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65679

registered interest
date	03/07/2014
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, what plans he has to allow academy trusts to raise capital finance based on the value of school title deeds.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne East
tabling member printed	Mr Nicholas Brown
uin	204028
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>As is the case with all schools, academies receive capital funding through devolved formula capital allocations. Academies also receive capital funding through the Academies Capital Maintenance Fund. Academies are not allowed to borrow and there are strict rules protecting publicly-funded land used by academies, regardless of who holds the freehold. This is set out in guidance, which is published online at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/protection-of-school-playing-fields-and-public-land-advice" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/protection-of-school-playing-fields-and-public-land-advice</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 08/07/2014 15:55:22 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	523 label Biography information for Mr Nicholas Brown

64694

registered interest
date	30/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which organisations collect subscriptions through the employers' payroll service in his Department and its agencies.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne East
tabling member printed	Mr Nicholas Brown
uin	203103
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>The Department is currently consulting on removing its check-off provision.</p><p> </p><p>The following organisations received subscriptions from staff salaries through the Department's payroll provider in May 2014:</p><p> </p><p>Benenden Health</p><p>Birmingham Hospital Saturday Fund</p><p>British Healthcare Association</p><p>Charity for Civil Servants</p><p>Charity Trust</p><p>Civil Service Club</p><p>Civil Service Sports Club</p><p>FDA</p><p>Forester Health</p><p>Give As You Earn</p><p>Health Sure Group</p><p>Hospital Saturday Fund</p><p>HSA Crown Simply Health</p><p>HSA Individual Simply Health</p><p>Leeds Hospital Fund</p><p>Merseyside Health</p><p>PCS</p><p>Prospect</p><p>Westfield Health</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 07/07/2014 10:24:21 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	523 label Biography information for Mr Nicholas Brown

64475

registered interest
date	27/06/2014
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 much has been paid to converter academies towards pre-opening costs since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne East
tabling member printed	Mr Nicholas Brown
uin	202866
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>The total pre-opening costs for converter academies from 2010 to the end of March 2014 are £102 million.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 07/07/2014 15:17:40 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	523 label Biography information for Mr Nicholas Brown

64476

registered interest
date	27/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Land
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what value of land has been transferred from local authorities into the leasehold or freehold ownership of academy trusts since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne East
tabling member printed	Mr Nicholas Brown
uin	202869
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2014 answer text <p>I refer the Rt hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Stockton North on 23 June 2014, Official Report c75W.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 202861 question first answered 03/07/2014 15:52:04 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	523 label Biography information for Mr Nicholas Brown

64477

registered interest
date	27/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Land
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) leaseholds and (b) freeholds have been transferred to academy trusts from local authorities since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne East
tabling member printed	Mr Nicholas Brown
uin	202861
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2014 answer text <p>I refer the Rt hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Stockton North on 23 June 2014, Official Report c75W.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 202869 question first answered 03/07/2014 15:52:04 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	523 label Biography information for Mr Nicholas Brown

49012

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
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, what guidance his Department issues on what criteria schools should use when deciding whether to employ an individual who does not possess a formal teaching qualification as a teacher.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne East
tabling member printed	Mr Nicholas Brown
uin	197035
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not issue guidance prescribing the criteria that schools should use when employing teaching staff.</p><p>The latest school workforce statistics (November 2013) show that the overwhelming majority (96%) of teachers in state-funded schools hold qualified teacher status.</p><p>Headteachers are best-placed to make decisions about the qualifications, skills and experience they need in their teaching staff. They are held to account for those decisions through inspection and the publication of school performance data.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	523 label Biography information for Mr Nicholas Brown

48496

registered interest
date	25/04/2014
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, what proportion of teachers who have qualified in the last 10 years have left the teaching profession within (a) two, (b) five and (c) 10 years; and what steps he is taking to encourage greater teacher retention.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne East
tabling member printed	Mr Nicholas Brown
uin	196509
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>The following table provides the proportion of full and part-time teachers that qualified in the stated year, entered service in the publicly funded sector in England the year after and were no longer in such service two, five and ten years later. It is not known whether the teachers who are recorded as out of service have left service permanently or are teaching in another country or sector of education.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year qualified<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>Newly qualified entrants entering service<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>Year entered service<sup>3</sup></p></td><td><p>Out of service 2 years later</p></td><td><p>Out of service 5 years later</p></td><td><p>Out of service 10 years later<sup>4</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2000</p></td><td><p>17,400</p></td><td><p>2000-01</p></td><td><p>15%</p></td><td><p>27%</p></td><td><p>34%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005</p></td><td><p>26,000</p></td><td><p>2005-06</p></td><td><p>15%</p></td><td><p>22%</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>25,000</p></td><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>14%</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Database of Teacher Records (DTR)</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>1 Calendar year in which the teachers qualified.</p><p> </p><p>2 Teachers in part-time service are under-recorded on the DTR by between 10% and 20% and therefore these figures may be underestimated.</p><p> </p><p>3 Financial year during which the teachers entered service.</p><p> </p><p>4 The length of service may not have been continuous; for example not all of those shown as teaching 10 years after entering service in 1997-98 may have taught continuously for 10 years, some may have taken periods of time outside of the maintained sector.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to making teaching a profession which can attract and retain the very best people. We are taking every possible step to reduce the amount of central prescription and bureaucracy placed on teachers, freeing them up to act as autonomous professionals. And we are giving headteachers more flexibility to recruit, train and retain the best teachers, including through new school-based training programmes and greater pay flexibility which will allow heads to ensure that high-performing teachers are rewarded appropriately.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Teacher vacancy rates continue to remain low and have been around 1% or below (of all teaching posts) since 2000. In November 2013 there were 750 vacancies for full-time permanent teachers in state-funded schools - a rate of 0.2%.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	523 label Biography information for Mr Nicholas Brown

48497

registered interest
date	25/04/2014
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 many people were training for teaching qualifications in each year since 2003.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne East
tabling member printed	Mr Nicholas Brown
uin	196510
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>The initial teacher training (ITT) census provides provisional figures on the number of new entrants who have started, or expect to start, an ITT programme in England in that academic year; for previous years the final figures are included.</p><p>Figures from 2003 to present are publicly available.</p><p>Statistics from May 2010 onwards are available on GOV.UK:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-teacher-training#census-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-teacher-training#census-data</a></p><p> </p><p>Archived statistics are available on the National Archives:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130401151655/http:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130401151655/http:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	523 label Biography information for Mr Nicholas Brown