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1730216

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Census
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her planned timetable is for publishing results from the school census data collections of (a) 3 October 2024 and (b) 16 January 2025.
tabling member constituency	East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Damian Hinds
uin	6012
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2024 answer text <p>In accordance with the Code of Practice for Statistics, statistics publications are pre-announced on the GOV.UK website and are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&amp;organisations%5B%5D=department-for-education&amp;order=updated-newest" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&amp;organisations%5B%5D=department-for-education&amp;order=updated-newest</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The scheduling ensures that statistics are released as soon as they are ready, while abiding by standards set by the Code of Practice for Statistics, in terms of trustworthiness, quality and value. The Code can be found here: <a href="https://code.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://code.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth South answering member printed Stephen Morgan question first answered 14/10/2024 13:58:09 answering member 4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan
tabling member	3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds

1674429

registered interest
date	30/11/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Census
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will add Down syndrome as a separate data item on the school census.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	4695
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2023 answer text <p>The department is committed to improving the support in education for children and young people with Down syndrome, particularly given the passage of the Down Syndrome Act 2022, which My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State supported on behalf of the Government in her previous role in the Department for Health and Social Care. The Secretary of State for Education has also been speaking with representatives of Down syndrome organisations about how the department can best deliver on this commitment through the measures in the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and Alternative Provision Improvement Plan. Discussions have included how the department best collects and uses data, and whether to collect data on the number of pupils with Down syndrome through the School Census. The department hopes to confirm the decision shortly.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston question first answered 06/12/2023 17:27:05 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1137939

registered interest
date	09/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Census
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how nationality and country-of-birth data have been used by (1) the Department for Education, and (2) any other third party, since their collection from schoolchildren between October 2016 and June 2018.
tabling member printed	The Earl of Clancarty
uin	HL17038
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>The department collected data on the nationality and country of birth of pupils via the school census for 2 years between autumn 2016 and summer 2018. The data was collected for the purposes of internal educational research, to help the department ensure that all children, wherever they are from, have the best possible education.</p><p> </p><p>The department has so far published 2 (annual) high-level summaries of the pupil nationality, country of birth and proficiency in English data, which have been attached:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-nationality-country-of-birth-and-proficiency-in-english" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-nationality-country-of-birth-and-proficiency-in-english</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-nationality-country-of-birth-and-proficiency-in-english-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-nationality-country-of-birth-and-proficiency-in-english-2018</a>.</p><p> </p><p>This data has not been shared externally with third parties, including other government departments.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton attachment 1 file name HL17038_Summary_Report_2017.pdf title HL17038_PDF 2 file name HL17038_Summary_Report_2018.pdf title HL17038_PDF question first answered 22/07/2019 11:42:03 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	3391 label Biography information for The Earl of Clancarty

800968

registered interest
date	05/12/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Census
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress is being made on the review of parents’ right to retract nationality and country of birth data submitted through the school census; and whether parents will still be able to retract this data by responding that they refused in the Spring census.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Davey
uin	117527
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2017 answer text <p>Parents will remain able to retract nationality and country of birth information previously submitted through the school census for the remainder of the current academic year.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 13/12/2017 17:21:36 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

715643

registered interest
date	30/03/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Census
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answers of 28 March 2017 to Questions 69028 and 69027, when the next set of data in the Schools, pupils and their characteristics series will be published.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	70122
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2017 answer text <p>Schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2017 will be published on 29 June 2017 (provisional date). This was announced at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2017" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2017</a></p><p>A release calendar for official statistics is published at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements</a></p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 18/04/2017 14:31:06 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

693697

registered interest
date	23/02/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Census
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Nash on 4 November 2016 and 6 January 2017 (HL2515 and HL4240), why schools were not informed by the Department for Education of parents’ right to retract data submitted in the autumn school census in October 2016, until 19 January; and whether this right to retract the optional data already returned will be withdrawn, and if so, when.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL5596
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2017 answer text <p>Whilst the requirement for parents to provide information on their children’s nationality and country of birth is optional, we recognise that there was disparity in how the request for this information was communicated by schools during the autumn school census collection. In view of this, the Department has committed to delete this information from its systems, where parents have since refused to provide it. This offer will continue to remain open to parents and will be reviewed in December 2017.</p><p>Following completion of the autumn census at the end of November 2016, the Department worked with sector representatives to review, and update, our data collection guidance to provide additional clarity on the collection of personal data from parents / guardians or pupils. Schools were informed via a data collection bulletin on 14 December that the updated guidance would address, amongst other points, parents’ rights to refuse or retract data and the updated guidance would be available in January. Following publication of the updated guidance on GOV.UK, the Department wrote to all head teachers on 10 January to highlight the updated guidance and, in particular, that parents can decide to retract nationality and country of birth information previously provided.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 06/03/2017 16:14:49 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

693699

registered interest
date	23/02/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Census
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 6 January (HL4240), why the communication on 10 January direct from the Department for Education to all state-funded school heads in England about the expanded school census collection did not mention the Home Office's access to pre-existing or new school census pupil data in national databases; and whether they have yet done so.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL5597
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2017 answer text <p>The autumn school census highlighted the need for clarification of how the new data items on nationality, country of birth and proficiency in English should be collected. The Department, therefore, updated the data collection guidance for schools in advance of the current school census that opened in January. The Department wrote to all head teachers on 10 January to highlight the updated guidance and request their support locally in improving the collection of sensitive data about pupils in the school census.</p><p>This communication did not specifically refer to data sharing with the Home Office because this sharing does not include the data relating to the nationality, country of birth and proficiency in English of pupils to which the communication referred. These new data items are collected solely for DfE analysts to use internally for educational research and have not, and will not, be shared by the Department with other government departments.</p><p>With regards to data sharing with the Home Office, a copy of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Home Office and the Department for Education, which covers the sharing of limited information between those parties, is available in the house library. This MOU sets out publicly how this process works and the data which is shared. As stated above this does not, and will not, include the new data on nationality, country of birth and proficiency in English.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 06/03/2017 16:13:37 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

683365

registered interest
date	02/02/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Census
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children her Department has received information on from the 2016-17 autumn school census; and of those responses how many and what proportions response was (a) refused, (b) not yet obtained and (c) not known to questions on (i) country of birth and (ii) nationality; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	62925
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2017 answer text <p>The total number of records, for on roll pupils, included within the 2016 autumn school census was 8,055,271.</p><p>It is our intention to publish information on the new nationality and country of birth information in the form of anonymised research within a statistical report. This will be made available later this year following completion of processing, analysis and assessment of data quality.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 09/02/2017 18:07:57 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

662072

registered interest
date	19/12/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Census
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what information was given to those completing the national school census regarding the sharing of details with the Home Office for immigration purposes.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL4240
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Education (DfE) provide a privacy notice template<sup>[1]</sup> for schools to use to explain to parents what personal data they collect, why it is collected, who it is shared with and what it is used for. The template we provide to schools also gives parents access to further information about the Department’s use of their children’s data<sup>[2]</sup>.</p><p> </p><p>With regards to data sharing with the Home Office, a copy of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Home Office and the Department for Education, which covers the sharing of limited information between those parties, is available in the house library. This sharing does not include data relating to the nationality, country of birth and proficiency in English of pupils which is collected solely for Department for Education analysts to use for research. These data items have not, and will not, be shared by the Department for Education with other government departments.</p><p>Whilst it is not possible for a parent / guardian or an individual child to opt out of the school census collection, there is certain information (including ethnicity, first language, country of birth, nationality and whether a child is the child of someone in the Armed Services) which must always be as declared by the parent / guardian or the pupil. The school census guidance<sup>[3]</sup> is clear that the return of this information is voluntary and parents can withhold this information if they choose.</p><p>References:</p><p>[1] Privacy notice template:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/data-protection-and-privacy-privacy-notices" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/data-protection-and-privacy-privacy-notices</a></p><p>[2] DfE guidance for how we share data:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/data-protection-how-we-collect-and-share-research-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/data-protection-how-we-collect-and-share-research-data</a></p><p>[3] School census data collection guide:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-census-2016-to-2017-guide-for-schools-and-las" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-census-2016-to-2017-guide-for-schools-and-las</a></p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 06/01/2017 14:07:10 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

662073

registered interest
date	19/12/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Census
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government under what legislation is information from the national school census passed to the Home Office for immigration purposes.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL4241
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2017 answer text <p>A copy of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Home Office and the Department for Education which covers the legal basis is available in the house library.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 06/01/2017 14:08:11 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven