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166996

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date	01/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Supply Teachers
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 qualified teachers employed by private agencies to provide supply cover in schools have access to the Teachers' Pension Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
uin	216478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text <p>Supply teachers have access to the Teachers’ Pensions Scheme (TPS) where they have a contract of employment directly with the school or local authority in which they are working. Decisions about the precise employer/employee relationship are determined locally between the school and the agency.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 04/12/2014 18:11:43 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott

165953

registered interest
date	25/11/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Supply Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will provide guidance to supply teachers on the tax and unemployment implications of working for an umbrella company.
tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
uin	215945
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2014 answer text <p>Schools and local authorities are responsible for the recruitment of their supply teachers and deciding whether they use private agencies to recruit and employ them. If a supply teacher is employed by a private agency or their umbrella company, this is a private commercial arrangement between the school and agency.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education does not provide guidance on tax and unemployment matters. These are matters for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs and the Department for Work and Pensions, respectively.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 28/11/2014 17:34:29 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott

101363

registered interest
date	28/10/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many black and minority ethnic teachers there are in state (a) primary and (b) secondary schools; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
uin	212173
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>Figures from the School Workforce Census of November 2013 show there were 12,800 black and minority ethnic teachers in publicly funded primary schools and 18,600 in publicly funded secondary schools in England; a total of 31,400 teachers (an increase from 25,900 in November 2010). This represents 6% of primary school teachers and 9% of all secondary school teachers. 7% of all teachers in primary and secondary schools in England come from black and other ethnic minority groups.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 03/11/2014 13:42:07 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott

49548

registered interest
date	01/05/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will take steps to ensure that school lunches in academies and free schools meet the nutritional standards of those in the state sector; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
uin	197552
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2014 answer text <p>The revised school food standards will apply to single mainstream academies and free schools opening from July 2014, other mainstream academies and free schools opening from autumn 2014 and non-mainstream academies opening later in 2014. Academies set up prior to 2010 already have to comply.</p><p>During their review of school food, the authors of the School Food Plan approached several academy chains, including the Harris Federation, the Oasis Community Learning Multi-Academy Trust, and the School Partnership Trust. All agreed in principle to comply with the standards and the Leon Foundation are encouraging as many academies and free schools as possible to sign up formally to the new standards.</p><p>99% of those academies which responded to a survey by the School Food Trust in 2012 said they were committed to following the new food standards.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 08/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott