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227775

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2015
	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, at how many schools on the Priority School Building Programme has construction work (a) started and (b) been completed.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	227898
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>The Priority School Building Programme 1 (PSBP1) is a centrally managed programme set up to address the needs of the schools most in need of urgent repair. Through the programme, 260 schools will be rebuilt or have their condition needs met by the Education Funding Agency.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Under the PSBP1 the Department for Education has now signed construction contracts for 102 schools: construction work has started at 100 schools; and construction work will start imminently at the other 2 schools.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>20 schools have now opened in new buildings: at 3 of these schools construction work is complete and at the other 17 schools construction work is continuing to demolish the old dilapidated buildings.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 23/03/2015 12:11:59 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

177482

	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	Schools: Admissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reasons the Schools Admissions Code precludes admissions authorities from taking into account how long a child has been on the waiting list for a school place.
	tabling member constituency	Bedford
	tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
	uin	223093
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>The School Admissions Code requires that all school places, including those offered to pupils on a school’s waiting list, are allocated strictly in accordance with a school’s published admissions criteria. This ensures fairness and transparency in the process and means that those applying for admission to a school understand from the outset their likelihood of gaining a place. It also means that there is no incentive for those who do not closely match a school’s admissions criteria, to remain on a waiting list while occupying a place at an alternative school.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 09/02/2015 15:43:52 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

222469

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2015
	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, for what reasons the salary sacrifice scheme available to teachers does not cover the purchase of cars.
	tabling member constituency	Monmouth
	tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
	uin	224613
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2015 answer text <p>Academies, including free schools, university technical colleges and studio schools, have the freedom to set their own pay and conditions policies, and so are free to offer their teachers access to car purchase salary sacrifice schemes. Currently 15% of all primary schools and 62% of all secondary schools are academies.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In local authority maintained schools, changes to the statutory pay and conditions of teachers must first be referred to the independent School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB). Recent STRB referrals have focused on fundamental reforms to the overall pay and conditions framework for teachers. Following the STRB’s recommendations, these reforms have given schools much greater freedom to attract and retain the best teachers and to reward individuals in line with their contribution to improving their pupils’ achievements.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The demands on the STRB’s time and resources in the reform process mean that the Government has had to make hard decisions on the issues it refers to STRB. In light of the focus of the important referrals above, we have not prioritised revisions to the existing salary sacrifice arrangements. However, the Government will consider whether the issue should be included in future referrals to the STRB.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 26/02/2015 15:54:42 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

225626

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Disciplinary Proceedings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) headteachers, (b) deputy headteachers and (c) senior leaders have been suspended (i) without and (ii) following an Ofsted inspection in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	North Somerset
	tabling member printed	Dr Liam Fox
	uin	226571
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not hold data on the numbers of suspensions of headteachers, deputy headteachers and senior leaders either without or following an Ofsted inspection. This information would be held by individual school employers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 12/03/2015 13:59:27 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	223 label Biography information for Sir Liam Fox

228300

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Veterans
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) women and (b) BAME people there are in previous cohorts of the Troops to Teachers programme; and what proportion of people in each such category formed the overall participants.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	228294
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>There are two cohorts of trainees on the Troops to Teachers programme. There are 8 female trainees in the first cohort and 12 in the second cohort. This is just under a quarter (24%) of the total participants across both cohorts.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>No trainees have declared themselves as Black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME).</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 23/03/2015 12:06:06 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

224688

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Headteachers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many applications her Department has received for the first application round of the talented leaders programme.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	226048
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2015 answer text <p>The application round for the first cohort of the Talented Leaders programme opened on 10 September 2014. The Future Leaders Trust that runs the programme received a total of 125 completed applications.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 06/03/2015 13:16:14 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

223256

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Buildings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many blocks recorded as part of the Property Data Survey Programme were in (a) good, (b) satisfactory, (c) poor and (d) bad condition.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
	tabling member printed	Annette Brooke
	uin	225254
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2015 answer text <p>The Property Data Survey does not provide an overall assessment of a block in the manner requested. The surveyors who visited schools made an assessment of the condition of individual construction types within each block, such as different types of roofs or walls for which we hold individual records, but did not attempt to rate blocks on a ‘good’ to ‘bad’ scale.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 27/02/2015 11:42:20 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1431 label Biography information for Annette Brooke

226663

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free School Meals: Lancashire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in Lancashire were eligible for but did not claim free school meals in the latest period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Pendle
	tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
	uin	227328
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education routinely collects information on pupils who are claiming free school meals. This information is published in the ‘Schools, Pupils and their Characteristics: January 2014’ Statistical First Release.[1] It is not possible to identify the number of pupils who are eligible for but are not claiming free school meals from the data the department collects.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>However, the department has published a research paper ‘Pupils not claiming free school meals: 2013’[2] which presents estimates of the numbers and proportions of pupils who are entitled to receive free school meals but are not claiming. The paper compares registration rates for children aged between 4 and 15 and highlights regions and local authorities where under-registration rates are high. Figures from this paper show the under-registration rate for Lancashire local authority is 6% (1,600 pupils).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong><br> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2014" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2014</a></p><p>[2] <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupils-not-claiming-free-school-meals-2013" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupils-not-claiming-free-school-meals-2013</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 17/03/2015 15:45:43 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson

225631

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free School Meals: Cumbria
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in each ward in Copeland borough and Crummock, Dalton, Derwent Valley and Keswick wards in Allerdale borough (a) were eligible for and (b) received free school meals in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Copeland
	tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
	uin	226629
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2015 answer text <p>Information on the number of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals is not published at borough level.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals at local authority and regional level is published in the ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2014’ Statistical First Release.[1] Tables 8a to 8d of the release show information for pupils in primary, secondary and special schools, as well as pupil referral units. Information for 2010 to 2013 can be found in previous versions of this release.[2]</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2014" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2014</a></p><p>[2] <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 11/03/2015 12:03:10 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

224693

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free School Meals: Copeland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in each ward in Copeland constituency (a) were eligible for and (b) received free school meals in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Copeland
	tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
	uin	226115
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2015 answer text <p>Information on the number of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals is not published at parliamentary constituency level.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 06/03/2015 13:12:31 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed