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44028

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how the mathematics teachers recently brought by his Department from Shanghai to England to help raise standards were chosen; who those teachers are; and which schools they came from.
	tabling member constituency	Wigan
	tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
	uin	192916
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2014 answer text <p>We launched the maths teacher exchange between England and China in March 2014. Up to 60 teachers from each country will participate in the exchange which will start in the autumn term of the next academic year. Teachers from Shanghai will be sent to English schools designated as centres of excellence for maths. We are in the process of confirming arrangements, including which teachers and schools will take part. The programme will be managed through our Maths Hubs network which will be in place by September.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 24/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

44498

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how the 60 mathematics teachers brought to the UK from Shanghai for an exchange organised by his Department were chosen.
	tabling member constituency	Wigan
	tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
	uin	193216
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2014 answer text <p>We launched the Maths Teacher exchange between England and China in March 2014. The exchange will start in the next academic year. We are in the process of confirming arrangements, including which teachers from Shanghai will participate.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 31/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

578651

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Secondary Education: Per Capita Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average annual spend per pupil in secondary modern schools was in 2015-16 in (a) England and (b) each region.
	tabling member constituency	Wigan
	tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
	uin	45762
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2016 answer text <p>Schools self-select their own admissions category on Edubase. 120 schools are identified as ‘secondary modern’.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not yet hold the income and expenditure data from 2015-16. The data will be available for those which are maintained by the local authority in December 2016, and for those which are academies in the summer of 2017.</p><p> </p><p>The overall expenditure per pupil in secondary modern schools by each region for 2014-15 is listed in the following table:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of secondary modern schools</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Expenditure per pupil (£)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>6,388</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East of England</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>5,738</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>6,228</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>6,416</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>5,703</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>5,928</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>5,547</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and the Humber</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>6,729</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>England Total</strong></p></td><td><p>117*</p></td><td><p>5,921</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>*Note: There are 3 secondary modern schools for which we do not have comparable financial data for them for this period. One of these converted to an academy during 2014-15, and one was reported as part of a federation with another school. The remaining school did not submit data to the Department. The expenditure per pupil takes into account expenditure from all income sources, including self-generated income.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 21/09/2016 16:44:08 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

578653

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Grammar Schools: Pupil Premium
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of grammar school entrants are in receipt of the pupil premium in (a) England and (b) each region.
	tabling member constituency	Wigan
	tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
	uin	45764
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2016 answer text <p>The proportion of grammar school pupils in receipt of the pupil premium in (a) England and (b) each region are given in the table.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Region</p></td><td><p>Number of grammar schools</p></td><td><p>Proportion of pupils receiving pupil premium</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>12.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East of England</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>5.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>7.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>6.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>57</p></td><td><p>8.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>9.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>10.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and the Humber</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>7.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England Total</p></td><td><p>163</p></td><td><p>8.5%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 16/09/2016 11:50:26 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

578658

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Grammar Schools: Free School Meals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of grammar school entrants were eligible for free school meals in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2014-15 and (c) 2015-16.
	tabling member constituency	Wigan
	tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
	uin	45674
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2016 answer text <p>The number and proportion of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals in selective state-funded secondary schools in England in each of these years is listed in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of Pupils</p></td><td><p>Number of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals</p></td><td><p>Percentage of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14 (data as at January 2014)</p></td><td><p>162,629</p></td><td><p>4,204</p></td><td><p>2.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15 (data as at January 2015)</p></td><td><p>164,149</p></td><td><p>4,163</p></td><td><p>2.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16 (data as at January 2016)</p></td><td><p>166,517</p></td><td><p>4,237</p></td><td><p>2.5%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><ol><li><p>Source: School Census</p></li><li><p>Includes sole and dual main registered pupils</p></li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 21/09/2016 16:41:35 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb previous answer version 11348 answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

578659

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Grammar Schools: Per Capita Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average annual spend per pupil was in grammar schools in each region in 2015-16.
	tabling member constituency	Wigan
	tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
	uin	45672
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2016 answer text <p>Schools self-select their own admissions category on Edubase. 163 schools are identified as ‘selective (grammar).’</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not yet hold the income and expenditure data from 2015-16. The data will be available for those which are maintained by the local authority in December 2016, and for those which are academies in the summer of 2017.</p><p> </p><p>The overall expenditure per pupil in grammar schools by each region for 2014-15 is listed in the following table:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of grammar schools</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Expenditure per pupil (£)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>5,195</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East of England</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>5,644</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>5,683</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>5,392</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>55</p></td><td><p>5,332</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>5,210</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>5,553</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and the Humber</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>5,557</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>England Total</strong></p></td><td><p>158*</p></td><td><p>5,404</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>*Note: There are 5 selective schools which converted to academies during 2014-15 and as such we do not have comparable financial data for them for this period. The expenditure per pupil takes into account expenditure from all income sources, including self-generated income.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 21/09/2016 16:42:21 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb previous answer version 11345 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

62266

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Dominic Cummings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether Dominic Cummings has had any email contact with officials, Ministers or Special Advisers in his Department since he resigned his post as a Special Adviser.
	tabling member constituency	Wigan
	tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
	uin	201075
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p>Mr Cummings is an ex-employee of the Department for Education. It is not uncommon for ex-employees to be in contact with Ministers and the Department. As the Secretary of State for Education explained to the House on Monday 16 June, many people seek to visit and contact the Department for Education to exchange ideas with old friends and colleagues.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 201077 201161 201162 201163 question first answered 23/06/2014 16:39:40 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

62604

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Dominic Cummings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when Dominic Cummings' security pass to the Department of Education was deactivated and withdrawn.
	tabling member constituency	Wigan
	tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
	uin	201169
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p>In line with the practice of successive Administrations, Government does not comment on security matters.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 23/06/2014 16:34:58 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

62605

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Dominic Cummings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when Dominic Cummings last had email contact with officials, Ministers and special advisers in his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Wigan
	tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
	uin	201161
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p>Mr Cummings is an ex-employee of the Department for Education. It is not uncommon for ex-employees to be in contact with Ministers and the Department. As the Secretary of State for Education explained to the House on Monday 16 June, many people seek to visit and contact the Department for Education to exchange ideas with old friends and colleagues.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 201075 201077 201162 201163 question first answered 23/06/2014 16:39:40 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

62606

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Dominic Cummings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will release all email correspondence between officials, Ministers and special advisers in his Department and Dominic Cummings since Mr Cummings left the Department.
	tabling member constituency	Wigan
	tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
	uin	201162
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p>Mr Cummings is an ex-employee of the Department for Education. It is not uncommon for ex-employees to be in contact with Ministers and the Department. As the Secretary of State for Education explained to the House on Monday 16 June, many people seek to visit and contact the Department for Education to exchange ideas with old friends and colleagues.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 201075 201077 201161 201163 question first answered 23/06/2014 16:39:40 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy