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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

227781

	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	Schools: Admissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will amend the School Admissions Code to allow schools to take into account the length of time a child has been on a waiting list in instances when that length of time has been longer than one year and that child matches that school's admissions criteria.
	tabling member constituency	Bedford
	tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
	uin	227943
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education currently has no plans to amend the School Admissions Code in this respect.</p><p> </p><p>It is government policy that all school places must be allocated in accordance with each school's oversubscription criteria. Such criteria are determined following consultation with the local community and reflect local needs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 20/03/2015 13:44:22 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

855971

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2018
	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, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of making compulsory the registration of the place of education of children of compulsory school age.
	tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
	tabling member printed	Jim Fitzpatrick
	uin	131137
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2018 answer text <p>The department keeps under review the need for extension of registration requirements.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 14/03/2018 17:11:29 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	197 label Biography information for Jim Fitzpatrick

595577

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	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, if she will make it her policy to allow Parliament to vote on (a) whether to remove the current 50 per cent cap on religious selection in free schools and (b) other changes to the schools admissions code.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
	tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
	uin	47256
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2016 answer text <p>The Department is currently consulting on proposals to remove the 50% cap on faith admissions in new faith free schools. The outcome of the consultation and government response will be presented to Parliament. The consultation document, 'Schools that work for everyone', is available at: <a href="https://consult.education.gov.uk/school-frameworks/schools-that-work-for-everyone" target="_blank">https://consult.education.gov.uk/school-frameworks/schools-that-work-for-everyone</a></p><p>Any changes to the Schools Admissions Code are subject to Parliamentary scrutiny.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 01/11/2016 13:15:56 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

643022

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2016
	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, what recent estimate she has made of the average annual cost of providing a place at a (a) maintained nursery school, (b) private, voluntary or independent early years provider, (c) primary school and (d) secondary school.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
	tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
	uin	54614
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2016 answer text <p>For the 2016-17 financial year the Government allocated an average of £2,568 per annum to local authorities for each early years place for three- and four-year olds, with this amount funding provision of 15 hours per week over 38 weeks. Local authorities determine the local funding rates for maintained nursery schools, and for private, voluntary and independent providers. Alongside our commitment to extend the free entitlement to childcare from 15 to 30 hours a week for working parents, we have committed to increasing the average hourly rate for delivering the entitlements.</p><p> </p><p>For the 2016-17 financial year the Government allocated an average of £4,636 per pupil through the schools block of the dedicated schools grant, for children aged 5 to 16 in mainstream schools. It is the responsibility of local authorities to decide the balance of funding between primary and secondary pupils.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 28/11/2016 16:52:41 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

705565

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2017
	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, whether the Government has made an assessment of parents' preferences between increasing (a) faith and (b) non-faith school places.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
	tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
	uin	65815
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2017 answer text <p>The latest figures for the secondary school application round show that there is a higher demand by parents for places in faith schools in relation to offers than there is for non-faith school places. They also show that parents’ relative preferences for faith and non-faith school places have remained stable over the last 3 years.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 06/03/2017 17:21:14 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

227784

	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	Schools: Admissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many planning areas in England are in need of additional primary school places by September 2015; in how many of those planning areas there has never been an application to open a primary or all-through mainstream free school; and how many of these planning areas have no open primary or all-through mainstream free schools.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	227869
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department collects information from local authorities on the number of school places in state-funded primary and secondary schools as part of the annual School Capacity Collection. Out of a total of 2,444 primary planning areas across England, there were 584 primary planning areas where the local authority forecast for 2015/16 (from May 2014) was greater than the capacity as reported at May 2014. This comparison of forecasts and capacities does not take into account the number of additional places that have been or will be created after May 2014, through targeted basic need projects, new free schools, and places being provided through local authority projects.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the early stages of the free school policy, proposer groups were not obliged to provide a specific site for their proposed school so we are unable to ascertain the number of planning areas in need of additional primary school places in 2015 where there has never been a primary or all-through free school application.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As at May 2014, 573 of the 584 planning areas in need of additional school places by September 2015 did not have an open primary free school or all-through primary free school. Ten of these planning areas had a primary-phase free school open in September 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Every free school has been opened in response to either the need to provide extra school places, the need to provide parents with greater choice or the need to provide more high quality school places. Almost three quarters of free schools have opened in areas with a forecast need for more places and 94 per cent of free schools approved since January 2014 plan to open in areas with a need for more school places.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 20/03/2015 12:52:57 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

377254

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2015
	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, what steps she is taking to ensure there is an adequate number of school places; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent North
	tabling member printed	Ruth Smeeth
	uin	900314
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2015 answer text <p>Supporting local authorities to create school places where they are needed most is one of the Department’s top priorities. The Coalition Government invested over £5 billion in providing new school places between 2011 and 2015, and this Government has committed to a further £7 billion in capital funding between 2015 and 2021. Local authorities have risen to the challenge, delivering 445,000 new places since 2010, with many more in the pipeline.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 15/06/2015 15:46:23 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4508 label Biography information for Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent

377255

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2015
	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, if she will allocate additional funding to local authorities which have a shortfall of nursery and school places to expand existing schools.
	tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
	tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
	uin	900317
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2015 answer text <p>Supporting local authorities to create places where they are needed most is one of the Department’s top priorities. We have committed £7billion in capital funding between 2015 and 2021 to help local authorities create places in reception to year 11. We have invited free schools to apply for capital funding for nursery provision, and local authorities have the freedom to spend some of their capital funding on nursery places if this is a local priority.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 15/06/2015 15:47:12 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

347340

	registered interest
	date	28/05/2015
	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, if she will publish all departmental forecasts for projections of high and severe shortages of (a) primary and (b) secondary school places in (i) 2015, (ii) 2016, (iii) 2017, (iv) 2018 and (v) 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
	tabling member printed	Tristram Hunt
	uin	377
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education publishes forecasts for pupil numbers in each local authority annually. The latest available data can be found in the 2014 capacity tables published online at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-capacity-academic-year-2013-to-2014" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-capacity-academic-year-2013-to-2014</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 4 provides local authority forecasts of pupils of primary school age through to 2018/19. Table 5 provides local authority forecasts of pupil of secondary school age through to 2020/21.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>For primary school places, the department has published information on the number of places added by local authorities, the number of places for which there are firm plans for delivery, and the number of places that the department estimates are still needed. This information is published in the local authority basic need scorecards which are published online at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/primary-school-places-local-authority-basic-need-scorecards" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/primary-school-places-local-authority-basic-need-scorecards</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The way in which the department estimates the shortfall of places is described in the technical annex of the scorecards. The department no longer articulates the shortfall of places in terms of ‘severe’, ‘high’ or ‘moderate’. Instead, it focuses on the estimated number of additional places needed to meet demand. The department’s aim is to ensure that all children have access to a good school place.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The basic need scorecard published in April 2014 focused on the estimated number of additional places needed to meet demand in 2015/16. It is our intention to continue to publish local authority pupil forecasts, school capacity data and shortfall calculations in a similar way.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 398 400 question first answered 02/06/2015 16:38:09 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	4111 label Biography information for Tristram Hunt