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542170

registered interest
date	21/07/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average cash balance held by schools in England as a percentage of their annual budget was on 31 March (a) 2015 and (b) 2016.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	43987
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2016 answer text <p>The latest available revenue balances for Local Authority (LA) maintained schools are given in the table below. They are on an accruals rather than cash accounting basis. Equivalent figures for academies are not available as they report on academic years ending 31 August.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Total revenue balance<sup>1</sup> as a % of total revenue income<sup>2</sup> in LA maintained schools</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Date</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2014</p></td><td><p>6.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2015</p></td><td><p>8.2</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Consistent Financial Reporting survey</p><p>1. A school's total revenue balance is calculated from the combination of any unspent allocations and the cumulative balance of income minus expenditure from revenue funding sources during the financial year and any balances carried forward from previous years.</p><p>2. A school's total revenue income for the year includes all revenue funding available in the year as well as any additional income generated by the school. This does not include any revenue balances carried forward from previous years.</p><p> </p><p>These data are published annually, most recently in the Department’s Statistical Release LA and school expenditure: 2014 to 2015 financial year, available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-education-and-childrens-services-spending-2014-to-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-education-and-childrens-services-spending-2014-to-2015</a></p><p> </p><p>Figures for 31 March 2016 will be published in December 2016.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 08/09/2016 13:36:39 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

539668

registered interest
date	18/07/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Infrastructure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which infrastructure projects were funded through or supported by the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) between 1 January 2010 and 30 June 2016; how much funding for each such project was (a) provided through PIDG and (b) leveraged from other sources; and whether each such project is operational.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	43092
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2016 answer text <p>The table attached shows all PIDG supported projects. The table indicates whether the support for projects was initiated before or after 01 January 2010. As support for many projects initiated before 2010 will have continued into the timeframe set out in the question, we have also listed all projects where support was started before 01 January 2010. There is no other straightforward way to filter the data. Further information is also available online (<a href="http://data.pidg.org/" target="_blank">http://data.pidg.org/</a>) .</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 22/07/2016 13:09:00 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart attachment 1 file name PQ 43092.docx title PQ 43092
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

539669

registered interest
date	18/07/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Infrastructure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which infrastructure projects were supported by borrowing guaranteed through GuarantCo between 1 January 2010 and 30 June 2016; how much was guaranteed for each such project; how much funding was leveraged from other sources for each such project; and whether each such project is operational.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	43093
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2016 answer text <p>The table attached shows all projects supported by GuarantCo. The table indicates whether the support for projects was initiated before or after 01 January 2010. As support for many projects initiated before 2010 will have continued into the timeframe set out in the question, we have also listed all projects where support was started before 01 January 2010. There is no other straightforward way to filter the data. Further information is also available online (<a href="http://data.pidg.org/" target="_blank">http://data.pidg.org/</a>) .</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 22/07/2016 13:10:25 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart attachment 1 file name PQ 43093.docx title PQ 43093
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

539670

registered interest
date	18/07/2016
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	GuarantCo
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether the proposed creation of a contingent liability of £40 million in respect of callable capital of GuarantCo is treated as Official Development Assistance (a) when the contingent liability is created and (b) in the event that capital is called from the public purse under the contingent liability.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	43091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2016 answer text <p>The creation of the contingent liability in respect of the callable capital for GuarantCo does not have immediate budgetary implications and is not treated as Official Development Assistance (ODA). If the capital is called it will be treated as ODA. This is in line with the internationally agreed rules on ODA.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 25/07/2016 11:28:14 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

532397

registered interest
date	04/07/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Government Shareholding
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which companies the Government retains golden shares in for the purpose of limiting overseas ownership; and what the terms are of such shares.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	41666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2016 answer text <p>In December 2015, the NAO issued the report ‘Companies in government’. As shown in Figure 7 of this report, at 31 March 2014 the government held special shares in 11 companies, across 5 departments. Changes since 31 March 2014 are shown in Figure 9 of the same report.</p><p> </p><p>The exact terms of those special shares will be a matter for the relevant Secretary of State, depending on the specific arrangements that were put in place for each company.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 11/07/2016 11:25:08 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

520642

registered interest
date	23/05/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Voluntary Work: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many young people in Stafford constituency participated in the National Citizen Service in each of the last two years.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	37898
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/05/2016 answer text <p>I am pleased to report that over 1,200 young people in Staffordshire have participated in NCS over the past two years. The NCS Trust does not collect data at a constituency level. Therefore, the figures below are for the local authority area of Staffordshire:</p><p>2014 - 465 participants<br>2015 - 738 participants</p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 27/05/2016 13:42:00 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

520727

registered interest
date	23/05/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Stafford
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 (a) trends in the take-up of academy places and (b) the performance of academies in Stafford constituency.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	37947
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2016 answer text <p>The number of pupils on roll in academies in the Stafford Constituency from January 2012 to January 2015 was as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Weston Road Academy</p></td><td><p>824</p></td><td><p>819</p></td><td><p>797</p></td><td><p>813</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Rural Enterprise Academy</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>84</p></td><td><p>94</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rowley Park Primary Academy</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>161</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>John Wheeldon Primary Academy</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>428</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: School Census, January 2012 to 2015</p><p> </p><p>The percentage of pupils achieving level 4 or above in reading, writing and maths at key stage 2 in 2015 (the first year for which the academies had results) for primary academies in Stafford constituency was as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rowley Park Primary Academy</p></td><td><p>83%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>John Wheeldon Primary Academy</p></td><td><p>62%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: School Performance Tables</p><p> </p><p>The percentage of pupils achieving 5 or more A*-C GCSEs (or equivalent) including English and maths GCSEs at key stage 4 in 2014 to 2015 of the secondary academies in Stafford constituency was as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Rural Enterprise Academy</p></td><td><p>22%</p></td><td><p>40%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Weston Road Academy</p></td><td><p>55%</p></td><td><p>51%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: School Performance Tables</p><p> </p><p>The Weston Road Academy also has a Sixth Form where 79% of pupils passed at least 3 A-Levels (A*-E) in 2015.</p><p> </p><p>Data for key stage 4 for years before 2014 are not comparable due to reforms to qualifications, notably the removal of many previous equivalent vocational qualifications and counting only the first attempt at a qualification in the performance tables in English Baccalaureate subjects.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 26/05/2016 16:46:31 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy