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1046058

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	William Torbitt School
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of the planned academisation of William Torbitt primary school in Ilford North constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Ilford North
	tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
	uin	211266
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>It is right that the department acts robustly and quickly where there is evidence of failure. My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, is under a duty to make an academy order for all maintained schools that have been judged Inadequate by Ofsted, requiring them to become an academy and receive additional support from a sponsor. We have a responsibility to ensure all pupils are getting a great education, and we will be unapologetic in acting where pupils’ education is suffering. This school was properly issued an Academy Order on 24 September 2018 following an Inadequate judgement published on 18 September 2018.</p><p>The Regional Schools Commissioner for the East of England and North East London has had discussions with the London Borough of Redbridge about the proposed academisation of this school.</p><p>Ofsted revisited William Torbitt Primary School on 9 January 2019. The department will consider the outcome of that inspection and whether the findings merit the revocation of the Academy Order.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 211267 211268 question first answered 28/01/2019 17:27:11 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1046059

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	William Torbitt School
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions his Department has had with the London Borough of Redbridge on the proposed academisation of William Torbitt primary school in Ilford North constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Ilford North
	tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
	uin	211267
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>It is right that the department acts robustly and quickly where there is evidence of failure. My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, is under a duty to make an academy order for all maintained schools that have been judged Inadequate by Ofsted, requiring them to become an academy and receive additional support from a sponsor. We have a responsibility to ensure all pupils are getting a great education, and we will be unapologetic in acting where pupils’ education is suffering. This school was properly issued an Academy Order on 24 September 2018 following an Inadequate judgement published on 18 September 2018.</p><p>The Regional Schools Commissioner for the East of England and North East London has had discussions with the London Borough of Redbridge about the proposed academisation of this school.</p><p>Ofsted revisited William Torbitt Primary School on 9 January 2019. The department will consider the outcome of that inspection and whether the findings merit the revocation of the Academy Order.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 211266 211268 question first answered 28/01/2019 17:27:11 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1046060

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	William Torbitt School
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will allow William Torbitt primary school in Ilford North to remain as a local authority school because of its recent increases in standards.
	tabling member constituency	Ilford North
	tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
	uin	211268
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>It is right that the department acts robustly and quickly where there is evidence of failure. My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, is under a duty to make an academy order for all maintained schools that have been judged Inadequate by Ofsted, requiring them to become an academy and receive additional support from a sponsor. We have a responsibility to ensure all pupils are getting a great education, and we will be unapologetic in acting where pupils’ education is suffering. This school was properly issued an Academy Order on 24 September 2018 following an Inadequate judgement published on 18 September 2018.</p><p>The Regional Schools Commissioner for the East of England and North East London has had discussions with the London Borough of Redbridge about the proposed academisation of this school.</p><p>Ofsted revisited William Torbitt Primary School on 9 January 2019. The department will consider the outcome of that inspection and whether the findings merit the revocation of the Academy Order.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 211266 211267 question first answered 28/01/2019 17:27:11 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1045729

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teaching Assistants: Job Description
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has issued a standardised specification for the job description for teaching assistants.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	210657
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department has not issued a job description or specification for the role of teaching assistants. It is for employers to define job roles and make decisions about contracts of employment. The Education Endowment Foundation has published evidence and guidance providing recommendations for the effective use of teaching assistants in order to support employers further on this matter.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 28/01/2019 16:29:56 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1046134

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2019
	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, what the average annual per pupil cost is of a Pupil Referral Unit.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	211308
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>Funding for alternative provision (AP) comes from the high needs block of the dedicated schools grant and includes funding for Pupil Referral Units (PRUs).</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities provide place funding of £10,000 for each AP place in a pupil referral unit from their high needs budget. In addition, top up funding is paid by the commissioner of AP and relates to additional costs above the £10,000 for each individual pupil.</p><p> </p><p>The Department estimates the per pupil cost of AP (including PRUs) to be £17,000 nationally.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s data is based on actual reported spending by local authorities to the Department and is a national average.[1] This does not capture spending on AP by schools who might commission services directly.</p><p> </p><p>Isos Partnership also published research in 2018, estimating the average cost of AP to be £18,000 but this may be based on different methodology from the Department’s internal analysis. Their analysis can be found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/752548/Alternative_Provision_Market_Analysis.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/752548/Alternative_Provision_Market_Analysis.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/section-251-materials" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/section-251-materials</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 28/01/2019 12:51:59 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1046130

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Cooperatives
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on the proportion of early years providers that are co-operatives.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	211360
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>Information on early years providers that are co-operatives is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>The department’s Survey of Childcare and Early Years Providers collects data on group-based providers, maintained providers and childminders. The survey is published annually.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 28/01/2019 17:21:47 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

1046131

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Disadvantaged
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the specific funding needs of early-years settings in deprived communities where provision is almost exclusively local authority funded.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	211361
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>We will be spending around £6 billion on childcare support in 2019-20 – a record amount. That includes funding for our free early education entitlements, on which we plan to spend around £3.5 billion this year alone.</p><p> </p><p>The government’s Early Years National Funding Formula allocates funding to local authorities for the purpose of delivering our early years entitlements. Our new formula was introduced in April 2017 following extensive consultation and it includes an additional needs factor to weight funding according to disadvantage.</p><p> </p><p>To accompany the government response to the consultation, we published an Equalities Impact Assessment looking into the effects of the formula on specific groups. Both documents may be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/early-years-funding-changes-to-funding-for-3-and-4-year-olds" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/early-years-funding-changes-to-funding-for-3-and-4-year-olds</a>.</p><p> </p><p>We also require local authority funding formulas, which allocate funding to providers, to have a mandatory deprivation supplement.</p><p> </p><p>The government recognises the need to keep the evidence base on costs up to date. We continue to monitor the provider market closely through a range of regular and one-off research projects which provide insight into various aspects of the provider market.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 28/01/2019 17:12:22 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

1045889

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Overseas Students
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to increase the number of international students choosing to study in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	211071
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>The government fully recognises the important economic and cultural contribution that EU and international students make to the UK’s higher education sector. We want that contribution to continue and we are confident – given the world-class quality of our higher education sector – that it will. We welcome international students and there continues to be no limit on the number who can come here to study, nor any plans to limit any institution’s ability to recruit them.</p><p> </p><p>The UK remains a highly attractive destination for non-EU students, with their numbers remaining at record highs – over 170,000 non-EU entrants to UK higher education institutions for the seventh year running. The UK is a world-leading destination for study, with 4 universities in the world’s top 10 and 16 in the top 100 – second only to the USA. We actively promote study in the UK through the GREAT Campaign and to over 100 countries through the British Council.</p><p> </p><p>That is why the government announced on 21 January that an international education strategy will be produced by the Department for Education and the Department for International Trade in 2019. The strategy will set out the government’s ambition for international education, in which international students play a key role, and plans to support the sector in driving growth in education exports.</p><p> </p><p>In the Immigration White Paper, published on 19 December 2018, the UK government proposed to increase the post-study leave period for international students following completion of studies to 12 months for those completing a PhD, and to 6 months for all full-time postgraduate students and undergraduate students at institutions with degree awarding powers. Going beyond the recommendations set out by the Migration Advisory Committee, these proposals will benefit tens of thousands of international students.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 28/01/2019 10:56:22 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1045683

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Supply Teachers: Chemistry
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many specialist chemistry supply teachers are available in each region of England.
	tabling member constituency	South Basildon and East Thurrock
	tabling member printed	Stephen Metcalfe
	uin	210631
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>The Department collects information on teacher numbers from the School Workforce Census but does not hold information on the available number of supply teachers in specialist subject areas.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 28/01/2019 16:32:44 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4092 label Biography information for Stephen Metcalfe

1046105

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Universities: Admissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of young people that attended school-based sixth forms went on to attend Russell Group universities in each of the last nine years.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Royston Smith
	uin	211293
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>​The table below shows the percentages of young people attending state-funded mainstream school sixth forms that went on to sustained destinations at Russell Group Universities after 16 to 18 study (taking A level or other level 3 qualifications) in academic years 2010/11 to 2016/17 (the last 7 years for which data is available).</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>​Destination Year</p></td><td><p>​Number of Pupils</p></td><td><p>​Overall Destinations</p></td><td><p>​Russell Group Destinations</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>​2010/11</p></td><td><p>​162,520</p></td><td><p>​89%</p></td><td><p>​12%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>​2011/12</p></td><td><p>​164,580</p></td><td><p>​91%</p></td><td><p>​15%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>​2012/13</p></td><td><p>​169,395</p></td><td><p>​90%</p></td><td><p>​15%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>​2013/14</p></td><td><p>​172,635</p></td><td><p>​91%</p></td><td><p>​17%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>​2014/15</p></td><td><p>​173,720</p></td><td><p>​90%</p></td><td><p>​17%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>​2015/16</p></td><td><p>​182,880</p></td><td><p>​91%</p></td><td><p>​17%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>191,925</p></td><td><p>90%</p></td><td><p>17%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Information on pupil destinations is published annually at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/destinations-of-ks4-and-ks5-pupils-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/destinations-of-ks4-and-ks5-pupils-2017</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 28/01/2019 16:40:54 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith