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523845

registered interest
date	08/06/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the funding caps for apprenticeship standards and frameworks will be in the new levy system.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
tabling member printed	Rob Marris
uin	39896
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In June 2016 we will be publishing provisional funding bands, which will set the maximum amount of funding which is available for each apprenticeship, as well as the provisional level of the government support that will be available towards the cost of apprenticeship training if you are not a levy paying employer, from April 2017. The final levels of funding and full, draft funding and eligibility rules will be published in October.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 14/06/2016 12:58:01 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb previous answer version 3463 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1468 label Biography information for Rob Marris

523028

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Languages
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what were the 10 foreign languages most spoken by pupils for whom English is listed as an additional language in the annual school census in (a) 2000 and (b) 2015; and how many pupils were recorded as speaking each of those languages in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Hazel Grove
tabling member printed	William Wragg
uin	39310
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not hold pupil level data on languages for the year 2000. In the January 2015 school census, the most common languages to which pupils of compulsory school age and above are exposed outside school and the number and proportion of pupils exposed to them are given in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Language</p></td><td><p>Number of Pupils (1)</p></td><td><p>Percentage of all pupils</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>English</p></td><td><p>5,634,349</p></td><td><p>82.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Urdu</p></td><td><p>123,530</p></td><td><p>1.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Panjabi</p></td><td><p>91,406</p></td><td><p>1.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Polish</p></td><td><p>90,506</p></td><td><p>1.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other than English (not specified)</p></td><td><p>84,139</p></td><td><p>1.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bengali</p></td><td><p>74,635</p></td><td><p>1.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Somali</p></td><td><p>46,361</p></td><td><p>0.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Arabic</p></td><td><p>41,951</p></td><td><p>0.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gujarati</p></td><td><p>40,735</p></td><td><p>0.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Portuguese</p></td><td><p>29,759</p></td><td><p>0.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tamil</p></td><td><p>29,634</p></td><td><p>0.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Believed to be other than English (not specified)</p></td><td><p>29,221</p></td><td><p>0.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>French</p></td><td><p>26,290</p></td><td><p>0.4</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: School Census January 2015<br>(1) Includes sole and dual main registered pupils of compulsory school age and above. Includes pupils in all state-funded schools excluding general hospital schools and local authority alternative provision.</p><p> </p><p>The languages recorded in the school census only indicate a pupil’s exposure to a non-English language outside of school. They are not a measure of English speaking proficiency, an indication of the language spoken in school, or a direct measure of immigration.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 07/07/2016 15:07:07 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb previous answer version 2869 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4429 label Biography information for Mr William Wragg

521154

registered interest
date	24/05/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Armed Forces: GCSE
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether armed forces trainees are included in the policy of ensuring that by 2020 young people who do not achieve A* to C passes in English and mathematics GCSEs at age 16 resit their exams a year later.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	38405
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Education sets a requirement that young people who do not achieve a GCSE grade C in English or mathematics by age 16 should continue the study of these subjects. This requirement applies only to 16-19 study programmes funded by the Education Funding Agency (EFA) and is set out in a funding condition for schools and colleges which receive EFA funding. The requirement would therefore apply to any member of the armed forces undertaking EFA-funded 16-19 programmes. It would not apply to requirements for training provided and funded by the armed forces, which are a matter for the Ministry of Defence.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 15/06/2016 14:17:27 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb previous answer version 2037 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

519056

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Science: Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) physics and (b) chemistry trainee teachers undertook a pre-initial teacher training subject knowledge enhancement course, broken down by subject and length of course, in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	37394
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/05/2016 answer text <p>The subject knowledge enhancement (SKE) programme supports universities and schools in filling teacher training places in priority subjects. It enables candidates who have the potential to be excellent teachers to overcome gaps in their subject knowledge that would otherwise mean that they would not be recruited to a teacher training course.</p><p>Tables 1 and 2 contain the number of trainees (by length of course) registered on SKE courses in chemistry and physics from 2011/12 to 2015/16.</p><p><strong>Table 1: Physics SKE recruitment for academic years 2011/12 to 2014/15, and claims to date for academic year 2015/16. </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Number of trainees </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Duration of SKE course (weeks)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011/12<strong> [1]</strong></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012/13<strong> [1]</strong></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013/14<strong> [1]</strong></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014/15<strong> [1]</strong></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015/16<strong> [2]</strong></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>187</p></td><td><p>133</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>53</p></td><td><p>62</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>161</p></td><td><p>151</p></td><td><p>28</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>55</p></td><td><p>64</p></td><td><p>45</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>58</p></td><td><p>48</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>51</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>49</p></td><td><p>48</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>56</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>57</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Table 2: Chemistry SKE recruitment for academic years 2011/12 to 2014/15, and claims to date for academic year 2015/16.</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Number of trainees </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Course duration (weeks)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011/12 [1]</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012/13<strong> [1]</strong></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013/14<strong> [1]</strong></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014/15<strong> [1]</strong></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015/16<strong> [2]</strong></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>172</p></td><td><p>83</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>63</p></td><td><p>66</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>156</p></td><td><p>161</p></td><td><p>52</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>61</p></td><td><p>73</p></td><td><p>69</p></td><td><p>56</p></td><td><p>36</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>52</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>65</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>39</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>95</p></td><td><p>93</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>17</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>[1] Submitted trainee data and accepted claims for the full academic year.</p><p>[2] Accepted claims as at 6 May 2016.</p><p> </p><p>The final 2015/16 data will not be available until after the end of the academic year; however, the number of people using SKE in the current academic year is 59% of last year’s total which, if previous years’ trends apply to the current year, would suggest increased use of SKE compared to 2014/15.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 27/05/2016 16:01:15 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb previous answer version 231 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

515303

registered interest
date	25/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education Funding Agency: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many full-time equivalent staff there were in the Education Funding Agency in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13, (d) 2013-14 and (e) 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
uin	35471
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2016 answer text <p>The Education Funding Agency (EFA) was established in April 2012, therefore data can only be provided from that date onwards. Please see the table below for details of the number of full time equivalent members of staff in the EFA in April 2012 – April 2015.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Month and year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of full time equivalent members of staff</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2012</p></td><td><p>631</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2013</p></td><td><p>680.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2014</p></td><td><p>734.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2015</p></td><td><p>822.7</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 05/05/2016 15:07:17 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb previous answer version 58198 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

514748

registered interest
date	21/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: North of England
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department plans to take under the Northern Powerhouse schools strategy to expand the best academy chains in the North; what the timetable is for that expansion; and how much funding will be allocated for that expansion.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	34992
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2016 answer text <p>Our White Paper, Education Excellence Everywhere, sets out the range of support we will offer to schools across England.</p><p> </p><p>Where schools are failing, Regional Schools Commissioners will identify a suitable academy sponsor to turn them around. In areas where there are too few sponsors, we will recruit new sponsors, including high-performing schools and more sponsors from business, charity and philanthropy. We will also encourage existing sponsors to expand, increasing incentives and minimising barriers, learning from the investment we have already made through the Northern Sponsor Fund.</p><p> </p><p>For other struggling schools, we will ensure there is nationwide coverage of system leaders (teaching schools and National Leaders of Education), who will be expected to work with weaker schools to support them to improve. To help achieve this, we will improve how we designate system leaders by introducing a more sophisticated approach based on timely and accurate data rather than relying heavily on Ofsted judgements. We will also partner schools with the potential to become strong system leaders with existing teaching schools and National Leaders of Education.</p><p> </p><p>Through the Department’s strategy for Achieving Excellence Areas, we will target our existing programmes to secure sufficient high quality teachers, leaders, system leaders, sponsors and members of governing boards on the areas of greatest need. At the Budget, the Government announced that we will invest an additional £20 million a year to build on this strategy to raise education standards across the Northern Powerhouse. The allocation of this funding will depend on the identified need and will be reassessed each year, based on the evidence.</p><p>For the additional funding announced in the budget, decisions on how the funding will be allocated for the 2016-17 financial year will be made by the autumn of this year and will be informed by the emerging findings of the review by Sir Nick Weller. We will be publishing the terms of reference for Sir Nick Weller’s review shortly.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 35014 35015 35025 35045 35105 question first answered 05/05/2016 13:05:02 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb previous answer version 57652 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

514756

registered interest
date	21/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: North of England
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how her Department intends to support and mentor weaker schools as part of the Northern Powerhouse schools strategy.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	35025
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2016 answer text <p>Our White Paper, Education Excellence Everywhere, sets out the range of support we will offer to schools across England.</p><p> </p><p>Where schools are failing, Regional Schools Commissioners will identify a suitable academy sponsor to turn them around. In areas where there are too few sponsors, we will recruit new sponsors, including high-performing schools and more sponsors from business, charity and philanthropy. We will also encourage existing sponsors to expand, increasing incentives and minimising barriers, learning from the investment we have already made through the Northern Sponsor Fund.</p><p> </p><p>For other struggling schools, we will ensure there is nationwide coverage of system leaders (teaching schools and National Leaders of Education), who will be expected to work with weaker schools to support them to improve. To help achieve this, we will improve how we designate system leaders by introducing a more sophisticated approach based on timely and accurate data rather than relying heavily on Ofsted judgements. We will also partner schools with the potential to become strong system leaders with existing teaching schools and National Leaders of Education.</p><p> </p><p>Through the Department’s strategy for Achieving Excellence Areas, we will target our existing programmes to secure sufficient high quality teachers, leaders, system leaders, sponsors and members of governing boards on the areas of greatest need. At the Budget, the Government announced that we will invest an additional £20 million a year to build on this strategy to raise education standards across the Northern Powerhouse. The allocation of this funding will depend on the identified need and will be reassessed each year, based on the evidence.</p><p>For the additional funding announced in the budget, decisions on how the funding will be allocated for the 2016-17 financial year will be made by the autumn of this year and will be informed by the emerging findings of the review by Sir Nick Weller. We will be publishing the terms of reference for Sir Nick Weller’s review shortly.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 34992 35014 35015 35045 35105 question first answered 05/05/2016 13:05:02 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb previous answer version 57689 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

514757

registered interest
date	21/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: North of England
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department plans to take to facilitate new academy sponsors in the North as part of the Northern Powerhouse Schools Strategy.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	35045
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2016 answer text <p>Our White Paper, Education Excellence Everywhere, sets out the range of support we will offer to schools across England.</p><p> </p><p>Where schools are failing, Regional Schools Commissioners will identify a suitable academy sponsor to turn them around. In areas where there are too few sponsors, we will recruit new sponsors, including high-performing schools and more sponsors from business, charity and philanthropy. We will also encourage existing sponsors to expand, increasing incentives and minimising barriers, learning from the investment we have already made through the Northern Sponsor Fund.</p><p> </p><p>For other struggling schools, we will ensure there is nationwide coverage of system leaders (teaching schools and National Leaders of Education), who will be expected to work with weaker schools to support them to improve. To help achieve this, we will improve how we designate system leaders by introducing a more sophisticated approach based on timely and accurate data rather than relying heavily on Ofsted judgements. We will also partner schools with the potential to become strong system leaders with existing teaching schools and National Leaders of Education.</p><p> </p><p>Through the Department’s strategy for Achieving Excellence Areas, we will target our existing programmes to secure sufficient high quality teachers, leaders, system leaders, sponsors and members of governing boards on the areas of greatest need. At the Budget, the Government announced that we will invest an additional £20 million a year to build on this strategy to raise education standards across the Northern Powerhouse. The allocation of this funding will depend on the identified need and will be reassessed each year, based on the evidence.</p><p>For the additional funding announced in the budget, decisions on how the funding will be allocated for the 2016-17 financial year will be made by the autumn of this year and will be informed by the emerging findings of the review by Sir Nick Weller. We will be publishing the terms of reference for Sir Nick Weller’s review shortly.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 34992 35014 35015 35025 35105 question first answered 05/05/2016 13:05:02 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb previous answer version 57692 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

514758

registered interest
date	21/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Members
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many requests to meet with hon. Members she has received from each of the political parties represented in the House since her appointment.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	35059
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2016 answer text <p>My Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State for Education frequently meets Hon Members from across the political spectrum in the performance of her duties.</p><p> </p><p>Information in the form requested is not readily available and could be compiled only at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 28/04/2016 15:28:46 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb previous answer version 57660 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

514759

registered interest
date	21/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Members
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many hon. Members of each party she has met as a result of a request for such a meeting since her appointment.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	35100
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2016 answer text <p>My Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State for Education frequently meets Hon Members from across the political spectrum in the performance of her duties.</p><p>Information in the form requested is not readily available and could be compiled only at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 28/04/2016 15:29:50 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb previous answer version 57694 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan