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448630

registered interest
date	28/01/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: 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 relevant per pupil outturn expenditure on Education Services Grant-supported activities for the highest, median and lowest spending local authorities was for the 2014-15 financial year; and if she will publish the same statistics for planned expenditure for the 2015-16 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	24681
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2016 answer text <p>The Education Services Grant (ESG) is unringfenced and local authorities therefore have complete discretion on how to spend this funding. The Department for Education has previously set out a list of activities that the grant is intended to fund, which can be found online here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/335723/ESG_AnnexA_reformatted.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/335723/ESG_AnnexA_reformatted.pdf</a></p><p>Local authorities report their planned expenditure on the related budget lines through their section 251 returns and the data from these returns are published online. The data for 2014-15 can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-authority-benchmarking-tables-2014-to-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-authority-benchmarking-tables-2014-to-2015</a> and the data for 2015-16 can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/section-251-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/section-251-2015-to-2016</a></p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 04/02/2016 11:38:33 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

448631

registered interest
date	28/01/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Carers: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will consider including young adult carers in the vulnerable bursary criteria for the 16 to 19 Bursary Fund.
tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	24834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2016 answer text <p>The Government recognises the extremely valuable service that young carers provide to their community as well as to their families.</p><p>Additional disadvantage funding is given to schools and colleges through Block 1 and 2 funding to provide extra educational and pastoral support for students whose education has fallen behind for any reason, such as having caring responsibilities.</p><p>The 16 to 19 vulnerable bursary targets specific groups of vulnerable young people whom we know experience financial hardship and we have no plans to change the qualifying criteria.</p><p>The 16 to 19 discretionary bursary is available to support any student who needs financial assistance to stay in education and we will strengthen the guidance provided to the schools and colleges that administer discretionary bursary funds to ensure the needs of young carers are recognised.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 04/02/2016 11:32:29 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

448632

registered interest
date	28/01/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Ofsted: Consultants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people were hired by Ofsted on a consultancy basis in 2015; and what the overall cost was of their employment.
tabling member constituency	Southport
tabling member printed	John Pugh
uin	24820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2016 answer text <p>These are matters for Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw. I have asked him to write to you and a copy of his reply will be placed in the House Libraries.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 24821 24822 question first answered 03/02/2016 16:33:50 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1454 label Biography information for John Pugh

448633

registered interest
date	28/01/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Ofsted: Temporary Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people were employed by Ofsted on short-term contracts in 2015.
tabling member constituency	Southport
tabling member printed	John Pugh
uin	24821
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2016 answer text <p>These are matters for Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw. I have asked him to write to you and a copy of his reply will be placed in the House Libraries.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 24820 24822 question first answered 03/02/2016 16:33:50 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1454 label Biography information for John Pugh

448634

registered interest
date	28/01/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Ofsted: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many permanent employees Ofsted has; and how many such employees receive salaries in excess of £100,000 per annum.
tabling member constituency	Southport
tabling member printed	John Pugh
uin	24822
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2016 answer text <p>These are matters for Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw. I have asked him to write to you and a copy of his reply will be placed in the House Libraries.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 24820 24821 question first answered 03/02/2016 16:33:50 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1454 label Biography information for John Pugh

448635

registered interest
date	28/01/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Governing Bodies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many multi-academy trusts do not have local governing bodies with powers comparable to those of maintained schools.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	24781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2016 answer text <p>In a Multi-Academy Trust (MAT), individual academies do not have a separate legal identity and are all under the control of the trust board. Whether the trust board establishes local governing boards for each academy is a matter for the trust board to determine. In all cases the trust board remains accountable for all academies in the MAT.</p><p>The Academies Financial Handbook[1] sets out that academy trusts must publish on their websites up-to-date details of their governance arrangements in a readily accessible form. Trusts must also publish the names of their members and trustees, and the membership of any committees, in their annual financial statements, a copy of which is sent to the Education Funding Agency and filed with the Companies Registrar. Trusts are also required to inform EFA of the names of their chair of trustees, accounting officer and chief financial officer.</p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/academies-financial-handbook-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/academies-financial-handbook-2015</a></p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 05/02/2016 13:42:02 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

448636

registered interest
date	28/01/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Governing Bodies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on multi-academy trust governance arrangements.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	24786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2016 answer text <p>As at 1 February 2016 there are 2902 academy trusts. Of these, 951 are Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) and 1951 are Single Academy Trusts.</p><p>The Academies Financial Handbook[1] sets out that academy trusts must publish on their websites up-to-date details of their governance arrangements in a readily accessible form. Trusts must also publish the names of their members and trustees, and the membership of any committees, in their annual financial statements, a copy of which is sent to the Education Funding Agency and filed with the Companies Registrar. Trusts are also required to inform EFA of the names of their chair of trustees, accounting officer and chief financial officer.</p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/academies-financial-handbook-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/academies-financial-handbook-2015</a></p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 05/02/2016 14:24:17 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

448717

registered interest
date	28/01/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
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 extend the mental health and schools link pilot scheme to post-16 further education establishments.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	24763
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2016 answer text <p>The Department will make a decision on how to build on the outcome of the pilot once the training workshops have been delivered and the evaluation has been completed. This pilot is currently running in 27 Clinical Commissioning Group areas.</p><p>Officials are working with the Association of Colleges to ensure that effective links are being made between the pilot areas and their local colleges, so that they are involved in the development of shared protocols and longer term planning for the provision of children’s mental health services.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 05/02/2016 14:23:22 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

448271

registered interest
date	27/01/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Obesity: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps are being taken in primary schools to address obesity.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	24437
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2016 answer text <p>A number of measures are already helping to address obesity in primary schools in England. The Government has committed over £600 million per year to funding free school meals for all pupils in reception, year 1 and year 2, providing nutritious meals every day and helping to form good eating habits early. The School Food Standards, introduced in 2015, ensure that healthy food is provided throughout the school day and severely restrict fat and sugar. We will continue to invest £150 million per year until 2020 to improve the quality of PE and sport in primary schools. PE is compulsory at all four key stages in the national curriculum for maintained schools.</p><p>The Government will launch its childhood obesity strategy shortly. It will look at everything that contributes to a child becoming overweight and obese. It will also set out what more can be done by all sides, including schools.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 04/02/2016 11:29:02 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

448272

registered interest
date	27/01/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	STEM Subjects: Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government is taking to work with schools and teacher training providers to (a) increase the number of science and mathematics teachers and (b) to ensure that such teachers work in the schools where they are most needed.
tabling member constituency	Bolton West
tabling member printed	Chris Green
uin	24398
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2016 answer text <p>We recognise that increasing the number of science and mathematics teachers, particularly in some parts of the country, given the career choices available to graduates of these subjects is a challenge. We are taking a number of steps to increase their numbers further.</p><p>We are implementing a package of up to £67 million to transform mathematics and physics teaching in England. This will provide subject knowledge training to 15,000 non-specialist serving teachers and recruit up to 2,500 additional mathematics and physics teachers. The package includes programmes to encourage the brightest A level students and undergraduates into teaching; salaried part-time and abridged courses for career changers; a salaried route for post-doctoral maths and physics researchers; and support for qualified teachers wishing to return to the profession.</p><p>We have increased bursaries for science and mathematics trainee teachers; including £30,000 for physics trainees with first-class degrees. We are also offering prestigious scholarships, worth up to £30,000 for physics, and £25,000 for mathematics, chemistry and computing trainees, in partnership with the professional bodies for these subjects.</p><p>Through the School Direct route, which is specifically targeted at career changers and allows them to earn a salary whilst they train to teach, we are providing enhanced grant funding of £25,000 (up to £29,900 in inner London) to schools that pay the trainee an enhanced salary of at least £21,000 (£25,000 in inner London).</p><p>Our marketing campaign, Your Future | Their Future, includes targeted subject specific science and mathematics advertising through a range of media. Those who wish to teach secondary science or mathematics are eligible for our enhanced Premier Plus service, which provides support from a dedicated adviser to guide them through the application process. Those applicants who would benefit from it can also access funded courses to boost or refresh their subject knowledge to a level that will allow them to teach the subject.</p><p>To ensure that these teachers work in the schools where they are most needed, we have expanded school-led initial teacher training (ITT) by introducing School Direct and accrediting more school-centred initial teacher training providers. School-led ITT gives schools the leading role in responding to recruitment needs in their local area, including for science and mathematics teachers. We have also supported the growth of Teach First, a prestigious teacher training route which places trainees in some of the most deprived and challenging areas of the country. As a result of these reforms, 2015/16 is the first year in which more than half of postgraduate ITT is school-led, with 51% of trainees on a school-led route.</p><p>The National College for Teaching and Leadership has also recently changed its approach to allocating ITT places, giving individual schools and universities the freedom to recruit as many science and mathematics trainees as they need, up to the national target for each subject.</p><p>We have also recently launched the National Teaching Service (NTS). This will help schools that are finding it difficult to retain and recruit the teachers they need, such as in rural, coastal or deprived areas. We will first test aspects of the model through a pilot of 100 NTS teachers/middle leaders starting in secondary and primary schools in the North West from September 2016. Thereafter the national programme will be rolled out to other parts of the country so that by 2020 there will be 1,500 outstanding NTS teachers and middle leaders in schools that need them.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 04/02/2016 09:14:02 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4398 label Biography information for Chris Green