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818851

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: Energy Drinks
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools have banned students from consuming energy drinks on school premises; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	121615
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2018 answer text <p>The department does not hold information on the number of schools that have banned students from consuming energy drinks on school premises.</p><p>The new standards for school food came into force on 1 January 2015. The School Food Standards define the foods and drinks that must be provided, which are restricted, and those which must not be provided. They apply to all food and drink provided to pupils on and off school premises and during an extended school day (up to 6pm), including school trips, breakfast clubs, tuck shops, mid-morning break, vending and after school clubs.</p><p>The only drinks permitted are: Plain water (still or carbonated); lower fat milk or lactose reduced milk; fruit or vegetable juice (max 150mls); plain soya, rice or oat drinks enriched with calcium; plain fermented milk (e.g. yoghurt) drinks; combinations of fruit juice and lower fat milk or plain yoghurt, plain soya, rice or oat drinks enriched with calcium; cocoa and lower fat milk; flavoured lower fat milk, all with less than 5% added sugars or honey; tea, coffee, hot chocolate</p><p>Combination drinks are limited to a portion size of 330mls. They may contain added vitamins or minerals, and no more than 150mls of fruit or vegetable juice. Fruit or vegetable juice combination drinks must be at least 45% fruit or vegetable juice.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 121616 question first answered 11/01/2018 17:12:04 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

818852

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: Energy Drinks
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effect of the consumption of energy drinks by under-18s on their ability to concentrate at school.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	121616
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2018 answer text <p>The department does not hold information on the number of schools that have banned students from consuming energy drinks on school premises.</p><p>The new standards for school food came into force on 1 January 2015. The School Food Standards define the foods and drinks that must be provided, which are restricted, and those which must not be provided. They apply to all food and drink provided to pupils on and off school premises and during an extended school day (up to 6pm), including school trips, breakfast clubs, tuck shops, mid-morning break, vending and after school clubs.</p><p>The only drinks permitted are: Plain water (still or carbonated); lower fat milk or lactose reduced milk; fruit or vegetable juice (max 150mls); plain soya, rice or oat drinks enriched with calcium; plain fermented milk (e.g. yoghurt) drinks; combinations of fruit juice and lower fat milk or plain yoghurt, plain soya, rice or oat drinks enriched with calcium; cocoa and lower fat milk; flavoured lower fat milk, all with less than 5% added sugars or honey; tea, coffee, hot chocolate</p><p>Combination drinks are limited to a portion size of 330mls. They may contain added vitamins or minerals, and no more than 150mls of fruit or vegetable juice. Fruit or vegetable juice combination drinks must be at least 45% fruit or vegetable juice.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 121615 question first answered 11/01/2018 17:12:04 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

818816

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free School Meals: Sheffield Central
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of children in Sheffield Central constituency who are currently eligible for free school meals who would not be considered eligible under plans in the consultation entitled Eligibility for free school meals and the early years pupil premium under Universal Credit.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	121580
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2018 answer text <p>We are currently consulting on proposals for free school meals eligibility under Universal Credit. We will consider the responses to the consultation carefully and will continue to refine our analysis as our policy on this matter develops.</p><p>Currently around 1.1 million of the most disadvantaged children are eligible for and claim a free nutritious meal. This government provides significant funding to ensure the most disadvantaged children receive free school meals. <br> <br> Under our proposals, no existing recipients of free school meals should lose their entitlement following the introduction of new eligibility criteria. We have proposed protection arrangements to ensure that every pupil who is eligible and receiving free school meals at the point at which the criteria are changed (or any claimants who gain free school meals during the rollout of Universal Credit) should be protected against losing their meals whilst Universal Credit is fully rolled out nationally. In addition, any protected pupils who are still receiving free school meals once the Universal Credit transition is complete would continue to receive protection until the end of their current phase of education.</p><p>In our proposed net earnings threshold, we estimate that around 50,000 more children will become entitled to free school meals than at present, enabling us to target support towards a greater number of families on low incomes. It is right that we make sure that free school meals reach children from the most disadvantaged families, and we are consulting on this issue to make sure this is the case.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 11/01/2018 17:26:09 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

818822

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupil Premium
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, in pursuant to the Answer of 21 December 2017 to Question 120011, whether she has made an assessment of the accuracy of the Ever 6 model in establishing entitlement to Pupil Premium in schools with growing pupil rolls; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Riverside
	tabling member printed	Mrs Louise Ellman
	uin	121586
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2018 answer text <p>The department counts the numbers of pupils eligible for pupil premium using a single census point in January to enable it to allocate pupil premium to schools by June. This gives certainty to schools about their pupil premium budget to allow them to plan it’s use effectively.</p><p>To make in-year adjustments to reflect the movement of pupils would introduce uncertainty. The EVER6 FSM measure is designed as a proxy measure to reflect relative deprivation in schools and is not intended to allocate a specific amount to an individual pupil. Schools have the ability to use their pupil premium allocation flexibly to meet the various needs of all eligible pupils. The funding model does take into account growing pupil numbers for schools that are newly opened or are continuing to grow by year group following opening. The department rarely receives queries from schools on this issue.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 121589 question first answered 11/01/2018 17:35:10 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	484 label Biography information for Dame Louise Ellman

818825

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupil Premium
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many representations has she received on the accuracy of the Ever 6 model in assessing the eligibility of Pupil Premium for all pupils in schools with growing pupil rolls; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Riverside
	tabling member printed	Mrs Louise Ellman
	uin	121589
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2018 answer text <p>The department counts the numbers of pupils eligible for pupil premium using a single census point in January to enable it to allocate pupil premium to schools by June. This gives certainty to schools about their pupil premium budget to allow them to plan it’s use effectively.</p><p>To make in-year adjustments to reflect the movement of pupils would introduce uncertainty. The EVER6 FSM measure is designed as a proxy measure to reflect relative deprivation in schools and is not intended to allocate a specific amount to an individual pupil. Schools have the ability to use their pupil premium allocation flexibly to meet the various needs of all eligible pupils. The funding model does take into account growing pupil numbers for schools that are newly opened or are continuing to grow by year group following opening. The department rarely receives queries from schools on this issue.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 121586 question first answered 11/01/2018 17:35:10 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	484 label Biography information for Dame Louise Ellman

816736

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: Sanitary Products
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number of school absences caused by girls’ inability to access free sanitary products.
	tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
	tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
	uin	121163
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Education collects information on absence through the termly school census. The department collects data on the number of possible sessions, number of authorised absences, number of unauthorised absences and the reason for absence for each pupil. The reasons for absence do not include a category which would enable sessions missed due to a lack of access to menstrual products to be identified. The method of data collection does not enable us to identify pupils who are routinely missing school as we collect information on the total sessions missed each term. Full details of the absence data we collect in school census can be found in the census guidance here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/school-census" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/school-census</a>.</p><p>We are committed to ensuring that any action to address absence is based on robust evidence. We have sought to establish whether there has been any rigorous national assessment of the prevalence of period poverty or its impact on attendance, however none appears available. We reached out to school stakeholders in July 2017 through the Association of School and College Leaders forum asking for contributions on the issue and have received a very limited response. We are producing additional analysis of our absence data to look for evidence of period poverty and will publish findings in due course.</p><p>We have made it a priority to reduce school absence for all pupils and there has been some notable success in this area, with overall yearly absence rates decreasing from 6.5% of possible sessions missed in 2006/7 to 4.6% in 2015/16.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 15/01/2018 17:11:25 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

816832

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free School Meals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase the number of children receiving free school meals who are entitled to them.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	121259
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>We recognise the benefits of providing a healthy school meal to the most disadvantaged children and we want to make sure that as many eligible children as possible are claiming their free school meals.</p><p><br> Schools and local authorities have worked hard in recent years to encourage eligible families to register for free school meals, and we provide schools with a model registration form and guidance. We will continue to look at the most effective practice and to share this with schools and local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 15/01/2018 17:28:50 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

816954

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free School Meals: Wansbeck
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of families in Wansbeck constituency who would be entitled to free school meals under the pre-universal infant free school meals system.
	tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
	tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
	uin	121381
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>The proportion of pupils eligible for and claiming free school meals under the pre-universal free school meals system is published at the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2017</a>.</p><p>Data is not summarised by parliamentary constituency, but data for each school is available in the Underlying data: SFR28/2017 of the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release, contained in file ‘SFR28_2017_Schools_Pupils_UD’. The figures can be filtered by school phase, school type and parliamentary constituency.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 15/01/2018 17:42:34 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

816918

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: Sexual Offences
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department plans to issue to schools on tackling peer-on-peer sexual abuse.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	121345
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>On 14 December 2017 the department published advice for schools on how to prevent and respond to reports of sexual violence and sexual harassment between children (available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sexual-violence-and-sexual-harassment-between-children-in-schools-and-colleges" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sexual-violence-and-sexual-harassment-between-children-in-schools-and-colleges</a>.)</p><p>Keeping Children Safe in Education is statutory guidance that all schools must have regard to when carrying out their duties to safeguard and promote the welfare of children (available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keeping-children-safe-in-education--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keeping-children-safe-in-education--2</a>).</p><p>KCSIE sets out that all staff should receive safeguarding and child protection training at induction and that training should be regularly updated. All schools should have an effective child protection policy. The policy should include procedures to minimise the risk of peer on peer abuse, set out how allegations will be investigated and dealt with, be clear abuse should never be passed off as “banter” and set out how victims of peer on peer abuse will be supported.</p><p>The department is consulting on revising KCSIE. The consultation (available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/keeping-children-safe-in-education-proposed-revisions" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/keeping-children-safe-in-education-proposed-revisions</a>) closes on 22 February 2018 and provides an opportunity to comment on the effectiveness of the sexual violence and sexual harassment advice.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 121346 question first answered 15/01/2018 17:46:28 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

816919

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: Sexual Offences
	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 prevent peer-on-peer sexual abuse in schools.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	121346
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>On 14 December 2017 the department published advice for schools on how to prevent and respond to reports of sexual violence and sexual harassment between children (available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sexual-violence-and-sexual-harassment-between-children-in-schools-and-colleges" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sexual-violence-and-sexual-harassment-between-children-in-schools-and-colleges</a>.)</p><p>Keeping Children Safe in Education is statutory guidance that all schools must have regard to when carrying out their duties to safeguard and promote the welfare of children (available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keeping-children-safe-in-education--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keeping-children-safe-in-education--2</a>).</p><p>KCSIE sets out that all staff should receive safeguarding and child protection training at induction and that training should be regularly updated. All schools should have an effective child protection policy. The policy should include procedures to minimise the risk of peer on peer abuse, set out how allegations will be investigated and dealt with, be clear abuse should never be passed off as “banter” and set out how victims of peer on peer abuse will be supported.</p><p>The department is consulting on revising KCSIE. The consultation (available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/keeping-children-safe-in-education-proposed-revisions" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/keeping-children-safe-in-education-proposed-revisions</a>) closes on 22 February 2018 and provides an opportunity to comment on the effectiveness of the sexual violence and sexual harassment advice.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 121345 question first answered 15/01/2018 17:46:28 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight