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91403

registered interest
date	10/09/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Families
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Prime Minister's speech of 15 August 2011 calling for a family test to be applied to all domestic policy, which policies of her Department have been so assessed to date.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	208849
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>On 18 August 2014 my Rt hon. Friend, the Prime Minister, announced that the family test was being formalised as part of the impact assessment for all domestic policies. From October 2014, every new domestic policy will be examined for its impact on the family.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 13/10/2014 16:29:37 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

91411

registered interest
date	10/09/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Castes: Discrimination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to ensure that teaching and guidance is given in schools to ensure that children understand caste discrimination.
tabling member constituency	Islington North
tabling member printed	Jeremy Corbyn
uin	209042
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Schools are encouraged to teach their pupils about the diverse national, regional, religious and ethnic identities in the United Kingdom through the citizenship national curriculum for KS4. Pupils should also be taught about the need for mutual respect and understanding. Pupils may also be taught about diversity and equality through the non-statutory personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) curriculum.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education will shortly be publishing new guidance on promoting the spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) development of pupils, highlighting the importance of pupils gaining knowledge and understanding of different cultures. Schools may achieve this through their whole school ethos as well as teaching of curriculum subjects.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 25/09/2014 16:31:29 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	185 label Biography information for Jeremy Corbyn

91147

registered interest
date	09/09/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Bullying
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance is given by her Department to (a) maintained schools and (b) independent schools on what action to take when a student attempts suicide as a result of bullying.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	208632
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2014 answer text <p>The Department of Health published a report earlier this year that sets out the key actions that local areas can take to prevent suicides. This is published online at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/suicide-prevention-report" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/suicide-prevention-report</a></p><p>It emphasises that schools, social care and the youth justice system, as well as charities that focus on problems such as bullying, poor body image and lack of self-esteem, all have an important contribution in preventing suicide.</p><p>The Government has sent a clear message to schools that all forms of bullying, for whatever reason, are absolutely unacceptable and should not be tolerated in our schools.</p><p>The Department for Education issued guidance in 2011 for maintained and independent schools on preventing and tackling all forms of bullying, which is published online at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/preventing-and-tackling-bullying" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/preventing-and-tackling-bullying</a></p><p>Earlier this year, we issued updated advice on sanctions to manage poor behaviour, which includes bullying. This advice is available online at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/behaviour-and-discipline-in-schools" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/behaviour-and-discipline-in-schools</a></p><p>The Department has also issued a leaflet about bullying, which outlines the responsibilities that schools have in making appropriate provision for a bullied child’s social, emotional and mental health needs. This leaflet is available online at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/preventing-and-tackling-bullying" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/preventing-and-tackling-bullying</a>.</p><p>Case studies on how good schools manage bullying have been published online, and can be viewed at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/managing-behaviour-and-bullying-in-schools-case-studies" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/collections/managing-behaviour-and-bullying-in-schools-case-studies</a></p><p>In June 2014, the Department issued advice on Behaviour and Mental Health to help teachers differentiate between pupils that are simply behaving badly and other behaviour – whether it is disruptive, withdrawn, anxious, depressed or otherwise – that may be related to an unmet mental health need. This advice also outlines to teachers how they can support their pupils who may have a mental health need. This is published online at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mental-health-and-behaviour-in-schools--2" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/mental-health-and-behaviour-in-schools--2</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 12/09/2014 11:55:57 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

91261

registered interest
date	09/09/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Digital Technology
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress she has made on increasing the use of digital engagement in the development and implementation of policy.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	208680
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2014 answer text <p>Digital is the default engagement and communications channel for the Department for Education. In addition to our presence on the GOV.UK website, we use a range of widely available social media platforms to communicate. The Department regularly seeks to develop the use of these channels in new ways, and to reach more people.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has a particularly strong presence on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, with 129,000 Twitter followers – up by 60,000 since April 2013. Recent tweets on policy activity during ‘Back to School Week’ have reached as many as 1.2 million Twitter accounts. We have 25,560 Facebook followers – up by 12,000 since April 2013. In the last full financial year (2013-14), our YouTube videos were watched around 279,000 times.</p><p> </p><p>The Department also regularly publishes content on relevant third-party spaces, such as the TES Connect website, which is widely used by teaching professionals as a place for discussion and information.</p><p> </p><p>In the last financial year (2013-14), there were 5.4 million unique visitors to the Department’s newly launched web pages on GOV.UK. All the Department’s publications are now published on this website, in line with our digital strategy. National curriculum publications have been the most popular collection of documents anywhere on the GOV.UK website, receiving around 2 million views. Additionally, the Department’s e-consultations application allows users to respond to public consultations online. This tool is widely used to elicit views on a broad range of policy areas, informing their development and implementation.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has used its social media channels effectively to make people aware of public consultations – for example leading to around 5000 responses to the consultation on changes to the national curriculum. On a similar basis, we use our social media channels to make people aware of conferences and meetings at which Ministers or departmental officials are speaking and answering questions. We also provide policy colleagues with relevant public comments from our social media channels to help inform their activity.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 12/09/2014 11:49:46 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

90996

registered interest
date	08/09/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Homophobia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what targets the Government has set for tackling homophobia in schools; and what steps have been taken to achieve those targets in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	208535
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>All schools are required, by law, to have a behaviour policy with measures to address all forms of bullying, including homophobic bullying. We trust schools and teachers to decide what measures they should use to address homophobia based on their particular circumstances.</p><p>Schools are held to account by Ofsted for their effectiveness in managing pupil behaviour and safety, which includes homophobic bullying. Inspectors must consider pupils’ freedom from all forms of harassment, bullying and discrimination. As part of the inspection, schools are asked to make available evidence of records and analysis of bullying, in particular homophobic bullying.</p><p>We have issued advice to schools on preventing and tackling bullying in which we link to national organisations such as Stonewall, who can provide specialist advice to schools. This advice is available online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/preventing-and-tackling-bullying" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/preventing-and-tackling-bullying</a></p><p>In addition, we are working closely with the Government Equalities Office on a research project looking at effective ways of preventing and tackling homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying in schools. The results of the first phase of this work are expected to be published in autumn.</p><p>The Government has not set any national targets for tackling homophobia in schools as targets can lead to perverse incentives with schools doing the minimum required to fulfil the target rather than tackling the issue.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 11/09/2014 15:12:54 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

91001

registered interest
date	08/09/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the significance is of the award of an ICT Mark to a school; and how many schools received such an award in 2013.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	208621
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The ICT Mark was launched by the National Association of Advisers for Computers in Education (Naace) in 2007 and was accredited by Becta until 2011. Following the closure of Becta in 2011, Naace took full responsibility for awarding the ICT Mark independently of government, and the Department for Education ceased to have any involvement. According to Naace, 379 schools in the United Kingdom received the award in 2013.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 11/09/2014 15:01:07 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

90828

registered interest
date	05/09/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Attendance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what sanctions are available to local authorities to encourage parents to ensure that children begin school on time each day.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	208376
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>A pupil who arrives for a morning or afternoon session after registration has closed is marked absent for that session. For pupils of compulsory school age (5 to 16 years), local authorities can address such absences if a parent has failed to secure their child’s regular school attendance through use of the sanctions of penalty notices or prosecution leading to a fine. Before prosecuting parents, a local authority should consider whether it would be appropriate to apply for an education supervision order to ensure that the child is properly educated.</p><p> </p><p>Other legal measures available to local authorities and schools to tackle irregular attendance are parenting contracts and parenting orders. A parenting contract is an agreement between a parent and either the local authority or the governing body of a school for the parent to comply for a given period with whatever requirements are set out in the contract to improve their child’s attendance at school. A parenting order may be imposed by a court requiring a parent to comply with requirements specified in the order to improve their child’s school attendance.</p><p> </p><p>Information about these sanctions and measures is included in the Department for Education’s statutory guidance “Parental responsibility measures for school attendance and behaviour”. This is published online at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/parental-responsibility-measures-for-behaviour-and-attendance" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/parental-responsibility-measures-for-behaviour-and-attendance</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 11/09/2014 15:10:47 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

90829

registered interest
date	05/09/2014
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, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the current provision for sex and relationship education in schools in England; if she will update her Department's sex education guidance to reflect the effects of children being exposed to pornography over the internet; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
uin	208399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Sex and relationship education (SRE) is compulsory in maintained secondary schools. Academies are expected to provide SRE as part of a broad and balanced curriculum. Following the Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education review, which concluded in March 2013, the Government decided that the current Sex and Relationship Education Guidance (2000) offers a framework for schools to build upon the delivery of high quality SRE.</p><p> </p><p>The SRE guidance makes clear that teachers should refer to expert organisations for well-informed advice and resources. The PSHE Association, the Sex Education Forum and Brook published supplementary advice in 2014 addressing changes in technology and legislation since 2000. This equips teachers to help protect children and young people from inappropriate online content, and from online bullying, harassment and exploitation. The Government encourages schools to make use of this guidance.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 11/09/2014 15:06:48 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott

90831

registered interest
date	05/09/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of named day written questions were answered by her Department within the prescribed period in the (a) 2012-13 session, (b) 2013-14 session and (c) 2014-15 session to date.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	208422
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The information requested is as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Session</p></td><td><p>Proportion of named day parliamentary questions answered on time</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>17%<a title="" href="http://3dcpri-papp09/new_parliamentaryquestion/208422-%20Hilary%20Benn/Draft/208422%20PQ%20Team%20QA%2008%2009%2014.docx#_ftn1" target="_blank">[1]</a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>87%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p><p>(4 June 2014 – 5 September 2014)</p></td><td><p>83%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Departmental performance information for ordinary and named day parliamentary questions is collated by the Office of the Leader of the House of Commons and submitted to the Procedure Committee. This is published on a sessional basis by the committee, and includes evidence regarding departmental performance. The monitoring report relating to the 2012-13 session was published on 13 February 2014 as HC 1046. The report covering statistics relating to performance during the 2013-14 session will be published very shortly by the Procedure Committee.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a title="" href="http://3dcpri-papp09/new_parliamentaryquestion/208422-%20Hilary%20Benn/Draft/208422%20PQ%20Team%20QA%2008%2009%2014.docx#_ftnref1" target="_blank">[1]</a> The Department’s system for handling written parliamentary questions failed during the 2010-12 session. This led to a collapse in performance and a loss of some data.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 11/09/2014 15:03:28 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

90669

registered interest
date	04/09/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the (a) highest and (b) lowest full-time equivalent salary paid by (i) her Department and (ii) its public bodies was in (A) 2010-11, (B) 2011-12, (C) 2012-13, (D) 2013-14 and (E) 2014-15; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Mr Gareth Thomas
uin	208280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The information requested for the Department for Education is set out in the table below. The Department does not hold salary information for its public bodies.</p><p> </p><p>To preserve individual confidentiality, a band rather than an amount has been provided for the highest salary.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>Highest Full-time Equivalent Salary Paid</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Lowest Full-time Equivalent Salary Paid</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p><p> </p></td><td><p>£180k - £185k</p></td><td><p>£15,266</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p><p> </p></td><td><p>£140k - £145k</p></td><td><p>£15,516</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£155k - £160k</p></td><td><p>£15,766</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£160k - £165k</p></td><td><p>£17,804</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15 (up to 31 Aug 2014)</p></td><td><p>£160k - £165k</p></td><td><p>£18,104</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 11/09/2014 14:49:52 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas