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835938

registered interest
date	02/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	University Technical Colleges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the (a) annual budget of and (b) the cost of build or refurbishment of each University Technical College in the most recent financial year.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	126293
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2018 answer text <p>The Education and Skills Funding Agency and the Department accounts, which include capital expenditure on Free Schools, Studio Schools and University Technical Colleges (UTC), are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/education-funding-agency-annual-report-and-accounts-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/education-funding-agency-annual-report-and-accounts-2016-to-2017</a>.</p><p>For reasons of commercial confidentiality, we do not disclose the Department’s capital budgets for individual schools. The costs of individual schools, including land purchase costs are also not disclosed before completion and overall costs are finalised. Capital funding for open Free Schools, UTCs and Studio Schools, where costs have been finalised, are available at: <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>Additional finalised capital data is due to be published in the coming months.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 12/02/2018 17:04:27 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

833876

registered interest
date	30/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Headteachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his Department’s strategy is on increasing the number of people who seek to become head teachers.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	125634
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2018 answer text <p>The Department supports a range of programmes designed to bolster the leadership pipeline. Our recently reformed suite of national professional qualifications help better prepare leaders for the range of roles in today’s school system through from middle leadership to headship and beyond.</p><p> </p><p>The Department also funds targeted programmes that aim to boost leadership capacity in challenging schools such as the High Potential Senior Leaders and High Potential Middle Leaders programmes. The second round of the £75 million Teaching and Leadership Innovation Fund opened on 31 January 2018 and seeks to build leadership capacity in the schools and areas that need it most.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is also committed to supporting more teachers with protected characteristics into leadership through the Leadership Equality and Diversity Fund and Women Leading in Education networks and coaching pledge.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 07/02/2018 17:50:07 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

794131

registered interest
date	22/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Secondary Education: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how his Department reached a figure of £4,800 as the assumed figure to deliver secondary education according to the new funding formula.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	115219
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>Following consultation on the national funding formula, the Government examined how best it can support schools with lower levels of additional needs funding. A number of consultation replies requested the Government set a minimum level of funding per pupil. A range of different minimum levels of per pupil funding were proposed, but the most commonly suggested level for secondary schools was £4,800. We believe that setting a minimum amount of £4,800 in 2019-20 strikes an appropriate, affordable balance in the formula.</p><p> </p><p>The Government does not suggest that £4,800 per pupil is the minimum amount needed to run a secondary school. There is no consensus on the minimum operating cost of a school and we believe it should be for heads and governors to decide their operating model.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 27/11/2017 17:20:58 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

771338

registered interest
date	16/10/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the new funding formula for schools includes funding for students with high needs; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	107760
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2017 answer text <p>On 14 September, we published our decisions on the introduction of a national funding formula for schools (which provides core funding for all mainstream schools), and a national funding formula for high needs (which provides place funding for special schools, and top-up funding for high needs pupils in both special and mainstream schools).</p><p> </p><p>Under the national funding formulae, mainstream schools will be expected to contribute the first £6,000 of additional funding for any pupil on their roll with high needs from their schools block funding. When a school can demonstrate that the costs of additional support required for a pupil with high needs exceed £6,000, the local authority should allocate additional top-up funding from their high needs budget to cover the excess costs. This process is the same as under the previous funding system. This is explained in paragraph 54 of the High Needs funding 2018 to 2019 operational guide, which can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/high-needs-funding-arrangements-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/high-needs-funding-arrangements-2018-to-2019</a>. If a school has concerns about the level of funding they receive for their pupils with high needs, it should discuss it with their local authority in the first instance. <strong><br> </strong></p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 24/10/2017 16:30:17 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

769677

registered interest
date	12/10/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Per Capita Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reasons funding that was previously directed to support specific additional needs is now to be directed towards minimum levels of per pupil funding.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	107486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2017 answer text <p>The national funding formula protects the £5.9 billion total for funding directed towards additional needs, as proposed in our consultation. It distributes that funding in line with the best available evidence: using a broad measure of deprivation to include all those who are likely to need extra help; and increasing the proportion of additional needs spending allocated on the basis of low prior attainment, to give additional support to those who need help to catch up.</p><p> </p><p>We heard throughout the consultation that we could do more through our formula to support those schools that attract the lowest levels of per pupil funding. We have listened carefully, and with the additional investment of £1.3 billion, have decided that it is appropriate both to raise the basic amount that each pupil attracts, and to target additional funding to the lowest funded. We believe that this will help ensure that every school has the resources it needs to provide appropriate support to all of its pupils. None of this additional funding has been found by reducing funding directed towards additional needs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 20/10/2017 13:41:03 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

769678

registered interest
date	12/10/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Finance
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 level of funding in the new funding formula for schools that have a large number of pupils with additional needs and those that do not.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	107487
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2017 answer text <p>The national funding formula allocates the majority of funding, 72.9%, through the basic per-pupil allowance, while protecting the funding directed towards children with additional needs, with a total spend of £5.9 billion and overall weighting of 17.8%.</p><p>Funding will be distributed according to the individual needs and characteristics of every school in the country. This will direct resources where they are needed most, and provide transparency and predictability for schools.</p><p>The attached table shows the unit values, total funding and proportion of funding for each factor in the formula.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 20/10/2017 13:09:18 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 107487 - attachment.pdf title unit values, total funding and proportion
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

769679

registered interest
date	12/10/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Secondary Education: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the Government's policy is on secondary school inclusion; and how that policy has been taken account of in the new funding formula.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	107491
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2017 answer text <p>We are committed to an inclusive education for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), and progressively removing the barriers to education and participation in mainstream education. The Children and Families Act 2014 secures the general presumption in law of mainstream education in relation to decisions about where children and young people with special educational needs should be educated; and the Equality Act 2010 provides protection from discrimination for disabled people. The 2014 Act also requires local authorities to ensure the views, wishes and feelings of children, young people and parents are taken into account when deciding what support children and young people with SEND need.</p><p>The introduction of national funding formulae for schools and high needs is supported by significant extra investment of £1.3 billion across 2018-19 and 2019-20, over and above the budget announcement at the 2015 spending review. We are therefore able to provide additional funding for every school and allocate extra high needs funding to every local authority, both of which will support schools in providing for their pupils, including those with SEND. Both schools and high needs national funding formulae reflect the number of children and young people with SEND who are attending mainstream or specialist provision.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 20/10/2017 12:45:35 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

747607

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has plans to provide additional school places in (a) Stroud constituency and (b) Gloucestershire.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	2639
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>Supporting local authorities to create sufficient school places is one of the Government’s top priorities. Since 2015 we have committed £5.8 billion to deliver new school places, on top of our investment in the free schools programme.</p><p>Gloucestershire County Council has been allocated £85.1 million in basic need funding allocations for the period 2011 to 2020 to create new school places, and has created 3,339 places between 2010 and 2016.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/basic-need-allocations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/basic-need-allocations</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-authority-school-places-scorecards-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-authority-school-places-scorecards-2016</a></p><p>The Department has opened two free schools in Gloucestershire since 2010, and we have plans to open a further two free schools and one university technical college up to 2018. These schools are providing approximately 1451 additional school places in the area.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/free-schools-open-schools-and-successful-applications" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/free-schools-open-schools-and-successful-applications</a></p><p> </p><p><strong><br> </strong></p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 11/07/2017 15:07:52 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew