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1148988

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Adoption: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whats steps the Government is taking to support children with disabilities (a) before and (b) after they are adopted.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	32
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>Our ambition is for every child, no matter what challenges they face, to have access to a world-class education that sets them up for life. We introduced Education, Health and Care plans to provide personalised and tailored support for those children with more complex needs and have also announced £780 million additional funding in 2020-21, bringing the total funding for high needs to £7.2 billion.</p><p> </p><p>All children who were adopted, including children with disabilities, are also entitled to access the Adoption Support Fund (ASF) which can pay for essential therapeutic services. The ASF aims to ensure that these families receive good, timely support. Adopted children also attract Pupil Premium Plus funding of £2,300 per pupil for their schools, which can be used to support their educational outcomes.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 17/10/2019 16:07:42 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1148352

	registered interest
	date	04/10/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Governing Bodies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data his Department holds on the (a) ethnicity, (b) class and (c) gender of school governors.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	294734
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>The department does not hold data on the ethnicity, class and gender of school governors and academy trustees.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 08/10/2019 14:01:53 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1148355

	registered interest
	date	04/10/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Governing Bodies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the (a) Inspiring Governance and (b) Everyone on board programmes in increasing diversity on school governing boards.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	294735
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>Inspiring Governance is a service run by the charity, Education and Employers, that supports recruitment in school governance by matching those who wish to be governors to school vacancies. The department requires Education and Employers to meet targets to increase diversity on school governing boards. They are on track to register over 16% of people from Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds this financial year. As at the 2011 census, 15% of the England population identified as being from a BAME background.</p><p>‘Everyone on Board’ is a campaign run jointly between Inspiring Governance and the National Governance Association and is not a government programme. The objective of this campaign is to increase the number of BAME and young people involved in governance.</p><p>Inspiring Governance report that over 19% of people registering and being placed into governance roles are from a BAME background, and people aged under 35 make up over 37% of registrations and over 46% of appointments.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 294736 question first answered 08/10/2019 16:09:56 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1148356

	registered interest
	date	04/10/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Governing Bodies
	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 encourage more young people to become school governors.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	294736
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>Inspiring Governance is a service run by the charity, Education and Employers, that supports recruitment in school governance by matching those who wish to be governors to school vacancies. The department requires Education and Employers to meet targets to increase diversity on school governing boards. They are on track to register over 16% of people from Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds this financial year. As at the 2011 census, 15% of the England population identified as being from a BAME background.</p><p>‘Everyone on Board’ is a campaign run jointly between Inspiring Governance and the National Governance Association and is not a government programme. The objective of this campaign is to increase the number of BAME and young people involved in governance.</p><p>Inspiring Governance report that over 19% of people registering and being placed into governance roles are from a BAME background, and people aged under 35 make up over 37% of registrations and over 46% of appointments.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 294735 question first answered 08/10/2019 16:09:56 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1148385

	registered interest
	date	04/10/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free School Meals: Surrey
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of children were eligible for free school meals in (a) Woking and (b) Surrey in the past year.
	tabling member constituency	Woking
	tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
	uin	294719
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>The number and proportion of children in schools in Woking constituency and Surrey local authority who were eligible for and claiming free school meals (FSM) is given in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Number of pupils eligible and claiming FSM</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Percentage of pupils eligible and claiming FSM</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Surrey</p></td><td><p>13,281</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Woking constituency</p></td><td><p>1,285</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source: School census, as at January 2019 </em></p><p> </p><p>Figures include pupils in state-funded nursery, primary, secondary and special schools and pupil referral units (including free schools and academy alternative provision).</p><p>This data is published at national, regional, local authority and school level in annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release. The 2019 publication is available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2019</a>.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 08/10/2019 13:36:17 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
	tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

1148388

	registered interest
	date	04/10/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Wigan University Technical College: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what payments were made to his Department by Wigan University Technical College as a result of the overestimation of student numbers.
	tabling member constituency	Wigan
	tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
	uin	294699
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>As part of the established pupil number adjustment process where an academy trust’s funding agreement allows for the basis of funding to be initially calculated using estimated pupil numbers, the funding is subsequently aligned with the actual pupil numbers returned in the school census through these adjustments and recoveries or additional payments are applied as appropriate.</p><p>For Wigan University Technical College, £609,038 of advanced funding remains outstanding.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 08/10/2019 12:27:17 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
	tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

1147762

	registered interest
	date	02/10/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Further Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much of his Department’s capital departmental expenditure limit was spent on (a) creating new places in further education and (b) investing in the existing further education estate in each financial year since 2010-11.
	tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
	tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
	uin	293603
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>The information is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 08/10/2019 13:48:04 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan previous answer version 137830 answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
	tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1147765

	registered interest
	date	02/10/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Sure Start Programme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much of his Department’s capital departmental expenditure limit was spent on Sure Start in each financial year since 2010-11.
	tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
	tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
	uin	293605
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>Capital to support Sure Start children’s centres was made available to local authorities through the Sure Start, Early and Childcare grant in the 2010-11 financial year. Details of expenditure on capital grants to support Sure Start, Early Years and Childcare in 2010-11 are set out on page 77 of the department’s annual report and accounts for 2010-11 at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-education-annual-report-and-accounts-financial-year-2010-to-2011" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-education-annual-report-and-accounts-financial-year-2010-to-2011</a>.</p><p>Between 1 April 2011 and 31 March 2015, capital funding for children’s centres was made available from the Schools Capital Funding Allocations. Since 1 April 2015, capital funding for children’s centres has been made available through the School Condition Allocations. It is for local authorities to decide how to prioritise their capital funding according to local needs. Published data on capital allocations is available on the GOV.UK website <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/school-capital-funding#funding-allocations-for-2019-to-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/school-capital-funding#funding-allocations-for-2019-to-2020</a>.</p><p>The department does not record how much capital local authorities spend on children’s centres.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 07/10/2019 13:58:30 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
	tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1147786

	registered interest
	date	02/10/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children with special educational needs in (a) Hampshire, (b) Southampton and (c) the UK are unable to attend school as a result of not having an education, health and care plan in place.
	tabling member constituency	Romsey and Southampton North
	tabling member printed	Caroline Nokes
	uin	293542
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>We have invested heavily in improvements to support for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), including the announcement last month of more than £700 million in additional funding for high needs in 2020-2021. This is an increase of 11% on the 2019-2020 budget.</p><p> </p><p>As a result of reforms introduced by the Children and Families Act 2014, we have seen the introduction of published local offers for each local area; new Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans for those with more complex needs; new statutory protections for 16-25 year olds in further education; and the setting up of Ofsted and Care Quality Commission SEND inspections to hold local areas to account and drive up standards.</p><p> </p><p>Our SEND review, which was announced 6 September, will consider the quality of SEND provision 5 years on from the launch of Children and Families Act. This includes the extent to which schools, colleges and local authorities are providing the best possible support for children and young people with SEND, with or without an EHC plan.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 293543 question first answered 07/10/2019 15:40:46 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
	tabling member	4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes

1147787

	registered interest
	date	02/10/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children with special educational needs in (a) Hampshire, (b) Southampton and (c) the UK are only able to attend school for part-days as a result of not having appropriate SEND support in place.
	tabling member constituency	Romsey and Southampton North
	tabling member printed	Caroline Nokes
	uin	293543
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>We have invested heavily in improvements to support for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), including the announcement last month of more than £700 million in additional funding for high needs in 2020-2021. This is an increase of 11% on the 2019-2020 budget.</p><p> </p><p>As a result of reforms introduced by the Children and Families Act 2014, we have seen the introduction of published local offers for each local area; new Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans for those with more complex needs; new statutory protections for 16-25 year olds in further education; and the setting up of Ofsted and Care Quality Commission SEND inspections to hold local areas to account and drive up standards.</p><p> </p><p>Our SEND review, which was announced 6 September, will consider the quality of SEND provision 5 years on from the launch of Children and Families Act. This includes the extent to which schools, colleges and local authorities are providing the best possible support for children and young people with SEND, with or without an EHC plan.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 293542 question first answered 07/10/2019 15:40:46 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
	tabling member	4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes