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227782

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	Free Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to update the data contained in its publications of Capital funding for open free schools and Revenue expenditure for free schools before the dissolution of Parliament.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	227867
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2015 answer text <p>The department has no plans to update the data before the end of March.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The department publishes capital funding once construction contracts are finalised and data checked, and update GOV.UK following that at this link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-funding-for-open-free-schools#history" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-funding-for-open-free-schools#history</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Revenue funding data for free schools that opened in September 2014 will be published in due course. Project Development Grant (PDG) and Post Opening Grant (POG) revenue funding data for free schools that opened up until September 2013 has been published and can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/revenue-expenditure-for-free-schools" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/revenue-expenditure-for-free-schools</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 20/03/2015 13:41:02 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

227777

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	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average cost per hour of childcare was (a) in a nursery and (b) with a child minder in (i) York Central constituency, (ii) City of York local authority area and (iii) England in 2010 and each subsequent year.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Sir Hugh Bayley
uin	227993
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not record childcare costs for parents at constituency or local authority level. Furthermore, the Department does not record day care or child minder costs on an annual basis.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department’s Childcare and Early Years Providers survey (2010) indicated that the average hourly fee charged by full day care providers for three-year-olds was £3.60. The same survey conducted in 2013 indicated a figure of £3.90 for three and four-year-olds. The average hourly child minder fee for children of any age was £3.80 in 2010 and £4.10 in 2013. These surveys are available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childcare-and-early-years-providers-survey-2010" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childcare-and-early-years-providers-survey-2010</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childcare-and-early-years-providers-survey-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childcare-and-early-years-providers-survey-2013</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Family and Childcare Trust also conduct annual childcare cost surveys; these are available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.familyandchildcaretrust.org/childcare-costs-surveys" target="_blank">http://www.familyandchildcaretrust.org/childcare-costs-surveys</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 20/03/2015 10:33:06 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	385 label Biography information for Sir Hugh Bayley

227770

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	Absent Parents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will update her guidance to schools on the release of reports and other information on the educational progress of pupils to non-resident parents; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	227792
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education has no plans to issue guidance to schools on this matter. The Education (Pupil Information) (England) Regulations 2005 (S.I 1437) require maintained schools to keep curricular and educational records for each pupil, disclose these records to parents and pupils, and report, at least annually, to all parents on their child’s progress and attainment.</p><p> </p><p>Section 576 Education Act 1996 (applicable to The Pupil Information Regulations) provides that the definition of ‘parent’ includes all natural parents, whether they are married or not, and any person who has care of a child, irrespective of whether they are a natural parent or have parental responsibility.</p><p> </p><p>The exception applies in circumstances where there is a court order limiting an individual’s exercise of his or her parental responsibility which expressly amends their entitlement to receive such information.</p><p> </p><p>If a parent feels that they are not receiving the statutory information to which they are entitled, under education law, from the school, they can complain formally to the school by following its complaint procedure.</p><p> </p><p>These statutory duties do not apply to mainstream Academies or Free Schools. As an independent public body, an Academy or Free School is directly responsible, under the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA), for the collation, retention, storage and security of all information that they produce and hold. In an Academy or Free School, a pupil has the right to a copy of their own educational information under the DPA. In certain circumstances, requests for this information may be made by a parent on behalf of their child.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 20/03/2015 10:00:11 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

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

227783

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	Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many specialist teachers of (a) art, (b) history, (c) English, (d) physical education and (e) drama taught mathematics in state secondary schools in (i) 2009-10, (ii) 2010-11, (iii) 2011-12, (iv) 2012-13 and (v) 2013-14.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	227868
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2015 answer text <p>The information requested could only be produced at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 20/03/2015 13:42:24 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

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

227780

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: Buildings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the original budget was for the Property Data Survey in July 2011; and what the final budget was for that survey after 8,000 additional surveys were included in it.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	227897
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>The original budget for the Property Data Survey Programme was £13 million, which was increased to £20 million following the extension of the programme to include 8,000 further surveys.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It had always been the intention to complete school surveys, over time, on the new consistent basis established by the Property Data Survey Programme; this simply brought forward the expenditure from future years’ spend. As a result we have benefited from a consistent database that has been used to allocate maintenance funding to get the best return from the government's investment in the school estate.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 23/03/2015 12:10:32 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

228133

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	Social Workers: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the maximum number of cases in a supervisor's name is that may be allocated to a participant in the Frontline programme without a local authority incurring a financial penalty.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	228095
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>There is no maximum number of cases for allocation to Frontline participants and there are no financial penalties for allocating more than a set number of cases.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Arrangements for social worker case management are at the discretion of the employer. There is no statutory limit on caseloads. Many variables are taken into account, such as levels of demand, capacity of the local authority, capability of the whole workforce and of individual practitioners, level of risk to children, and complexity of social need of families. These variables can change frequently.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Newly qualified social workers are allocated cases but should receive supervision from more experienced social workers. The Local Government Standards for Employers of Social Workers in England set out expectations for employers of social workers, including newly qualified social workers, regarding case load. The guidance is available here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.local.gov.uk/documents/10180/6188796/The+Standards+-+updated+July+01+2014/146988cc-d9c5-4311-97d4-20dfc19397bf" target="_blank">http://www.local.gov.uk/documents/10180/6188796/The+Standards+-+updated+July+01+2014/146988cc-d9c5-4311-97d4-20dfc19397bf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 228107 question first answered 23/03/2015 17:30:10 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

228127

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	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the maximum number of cases in a supervisor's name is that can be allocated to a newly qualified children's social worker.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	228107
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>There is no maximum number of cases for allocation to Frontline participants and there are no financial penalties for allocating more than a set number of cases.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Arrangements for social worker case management are at the discretion of the employer. There is no statutory limit on caseloads. Many variables are taken into account, such as levels of demand, capacity of the local authority, capability of the whole workforce and of individual practitioners, level of risk to children, and complexity of social need of families. These variables can change frequently.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Newly qualified social workers are allocated cases but should receive supervision from more experienced social workers. The Local Government Standards for Employers of Social Workers in England set out expectations for employers of social workers, including newly qualified social workers, regarding case load. The guidance is available here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.local.gov.uk/documents/10180/6188796/The+Standards+-+updated+July+01+2014/146988cc-d9c5-4311-97d4-20dfc19397bf" target="_blank">http://www.local.gov.uk/documents/10180/6188796/The+Standards+-+updated+July+01+2014/146988cc-d9c5-4311-97d4-20dfc19397bf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 228095 question first answered 23/03/2015 17:30:10 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

228301

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, what the average number of months was that recruits in previous cohorts served in the Troops to Teachers programme.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	228295
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>The first Troops to Teachers participants are still undertaking their training. The first cohort began training in January 2014, so all of the current trainees have served 14 months on the programme. The second cohort started training in September 2015, therefore current trainees have served 6 months on the programme.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 23/03/2015 12:06:48 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones