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984366

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date	09/10/2018
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: Homosexuality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his Department's consultation on draft regulations, statutory guidance, and regulatory impact assessment relating to Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education, which opened on 19 July 2018, for what reason his Department is providing discretion to schools on whether they teach same sex relationships in the regulations being consulted on.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	177164
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2018 answer text <p>The Department is making Relationships Education compulsory in all primary schools, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) compulsory in all secondary schools and Health Education compulsory in all state-funded primary and secondary schools.</p><p>A guiding principle of the subjects is that teaching will start from the basis that pupils, at age appropriate points, need to know the laws on relationships and sex to ensure they act appropriately and can be safe. The draft guidance is also clear that there should be an equal opportunity to explore the features of stable and healthy same-sex relationships.</p><p>As with other aspects of the curriculum, schools will have flexibility over how they deliver this content; and, in the case of schools with a religious character, in accordance with their faith. All schools must comply with the Equality Act.</p><p>The Department hopes as many people as possible will contribute to the consultation, which closes on 7 November.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 15/10/2018 16:49:23 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

964754

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Exclusions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has plans to commission an independent investigation into trends in the level of school exclusions; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	168965
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>In March, the Government launched an externally led review of exclusions practice, led by Edward Timpson CBE. The review will explore how head teachers use exclusion in practice, and why pupils with particular characteristics are more likely to be excluded from school. It will also consider the differences in exclusion rates between areas and schools across England.</p><p> </p><p>The review will aim to report by the end of the year. The full terms of reference for the review can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-exclusions-review-terms-of-reference" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-exclusions-review-terms-of-reference</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 06/09/2018 13:05:44 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

964757

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of including additional educational needs funding in the base budget for schools as part of the new funding formula.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	168968
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>Core schools funding is increasing to £43.5 billion by 2020, and within that total the high needs budget is £6 billion this year, the highest on record.</p><p> </p><p>All the evidence shows that pupils from deprived families, those with low prior attainment, those who do not speak English as a first language, and those who start school part-way through the year are most likely to fall behind their peers. The national funding formula protects the £5.9 billion of funding directed towards pupils with additional needs, to help them catch up. This funding is provided to schools through their base budgets. In addition to the schools formula, the pupil premium will provide schools with over £2.4 billion to improve the support provided to children who have been in receipt of free school meals in the last 6 years. Beyond this, the national funding formula for high needs provides funding for local authorities to direct to the most vulnerable children and young people. In 2018-19, the high needs national funding formula totalled £6 billion; £140 million more than in 2017-18.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 11/09/2018 15:57:30 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

938716

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Exclusions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish the number of permanent exclusions from school as a proportion of the overall school population in each local authority area in each of the last five years where figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	162978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>The National Statistics release ‘Permanent and fixed-period exclusions in England: 2015 to 2016’ includes numbers and rates of exclusions. The full release is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england-2015-to-2016</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Table 15 of the ‘Local Authority tables: SFR35/2017’ includes a breakdown of exclusion rates for each local authority in England in the 2015/16 academic year. Historic information (from the 2006/07 academic year onwards) is also available in the release’s Underlying data: SFR35/2017 section, in file ‘SFR35_2017_national_region_la_school_data.csv’. The figures can be filtered by the ‘la_name’ column.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 16/07/2018 16:27:53 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

934963

registered interest
date	05/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Serco
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many current contracts his Department has with Serco; and what the (a) value, (b) start date and (c) end date of each of those contracts is.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	161084
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2018 answer text <p>Since January 2011, details of central government contracts above the value of £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder. Contracts published prior to 26 February 2015 can be viewed at: <a href="https://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive" target="_blank">https://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Those published after 26 February 2015 can be viewed at: <a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search" target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 13/07/2018 13:34:57 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

921883

registered interest
date	11/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Dyslexia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure that the procedures for students with dyslexia taking external exams are compliant with the Equality Act 2010.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	152037
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2018 answer text <p>This is a matter for Ofqual, the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation. I have asked its Chief Regulator, Sally Collier, to write to the hon. Member for Stroud and copy of her reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 19/06/2018 15:37:29 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

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