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891366

registered interest
date	25/04/2018
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 the rate of acceptance onto teacher training courses was in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) the UK in (i) 2016-17 and (ii) 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	137904
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) administer applications to initial teacher training (ITT) and publish regular statistical releases containing data on applications and acceptances. Statistics on acceptances are available from UCAS, at <a href="https://www.ucas.com/corporate/data-and-analysis/ucas-teacher-training-releases" target="_blank">https://www.ucas.com/corporate/data-and-analysis/ucas-teacher-training-releases</a>.</p><p>The Department’s ITT Census provides the number of new entrants who started postgraduate initial teacher training for academic years 2016/17 and 2017/18. Data is not collected or published on ITT courses outside of England. Figures for Coventry, the West Midlands and England are contained in the table below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Location of ITT provider</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017/18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016/17</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coventry</p></td><td><p>465</p></td><td><p>375</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>3,070</p></td><td><p>2,685</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>27,720</p></td><td><p>26,750</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: ITT Census</p><p>All figures have been rounded to the nearest 5.</p><p>Figures for 2017/18 are provisional and subject to change.</p><p>Figures for 2016/17 are final and based on data from 24 October 2017.</p><p>Figures exclude forecasted trainees.</p><p>Location of ITT provider does not necessarily reflect the location of the trainee.</p><p>Identification of Coventry ITT providers based on the registered postcode of the provider.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 30/04/2018 15:20:38 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

887111

registered interest
date	19/04/2018
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, how many secondary school teachers have been recruited in each year since 2010, and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	136676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2018 answer text <p>The number of new entrants to state funded secondary schools are shown in the attached table. Figures on the numbers of new entrants are only available for 2011 onwards, figures on the movement of teachers between state funded schools are not available.</p><p> </p><p>The rise in the number of new entrants to state funded secondary schools in 2016 is encouraging and shows that teaching remains an attractive and rewarding career for talented graduates.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 25/04/2018 09:55:29 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 136676_Full_Time_Equivalent_number_of_qualified_teacher_entrants_to_State_Funded_Secondary_Schools.pdf title FTE_number_of_qualified_teacher_entrants previous answer version 53875 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

887112

registered interest
date	19/04/2018
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 assessment he has made of recent trends in the number of people enrolling in secondary education teacher training.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	136677
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises the importance of increasing the number of trainees in secondary education training and is committed to focusing funding on secondary subjects.</p><p> </p><p>While enrolment in secondary education teacher training in 2017/18 was slightly down on numbers in 2015/16 and 2016/17, the overall trend is positive with postgraduate recruitment at its highest level since 2011/12.</p><p> </p><p>To ensure that secondary education teacher training continues to attract talented graduates, the Department focuses funding on secondary subjects. This includes offering increased bursaries, typically worth up to £26,000, for priority subjects such as maths and physics. The Department has also taken further steps to improve this year’s recruitment figures. These steps include boosting our marketing and support to applicants, making it easier to take the skills test, and working with providers to ensure that more applicants who are ready to train to teach are accepted.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 24/04/2018 16:51:27 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

872402

registered interest
date	26/03/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Primary Education: Literacy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of children starting primary school in (a) the West Midlands and (b) Coventry had literacy skills below the expected school-ready level in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	134316
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2018 answer text <p>This information is in the public domain. The Department publishes statistics on attainment within the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (EYFSP) for children at the end of reception year.</p><p> </p><p>The percentage of children achieving at least the expected level across all the learning goals in the Literacy area of learning, for years 2013 to 2017, is published within table 2b of the ‘Early years foundation stage profile results: 2016 to 2017’ statistical first release.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/early-years-foundation-stage-profile-results-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/early-years-foundation-stage-profile-results-2016-to-2017</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 29/03/2018 13:51:43 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

869400

registered interest
date	22/03/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Asbestos
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the removal of asbestos from the school estate in (a) the West Midlands and (b) Coventry.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	133914
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 26 March 2018 to 133602 and 133603 available at: <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=133602" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=133602</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 27/03/2018 16:58:29 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

845597

registered interest
date	20/02/2018
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 his Department has made an assessment of trends in the number of specialist teachers for deaf children in (a) West Midlands and (b) Coventry since 31 December 2017; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	128569
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2018 answer text <p>The information on the number of specialist teachers for deaf children is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 23/02/2018 14:01:13 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

838322

registered interest
date	07/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Arts: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of expenditure from the public purse on (a) time, (b) staff and (c) facilities associated with the creative arts in schools across England.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	127216
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>The Department is investing an additional £1.3 billion in school funding, over and above existing expenditure, with core schools funding rising from almost £41 billion in 2017-18 to £43.5 billion in 2019-20.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to funding which schools receive to deliver their curriculum, the Government funds a wide range of music and cultural education programmes to ensure that every child, whatever their background, has access to a high quality arts education. The attached table shows total funding from the Department for these programmes.</p><p> </p><p>In maintained schools, music and art and design are compulsory subjects and although academies and free schools are not required to teach the national curriculum, they can use it as a benchmark. Beyond this, it is for schools to decide how best to deliver their curriculum and we have not made an assessment of trends in the level of expenditure from the public purse on (a) time, (b) staff and (c) facilities associated with the creative arts in schools across England.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 127217 question first answered 20/02/2018 15:29:16 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 127217, 127216 - Departmental Funding For All Music and Cultural Education Programmes.docx title Departmental Funding for these programmes
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

838324

registered interest
date	07/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Arts: Education
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 his Department's funding for arts and music education in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in England in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	127217
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>The Department is investing an additional £1.3 billion in school funding, over and above existing expenditure, with core schools funding rising from almost £41 billion in 2017-18 to £43.5 billion in 2019-20.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to funding which schools receive to deliver their curriculum, the Government funds a wide range of music and cultural education programmes to ensure that every child, whatever their background, has access to a high quality arts education. The attached table shows total funding from the Department for these programmes.</p><p> </p><p>In maintained schools, music and art and design are compulsory subjects and although academies and free schools are not required to teach the national curriculum, they can use it as a benchmark. Beyond this, it is for schools to decide how best to deliver their curriculum and we have not made an assessment of trends in the level of expenditure from the public purse on (a) time, (b) staff and (c) facilities associated with the creative arts in schools across England.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 127216 question first answered 20/02/2018 15:29:16 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 127217, 127216 - Departmental Funding For All Music and Cultural Education Programmes.docx title Departmental Funding for these programmes
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

830419

registered interest
date	25/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	GCSE: West Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average GCSE score was for pupils in (a) Coventry and (b) West Midlands in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	124985
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>Information on the the average GCSE attainment of pupils in state-funded schools, at the end of key stage 4, since 2015 in Coventry and West Midland in each of the last three years [1] is published in the Statistical First Release at local authority, regional and national level in the “Revised GCSE and equivalent results in England: 2016 to 2017”[2].</p><p>Please note that the Department's new headline measures are Attainment 8 and Progress 8 and have been provided as the measure of &quot;average” GCSE score.</p><p>[1] 2016/17 data is revised and all other years are final.</p><p>[2]<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/676350/SFR01_2018_LA_tables.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/676350/SFR01_2018_LA_tables.xlsx</a> (Table LA2)</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 30/01/2018 17:33:21 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

829932

registered interest
date	24/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Arts: GCSE
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 an assessment of the effect of socio-economic background on the uptake of arts subjects at GCSE level.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	124676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>The number of entries into arts subjects, by disadvantaged and all other pupils, at the end of key stage 4 is provided in the attached document.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 01/02/2018 13:54:22 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 124676 Table.xlsx title 124676 Table previous answer version 37878 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham