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101094

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Inspections
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will reinstate references to child wellbeing in the Ofsted inspection framework.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	211946
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>This is a matter for Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw. A copy of his reply will be placed in the library of the House.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 03/11/2014 13:16:46 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

101107

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupil Premium: Brigg and Goole
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding schools in Brigg and Goole constituency received under the pupil premium in 2013-14; and what estimate she has made of how much funding those schools will receive in pupil premium in 2014-15.
	tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
	tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
	uin	212068
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>Schools and academies in Brigg and Goole constituency have been allocated £2.231 million through the pupil premium for financial year 2013 to 2014, and £2.851 million for financial year 2014 to 2015.</p><p> </p><p>This includes funding through the deprivation and service child elements for financial year 2013 to 2014, and also the children adopted from care element for financial year 2014 to 2015, but excludes the looked-after children element in both years as this is not available at a parliamentary constituency level.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 30/10/2014 15:26:56 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

101372

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Termination of Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teachers are no longer in service in the English publicly-funded schools sector and did not receive a pension in 2012-13.
	tabling member constituency	Exeter
	tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
	uin	212180
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not hold the specific data requested. However, the scheme administrator for the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) holds data on the number of individuals who have participated in the scheme in the past but are now deferred (have ceased to be in pensionable service but have not yet accessed benefits).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>While the TPS data includes teachers whose last recorded service was in a publicly funded school in England, it also covers those whose last service was in Wales or in other establishments covered by the Scheme (for example further and higher education establishments). I have asked the TPS administrator to provide a breakdown of the data on deferred members that excludes those whose last service was in Wales, or in a non-publicly-funded school sector establishment, or where the member reached their normal pension age by 2012, and will place a copy of the final results in the library of the House.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 03/11/2014 13:14:06 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

101095

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free Schools
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's research report, Are free schools using innovative approaches?, published in September 2014, what data has been gathered on the length in days of (a) terms and (b) school years from the 74 free schools which responded to her Department's questionnaire.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	211967
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>Our online survey of free schools asked only whether they were operating terms and school years that were different to other schools in the local area. It did not collect data on the actual lengths of terms and school years in the free schools.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Responding to such surveys is voluntary and, after reminders were issued via email and phone, we did not seek detailed reasons for non-response.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 211965 211966 question first answered 30/10/2014 15:44:52 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

101096

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free Schools
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she has taken to establish why 100 free schools failed to respond to her Department's questionnaire.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	211966
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>Our online survey of free schools asked only whether they were operating terms and school years that were different to other schools in the local area. It did not collect data on the actual lengths of terms and school years in the free schools.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Responding to such surveys is voluntary and, after reminders were issued via email and phone, we did not seek detailed reasons for non-response.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 211965 211967 question first answered 30/10/2014 15:44:52 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

101101

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free Schools
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made contact with the 100 free schools which failed to respond to her Department's questionnaire for the research report, Are free schools using innovative approaches? published in September 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	211965
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>Our online survey of free schools asked only whether they were operating terms and school years that were different to other schools in the local area. It did not collect data on the actual lengths of terms and school years in the free schools.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Responding to such surveys is voluntary and, after reminders were issued via email and phone, we did not seek detailed reasons for non-response.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 211966 211967 question first answered 30/10/2014 15:44:52 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

101359

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children in Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many looked-after children in England also have a sibling in care; and how many looked-after children in England are (a) living with at least one of their siblings and (b) not living with any of their siblings.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
	tabling member printed	Alan Johnson
	uin	212283
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>The data requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 30/10/2014 16:10:22 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	376 label Biography information for Alan Johnson

101093

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve access to mindfulness programmes in schools.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	211943
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education is committed to supporting schools and colleges to prepare well-rounded young people who are able to succeed in adult life. Schools must provide a curriculum that promotes pupils’ spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development. All children should engage in a rich provision of classroom and extra-curricular activities that help to develop character and resilience.</p><p> </p><p>Schools and teachers are best placed to understand the needs of their pupils. Schools have the freedom to decide if they want to use external programmes to help deliver their curriculum and to provide effective pastoral support. Many schools offer a range of programmes that support pupils’ resilience, well-being and mental health, and they can use programmes relating to Mindfulness if they consider them to be appropriate for their pupils.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 03/11/2014 10:50:39 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

101100

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Health
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that the education system gives due consideration to the promotion of child wellbeing.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	211951
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>The school curriculum must be broad and balanced. It must promote pupils’ spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development, and prepare them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life.</p><p> </p><p>Personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education supports the teaching of all subjects across the school curriculum. With a new slimmed down curriculum, schools have more freedom and autonomy to integrate activities into the curriculum which can promote pupils’ wellbeing and build character.</p><p> </p><p>We have introduced a new departmental priority with the aim of supporting schools and colleges to prepare well-rounded young people for success in adult life. We are working closely with the Department of Health’s Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Taskforce, which includes school representatives, to look at how we can further improve the prevention and identification of mental health problems and access to mental health services.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 03/11/2014 10:52:46 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane