid to insurers for supply teacher cover and includes costs paid to an agency for teaching staff that have been brought in to cover teacher absence. Includes cover of any period and for all reasons including illness, absence for training, and any leave.</p><p><a title="" href="http://3dcpri-papp09/new_parliamentaryquestion/212870-%20Nicholas%20Brown/Draft/212870%20QA%205.11.14.docx#_ftnref2" target="_blank">[2]</a> The figures quoted for academies only include 1633 Single Academy Trusts and 135 Multi Academy Trusts that returned an accounting return (AR) for at least the full academic year of 2012/13. Multi academy trusts where one or more school within the trust was not open for the full 2012/13 academic year are not included.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 10/11/2014 16:59:02 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	523 label Biography information for Mr Nicholas Brown

106274

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Priority School Building Programme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which schools in each region and constituent part of the UK have had construction work (a) started and (b) completed in the Priority School Building Programme.
	tabling member constituency	Leyton and Wanstead
	tabling member printed	John Cryer
	uin	213345
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>The Priority School Building Programme (PSBP) is a centrally managed programme set up to address the needs of the schools most in need of urgent repair. Through the programme, 261 schools will be rebuilt or have their condition needs met by the Education Funding Agency (EFA).</p><p>The following school buildings have been handed over:</p><ol><li>Durham Trinity School and Sports College, Durham</li><li>Fountaindale School, Nottinghamshire</li><li>Garston Manor School, Hertfordshire</li><li>Hill Top School, Gateshead</li><li>Ian Ramsey C of E Aided Comprehensive School, Stockton-on-Tees</li><li>Lees Brook Community School, Derby</li><li>Mill Green School, St. Helen’s</li><li>St Thomas More Catholic Primary School, Coventry</li><li>Stratford School Academy, Newham</li><li>The Cedar School, Southampton</li><li>Usworth Grange Primary School, Sunderland</li><li>West Cornforth Primary School, Durham</li><li>Whitmore Park Primary School, Coventry</li><li>Wyken Croft Primary School, Coventry</li></ol><p>Construction work is continuing at a number of the above schools to demolish the old dilapidated buildings.</p><p>As of 13 October, construction work was ongoing at the following 54 schools:</p><ol><li>Alice Stevens School, Coventry</li><li>Bank View High School (with Redbridge High School), Liverpool</li><li>Barnard Grove Primary School, Hartlepool</li><li>Camberwell Park Specialist Support School, Manchester</li><li>Collegiate High School, Blackpool</li><li>Durham Trinity School and Sports College, Durham</li><li>Ernesford Grange Community School, Coventry</li><li>Flowery Field Primary School, Tameside</li><li>Forest Lodge Primary School, Leicester</li><li>Fountaindale School, Nottinghamshire</li><li>Fox Hill Primary, Sheffield</li><li>Foxfield School, Wirral</li><li>Garston Manor School, Hertfordshire</li><li>Goole High School, East Riding of Yorkshire</li><li>Grangefield School, Stockton-on-Tees</li><li>Hallmoor School, Birmingham</li><li>Handale Primary School, Redcar and Cleveland</li><li>Harris Academy Greenwich, Greenwich</li><li>Haytor View Community Primary School, Devon</li><li>Highfurlong School, Blackpool</li><li>Hill Top School, Gateshead</li><li>Holy Trinity C of E Primary School, Hartlepool</li><li>Ian Ramsey C of E Aided Comprehensive School, Stockton-on-Tees</li><li>King James I Academy Bishop Aucklandm, Durham</li><li>Laleham Gap School, Kent</li><li>Lawford Mead Primary (replaces Lawford Mead Infant and Lawford Mead Junior Schools), Essex</li><li>Lees Brook Community School, Derby</li><li>Manor College of Technology, Hartlepool</li><li>Mill Green School, St. Helens</li><li>Montacute School, Poole</li><li>North Cambridge Academy, Cambridgeshire</li><li>Pardes House Primary School, Barnet</li><li>Prince Edward Primary School, Sheffield</li><li>Redbridge High School (with Bank View High School), Liverpool</li><li>Reigate Primary School, Derby</li><li>Richard Lee Primary School, Coventry</li><li>Smarden Primary School, Kent</li><li>St Anthony's Catholic Girls' Academy, Sunderland</li><li>St John's Church School, Peterborough</li><li>St Michael's Catholic Academy, Stockton-on-Tees</li><li>St Thomas More Catholic Primary School, Coventry</li><li>Stratford School Academy, Newham</li><li>Suffolk New Academy, Suffolk</li><li>The Canterbury Primary School, Kent</li><li>The Cedar School, Southampton</li><li>The Edith Borthwick School, Essex</li><li>The Grove Primary School, Devon</li><li>The Highfield School, Hertfordshire</li><li>Thomas Gainsborough School, Suffolk</li><li>Usworth Grange Primary School, Sunderland</li><li>West Cornforth Primary School, Durham</li><li>Whitmore Park Primary School, Coventry</li><li>Wyken Croft Primary School, Coventry</li><li>Wyvern College, Wiltshire</li></ol> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 10/11/2014 17:04:07 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	181 label Biography information for John Cryer

106425

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Hampshire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to increase the number of school places in Hampshire; and what steps she is taking to allow children in Hampshire to walk to school.
	tabling member constituency	Eastleigh
	tabling member printed	Mr Michael Thornton
	uin	213388
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>It is the responsibility of each local authority to balance the supply and demand for primary and secondary school places in their area and secure a place for every child of statutory age who wants one.</p><p>The Department for Education collects information from local authorities on the number of school places in state-funded primary and secondary schools and local authorities’ own pupil forecasts as part of the annual School Capacity Collection. The most recent data available relates to the position at May 2013, with primary forecasts to 2017/18 and secondary forecasts to 2019/20, and is published online at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-capacity-academic-year-2012-to-2013" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-capacity-academic-year-2012-to-2013</a></p><p>Between 2009/10 and 2012/13, Hampshire Local Authority created 1,290 school places. There are 9,940 new primary places planned for delivery between 2013/14 and 2015/16 and the Department has estimated that Hampshire needs 920 additional primary places to meet anticipated demand in 2015/16. This information, along with technical notes, is published in the Local Authority Basic Need Scorecards, which is published online:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/primary-school-places-local-authority-basic-need-scorecards" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/primary-school-places-local-authority-basic-need-scorecards</a></p><p>The Department provides capital funding to local authorities in line with the estimated level of need in each local authority. Hampshire has been allocated a total of £77.4 million for the period 2011-2015 and a further £11.5 million targeted basic need funding to create additional school places. The local authority has also been allocated £64.7 million for 2015-2017 to provide places needed by September 2017.</p><p>Local authorities are under a duty to promote sustainable travel and transport. The duty applies to children and young people of compulsory school age who travel to receive education or training in a local authority’s area. Local walking, cycling, and bus strategies should inform the local authority’s duty to promote sustainable school travel.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 10/11/2014 16:55:51 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4273 label Biography information for Mr Mike Thornton

114698

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Sports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria Ofsted uses for inspection of the welfare of children engaging in sporting activities during school hours.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	213656
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>This is a matter for Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw. A copy of his reply will be placed in the library of the House.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 10/11/2014 17:35:42 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

106268

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will make a comparative assessment of the rates of pay of (a) agency supply teachers and (b) teachers employed in schools under the School Teachers' Pay and Conditions document.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
	tabling member printed	Mr Bob Ainsworth
	uin	213209
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>Arrangements for the engagement of agency supply teachers, including their pay rates, are private commercial arrangements. The Government does not collect data on these arrangements and so is unable to make a comparative assessment with the salaries of teachers who are subject to the terms of the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 10/11/2014 17:29:23 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	306 label Biography information for Mr Bob Ainsworth

106269

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	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, if her Department will estimate the average (a) daily and (b) weekly cost to a school of employing a supply teacher (i) through a supply teacher agency, (ii) through a local authority supply pool and (iii) directly by the school.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
	tabling member printed	Mr Bob Ainsworth
	uin	213210
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not collect data on the daily or weekly costs of supply teachers employed by schools, supply teaching agencies or local authorities.</p><p> </p><p>The rate of pay depends on how supply teachers are employed. Supply teachers employed directly by a state maintained school or local authority must be paid in accordance with the statutory arrangements for teachers laid down in the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document. Other arrangements for the engagement of supply teachers, including their rates of pay, are private commercial arrangements.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 10/11/2014 17:29:01 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	306 label Biography information for Mr Bob Ainsworth

106270

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has any plans to extend participation in the Teachers' Pension Scheme to teachers employed by or through supply teacher agencies.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
	tabling member printed	Mr Bob Ainsworth
	uin	213211
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>Supply teachers, who are employed by accepted employers, are able to participate in the Teachers’ Pension Scheme, and already do so. These are most commonly teachers employed by local authorities to provide supply cover to maintained schools. The employer-employee relationship is important because the employer is responsible for meeting a number of obligations, which include paying both member and employer contributions to the scheme.</p><p>Schools and local authorities are responsible for the recruitment of their supply teachers, including decisions over whether to use private agencies to recruit and manage them. If a teacher is supplied by a private agency, this is a private commercial arrangement between the school and the agency and as such there is no employer-employee relationship between the school and teacher. It is for schools and local authorities to determine how they engage supply teachers and, depending on whether this is through private agencies or accepted employers, whether participation in the scheme is permitted.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 10/11/2014 16:57:38 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	306 label Biography information for Mr Bob Ainsworth