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106426

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Primary Education: Free School Meals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential costs and benefits of the introduction of universal infant free school meals in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	213397
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education is responsible for the introduction of the requirement that state-funded schools in England should offer universal infant free school meals, which came into effect on 1 September 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Between 2009 and 2011 the Department for Education and the Department of Health piloted the provision of universal free school meals in Durham and Newham. The independent evaluation of those pilots showed that there were a number of benefits arising from the provision of universal free school meals, including improved attainment, healthier eating habits and increases in the uptake of meals among children who would have been eligible for free school meals under the existing criteria. We also know, from research carried out by the School Food Trust (now Children’s Food Trust), that universal infant free school meals will save families who previously paid for school lunches up to £400 a year per infant child.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has used School Food Trust research into the costs of school meal provision, as well as feedback from local authorities and stakeholders, to inform the allocation of funding for this policy and the targeting of implementation support. In particular, this research informed the decision to allocate £2.30 of revenue funding per meal taken by newly eligible pupils.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 10/11/2014 17:27:32 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

106275

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Priority School Building Programme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools in each region and constituent part of the UK are on the Priority School Building Programme.
	tabling member constituency	Leyton and Wanstead
	tabling member printed	John Cryer
	uin	213309
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2014 answer text <p>The Priority School Building Programme (PSBP) is a centrally managed programme set up to address the needs of the schools most in need of urgent repair. Through the programme, 261 schools will be rebuilt or have their condition needs met by the Education Funding Agency (EFA).</p><p>The first school opened in May 2014 and all schools within the programme will be delivered by the end of 2017, two years earlier than originally announced.</p><p>A full list of the schools in the programme, by region, is published online at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/276240/psbp_-_schools_prioritised_for_the_programme.pdf" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/276240/psbp_-_schools_prioritised_for_the_programme.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 06/11/2014 16:19:28 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	181 label Biography information for Lord Cryer

106271

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many staff members in all open free schools were paid a salary for their work with that school before its opening; and how much has been paid to such staff in total.
	tabling member constituency	Leyton and Wanstead
	tabling member printed	John Cryer
	uin	213342
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>Once an application to establish a free school, university technical college or studio school has received initial approval to proceed to the pre-opening stage, the Department for Education provides a grant to the proposer group to help cover essential non-capital costs, including appropriate salary costs, up to the point at which the school opens. The rates at which these grants are paid are published in the department’s guidance for free school proposer groups (at paragraph 6.11 on page 38), which is published online at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/free-school-pre-opening-guide" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/free-school-pre-opening-guide</a></p><p> </p><p>Information about how many staff were paid a salary before a particular school opened, how much was paid to staff in total, which groups made such payments and how long salaries were paid before opening is not collected centrally. However, all academy trusts, including free school trusts, are required to comply with company and charity law regarding the preparation of financial statements. Where the trust has a signed funding agreement with the Department for Education, the financial statement must comply with the Academies Accounts Direction. This direction sets out the requirements relating to financial statements, including details of expected staffing disclosures.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 213343 213344 question first answered 11/11/2014 16:02:49 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	181 label Biography information for Lord Cryer

106273

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the maximum amount of time is that a salary has been paid to a staff member of a free school before that school opened.
	tabling member constituency	Leyton and Wanstead
	tabling member printed	John Cryer
	uin	213344
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>Once an application to establish a free school, university technical college or studio school has received initial approval to proceed to the pre-opening stage, the Department for Education provides a grant to the proposer group to help cover essential non-capital costs, including appropriate salary costs, up to the point at which the school opens. The rates at which these grants are paid are published in the department’s guidance for free school proposer groups (at paragraph 6.11 on page 38), which is published online at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/free-school-pre-opening-guide" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/free-school-pre-opening-guide</a></p><p> </p><p>Information about how many staff were paid a salary before a particular school opened, how much was paid to staff in total, which groups made such payments and how long salaries were paid before opening is not collected centrally. However, all academy trusts, including free school trusts, are required to comply with company and charity law regarding the preparation of financial statements. Where the trust has a signed funding agreement with the Department for Education, the financial statement must comply with the Academies Accounts Direction. This direction sets out the requirements relating to financial statements, including details of expected staffing disclosures.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 213342 213343 question first answered 11/11/2014 16:02:49 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	181 label Biography information for Lord Cryer

106272

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which free schools have paid how many staff members a salary for their work at that school before its opening; and how much has been spent in total on salaries for such staff.
	tabling member constituency	Leyton and Wanstead
	tabling member printed	John Cryer
	uin	213343
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>Once an application to establish a free school, university technical college or studio school has received initial approval to proceed to the pre-opening stage, the Department for Education provides a grant to the proposer group to help cover essential non-capital costs, including appropriate salary costs, up to the point at which the school opens. The rates at which these grants are paid are published in the department’s guidance for free school proposer groups (at paragraph 6.11 on page 38), which is published online at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/free-school-pre-opening-guide" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/free-school-pre-opening-guide</a></p><p> </p><p>Information about how many staff were paid a salary before a particular school opened, how much was paid to staff in total, which groups made such payments and how long salaries were paid before opening is not collected centrally. However, all academy trusts, including free school trusts, are required to comply with company and charity law regarding the preparation of financial statements. Where the trust has a signed funding agreement with the Department for Education, the financial statement must comply with the Academies Accounts Direction. This direction sets out the requirements relating to financial statements, including details of expected staffing disclosures.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 213342 213344 question first answered 11/11/2014 16:02:49 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	181 label Biography information for Lord Cryer

106274

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Priority School Building Programme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which schools in each region and constituent part of the UK have had construction work (a) started and (b) completed in the Priority School Building Programme.
	tabling member constituency	Leyton and Wanstead
	tabling member printed	John Cryer
	uin	213345
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>The Priority School Building Programme (PSBP) is a centrally managed programme set up to address the needs of the schools most in need of urgent repair. Through the programme, 261 schools will be rebuilt or have their condition needs met by the Education Funding Agency (EFA).</p><p>The following school buildings have been handed over:</p><ol><li>Durham Trinity School and Sports College, Durham</li><li>Fountaindale School, Nottinghamshire</li><li>Garston Manor School, Hertfordshire</li><li>Hill Top School, Gateshead</li><li>Ian Ramsey C of E Aided Comprehensive School, Stockton-on-Tees</li><li>Lees Brook Community School, Derby</li><li>Mill Green School, St. Helen’s</li><li>St Thomas More Catholic Primary School, Coventry</li><li>Stratford School Academy, Newham</li><li>The Cedar School, Southampton</li><li>Usworth Grange Primary School, Sunderland</li><li>West Cornforth Primary School, Durham</li><li>Whitmore Park Primary School, Coventry</li><li>Wyken Croft Primary School, Coventry</li></ol><p>Construction work is continuing at a number of the above schools to demolish the old dilapidated buildings.</p><p>As of 13 October, construction work was ongoing at the following 54 schools:</p><ol><li>Alice Stevens School, Coventry</li><li>Bank View High School (with Redbridge High School), Liverpool</li><li>Barnard Grove Primary School, Hartlepool</li><li>Camberwell Park Specialist Support School, Manchester</li><li>Collegiate High School, Blackpool</li><li>Durham Trinity School and Sports College, Durham</li><li>Ernesford Grange Community School, Coventry</li><li>Flowery Field Primary School, Tameside</li><li>Forest Lodge Primary School, Leicester</li><li>Fountaindale School, Nottinghamshire</li><li>Fox Hill Primary, Sheffield</li><li>Foxfield School, Wirral</li><li>Garston Manor School, Hertfordshire</li><li>Goole High School, East Riding of Yorkshire</li><li>Grangefield School, Stockton-on-Tees</li><li>Hallmoor School, Birmingham</li><li>Handale Primary School, Redcar and Cleveland</li><li>Harris Academy Greenwich, Greenwich</li><li>Haytor View Community Primary School, Devon</li><li>Highfurlong School, Blackpool</li><li>Hill Top School, Gateshead</li><li>Holy Trinity C of E Primary School, Hartlepool</li><li>Ian Ramsey C of E Aided Comprehensive School, Stockton-on-Tees</li><li>King James I Academy Bishop Aucklandm, Durham</li><li>Laleham Gap School, Kent</li><li>Lawford Mead Primary (replaces Lawford Mead Infant and Lawford Mead Junior Schools), Essex</li><li>Lees Brook Community School, Derby</li><li>Manor College of Technology, Hartlepool</li><li>Mill Green School, St. Helens</li><li>Montacute School, Poole</li><li>North Cambridge Academy, Cambridgeshire</li><li>Pardes House Primary School, Barnet</li><li>Prince Edward Primary School, Sheffield</li><li>Redbridge High School (with Bank View High School), Liverpool</li><li>Reigate Primary School, Derby</li><li>Richard Lee Primary School, Coventry</li><li>Smarden Primary School, Kent</li><li>St Anthony's Catholic Girls' Academy, Sunderland</li><li>St John's Church School, Peterborough</li><li>St Michael's Catholic Academy, Stockton-on-Tees</li><li>St Thomas More Catholic Primary School, Coventry</li><li>Stratford School Academy, Newham</li><li>Suffolk New Academy, Suffolk</li><li>The Canterbury Primary School, Kent</li><li>The Cedar School, Southampton</li><li>The Edith Borthwick School, Essex</li><li>The Grove Primary School, Devon</li><li>The Highfield School, Hertfordshire</li><li>Thomas Gainsborough School, Suffolk</li><li>Usworth Grange Primary School, Sunderland</li><li>West Cornforth Primary School, Durham</li><li>Whitmore Park Primary School, Coventry</li><li>Wyken Croft Primary School, Coventry</li><li>Wyvern College, Wiltshire</li></ol> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 10/11/2014 17:04:07 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	181 label Biography information for Lord Cryer

106264

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: Attendance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will review The Education (Pupil Registration) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 in accordance with the families test as recently announced by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
	tabling member printed	John Hemming
	uin	213252
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>The Education Act 1996 places a duty on the parents of any child of compulsory school age who is registered at a school, to ensure their child’s regular attendance. The Education (Pupil Registration) (England) Regulation 2006 and subsequent amendments provide the basis upon which schools record pupil attendance. It ensures that both parents and the school know the whereabouts of pupils and are held to account for fulfilling their duty towards those pupils.</p><p> </p><p>This is not new Government policy and it has been the result of considerable deliberation and scrutiny. The Department for Education does not intend to review the application of the 2013 Regulations in light of the announcement made by my Rt hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions regarding the families test.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 10/11/2014 16:28:40 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1483 label Biography information for John Hemming

106149

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: Migrants
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they will take to address the concerns of HM Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills, Sir Michael Wilshaw, that schools "faced with an influx of children from other countries" need to be given "the resources and capacity to deal with it".
	tabling member printed	Lord Quirk
	uin	HL2621
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>As part of our plan for education the Government is ensuring that local authorities have the resources and flexibility to provide the school places needed by their communities.</p><p>We are giving councils £5 billion to spend on new school places over the course of this parliament and have announced a further £2.35 billion to create the places needed by September 2017. This has already enabled local authorities to create 260,000 additional pupil places between May 2010 and May 2013, with many more in the pipeline for September 2015.</p><p>Funding for the day-to-day running of a school is based primarily on the number of pupils in the school. Local authorities are able to allocate additional funding for pupils with particular needs – including pupils for whom English is not their first language.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 10/11/2014 17:40:31 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
	tabling member	3254 label Biography information for Lord Quirk

106148

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Ofsted
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether further consideration is being given to extending Ofsted’s remit to cover all state-funded schools; and if not, why not.
	tabling member printed	Lord Quirk
	uin	HL2620
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>As set out in section 5(2) of the Education Act 2005 (as amended) all state-funded schools are subject to inspection by Ofsted. This includes all community, foundation and voluntary schools, community and foundation special schools, pupil referral units, maintained nursery schools, academies (which includes free schools), city technology colleges, city technology colleges for the technology of the arts and certain non-maintained special schools approved by the Secretary of State under section 342 of the Education Act 1996.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 10/11/2014 17:36:22 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
	tabling member	3254 label Biography information for Lord Quirk

106147

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Education
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Nash on 23 October (HL2026), why students without grade C maths and English whose school leaving age was raised in 2013 will have to wait until September 2015 for the new core maths level 3 and will be without a special "stepping stone" qualification in English.
	tabling member printed	Lord Quirk
	uin	HL2619
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2014 answer text <p>The new core maths qualification is designed for students who have already achieved a GCSE grade C and wish to continue studying maths but not necessarily at AS/A level.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Qualifications are already available for students that have not achieved a GCSE C grade in either maths or English but are not yet ready to retake their GCSE.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A list of 263 stepping stone qualifications for teaching from September 2014 was published on 17 July and is updated regularly. 178 of those qualifications are specifically for English, 79 for maths and 6 combined.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 18/11/2014 15:48:59 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
	tabling member	3254 label Biography information for Lord Quirk