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	registered interest
	date	24/02/2015
	answering body	Wales Office
	answering dept id	28
	answering dept short name	Wales
	answering dept sort name	Wales
	hansard heading	Exports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what discussions he has had with the First Minister on promoting exports by Welsh businesses.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	907777
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2015 answer text <p>Welsh exports have increased by almost a third since the beginning of 2010, a clear demonstration of the success of this Government’s long-term economic plan to rebalance the Welsh economy.</p><p>I welcome the Welsh Government’s move to work more collaboratively with the UK Government on exports, and the First Minister’s recognition of the vital and important role the UKTI plays.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Preseli Pembrokeshire answering member printed Stephen Crabb question first answered 04/03/2015 15:11:56 answering member 1554 label Biography information for Stephen Crabb
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

172785

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2015
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Welsh Language
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what consideration he has given to adopting a Welsh language policy for his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	220149
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2015 answer text <p>The Government is fully committed to the Welsh language and to providing Government services in the Welsh language where there is demand for them. It is important that, in the non devolved areas sufficient support should be given to the Welsh language, and the Government is committed to ensuring this is done.</p><p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), along with other Government Departments, is not considered a ‘public body’ under the provisions of the Welsh Language Act (section 21), meaning that it is not required to prepare Welsh language schemes. No such scheme has therefore been published.</p><p>The FCO did, however, produce a small number of marketing materials in Welsh as part of the GREAT campaign in 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 04/02/2015 09:36:52 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

177473

	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	Kings Science Academy
	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 2 February 2015 to Question 222135 whether her Department consulted the police on the decision not to publish the successful application by Kings Science Academy Bradford.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	223211
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education did not consult with West Yorkshire Police on the publication of the application by Kings Science Academy. However, as we have said on previous occasions, West Yorkshire Police must be allowed to complete their investigation into matters at Kings Science Academy and make their judgments about referrals to the Crown Prosecution Service without information that might be relevant to their case being put into the public domain.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 10/02/2015 15:32:39 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	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

177478

	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 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	223148
	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 2013 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 2013</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>526,190</p></td><td><p>4.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(a) Pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals</p></td><td><p>94,505</p></td><td><p>0.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(b) Pupils with statements of special educational needs</p></td><td><p>10,560</p></td><td><p>0.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(c) Pupils from a black or minority ethnic group</p></td><td><p>132,350</p></td><td><p>5.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(d) Pupils who were looked after for at least 12 months in the year ending 31 March 2013</p></td><td><p>2,115</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> </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>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> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 09/02/2015 17:21:18 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

177479

	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 2011.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	223151
	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 2011 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 2011</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>549,350</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>96,810</p></td><td><p>0.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(b) Pupils with statements of special educational needs</p></td><td><p>11,445</p></td><td><p>0.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(c) Pupils from a black or minority ethnic group</p></td><td><p>125,955</p></td><td><p>5.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(d) Pupils who were looked after for at least 12 months in the year ending 31 March 2011</p></td><td><p>2,055</p></td><td><p>1.0%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: Matched school census/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><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> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 09/02/2015 17:25:34 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

178116

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free Schools
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to her Answer of 2 February 2015 to Question 222135, for what reason her Department did not publish successful free school applications from waves 4-7 at the same time as successful applications from waves 1-3.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	223597
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>In the interests of transparency, we decided to release the earlier free school applications as soon as they had been redacted rather than wait until June when the later applications will be ready for publication.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 12/02/2015 17:32:16 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan