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347669

registered interest
date	01/06/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: St Ives
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she expects to respond to the letter from Dorset County Council seeking to prevent St Ives School increasing its age range.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
uin	659
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>The letter referred to, dated 27 May, was received by the Department for Education on 3 June and we intend to respond as soon as possible. The department aims to respond to correspondence we receive within 15 working days, in line with government standards.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have no plans to publish the letter, but the correspondent is free to do so should they wish.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 660 question first answered 04/06/2015 15:26:48 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

347670

registered interest
date	01/06/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: St Ives
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will place in the Library a copy of the letter from Dorset County Council seeking to prevent St Ives School increasing its age range.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
uin	660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>The letter referred to, dated 27 May, was received by the Department for Education on 3 June and we intend to respond as soon as possible. The department aims to respond to correspondence we receive within 15 working days, in line with government standards.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have no plans to publish the letter, but the correspondent is free to do so should they wish.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 659 question first answered 04/06/2015 15:26:48 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

347290

registered interest
date	28/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Assessments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on how many countries currently conduct testing of four year olds.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	439
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not hold information on how many countries currently conduct testing of four-year-olds.</p><p> </p><p>There is a variety of international sources on Early Years. Information on this subject has been published online by the European Commission:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/education/eurydice/documents/key_data_series/166EN.pdf" target="_blank">eacea.ec.europa.eu/education/eurydice/documents/key_data_series/166EN.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 04/06/2015 14:43:51 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

347292

registered interest
date	28/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Assessments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the evidential basis is of her Department's assessment that testing of four year olds is beneficial to a child's education and development.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	440
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>All schools currently do some form of assessment of pupils on entry to school to support planning of teaching.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The optional reception baseline assessment which was announced in March 2014 is intended to form part of this broader assessment.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 04/06/2015 14:44:52 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

347336

registered interest
date	28/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Private Education: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that all independent schools are abiding by the Independent Schools Regulations.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Tristram Hunt
uin	375
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>Meeting the independent school standards is a condition of continued registration for independent schools. All of them are inspected on a regular cycle. If a school does not meet the required standards, the Department for Education takes appropriate regulatory action to ensure that the situation is rectified in the shortest possible time, or the school is closed.</p><p>The department has underpinned this approach by commencing the relevant provisions of the Education and Skills Act 2008 (‘the Act’), so that the role of the three independent inspectorates, and Ofsted’s role in quality assurance of those inspectorates, is put on a statutory footing. In accordance with the Act, the independent school standards were revised and strengthened from January 2015, introducing a new leadership and management standard. These changes form part of the reform programme outlined by Lord Nash in his letter of 28 March 2014 to the Chair of the Select Committee.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 04/06/2015 14:42:14 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4111 label Biography information for Tristram Hunt

347342

registered interest
date	28/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Mott MacDonald
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on how many occasions her Department has hired Mott Macdonald in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	356
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education has let the following number of contracts to Mott MacDonald in these years:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of contracts</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 04/06/2015 14:40:27 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

347004

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what monitoring is undertaken of the recruitment of teachers in (a) comprehensive schools, (b) academies and (c) free schools.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education monitors the number of teachers working in all state funded schools (including all local authority maintained schools, free schools and academies) and the number of vacancies reported by these schools via the annual School Workforce Census. The number of new teachers per year can be calculated using the census.</p><p> </p><p>The information on teacher numbers and vacancies is also used by the department to determine the number of teacher training places that will be made available in each year. The take up of these teacher training places is monitored by the National College for Teaching and Leadership via the Initial Teacher Training Census.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 03/06/2015 13:55:49 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

347005

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what representations she has received on the ability of (a) comprehensive schools, (b) academies and (c) free schools to recruit teachers.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	249
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2015 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Education has received representations on teacher recruitment from individual schools, a head teacher group, professional subject associations and an association of universities providing teacher training. Teacher recruitment has also been discussed at the Department for Education’s programme of talks with the teaching unions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 03/06/2015 13:57:27 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

347006

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to improve the recruitment of mathematics and science teachers in (a) comprehensive schools and (b) academies.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	250
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2015 answer text <p>We want to attract the top graduates into teaching. For 2015/16, we are continuing to fund the prestigious scholarship schemes worth £25,000 in mathematics, physics and chemistry; and have announced increases in bursaries worth up to £25,000 in each of these subjects and up to £9,000 for biology. We are also continuing to provide bursaries of up to £9,000 for those training in English.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>An additional £6,000 grant uplift is available to schools that want to increase their salary offer for School Direct (salaried) trainees in maths, physics and computing. Funding for subject knowledge enhancement (SKE) courses remains available for trainees in a number of subjects including maths, physics and chemistry. SKE helps trainees to start initial teacher training (ITT) with refreshed, curriculum-specific subject knowledge.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Prime Minister announced on 11 March 2015 a further allocation of £67 million for the next five years to train an extra 2,500 mathematics and physics teachers and upskilling 15,000 existing teachers. Measures include new schemes to attract more A Level students, undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers, career-changers and overseas STEM teachers into teaching; and classes to upskill 3,000 non-specialist teachers each year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have also given greater freedom to schools to pay extra for the recruitment of qualified teachers which can be used for shortage subject teachers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 252 question first answered 03/06/2015 14:00:18 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

347008

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve the recruitment of qualified (a) science, (b) mathematics and (c) English teachers.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2015 answer text <p>We want to attract the top graduates into teaching. For 2015/16, we are continuing to fund the prestigious scholarship schemes worth £25,000 in mathematics, physics and chemistry; and have announced increases in bursaries worth up to £25,000 in each of these subjects and up to £9,000 for biology. We are also continuing to provide bursaries of up to £9,000 for those training in English.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>An additional £6,000 grant uplift is available to schools that want to increase their salary offer for School Direct (salaried) trainees in maths, physics and computing. Funding for subject knowledge enhancement (SKE) courses remains available for trainees in a number of subjects including maths, physics and chemistry. SKE helps trainees to start initial teacher training (ITT) with refreshed, curriculum-specific subject knowledge.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Prime Minister announced on 11 March 2015 a further allocation of £67 million for the next five years to train an extra 2,500 mathematics and physics teachers and upskilling 15,000 existing teachers. Measures include new schemes to attract more A Level students, undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers, career-changers and overseas STEM teachers into teaching; and classes to upskill 3,000 non-specialist teachers each year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have also given greater freedom to schools to pay extra for the recruitment of qualified teachers which can be used for shortage subject teachers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 250 question first answered 03/06/2015 14:00:18 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh