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506263

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date	08/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Premium: EEA Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many school-aged pupils there are with at least one parent who is a national in another EEA member state in households with a total income within the threshold for pupil premium eligibility.
tabling member constituency	Berwick-upon-Tweed
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne-Marie Trevelyan
uin	32896
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2016 answer text <p>Pupil premium eligibility in 2015/16 is based on whether pupils are known to have been looked after by the local authority; have left care through adoption, a special guardianship, child arrangements or residence order; or if a pupil has been registered as eligible for free school meals at any point in the last 6 years. It is not determined through a household income threshold.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 19/04/2016 14:46:46 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan

506396

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Premium: EEA Nationals
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 15 March 2016 to the hon. Member for St Albans to Question 30490, on pupil premium, if she will estimate the number of children eligible to receive pupil premium funding with at least one non-UK EEA national parent in each year since 2011-12.
tabling member constituency	Berwick-upon-Tweed
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne-Marie Trevelyan
uin	33105
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not collect data on the identity or characteristics of individual pupils’ parents (including details of parental nationality), so cannot offer a meaningful estimate of the number of pupil premium pupils with at least one parent who is a non-UK EEA national.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 19/04/2016 14:47:29 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan

506397

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Admissions
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 17 March 2016 to the hon. Member for St Albans to Question 30489, on schools: admissions, if she will commission research on the effect on additional school places of inward migration from (a) EU and (b) non-EU countries.
tabling member constituency	Berwick-upon-Tweed
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne-Marie Trevelyan
uin	33106
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>As set out in the written response to PQ 30489, supporting local authorities in their responsibility to ensure sufficient school places remains one of this Government’s top priorities. The basic need capital funding we allocate to local authorities to create new school places is based on their own data on school capacity and future pupil forecasts. Any increase in need for places should be reflected in the local authority’s final basic need allocation. We allocate basic need funding three years ahead to give local authorities time to plan and deliver the new places needed in their area.</p><p>The Government has committed to investing £7 billion in new school places up to 2021, which, when added to our investment in the free schools programme, will help to create 600,000 new places.</p><p>Beyond the information already provided to the Department by local authorities, we do not plan to commission further research on the effect of inward migration on the need for school places.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 33107 question first answered 18/04/2016 16:41:11 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan

506398

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Admissions
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 17 March 2016 to the hon. Member for St Albans to Question 30489, on schools: admissions, if she will estimate the number of those new school places which are needed up to 2021 due to immigration from (a) EU and (b) non-EU countries.
tabling member constituency	Berwick-upon-Tweed
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne-Marie Trevelyan
uin	33107
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>As set out in the written response to PQ 30489, supporting local authorities in their responsibility to ensure sufficient school places remains one of this Government’s top priorities. The basic need capital funding we allocate to local authorities to create new school places is based on their own data on school capacity and future pupil forecasts. Any increase in need for places should be reflected in the local authority’s final basic need allocation. We allocate basic need funding three years ahead to give local authorities time to plan and deliver the new places needed in their area.</p><p>The Government has committed to investing £7 billion in new school places up to 2021, which, when added to our investment in the free schools programme, will help to create 600,000 new places.</p><p>Beyond the information already provided to the Department by local authorities, we do not plan to commission further research on the effect of inward migration on the need for school places.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 33106 question first answered 18/04/2016 16:41:11 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan

506399

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Admissions
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 March 2016 to Question 31889, whether local authorities can instruct academy schools to admit children to meet their legal obligation; and whether it is her policy that local authorities will be able to instruct academy schools to admit children to meet their legal obligation under the proposed fully academised system.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	33136
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>Academy schools are their own admission authorities as are maintained voluntary aided and foundation schools. Such schools set their own admission policies and can only change them after consulting local people. Local authorities (LAs) can object to the Schools Adjudicator about an admission policy or a reduction in an admission number but cannot determine how many pupils such schools must admit.</p><p>LAs are able to launch a competition for a new free school and, in certain circumstances, place children through the local fair access protocol or, where a school does not agree to admit a child, seek to direct admission.</p><p>All state-funded schools are required to participate in the local in-year fair access protocol. Protocols allocate places to children who are unplaced by the start of the school year. Legislation also provides local authorities with powers to seek to direct the admission of children to maintained schools for which they are not the admission authority. Academy funding agreements contain similar direction powers.</p><p>Directions can be sought when there is no other school place within a reasonable distance or where a looked after child has been refused a place.</p><p>The Schools Adjudicator decides directions for maintained schools while the Education Funding Agency decides directions for academies on behalf of the Secretary of State.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 18/04/2016 15:42:16 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

506400

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Fire Stations: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether VAT was charged on the purchase of Kingsland Fire Station from the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority.
tabling member constituency	Hackney South and Shoreditch
tabling member printed	Meg Hillier
uin	33233
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>VAT was not charged on the purchase of Kingsland Fire Station, 333 Kingsland Road, London, E8 4DR when it was purchased in October 2015. The site was not VAT elected.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 18/04/2016 15:30:20 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1524 label Biography information for Dame Meg Hillier

506401

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Assets
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what total value of assets has been transferred from local authority control to control by academy schools or combinations of academy schools in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
uin	33171
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2016 answer text <p>The majority of the assets that transfer to academy control on conversion are land and buildings. In the vast majority of conversions the local authority (LA) retains the freehold, and will lease the land and buildings to the academy. No academy can dispose of land without the Secretary of State’s consent and – where they retain the freehold – the LA.</p><p>In accordance with government accounting requirements the Department for Education is obliged to consolidate academy trust’s accounts into our own and record the total value of net assets that academies control; including land and buildings leased from LAs.</p><p>The table below summarises information we hold and have published on the transfer, in accountancy terms, of assets to academies. As the Department for Education has only been required to consolidate academy trust’s accounts into our own from financial year 2012-13, it is not possible to provide individual figures for 2010-11 and 2011-12.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Net assets transferred to EFA on conversion of academy trusts from local authorities.</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Net assets transferred from local authorities (£m)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Academies converting before 1st April 2012</p></td><td><p>13,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Academies converting in 2012-13</p></td><td><p>6,213</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Academies converting in 2013-14</p></td><td><p>3,390</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Academies converting in 2014-15</p></td><td><p>2,707</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>26,210</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 29/04/2016 10:07:26 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

506402

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Out-of-school Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to (a) identify and (b) take action against unregistered schools.
tabling member constituency	Calder Valley
tabling member printed	Craig Whittaker
uin	33205
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>We have been working closely with Ofsted and local authorities to identify unregistered schools, and the Chief Inspector has powers to make unannounced visits to any institution that he suspects is operating unlawfully as an independent school. We have also given Ofsted additional resources so that they can go out to locate and investigate unregistered schools and draw up a programme for inspecting them to collect evidence to support prosecutions.</p><p>Institutions that are suspected of operating as unregistered schools receive a very clear warning from the Department that it is a criminal offence and that they must cease operating immediately.</p><p>To raise awareness, we have published two statements setting how we regulate and intervene in independent schools and details of when we will take legal action against unregistered schools.</p><p>The statements were announced by the Secretary of State on 19 January 2016, as part of a package to protect children from extremism. The announcement, the press release and the statements are available on GOV.UK at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/nicky-morgan-speaks-about-tackling-extremism" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/nicky-morgan-speaks-about-tackling-extremism</a>;</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-drive-to-protect-children-from-spell-of-twisted-ideologies" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-drive-to-protect-children-from-spell-of-twisted-ideologies</a>; and</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/regulating-independent-schools" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/regulating-independent-schools</a></p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 18/04/2016 15:31:28 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	3940 label Biography information for Craig Whittaker

506403

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Dartford
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children in Dartford were taught in schools rated good or outstanding by Ofsted in Dartford for each year between 2005 and 2015.
tabling member constituency	Dartford
tabling member printed	Gareth Johnson
uin	33145
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>Data provided in the table below include children attending all open primary schools, secondary schools, special schools, nurseries and pupil referral units in Dartford parliamentary constituency as at 31 August each year, for which data is available. Data for any years prior to 2009 is not available.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Number of children attending schools in Dartford rated as good or outstanding, 2009 to 2015</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ofsted school inspections as at 31 August</p></td><td><p>Number of pupils attending schools rated as good or outstanding[1]</p></td><td><p>Total number of pupils</p></td><td><p>Percentage of pupils attending schools rated as good or outstanding</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>8,573</p></td><td><p>13,549</p></td><td><p>63%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>8,786</p></td><td><p>15,834</p></td><td><p>55%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>9,177</p></td><td><p>16,439</p></td><td><p>56%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>8,816</p></td><td><p>15,637</p></td><td><p>56%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>13,465</p></td><td><p>18,060</p></td><td><p>75%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>15,402</p></td><td><p>17,851</p></td><td><p>86%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>15,908</p></td><td><p>17,858</p></td><td><p>89%</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Source: Ofsted School Inspection data</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>[1] Data is based on the most recent section 5 (including section 8 deemed 5) Ofsted inspection of all open schools (primary, secondary, special, nursery and pupil referral units) as at 31 August from 2009 to 2015</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 18/04/2016 15:41:34 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	3970 label Biography information for Gareth Johnson

506404

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Dartford
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 to increase the numbers of primary and secondary school places in Dartford.
tabling member constituency	Dartford
tabling member printed	Gareth Johnson
uin	33142
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>Supporting local authorities to ensure sufficient school places in their area is one of this Government’s top priorities. That’s why we’ve committed to investing £7 billion in new school places up to 2021, which along with our investment in the free schools programme we expect to deliver 600,000 new places.</p><p>Kent County Council, which is responsible for school places in Dartford, received £115 million in basic need funding between 2011 and 2015, helping to create nearly 17,000 new places between 2010 and 2015. Of these, around 8,700 were primary places and around 8,200 were secondary. Kent has also been allocated £144 million to create the additional places required by September 2019.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 18/04/2016 15:31:58 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	3970 label Biography information for Gareth Johnson