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registered interest
date	11/04/2016
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Education: Equality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps the Government plans to take to ensure equality of educational attainment between boys and girls at all key stages.
tabling member constituency	Lincoln
tabling member printed	Karl McCartney
uin	904445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/04/2016 answer text <p>Our goal is to deliver educational excellence everywhere, so that every child and young person can achieve to the best of his or her ability. Girls’ key stage 2 results are better than ever and their entries to mathematics and science A levels have increased by more than 12,000 since 2010. We continue to consider what more needs to be done to support equality in educational attainment, in particular the justified concerns about white working class boys.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 14/04/2016 12:56:54 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4028 label Biography information for Karl McCartney

506407

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Burnley
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teachers there were in (a) state and religious schools, (b) academies and (c) free schools in Burnley in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012, (iv) 2013, (v) 2014 and (vi) 2015.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	32967
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2016 answer text <p>The following table provides the head count and full-time equivalent (FTE) number of teachers in (a) Local Authority maintained schools and (b) free schools in Burnley in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012, (iv) 2013, and (v) 2014. There were no academy schools open in Burnley during 2010 to 2014. 2015 data will be available in June 2016.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>LA Maintained[1]</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Free Schools[1]</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Head Count</p></td><td><p>FTE</p></td><td><p>Head Count</p></td><td><p>FTE</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>919</p></td><td><p>824.7</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>881</p></td><td><p>801.1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>875</p></td><td><p>806.0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>885</p></td><td><p>810.0</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>9.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>873</p></td><td><p>806.5</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>19.3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: School Workforce Census</p><p> </p><p>[1] Includes faith and non-denominational schools.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 13/04/2016 15:17:49 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

506408

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Qualifications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to paragraph 1.37 of her Department's White Paper, Educational Excellence Everywhere, published in March 2016, when she plans to convene leading headteachers and other experts to design the new voluntary National Professional Qualifications for leadership roles.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	32968
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2016 answer text <p>To develop a reformed suite of National Professional Qualifications, which better prepare new leaders for the full range of leadership roles, the Department for Education anticipates convening a group of leading experts, including school leaders, in the coming months.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 13/04/2016 15:16:02 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

487011

registered interest
date	24/03/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Further Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effect of her Department's reform of AS and A-level qualifications on the number of hours of study students are undertaking in post-16 education.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	32493
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>The number of guided learning hours for AS and A levels have not changed as a result of our reforms. However, with the move to linear qualifications, there will no longer be the routine and automatic external assessment of students at the end of year 12 which places unnecessary burdens on students’ and teachers’ time.</p><p>Study programmes are funded per student rather than per qualification. Funding rates are based on an average of 600 hours per year of planned activities per student.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 11/04/2016 15:36:09 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

487147

registered interest
date	24/03/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what contribution her Department is making to Government steps to reduce the incidence of serious youth violence.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	32651
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Education is working with the Home Office on a series of measures to reduce the incidence of serious youth violence.</p><p>In January 2016, the Home Office published its Ending Gang Violence and Exploitation approach. Among its priorities, this publication describes action to protect locations where vulnerable young people can be targeted, including pupil referral units and residential children’s care homes. New regulations and guidance, introduced in 2015, make it clear that homes can prevent a child leaving the home where there is an immediate risk to their safety – which would include where a gang was seeking to lure a child away for involvement in gang activities. The Department for Education has also undertaken a stock-take of frontline practice in relation to missing children, which will inform and help to shape ongoing work to strengthen and improve practice with the Association of Directors of Children’s Services.</p><p>The Ending Gang Violence and Exploitation publication also states that the Department for Education continues to focus on action to improve school attendance. Regular attendance plays a vital role in keeping young people away from gang involvement and other crime and antisocial behaviour. The Department has, from September 2015, reduced the threshold for ‘persistent absence’ from 15% to 10%, emphasising the message that attending school should be a priority for every pupil.</p><p>In March 2016, the Home Office published its Modern Crime Prevention Strategy, outlining measures to strengthen the Government’s response to knife crime. This publication notes that the Home Office is working with the Department for Education to deliver prevention messages in schools; teaching school pupils to recognise and challenge unhealthy and exploitative relationships, to prevent them from being abused or from engaging in abuse themselves. We are working with the Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education Association to train teaching staff in areas that seek help, to help them to teach young people to recognise and avoid exploitation and abuse.</p><p>The Modern Crime Prevention Strategy also highlights that the Department for Education will work with the Home Office on how best to raise awareness in school age children about the risks of carrying knives, and the role schools can play to build resilience in children and young people so they do not give in to peer pressure to carry knives.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 11/04/2016 15:34:47 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

485586

registered interest
date	23/03/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Centre for Holocaust Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to provide long-term funding for the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education.
tabling member constituency	Holborn and St Pancras
tabling member printed	Keir Starmer
uin	32322
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>Every young person should learn about the Holocaust and the lessons it teaches us today. In recognition of its significance, the Holocaust is the only historic event which is compulsory within the national curriculum.</p><p>Since 2008, the Department for Education has funded UCL Institute of Education’s Centre for Holocaust Education which has seen more than 7,000 teachers benefit from their programme since 2011.</p><p>The Department has renewed the funding for 2016-17 and will continue to do all it can to promote, support and fund teaching of the Holocaust.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 11/04/2016 15:35:27 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4514 label Biography information for Keir Starmer

485597

registered interest
date	23/03/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Morning Lane Associates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department has paid to Morning Lane Associates (a) directly and (b) through other organisations in (i) 2012-13, (ii) 2013-14, (iii) 2014-15 and (iv) 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	32370
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2016 answer text <p>The web-link below shows the total value of payments made to Morning Lane Associates in each of the requested financial years.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold information on payments made by other organisations.</p><p> </p><p>Each month, the Department publishes data for transparency purposes in line with the Government’s transparency agenda. All payments over £25,000 are published. Supplier payment details can be found by searching the published data on GOV.UK:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dfe-and-executive-agency-spend-over-25000-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dfe-and-executive-agency-spend-over-25000-2015-to-2016</a></p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 13/04/2016 15:19:13 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

485599

registered interest
date	23/03/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: GCE A-level
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what evidence her Department holds on the relationship between the A-level grades achieved by prospective teachers and their later performance in the classroom.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	32399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>Evidence, including a seminal McKinsey study from 2007 (<em>How the world’s best-performing schools come out on top</em>), shows that teacher quality and impact cannot be predicted by a single factor such as A-Level grades, but result from a complex combination of factors including academic achievement combined with characteristics and attributes such as communication skills, willingness to learn and motivation to teach.</p><p>The Teachers’ Standards, developed by a group of leading teachers and heads, clearly define the core elements of effective teaching – including strong subject knowledge and the promotion of scholarship, as well as skills such as classroom management. All new teachers must demonstrate that they are meeting the standards at the end of their initial training.</p><p>It is important that providers of initial teacher training are able to select and recruit candidates on the basis of their potential and their academic achievement to date; this is why we are giving schools much greater say in recruiting and training candidates who can be successful in the classroom. This year, over half of all postgraduate trainees are coming through school-led routes.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 11/04/2016 15:35:46 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

485600

registered interest
date	23/03/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Curriculum: Digital Technology
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what requirements or guidelines her Department issues on the reference or inclusion of digital and online resources in the curriculum (a) in general and (b) for students without access to broadband at home.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	32409
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>The National Curriculum, introduced from September 2014, focuses on the essential knowledge that teachers should teach, not on how they should teach it.</p><p>Schools are best placed to decide which resources meet their needs and to secure these accordingly. Wherever possible, the development of new resources and training should be sector-led, with schools prioritising their use of funding in their budgets in order to best exploit the opportunities offered by the new National Curriculum.</p><p>The Government is in favour of schools embracing digital technology in order to improve educational outcomes. We want to see schools making informed decisions about what and how technology will best meet their specific needs, keeping in mind that pedagogy should drive the use of technology.</p><p>Where teachers use digital resources in the curriculum, we would expect them to take into account the circumstances of all pupils and make appropriate provision for those without access to broadband at home.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 11/04/2016 15:35:06 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

484366

registered interest
date	22/03/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Assessments: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that examination marking is consistent and objective.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
uin	32124
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2016 answer text <p>This is a matter for Ofqual, the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation. I have therefore asked the Interim Chief Regulator, Amanda Spielman, to write directly to the Honourable Member. A copy of her reply will be placed in the House of Commons Library.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 24/03/2016 18:25:15 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake