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76313

registered interest
date	08/07/2014
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 steps his Department is taking to prevent bullying in infant and junior schools.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	204382
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>The Government has made preventing and tackling bullying in primary and secondary schools one of its top priorities by striking a balance between schools' legal requirements, freedom and accountability.</p><p> </p><p>All schools must have a behaviour policy with measures to prevent all forms of bullying among pupils, including that which occurs online. Schools have the freedom to shape these measures in the context of their pupils' needs. They are held to account by Ofsted for their effectiveness in preventing bullying, harassment and discrimination.</p><p> </p><p>Through the Education Act 2011, we strengthened teachers' powers to discipline pupils for poor behaviour, including bullying. They can now issue same day detentions, confiscate banned items and search for, and if necessary delete, inappropriate images on mobile phones which might be linked to cyberbullying. This advice was updated in February 2014 to make clear that tough but proportionate sanctions can be deployed to deal with misbehaviour, which includes bullying. It is published 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> </p><p>In 2011, the Government published streamlined advice for schools, reducing it from 481 pages to just 11 pages to make absolutely clear schools' legal obligations to prevent and tackle bullying, and clarify teachers' powers to discipline pupils for unacceptable behaviour. This advice is published online at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/preventing-and-tackling-bullying" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/preventing-and-tackling-bullying</a></p><p> </p><p>In February 2014, we issued an online leaflet about schools' responsibilities to support children who are bullied. This contains advice that makes clear that schools should make appropriate provision for a bullied child's social, emotional and mental health needs. This advice is also published online at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/preventing-and-tackling-bullying" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/preventing-and-tackling-bullying</a></p><p> </p><p>To further support schools, in February 2014, the Department produced case studies showing good practice in how schools manage behaviour and bullying. The case studies give real life examples of what schools do to identify and respond to bullying. This is published online at:</p><p><a href="http://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> </p><p>From September 2014, pupils in all four key stages will be taught about e-safety as part of the new curriculum. For the first time, schools will be legally required to teach <br> e-safety to pupils in infant and junior schools. This will empower all young people to tackle cyberbullying through responsible, respectful and secure use of technology.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are also providing £4 million of funding over two years from spring 2013 to four organisations: Beatbullying, the Diana Award, Kidscape and the National Children's Bureau, to develop effective initiatives to prevent and tackle bullying.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 14/07/2014 16:53:53 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

66035

registered interest
date	07/07/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Air Travel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on what occasions each Minister within his Department has taken domestic flights on official business since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Barrow and Furness
tabling member printed	John Woodcock
uin	204292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not hold a list of domestic flights taken by each Minister on official business. A list could only be compiled at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 14/07/2014 16:52:07 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	3917 label Biography information for Lord Walney

66036

registered interest
date	07/07/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department spent on legal fees in cases relating to the release of information requested under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Barrow and Furness
tabling member printed	John Woodcock
uin	204274
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>Legal fees on cases relating to the release of information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 are not held centrally by the Department for Education and the cost of determining these over the past five years would exceed the disproportionate limit.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 14/07/2014 16:40:18 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	3917 label Biography information for Lord Walney

66037

registered interest
date	07/07/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what professional development courses are made available to staff of his Department; and what the cost to the public purse is of each such course.
tabling member constituency	Barrow and Furness
tabling member printed	John Woodcock
uin	204341
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education's staff use the Civil Service Learning Portal to access development courses. The Portal currently offers 298 face-to-face courses, 217 <br>e-learning programmes and 6,000 learning resources.</p><p> </p><p>E-learning courses and learning resources are free to access. Costs for face-to-face courses are dependent on where the course takes place and the number of delegates.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 14/07/2014 16:53:57 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	3917 label Biography information for Lord Walney

66038

registered interest
date	07/07/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Senior Civil Servants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many senior civil servants appointed to positions in his Department since 2010 were previously (a) political appointees within that Department and (b) employed by a political party.
tabling member constituency	Barrow and Furness
tabling member printed	John Woodcock
uin	204322
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>No senior civil servants appointed to positions in the Department for Education since 2010 were previously (a) political appointees within the Department and (b) employed by a political party.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 14/07/2014 16:51:43 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	3917 label Biography information for Lord Walney

65634

registered interest
date	03/07/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Care to Learn Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) men and (b) women received support from the Care to Learn scheme in each of the last two academic years; what the total cost of the Care to Learn scheme was in each such year; and what the projected cost of the scheme will be in 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	204006
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>The number of a) men and b) women who received support from the Care to Learn scheme in the last two academic years; and the total costs of the scheme in those years are shown below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2012 to 2013 academic year</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Men: 47</p></td><td><p>Women: 6,454</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Cost: £32.76 million</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2013 to 2014 academic year*</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Men: 39</p></td><td><p>Women: 5,389</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Cost: £ 23.69 million</p><p>*Take up figures and costs to the end of May 2014</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The estimated cost for the scheme in the 2014 to 2015 academic year is £30.79 million.</p><p>The scheme is demand-led. The fall in cost between 2012/13 and 2013/14 is due to falling demand caused by significant decline in the 16-19 cohort.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 14/07/2014 16:56:12 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

65320

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
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 increase the number of replies sent electronically to letters from hon. Members.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	203526
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>Information is not available in the form requested. Reports on the performance of Departments in handling correspondence from hon. Members and peers are published by the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General each year and include numbers of letters to which Ministers reply. The report for the calendar year 2013 (Official Report 13 May 2014, 17WS) shows that 16,898 such letters were received by Department for Education Ministers. Most correspondence from hon. Members continues to be received as letters and is replied to in the same format, although Ministers will continue to reply in email form when they consider it appropriate to do so.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 203302 question first answered 07/07/2014 10:12:10 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

65420

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Arts: Primary Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of primary pupils from each region have engaged with (a) theatre activities, (b) music activities, (c) dance and (d) other arts in each year since 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
uin	203662
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not collect this specific information.</p><p>All primary pupils in maintained schools will participate in drama, music, dance and art and design as part of the national curriculum. In addition, many pupils take part in extra curricula arts activities both inside and outside school.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 203663 question first answered 07/07/2014 16:31:53 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

65421

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Arts: Primary Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of primary pupils from (a) disadvantaged backgrounds and (b) non-disadvantaged backgrounds have engaged with (i) theatre activities, (ii) music activities, (iii) dance and (iv) other arts in each year since 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
uin	203663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not collect this specific information.</p><p>All primary pupils in maintained schools will participate in drama, music, dance and art and design as part of the national curriculum. In addition, many pupils take part in extra curricula arts activities both inside and outside school.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 203662 question first answered 07/07/2014 16:31:53 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

65447

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprentices have been employed by contractors and sub-contractors to his Department in each year since 2010-11; and what proportion such apprentices make up of the workforce of those contractors and sub-contractors.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	203862
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 08/07/2014 15:10:56 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon