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800889

registered interest
date	05/12/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education: Qualifications
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 the assessment by UK National Recognition Information Centre that the International Certificate of Christian Education General Certificate is comparable to a Cambridge International Education O Level; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	117448
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2017 answer text <p>The UK National Recognition Information Centre (UK NARIC) is the National Agency responsible for providing information, advice and expert opinion on vocational, academic and professional skills and qualifications from all over the world.</p><p>A benchmarking study by UK NARIC has confirmed that the International Certificate of Christian Education General and Advanced Certificates can be considered to be comparable to the overall Cambridge International O and A Level standards. UK NARIC uses the term ‘comparable’ rather than ‘equivalent’. ‘Comparable’ acknowledges that two qualifications may be of the same academic standing, without necessarily having the same aims, curriculum or structure.</p><p> </p><p><strong><br> </strong></p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 13/12/2017 17:34:38 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

800968

registered interest
date	05/12/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Census
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress is being made on the review of parents’ right to retract nationality and country of birth data submitted through the school census; and whether parents will still be able to retract this data by responding that they refused in the Spring census.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Davey
uin	117527
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2017 answer text <p>Parents will remain able to retract nationality and country of birth information previously submitted through the school census for the remainder of the current academic year.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 13/12/2017 17:21:36 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

800969

registered interest
date	05/12/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Nationality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Memorandum of Understanding between her Department and the Home Office published in December 2015, whether nationality data is used in the data-matching process that matches her Department's records with Home Office records submitted to it.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Davey
uin	117528
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2017 answer text <p>Nationality data is not used in the data matching process that matches Department for Education data with the Home Office.</p><p> </p><p>The current Memorandum of Understanding between the Department and the Home Office, which was revised in October 2016, is in the House Library.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 13/12/2017 17:20:39 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

801039

registered interest
date	05/12/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools are in financial special measures; and how many of those schools have been in financial special measures for more than (i) six months, (ii) 12 months, (iii) 18 months and (iv) 24 months.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	117598
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2017 answer text <p>Accountability for academy trusts is founded on a clear framework communicated and regulated by the Education Skills Funding Agency (EFSA), with effective oversight and compliance based on proportionate risk assessment, and robust intervention to help trusts reach a stronger position when things go wrong. Where there is a risk to public funds, the ESFA will intervene in a way that is proportionate to the risk and preserves the effective education of children. When the ESFA intervenes, it publishes financial notices to improve. These are available at GOV.UK at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/academies-financial-notices-to-improve" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/academies-financial-notices-to-improve</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The evidence demonstrates strong financial management in the majority of academy trusts. Fewer than 2% of academy trusts are subject to an active Financial Notice to Improve.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>For maintained schools, each Local Authority (LA) is required to publish a scheme for financing schools. This scheme should include a provision that allows the authority to issue a notice of concern to any of its maintained schools. The notice is separate from LA’s powers to withdraw financial delegation, where withdrawal is the most appropriate action. The Department publishes statutory guidance on these schemes, which can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/486440/Scheme_for_Financing_Schools_Dec_2015.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/486440/Scheme_for_Financing_Schools_Dec_2015.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As each LA has the freedom to tailor its scheme and set the criteria for individual notices, records for such notices are held by the individual authority concerned.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong><br> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 118017 question first answered 13/12/2017 17:33:08 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

801053

registered interest
date	05/12/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: West Sussex
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of schools in West Sussex are rated good or outstanding; and how that proportion compares with the national average and the equivalent proportion in other local authority areas.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	117612
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2017 answer text <p>This is a matter for Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Amanda Spielman. I have asked her to write to you and a copy of her reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 11/12/2017 17:12:21 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

801087

registered interest
date	05/12/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Resignations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teachers left the profession within three years of qualification in each region of England in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Helen Jones
uin	117646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2017 answer text <p>Information on teachers leaving all state funded schools in England, within three years of qualifying, is available in Table 8 of the publication, School Workforce in England, 2016. This is available here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2016</a>.</p><p> </p><p>We know that there are differences on teacher retention at a sub-national level and the Department has been doing more work to understand this. Information at regional level comparable to the national figures referenced above is not available. Information is available on the number of qualified teachers leaving the profession by region. The latest information is for the years 2010 to 2015. It is published as part of the statistical release, <em>Local analysis of Teacher Workforce: 2010 to 2015</em>. Tables 2.2a and 2.2b show the wastage rates, by region, in both state funded primary and secondary schools. They show that teacher wastage was highest in Inner London and lowest in the North East. This publication can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-analysis-of-teacher-workforce-2010-to-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-analysis-of-teacher-workforce-2010-to-2015</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 11/12/2017 17:00:46 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

801090

registered interest
date	05/12/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Resignations
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 the reasons for teachers leaving the profession; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Helen Jones
uin	117649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2017 answer text <p>We have identified the most important factors that influence the decisions of those teachers who do decide to leave the profession. We are working to tackle these. This includes, for example, our Workload Action Plan and encouraging schools to provide more flexible working arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has recently conducted a review of the evidence of the factors which cause teachers to leave the profession, as well as analyses of administrative data to explore geographical factors, school characteristics and teacher characteristics that predict whether a teacher remained within or left the profession. The full findings for this can be found respectively in the Department’s <em>Teachers analysis compendium 2</em> (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/643974/SFR86_2017_Main_Text.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/643974/SFR86_2017_Main_Text.pdf</a>) and <em>Analysis of teacher supply, retention and mobility </em>(<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/615729/SFR33_2017_Text.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/615729/SFR33_2017_Text.pdf</a>).</p><p> </p><p>Analyses have found that there is no single observable factor that can explain why teachers leave the profession, and that there are a wide range of factors affecting decisions.</p><p> </p><p>National and international evidence shows that the decision to leave teaching is a complex one influenced by numerous professional and personal factors – ranging from working conditions (in particular workload), school situation and pay, to a desire for a new challenge and personal reasons.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 11/12/2017 17:19:10 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

801095

registered interest
date	05/12/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to page 102 of the Industrial Strategy, when she plans to introduce revised performance measures for school and colleges performance.
tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	117654
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2017 answer text <p>The school and college performance tables will be revised to take account of the introduction of T levels. A public consultation on T levels was published on 30 November and the consultation included a question on the performance measures for T levels. We will consider the responses to the consultation carefully and provide further details of revisions to performance tables in due course.</p><p>The school and college performance tables are reviewed on a regular basis to ensure the published measures are robust and relevant, and put useful information into the public domain in an easily accessible format.</p><p>Substantial reforms were made to the 16-18 school and college performance tables in 2016 and further information will be published for the first time in the 2017 performance tables to be published in January. The data that is published provides information on the outcomes of students following academic, applied general or technical courses.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 11/12/2017 17:16:01 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

801097

registered interest
date	05/12/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	ICT: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to page 110 of the Industrial Strategy, when she expects the National Centre for Computing Education to be in operation.
tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	117656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2017 answer text <p>The new National Centre for Computing Education will form part of the government’s new £84 million package over the next five years to improve the teaching of computing and drive up participation in computer science. The centre will support a national network for schools to provide training and resources to primary and secondary schools. We are currently developing plans for the delivery of the package and will be announcing more details about the National Centre in due course.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 13/12/2017 17:28:58 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

801189

registered interest
date	05/12/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of Stat What steps the Government is taking to ensure funding for the training of new computer science teachers is distributed across the country fairly and proportionately.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	117748
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government will be investing £84 million of new funding over the next five years to support existing computing and computer science teachers. This will include a national, intensive Continuing Professional Development programme of at least 40 hours to ensure that existing computing teachers have the knowledge needed to teach the new computer science GCSE. The programme will be designed for current computing teachers who don’t have a post-A level qualification in computer science and will aim to reach up to 8,000 secondary teachers – enough for there to be at least one in every secondary school.</p><p> </p><p>We are also funding a National Centre for Computing Education, and a national network of support for schools to provide training and resources to primary and secondary schools across the country. Further information on this programme will be published in due course.</p><p> </p><p>To support the recruitment of new computing teachers - the Government is providing incentives to attract the best computer science graduates into the teaching profession, offering bursaries of £26,000 and student loan forgiveness for computer science, as one of the priority subjects.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 11/12/2017 17:06:44 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah