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date	24/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free Schools
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the total budget each year for free schools in academic years 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, and so far in 2013–14; what plans, if any, they have to alter that budget; and, if so, where in the country the highest increases or decreases will occur.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL565
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2014 answer text <p>Capital and revenue spending in 2010-13 are published at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dfe-annual-reports" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dfe-annual-reports</a>. The Department for Education is preparing the 2013-14 annual report and accounts, which will be laid before Parliament at the end of this calendar year before being published.</p><p>We have no current plans to amend the budget in future years.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 03/07/2014 16:00:52 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

63782

registered interest
date	24/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free Schools
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Lord Nash on 14 May (HL Deb, col 1863), that governors are responsible for improving failing free schools, in what ways they will ensure that governors receive adequate support to do so from the Department for Education.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL566
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p>The National College for Teaching and Leadership provides a package of support for Governors, which includes National Leaders of Governance, a development programme for chairs and workshops for governors. These are capacity building interventions to improve governance, including in free schools.</p><p> </p><p>The Governors' Handbook sets out clear expectations for governors, particularly in relation to their core strategic functions.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 30/06/2014 12:34:40 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

62036

registered interest
date	16/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which free schools have been approved in each local education authority area excluding London since 2010; and which such schools are (a) non-denominational and (b) of each religious denomination.
tabling member constituency	Wyre and Preston North
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Wallace
uin	200839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p>There are 174 open free schools in England. Published location information for all these schools is available on the Department for Education's website:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/309965/List_of_open_free_schools_and_free_schools_opening_in_2014_and_beyond_up....xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/309965/List_of_open_free_schools_and_free_schools_opening_in_2014_and_beyond_up....xlsx</a></p><p> </p><p>37 of those schools have a faith designation, of which 20 are in areas other than London and can be found in the table below, along with their religious designation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Name of school </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Local Authority </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Faith Designation </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Al-Madinah School</p></td><td><p>Derby</p></td><td><p>Muslim</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Atherton Community School</p></td><td><p>Wigan</p></td><td><p>Christian</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barrow 1618 Church of England School</p></td><td><p>Shropshire</p></td><td><p>Christian</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Becket Keys Church of England School</p></td><td><p>Essex</p></td><td><p>Christian</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grindon Hall Free School</p></td><td><p>Sunderland</p></td><td><p>Christian</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Khalsa Secondary Academy</p></td><td><p>Buckinghamshire</p></td><td><p>Sikh</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>King's School Hove</p></td><td><p>Brighton and Hove</p></td><td><p>Christian</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Krishna-Avanti Primary School</p></td><td><p>Leicester</p></td><td><p>Hindu</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leeds Jewish Free School</p></td><td><p>Leeds</p></td><td><p>Jewish</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Niskham Free School</p></td><td><p>Birmingham</p></td><td><p>Sikh</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nishkam High School</p></td><td><p>Birmingham</p></td><td><p>Sikh</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Michael's Catholic Secondary School</p></td><td><p>Cornwall</p></td><td><p>Christian</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Anthony's School</p></td><td><p>Gloucestershire</p></td><td><p>Christian</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Mary's Primary School, Dilwyn</p></td><td><p>Herefordshire</p></td><td><p>Christian</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tauheedul Islam Boys' High School</p></td><td><p>Blackburn with Darwen</p></td><td><p>Muslim</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Olive School, Blackburn</p></td><td><p>Blackburn with Darwen</p></td><td><p>Muslim</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Olive Tree Primary School</p></td><td><p>Bolton</p></td><td><p>Muslim</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Trinity School</p></td><td><p>Kent</p></td><td><p>Christian</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tyndale Community School</p></td><td><p>Oxfordshire</p></td><td><p>Christian</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>University Cathedral Free School</p></td><td><p>Cheshire West and Chester</p></td><td><p>Christian</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>26% of mainstream free schools have a faith designation, as opposed to 34% of all state-funded mainstream schools.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 23/06/2014 15:55:33 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace