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1109752

registered interest
date	04/04/2019
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 the adequacy of grammar instruction provided on teacher training courses.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	240969
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2019 answer text <p>To complete teacher training courses and become a qualified teacher, trainees must meet the standards set out in the ‘teachers’ standards’ published in 2011, available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teachers-standards" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teachers-standards</a>.</p><p>This requires trainees to demonstrate good subject and curriculum knowledge, including taking responsibility for promoting high standards of literacy and the correct use of standard English, whatever the teacher’s specialist subject.</p><p>The Department published further guidance, ‘A framework of core content for initial teacher training’ (ITT), in July 2016. This guidance is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/initial-teacher-training-government-response-to-carter-review" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/initial-teacher-training-government-response-to-carter-review</a>.</p><p>The framework sets out ITT providers’ responsibility to audit trainees’ subject knowledge early in their training, and make provision to ensure that trainees have sufficient subject knowledge to satisfy the teachers’ standards by the end of their training.</p><p>At their most recent Ofsted inspection, 99% of all ITT providers were rated good or outstanding.</p><p>In the Recruitment and Retention Strategy, published in January 2019, the Department committed to reviewing ITT core content guidance using the Early Career Framework as our starting point. Details of this can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teacher-recruitment-and-retention-strategy" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teacher-recruitment-and-retention-strategy</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 12/04/2019 10:52:49 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1109763

registered interest
date	04/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils
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 pupils who have moved in year at (a) primary, (b) secondary and (c) further education level by local authority area in the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	241040
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>​The information is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 241041 question first answered 09/04/2019 14:41:25 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1109765

registered interest
date	04/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many individual (a) primary and (b) secondary children moved schools in year (i) twice, (ii) three times, (iii) four times and (iv) more than four times in the last academic year; and what information his Department holds on the pupil characteristics of children who have moved school in year on more than one occasion.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	241041
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>​The information is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 241040 question first answered 09/04/2019 14:41:25 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1109824

registered interest
date	04/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Condition Improvement Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the total amount of funding provided to schools from the Condition Improvement Fund was in each of the last five years for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	241080
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department has provided the information requested in the attached table, showing a regional breakdown of Condition Improvement Fund (CIF) for the last five years. However, please note that the information for CIF 2016-17 onwards does not include the funding amounts.</p><p>Whilst the Department intends to publish funding information for transparency, accurate amounts for grants funded are not known until the work is complete and therefore the Department is unable to disclose the total funding amount for a CIF round until all the projects in that round are complete.</p><p>To release the funding amounts applicants bid to CIF for, while procurement or construction works are ongoing, would hamper the ability of schools and sixth-form colleges to obtain value for money for the public purse from their contractors. It is the Department’s intention to release the individual project funding amounts for all CIF rounds and, to date, the Department has published the funding from 2015-16.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 241081 241082 241083 241084 question first answered 12/04/2019 11:24:08 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 241080-84_CIF_regional_breakdown_.xls title 241080-84_CIF_regional_breakdown_
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1109826

registered interest
date	04/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Condition Improvement Fund: Yorkshire and the Humber
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the total amount of funding provided to schools in (a) Barnsley, (b) South Yorkshire and (c) Yorkshire and the Humber was from the Condition Improvement Fund in each of the last five years for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	241081
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department has provided the information requested in the attached table, showing a regional breakdown of Condition Improvement Fund (CIF) for the last five years. However, please note that the information for CIF 2016-17 onwards does not include the funding amounts.</p><p>Whilst the Department intends to publish funding information for transparency, accurate amounts for grants funded are not known until the work is complete and therefore the Department is unable to disclose the total funding amount for a CIF round until all the projects in that round are complete.</p><p>To release the funding amounts applicants bid to CIF for, while procurement or construction works are ongoing, would hamper the ability of schools and sixth-form colleges to obtain value for money for the public purse from their contractors. It is the Department’s intention to release the individual project funding amounts for all CIF rounds and, to date, the Department has published the funding from 2015-16.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 241080 241082 241083 241084 question first answered 12/04/2019 11:24:08 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 241080-84_CIF_regional_breakdown_.xls title 241080-84_CIF_regional_breakdown_
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1109829

registered interest
date	04/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Condition Improvement Fund: South Yorkshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools in (a) Barnsley and (b) South Yorkshire received grants from the Condition Improvement Fund in each of the last five years for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	241082
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department has provided the information requested in the attached table, showing a regional breakdown of Condition Improvement Fund (CIF) for the last five years. However, please note that the information for CIF 2016-17 onwards does not include the funding amounts.</p><p>Whilst the Department intends to publish funding information for transparency, accurate amounts for grants funded are not known until the work is complete and therefore the Department is unable to disclose the total funding amount for a CIF round until all the projects in that round are complete.</p><p>To release the funding amounts applicants bid to CIF for, while procurement or construction works are ongoing, would hamper the ability of schools and sixth-form colleges to obtain value for money for the public purse from their contractors. It is the Department’s intention to release the individual project funding amounts for all CIF rounds and, to date, the Department has published the funding from 2015-16.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 241080 241081 241083 241084 question first answered 12/04/2019 11:24:08 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 241080-84_CIF_regional_breakdown_.xls title 241080-84_CIF_regional_breakdown_
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1109830

registered interest
date	04/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Condition Improvement Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many applications for Condition Improvement Fund grants were received from schools in (a) Barnsley, (b) South Yorkshire, and (c) the UK in each of the last five years for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	241083
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department has provided the information requested in the attached table, showing a regional breakdown of Condition Improvement Fund (CIF) for the last five years. However, please note that the information for CIF 2016-17 onwards does not include the funding amounts.</p><p>Whilst the Department intends to publish funding information for transparency, accurate amounts for grants funded are not known until the work is complete and therefore the Department is unable to disclose the total funding amount for a CIF round until all the projects in that round are complete.</p><p>To release the funding amounts applicants bid to CIF for, while procurement or construction works are ongoing, would hamper the ability of schools and sixth-form colleges to obtain value for money for the public purse from their contractors. It is the Department’s intention to release the individual project funding amounts for all CIF rounds and, to date, the Department has published the funding from 2015-16.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 241080 241081 241082 241084 question first answered 12/04/2019 11:24:08 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 241080-84_CIF_regional_breakdown_.xls title 241080-84_CIF_regional_breakdown_
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1109831

registered interest
date	04/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Condition Improvement Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, (a) how many and (b) what percentage of applications for Condition Improvement Fund grants received from schools in (a) Barnsley, (b) South Yorkshire, and (c) the UK were successful in each of the last five years for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	241084
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department has provided the information requested in the attached table, showing a regional breakdown of Condition Improvement Fund (CIF) for the last five years. However, please note that the information for CIF 2016-17 onwards does not include the funding amounts.</p><p>Whilst the Department intends to publish funding information for transparency, accurate amounts for grants funded are not known until the work is complete and therefore the Department is unable to disclose the total funding amount for a CIF round until all the projects in that round are complete.</p><p>To release the funding amounts applicants bid to CIF for, while procurement or construction works are ongoing, would hamper the ability of schools and sixth-form colleges to obtain value for money for the public purse from their contractors. It is the Department’s intention to release the individual project funding amounts for all CIF rounds and, to date, the Department has published the funding from 2015-16.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 241080 241081 241082 241083 question first answered 12/04/2019 11:24:08 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 241080-84_CIF_regional_breakdown_.xls title 241080-84_CIF_regional_breakdown_
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1109367

registered interest
date	03/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Discipline
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has plans to monitor the use of isolation booths in schools.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	240535
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>As part of Ofsted inspections, schools will be asked to provide records and analysis of any use of internal isolation. Ofsted inspectors will expect schools to have clear and effective behaviour policies that promote high standards of behaviour and are applied consistently and fairly. In reaching a judgement on pupils’ personal development, behaviour and welfare, inspectors will take account of a range of information, including schools’ use of internal isolation.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not collect or record information about schools’ use of internal isolation. The Department expects schools to develop their own policies and strategies for managing disruptive behaviour, according to their particular circumstances. To help schools develop effective strategies, the Department has produced advice for schools which covers what should be included in their behaviour policy. This advice can be viewed here:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/488034/Behaviour_and_Discipline_in_Schools_-_A_guide_for_headteachers_and_School_Staff.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/488034/Behaviour_and_Discipline_in_Schools_-_A_guide_for_headteachers_and_School_Staff.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The advice outlines how schools can adopt a policy which allows disruptive pupils to be placed in isolation away from other pupils. If a school uses isolation rooms as a disciplinary penalty, this should be made clear in their behaviour policy. As with other disciplinary penalties, schools must act lawfully, reasonably and proportionately in all cases, and must take account of any special education needs or disabilities pupils placed in isolation may have. The school must also ensure the health and safety of pupils.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 08/04/2019 14:58:04 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1109455

registered interest
date	03/04/2019
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, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of school exclusions.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	240479
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department supports head teachers in using exclusion where this is warranted.</p><p>In March 2018, the Government launched an externally led review of exclusions practice, led by Edward Timpson CBE. The review is exploring how head teachers use exclusion, and why pupils with particular characteristics are more likely to be excluded from school. It is also considering the differences in exclusion rates across primary and secondary schools in England.</p><p>The review along with the Government response will be published in due course. The full terms of reference for the review can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-exclusions-review-terms-of-reference" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-exclusions-review-terms-of-reference</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 08/04/2019 15:36:54 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe