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1137860

registered interest
date	09/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies : Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department plans to review the 3,000 pupil threshold for academy capital funding; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Walsall North
tabling member printed	Eddie Hughes
uin	275237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2019 answer text <p>Condition funding is allocated each year to those responsible for school buildings to improve and maintain the condition of the school estate. Schools and those responsible for school buildings receive condition funding through different routes depending on their size and type.</p><p>Local authorities and larger multi-academy trusts (MATs) receive a school condition allocation to invest in condition priorities across their schools. School condition allocations for 2019-20 are available online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/school-capital-funding" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/school-capital-funding</a>.</p><p>MATs and opted in academy chains currently receive school condition allocations if they have 5 or more academies and at least 3,000 pupils. Smaller and stand-alone academy trusts instead apply for capital funding to the Condition Improvement Fund. All schools also receive an allocation of devolved formula capital to invest in smaller capital projects to meet their own priorities.</p><p>The department keeps condition funding policy under review and plans to publish the methodology for school condition allocations for the 2020-21 financial year in autumn 2019. The eligibility for school condition allocations in 2020-21 will remain consistent with previous years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 17/07/2019 16:52:03 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes

1137411

registered interest
date	08/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Universities: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of making additional indicators of pupils’ disadvantage and under-representation in higher education accessible to universities in order to support their widening participation and access work.
tabling member constituency	Doncaster North
tabling member printed	Edward Miliband
uin	274475
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2019 answer text <p>Widening access and participation in higher education (HE) is a priority for the government. This means that everyone with the capability to succeed in HE should have the opportunity to participate, regardless of their background.</p><p>The government has made progress in ensuring universities are open to all, with record rates of disadvantaged 18 year olds in HE. However, we are aware that more needs to be done to support access and participation in HE, so it is vital that we continue to build on this progress.</p><p>HE providers need to use good quality and meaningful data to identify disadvantage and under-representation in order to effectively address disparities in access and participation in HE.</p><p>We encourage institutions to use a range of measures to identify disadvantage and under-representation, including individual-level indicators, area data (such as Participation of Local Areas data, Index of Multiple Deprivation or ACORN), school data, intersectional data such as the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service's (UCAS) Multiple Equality Measure and participation in outreach activities. The department is continuing to work with the Office for Students, UCAS and sector representatives to further explore how we can support universities to improve and enhance access to data.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 274476 question first answered 15/07/2019 15:19:19 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	1510 label Biography information for Edward Miliband

1137412

registered interest
date	08/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Universities: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has made an assessment of how the sharing with universities of additional indicators of applicants’ disadvantage and under-representation in higher education could enable universities to make further progress on increasing access and participation among disadvantaged applicants.
tabling member constituency	Doncaster North
tabling member printed	Edward Miliband
uin	274476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2019 answer text <p>Widening access and participation in higher education (HE) is a priority for the government. This means that everyone with the capability to succeed in HE should have the opportunity to participate, regardless of their background.</p><p>The government has made progress in ensuring universities are open to all, with record rates of disadvantaged 18 year olds in HE. However, we are aware that more needs to be done to support access and participation in HE, so it is vital that we continue to build on this progress.</p><p>HE providers need to use good quality and meaningful data to identify disadvantage and under-representation in order to effectively address disparities in access and participation in HE.</p><p>We encourage institutions to use a range of measures to identify disadvantage and under-representation, including individual-level indicators, area data (such as Participation of Local Areas data, Index of Multiple Deprivation or ACORN), school data, intersectional data such as the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service's (UCAS) Multiple Equality Measure and participation in outreach activities. The department is continuing to work with the Office for Students, UCAS and sector representatives to further explore how we can support universities to improve and enhance access to data.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 274475 question first answered 15/07/2019 15:19:19 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	1510 label Biography information for Edward Miliband

1137429

registered interest
date	08/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Disabled Students' Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to merge the allowances for non-medical, equipment and general support for disabled students’ allowance to permit more flexibility in how that allowance may be spent by undergraduate students.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	274435
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2019 answer text <p>The department has no plans to merge the 4 separate Disabled Students’ Allowances currently available to undergraduate students.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 15/07/2019 15:16:07 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1137489

registered interest
date	08/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Primary Education: Assessments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to the public purse of undertaking baseline assessments in each financial year from 2019-20 to 2023-24.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	274558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2019 answer text <p>​The estimated spend on the reception baseline assessment (RBA) for the financial years 2019-20 to 2023-24 is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>£2.9 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>£3.6 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021-22</p></td><td><p>£3.4 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022-23</p></td><td><p>£430,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023-24</p></td><td><p>£430,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>​These figures include the estimated spend for both the National Foundation for Educational Research RBA assessment and current development plans for the RBA for 2022-24.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 11/07/2019 08:36:04 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1137533

registered interest
date	08/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Sports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to (a) increase participation in sport in schools and (b) ensure that sport remains on the curriculum.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	274464
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2019 answer text <p>​The government firmly believes in the importance of physical education (PE), sport and extra-curricular activities to teach children the importance of physical activity to improve their physical and mental health as well as their overall wellbeing. Schools are free to organise and deliver a diverse and challenging PE curriculum that suits the needs of all of their pupils. However, PE is the only foundation subject on the national curriculum at all 4 key stages. The national curriculum must be taught by all maintained schools and it provides a frame of reference for academies in deciding what to offer as part of their broad and balanced curriculum offer.</p><p> </p><p>Ofsted’s new inspection framework, which will come into effect from September 2019, has spilt the current judgement for personal development, behaviour and welfare into 2 new separate judgements: ‘behaviour and attitudes’ and ‘personal development’. This will give greater recognition to the work of schools to support the personal development of pupils, such as the opportunities that they have to learn about eating healthily and maintaining an active lifestyle. Inspectors will expect to see schools offering children a broad, balanced education, including opportunities to be active during the school day and through extracurricular activities.</p><p>Since 2013, the government has invested over £1 billion of ringfenced funding through the Primary PE and Sport Premium to improve PE, sport, physical activity and extra-curricular activities for all pupils in England.</p><p> </p><p>We will shortly be publishing our cross-government school sport and activity action plan, under which the Department for Education, working with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and the Department of Health and Social Care, will consider further ways to ensure that all children have access to high quality, protected PE and sport sessions during the school week and opportunities to be physically active throughout the school day.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 16/07/2019 15:42:27 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1137539

registered interest
date	08/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will provide (a) a list of maintained schools that have been the subject of directive academy orders resulting in them becoming sponsored academies, (b) the date of those orders, (c) the names of the trusts which the schools joined on becoming sponsored academies and the dates of transfer and (d) the names of any trusts which they were subsequently transferred to as a result of rebrokering by his Department and the date of those transfers.
tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
tabling member printed	Mike Kane
uin	274554
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2019 answer text <p>As at 1 July 2019, there have been 385 maintained schools that have been issued an academy order following an inadequate Ofsted judgement that has resulted in them opening as a sponsored academy. The list of these sponsored academies, the dates of their academy orders, the dates they opened as sponsored academies and the name of the academy trust that they joined can be found in the attached table. Of these 385 sponsored academies, only St Edward’s Catholic Academy has subsequently transferred trust. This occurred on 1 September 2018.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 11/07/2019 15:47:49 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 274554_directive_academy_orders .xls title 274554_Table
tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

1137612

registered interest
date	08/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Film
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 amount of apprenticeship levy money that was (a) paid by and (b) spent on apprenticeships by screen industry companies in financial year 2018-19.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	274454
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2019 answer text <p>The apprenticeship levy is collected by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) from employers with a pay bill in excess of £3 million per year. HMRC does not collect data which allows levy collection to be broken down by sector. The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) does not require levy-paying employers to register a sector when they set up an online apprenticeship service account to manage their funds. Therefore, ESFA are unable to supply information on the sectoral distribution of spending on apprenticeships in the format requested.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 11/07/2019 08:26:40 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1137154

registered interest
date	05/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children in Care
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 looked-after children who were taken into care as a result of their mother receiving a custodial sentence in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Ann Coffey
uin	273741
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 12/07/2019 13:04:46 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	458 label Biography information for Ann Coffey

1137163

registered interest
date	05/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Breakfast Clubs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to require schools to offer pupils breakfast on the morning of their exams.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	273743
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2019 answer text <p>Schools are responsible for their day-to-day running, including their school meals service. I refer the right hon. Member for Birkenhead to the answer I gave on 5 July 2019 to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2019-06-27/270292/" target="_blank">270292</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 10/07/2019 12:33:47 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead