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48500

registered interest
date	25/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data his Department collects on children missing education; what information schools are expected to record in the Lost Pupil Database, part of his Department's school2school site; and how many pupils' records were held in the Lost Pupil Database on 1 February (a) 2014, (b) 2013, (c) 2012, (d) 2011 and (e) 2010.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
tabling member printed	Heidi Alexander
uin	196657
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not collect data on children missing education. Section 436A of the Education Act 1996 places a duty on local authorities to have arrangements that enable them to establish the identities of children in their area who are not registered pupils at a school, and are not receiving suitable education through a means other than at a school. Local authorities may decide as part of this duty to collect information on children who may be missing education or at risk of doing so. The Department's statutory guidance to local authorities advises that they must have robust procedures in place to fulfil their legal duty.</p><p>The 'lost pupils database' (LPD) records the transfer records of pupils whose correct destination is not known. Files are retained whenever a child leaves a school for a destination outside the maintained school sector. Examples of these destinations include ‘gone to an independent school', ‘gone sick', ‘moved abroad with parents' or 'moved on without reason'.</p><p>The LPD is not used by Children Missing Education (CME) officers to record CME data. The primary function of the Department's School to School (S2S) secure data transfer website is to provide schools and Local Authorities (LAs) with a mechanism for the secure and ongoing transfer of thousands of statutory child-level data files per week to new schools/LAs when children move school.<br><br>The details required for the Lost Pupil Database are:</p><p>File Name<br>Source school<br>Source LA<br>UPN<br>Surname<br>Forename<br>DOB<br>Gender<br>Former UPN<br>Former Surname<br>Middle Names<br>Ethnicity<br>FSM eligibility<br>In Care<br>Care Authority<br>SEN status<br>Start Date<br>Postcode<br>Sessions Possible<br>Sessions Attended<br>Sessions Unauthorised<br>First Language</p><p>LPD records are stored for a minimum of 12 months. The last ‘clear down' took place in October 2013 which means monthly additions are only held back to October 2012. At 1 February 2014, 15,128 records were held on the system. Records are not removed from the system until the general ‘clear down', so the figure does not represent pupils missing from education at any given time.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 30/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander

48792

registered interest
date	28/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which local authorities currently do not have enough childcare places available to cater for the extension of the childcare offer to the 40 per cent most disadvantaged two-year-olds in September 2014; and what the shortfall of places is in each such authority.
tabling member constituency	Corby
tabling member printed	Andy Sawford
uin	196830
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2014 answer text <p>In February 2014 local authorities reported that around 103,000 two-year-olds were already accessing a funded early learning place. Local authorities are responsible for ensuring that every eligible child, whose parents wish them to take a place, is able to.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 196831 question first answered 01/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4265 label Biography information for Andy Sawford

48793

registered interest
date	28/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which local authorities currently do not have enough childcare places available to cater for the 20 per cent most disadvantaged two-year-olds; and what the shortfall is in each such authority.
tabling member constituency	Corby
tabling member printed	Andy Sawford
uin	196831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2014 answer text <p>In February 2014 local authorities reported that around 103,000 two-year-olds were already accessing a funded early learning place. Local authorities are responsible for ensuring that every eligible child, whose parents wish them to take a place, is able to.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 196830 question first answered 01/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4265 label Biography information for Andy Sawford

48797

registered interest
date	28/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will add economics, English literature and computing to the list of facilitating subjects for Key Stage 5 performance tables.
tabling member constituency	Wyre and Preston North
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Wallace
uin	196819
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2014 answer text <p>The facilitating subjects are identified by the Russell Group of universities as A level subjects that are required more often than others by universities. The list includes English literature along with mathematics, further mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry, geography, history and languages (classical and modern).</p><p>The Russell Group is an independent organisation; it recently reviewed the list of facilitating subjects and confirmed no change was needed. The Department for Education publishes a measure in the key stage 5 performance tables of the percentage of students achieving AAB grades at A level, including in at least two facilitating subjects.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 196816 question first answered 01/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace

48798

registered interest
date	28/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to review the list of facilitating subjects for Key Stage 5 performance tables.
tabling member constituency	Wyre and Preston North
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Wallace
uin	196816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2014 answer text <p>The facilitating subjects are identified by the Russell Group of universities as A level subjects that are required more often than others by universities. The list includes English literature along with mathematics, further mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry, geography, history and languages (classical and modern).</p><p>The Russell Group is an independent organisation; it recently reviewed the list of facilitating subjects and confirmed no change was needed. The Department for Education publishes a measure in the key stage 5 performance tables of the percentage of students achieving AAB grades at A level, including in at least two facilitating subjects.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 196819 question first answered 01/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace

48482

registered interest
date	25/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has any plans to end the employee trade union membership dues check-off system.
tabling member constituency	Livingston
tabling member printed	Graeme Morrice
uin	196763
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the response published 1 April 2014, Official Report, Column 632W.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4012 label Biography information for Graeme Morrice

48484

registered interest
date	25/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many properties that were purchased or built with Sure Start Local Programme funding are now owned by NHS Properties.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	196548
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>Data on the ownership of assets funded by the Sure Start Local Programme is held by local authorities.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 196565 question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

48491

registered interest
date	25/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many properties purchased or built with Sure Start Local Programme funding have been transferred into the ownership of local authorities.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	196565
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>Data on the ownership of assets funded by the Sure Start Local Programme is held by local authorities.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 196548 question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

48800

registered interest
date	28/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions he has held with education ministers in the devolved legislatures on proposals for English baccalaureate certificates and reforms of A-levels.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	196846
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>The Secretary of State met the Minister for Education for Northern Ireland and the Minister of Education and Skills for Wales on May 13 2013, along with Ofqual's Chief Regulator Glenys Stacey, to discuss proposed reforms of GCSEs and A levels.</p><p> </p><p>In line with the concordats between the Department for Education and the Northern Ireland Government, we give the Ministers of the devolved Governments advance notice of our intentions wherever possible. Department for Education and Ofqual officials meet regularly with their counterparts in Wales and Northern Ireland to discuss matters of common interest and share information. This includes GCSE and A level reforms in their respective administrations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

49027

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Written Statement of 9 April 2014, Official Report, column 1417WS, on qualifications reform, and the Answer of 7 April 2014, Official Report, column 42W, on in vitro fertilisation, whether the study of the human genome as part of the revised content for GCSEs in science will involve pupils learning that genomic DNA is only found in the cell nucleus and that mitochondrial DNA is not part of the genome.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	197055
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>The requirement that students study the genome and gene expression in the revised GCSE combined science and GCSE biology criteria covers all organisms, and is not specific to the human genome. It is therefore given at a level of generality that applies to all living things. The only specific reference in this section of the criteria to the human genome is in the context of the statement that requires students to be able to discuss the potential importance for medicine of our increasing understanding of the human genome.</p><p> </p><p>In developing their specifications which meet these criteria, Awarding Organisations may choose to include microorganisms, humans or any other organism when they cover the genome and gene expression.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce