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1130560

registered interest
date	06/06/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Living Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of organisations that hold contracts with his Department pay the National Living Wage.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	261257
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2019 answer text <p>As the National Living Wage is a statutory obligation, the department’s contracts require that all employees of our suppliers who are entitled to it are paid at the relevant rate. It is the responsibility of individual organisations to ensure that they pay the National Living Wage.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 14/06/2019 13:06:45 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1129279

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Social Mobility
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had with the Social Mobility Commission on their State of the Nation 2019 report.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	259284
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>The Chair of the Social Mobility Commission met with ministers and officials across government in preparing the State of the Nation 2019 report. Ahead of its publication, my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education and the Chair met to discuss the report.</p><p>My department welcomes the reports' thorough analysis, which shines a light on where government, businesses and employers can continue raising the bar for everyone living in this country. We will be taking the recommendations seriously.</p><p>We are supportive of the important work that the Social Mobility Commission carries out to promote social mobility across the United Kingdom, which is why my department asked it to launch a £2 million research and evidence fund to identify and spread best practice. The first phase of this is now underway.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 10/06/2019 17:58:29 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1126035

registered interest
date	13/05/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Former Ministers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department has paid to hon. Members under section 4 of the Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991 since 13 July 2016.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	253605
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>Any such payments are published in the department’s audited annual accounts which can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dfe-annual-reports" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dfe-annual-reports</a>.</p><p>The department’s 2018-19 annual accounts are currently due to be laid before Parliament before the summer recess.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 21/05/2019 15:49:58 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1086732

registered interest
date	11/03/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Universities: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions he has had with the universities of Oxford and Cambridge on the implications of the findings of the Sutton Trust report on Access to Advantage for his Department's policies.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	230819
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>Widening access and participation in higher education is a priority for this government. Everyone with the capability to succeed in higher education should have the opportunity to benefit from a university education, regardless of background or where they grew up.</p><p> </p><p>This year, record rates of English 18 year olds, including those from disadvantaged backgrounds, have entered full-time university. However, more could and should be done. That is why in our recent guidance to the Office for Students, we asked them to continue in its efforts to secure greater and faster progress in ensuring that students from disadvantaged and under-represented groups can access and successfully participate in higher education, including at the most selective providers.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, a new transparency condition requires higher education providers to publish application, offer, acceptance, non-continuation and attainment rates by socio-economic background, gender and ethnicity. It will provide greater transparency and help drive fairness on admissions and outcomes.</p><p> </p><p>Prior attainment is a critical factor, and the government has asked higher education providers to take on a more direct role in helping to raise attainment in schools as part of their outreach activity. All providers are expected to help raise attainment and support school improvement, including through school sponsorship and by establishing new state schools.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 19/03/2019 15:46:51 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1063669

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Young People: Unemployment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people aged 16-19 were not in employment, education or training in (a) Ellesmere Port and Neston constituency, (b) Cheshire West and Chester unitary authority and (c) the North West of England in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	222656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2019 answer text <p>Figures for the number of people aged 16-19 not in employment, education or training (NEET) are not available at unitary authority or constituency level.</p><p>The Department for Education’s definitive estimates for young people aged 16-18 NEET in England are published in the National Statistics release ‘Participation in education, training and employment’. This can be found here <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-neet" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-neet</a>. These estimates cannot be disaggregated to lower level geographies.</p><p>The Department for Education also publishes estimates for England and the English regions based on quarterly Labour Force Survey (LFS) data. However, due to sample size limitations in the LFS data, it is not possible to produce reliable estimates at unitary authority or constituency level.</p><p>Local authority level NEET estimates for England are published annually as transparency data from the department’s National Client Caseload Information System (NCCIS). For young people aged 16-17, local authorities are required to monitor the extent to which they are meeting their duty to participate in education or training through the NCCIS and figures for 2016/17 and 2017/18 are provided in the table attached. Prior to 2016/17, young people aged 18 were also tracked by local authorities and figures for 2013/14 to 2015/16 are also provided in the table attached.</p><p>It should also be noted that there is a break in the time series as figures prior to 2016/17 had an adjustment applied to the NEET figures to include those whose activity was not known who were likely to be NEET. Post 2016/17 this adjustment was no longer applied and the NEET figures include all people whose activity was not known (in order to incentivise local authorities to better track their young people); as a result, these figures should be interpreted with caution.</p><p>Estimates for academic year 2017/18 are published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/neet-and-participation-local-authority-figures" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/neet-and-participation-local-authority-figures</a>.</p><p>Data prior to 2018 can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/neet-data-by-local-authority-2012-16-to-18-year-olds-not-in-education-employment-or-training" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/neet-data-by-local-authority-2012-16-to-18-year-olds-not-in-education-employment-or-training</a>.</p><p>Also available are national statistics showing the destinations of pupils after key stage 4 (i.e. year 11, usually aged 16) and key stage 5 (after A levels or other level 3 qualifications, usually aged 18). See <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/destinations-of-ks4-and-ks5-pupils-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/destinations-of-ks4-and-ks5-pupils-2017</a>.</p><p>This release shows the proportion of students staying in education or going into employment or an apprenticeship for at least 2 terms. It also shows the percentage of students who do not sustain their activity and can be used as an approximation for numbers NEET. Time series data by local authority and parliamentary constituency covering destination years 2010/11 to 2016/17 is available as part of the additional and underlying data from the statistics page.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 26/02/2019 15:38:57 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton attachment 1 file name 222656_NCCIS_Estimates_of_NEET_for_Cheshire_and_North_West.pdf title 222656_NCCIS_Estimates_of_NEET_for_Cheshire
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

989593

registered interest
date	17/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Regional Schools Commissioners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools each regional schools commissioner is responsible for.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	180777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>Table 1 below shows the number of schools in each of the Regional Schools Commissioner regions as of October 2018.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1. </strong>Number of schools, including academies, free schools, studio schools and university technical colleges under the responsibility of Regional Schools Commissioners by region.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>RSC Region</p></td><td><p>Number of Schools</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East of England and North East London</p></td><td><p>1137</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands and Humber</p></td><td><p>1239</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lancashire and West Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>841</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North</p></td><td><p>507</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West London and South Central</p></td><td><p>1077</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East and South London</p></td><td><p>1148</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>1184</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>1096</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grand Total</p></td><td><p>8229</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Data correct as of 03/10/2018</p><p>Source: Get Information About Schools: <a href="https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 26/10/2018 12:52:38 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

988804

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Cheshire West and Chester
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teachers were employed in primary schools in each parliamentary constituency in Cheshire West and Chester in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	180230
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2018 answer text <p>The attached table provides information for the full-time equivalent number of teachers and teaching assistants in service in state-funded nursery and primary schools in each parliamentary constituency within Cheshire West and Chester local authority, as well as in England, from November 2010 to November 2017.</p><p>Comparable figures for parliamentary constituency and phase are only available for teaching assistants and teacher numbers from November 2010, when the annual ‘School Workforce Census’ was introduced. [1]</p><p>The figures provided are publicly available in the underlying data files in the publication ‘School Workforce in England’. This is available at the following web link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-workforce" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-workforce</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The parliamentary constituencies provided are those that cover Cheshire West and Chester local authority. The schools in those constituencies that fall under Chester East and Halton local authorities have not been included in the figures.</p><p> </p><p>[1] The previous source was the ‘Form616g’ survey, which was based at local authority level only.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 180231 question first answered 24/10/2018 15:34:58 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 180230_180231_FTE_teachers_primary_Cheshire_West_Chester.xlsx title 180230_180231_FTE_teachers_primary_Cheshire_West_C
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

988805

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Classroom Assistants: Cheshire West and Chester
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teaching assistants were employed in primary schools in each parliamentary constituency in Cheshire West and Chester in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	180231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2018 answer text <p>The attached table provides information for the full-time equivalent number of teachers and teaching assistants in service in state-funded nursery and primary schools in each parliamentary constituency within Cheshire West and Chester local authority, as well as in England, from November 2010 to November 2017.</p><p>Comparable figures for parliamentary constituency and phase are only available for teaching assistants and teacher numbers from November 2010, when the annual ‘School Workforce Census’ was introduced. [1]</p><p>The figures provided are publicly available in the underlying data files in the publication ‘School Workforce in England’. This is available at the following web link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-workforce" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-workforce</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The parliamentary constituencies provided are those that cover Cheshire West and Chester local authority. The schools in those constituencies that fall under Chester East and Halton local authorities have not been included in the figures.</p><p> </p><p>[1] The previous source was the ‘Form616g’ survey, which was based at local authority level only.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 180230 question first answered 24/10/2018 15:34:58 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 180230_180231_FTE_teachers_primary_Cheshire_West_Chester.xlsx title 180230_180231_FTE_teachers_primary_Cheshire_West_C
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

971779

registered interest
date	11/09/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Sick Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of days of sick leave taken by staff in his Department for mental health reasons in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	173653
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2018 answer text <p>The number of working days taken as sick leave for mental health reasons by staff in the department, in each year since 2010, is detailed in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Calendar Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Working days taken as sick leave for mental health reasons</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>4202.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2733.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>3650.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>5136.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>5835.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>4151.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>4607.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>5648.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018 (to 31 Aug)</p></td><td><p>5465.6</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 18/09/2018 16:07:50 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

969513

registered interest
date	07/09/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Complaints
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many complaints have been made to the Education Funding Agency relating to (a) academies and (b) free schools in the last three years; and what proportion of such complaints have been upheld.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	171681
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) and its predecessor body, the Education Funding Agency, handles complaints about open academies and free schools. The ESFA cannot change the decision of an academy or free school about a complaint but will review whether the academy or free school considered the complaint properly, in line with its procedures. Where the ESFA identify a concern, they will ask the academy or free school to reinvestigate the complaint or change its procedures.</p><p> </p><p>From 11 September 2015 to 10 September 2018, the ESFA received 6886 complaints about academies and 347 complaints about free schools. Currently the ESFA's systems require the manual interrogation of records in order to identify the number of upheld complaints.</p><p> </p><p>The ESFA were able to quickly refer many of these complaints back to the complainant, as they had not exhausted fully the academy’s complaint procedures. This is required before the ESFA can become involved.</p><p> </p><p>Published guidance on the ESFA’s remit on handling academy and free school complaints is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/complain-about-an-academy" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/complain-about-an-academy</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 17/09/2018 17:00:09 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders