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166545

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
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 modelling her Department has undertaken of the impact of recent changes in (a) pay levels, (b) pension contributions and (c) national insurance contributions on the supply of teachers.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	216272
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <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 of Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) use this information to inform their allocation of ITT places to teacher training providers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department does not include pension and National Insurance contribution as factors in econometric forecasts of numbers who will leave the profession; however we do use average relative pay.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Whilst the Department estimates future teacher demand at a national level, decision-making taken at school level determines the actual number of teachers required. In addition, the reforms to teachers’ pay that were introduced from September 2013 have given schools greater freedom to develop local reward packages which enable them to attract and retain the good teachers they need.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department has published the TSM online, along with an outline of the wastage forecast methodology. This is available through the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teacher-supply-model" target="_blank">https://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 02/12/2014 12:29:47 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

166546

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
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, what steps she is taking to ease the pressure of rising birth rates on schools.
tabling member constituency	Beckenham
tabling member printed	Bob Stewart
uin	216302
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for planning and securing sufficient school places in their area. Supporting local authorities to create school places where they are needed most is one of the Department for Education’s main priorities. That is why we have committed £5 billion in capital funding between 2011 and 2015 to help local authorities to create new school places. In addition we have announced an additional £2.35 billion in capital funding to help create new school places that will be needed by September 2017.</p><p> </p><p>This support has already enabled local authorities to create 260,000 additional pupil places between May 2010 and May 2013, including 212,000 primary places, with more in the pipeline for September 2015. We have also stripped out bureaucracy to make it easier for schools to expand to offer more places, if they so wish.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 04/12/2014 15:46:11 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	3919 label Biography information for Bob Stewart

166547

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Guardianship Orders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many special guardianship orders have been granted in each year since their inception.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	216338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education collect annual figures from local authorities of the number of children who leave care under a Special Guardianship Order. Special Guardianship was introduced as a new permanence option for children that offered greater security than foster care, but without the absolute legal severance from their birth family. Overall, it is good news that thousands of additional children are now living in a permanent family as a result of more SGOs being used.</p><p>The table below shows these figures since 2007 when SGOs first started to be made.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Looked After Children who</p><p>leave care under an SGO***</p></td><td><p>Overall number of children</p><p>who have an SGO[1]</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>750</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>1,130</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>1,240</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>1,280</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>1,780</p></td><td><p>2,980</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2,150</p></td><td><p>4,074</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2,770</p></td><td><p>4,911</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>3,330</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>***NB – rounded to the nearest 10</p><p>The Department for Education Statistical First Release on ‘Children looked after in England, including adoption’ contains data for the last 5 years. Figures quoted cover financial years 1<sup>st</sup> April – 31<sup>st</sup> March [2].</p><p> </p><p>[1] The Ministry of Justice collect information of all children with a Special Guardianship Order, only figures for the last 3 years are available. Figures quoted cover calendar years – 1<sup>st</sup> January – 31<sup>st</sup> December.</p><p>[2] <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption--2" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption--2</a></p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 02/12/2014 17:18:42 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

166283

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Catering
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department has spent on catering and hospitality since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	216184
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2014 answer text <p>Detailed information in the form requested is not held centrally and could be compiled only at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 03/12/2014 17:58:30 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

166284

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Members
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason there is a 15-day turnaround period for her private office to respond to urgent requests from hon. Members for a meeting with her.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	216224
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2014 answer text <p>There is no fifteen day turnaround period when handling requests for meetings. Under normal circumstances, urgent requests from hon. Members for a meeting with the Secretary of State are dealt with in a timely manner.</p><p> </p><p>In this instance, the hon. Member’s office contacted the Department’s National Helpline but was not put through to the Secretary of State’s Private Office.</p><p>Officials have apologised to the hon. Member’s office for this, and for the delay that resulted, and officials have assured me that it will not happen again.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 01/12/2014 16:46:03 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

166285

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Sixth Form Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) schools and (b) academies have established sixth forms since January 2014; and how much (i) revenue and (ii) capital funding has been allocated to those sixth forms.
tabling member constituency	Luton North
tabling member printed	Kelvin Hopkins
uin	216125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2014 answer text <p>In the academic year 2014/15, there were two maintained schools and 29 academies that established a new sixth form. The total revenue funding allocated to these sixth forms in 2014/15 was £11.4 million and the total capital funding identified for these sixth forms was £16.6 million.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 01/12/2014 15:32:42 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	2 label Biography information for Kelvin Hopkins

166286

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
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, how much (a) start-up, (b) revenue and (c) capital funding has been allocated to 16 to 19 academies and free schools that have opened since January 2014.
tabling member constituency	Luton North
tabling member printed	Kelvin Hopkins
uin	216126
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education has provided £6.7 million in revenue funding to 16-19 academies that opened since January 2014. This figure includes £1.6 million in start-up funding. All of the 16-19 academies that opened since January 2014 are free schools.</p><p> </p><p>The Department publishes details of capital funding allocated to free schools once contracts for site acquisition and renovation are finalised and once the cost of the project is no longer commercially sensitive. None of the schools opened since January 2014 is at this stage, so the data is not yet published. Once available, details of capital funding for free schools is published at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-funding-for-open-free-schools" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-funding-for-open-free-schools</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 01/12/2014 15:30:45 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	2 label Biography information for Kelvin Hopkins

166287

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Sixth Form Colleges: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much extra funding, over and above that provided to school sixth forms, her Department provides to sixth form colleges to cover their VAT costs.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Dr Julian Huppert
uin	216159
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not cover the VAT costs of sixth form colleges. To do this in full would cost around £30 million each year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 01/12/2014 15:29:54 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	3931 label Biography information for Dr Julian Huppert

166289

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Radicalism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions she has had with the Welsh Government Minister for Education on tackling extremism and radicalisation in schools; and whether she plans to meet her counterparts in the devolved administrations to discuss tackling extremism and radicalisation.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	216024
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2014 answer text <p>My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, has not discussed extremism and radicalisation with the Minister for Education in the Welsh Government. Officials from the Department for Education have, however, met their counterparts in the Welsh Government to discuss matters of common interest relating to extremism and will continue to do so as necessary.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 01/12/2014 15:36:07 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

166290

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Bullying
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that all teachers receive training in how to recognise and deal with bullying in schools; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
uin	216017
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2014 answer text <p>All bullying is insidious and there can be no place for it in our schools. In recognition of this, the Government is funding a number of initiatives to help schools tackle bullying. The Department for Education is currently providing £4million to anti-bullying organisations to help tackle bullying in schools and, in conjunction with the Government Equalities Office, we recently announced a new £2million fund to support projects which specifically tackle homophobic bullying. We have also produced case studies and advice to help schools understand how best to identify and prevent bullying, and support children who are being bullied.</p><p> </p><p>Teachers play a critical role in tackling bullying, and ensuring the safety of their pupils. The Teachers’ Standards, which must be met by all those awarded qualified teacher status (QTS), and which inform teachers’ annual appraisals, require teachers to “establish a safe and stimulating environment for students, rooted in mutual respect”. Teachers must also “manage behaviour effectively to ensure a good and safe learning environment”. Providers of initial teacher training, headteachers and teachers themselves are best placed to determine the types of training and development that will help teachers to meet the standards, responding to their particular local circumstances.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 03/12/2014 18:00:13 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight