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228129

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	GCE A-level
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions her Department has had with the awarding organisations on the number of people needed to mark A Level examinations in summer 2015; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	228131
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>This is a matter for Ofqual, the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation. I have therefore asked its Chief Regulator, Glenys Stacey, to write directly to the Honourable Member. A copy of her reply will be placed in the House of Commons Library.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 23/03/2015 12:16:44 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

228125

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	GCE A-level
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 9 March 2015 to Question 226295, what assessment her Department has made of the appropriateness of decisions taken by individual awarding organisations on the future of particular A levels; and what guidance she provided to those organisations on that issue.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	228127
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>In June 2014 Ofqual consulted on a set of proposals about how GCSE and A level subject availability should be determined from September 2017. The consultation can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/377804/2014-06-24-completing-gcse-as-and-a-level-reform.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/377804/2014-06-24-completing-gcse-as-and-a-level-reform.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>Ofqual’s consultation set out the proposed process for reform and principles it would use to determine if a subject is likely to lead to the development of the GCSE, AS and A level qualifications. Ofqual’s consultation states that exam boards are likely to take the opportunity to review their range of subjects.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Ofqual will announce in due course which A levels can be reformed for introduction in 2017.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 24/03/2015 14:24:16 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

228298

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	Mathematics: GCSE
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, by what date she plans for schools to be sent sample assessment materials for the new GCSE mathematics examination; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent North
tabling member printed	Joan Walley
uin	228183
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>This is a matter for Ofqual, the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation. I have therefore asked its Chief Regulator, Glenys Stacey, to write directly to the Honourable Member. A copy of her reply will be placed in the House of Commons Library.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 24/03/2015 14:26:24 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	286 label Biography information for Joan Walley

228791

registered interest
date	20/03/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average hourly pay is of employees in her Department identified as (a) White or White British and (b) from a Black, Asian or other minority ethnic group.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	228578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education pays staff an annual salary and not an hourly rate of pay. The average gross pay of employees in the Department, split by ethnicity, is listed in Table 1 below that includes the Department’s three Executive Agencies. Not all employees choose to declare their ethnicity and the information has been calculated from the payroll records of staff who have provided this information.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 1: Average gross annual salaries for staff as at September 2014 (the date of the Department’s last equal pay audit) split by grade.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>White</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>BME</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EA</p></td><td><p>£19,066</p></td><td><p>£20,971</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EO</p></td><td><p>£24,210</p></td><td><p>£25,510</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HEO</p></td><td><p>£29,884</p></td><td><p>£31,112</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SEO</p></td><td><p>£37,444</p></td><td><p>£37,488</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>GRADE 7</p></td><td><p>£50,387</p></td><td><p>£51,090</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>GRADE 6</p></td><td><p>£62,939</p></td><td><p>£62,485</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Senior Civil Servants</p></td><td><p>£84,597</p></td><td><p>£88,501</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 25/03/2015 16:08:50 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

229097

registered interest
date	23/03/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which reports commissioned by her Department from external bodies between 1 September 2010 and 31 December 2014 have not yet been published; when each such report was commissioned; what the nature of the research so commissioned was; from which individual or body each such report was commissioned; what the value was of each report so commissioned; on what date each such report was received by her Department; for what reasons the research has not yet been published; and when she plans to publish each such report.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Mr David Blunkett
uin	228653
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>Research commissioned between 1 September 2010 and 31 December 2014 that has been completed is published on GOV.UK.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government Social Research Service recommends it is best practice to publish within 12 weeks of having a final agreed report. All of our reports commissioned between 1 September 2010 and 31 December 2014 adhere to this protocol.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education have four reports that are yet to be published that were commissioned between 1 September 2010 and 31 December 2014. All four comply with the Research Publication Protocol, in accordance with Government Social Research (GSR) best practice.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 26/03/2015 10:45:30 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	395 label Biography information for Lord Blunkett

229098

registered interest
date	23/03/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Afzal Amin
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what contact there has been between Ministers and officials in her Department and Afzal Amin since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	228825
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>Information in the form requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 26/03/2015 09:17:21 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

229099

registered interest
date	23/03/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Curzon Institute
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what contact her Department has had with (a) Curzon Education and (b) the Curzon Institute since May 2010; what contracts her Department holds with those bodies; and what the value of those contracts is.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	228826
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education has not held any contracts with Curzon Education or the Curzon Institute since May 2010.</p><p> </p><p>An answer with regard to contact the Department for Education has had is not held centrally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 26/03/2015 09:19:37 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

229252

registered interest
date	23/03/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Members
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many times the right hon. Member for Surrey Heath has visited her Department since 14 July 2014; and what the date was of each such visit.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	228828
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not hold a record of all visitors. The Department does hold records of visitors who have signed out a temporary pass, which could be searched only at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 26/03/2015 09:18:40 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

347073

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to paragraph 23 of the paper, The Importance of Teaching, published in November 2010, Cm 7980, what steps her Department has taken to establish a new collaboration incentive, which financially rewards schools which effectively support weaker schools and demonstrably improve their performance; what level of incentive was offered to how many schools under that scheme; what her policy is on continuing that policy; and what level of incentive to how many schools she plans to offer over the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Tristram Hunt
uin	159
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2015 answer text <p>Collaboration and partnership working are essential components of the academies and free schools programme. Over 50% of academies are in multi-academy trusts and a Department for Education report last year showed that 87% of academies support other schools. The department has also supported collaboration through the development of system leaders, enabling the best school leaders to drive improvement.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The department has implemented the Teaching Schools programme, with 644 teaching schools as of 21 May 2015. Since 2011, when the Teaching Schools programme began, £100m has been committed to developing the Teaching Schools network. Teaching schools are required to establish alliances of schools with which they work directly to provide school based initial teacher training, school-to-school support, research and development activity, and continuous professional development.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The department has also grown the number of National Leaders of Education (NLEs) from 470 in 2010 to 1040 as of 21 May 2015. NLEs are outstanding leaders who support other schools in challenging circumstances to improve. Each NLE receives a £6,000 annual bursary which covers the costs their school incurs in providing collaborative support to underperforming schools.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The department also introduced a School-to-School Support Fund in September 2014. The School-to-School Support Fund provides grant funding for teaching schools and NLEs to support school improvement by working with underperforming schools in the areas of greatest need through specific time-limited interventions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 01/06/2015 16:31:24 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4111 label Biography information for Tristram Hunt

347096

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
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, what guidance her Department provides to local education authorities (LEAs) on school choices where parents are applying to local grammar and LEA schools.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	18
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education provides a national framework for school choice through the statutory School Admissions Code and related admissions law. It is for local authorities and other admission authorities (including grammar schools) to set their admission arrangements within the parameters of this framework.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The School Admissions Code requires local authorities to publish a composite prospectus for parents which contains the admission arrangements for each of the state funded schools in their area. Parents can then express a preference for at least three schools when applying for a school place as part of the normal admissions round.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The School Admissions Code is published online at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-admissions-code--2" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-admissions-code--2</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 01/06/2015 16:30:01 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe