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1126076

registered interest
date	13/05/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: English Language
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils do not have English as their first spoken language in each primary school in the Leeds City Council area.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	253713
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>The number of pupils by English as a first language in England is published in the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release, available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2018." target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2018</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Data for each school is available in the underlying data of this release, contained in file ‘Schools_Pupils_and_their_Characteristics _2018_Schools_Pupils_UD’. The figures can be filtered by local authority name e.g. Leeds (column H), school phase e.g. state-funded primary schools (column N). The number of pupils whose first language is known or believed to be other than English is in column GA.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 21/05/2019 16:22:15 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1122119

registered interest
date	18/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Transgender People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to provide adequate mental health support for (a) transgender and (b) gender-questioning children in schools.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	245972
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2019 answer text <p>It is up to schools to decide, in dialogue with parents, how to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) pupils, including transgender and gender-questioning pupils. The Government Equalities Office has provided guidance and links to support and services for LGBT individuals, including support for children and young people. This guidance is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/advice-and-support-for-lgbt-people#children-and-young-people-up-to-the-age-of-19" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/advice-and-support-for-lgbt-people#children-and-young-people-up-to-the-age-of-19</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Counselling can play an effective role as part of a whole school approach to supporting mental health and wellbeing. To support the provision of counselling support in schools, the Department published a blueprint for school counselling services. This provides schools with practical evidence-based advice informed by schools and counselling experts, on how to deliver high quality school-based counselling. It also offers information on how to ensure that children who have a higher prevalence of mental illness, including those who are LGBT, can access counselling provision.</p><p>This is available here: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/counselling-in-schools" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/counselling-in-schools</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is also making sure that there is better access to specialist mental health support and treatment for pupils that need it. In March, the Government appointed the first ever National Adviser for LGBT Health in the NHS and Advisory Panel, to help improve the health and wellbeing of LGBT people. Under the NHS long term plan, mental health services will continue to receive a growing share of the NHS budget, with funding to grow by at least £2.3 billion a year by 2023/24. For the first time, funding for children and young people’s mental health services will grow faster than both overall NHS funding and total mental health spending. This will mean that by 2023/24 an extra 345,000 children and young people aged 0-25 will receive mental health support via NHS-funded mental health services and school or college-based Mental Health Support Teams.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 30/04/2019 15:56:06 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1104819

registered interest
date	25/03/2019
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: Yorkshire and the Humber
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans his Department has to ensure that relationship and sex education is LGBT-inclusive in all types of school in Yorkshire.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	236526
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government wants all young people to be happy, healthy and safe; equipping them for adult life and to make a positive contribution to society. That is why the Department is making relationships education compulsory for all primary pupils and relationships and sex education (RSE) compulsory for all secondary pupils from September 2020. From that point, health education will also be compulsory for all pupils.</p><p>Pupils should be taught about the society in which they are growing up. RSE should meet the needs of all pupils, whatever their developing identity or sexuality. Pupils should receive teaching on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) relationships during their school years. The Department expects secondary schools to include LGBT content and primary schools are encouraged and enabled to cover LGBT content if they consider it age appropriate to do so. The updated draft guidance can be accessed via the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/relationships-and-sex-education-and-health-education" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/relationships-and-sex-education-and-health-education</a>.</p><p>The updated draft guidance sets out that secondary pupils should be taught the facts and the law about sex, sexuality and gender identity. When teaching the subjects, schools should ensure there is equal opportunity to explore the features of stable and healthy same-sex relationships. This should be integrated appropriately into the RSE programme, rather than addressed separately or in only one lesson.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 28/03/2019 15:25:16 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1086559

registered interest
date	11/03/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Classroom Assistants: West Yorkshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teaching assistants have been employed in primary schools in West Yorkshire in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	230863
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>The following table provides the full-time equivalent (FTE) number of teaching assistants in state funded nursery and primary schools in West Yorkshire and England in each November, from 2011 to 2017.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>West Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>England</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011[1]</p></td><td><p>7,439</p></td><td><p>136,876</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012[2]</p></td><td><p>7,725</p></td><td><p>146,660</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013[3]</p></td><td><p>8,237</p></td><td><p>156,238</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>8,399</p></td><td><p>166,230</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015[4]</p></td><td><p>9,043</p></td><td><p>174,533</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016[5]</p></td><td><p>9,125</p></td><td><p>177,692</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>8,972</p></td><td><p>176,242</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: School Workforce Census</p><p>West Yorkshire includes Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield local authorities. Comparable information for 2010 is not available.</p><p>[1] 2011 figures for West Yorkshire exclude 14 out of 735 nursery and primary schools that did not provide a return for teaching assistant numbers.</p><p>[2] 2012 figures for West Yorkshire exclude 10 out of 734 nursery and primary schools that did not provide a return for teaching assistant numbers.</p><p>[3] 2013 figures for West Yorkshire exclude 5 out of 734 nursery and primary schools that did not provide a return for teaching assistant numbers.</p><p>[4] 2015 figures for West Yorkshire exclude 1 out of 729 nursery and primary schools that did not provide a return for teaching assistant numbers.</p><p>[5] 2016 figures for West Yorkshire exclude 5 out of 728 nursery and primary schools that did not provide a return for teaching assistant numbers.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 14/03/2019 17:34:46 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1027355

registered interest
date	17/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure child wellbeing (a) inside and (b) outside of school.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	202849
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>The Department wants to help schools support the wellbeing of their pupils. That is why in October 2018, my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister announced that schools would be provided with a framework to support them to assess the wellbeing of their pupils. The Prime Minister also made a commitment that the Government will publish an annual ‘State of the Nation’ report every year on World Mental Health Day, highlighting the trends and issues in young people’s wellbeing. Work is underway to deliver these commitments.</p><p>In addition, the Department is working with the Department of Health and Social Care to ensure that all schools have access to mental health support, and has also doubled the Primary Physical Education and Sport Premium to £320 million per year since September 2017. The Department is delivering a programme of work to explore how best to support disadvantaged children and their families to access free enrichment activities and healthy food during the school holidays. Up to £26 million is being invested in a breakfast club programme, which will open or improve breakfast clubs in over 1,700 schools and will be targeted at the most disadvantaged areas of the country.</p><p>Bullying can have serious and lasting consequences on wellbeing. The Government has sent a clear message to schools that bullying, including cyberbullying, for whatever reason is unacceptable. All schools are legally required to have a behaviour policy with measures to prevent all forms of bullying. The Department is providing over £2.8 million of funding between September 2016 and March 2020, to four anti-bullying organisations to support schools to tackle bullying.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 20/12/2018 16:57:12 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

944784

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to increase staff retention rates in UK schools.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	166258
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon Member for Leeds North West to the answer I gave on 12 July 2018 to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-07-09/162157" target="_blank">162157</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 25/07/2018 17:03:41 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

937497

registered interest
date	09/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to improve staff retention rates in schools throughout the UK.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	162157
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2018 answer text <p>At the Association of School and College Leaders annual conference in March, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced the development of a strategy to drive recruitment and boost retention of teachers. The strategy will build on the existing work we have done to support schools and will involve ensuring a period of stability and clarifying the accountability system.</p><p> </p><p>In May 2018, the Department published a response to our ‘Strengthening Qualified Teacher Status and improving career progression for teachers’ consultation, which will include introducing an extended induction period – supported by an Early Career Framework – and setting up a work-related sabbaticals pilot for more established teachers.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has identified the most important factors that influence the decisions of those teachers who do decide to leave the profession and are working hard to tackle them. These include, for instance, our Workload Action Plan and encouraging schools to provide more flexible working arrangements.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 12/07/2018 15:26:18 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

931879

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Physical Education: GCSE
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of expanding the range of individual sports included in the GCSE PE activity list.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	158344
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government will review the activity list for GCSE and A and AS level physical education in autumn 2018. This will include an assessment of the potential merits of expanding the range of individual sports included in the activity list. The Department will agree this process with the exam boards and Ofqual and announce details closer to the time.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 06/07/2018 12:04:44 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

866997

registered interest
date	19/03/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Referral Units: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the adequacy of (a) support and (b) funding for staff employed at Pupil Referral Units.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	133115
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2018 answer text <p>Developing and supporting teachers and leaders is fundamental to driving up educational standards in alternative provision (AP) and improving outcomes for children educated in these settings. On 16 March 2018, the Department launched a £4 million Alternative Provision Innovation Fund to support projects to develop effective practice across AP. The second round of the Teaching and Leadership Innovation Fund, launched in January 2018, also welcomed bids to support high-quality professional development for teachers and school leaders in AP.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities receive high needs funding to support children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities and to fund good quality AP, including in pupil referral units. High needs funding will rise to a total of £6 billion in 2018-19.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 27/03/2018 16:30:42 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

858622

registered interest
date	09/03/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Physical Education: GCSE
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to review the AQA GCSE Physical Education framework to offer a wider variety of options in the marking criteria.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	131877
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2018 answer text <p>As previously announced, the Government will review the GCSE physical education activity list in autumn 2018, following the first examinations this summer. The Department will agree this process with the examination boards and Ofqual and announce details closer to the time. This review will apply to published subject content with which all examination boards are required to comply. The Department would not expect this to lead to changes in the marking criteria.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 14/03/2018 17:04:13 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel