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65322

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
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, when the sponsor capacity funds awarded by his Department to the Third Millennium Education Trust were returned to his Department.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	203554
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Sponsor Capacity Fund awarded to the Third Millennium Education Trust was returned to the Department for Education on 29 January 2013.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 10/07/2014 14:34:18 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson previous answer version 8591 answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

65449

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
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 many requests for directions to admit a child to an academy were received by the Education Funding Agency in 2010; and how many such directions were issued.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	203785
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>The Education Funding Agency was created on 1 April 2012. Since then, it has issued four directions to admit to academies. The average time taken to issue these directions was 78 working days. The shortest time was 42 and the longest 142 working days.</p><p>In each case, the EFA encourages academies and local authorities to resolve the matter locally without the need for a formal direction and in most cases this happens. Where a local resolution is not reached, the EFA gathers evidence from the complainant and the academy before issuing its decision.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 203729 question first answered 08/07/2014 15:44:59 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

65453

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
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, what the (a) average, (b) shortest and (c) longest time taken was to issue a direction to admit a child to an academy by the Education Funding Agency, since the creation of that agency.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	203729
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>The Education Funding Agency was created on 1 April 2012. Since then, it has issued four directions to admit to academies. The average time taken to issue these directions was 78 working days. The shortest time was 42 and the longest 142 working days.</p><p>In each case, the EFA encourages academies and local authorities to resolve the matter locally without the need for a formal direction and in most cases this happens. Where a local resolution is not reached, the EFA gathers evidence from the complainant and the academy before issuing its decision.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 203785 question first answered 08/07/2014 15:44:59 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

65360

registered interest
date	01/07/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Accommodation: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of levels of occupancy in prisons in Wales.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	904678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2014 answer text <p>Individual prison population and capacity information for every prison in England and Wales is published monthly on the Ministry of Justice website at: <a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prison-population-figures-2014" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prison-population-figures-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prison-population-figures-2014</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Prisons are not expected to operate above their operational capacity and ensuring that this capacity is set to reflect the provision of safe and decent accommodation and the operation of suitable regimes ensures that levels of crowding in prisons are carefully managed.</p><p> </p><p>Sensible measures have been taken to ensure that we have sufficient capacity to deal with any temporary increases in population. These include creating additional places in prisons in a safe and decent way and ensuring that prisons reflect the needs of the current population.</p><p> </p><p>We will end this Parliament with more adult male prison places than we inherited, more hours of work in prisons than we inherited, more education for young detainees than we inherited and a more modern, cost effective prison estate than we inherited.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 09/07/2014 16:55:49 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

61414

registered interest
date	11/06/2014
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, whether the payment of £97,000 made by his Department to the Third Millennium Education Trust on 29 November 2012 was a grant secured through the Sponsor Capacity Fund.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	200280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2014 answer text <p>Third Millennium Education Trust was awarded £97,000 during the 2012/13 sponsor capacity funding round. The information is published online here: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dfe-department-and-executive-agency-spend-over-25-000" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/collections/dfe-department-and-executive-agency-spend-over-25-000</a></p><p> </p><p>These funds were subsequently returned to the Department by the sponsor, Zail Enterprises Ltd.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 19/06/2014 12:26:53 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

61415

registered interest
date	11/06/2014
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, which organisations have received grants through the Sponsor Capacity Fund to date; when any such grant was awarded; how much was so awarded; and whether each organisation subsequently sponsored any academies.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	200230
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p>Details of the organisations that have received grants of £25,000 or more through the Sponsor Capacity Fund are published online at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dfe-department-and-executive-agency-spend-over-25-000" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/collections/dfe-department-and-executive-agency-spend-over-25-000</a></p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 17/06/2014 12:46:37 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

61416

registered interest
date	11/06/2014
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, what steps his Department takes to (a) monitor how the grants awarded through the Sponsor Capacity Fund are used and (b) recoup grants from the Sponsor Capacity Fund where the recipients do not go on to sponsor any academies or use the money in an inappropriate way.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	200228
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p>Academy sponsors who receive the Sponsor Capacity Fund are required to sign a Grant Funding Agreement, agreeing to adhere to the terms and conditions of grant. They are required to submit an Annual Certification of Expenditure, signed by their auditors, and a final report detailing what has been achieved through use of the grant<strong>.</strong></p><p>If they fail to comply with any of the conditions of grant, or are deemed to be in breach of it, they are required to return the grant to the Department.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 17/06/2014 12:51:38 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

60788

registered interest
date	09/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Dominic Cummings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the (a) dates and times and (b) purpose of all visits to his Department by Dominic Cummings have been since Mr Cummings resigned his post as a special adviser.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	199800
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p>This information is not held. Mr Cummings is no longer employed by the Department for Education.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 12/06/2014 09:50:17 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

60789

registered interest
date	09/06/2014
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, pursuant to his Statement of 9 June 2014, Official Report, column 269, on Birmingham schools, when Ministers of his Department were first made aware of allegations of extremism in schools in Birmingham.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	199816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education received the ‘Trojan Horse' letter in December 2013. The Secretary of State has asked the Permanent Secretary to investigate how the Department dealt with warnings both since the formation of this Government in 2010 and before.</p><p> </p><p>Since receiving a copy of the Trojan Horse letter, the Department has been working closely with agencies such as Birmingham City Council, the police and Ofsted. Based on the Department's evidence-gathering, the Secretary of State commissioned inspections by Ofsted and appointed Peter Clarke as Education Commissioner.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 16/06/2014 14:18:08 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

58134

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
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, on what dates he has met the Secretary of State for the Home Department to discuss extremism in schools since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	198882
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2014 answer text <p>My Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, has regular discussions with ministerial colleagues and others on a wide range of subjects.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 10/06/2014 15:56:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan