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143389

registered interest
date	07/11/2014
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, pursuant to the Answer of 24 October 2014 to Question 211249, what powers academy trusts have to pre-screen parent director candidates prior to election by parents; and what guidance her Department issues to academy trusts on such pre-screening.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Mr Liam Byrne
uin	213838
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>The model articles set out the arrangements for the election and appointment of parents to be directors of academy trusts. They provide discretion to directors of the trust to determine the terms of reference under which elections and appointments should be undertaken. The Department for Education has set out in the Governors’ Handbook the high professional standards which governors and directors are expected to meet. Academy trusts must ensure that directors are suitable and have the necessary skills and capacity to take on the role.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 17/11/2014 17:31:09 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

143458

registered interest
date	07/11/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what support they provide to local authorities who want to make greater use of school premises for the benefit of the community outside school times.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL2743
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>The Education Act 2002 gives school governing bodies the power to run community services without the need to consult or obtain permission from local authorities. Schools have the freedom to use their estates for community facilities and can provide integrated services such as health services, childcare or adult education and work in partnership with other providers as a resource for the whole community. We do not provide support for local authorities as this is a matter for schools.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 17/11/2014 12:32:56 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

142172

registered interest
date	06/11/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of additional teachers that will be needed in 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	213690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>As estimated by the 2015/16 Teacher Supply Model, English primary schools will require 29,700 qualified teachers to enter the active stock in the 2015/16 academic year. The model also estimates that English secondary schools will require 22,500 qualified teachers to enter the active stock in the 2015/16 academic year.</p><p>This need for teachers will be met through a combination of new trainees, those returning to the profession, and those entering the state-funded sector in England for the first time.</p><p>The Department for Education uses the Teacher Supply Model (TSM) to calculate the optimum number of Initial Teacher Training (ITT) places required to match the future supply of teachers to the estimated demand for qualified teachers within the state-funded sector in England. The National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) uses this information to inform their allocation of ITT places to teacher training providers.</p><p>The estimates for the future demand for teachers use the projected number of pupils in schools, assumed Pupil Teacher Ratios (PTRs), and our best estimates for the number of teachers required to implement the Department’s policy initiatives. The model also takes into account other flows within the existing stock of teachers such as those leaving the profession or retiring as well as those expected to return to teaching in the state-funded sector.</p><p>Whilst the Department estimates future teacher demand, decision-making taken at school level determines the actual number of teachers required. As with any forecast, uncertainty increases the further into the future the estimate is made for.</p><p>The Department has published estimates of teacher demand in part 1 of the TSM, published online at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teacher-supply-model" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/teacher-supply-model</a></p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 11/11/2014 12:40:25 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

142174

registered interest
date	06/11/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Science: Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of additional teachers that will be needed in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17, (c) 2017-18, (d) 2018-19, (e) 2019-20 and (f) 2020-21 in (i) mathematics, (ii) physics and (iii) computer science.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	213691
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>The following table provides estimates for the number of teachers needed in the English state funded-sector in each academic year from 2015/16 to 2020/21 for maths, physics, and computing. This need for teachers will be met through a combination of new trainees, those returning to the profession, and those entering the state-funded sector in England for the first time.</p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016/17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017/18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018/19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019/20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020/21</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Maths</strong></p></td><td><p>3,300</p></td><td><p>3,400</p></td><td><p>3,700</p></td><td><p>3,600</p></td><td><p>3,600</p></td><td><p>3,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Physics</strong></p></td><td><p>1,000</p></td><td><p>1,200</p></td><td><p>1,100</p></td><td><p>1,100</p></td><td><p>1,100</p></td><td><p>1,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Computing</strong></p></td><td><p>900</p></td><td><p>900</p></td><td><p>1,000</p></td><td><p>1,000</p></td><td><p>1,000</p></td><td><p>1,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source: Teacher Supply Model</em></p><p>The Department for Education uses the Teacher Supply Model (TSM) to calculate the optimum number of Initial Teacher Training (ITT) places required to match the future supply of teachers to the estimated demand for qualified teachers within the state-funded sector in England. The National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) use this information to inform their allocation of ITT places to teacher training providers.</p><p>The estimates for the future demand for teachers use the projected number of pupils in schools, assumed Pupil Teacher Ratios (PTRs) and our best estimates for the number of teachers required to implement the Department’s policy initiatives. The model also takes into account other flows within the existing stock of teachers such as those leaving the profession or retiring as well as those expected to return to teaching in the state-funded sector.</p><p>The Department forecasts the need for teacher trainees one year in advance in line with the annual ITT allocation decisions. However, the TSM also forecasts teacher demand over ten years to provide an overview of long term trends.</p><p>Whilst the Department estimates future teacher demand, decision-making taken at school level determines the actual number of teachers required. As with any forecast, uncertainty increases the further into the future the estimate is made for.</p><p>The Department has published estimates of teacher demand in part 1 of the TSM, published online at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teacher-supply-model" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/teacher-supply-model</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 11/11/2014 12:43:23 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

142175

registered interest
date	06/11/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Headteachers: Retirement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many headteachers retired in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12, (d) 2012-13 and (e) 2013-14.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	213692
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>The requested information is not available broken down by the individual grades within the leadership group.</p><p>The following table provides the number of leadership teachers who retired from publicly-funded schools in England by the end of March in the financial years 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13. Information for 2013-14 is not yet available.</p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>Leadership Retirements</strong>[1]</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2009-10</strong>[2]</p></td><td><p>3,280</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p>4,010</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong>[3]</p></td><td><p>3,860</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012-13[</strong>3]</p></td><td><p>3,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source: Database of Teacher Records and Pensioner Statistical System (PENSTATS).</em></p><p>Figures are rounded to the nearest 10 teachers.</p><p>[1] Includes retirements such as Premature, Actuarially Reduced Benefits, Age, and Ill Health of head teachers, deputy heads and assistant heads.<br>[2] Local authority maintained schools.<br>[3] Provisional estimates.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 11/11/2014 12:45:57 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

142177

registered interest
date	06/11/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many entrants to teaching in (a) 2011-12, (b) 2012-13 and (c) 2013-14 were (i) newly qualified entrants, (ii) new to the publicly-funded sector and (iii) returning to the publicly-funded sector.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	213693
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>The information is currently being collated and quality assured, it will be published later this year. A firm date will be announced on the Department for Education’s ‘forthcoming publications’ website shortly.[1]</p><p>[1] <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education/about/statistics#forthcoming-publications" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education/about/statistics#forthcoming-publications</a></p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 11/11/2014 12:39:15 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

142178

registered interest
date	06/11/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many entrants there were to (a) full-time and (b) part-time teaching in (i) 2011-12, (ii) 2012-13 and (iii) 2013-14.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	213694
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>The information is currently being collated and quality assured, it will be published later this year. A firm date will be announced on the Department for Education’s ‘forthcoming publications’ website shortly.[1]</p><p>[1] <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education/about/statistics#forthcoming-publications" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education/about/statistics#forthcoming-publications</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 11/11/2014 12:37:56 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

142599

registered interest
date	06/11/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Lord Nash on 28 July (HL Deb, cols 1416–19), what is the proportion of children receiving free school meals in (1) academies, (2) free schools, and (3) maintained schools.
tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
uin	HL2704
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>Information on the number of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals is published in the ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2014’ Statistical First Release.[1] Table 3b contains the proportion of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals in state-funded schools by phase. Table 3c contains the proportion of pupils eligible and claiming free school meals in each type of academy and free school.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The relevant tables have been placed in the library of the House.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2014" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2014</a></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 17/11/2014 12:34:14 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott

114675

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will issue guidance on the age threshold at which and for what period leaving one or more children alone or in charge of another child at home is an advisory issue, a child protection issue or a criminal offence.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	John Hemming
uin	213460
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>The law is clear that any adult who has responsibility for any child or young person under 16 can be prosecuted for neglect if they leave a child unsupervised “in a manner likely to cause unnecessary suffering or injury to health” (Section 1 Children and Young Persons Act 1933).</p><p> </p><p>There are no plans for the Department for Education to issue guidance. The choice to leave children home alone is left to the parents to decide using their own judgement. The NSPCC produce guidance on this, which sets out the law and when it would become a child protection issue or a criminal offence to leave a child at home alone. The guidance can be found online at:</p><p><a href="http://www.nspcc.org.uk/globalassets/documents/advice-and-info/home-alone-guide-keeping-child-safe.pdf" target="_blank">www.nspcc.org.uk/globalassets/documents/advice-and-info/home-alone-guide-keeping-child-safe.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 17/11/2014 17:33:25 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1483 label Biography information for John Hemming

114680

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Music: Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many secondary schools have at least one trained music teacher; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	213544
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>Published figures show there were an estimated total of 7,300 teachers teaching music in publicly funded secondary schools in England in November 2013, of whom 86.7% held a relevant post A-level qualification in music. These figures are correct to within a margin of plus or minus 1.0% (73 teachers).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This national estimate is based on a large sample of secondary schools. Of the schools in that sample, 86% employed at least one teacher of music (on a headcount basis) with a relevant post A-level qualification in music.[1] The estimate excludes self-employed and peripatetic music teachers who have a contract with the school for less than 28 days.</p><p> </p><p>[1] Relevant post A-level qualification includes: a degree in music, a bachelor of education or a post graduate certificate of education (PGCE) or any other qualification recognised at National Qualification Framework level 4 or level 5 in music. A music teacher whose training was outside one of these routes would not count as having a relevant post A-level qualification.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 17/11/2014 17:11:39 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby