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832661

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Mental Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to improve the mental health of pupils in primary and secondary schools.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	903584
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>We are consulting on the proposals in our green paper on Children and Young Peoples’ Mental Health published last month.</p><p> </p><p>Supported by over £300 million of funding it includes plans to train Mental Health Leads in schools, particularly in how to take a ‘whole school approach’ to promoting and supporting good mental health. Schools will also receive increased specialist support from new clinically-supervised Mental Health Support Teams.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 30/01/2018 16:10:18 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

832896

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Inspections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will ensure that during routine inspections Ofsted do not single out young Muslim female pupils wearing hijabs for (a) questioning and (b) the subject of any special inspections.
tabling member constituency	Derby North
tabling member printed	Chris Williamson
uin	125212
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>This is a matter for Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Amanda Spielman. I have asked her to write to the hon. Member 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 01/02/2018 17:07:35 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	3976 label Biography information for Chris Williamson

832929

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
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, what additional funding his Department provides to schools with child refugees and pupils with English as a second language in (a) England and (b) Yorkshire and Humber.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	125245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>The national funding formula will allocate £404 million across England and £32 million to Yorkshire and the Humber to support children with English as an additional language. These figures are based on the formula being implemented in full based on 2017-18 data.</p><p>The Department does not provide additional funding to schools specifically for child refugees. However, schools attract funding through the pupil premium if a child refugee is looked after by a local authority, or through the national funding formula if the child is classed as having English as an additional language (as outlined above) or other additional needs such as low prior attainment.</p><p>Schools receive £1,900 through the pupil premium for every child attending their school who is looked after by a local authority.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 06/02/2018 17:03:24 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

832958

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of specialist teachers for deaf children in the last period for which figures are available; and what estimate he has made of that number will be in (a) 2023 and (b) 2028.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	125274
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 01/02/2018 17:12:05 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

832959

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Hearing Impairment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether a difference in grades exists between deaf and hearing children in (a) England, (b)Yorkshire and (c) Wakefield district.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	125275
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>The Department publishes pupil attainment in a number of headline and additional measures for England, including for pupils with hearing impairment. These figures can be compared to the national average for all pupils. At a regional and local authority level, the Department publishes these figures for pupils with and without Special Educational Needs (SEN); figures for pupils with hearing impairments are included within these but they are not published separately due to the level of suppression that would be required.</p><p> </p><p>For pupils at the end of key stage 2 study, the figures for 2016/17 are in the department’s ‘National curriculum assessments: key stage 2, 2017 (revised)’ statistical first release[1].</p><p> </p><p>For pupils at the end of key stage 4 study, the figures for 2016/17 are in the Department’s ‘Revised GCSE and equivalent results in England: 2016 to 2017’ statistical first release[2].</p><p> </p><p>For students aged 19, the figures for England are in the department’s ‘Level 2 and 3 attainment by young people aged 19’ statistical first release for 2015/16[3].</p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-curriculum-assessments-key-stage-2-2017-revised" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-curriculum-assessments-key-stage-2-2017-revised</a>. Open the ‘National tables’ (either link) and select ‘table_N8a’ for figures for England; subsequent tables provide gender breakdowns. Open the ‘Local authority and regional tables’ (either link) and select ‘table_L9a’ for figures for each region and local authority. Previous years’ data can be accessed in a similar manner from this link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-key-stage-2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-key-stage-2</a>. Select the revised publication for each year.</p><p>[2] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/revised-gcse-and-equivalent-results-in-england-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/revised-gcse-and-equivalent-results-in-england-2016-to-2017</a>. Open the ‘characteristics national tables’ and select the ‘characteristics summary’ table for figures for England. Open the ‘characteristics local authority tables’ and select table ‘LA12; for figures for each region and local authority. Previous years’ data can be accessed in a similar manner from this link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-gcses-key-stage-4" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-gcses-key-stage-4</a>. Select the revised publication for each year.</p><p>[3] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/level-2-and-3-attainment-by-young-people-aged-19-in-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/level-2-and-3-attainment-by-young-people-aged-19-in-2016</a>. Open the ‘National tables 6 to 15’ link, pertinent figures for England can be found in tables ‘T8’, ‘T9’, ‘T10’ and ‘T11’. Open the ‘Local authority tables 16 to 24’ link and select table ‘T20’ for figures for each region and local authority. Previous years’ data is also available in this publication. In March 2018, 16-18 headline measures will be published broken down by student characteristics.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 01/02/2018 17:23:32 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

833065

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Inspections
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 the potential merits of including knife crime prevention as a factor in school Ofsted inspections.
tabling member constituency	Croydon Central
tabling member printed	Sarah Jones
uin	125381
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>A school’s arrangements for protecting pupils are already a mandatory part of Ofsted inspection. Ofsted’s guidance document, “Inspecting safeguarding in early years, education and skills”, states that safeguarding action by providers may be needed to protect children from a range of risks including issues that may be specific to a local area or population, for example gang activity and youth violence. The document is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/inspecting-safeguarding-in-early-years-education-and-skills-from-september-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/inspecting-safeguarding-in-early-years-education-and-skills-from-september-2015</a>.</p><p>Inspectors consider how well lead teachers have created a culture of vigilance and how well schools fulfil their statutory and other responsibilities in keeping children safe.</p><p>Ofsted is aware that there may be dimensions to this problem that it needs to understand better in order for inspectors to be able to inspect safeguarding more effectively and it is planning a new research project in the London region to investigate this in more depth.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 01/02/2018 17:09:56 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4631 label Biography information for Sarah Jones

833071

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Codes of Practice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has made any estimate of the number and proportion of schools that have created a code of practice on inclusivity and tolerance.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	125387
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 01/02/2018 17:13:09 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

831137

registered interest
date	26/01/2018
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, whether the increased teaching hours on maths and English in primary and secondary schools has led to a reduction in teaching hours for music education.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	125145
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2018 answer text <p>Information on number of hours taught in each subject is derived from the School Workforce Census. Information is collected from state funded secondary schools only. Information is not collected from primary schools. The attached table shows the percentage of hours spent teaching English, mathematics and music in state funded secondary schools for the years 2010 to 2016.</p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to estimate whether increases in teaching hours in one area of the curriculum have directly caused reductions elsewhere.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 31/01/2018 17:10:46 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 125145 attachment.docx title 125145 attachment
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

831149

registered interest
date	26/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Exclusions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to press release Prime Minister launches world-leading project on impact of ethnicity on everyday life, published on 10 October 2017, what the timetable is for his Department's external review of exclusions; and if he will list the groups disproportionately likely to be excluded on whose experiences that review will focus.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	125157
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2018 answer text <p>The Department will publish full details of the review, including timetables and how views can be submitted, in due course.</p><p>The externally led review of exclusions practice will consider how schools use exclusion overall and how this impacts on pupils, particularly why some groups such as those eligible for free school meals, those with special educational needs and disabilities, looked after children, children in need and pupils from certain ethnic groups are more likely to be excluded from school.</p><p>The Department publishes exclusion rates by characteristic annually. The most recent release can be accessed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england-2015-to-2016</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 05/02/2018 17:22:23 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

831150

registered interest
date	26/01/2018
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 steps his Department is taking to ensure providers of initial teacher meet the requirements set out in the Framework of core content for initial teacher training.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	125158
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2018 answer text <p>The framework of core content for initial teacher training (ITT) was published in July 2016 alongside two reports on behaviour management content and national standards for ITT mentors. These reports further support providers to meet the framework’s requirements.</p><p>In addition, Ofsted uses the framework of core content when making judgements regarding the quality of training and the leadership and management of an ITT partnership. 99% of all ITT partnerships inspected by Ofsted were judged to be either good or outstanding at their most recent inspection.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 05/02/2018 17:23:25 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt