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65446

	registered interest
	date	02/07/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Drugs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teaching assistants administer medicine to children in local authority schools in England.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	203826
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not collect this data.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 08/07/2014 10:21:36 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

65454

	registered interest
	date	02/07/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free School Meals: Ashfield
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) primary school pupils and (b) infant school pupils in Ashfield constituency received free school meals in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	203811
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>Information on the number of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals in state-funded nursery and primary schools is published in the “Schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2014” statistical first release, which is published online at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2014%20" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2014 </a></p><p> </p><p>Table 8a shows local authority level information; information is not published at parliamentary constituency level.</p><p>Information for 2010 to 2013 can be found in previous versions of this release, which are published online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers</a></p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 08/07/2014 10:13:57 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

77097

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of primary and secondary schools have had their Ofsted rating lowered since the last assessment in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire and (c) the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	205146
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2014 answer text <p>This question is a matter for Ofsted. I have asked Her Majesty's Chief Inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, to write to the hon. Member. A copy of his reply will be placed in the House Library.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 16/07/2014 13:48:24 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

92194

	registered interest
	date	26/09/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free School Meals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) primary school and (b) infant school pupils in (i) Barnsley East constituency, (ii) South Yorkshire, (iii) Yorkshire and the Humber and (iv) the UK received free school meals in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
	tabling member printed	Michael Dugher
	uin	209556
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2014 answer text <p>Information on the number of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals in 2014 is published in the ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2014’ Statistical First Release.[1]</p><p>Table 8a shows local authority and regional level information for primary school and nursery school pupils; parliamentary constituency level information and primary and infant school splits are not published. Barnsley East is one of five constituencies within Barnsley local authority. South Yorkshire is made up of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield local authorities. The Department for Education produces statistics on England only. The responsibility for education statistics in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales lies with each devolved administration. Information for 2010 to 2013 can be found in previous versions of this release.[2]</p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2014" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2014</a></p><p>[2] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers</a></p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 14/10/2014 15:15:51 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	3916 label Biography information for Michael Dugher

92505

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Class Sizes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in (i) Barnsley East constituency, (ii) South Yorkshire and (iii) England had classes of (A) 31 to 35, (B) 36-39, (C) 40 to 49, (D) 50 to 59, (E) 60 to 69 and (F) more than 70 pupils in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
	tabling member printed	Michael Dugher
	uin	209816
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2014 answer text <p>The available information on class sizes is shown in the table attached. To provide a more detailed breakdown of class sizes would incur disproportionate costs.</p><p>The latest published data on class sizes can be accessed at: <a href="http://3dcpri-papp09/new_parliamentaryquestion/209816-%20Michael%20Dugher/Draft/www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2014" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2014</a></p><p>Legislation imposes a limit of 30 pupils per school teacher on infant classes. Regulations permit this limit to be exceeded in certain limited circumstances, for example, to admit the child of UK service personnel, or a looked after or previously looked after child, outside the normal admissions round. There is no statutory limit on class sizes for the junior and secondary phases of education. It is probable that some of the large class sizes reported above relate to times of day such as assembly when children were legitimately in groups of more than 30 and the Department for Education is working with schools and local authorities to better understand this.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 20/10/2014 16:48:54 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws attachment 1 file name 209816 - Classes taught by one teacher in state-funded primary and secondary schools.xlsx title Primary and secondary class sizes
	tabling member	3916 label Biography information for Michael Dugher

93541

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Education: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she plans to take to ensure greater consistency in educational outcomes (a) from each stage of provision and (b) across all regions.
	tabling member constituency	Belfast North
	tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Dodds
	uin	210718
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>This Government has introduced an ambitious, coherent programme of reforms to ensure greater consistency in educational outcomes across all stages and regions in England.</p><p>We are reforming assessment and the curriculum across the primary and secondary phases and general and vocational qualifications to ensure we have a system that prepares young people for life in modern Britain. We are reforming GCSEs and A levels to be robust and rigorous, to match the best education systems in the world and to keep pace with universities’ and employers’ demands. The new national curriculum, introduced from this school year, also sets out expectations for children at all four key stages that match the curricula used in the world’s most successful school systems.</p><p>We are improving the accountability framework to improve standards across the country. In addition, Ofsted has implemented a more rigorous inspection framework, with performance data being used to target inspections on the weakest schools and a recognition that any school rated less than ‘good' is not performing well enough.</p><p>Some schools are still not performing well enough. We issued revised statutory guidance[1] to local authorities in May that makes very clear our expectations that they should take swift and robust action when maintained schools are performing poorly. This includes our expectation that their assessment should include the achievement of disadvantaged pupils and that poorly performing schools should become sponsored academies.</p><p>In addition, the academies and free schools programmes are shifting power and responsibility to leaders of education, giving schools greater autonomy to drive improvements, within a strong framework of accountability. The growth in sponsored academies is raising standards by turning around some of the most disadvantaged and worst performing schools in the country. Increasingly, high performing schools are taking the lead as sponsors, sharing their expertise and experience to benefit others.</p><p>Regional Schools Commissioners (RSCs) are responsible for overseeing the performance of academies, free schools, university technical colleges and studio schools in their region. RSCs, along with their headteacher boards, are helping to build the capacity of the Department for Education to pick up local and regional soft intelligence which will contribute to the ability of the Department to oversee academies and free schools and hold them to account. The RSCs will be able to take decisions on academy issues whilst being immersed in the local context. This will enable them to make decisions based on the circumstances of the school(s) and sponsor(s) in question.</p><p>All of these reforms will also help raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils and close the gap with their peers at every phase and in every region in England. In particular, the Government introduced the pupil premium in April 2011 – worth a total of £6.25 billion to date – to give schools the resources to raise the attainment of mainly economically disadvantaged pupils and those in care.</p><p>[1] <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-causing-concern--2" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-causing-concern--2</a></p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 21/10/2014 13:48:27 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

66034

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: Per Capita Costs
	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 level of funding for each pupil aged 16 to 18 years old in each academic year until 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
	tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
	uin	204202
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2014 answer text <p>We confirm final funding rates for 16-19 year olds in the spring before the start of each academic year. We confirmed rates for academic year 2014/15 in March 2014. We will confirm rates for 2015/16 in March 2015. Budgets beyond 2015/16 will not be agreed until after the Government's next spending review.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 10/07/2014 16:43:06 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

91416

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Travel: Concessions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will bring forward proposals to extend the statutory entitlement for free transport for young people in education and training beyond the current age threshold of 16.
	tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
	tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
	uin	209015
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The statutory responsibility for transport to education and training for 16 to 19 year olds rests with local authorities, enabling them to make decisions which best match local needs and circumstances. Local authorities are expected to make reasonable decisions based on the needs of their population, the local transport infrastructure, and the resources they have available.</p><p>The Government has no plans at present to extend the home to school statutory entitlement beyond the age of 16.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 13/10/2014 10:11:38 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

91615

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Unemployment: Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number of students aged between 16 to 18 unable to participate in education, jobs or training because they are unable to afford the associated transport costs.
	tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
	tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
	uin	209148
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not hold this information. However, most young people have access to a discount or concession on local travel from their local transport providers, their local authority, or from their education or training provider. The £180million bursary fund is also available to support young people with the costs associated with attending education or training, and transport is the biggest single area of expenditure for which this fund is used.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 13/10/2014 10:14:56 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

91955

	registered interest
	date	26/09/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her policy is on extending ring-fencing of the five to 16 years schools budget to include funding for young people aged 16 to 18.
	tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
	tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
	uin	209381
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2014 answer text <p>The protection given to the 5-16 schools budget up to the end of financial year 2015-16 does not extend to the 16-18 education budget. Decisions about levels of education funding beyond financial year 2015-16 are for the next Government.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 14/10/2014 15:11:35 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali