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1342937

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Academies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools that have had an academy order imposed upon them have waited (a) between 24 and 35 months, (b) between 36 and 47 months, (c) between 48 and 59 months and (d) longer than 60 months before their academisation process was completed.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	25850
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2021 answer text <p>As of the 1 June 2021, there have been 574 sponsored academies that have opened after the predecessor local authority maintained schools were issued with academy orders following receipt of inadequate Ofsted judgements. 56% of these sponsored academies opened in less than 12 months, and more than 90% opened in less than 24 months of the academy order being issued. Of the remainder:</p><ul><li>33 took between 24 and 35 months.</li><li>13 took between 36 and 47 months.</li><li>4 took between 48 and 59 months.</li><li>1 took longer than 60 months.</li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 12/07/2021 13:39:37 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

882608

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Academies: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department has taken to improve the scrutiny of (a) finances and (b) academic performance at academies as a result of the collapse of the Wakefield City Academy Trust.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	135670
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>The department continually reviews and improve systems and processes to oversee academies. We have strengthened our processes for monitoring the overall performance of MATs and ensuring growth is sustainable and delivers improvement. We have also improved support available, for example, through funding professional development programmes for MAT trustees[1] and funding Academy Ambassadors to match high calibre business leaders with academy trusts. Academy Ambassadors work closely with academy trusts and Regional Schools Commissioners to identify trust boards where additional business expertise would improve the governance of the trust and any skills or background that would be particularly desirable in light of the opportunities and challenges the trust is facing.</p><p> </p><p>The department has a robust system of financial accountability. Processes are founded on a clear framework communicated and regulated by the Education Skills and Funding Agency (ESFA), with effective oversight and compliance based on proportionate risk assessment, and robust intervention when things go wrong. ESFA scrutinises a broad range of academy trust data and intelligence to identify risk, including audited accounts and a number of annual financial returns.</p><p> </p><p>All academy trusts must publish details of their financial performance in annual accounts. To ensure strong external scrutiny, all academy trusts must have an annual external audit of their annual accounts by a registered statutory auditor and the department expect trusts to act on audit findings as an opportunity to strengthen their systems. The ESFA’s focus is much broader than intervention, working with the sector to continue building capacity and expertise in financial management and forecasting. To reinforce the importance of three year financial planning the ESFA are further strengthening budget forecasting, the ESFA CEO Eileen Milner wrote to academy trusts in March 2018 setting out the requirement for all academy trusts to submit three-year financial forecasts.</p><p> </p><p>Where concerns arise, ESFA works with trusts to prevent financial instability and enable them to recover their financial position and return to stable governance. Intervention is always proportionate, risk-based, and linked to non-compliance with requirements set out in the Academies Financial Handbook and academies’ funding agreements. The sector remains in a stable position, with just over 1% of academy trusts subject to an active Financial Notice to Improve.</p><p> </p><p>We constantly keep under review the financial control and reporting framework for academies and introduce any necessary enhancements through the Academies Financial Handbook and the Academies Accounts Direction, both of which are re-issued on an annual basis.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/school-governors-professional-development</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 23/04/2018 16:55:36 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1628571

	registered interest
	date	17/05/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Department for Education: Equal Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if their Department will publish an Ethnicity Pay Gap Report for financial year 2023-24 in line with the Ethnicity Pay Gap reporting guidance for employers published on 17 April 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	185677
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2023 answer text <p>The Department is currently considering the best way to approach Ethnicity Pay Gap reporting in the Civil Service and, although Ethnicity Pay Gap Reporting is voluntary, the Department is keen to publish a report.</p><p>The Department, along with Civil Service HR colleagues and other government departments, is working through the details of the Ethnicity Pay Gap reporting guidance that was published on 17 April 2023. This is to consider the approach to a consistent methodology for producing the data. The outcomes of this development work will inform whether the Department is able to publish a report for 2023/24.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 25/05/2023 14:17:40 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

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

1552145

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free School Meals: Migrants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of children in households with no recourse to public funds have been provided with free school meals in the period since 1 September 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	111608
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2022 answer text <p>Free school meals (FSM) eligibility was extended permanently to children from all No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) households subject to income thresholds, from the start of the 2022 summer term. These pupils are recorded in school census returns in the same way as the wider FSM cohort and are not identified separately.</p><p>From June to July 2022, the Department ran a claims process allowing schools to attract pupil premium funding for pupils who became newly eligible for FSM as a result of the extension to NRPF households. The most recent data on the number of NRPF pupils who were claimed for through this process can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2022-to-2023" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2022-to-2023</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 21/12/2022 15:44:47 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

178313

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free Schools: Bradford
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many free school places have been created in Bradford since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Mr David Ward
	uin	223724
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2015 answer text <p>We have opened seven free schools in Bradford since 2010, which once they reach their eventual capacity, will have created 3931 free school places.</p><p> </p><p>One further free school is currently in the pipeline. When this school reaches its eventual capacity, it will have created 420 places.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 11/02/2015 17:00:31 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	3923 label Biography information for Mr David Ward

92192

	registered interest
	date	26/09/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free Schools: Bradford
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when her Department received an application from the Kings Free Schools and Academies Trust to establish a new free school in Milner Fields in Bradford.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Mr David Ward
	uin	209600
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education has previously received applications from the Kings Free Schools and Academies Trust to establish free schools in Milner Fields, Bradford and Darnall, Sheffield.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Two applications were received in January 2012, during the third wave of applications. They were listed with all other applications received at this time in a list published online at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/name-local-authority-previous-school-name-and-faith-designation-of-applications-to-open-a-free-school-wave-3" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/name-local-authority-previous-school-name-and-faith-designation-of-applications-to-open-a-free-school-wave-3</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department has no plans to publish the two applications.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 209601 question first answered 15/10/2014 08:41:35 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	3923 label Biography information for Mr David Ward

93792

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free Schools: Bradford
	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 15 October 2014, to Question 209601, on free schools: Sheffield, who was named as Chair of Governors in the application to establish a free school at Milner Fields in Bradford.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Mr David Ward
	uin	210939
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2014 answer text <p>There is a police investigation taking place regarding events at Kings Science Academy. Until such time as those investigations are brought to a close and a full and final determination reached, it would not be appropriate to release any related information held by the Department for Education.</p><p>The Department has made a public commitment to release all successful free school applications once all personal information has been removed. Should the investigation conclude by the time the first batch of applications are released in December, the application for the Kings Science Academy in Bradford will be released at that time.</p><p>The release of the names of the proposed Chairs of Governors at the proposed schools in Milner Fields and Darnall might contravene the data protection rights of the individuals concerned.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 210920 210940 question first answered 22/10/2014 16:23:01 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	3923 label Biography information for Mr David Ward

92188

	registered interest
	date	26/09/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free Schools: Sheffield
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when her Department received an application from the Kings Free Schools and Academies Trust to establish a new free school in Darnall, S9 in Sheffield; and if she will publish it.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Mr David Ward
	uin	209601
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education has previously received applications from the Kings Free Schools and Academies Trust to establish free schools in Milner Fields, Bradford and Darnall, Sheffield.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Two applications were received in January 2012, during the third wave of applications. They were listed with all other applications received at this time in a list published online at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/name-local-authority-previous-school-name-and-faith-designation-of-applications-to-open-a-free-school-wave-3" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/name-local-authority-previous-school-name-and-faith-designation-of-applications-to-open-a-free-school-wave-3</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department has no plans to publish the two applications.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 209600 question first answered 15/10/2014 08:41:35 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	3923 label Biography information for Mr David Ward

93793

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free Schools: Sheffield
	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 15 October 2014, to Question 209601, on free schools: Sheffield, who was named as Chair of Governors in the application to establish a free school at Darnall in Sheffield.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Mr David Ward
	uin	210940
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2014 answer text <p>There is a police investigation taking place regarding events at Kings Science Academy. Until such time as those investigations are brought to a close and a full and final determination reached, it would not be appropriate to release any related information held by the Department for Education.</p><p>The Department has made a public commitment to release all successful free school applications once all personal information has been removed. Should the investigation conclude by the time the first batch of applications are released in December, the application for the Kings Science Academy in Bradford will be released at that time.</p><p>The release of the names of the proposed Chairs of Governors at the proposed schools in Milner Fields and Darnall might contravene the data protection rights of the individuals concerned.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 210920 210939 question first answered 22/10/2014 16:23:01 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	3923 label Biography information for Mr David Ward