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679687

registered interest
date	27/01/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether schools are required to inform her Department if their websites and servers are hacked.
tabling member constituency	Bassetlaw
tabling member printed	John Mann
uin	62140
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2017 answer text <p>Through the Edubase register, the Department for Education is aware of 19,885 schools with websites.</p><p>All schools, as independent public bodies, are directly responsible under the Data Protection Act 1998 for the collation, retention, storage and security of all information they produce and hold.</p><p> </p><p>The Department provides guidance to schools on how to protect data including the key principles, obligations and duties in relation to the Data Protection Act. Schools are not required to notify the Department if their website or servers are hacked, but in the event of a suspected serious breach or loss of personal or private information, schools should report the incident to the Information Commissioner’s Office.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 62123 62125 question first answered 01/02/2017 17:08:49 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1387 label Biography information for Lord Mann

679688

registered interest
date	27/01/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will write to (a) Wikihow and (b) YouTube to request that those organisations remove from their sites guides on how to hack into school websites and servers.
tabling member constituency	Bassetlaw
tabling member printed	John Mann
uin	62123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2017 answer text <p>Through the Edubase register, the Department for Education is aware of 19,885 schools with websites.</p><p>All schools, as independent public bodies, are directly responsible under the Data Protection Act 1998 for the collation, retention, storage and security of all information they produce and hold.</p><p> </p><p>The Department provides guidance to schools on how to protect data including the key principles, obligations and duties in relation to the Data Protection Act. Schools are not required to notify the Department if their website or servers are hacked, but in the event of a suspected serious breach or loss of personal or private information, schools should report the incident to the Information Commissioner’s Office.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 62125 62140 question first answered 01/02/2017 17:08:49 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1387 label Biography information for Lord Mann

679689

registered interest
date	27/01/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools in England have their own website; and what guidance or support her Department has given to schools to ensure that websites and school servers are secure.
tabling member constituency	Bassetlaw
tabling member printed	John Mann
uin	62125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2017 answer text <p>Through the Edubase register, the Department for Education is aware of 19,885 schools with websites.</p><p>All schools, as independent public bodies, are directly responsible under the Data Protection Act 1998 for the collation, retention, storage and security of all information they produce and hold.</p><p> </p><p>The Department provides guidance to schools on how to protect data including the key principles, obligations and duties in relation to the Data Protection Act. Schools are not required to notify the Department if their website or servers are hacked, but in the event of a suspected serious breach or loss of personal or private information, schools should report the incident to the Information Commissioner’s Office.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 62123 62140 question first answered 01/02/2017 17:08:49 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1387 label Biography information for Lord Mann

679690

registered interest
date	27/01/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to prohibit subsidiaries of profit-making companies from contracting with local authorities to run child protection and other children's social care services.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	62042
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2017 answer text <p>As stated in my answer of 25 January, my policy is that no organisation can contract with a local authority to deliver child protection functions if they are operated on a for profit basis. This is the case regardless of organisational form. This is made clear in the Children and Young Persons Act 2008 (Relevant Care Functions) (England) Regulations 2014. The Government has no intention of revisiting the settled position on this matter.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 01/02/2017 16:48:01 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

679692

registered interest
date	27/01/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how inflation is taken into account in determining pay for teachers.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	62112
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2017 answer text <p>Teachers’ pay is based on recommendations from the independent School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB). Before making their recommendations, the STRB considers evidence from all of its statutory consultees, including economic and financial data from the Government.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 01/02/2017 09:41:35 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

679014

registered interest
date	26/01/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Closures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 9 January 2017 to Question 58494, what information her Department holds on the cost of school closures since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	61836
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2017 answer text <p>I refer the honourable member to my response to question 58495, which I have restated below.</p><p>The Department does not record, centrally, information on the costs of school closures.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 01/02/2017 14:10:56 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

679016

registered interest
date	26/01/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Closures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 10 January 2017 to Question 58097, whether any intervention from her Department in a school closure consultation subsequently led to a consultation being paused.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	61838
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2017 answer text <p>I refer the honourable member to my response to question 58097, which I have restated below.</p><p>The Department’s guidance on consultation sets out the minimum periods for which local authorities and academy trusts must consult, where school closure is proposed, but it does not mention pausing a consultation.</p><p>Consultation on a proposal to close a school is undertaken locally either by the local authority or the academy trust to allow those directly affected by the proposals to provide their comments.</p><p>It is up to the local authority or academy trust to decide whether a consultation needs to be paused. The Department does not record or hold this information centrally.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 01/02/2017 14:13:17 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

679120

registered interest
date	26/01/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Citizenship: Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many citizenship teachers were trained in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	61973
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2017 answer text <p>The number of citizenship teachers trained each year since academic year 2010/11 is shown in the table below:</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Academic Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of citizenship trainees</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>243</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>164</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>125</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>116</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>112</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>54</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><ul><li>Source: ITT Census Data Management System</li><li>The number of new entrants to Citizenship is not published in the annual ITT Census and is included as part of “Other” in the subject tables.</li></ul> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 01/02/2017 16:30:51 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

679325

registered interest
date	26/01/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Homophobia
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many cases there have been of homophobic bullying recorded in schools in each of the last three years; and what plans they have, if any, to increase awareness of LGBT rights amongst young people.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL5039
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2017 answer text <p>The Government does not hold information on the number of cases of homophobic bullying recorded in schools, as the recording of instances of bullying is managed locally by schools. Nonetheless, we are examining the overall prevalence of a range of types of bullying, including homophobic, biphobic, and transphobic bullying, through surveys such as the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) Teacher Voice and the Pupil and Parent/Carer omnibus surveys, which will report later this year.</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to promoting LGB&amp;T equality, including amongst young people. We are currently investing £2.8 million in a three-year programme to prevent and address homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying in schools.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 01/02/2017 15:25:46 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

678566

registered interest
date	25/01/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Durand Academy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many times in 2016 and 2017 the Education Funding Agency met Ofsted to discuss Durand Academy.
tabling member constituency	Vauxhall
tabling member printed	Kate Hoey
uin	61713
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2017 answer text <p>The Education Funding Agency has not corresponded with Ofsted regarding Durand Academy in 2016 and 2017.</p><p>On 20<sup>th</sup> December, Ofsted formally notified the Department of Education on the outcome of their inspection of the Durand Academy and briefed the Regional School Commissioner and the Educational Funding Agency the following day.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 61712 question first answered 01/02/2017 16:50:07 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	210 label Biography information for Baroness Hoey