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1127542

	registered interest
	date	20/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Pollution
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department took to alert (a) schools and (b) nurseries to pollution episodes in England during April 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	256345
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>Outdoor air quality is a responsibility of local authorities. The Department does not currently monitor air quality in schools, nurseries or other educational institutions. Where there are concerns about air quality, a local authority must prepare an air quality action plan. The Department has recently published ‘Building Bulletin 101 Ventilation of School Buildings’, which provides guidance on achieving good indoor air quality in new and refurbished schools.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 256346 256347 question first answered 23/05/2019 13:59:45 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1127543

	registered interest
	date	20/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Pollution
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government is taking to protect children in (a) schools and (b) nurseries from pollution episodes.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	256346
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>Outdoor air quality is a responsibility of local authorities. The Department does not currently monitor air quality in schools, nurseries or other educational institutions. Where there are concerns about air quality, a local authority must prepare an air quality action plan. The Department has recently published ‘Building Bulletin 101 Ventilation of School Buildings’, which provides guidance on achieving good indoor air quality in new and refurbished schools.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 256345 256347 question first answered 23/05/2019 13:59:45 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1127544

	registered interest
	date	20/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Pollution
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance his Department issued to (a) schools and (b) nurseries on protecting children from pollution episodes in England in April 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	256347
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>Outdoor air quality is a responsibility of local authorities. The Department does not currently monitor air quality in schools, nurseries or other educational institutions. Where there are concerns about air quality, a local authority must prepare an air quality action plan. The Department has recently published ‘Building Bulletin 101 Ventilation of School Buildings’, which provides guidance on achieving good indoor air quality in new and refurbished schools.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 256345 256346 question first answered 23/05/2019 13:59:45 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1127305

	registered interest
	date	17/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Charitable Donations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate he has made of the proportion of comprehensive primary school funding which comes from donations by parents or guardians of pupils.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
	uin	255676
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>The information requested, regarding the proportion of funding which comes from donations by parents or guardians of pupils, is not held centrally. Schools’ financial returns show that overall income from donations and voluntary funds has remained steady at about 0.7% of schools’ overall budgets since 2011-12.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 23/05/2019 13:52:15 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

1127300

	registered interest
	date	17/05/2019
	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, what estimate he has made of the number of women who made superannuation contributions to the Teachers Pension Scheme prior to 6 April 1988.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
	tabling member printed	Janet Daby
	uin	255699
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>The Department has not undertaken such an estimate.</p><p>As part of the Government’s 2014 review of survivor benefits in occupational pension schemes, in assessing the likely cost of retrospectively equalising survivor benefits for past periods of accrual, the Government Actuary’s Department did estimate what proportion of female members of the scheme have service before 1988. Further information can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/occupational-pension-schemes-review-of-survivor-benefits" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/occupational-pension-schemes-review-of-survivor-benefits</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 23/05/2019 14:18:27 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby

1127661

	registered interest
	date	20/05/2019
	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, what steps his Department is taking to increase the amount of bursary funding available to people training to be religious education teachers to ensure it is equal to other shortage subjects.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	256248
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>​​The Department has increased bursary funding for religious education courses. In academic year 2019/20, religious education trainees with a 2:2 undergraduate degree or above will receive a £9,000 bursary. Previously a £9,000 bursary was only available to those with a first class degree, while those with a 2:1 degree received £4,000 and there was no funding available for other degree classes. These increases show the Department’s continuing commitment to recruiting religious education teachers.</p><p> </p><p>The Department will review bursary funding this summer, prior to announcing the offer for academic year 2020/21 courses in early autumn. This will involve making difficult decisions about where to deploy funding, which will be based on an assessment of current recruitment performance and available budget.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 23/05/2019 10:16:52 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1127172

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Notice Boards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will reclassify school notice boards as wall linings in his review of fire safety in schools.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
	uin	255400
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>Schools must be safe places in which to study and to work. The Department intends to set a clear standard that is practical and achievable as well as easily understood.</p><p>The Department, as part of the regular review of its standards for school buildings, has completed research into the flammability of notice boards used in schools.</p><p>The outcome of this work is currently being used to clarify the specification the Department uses in relation to noticeboards in new school buildings and will also be included in an updated version of Building Bulletin 100 (Fire Safety) which is currently under review.</p><p>The classification of materials used in construction is controlled by Building Regulations which are a matter for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 23/05/2019 14:15:26 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones