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	registered interest
	date	05/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Grenfell Tower: Fires
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what additional Government funding is required to make 68 units in the Kensington Row development available to Grenfell Tower survivors at social rent; and whether that funding will be allocated from HM Treasury or from existing departmental allocations.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	3219
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2017 answer text <p>Discussions are on going between the parties to the deal. Our priority is to get everyone who has lost their home permanently rehoused as soon as possible, so that they can begin to rebuild their lives. We are working to ensure that the first families can move in to their new homes shortly.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 24/07/2017 15:36:02 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 3147 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

748486

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Knives
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing mandatory requirements for schools to take effective safeguarding measures against knife crime.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield North
	tabling member printed	Joan Ryan
	uin	3282
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2017 answer text <p>There are no circumstances in which it is acceptable to take weapons into school. Doing so is likely to be a criminal offence and may have serious consequences.</p><p>The Department for Education issues statutory guidance to schools, Keeping children safe in education (KCSIE, September 2016), to which all schools must have regard when carrying out their duties to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. KCSIE is clear that all school staff have a responsibility to provide a safe environment in which children can learn. Schools have a statutory power to search for, and confiscate, prohibited items such as knives and weapons.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education has produced advice for schools, Searching, screening and confiscation: advice for schools (updated September 2016,) which makes it clear that school staff can search pupils and their possessions without consent where there are reasonable grounds to do so. If a pupil refuses to be searched, the school may bar them from the premises.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has taken steps to tackle behaviour and discipline in schools. Teachers’ powers to search pupils have been strengthened by adding to the list of prohibited items and allowing schools to search for any items banned by the school’s rules. As well as a more general power to search for items that have been, or could be, used to cause harm or break the law, teachers can also search for prohibited items.</p><p>Keeping children safe in education is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keeping-children-safe-in-education--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keeping-children-safe-in-education--2</a>.</p><p>Searching, screening and confiscation: advice for schools is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/searching-screening-and-confiscation" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/searching-screening-and-confiscation</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 24/07/2017 15:42:01 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	166 label Biography information for Joan Ryan

748641

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	GCSE: Disadvantaged
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Social Mobility Commission's report: Time for Change: an assessment of government policies on social mobility 1997-2017, what steps her Department is taking to improve the attainment of children eligible for free school meals at GCSE.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	3216
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Education welcomes the Commission’s report which considers efforts to improve social mobility over the last twenty years. The Commission rightly concludes that too often life chances can be determined not by effort and ability but by where you come from, who your parents are and which school you attend.</p><p> </p><p>Educational achievement is at the heart of government’s commitment to make this is a truly meritocratic country and we have spent over £11bn since 2011 - almost £2.5bn this year alone - through the pupil premium to tackle educational inequality. The pupil premium provides schools with additional money to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils, most of whom are current or past free school meal claimants, of all abilities. This complements our work since 2010 to raise standards for curriculum, assessment and accountability, and our £72 million investment in Opportunity Areas where we are working to break down the barriers to social mobility that too many still face.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The government has provided the Education Endowment Foundation with £137 million to expand the evidence base and communicate to schools what works best to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils; schools are held to account for their use of the pupil premium through Ofsted inspection and information in performance tables. Further information about the pupil premium is available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/pupil-premium-information-for-schools-and-alternative-provision-settings" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/pupil-premium-information-for-schools-and-alternative-provision-settings</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers, measured by the department's gap index, has narrowed by 9.3 per cent at age 11 and 7.0 per cent at age 16 (GCSE) since 2011, the year the pupil premium was introduced. The 2016 GCSE figures show ongoing narrowing of the gap from 3.80 points to 3.78 points. This means better prospects for a more prosperous life as an adult. But we know there is more to do; the Department will set out further details on policy to tackle social injustice in due course.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 24/07/2017 15:47:24 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis