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349925

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Speech and Language Therapy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department has issued to local authorities on the joint commissioning with clinical commissioning groups of speech and language therapy.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	2162
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education has not issued specific guidance on joint commissioning for speech and language therapy. Chapter three of the 0 – 25 Special Educational Needs and Disability Code of Practice 2015 provides guidance on working together for joint outcomes which includes guidance on joint commissioning. The department worked closely with the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists when developing the guidance. The Royal College also issued its own guidance to speech and language therapists on the new duties placed on health partners by the Children and Families Act 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>More broadly, the department has contributed to guidance and resources on joint commissioning provided by the Council for Disabled Children, the National Development Team for Inclusion and Mott Macdonald.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 19/06/2015 09:20:59 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

424888

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free Schools: Kingston upon Hull
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding her Department provided for the McAuley Free School project in Hull.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	14009
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2015 answer text <p>The McAuley Free School project opened in 2013 as The Boulevard Academy in Hull and received an outstanding Ofsted report in June 2015.</p><p>As with all free schools, this project received a project development grant to help the Trust cover costs in the run up to opening a free school (the pre-opening stage). The funding is designed to enable Trusts to cover everything they will need to buy up to the point at which the school opens. Post-opening funding expenditure was agreed to cover essential initial costs, such as buying books and equipment. Capital funding rates are published here <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-funding-for-open-free-schools" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-funding-for-open-free-schools</a>.</p><p>Since opening, The Boulevard Academy has received its school block allocation of revenue funding, in line with all other maintained schools and academies. Information on schools block allocations for the academic years since 2013/14 is published online at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/search?q=schools+block+funding+allocations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/search?q=schools+block+funding+allocations</a>.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 03/11/2015 17:21:16 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

604048

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Grammar Schools: Relationships and Sex Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to section 404 of the Education Act 1996, what her Department's policy is on the teaching of sex and relationships education in proposed new grammar schools.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	48925
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2016 answer text <p>Our plan is that the curriculum requirements that apply to existing grammar schools will apply to any proposed new grammar schools.</p><p> </p><p>The requirement under section 404 of the Education Act 1996 for schools to have a statement of their policy on the provision of sex education applies to maintained schools, and the requirement to teach sex education (under section 80 of the Education Act 1996) applies to maintained secondary schools only. Grammar schools operating in the maintained sector are required to teach sex education and must adhere to the requirement under section 404 of the Education Act 1996.</p><p> </p><p>Academies, including grammar schools which are academies, must teach a broad and balanced curriculum and in respect of sex education, they must – like maintained schools - have regard to the Secretary of State’s statutory Sex and Relationship Education guidance issued in 2000. The guidance stipulates that schools must have an up-to-date policy in relation to their sex and relationship education provision. The guidance can be access via this link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sex-and-relationship-education" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sex-and-relationship-education</a></p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 21/10/2016 13:36:57 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

652304

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free Schools: Admissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much public funding the Education Funding Agency expects to (a) successfully claw back and (b) fail to claw back from free schools which have failed to attract the number of students initially planned for the current academic year.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	56161
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2016 answer text <p>The free school programme is responsive to local needs and free schools are initially funded on pupil estimates. For all schools funded on estimates the Education Funding Agency (EFA) carries out an annual pupil number adjustment to bring allocations back into line with the actual numbers reported through the schools census. Some free schools will receive either increases or reductions as a result of those pupil number adjustments. The Department works closely with schools each year to review estimates and to help minimise the likelihood of significant adjustments.</p><p>For the current academic year, 2016 to 2017, the EFA is in the process of calculating pupil number adjustments based on the October 2016 schools census. All schools will be notified of any increases or reductions to their allocations by Spring 2017. The EFA plans to make recoveries in respect of any and all negative adjustments, which will mostly take place over the course of the following academic year, 2017 to 2018. The EFA is currently in the process of making recoveries relating to 2015 to 2016.</p><p>The table below sets out for all relevant academic years up to and including 2015 to 2016, details of the total pupil number adjustment recovery calculated for free schools, the number of schools affected, the value of recoveries written-off, and the amount remaining to be recovered.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Academic Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of free schools with pupil number adjustment recoveries</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total value of pupil number adjustment recoveries for free schools</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Amount recovered to date</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Amount written-off</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Amount remaining to be recovered</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>81</p></td><td><p>£11.7m</p></td><td><p>£5.1m</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td><td><p>£6.6m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>117</p></td><td><p>£11.2m</p></td><td><p>£8.2m</p></td><td><p>£0.1m</p></td><td><p>£2.9m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>76</p></td><td><p>£6.3m</p></td><td><p>£4.4m</p></td><td><p>£0.7m</p></td><td><p>£1.2m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>£0.2m</p></td><td><p>£0.2m</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 56162 56173 question first answered 12/12/2016 15:13:49 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

652308

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free Schools: Admissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much the Education Funding Agency identified as needing to be clawed back from new free schools which failed to attract the planned number of students in each academic year since 2009-10; and how many free schools were identified as having funds which needed to be clawed back in each of those years.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	56173
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2016 answer text <p>The free school programme is responsive to local needs and free schools are initially funded on pupil estimates. For all schools funded on estimates the Education Funding Agency (EFA) carries out an annual pupil number adjustment to bring allocations back into line with the actual numbers reported through the schools census. Some free schools will receive either increases or reductions as a result of those pupil number adjustments. The Department works closely with schools each year to review estimates and to help minimise the likelihood of significant adjustments.</p><p>For the current academic year, 2016 to 2017, the EFA is in the process of calculating pupil number adjustments based on the October 2016 schools census. All schools will be notified of any increases or reductions to their allocations by Spring 2017. The EFA plans to make recoveries in respect of any and all negative adjustments, which will mostly take place over the course of the following academic year, 2017 to 2018. The EFA is currently in the process of making recoveries relating to 2015 to 2016.</p><p>The table below sets out for all relevant academic years up to and including 2015 to 2016, details of the total pupil number adjustment recovery calculated for free schools, the number of schools affected, the value of recoveries written-off, and the amount remaining to be recovered.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Academic Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of free schools with pupil number adjustment recoveries</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total value of pupil number adjustment recoveries for free schools</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Amount recovered to date</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Amount written-off</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Amount remaining to be recovered</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>81</p></td><td><p>£11.7m</p></td><td><p>£5.1m</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td><td><p>£6.6m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>117</p></td><td><p>£11.2m</p></td><td><p>£8.2m</p></td><td><p>£0.1m</p></td><td><p>£2.9m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>76</p></td><td><p>£6.3m</p></td><td><p>£4.4m</p></td><td><p>£0.7m</p></td><td><p>£1.2m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>£0.2m</p></td><td><p>£0.2m</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 56161 56162 question first answered 12/12/2016 15:13:49 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

652309

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free Schools: Admissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding the Education Funding Agency has clawed back from free schools due to such schools admitting fewer pupils than planned in each academic year since 2009-10; and how much such funding has not yet been clawed back from such schools relating to each of those years.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	56162
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2016 answer text <p>The free school programme is responsive to local needs and free schools are initially funded on pupil estimates. For all schools funded on estimates the Education Funding Agency (EFA) carries out an annual pupil number adjustment to bring allocations back into line with the actual numbers reported through the schools census. Some free schools will receive either increases or reductions as a result of those pupil number adjustments. The Department works closely with schools each year to review estimates and to help minimise the likelihood of significant adjustments.</p><p>For the current academic year, 2016 to 2017, the EFA is in the process of calculating pupil number adjustments based on the October 2016 schools census. All schools will be notified of any increases or reductions to their allocations by Spring 2017. The EFA plans to make recoveries in respect of any and all negative adjustments, which will mostly take place over the course of the following academic year, 2017 to 2018. The EFA is currently in the process of making recoveries relating to 2015 to 2016.</p><p>The table below sets out for all relevant academic years up to and including 2015 to 2016, details of the total pupil number adjustment recovery calculated for free schools, the number of schools affected, the value of recoveries written-off, and the amount remaining to be recovered.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Academic Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of free schools with pupil number adjustment recoveries</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total value of pupil number adjustment recoveries for free schools</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Amount recovered to date</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Amount written-off</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Amount remaining to be recovered</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>81</p></td><td><p>£11.7m</p></td><td><p>£5.1m</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td><td><p>£6.6m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>117</p></td><td><p>£11.2m</p></td><td><p>£8.2m</p></td><td><p>£0.1m</p></td><td><p>£2.9m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>76</p></td><td><p>£6.3m</p></td><td><p>£4.4m</p></td><td><p>£0.7m</p></td><td><p>£1.2m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>£0.2m</p></td><td><p>£0.2m</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 56161 56173 question first answered 12/12/2016 15:13:49 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

668917

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free Schools: Finance
	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 12 December 2016 to Question 56161, if she will list the free schools for which £800,000 has been written off; and how much of that money has been written off for each of those schools.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	58916
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2017 answer text <p>The write-off of pupil number adjustment recoveries for free schools is rare and only authorised in exceptional circumstances, as it would be for any other type of school.</p><p>The write-offs I referred to in my response to Question 56161 concerned two schools – Al Madinah School and Stockport Technical School.</p><p>The Department agreed to write-off a recovery of £609k for Al Madinah School relating to academic year 2013/14, and £140k for Stockport Technical School relating to academic year 2014/15. Al Madinah School was ending its secondary provision and Stockport Technical School was closing completely.</p><p>This is short of the £800k quoted in my previous response, which was rounded to hundreds of thousands. The write-off for Al Madinah School was incorrectly rounded up rather than down to the nearest hundred thousand. These are the only two write-offs in respect of free school pupil number adjustment recoveries, totalling £749k.</p><p>Calculating and applying pupil number adjustments to bring estimate-based funding allocations back into line with actual numbers is a normal, intrinsic, planned part of the funding cycle. The Education Funding Agency does not account separately for the resource spent on this, as it is just a small element of the work to allocate and pay funding to academies and free schools.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 58917 question first answered 11/01/2017 16:42:51 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

668918

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free Schools: Finance
	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 12 December 2016 to Question 56161, how much her Department spent to date on recovering money from free schools.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	58917
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2017 answer text <p>The write-off of pupil number adjustment recoveries for free schools is rare and only authorised in exceptional circumstances, as it would be for any other type of school.</p><p>The write-offs I referred to in my response to Question 56161 concerned two schools – Al Madinah School and Stockport Technical School.</p><p>The Department agreed to write-off a recovery of £609k for Al Madinah School relating to academic year 2013/14, and £140k for Stockport Technical School relating to academic year 2014/15. Al Madinah School was ending its secondary provision and Stockport Technical School was closing completely.</p><p>This is short of the £800k quoted in my previous response, which was rounded to hundreds of thousands. The write-off for Al Madinah School was incorrectly rounded up rather than down to the nearest hundred thousand. These are the only two write-offs in respect of free school pupil number adjustment recoveries, totalling £749k.</p><p>Calculating and applying pupil number adjustments to bring estimate-based funding allocations back into line with actual numbers is a normal, intrinsic, planned part of the funding cycle. The Education Funding Agency does not account separately for the resource spent on this, as it is just a small element of the work to allocate and pay funding to academies and free schools.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 58916 question first answered 11/01/2017 16:42:51 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

706702

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Relationships and Sex Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 1 March 2017, HCWS509, on sex and relationships education (SRE), whether she plans that new regulations and statutory guidance on the teaching of SRE will include teaching on (a) transsexuality, (b) same-sex relationships, (c) staying safe online, (d) cyber bullying, (e) sexting, (f) violence against women and girls, (g) consent and (h) child abuse.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	66197
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2017 answer text <p>Following the announcement on 1 March, we plan to undertake a comprehensive programme of engagement with stakeholders to set out suitable, age-appropriate content on relationships and sex education (RSE) which focuses on mental wellbeing, consent, resilience, age-appropriate relationships and sex education, and keeping safe online. Schools already have a duty to comply with the requirements of the Equalities Act to ensure we remove any barriers to equality and help to build a fairer society.</p><p> </p><p>Our key aim for the proposed relationships education and RSE, working in conjunction with PSHE, is to equip pupils with the knowledge and life skills they will need to stay safe and develop healthy and supportive relationships, particularly dealing with the challenges of growing up in an online world. The focus in primary school will be on building healthy relationships and staying safe. As children get older, it is important that they start to develop their understanding of healthy adult relationships in more depth, with sex education delivered in that context.</p><p> </p><p>The regulations and guidance will be subject to full public consultation later this year, and we expect to see children and young people being taught this new curriculum in schools as soon as September 2019.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 08/03/2017 17:52:50 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson