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714503

registered interest
date	28/03/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure adequate funding for maintained nursery schools; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	69454
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2017 answer text <p>There is a presumption against the closure of maintained nursery schools. Before a nursery school may close the local authority must set out in a statement their assessment of the quality and quantity of the alternative provision; proposed arrangements to ensure that the expertise and specialism provided by the maintained nursery school continues to be available; and the accessibility and convenience of replacement provision for local parents.</p><p> </p><p>We are also providing local authorities with supplementary funding of £55 million per year to enable them to maintain existing levels of nursery school funding at least to the end of this Parliament. We are currently carrying out a data assurance exercise to ensure local authorities receive the correct amount of supplementary funding.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 69236 question first answered 30/03/2017 15:50:15 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

714090

registered interest
date	27/03/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the 30 hours a week free childcare entitlement for working parents to student midwives and nurses who work in the public sector as part of their courses.
tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
uin	69151
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2017 answer text <p>Eligibility for 30 hours for student midwives and nurses was carefully considered during the passage of the Childcare Act. As student nurses are treated as supernumerary, it follows that any time spent on placements will not count as paid work for the purposes of the extended entitlement. Student nurses will, however, be able to access a range of other support with their childcare costs including an additional payment of £1,000 each year for students with child dependents to reflect that students undertaking clinical placements may have higher childcare costs than the wider student population. More information on the range of support available can be found at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/plans-for-changing-healthcare-education-funding" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/plans-for-changing-healthcare-education-funding</a>)</p><p>Student parents who work in addition to their studies and meet the income requirements will be eligible for the additional hours. All student parents, (including student midwives and nurses) will also continue to benefit from the existing universal 15 hours of free early education for all three- and four-year-olds. They may also be entitled to 15 hours of free early education for two-year-old children.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 30/03/2017 15:49:08 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds

714091

registered interest
date	27/03/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Overseas Students
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the data on HE student enrolments by the HE provider published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency in March 2017, what assessment she has made of the potential effect on the UK economy of the change in the number of international students studying in the UK between 2010-11 and 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	69201
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2017 answer text <p>Information on enrolments and the finances of UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) is collected and published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). The data shows that from 2010-11 to 2015-16 the number of non-EU international students enrolled in UK HEIs increased by 4% (from 299,000 to 311,000). Over the same period, the total income from the tuition fees of non-EU domiciled students to UK HEIs increased from £2.9bn to £4.5bn in cash terms. This data does not include living expenses from international students, which are a source of additional value to the UK economy.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 30/03/2017 10:35:23 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

714099

registered interest
date	27/03/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Closures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to protect maintained nursery schools from closure.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	69236
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2017 answer text <p>There is a presumption against the closure of maintained nursery schools. Before a nursery school may close the local authority must set out in a statement their assessment of the quality and quantity of the alternative provision; proposed arrangements to ensure that the expertise and specialism provided by the maintained nursery school continues to be available; and the accessibility and convenience of replacement provision for local parents.</p><p> </p><p>We are also providing local authorities with supplementary funding of £55 million per year to enable them to maintain existing levels of nursery school funding at least to the end of this Parliament. We are currently carrying out a data assurance exercise to ensure local authorities receive the correct amount of supplementary funding.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 69454 question first answered 30/03/2017 15:50:15 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

714102

registered interest
date	27/03/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Management Consultants
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 7 March 2017 to Question 65682, how much of that procurement spending in each of those years related to the services of management consultants.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	69291
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2017 answer text <p>The Department’s annual procurement expenditure includes the following costs for the services of management consultants:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Spend on management consultancy</strong> <strong>£000</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>20,695</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>2,694</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>755</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>316</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>551</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>534</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>407</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The sources of the data are the Department’s audited annual accounts covering the core Department and its executive agencies at that time.</p><p> </p><p>The table includes the full cost of the consultants such as their fees, travel, and accommodation expenses. The expenditure relates to consultants who are engaged to provide advice to the Department. It does not include the costs of experts engaged to implement the change or a new programme.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 30/03/2017 15:49:55 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

714286

registered interest
date	27/03/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Social Mobility Commission
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much has been spent on the running of the Social Mobility Commission since it was first established as the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission.
tabling member printed	Lord Farmer
uin	HL6307
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2017 answer text <p>The Commission’s first full year of operation was 2013-14 and they have spent a total amount of £2,029,695 to date. This figure includes spend on commissioned research. To note that this is based on spend up until 29 March 2017 and does not cover full spend for 2016-17.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 30/03/2017 15:54:26 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4321 label Biography information for Lord Farmer

713785

registered interest
date	24/03/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the five most visited websites were by staff of her Department in the last year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	69115
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Education has investigated all available data sources and can confirm that we do not hold this information in the format requested. Whilst we can provide information on websites from which the largest amount of data has been downloaded, our system is not able to collate the external websites which are ‘most visited’ by staff and therefore this information could only be obtained manually at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 30/03/2017 09:19:40 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

713786

registered interest
date	24/03/2017
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 change was in the rate of acceptances onto teacher training courses in (a) Sheffield, (b) Yorkshire and (c) the UK from 2015-16 to 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	69109
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2017 answer text <p>The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) administer applications to initial teacher training (ITT) and publish data about applications and acceptances. This can be found 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 in postgraduate initial teacher training for academic years 2015/16 and 2016/17. Figures for all of the requested areas are contained in the table below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>New entrants to postgraduate initial teacher training</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Location of ITT provider</strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>2015/16</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>2016/17</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>Percentage change</em></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sheffield</p></td><td><p>1,012</p></td><td><p>988</p></td><td><p><em> - 2.4%</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>2,794</p></td><td><p>2,940</p></td><td><p><em>5.2%</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>27,761</p></td><td><p>27,053</p></td><td><p><em>- 2.6%</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: ITT Census</p><ul><li>Figures for 2016/17 are provisional and subject to change</li><li>Figures exclude forecasted trainees</li><li>Location of ITT provider does not necessarily reflect the location of the trainee</li><li>Identification of Sheffield ITT providers based on the registered postcode of the provider.</li></ul><p><strong><br> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 30/03/2017 15:51:58 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

713788

registered interest
date	24/03/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Older Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of teachers in (a) Sheffield, (b) Yorkshire and (c) the UK are over 60-years old.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	69077
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2017 answer text <p>In November 2015, 1.4% of full-time equivalent teachers employed in state funded schools in Sheffield were aged 60 and over. This compares with 1.7% of teachers in Yorkshire and 2.3% of teachers in England.</p><p>These figures are derived from the November 2015 School Workforce Census.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 29/03/2017 14:14:46 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

713444

registered interest
date	23/03/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: York
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many full-time equivalent (a) teachers, (b) teaching assistants and (c) support staff there were in local authority schools in the City of York in each year since 2005.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	68865
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2017 answer text <p>The following table provides the number of full-time equivalent teachers, teaching assistants and support staff in schools in York local authority in each year from 2005 to 2015.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>York Local Authority<strong>[1]</strong></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Teachers</p></td><td><p>Teaching Assistants</p></td><td><p>Support Staff</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2005</strong></p></td><td><p>1,390</p></td><td><p>440</p></td><td><p>270</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2006</strong></p></td><td><p>1,370</p></td><td><p>500</p></td><td><p>290</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2007</strong></p></td><td><p>1,400</p></td><td><p>520</p></td><td><p>330</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2008</strong></p></td><td><p>1,360</p></td><td><p>560</p></td><td><p>350</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2009</strong></p></td><td><p>1,340</p></td><td><p>590</p></td><td><p>330</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010<strong>[2]</strong></strong></p></td><td><p>1,250</p></td><td><p>480</p></td><td><p>..</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p>1,270</p></td><td><p>630</p></td><td><p>450</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p>1,360</p></td><td><p>680</p></td><td><p>520</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p>1,240</p></td><td><p>580</p></td><td><p>430</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p>1,360</p></td><td><p>720</p></td><td><p>510</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p>1,180</p></td><td><p>630</p></td><td><p>480</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Source: School Workforce Census, Form 618g and the School Census.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] Between 2005 and 2009 the full-time equivalent number of school teachers was collected by Form 618g and the full-time equivalent number of teaching assistants and support staff were collected by the School Census. From 2010 onwards, information on all school employees was collected in the annual School Workforce Census.</p><p>[2] The hours worked by school support staff were not collected in the 2010 School Workforce Census so a full-time equivalent figure is not available.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 29/03/2017 14:14:25 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell