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810730

registered interest
date	21/12/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Training
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 effect of changes in the level of the provision of in-work training for teachers inacademy chains on the provision of training by specialist voluntary and third sector organisations.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	121075
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the information requested. Academies, like all other schools, are responsible for the development of their teaching staff and evaluating the impact of training provided.</p><p>The Department’s consultation on strengthening qualified teacher status and improving career progression for teachers is currently open and seeks views on a range of areas including options to increase access to high-quality continuous professional development. The consultation is available at: <a href="https://consult.education.gov.uk/teaching-profession-unit/strengthening-qts-and-improving-career-progression/" target="_blank">https://consult.education.gov.uk/teaching-profession-unit/strengthening-qts-and-improving-career-progression/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 121076 question first answered 08/01/2018 17:40:11 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

810731

registered interest
date	21/12/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria her Department uses to assess the quality of in-work training provided to teachers in academy chains.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	121076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the information requested. Academies, like all other schools, are responsible for the development of their teaching staff and evaluating the impact of training provided.</p><p>The Department’s consultation on strengthening qualified teacher status and improving career progression for teachers is currently open and seeks views on a range of areas including options to increase access to high-quality continuous professional development. The consultation is available at: <a href="https://consult.education.gov.uk/teaching-profession-unit/strengthening-qts-and-improving-career-progression/" target="_blank">https://consult.education.gov.uk/teaching-profession-unit/strengthening-qts-and-improving-career-progression/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 121075 question first answered 08/01/2018 17:40:11 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

810048

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Music: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to review the National Plan for Music Education.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	120514
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The National Plan for Music Education sets out a vision for music education that gives children from all backgrounds and every part of England the opportunity to learn a musical instrument; to make music with others; to learn to sing; and to have the opportunity to progress. The Department continues to have regular meetings with music teachers to discuss aspects of the National Plan for Music Education. The current plan runs until 2020 and any proposals for a review or extension of the Plan will be announced in 2018.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 08/01/2018 15:39:59 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

810071

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Cost Effectiveness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of areas in which savings could be made in the school system to increase expenditure on teaching.
tabling member constituency	Croydon South
tabling member printed	Chris Philp
uin	120537
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>In July, we announced that we will be investing an additional £1.3 billion in core schools and high needs funding across 2018-19 and 2019-20, in addition to the schools budget as set out in the 2015 Spending Review. This additional investment in core schools funding will be funded in full from efficiencies and savings from within the Department's budget, as we believe strongly that this funding is most valuable in the hands of head teachers and principals. We have already announced savings of £700 million from our capital budgets, primarily from delivering the free schools programme more efficiently and scaling back the Healthy Pupils Capital programme to reflect reductions in forecast revenue from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy. We are in the process of identifying the remaining savings.</p><p> </p><p>There is scope for schools to improve their levels of efficiency, and to find savings on their non-staff expenditure which can be reinvested into frontline teaching. Our analysis indicates that if the 25% of schools spending the highest amounts on each category of non-staff expenditure were instead spending at the level of the rest, this could save over £1 billion. The Department will continue work to deliver the initiatives set out in the Schools’ Buying Strategy (published in January 2017), to help schools deliver the best value for money from their non-staff expenditure and secure these savings.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 08/01/2018 15:00:55 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp

810133

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Secondary Education: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what comparative assessment her Department has made of the proportion of secondary schools rated (a) good and (b) outstanding in the (i) West Midlands and (ii) London in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	120599
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>In the West Midlands, the proportion of secondary schools judged Good in their last inspection as at 31 August 2015, 2016 and 2017 was 49%, 53% and 56% while the proportion judged Outstanding over the same period was 21%, 21% and 22%.</p><p>In London, the proportion of secondary schools judged Good in their last inspection as at 31 August 2015, 2016 and 2017 was 50%, 53% and 51% while the proportion judged Outstanding over the same period was 35%, 36% and 38%.</p><p>Nine out of ten schools are now rated Good or Outstanding across England with 1.9 million more pupils being taught in schools rated Good or Outstanding than in 2010.</p><p>As my Rt hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education said on 14 December when launching our action plan to drive social mobility through education, we want to make sure opportunities are spread evenly across the country. The action plan ‘Unlocking Talent, Fulfilling Potential’ is available in the Libraries of both Houses.</p><p>We are targeting the areas that need the most support through the £72 million ‘Opportunity Areas’ programme, and by investing £280 million over the next two years to target resources at the schools most in need to improve their performance and deliver more good school places.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 08/01/2018 15:06:35 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

810134

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Fire Extinguishers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what advice she has received from the West Midlands Fire Service on fitting sprinklers in schools.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	120600
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government takes the safety of pupils and staff seriously. All schools have to follow strict fire safety regulations, including having a Fire Risk Assessment, designed to ensure they are as safe as possible and well prepared in the event of a fire.</p><p>New school building projects must comply with Building Regulations, including on fire safety, and this is independently checked by Building Control or an Approved Inspector before buildings are occupied. Schools have a range of measures to ensure they provide a suitable standard of safety. Where sprinklers are deemed necessary to keep pupils and staff safe, they must be fitted.</p><p>The Department contracts the design and build of schools under its central programmes. The Department does not liaise with Fire and Rescue Services directly, but they may be consulted by Building Control officers or individual projects.</p><p>Alongside the rest of Government, the Department will take forward findings from the independent review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety, and from the public inquiry into the tragic Grenfell Tower fire.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 08/01/2018 15:57:05 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

810204

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Suffolk
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 funding of secondary and primary schools in (a) Bury St Edmunds constituency and (b) Suffolk; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bury St Edmunds
tabling member printed	Jo Churchill
uin	120670
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>We are determined to create a country that works for everyone. That is why we are delivering on our promise to reform the unfair, opaque and outdated school and high needs funding systems and introduce the national funding formula. Commencing in 2018-19, the national funding formula will allocate funding on the basis of the specific characteristics of every school and pupil.</p><p> </p><p>For Suffolk County Council, the national funding formula means an increase in schools funding of 4.7% per pupil in 2018-19. Suffolk will also receive a 3.6% increase in its high needs budget in 2018-19, subject to technical adjustments made later in the year to reflect the latest data.</p><p> </p><p>Allocations for 2018-19 for each local authority were confirmed on 19 December 2017 and is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2018-to-2019</a>. The allocations take into account the latest pupil numbers from the October 2017 census.</p><p> </p><p>Schools in the constituency of Bury St Edmunds are attracting an additional 2.6% per pupil through the national funding formula in 2018-19. Their final budgets for 2018-19 will however be determined through the local formula set by Suffolk County Council.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 08/01/2018 17:51:58 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill

809715

registered interest
date	19/12/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Coventry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools in Coventry have been (a) built and (b) refurbished as a result of funding from the Education Funding Agency; and how many of those schools have been fitted with sprinkler systems.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	120335
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government takes the safety of pupils and staff seriously. All schools have to follow strict fire safety regulations, including having a Fire Risk Assessment, designed to ensure they are as safe as possible and well prepared in the event of a fire.</p><p>Where sprinklers are deemed necessary to keep pupils and staff safe, following an assessment of risk at the design stage, or to meet local planning requirements, they must be fitted. All new school building projects must comply with Building Regulations, including on fire safety, and this is independently checked by Building Control or an Approved Inspector before buildings are occupied.</p><p>As not all new schools are commissioned by the Department, we do not hold data on the number of all new schools that have been built with or without sprinklers installed. The Department do hold information on the centrally funded Priority Schools Building Programme (PSBP).</p><p>The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) has built or refurbished seven schools in Coventry under phase one of PSBP and of those, five schools were fitted with sprinklers.</p><p>The Depatment does not hold comprehensive data on the number of free schools fitted with sprinklers as schools developed under the free schools programme were originally managed by the individual free school proposer groups. The Department is doing further work that will enable us to provide figures on sprinklers fitted in all schools delivered centrally by the ESFA.</p><p>Alongside the rest of Government, the Department will take forward findings from the independent review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety, and from the Public Inquiry into the tragic Grenfell Tower fire.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 08/01/2018 16:04:18 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

809818

registered interest
date	19/12/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Fire Extinguishers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools in (a) England and Wales, (b) Greater London and (c) the London Borough of Newham have sprinkler systems fitted.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	120438
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government takes the safety of pupils and staff seriously. All schools have to follow strict fire safety regulations, including having a Fire Risk Assessment, designed to ensure they are as safe as possible and well prepared in the event of a fire.</p><p>Where sprinklers are deemed necessary to keep pupils and staff safe, following an assessment of risk at the design stage, or to meet local planning requirements, they must be fitted. All new school building projects must comply with Building Regulations, including on fire safety, and this must be independently checked by Building Control or an Approved Inspector before buildings are occupied.</p><p>As not all new schools in England are commissioned by the Department, we do not hold data on the number of all new schools that have been built with or without sprinklers installed. The Department does hold information on the centrally funded Priority Schools Building Programme (PSBP). This programme covers schools in England only. The devolved National Assembly for Wales is responsible for schools in Wales.</p><p>In England, 74 schools in total have had, or are planned to have, sprinklers fitted under the PSBP phase one. In London two schools have had sprinklers fitted under the PSBP phase one. In Newham there are no schools that have had sprinklers fitted under PSBP phase one.</p><p>The Department does not hold comprehensive data on the number of free schools fitted with sprinklers in England, or London as schools developed under the free schools programme were originally managed by the individual free school proposer groups. The Department is doing further work that will enable us to provide figures on sprinklers fitted in all schools delivered centrally by the Education and Skills Funding Agency.</p><p>Alongside the rest of Government, the Department will take forward findings from the independent review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety, and from the Public Inquiry into the tragic Grenfell Tower fire.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 08/01/2018 15:51:04 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

808842

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools in London have been damaged by fires since the 2009-10 academic year; and how many of those schools were fitted with sprinkler systems (a) prior to those fires occurring and (b) since those fires occurred; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Eltham
tabling member printed	Clive Efford
uin	119951
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government takes the safety of pupils and staff seriously. All schools have to follow strict fire safety regulations, including having a Fire Risk Assessment, designed to ensure that they are as safe as possible and well prepared in the event of a fire.</p><p>Where sprinklers are deemed necessary to keep pupils and staff safe, following an assessment of risk at the design stage, or to meet local planning requirements, they must be fitted. All new school building projects must comply with Building Regulations, including on fire safety, and this must be independently checked by Building Control or an Approved Inspector before buildings are occupied.</p><p>The Department does not collect data on the number of school fires. The Home Office publishes fire statistics on GOV.UK - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fire-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fire-statistics</a>. These are taken from data supplied by the Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) and includes information on educational establishments.</p><p>As not all new schools are commissioned by the Department, we do not hold data on the number of all new schools that have been built with or without sprinklers installed. We do hold information on the centrally funded Priority Schools Building Programme (PSBP). Of the 32 schools rebuilt in phase one of the PSBP in London, two include sprinkler systems. We do not hold comprehensive data on the number of Free Schools fitted with sprinklers as schools developed under the Free Schools programme were originally managed by the individual free school proposer groups.</p><p>The Department does not liaise directly with the FRS, including the London Fire Brigade, in the design of new school buildings. The Department commissions the design and build of schools under its central programmes and the FRS may be consulted by Building Control officers or contractors on individual projects whenever necessary.</p><p>Alongside the rest of Government, the Department will take forward findings from the independent review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety, and from the public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 119953 119954 question first answered 08/01/2018 13:30:34 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb previous answer version 32185 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	165 label Biography information for Clive Efford