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43047

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to offer compensation to initial teacher training applicants who have been wrongly advised that they failed the professional skills test and denied the opportunity to train as teachers.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	192133
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2014 answer text <p>The Standards and Testing Agency (STA) has written to candidates who were incorrectly notified that they had failed the Professional Skills Tests and provided a helpline number to contact should they wish to discuss their options or seek support.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 20/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

43048

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which contractors will be responsible for the professional skills test for initial teacher training entrants for the 2014-15 academic year.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	192131
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2014 answer text <p>No contract has been agreed with any contractor as yet. The Department for Education is in the process of negotiating a contract through a framework agreement. Once a contract has been signed we will make public the identity of the contractor.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 20/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

43049

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what further information he will give to initial teacher training providers about candidates who were incorrectly notified that they had failed the professional skills test.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	192132
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2014 answer text <p>The Professional Skills Test results database has been updated to reflect the change in outcome for those candidates who were incorrectly notified that they had failed their Skills Test. Initial Teacher Training (ITT) providers have access to this database.</p><p>Any candidate affected in this way was instructed to contact the Standards and Testing Agency (STA) if they wanted to discuss their options.</p><p>The STA have also written to all providers of ITT courses to inform them of the issue.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 20/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

43059

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Statement of 13 March 2014 by the Minister for Schools, how much of the funding announced will come from (a) his Department's budget and (b) the Treasury.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	192041
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2014 answer text <p>The Government has agreed to provide £350 million in 2015-16 to the least fairly-funded local authorities in England. We are able to achieve this without any local authority receiving a cut to its per-pupil schools budget.</p><p> </p><p>We are able to deliver this boost by using money from within our protected schools budget and because HM Treasury will provide additional funding as required.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education intends to find the majority of the £350 million from within its existing protected schools budget as determined at the Spending Round in June 2013. Based on current forecasts, the Treasury will provide around £90 million in addition to the Department's contribution.</p><p> </p><p>The precise level of any additional funding from the Treasury will become clear when we have final data on pupil numbers.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 20/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

43060

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Statement of 13 March 2014 by the Minister for Schools, Official Report, columns 427-42, on school funding, whether any of the funding announced will generate a Barnett consequential.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	192042
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2014 answer text <p>The Government has agreed to provide £350 million in 2015-16 to the least fairly-funded local authorities in England. We are able to achieve this without any local authority receiving a cut to its per-pupil schools budget.</p><p>The Department for Education intends to find the majority of the £350 million from within its existing protected schools budget as determined at the Spending Round in June 2013, with additional money from the Treasury as required. Any funding provided by the Treasury will be agreed by the end of 2014 and will attract Barnett consequentials in the normal way.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 20/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

66039

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Faith Schools
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance his Department has issued in relation to restrictions on types of food that may be served and consumed in publicly-funded faith schools.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	204358
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>The school food standards regulations apply for all schools, regardless of their religious status. We recently published new school food standards that will come into effect in January 2015. Alongside the standards, we have written a short guidance document for school cooks and caterers. This is published online at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.schoolfoodplan.com/standards" target="_blank">www.schoolfoodplan.com/standards</a></p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 14/07/2014 15:10:35 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

172763

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Grammar Schools: Admissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children (a) in receipt of free school meals, (b) with a statement of special educational needs, (c) from a BME community and (d) looked after by a local authority received a place in a grammar school in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	220222
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not hold information on pupils who received a place at a state-funded selective school but does hold information on the number of pupils enrolled in year 7 in state-funded selective schools in January each year. Information on this basis for January 2014 is given in the table below. Information for the remaining years could only be compiled at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Year 7 pupils in state-funded mainstream schools in England, January 2014</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>Number of pupils</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Percentage enrolled at state-funded selective schools</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All pupils</p></td><td><p>522,995</p></td><td><p>4.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(a) Pupils known to be eligible for or claiming free school meals</p></td><td><p>89,515</p></td><td><p>0.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(b) Pupils with statements of special educational needs</p></td><td><p>10,235</p></td><td><p>0.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(c) Pupils from a minority ethnic group</p></td><td><p>138,115</p></td><td><p>5.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(d) Pupils who are looked after for at least 12 months</p></td><td><p>2,255</p></td><td><p>0.8%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: School census and national pupil database</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><ol><li>Includes pupils who are sole or dual main registrations.</li><li>Numbers are rounded to the nearest 5.</li><li>Some looked after children data could not be matched to pupil records in the school census, however matching rates are high. This means that this figure may be a slight underestimate.</li><li>These figures exclude:</li></ol><p> </p><ol><li><p>pupils who received an offer of a place which was not taken up and;</p></li><li><p>pupils who enrolled in state-funded selective schools, but left the school roll before the school census day in January.</p></li><li><p>Cranbrook School, Kent which admits pupils from age 13 rather than age 11.</p></li></ol><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 15/01/2015 16:01:59 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws previous answer version 38284 answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

177475

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Grammar Schools: Admissions
	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 January 2015 to Question 220222, and with reference to the Answer of 26 April 2011, Official Report, column 289, on grammar schools: disadvantaged, for what reason the information requested would incur disproportionate cost for the years 2010 to 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	223152
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>The answer to Question 220222 provided the requested data for 2014. That answer required new analysis of data from the school census and the national pupil database on cohort level characteristics at all selective schools and across all state-funded mainstream schools.</p><p> </p><p>The disproportionate cost threshold for Parliamentary Questions is set at £850 per question. When estimating the cost of answering a question, the Department for Education considers the grade of each official involved and the time they will spend on it. Using the time taken to calculate the statistics provided for 2014 as a basis, officials estimated that to also provide the statistics for the earlier years requested would result in the threshold being exceeded.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 09/02/2015 17:28:41 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

177476

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Grammar Schools: Admissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children (a) in receipt of free school meals, (b) with a statement of special educational needs, (c) from a BME community and (d) looked after by a local authority received a place in a grammar school in January 2012.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	223149
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not hold information on pupils who received a place at a state-funded selective school but does hold information on the number of pupils enrolled in year 7 in state-funded selective schools in January each year. The figures for January 2012 are given in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Year 7 pupils in state-funded mainstream schools in England, January 2012</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p>Number of pupils</p></td><td><p>Of which, percentage enrolled at <br>state-funded selective schools</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All pupils</p></td><td><p>536,145</p></td><td><p>4.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(a) Pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals</p></td><td><p>96,310</p></td><td><p>0.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(b) Pupils with statements of special educational needs</p></td><td><p>10,985</p></td><td><p>0.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(c) Pupils from a black or minority ethnic group</p></td><td><p>129,700</p></td><td><p>5.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(d) Pupils who were looked after for at least 12 months in the year ending 31 March 2012</p></td><td><p>1,925</p></td><td><p>0.7%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: School census and national pupil database</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><ol><li>Includes pupils who are sole or dual main registrations.</li><li>Numbers are rounded to the nearest 5.</li><li>A small number of looked after children records collected from local authorities could not be matched to pupil records in the school census.</li><li>These figures exclude:</li></ol><ul><li><p>pupils who received an offer of a place which was not taken up;</p></li><li><p>pupils who enrolled in state-funded selective schools, but left the school roll before the school census day in January; and</p></li><li><p>selective schools which do not have pupils in year 7.</p></li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 09/02/2015 17:22:35 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

177477

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Grammar Schools: Admissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children (a) in receipt of free school meals, (b) with a statement of special educational needs, (c) from a BME community and (d) looked after by a local authority received a place in a grammar school in January 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	223150
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not hold information on pupils who received a place at a state-funded selective school but does hold information on the number of pupils enrolled in year 7 in state-funded selective schools in January each year.</p><p> </p><p>The figures for January 2010 are given in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Year 7 pupils in state-funded mainstream schools in England, January 2010</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p>Number of pupils</p></td><td><p>Of which, percentage enrolled at <br>state-funded selective schools</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All pupils</p></td><td><p>554,070</p></td><td><p>4.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(a) Pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals</p></td><td><p>97,200</p></td><td><p>0.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(b) Pupils with statements of special educational needs</p></td><td><p>11,465</p></td><td><p>0.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(c) Pupils from a black or minority ethnic group</p></td><td><p>123,095</p></td><td><p>5.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(d) Pupils who were looked after for at least 12 months in the year ending 31 March 2010</p></td><td><p>1,935</p></td><td><p>0.6%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: School census and national pupil database</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><ol><li>Includes pupils who are sole registrations (for consistency with published statistics for this year).</li><li>Numbers are rounded to the nearest 5.</li><li>A small number of looked after children records collected from local authorities could not be matched to pupil records in the school census.</li><li>These figures exclude:</li></ol><p> </p><ul><li>pupils who received an offer of a place which was not taken up;</li><li>pupils who enrolled in state-funded selective schools, but left the school roll before the school census day in January; and</li><li>selective schools which do not have pupils in year 7.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 09/02/2015 17:23:54 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan