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65320

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	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans his Department has to increase the number of replies sent electronically to letters from hon. Members.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	203526
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>Information is not available in the form requested. Reports on the performance of Departments in handling correspondence from hon. Members and peers are published by the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General each year and include numbers of letters to which Ministers reply. The report for the calendar year 2013 (Official Report 13 May 2014, 17WS) shows that 16,898 such letters were received by Department for Education Ministers. Most correspondence from hon. Members continues to be received as letters and is replied to in the same format, although Ministers will continue to reply in email form when they consider it appropriate to do so.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 203302 question first answered 07/07/2014 10:12:10 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

65420

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	Arts: Primary Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of primary pupils from each region have engaged with (a) theatre activities, (b) music activities, (c) dance and (d) other arts in each year since 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
uin	203662
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not collect this specific information.</p><p>All primary pupils in maintained schools will participate in drama, music, dance and art and design as part of the national curriculum. In addition, many pupils take part in extra curricula arts activities both inside and outside school.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 203663 question first answered 07/07/2014 16:31:53 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	150 label Biography information for Baroness Harman

65421

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	Arts: Primary Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of primary pupils from (a) disadvantaged backgrounds and (b) non-disadvantaged backgrounds have engaged with (i) theatre activities, (ii) music activities, (iii) dance and (iv) other arts in each year since 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
uin	203663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not collect this specific information.</p><p>All primary pupils in maintained schools will participate in drama, music, dance and art and design as part of the national curriculum. In addition, many pupils take part in extra curricula arts activities both inside and outside school.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 203662 question first answered 07/07/2014 16:31:53 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	150 label Biography information for Baroness Harman

65443

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	Special Educational Needs
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 23 June 2014, Official Report, column 83W, on special educational needs, how many local authorities have provided extra funding to assist schools with a disproportionate number of pupils with special educational needs in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	203833
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is not collected centrally at this level of detail.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 08/07/2014 12:49:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

65444

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	Special Educational Needs
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 23 June 2014, Official Report, column 83W, on special educational needs, how much local authorities have spent on providing extra funding for schools with a disproportionate number of pupils with special educational needs in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	203834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is not collected centrally at this level of detail.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 08/07/2014 12:52:34 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

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

65447

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	Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprentices have been employed by contractors and sub-contractors to his Department in each year since 2010-11; and what proportion such apprentices make up of the workforce of those contractors and sub-contractors.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	203862
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 08/07/2014 15:10:56 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

65448

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	Teachers: Labour Turnover
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the (a) turnover and (b) wastage rate was for (i) full-time and (ii) part-time teachers in each school in the most recent year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Burton
tabling member printed	Andrew Griffiths
uin	203736
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is not available for individual schools.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 07/07/2014 14:51:27 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths

65449

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	Academies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many requests for directions to admit a child to an academy were received by the Education Funding Agency in 2010; and how many such directions were issued.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	203785
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>The Education Funding Agency was created on 1 April 2012. Since then, it has issued four directions to admit to academies. The average time taken to issue these directions was 78 working days. The shortest time was 42 and the longest 142 working days.</p><p>In each case, the EFA encourages academies and local authorities to resolve the matter locally without the need for a formal direction and in most cases this happens. Where a local resolution is not reached, the EFA gathers evidence from the complainant and the academy before issuing its decision.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 203729 question first answered 08/07/2014 15:44:59 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

65450

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	Pupil Exclusions: Staffordshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children were permanently excluded from (a) primary, (b) middle, (c) upper and (d) secondary schools in Staffordshire in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Cannock Chase
tabling member printed	Mr Aidan Burley
uin	203786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>Information on the number of permanent exclusions in each of the last three years is published in the “Permanent and fixed period exclusions from schools in England: 2011 to 2012 academic year” Statistical First Release[1]. Information for 2012/13 will be published on 31 July 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1 in the publication shows the number of permanent exclusions in state-funded primary and secondary schools. This information is not available by middle and upper schools, as such schools are deemed either primary or secondary and are included in those counts.</p><p> </p><p>[1]<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-from-schools-in-england-2011-to-2012-academic-year" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-from-schools-in-england-2011-to-2012-academic-year</a></p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 07/07/2014 14:39:31 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	3937 label Biography information for Mr Aidan Burley