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1055028

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupil Exclusions: Reviews
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the review of exclusions practice led by Edward Timpson CBE will publish its final report.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	217022
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <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 has gathered substantial evidence, including over 900 submissions to the call for evidence. Edward Timpson has also chaired a series of roundtables and the review has met with over 100 organisations and individuals, including schools, local authorities, parents and children. The review will report in this term.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 08/02/2019 14:40:23 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

1122096

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Arts: English Baccalaureate
	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 effect of the English Baccalaureate on access to creative subjects.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	245789
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government is clear that the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) should be studied as part of a broad and balanced curriculum. It is limited in size in order to allow pupils to continue to study additional subjects that reflect their individual interests and strengths, including arts subjects. The proportion of pupils taking at least one Arts GCSE has fluctuated but remained broadly stable since the EBacc was introduced in 2010</p><p> </p><p>Arts subjects are not limited to the classroom, and according to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s Taking Part Survey, in 2017-18, 96% of children aged 5-15 had engaged with the arts in the past 12 months[1]. The government is providing almost £500 million of funding between 2016-20 for arts and cultural education programmes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] The arts cover music activities, theatre/drama, reading/writing, arts crafts and design, film, video, media, and radio activities, dance activities, street arts, circus, carnival, and festival activities.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 25/04/2019 16:05:11 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

155826

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Academies: Stafford
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the (a) take-up of places in and (b) performance of academies in Stafford constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	214617
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p>Stafford constituency has four open academies:</p><p>1) John Wheeldon Primary School (opened 1 September 2014, sponsored by Staffordshire University)</p><p>2) Rowley Park Primary Academy (opened 1 August 2014, sponsored by Victoria Park Primary Academy)</p><p>3) The Weston Road Academy (converted to academy status in October 2011)</p><p>4) The Rural Enterprise Academy (opened August 2012 as a free school, sponsored by South Staffordshire College, Veolia and the National Farmers Union).</p><p>Both John Wheeldon and Rowley Park are at or near capacity. The Rural Enterprise Academy has been open since 2012 and has a phased intake admitting up to 60 pupils in each year. There are currently under 100 pupils on roll. The Weston Road Academy is almost 80% full.</p><p>We make regular assessments of all academies to monitor performance.</p><p>John Wheeldon and Rowley Park converted in September 2014 and it is too early to say what impact academy conversion has had. Rural Enterprise Academy was rated Good by Ofsted in March this year. The Weston Road Academy was rated Good by Ofsted in October 2013 and overall performance is above the national floor targets.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 24/11/2014 17:38:15 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

417605

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	International Baccalaureate
	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 offer the International Baccalaureate.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	9621
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>It is not possible to identify how many schools offer the International Baccalaureate. However, the Department for Education publishes information on schools that entered students for the different aspects of the International Baccalaureate in a particular year as part of the school performance tables. This information is available online at:</p><p><a href="http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/download_data.html" target="_blank">www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/download_data.html</a> (2014_16-18_Underlying_Data_Institution_Level.zip (Tables 6 to 9)).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 14/09/2015 16:08:15 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

520727

	registered interest
	date	23/05/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Academies: Stafford
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of (a) trends in the take-up of academy places and (b) the performance of academies in Stafford constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	37947
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2016 answer text <p>The number of pupils on roll in academies in the Stafford Constituency from January 2012 to January 2015 was as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Weston Road Academy</p></td><td><p>824</p></td><td><p>819</p></td><td><p>797</p></td><td><p>813</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Rural Enterprise Academy</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>84</p></td><td><p>94</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rowley Park Primary Academy</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>161</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>John Wheeldon Primary Academy</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>428</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: School Census, January 2012 to 2015</p><p> </p><p>The percentage of pupils achieving level 4 or above in reading, writing and maths at key stage 2 in 2015 (the first year for which the academies had results) for primary academies in Stafford constituency was as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rowley Park Primary Academy</p></td><td><p>83%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>John Wheeldon Primary Academy</p></td><td><p>62%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: School Performance Tables</p><p> </p><p>The percentage of pupils achieving 5 or more A*-C GCSEs (or equivalent) including English and maths GCSEs at key stage 4 in 2014 to 2015 of the secondary academies in Stafford constituency was as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Rural Enterprise Academy</p></td><td><p>22%</p></td><td><p>40%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Weston Road Academy</p></td><td><p>55%</p></td><td><p>51%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: School Performance Tables</p><p> </p><p>The Weston Road Academy also has a Sixth Form where 79% of pupils passed at least 3 A-Levels (A*-E) in 2015.</p><p> </p><p>Data for key stage 4 for years before 2014 are not comparable due to reforms to qualifications, notably the removal of many previous equivalent vocational qualifications and counting only the first attempt at a qualification in the performance tables in English Baccalaureate subjects.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 26/05/2016 16:46:31 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

542170

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2016
	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 the average cash balance held by schools in England as a percentage of their annual budget was on 31 March (a) 2015 and (b) 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	43987
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2016 answer text <p>The latest available revenue balances for Local Authority (LA) maintained schools are given in the table below. They are on an accruals rather than cash accounting basis. Equivalent figures for academies are not available as they report on academic years ending 31 August.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Total revenue balance<sup>1</sup> as a % of total revenue income<sup>2</sup> in LA maintained schools</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Date</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2014</p></td><td><p>6.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2015</p></td><td><p>8.2</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Consistent Financial Reporting survey</p><p>1. A school's total revenue balance is calculated from the combination of any unspent allocations and the cumulative balance of income minus expenditure from revenue funding sources during the financial year and any balances carried forward from previous years.</p><p>2. A school's total revenue income for the year includes all revenue funding available in the year as well as any additional income generated by the school. This does not include any revenue balances carried forward from previous years.</p><p> </p><p>These data are published annually, most recently in the Department’s Statistical Release LA and school expenditure: 2014 to 2015 financial year, available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-education-and-childrens-services-spending-2014-to-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-education-and-childrens-services-spending-2014-to-2015</a></p><p> </p><p>Figures for 31 March 2016 will be published in December 2016.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 08/09/2016 13:36:39 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

573422

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2016
	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, whether her Department issues guidance on the proportion of a school's annual budget it considers prudent for a school to hold as a cash balance.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	44117
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>For maintained schools, local authorities have devolved responsibility for their funding and determine locally their balance control mechanisms. For academies, the Trustees determine the appropriate level of reserves that the Trust should hold in accordance with their responsibilities under Charity Law. The Department monitors the overall level of balances across the sector and keeps this under review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 12/09/2016 13:43:03 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

573625

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Veterans
	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 expanding the Troops to Teachers scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	44499
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>The September 2016 cohort of Troops to Teachers is the last to be delivered under the current contract by the University of Brighton. Future options for Service leavers to train as teachers are currently being considered.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 12/09/2016 14:13:52 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

720366

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Erasmus+ Programme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what representations she has made to her EU counterparts on the UK continuing to participate in the Erasmus programme after the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	70364
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>The Department recognises the value of international exchange and collaboration in education, as part of our vision for the UK as a global nation. There may be European programmes in which we might want to participate. We will consider this as part of the negotiation.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 27/04/2017 08:16:36 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

720386

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pension Rights
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to equalise survivors' benefits from the Teachers' Pension Scheme for widowers, civil partners and same sex married couples with those for widows.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	70515
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>There are no plans to review survivors’ benefits from the Teachers’ Pension Scheme. It has been the policy of successive Governments that any changes or improvements to public service pension schemes are not normally applied retrospectively. This policy protects the current membership and taxpayers from having to meet unforeseen additional costs that were not previously taken into account, and to which those who would benefit have not contributed towards.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 24/04/2017 13:57:42 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy