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101363

	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	Teachers: Ethnic Groups
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many black and minority ethnic teachers there are in state (a) primary and (b) secondary schools; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
	tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
	uin	212173
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>Figures from the School Workforce Census of November 2013 show there were 12,800 black and minority ethnic teachers in publicly funded primary schools and 18,600 in publicly funded secondary schools in England; a total of 31,400 teachers (an increase from 25,900 in November 2010). This represents 6% of primary school teachers and 9% of all secondary school teachers. 7% of all teachers in primary and secondary schools in England come from black and other ethnic minority groups.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 03/11/2014 13:42:07 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott

165953

	registered interest
	date	25/11/2014
	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 provide guidance to supply teachers on the tax and unemployment implications of working for an umbrella company.
	tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
	tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
	uin	215945
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2014 answer text <p>Schools and local authorities are responsible for the recruitment of their supply teachers and deciding whether they use private agencies to recruit and employ them. If a supply teacher is employed by a private agency or their umbrella company, this is a private commercial arrangement between the school and agency.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education does not provide guidance on tax and unemployment matters. These are matters for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs and the Department for Work and Pensions, respectively.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 28/11/2014 17:34:29 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott

166996

	registered interest
	date	01/12/2014
	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 she will take steps to ensure that qualified teachers employed by private agencies to provide supply cover in schools have access to the Teachers' Pension Scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
	tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
	uin	216478
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text <p>Supply teachers have access to the Teachers’ Pensions Scheme (TPS) where they have a contract of employment directly with the school or local authority in which they are working. Decisions about the precise employer/employee relationship are determined locally between the school and the agency.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 04/12/2014 18:11:43 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott

169808

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Education: Greater London
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children in each London borough continued schooling to (a) A Level and (b) higher education since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
	tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
	uin	218284
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>Destination Measures show the destinations of young people the year after they left secondary schooling (key stage 4) and the year after the young person took A level or equivalent qualifications (key stage 5). They show the percentage of pupils continuing their education in school, further education or sixth form college, in specialist provision or in a higher education institution.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The measures are published at local authority level and are available for destinations of young people in 2009/10, 2010/11 and 2011/12, published online at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-destinations" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-destinations</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Destinations in 2012/13 will be published in January 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 18/12/2014 11:10:34 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott

170124

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2014
	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, with reference to the NUT supply teacher survey 2014, what steps she plans to take to increase the pay of supply teachers employed through agencies.
	tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
	tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
	uin	218563
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>The Government does not set pay rates for supply teachers employed by agencies. The pay and employment conditions of supply teachers employed by private agencies are private commercial arrangements.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 17/12/2014 14:24:56 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott

660160

	registered interest
	date	16/12/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Proscribed Organisations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what violent or terrorist far right or neo-Nazi groups are being monitored or considered for possible proscription as an illegal organisation.
	tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
	tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
	uin	58067
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2016 answer text <p>We do not routinely comment on whether an organisation is or is not under consideration for proscription.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 22/12/2016 14:15:00 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott

661751

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Counter-terrorism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many counter terrorism security advisers were employed in each police force in England and Wales in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
	tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
	uin	58117
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2017 answer text <p>Advice and guidance on protective security and preparedness to terrorist threats is provided by specialist Counter-Terrorism Security Advisors (CTSAs) who operate in every police region.</p><p>We do not publically provide a breakdown of this funding or resources by force, region or capability for security reasons. The number of CTSAs in post in each year since 2010 was as follows:</p><p>April 2010 -191 (figure includes Police Scotland and Police Service of Northern Ireland)</p><p>April 2011 – 227 (figure includes Police Scotland and Police Service of Northern Ireland)</p><p>April 2012 – 226 (figure includes Police Scotland and Police Service of Northern Ireland)</p><p>April 2013 – 204 (figure includes Police Scotland and Police Service of Northern Ireland)</p><p>April 2014 – 188 (figures includes Police Scotland and Police Service of Northern Ireland)</p><p>April 2015 - 146 (England and Wales only, this figure includes 4 Counter Terrorism Awareness Advisers, CTAAs, dedicated towards the provision of CT awareness advice).</p><p>April 2016 – 157 (England and Wales only, this figure includes 20 Counter Terrorism Awareness Advisers dedicated towards the provision of CT awareness advice). The Government’s aims to have 171 staff in post by the end of 2016/17 (145 CTSAs and 26 CTAAs). These planned changes to resource are for the effective and efficient delivery of future advice and guidance, whilst ensuring they maintain their fundamental role as part of wider police capabilities to safeguard the security of the public.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 09/01/2017 16:28:31 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott

661754

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Counter-terrorism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding each police force in England and Wales received from her Department to employ counter terrorism security advisers in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
	tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
	uin	58116
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2017 answer text <p>Advice and guidance on protective security and preparedness to terrorist threats is provided by specialist Counter-Terrorism Security Advisors (CTSAs) who operate in every police region.</p><p>The Home Office funds CTSAs as part of a wider grant payment to the police in England and Wales for specific counter-terrorism purposes. We do not publically provide a breakdown of this funding or resources by force, region or capability for security reasons.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 17/01/2017 14:17:17 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott

1453350

	registered interest
	date	22/03/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Body Searches
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to introduce a legal requirement for schools to inform the parents or guardians of children before a police officer initiates a strip search or intimate search of a child.
	tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
	tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
	uin	144818
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2022 answer text <p>The department is clear that any use of strip searching must be carried out in accordance with the law and with full regard for the dignity and welfare of the individual being searched, particularly if the individual being searched is a child.</p><p>The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) Code C, Annex A, paragraph 11 (c) is clear in stating that an ‘appropriate adult’ must be present in circumstances where a child is to be strip searched. Code C, paragraph 1.7 (a) (i) of the act is equally clear that in the case of a juvenile, an ‘appropriate adult’ means the parent or guardian of the child in the first instance. Other options are available if attendance by the parent or guardian is not possible.</p><p>The department is urgently reviewing the ‘searching, screening and confiscation at school’ guidance. This will include consideration of when it is appropriate to inform parents before a search takes place. The review is taking place alongside the ongoing consultation on the ‘behaviour in schools’ guidance. The department will decide its next steps based on the results of this review and the consultation.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 30/03/2022 15:58:29 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott

1457280

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: Body Searches
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he has taken to review (a) guidance and training for teachers and school staff and (b) guidelines on child safeguarding in relation to strip and intimate searches undertaken by police officers on school grounds.
	tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
	tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
	uin	153696
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2022 answer text <p>The department is currently reviewing the ‘searching, screening and confiscation at school’ guidance. As part of this review, officials are engaging with teaching unions, the third sector and other government departments, including the Home Office, to gather views on changes for consideration, including the roles of parents, the police and teachers in these challenging situations.</p><p>The department will aim to publish revised guidance in the summer, alongside the recently consulted on ‘behaviour in schools’ guidance, and the ‘keeping children safe in education’ guidance. This will ensure that all schools are clear on their duties relating to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of all pupils. This co-ordinated approach will enable the department to take a comprehensive view of what improvements can be made across our school safeguarding advice and guidance, and whether changes are needed to the ‘working together to safeguard children’ statutory guidance.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 25/04/2022 12:14:53 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott