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172502

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Surveys
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average response rate of Initial Teacher Training students trained in universities was to the (a) National College for Teaching and Leadership survey and (b) National Student Survey.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	220100
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2015 answer text <p>In Spring 2014, the annual survey of newly qualified teachers, carried out by National College for Teaching and Leadership, received a response from 20% of university trainees gaining Qualified Teacher Status in 2013 following Initial Teacher Training in higher educational institutions.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the response rate of Initial Teacher Training students to the National Student Survey is not held by the Department for Education.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 12/01/2015 12:39:03 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

172758

	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	Teachers: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many trainee secondary school chemistry, physics and mathematics teachers there are in each region of England.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	220153
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education publishes information on the number of trainee secondary school chemistry, physics and mathematics teachers as part of the initial teacher training (ITT) statistical first release[1] at a national level on an annual basis.</p><p> </p><p>The Department intends to publish this information at provider level, which will include an aggregation at the regional level, in the summer. This information will then be incorporated into future ITT statistical first releases.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-trainee-number-census-2014-to-2015" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-trainee-number-census-2014-to-2015</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 13/01/2015 14:12:06 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

172761

	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	Students: Surveys
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reasons the National College of Teaching and Leadership has withdrawn Initial Teacher Training students from future National Student Surveys.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	220156
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p>The National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) decided to discontinue financial contributions to the National Student Survey (NSS) to focus resources on the annual survey of newly qualified teachers. This survey is more in-depth and specific to initial teacher training than the NSS and provides valuable information about the quality of initial teacher training and how well that training has prepared newly qualified teachers for specific aspects of teaching.</p><p> </p><p>Since making this decision, NCTL has agreed to continue funding for a further year, to ensure time for a smooth transition to alternative arrangements, should the sector wish to continue receiving feedback through the National Student Survey.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 13/01/2015 14:13:21 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

173172

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Asbestos
	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 7 January 2014 to Question 219636, whether she expects to provide an update on the management of asbestos in schools before the end of February 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	220503
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education currently expects to provide an update on the management of asbestos in schools before the end of February 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 15/01/2015 15:59:50 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

173786

	registered interest
	date	14/01/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Buildings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will publish the data gathered through the Property Data Survey Programme before the end of February 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	220718
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2015 answer text <p>The Property Data Survey provides us with the most detailed picture to date of the condition of the school estate. The survey will be used to help ensure that the Department for Education, and those responsible for the maintenance and improvement of schools, are targeting investment most effectively.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Those responsible for schools have been sent copies of their survey data in draft, and our intention is to share final survey data with them later this year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 19/01/2015 13:56:45 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

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