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registered interest
date	04/11/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Maternity Leave: Discrimination
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the research on maternity discrimination, <i>Pregnancy and Maternity – Related Discrimination and Disadvantage: First Findings</i>, whether they will consider extending the time limit for bringing maternity discrimination claims before an employment tribunal from three to six months.
tabling member printed	Lord Lester of Herne Hill
uin	HL3337
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>The government will await the final report on pregnancy and maternity discrimination and carefully consider any recommendations from the Equality and Human Rights Commission before deciding on next steps.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 16/11/2015 16:42:30 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	2037 label Biography information for Lord Lester of Herne Hill

425898

registered interest
date	03/11/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much funding has been allocated via the academy conversion grant in each of the last five financial years.
tabling member printed	Baroness Pinnock
uin	HL3296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2015 answer text <p>There have been 3,327 converter academies opened during the current and preceding four financial years, each receiving the standard conversion support grant of £25,000 to spend on the conversion process.</p><p>Further details are in the table below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Converter academies opened</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>608</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>573</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>786</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>1,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>3,327</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Figures for 2015-16 are not available at this stage.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 12/11/2015 13:10:10 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4341 label Biography information for Baroness Pinnock

425899

registered interest
date	03/11/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the value of the charges deferred to local authority budgets as a consequence of a school with a deficit joining an Academy Trust with an external sponsor, in each of the last five financial years.
tabling member printed	Baroness Pinnock
uin	HL3297
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not hold this information on local authority budgets.</p><p>It is right that the deficits of sponsored academies remain with their local authority when they convert. These schools were the responsibility of the authority when they were found to be failing or underperforming and it is the authority’s responsibility for ensuring the school managed its expenditure satisfactorily.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 10/11/2015 12:13:59 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4341 label Biography information for Baroness Pinnock

425254

registered interest
date	02/11/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Castes: Discrimination
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 15 July (HL Deb, col 575), whether they will clarify how the judgment in <i>Tirkey v Chandhok</i> has changed the law on caste discrimination.
tabling member printed	Lord Lester of Herne Hill
uin	HL3180
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2015 answer text <p>The judgment suggests there is an existing legal remedy for claims of caste-associated discrimination, under the ‘ethnic origins’ element of Section 9 of the Equality Act 2010.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 10/11/2015 16:19:06 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	2037 label Biography information for Lord Lester of Herne Hill

425255

registered interest
date	02/11/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Castes: Discrimination
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they next plan to consider the case for further consultation on caste discrimination.
tabling member printed	Lord Lester of Herne Hill
uin	HL3181
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2015 answer text <p>We are currently considering the need for a consultation on caste discrimination. This is part of our wider consideration of the implications of the Tirkey v Chandok tribunal judgments.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 12/11/2015 15:51:29 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	2037 label Biography information for Lord Lester of Herne Hill

425259

registered interest
date	02/11/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Playing Fields
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the sale of the playing fields of over 100 schools since 2010 on the physical fitness of young people.
tabling member printed	Lord Lexden
uin	HL3185
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>The Government does not approve the sale of playing fields but assesses applications from schools and local authorities to dispose of them. A disposal can include a lease of the playing fields to a third-party commercial organisation with the fields, following investment and improvement, continuing to be used by the school.</p><p>It is neither the government nor the Department for Education that instigate the disposal of playing fields. It is the local authorities, academies or schools that seek consent to convert these often surplus or un-used fields to enable them to invest in school sport or education. However, there is strict control in place which requires an assessment of the facilities available to pupils. The government will only give permission to dispose of school playing fields if it is clearly demonstrated that they are surplus to requirements and the sports and curriculum needs of the school and its neighbouring schools will continue to be met.</p><p>Since any approved disposal would not impact on the provision of the sports curriculum at the school/s, no follow up studies on the sale of playing fields has been undertaken.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 16/11/2015 16:36:05 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4202 label Biography information for Lord Lexden

425275

registered interest
date	02/11/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Musical Instruments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to improve the availability of musical instruments and instrumental teachers in schools.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley of Knighton
uin	HL3201
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2015 answer text <p>Music education hubs are responsible for making sure that every child aged 5 to 18 in their local area has the opportunity to learn a musical instrument through whole-class ensemble teaching and that clear progression routes in music are available and affordable to all young people. Music education hubs must also provide an instrument loan service to support pupils from families with low incomes.</p><br /><p>According to data published by Arts Council England (ACE), 583,783 pupils learnt to play an instrument at school through whole-class ensemble teaching in the academic year 2013/14, an increase of 52,361 from 2012/13.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 17/11/2015 12:42:00 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4276 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley of Knighton

425292

registered interest
date	02/11/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Grammar Schools: Admissions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of whether children from low socioeconomic status backgrounds with lower 11-plus test scores are more or less likely to be offered grammar school places than children from higher socioeconomic status backgrounds; and what steps they are taking to achieve equality of opportunity in education.
tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
uin	HL3218
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not collect data on the selection test scores of prospective applicants to grammar schools.</p><p>We are committed to ensuring that every child, regardless of their background, has the opportunity to fulfil their potential. The recent report by the Public Accounts Committee on ‘Funding for disadvantaged pupils’ stated that, since the introduction of the pupil premium, the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers has closed by 4.7 percentage points in primary schools and by 1.6 percentage points in secondary schools.</p><p>We continue to invest in our academies and free schools programme, which is already raising standards in areas serving some of our most disadvantaged young people.</p><p>We are also putting high expectations at the heart of our school system, with a rigorous new curriculum, world-class exams, and a new accountability system that rewards schools that encourage every child to achieve their best.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 16/11/2015 16:37:00 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

425293

registered interest
date	02/11/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to tackle, through the education curriculum, the increasing level of hate crimes.
tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
uin	HL3219
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2015 answer text <p>All schools are required to promote the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faith and beliefs. Our guidance published in November 2014 says that British values include accepting that different faiths or beliefs should be tolerated and should not be the cause of prejudicial or discriminatory behaviour. This guidance is attached and can be found online at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/380595/SMSC_Guidance_Maintained_Schools.pdf" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/380595/SMSC_Guidance_Maintained_Schools.pdf</a></p><br /><p>All schools are required to promote community cohesion and teach a broad and balanced curriculum. The curriculum provides many opportunities to foster tolerance and understanding. As part of the History curriculum, pupils can learn about different cultures, and about how different groups have contributed to the development of Britain. The citizenship programme of study sets out a requirement for pupils to be taught about ‘the diverse national, regional, religious, and ethnic identities in the United Kingdom and the need for mutual respect and understanding’. PSHE can teach young people about the rights and responsibilities of living in a diverse community and how to respect others.</p><br /><p>All forms of bullying are unacceptable and all schools are required to have in place a behaviour policy with measures to tackle bullying. Schools are held to account by Ofsted and inspectors will look at records and analysis of bullying, discriminatory and prejudicial behaviour, either directly or indirectly, including racist, disability and homophobic bullying, use of derogatory language and racist incidents.</p><br /><p>We have made it clear to schools that where bullying outside school is reported to school staff, it should be investigated and acted on. If the behaviour could be criminal or poses a serious threat to a member of the public, the police should always be informed.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 17/11/2015 16:16:48 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash attachment 1 file name DfE_Promoting_British_Values_Advice.pdf title DfE_Promoting_British_Values_Advice
tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

424722

registered interest
date	28/10/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Vocational Education: Design
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to take steps to increase the number of vocational pathways in design disciplines, and if so, by how many.
tabling member printed	Lord Freyberg
uin	HL3092
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2015 answer text <p>There are a variety of different options available to young people to enable them to gain the skills required to enter design related occupations. 14-16 year olds can study design related GCSEs and government approved technical awards. 16-19 year olds can study design related A Levels and government approved technical certificates or tech levels, which are supported by employers. Options beyond this include higher education or employment, and there are apprenticeships currently available in the field of design.</p><p /> <p>We want to go further to reform technical and professional education to develop a world-leading system to deliver the skills that the economy needs. The Productivity Plan, published in July 2015, announced the government’s intention to reform technical and professional education to provide individuals with clear, high-quality routes to employment.</p><br /> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 09/11/2015 17:29:14 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	2593 label Biography information for Lord Freyberg