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	registered interest
	date	30/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Foster Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many registered foster carers there have been in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	110271
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2017 answer text <p>This is a matter for Ofsted. I have asked Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Amanda Spielman, to write to my hon. Friend the Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton) with the information requested.<ins class="ministerial"> A copy of the letter will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.</ins></p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 02/11/2017 17:03:59 question first ministerially corrected 19/01/2018 09:15:36 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill previous answer version 19649 answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

806067

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Department for Education: Written Questions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of her Department's Answers to Written Parliamentary Questions have advised that the requested information was not available on the grounds of disproportionate cost associated with data collection and collation in the current session.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	119165
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>In the current parliamentary session (as at 13 December 2017) <del class="ministerial">2,365</del> <ins class="ministerial">2,258</ins> written PQs have been answered by the Department. 33 <del class="ministerial">(1.4%)</del> <ins class="ministerial">(1.46%)</ins> of which were answered advising that the requested information was not available due to disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 19/12/2017 20:05:37 question first ministerially corrected 08/01/2018 10:28:23 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill previous answer version 30513 answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

904138

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 10 May 2018 to Question 138993 on Schools: Finance, if he will publish the 19 local authorities that submitted disapplication notices to transfer more than 0.5 per cent of their block funding for schools.
	tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
	tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
	uin	143791
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2018 answer text <p>The decisions for the 19 local authorities are set out in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Local Authority Name</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Decision </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Amount of transfer <br /> (£million)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Percentage of <br /> schools block </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barnsley</p></td><td><p>Partial Approval*</p></td><td><p>1.4</p></td><td><p>1.00%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bath and North East Somerset</p></td><td><p>Not Allowed</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3.00%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bolton</p></td><td><p>Approved</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1.00%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bournemouth</p></td><td><p>Approved</p></td><td><p>1.1</p></td><td><p>1.20%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bristol</p></td><td><p>Approved</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>0.80%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Derby</p></td><td><p>Not Allowed</p></td><td><p>Up to 1.7</p></td><td><p>Up to 1.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hammersmith and Fulham</p></td><td><p>Not Allowed</p></td><td><p>0.7</p></td><td><p>0.70%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hartlepool</p></td><td><p>Approved</p></td><td><p>0.5</p></td><td><p>0.80%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hull</p></td><td><p>Not Allowed</p></td><td><p>Above 0.9</p></td><td><p>Above 0.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kingston-upon-Thames</p></td><td><p>Partial Approval*</p></td><td><p>1.3</p></td><td><p>1.30%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lambeth</p></td><td><p>Not Allowed</p></td><td><p>1.5</p></td><td><p>0.70%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Somerset</p></td><td><p>Approved</p></td><td><p>1.2</p></td><td><p>0.97%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northumberland</p></td><td><p>Approved</p></td><td><p>1.8</p></td><td><p>1.00%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oldham</p></td><td><p>Approved</p></td><td><p>1.9</p></td><td><p>1.00%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Poole</p></td><td><p>Approved</p></td><td><p>0.7</p></td><td><p>0.92%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rotherham</p></td><td><p>Not Allowed</p></td><td><p>2.4</p></td><td><p>1.30%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Gloucestershire</p></td><td><p>Approved</p></td><td><p>2.9</p></td><td><p>1.90%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Southwark</p></td><td><p>Approved</p></td><td><p>2.2</p></td><td><p>0.90%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thurrock</p></td><td><p>Approved</p></td><td><p>1.9</p></td><td><p>1.60%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>NT: *The totals and percentages shown are those <ins class="ministerial">approved, not applied for.</ins> <del class="ministerial">applied for, not that approved.</del></p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 17/05/2018 15:17:33 question first ministerially corrected 17/05/2018 16:22:16 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb previous answer version 58570 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

805420

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number of full time equivalent (a) pastoral care workers (b) counsellors (c) mentors and (d) educational psychologists working in (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools in England since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	119091
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2017 answer text <p>The full-time equivalent (FTE) number of contracted staff whose role is defined as that of ‘pastoral support’ or of ‘learning mentor’, employed by state funded primary and state funded secondary schools in England, November 2010 to 2016 is provided in the table attached.</p><p>Information for ‘educational psychologists’ is not available by phase. These figures may <ins class="ministerial">also </ins>undercount the actual number of educational psychologists<ins class="ministerial"> in England and do not provide a comparable national year-on-year</ins> <ins class="ministerial">series </ins>because it is based on a varying percentage of local councils returns in each year (between 68 and 74 per cent).</p><p> </p><p>Data is not available for ‘counsellors’.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 18/12/2017 17:48:03 question first ministerially corrected 07/02/2018 09:07:01 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 119091 - table to be attached - 060218.docx title Number of contracted staff previous answer version 30391 answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill attachment 1 file name 119091 - table.docx title The full-time number of contracted staff
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

823725

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupil Referral Units
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Pupil Referral Units there are for early years pupils.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	123172
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>Alternative provision (AP) is education put in place for children of compulsory school age who would not otherwise receive suitable education because of illness, exclusion or any other reason. AP is arranged by local authorities (and in some circumstances schools) and can be delivered by a range of providers, for example, pupil referral units, AP free schools and AP academies.</p><p><br /> As at <ins class="ministerial">24 </ins>January 2018, the Department’s <em>Get Information about schools</em> website shows there are <ins class="ministerial">42</ins><del class="ministerial">10</del> pupil referral units, AP free schools and AP academies that cater to early years pupils aged four and under. <ins class="ministerial">Of these 42 institutions, 10 offer provision for early years pupils aged three and under. </ins><em>Get Information about schools</em> is available at: <a href="https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 19/01/2018 14:58:25 question first ministerially corrected 29/01/2018 11:15:01 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi previous answer version 35502 answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

830527

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Educational Psychology
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many educational psychologists were employed in all local authorities in 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	125058
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p><ins class="ministerial">Figures for educational psychologists in service in all local authorities in 2017 are not available until Summer 2018.</ins></p><p>The attached table provides the number of Educational Psychologists (EPs) that were reported as being directly employed by each local authority in November 2016. The list excludes local authorities where EP provision has been outsourced or the provision has been shared with other local authorities. It would also be open to academies and free schools to obtain their own provision.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 30/01/2018 17:51:10 question first ministerially corrected 07/02/2018 09:06:40 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 125058 - Full-time equivalent educational psychologists in service in state funded schools..xlsx title No. Educational Psychologists previous answer version 38114 answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 125058 - Full-time equivalent educational psychologists in service in state funded schools..xlsx title Number of Educational Psychologists
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

903971

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free Schools: Closures
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many free schools have closed in each year for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton North East
	tabling member printed	Sir David Crausby
	uin	143670
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>There are currently 393 free schools open. Since 2010, eight free schools have closed. and one closure is planned for summer 2018. The primary objective of the department when making a decision to close a school is to ensure the best possible educational outcomes for pupils and to secure value for money for the taxpayer.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Academic year</p></td><td><p>Free school closures</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>Discovery New School</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>The Durham Free School, Dawes Lane Academy, Stockport Technical School</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>St Michael’s Secondary School</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>Bolton Wanderers Free School, Collective Spirit Free School</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Southwark Free School</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">2017/18</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">Southwark Free School</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 22/05/2018 16:02:35 question first ministerially corrected 15/06/2018 08:12:03 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi previous answer version 59530 answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	437 label Biography information for Sir David Crausby

909163

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Academies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which academy chains are banned from sponsoring any more schools.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	146287
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2018 answer text <p>An academy sponsor is an organisation or person who has received approval from the department to support an underperforming academy or group of academies. A range of bodies and institutions, including multi-academy trusts, can apply to become academy sponsors.</p><p> </p><p>An academy sponsor is paused if any or all of the following conditions exist:</p><ul><li>significant concerns with educational impact;</li><li>serious financial concerns, for example where the Education and Skills Funding Agency has issued a financial notice to improve due to financial non-compliance, breaches of funding agreements; and/or</li><li>serious concerns about the leadership or governance of the sponsor, which may include due diligence and counter extremism issues.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Academy sponsors remain on pause unless and until the concerns that led to them being paused have been resolved. Just because a sponsor is not on pause does not mean it is automatically allowed to take on more schools. A rigorous process is followed for all sponsorship decisions.</p><p>The following list shows all academy sponsors that are paused as of 22 May 2018:</p><ol><li>Bright Futures Educational Trust;</li><li>Grace Foundation;</li><li>CfBT Schools Trust;</li><li>City of Wolverhampton Academy Trust;</li><li>Future Schools Trust;</li><li>The Education Fellowship Trust;</li><li>University of Chester Academies Trust;</li><li>Wakefield City Academies Trust;</li><li>The Silver Birch Academy;</li><li>Plymouth CAST;</li><li>TBAP Trust;</li><li>Zail Enterprises Ltd;</li><li><del class="ministerial">Bradfield School; </del>and</li><li>Chrysalis Multi-Academy Trust.</li></ol><p> </p><p><strong><br /> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 24/05/2018 16:53:27 question first ministerially corrected 10/07/2018 16:59:17 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi previous answer version 60178 answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

931956

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Higher Education: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the gender pay gap in the higher education sector.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Dan Carden
	uin	158336
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2018 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The Higher Education Statistics Agency publishes information on staff salaries in the higher education sector. The most recent publication can be found at: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/publications/staff-2016-17" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/publications/staff-2016-17</a>. The government has made no estimate regarding the difference in earnings between the highest and lowest paid employees in the sector.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Higher education providers are autonomous and it is for them to set pay levels for their staff. Universities receive significant amounts of public funding, so it is only right that their senior staff pay arrangements command public confidence and deliver value for money for both students and taxpayers.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The government consulted on behalf of the Office for Students (OfS) on making arrangements for the publication of data on senior staff remuneration.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">From 2018 the OfS will require registered providers to disclose the relationship between the remuneration of the head of the provider and that of all other employees, expressed as a pay multiple. It will also require providers to publish the number of their staff paid more than £100,000 per annum, the total remuneration package of the head of the provider, and a justification for this remuneration package.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The transparency created through reporting, is crucial to accelerating progress to close the gender pay gap. The data on the gender pay gap in the higher education sector can be found at: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/annualsurveyofhoursandearningsashegenderpaygaptables" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/annualsurveyofhoursandearningsashegenderpaygaptables</a>.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">From 2018, the OfS will require registered providers to disclose the relationship between the remuneration of the head of the provider and that of all other employees, expressed as a pay multiple. It will also require providers to publish the number of their staff paid more than £100,000 per annum, the total remuneration package of the head of the provider, and a justification for this remuneration package.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Higher Education Funding Council for England, which preceded the OfS, commissioned a project that aims to equalise the gender balance and ethnic diversity of higher education governing bodies. This work will include establishing an online exchange to recruit board members.</ins></p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah previous answer version 68149 answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah 68170 answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 06/07/2018 14:01:27 question first ministerially corrected 06/07/2018 14:16:12 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

903730

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Young People: Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps his Department is taking to support more pathways from education into employment for young people.
	tabling member constituency	Witham
	tabling member printed	Priti Patel
	uin	905264
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2018 answer text <p><ins class="ministerial">We are developing 15 prestigious technical routes that will set a clear pathway through apprenticeships and new flagship T level programmes to skilled employment for young people.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">High quality apprenticeships offer an excellent means of progression for many young people leaving education, giving them the skills valued by employers.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">T levels are classroom based, level 3 study programmes and will provide a distinctive and rigorous technical alternative to A levels. A substantial, high-quality industry placement will be an essential part of each T level giving students the chance to put into practice the technical skills they have learned in the classroom.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Training and qualifications within the technical education routes are being designed and developed by employers - so that students can be confident they are getting the skills that employers need.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The reformed technical routes will ensure we unlock all the talents of young people across the country, no matter where they come from, and support them into strong, rewarding jobs and careers.</ins></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">We are developing 15 prestigious technical routes to set a clear pathway through apprenticeships and new flagship T levels to skilled employment for young people.</del></p><p><br /><del class="ministerial">We are working with employers to design the content for T levels, which will provide in future a distinctive and rigorous technical alternative to A levels.</del></p><p><br /><del class="ministerial">But apprenticeships must be of high quality. I am pleased that the move from the old frameworks to the new standards has seen the proportion of these apprenticeships in the number of all starts grow from 3% to 36% since last year.</del></p><p><br /><del class="ministerial">Traineeships for those most distant from the labour market are yielding good results. With two thirds progessing to positive destinations and reporting high levels of satifaction (82%). With 84% saying it helped them gain the skills they need.</del></p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 14/05/2018 17:01:12 question first ministerially corrected 15/05/2018 09:26:10 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton previous answer version 57828 answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel