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	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Primary Education: Free School Meals
	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 the potential costs and benefits of the introduction of universal infant free school meals in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	213397
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education is responsible for the introduction of the requirement that state-funded schools in England should offer universal infant free school meals, which came into effect on 1 September 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Between 2009 and 2011 the Department for Education and the Department of Health piloted the provision of universal free school meals in Durham and Newham. The independent evaluation of those pilots showed that there were a number of benefits arising from the provision of universal free school meals, including improved attainment, healthier eating habits and increases in the uptake of meals among children who would have been eligible for free school meals under the existing criteria. We also know, from research carried out by the School Food Trust (now Children’s Food Trust), that universal infant free school meals will save families who previously paid for school lunches up to £400 a year per infant child.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has used School Food Trust research into the costs of school meal provision, as well as feedback from local authorities and stakeholders, to inform the allocation of funding for this policy and the targeting of implementation support. In particular, this research informed the decision to allocate £2.30 of revenue funding per meal taken by newly eligible pupils.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 10/11/2014 17:27:32 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

114702

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Cookham Wood Young Offender Institution
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the written answer of 3 November 2014, to Question 212297, what the reasons were for the requests by HMYOI Cookham Wood for cancellation of education hours.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	213604
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>As reported to the Education Funding Agency for June 2014 for the delivery of education and training at HMYOI Cookham Wood, cancellations by the prison were as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Category under which cancellations are recorded by HM Prison Service</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total percentage of cancelled hours</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Courts</p></td><td><p>2.63</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Visits</p></td><td><p>1.50</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sickness/Medical</p></td><td><p>0.50</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Regime Activities</p></td><td><p>1.71</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Incidents<a title="" href="http://3dcpri-papp09/new_parliamentaryquestion/213604-%20Dan%20Jarvis/Draft/213604%20Minister%20Amends%2010.11.14%20FINAL.docx#_ftn1" target="_blank">[1]</a></p></td><td><p>42.60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Refusal</p></td><td><p>6.63</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Segregation</p></td><td><p>13.92</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Discharge/Transfer</p></td><td><p>2.92</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Adjudication</p></td><td><p>4.96</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Offender Management</p></td><td><p>2.25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Operational Shortfalls</p></td><td><p>8.59</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>11.80</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Weekly Totals</p></td><td><p>100.00</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>This performance is not acceptable and the Department will expect a significant reduction in cancelled hours.</p><p><a title="" href="http://3dcpri-papp09/new_parliamentaryquestion/213604-%20Dan%20Jarvis/Draft/213604%20Minister%20Amends%2010.11.14%20FINAL.docx#_ftnref1" target="_blank">[1]</a> This category refers to acts of violence by offenders, such as assaults, fights, etc.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 10/11/2014 17:27:38 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

142172

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of additional teachers that will be needed in 2015-16.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	213690
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>As estimated by the 2015/16 Teacher Supply Model, English primary schools will require 29,700 qualified teachers to enter the active stock in the 2015/16 academic year. The model also estimates that English secondary schools will require 22,500 qualified teachers to enter the active stock in the 2015/16 academic year.</p><p>This need for teachers will be met through a combination of new trainees, those returning to the profession, and those entering the state-funded sector in England for the first time.</p><p>The Department for Education uses the Teacher Supply Model (TSM) to calculate the optimum number of Initial Teacher Training (ITT) places required to match the future supply of teachers to the estimated demand for qualified teachers within the state-funded sector in England. The National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) uses this information to inform their allocation of ITT places to teacher training providers.</p><p>The estimates for the future demand for teachers use the projected number of pupils in schools, assumed Pupil Teacher Ratios (PTRs), and our best estimates for the number of teachers required to implement the Department’s policy initiatives. The model also takes into account other flows within the existing stock of teachers such as those leaving the profession or retiring as well as those expected to return to teaching in the state-funded sector.</p><p>Whilst the Department estimates future teacher demand, decision-making taken at school level determines the actual number of teachers required. As with any forecast, uncertainty increases the further into the future the estimate is made for.</p><p>The Department has published estimates of teacher demand in part 1 of the TSM, published online at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teacher-supply-model" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/teacher-supply-model</a></p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 11/11/2014 12:40:25 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

142174

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Science: Teachers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of additional teachers that will be needed in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17, (c) 2017-18, (d) 2018-19, (e) 2019-20 and (f) 2020-21 in (i) mathematics, (ii) physics and (iii) computer science.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	213691
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>The following table provides estimates for the number of teachers needed in the English state funded-sector in each academic year from 2015/16 to 2020/21 for maths, physics, and computing. This need for teachers will be met through a combination of new trainees, those returning to the profession, and those entering the state-funded sector in England for the first time.</p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016/17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017/18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018/19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019/20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020/21</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Maths</strong></p></td><td><p>3,300</p></td><td><p>3,400</p></td><td><p>3,700</p></td><td><p>3,600</p></td><td><p>3,600</p></td><td><p>3,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Physics</strong></p></td><td><p>1,000</p></td><td><p>1,200</p></td><td><p>1,100</p></td><td><p>1,100</p></td><td><p>1,100</p></td><td><p>1,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Computing</strong></p></td><td><p>900</p></td><td><p>900</p></td><td><p>1,000</p></td><td><p>1,000</p></td><td><p>1,000</p></td><td><p>1,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source: Teacher Supply Model</em></p><p>The Department for Education uses the Teacher Supply Model (TSM) to calculate the optimum number of Initial Teacher Training (ITT) places required to match the future supply of teachers to the estimated demand for qualified teachers within the state-funded sector in England. The National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) use this information to inform their allocation of ITT places to teacher training providers.</p><p>The estimates for the future demand for teachers use the projected number of pupils in schools, assumed Pupil Teacher Ratios (PTRs) and our best estimates for the number of teachers required to implement the Department’s policy initiatives. The model also takes into account other flows within the existing stock of teachers such as those leaving the profession or retiring as well as those expected to return to teaching in the state-funded sector.</p><p>The Department forecasts the need for teacher trainees one year in advance in line with the annual ITT allocation decisions. However, the TSM also forecasts teacher demand over ten years to provide an overview of long term trends.</p><p>Whilst the Department estimates future teacher demand, decision-making taken at school level determines the actual number of teachers required. As with any forecast, uncertainty increases the further into the future the estimate is made for.</p><p>The Department has published estimates of teacher demand in part 1 of the TSM, published online at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teacher-supply-model" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/teacher-supply-model</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 11/11/2014 12:43:23 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

142175

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Headteachers: Retirement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many headteachers retired in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12, (d) 2012-13 and (e) 2013-14.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	213692
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>The requested information is not available broken down by the individual grades within the leadership group.</p><p>The following table provides the number of leadership teachers who retired from publicly-funded schools in England by the end of March in the financial years 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13. Information for 2013-14 is not yet available.</p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>Leadership Retirements</strong>[1]</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2009-10</strong>[2]</p></td><td><p>3,280</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p>4,010</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong>[3]</p></td><td><p>3,860</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012-13[</strong>3]</p></td><td><p>3,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source: Database of Teacher Records and Pensioner Statistical System (PENSTATS).</em></p><p>Figures are rounded to the nearest 10 teachers.</p><p>[1] Includes retirements such as Premature, Actuarially Reduced Benefits, Age, and Ill Health of head teachers, deputy heads and assistant heads.<br>[2] Local authority maintained schools.<br>[3] Provisional estimates.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 11/11/2014 12:45:57 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

142177

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many entrants to teaching in (a) 2011-12, (b) 2012-13 and (c) 2013-14 were (i) newly qualified entrants, (ii) new to the publicly-funded sector and (iii) returning to the publicly-funded sector.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	213693
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>The information is currently being collated and quality assured, it will be published later this year. A firm date will be announced on the Department for Education’s ‘forthcoming publications’ website shortly.[1]</p><p>[1] <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education/about/statistics#forthcoming-publications" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education/about/statistics#forthcoming-publications</a></p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 11/11/2014 12:39:15 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

142178

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many entrants there were to (a) full-time and (b) part-time teaching in (i) 2011-12, (ii) 2012-13 and (iii) 2013-14.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	213694
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>The information is currently being collated and quality assured, it will be published later this year. A firm date will be announced on the Department for Education’s ‘forthcoming publications’ website shortly.[1]</p><p>[1] <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education/about/statistics#forthcoming-publications" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education/about/statistics#forthcoming-publications</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 11/11/2014 12:37:56 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

114695

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Academies: Admissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 3 November 2014 to the hon. Member for Huddersfield to Question 211964, what derogations from the Admissions Code have been allowed in 54 free schools and three academies; and what the demonstrable evidence is that such derogations benefit local children.
	tabling member constituency	Gateshead
	tabling member printed	Ian Mearns
	uin	213496
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>All academies and free schools must comply with the School Admissions Code. This ensures their admission arrangements are fair, clear and objective.</p><p>It is through the Funding Agreement that the Secretary of State has agreed different arrangements (‘derogations’ from the Code) for academies and free schools, but only in limited circumstances, where there is demonstrable evidence that it will benefit local children.</p><p>On opening, all free schools are permitted to allocate places outside of local authority co-ordination in their first year only; while all academy schools that have opened since 2012 can grant admissions priority to pupils eligible for the pupil and service premiums. The revised School Admissions Code currently before the House proposes extending this freedom to all state-funded schools.</p><p>In addition, we have granted school specific derogations in the following areas:</p><ul><li>46 free schools are able to give admissions priority to founders’ children. Founders’ status is granted only to those individuals who have played a material role in setting up the school and who continue to be involved in the running of the school.</li><li>Three free schools are able to give admissions priority to the children of staff without having to meet the two-year qualification in the Code. This has enabled free schools on opening to recruit good quality staff quickly to the benefit of all their children.</li><li>Four free schools were granted permission to give admissions priority to pupils eligible for the pupil premium prior to our extending this flexibility to all academies and free schools.</li></ul><p>In one free school, we have agreed as a transitional measure that children in an annex of a nearby maintained school which closed would be transferred to the new free school without having to apply. This enabled those displaced children to access good quality local provision.</p><p>Three school specific derogations have been agreed for academies, as follows:</p><ol><li>Birmingham Ormiston Academy which became an academy in 2011 is permitted to select the majority of its intake by their aptitude for the performing arts since it is operating as a regional centre for the performing arts. The derogation enables children to obtain a specialist education unavailable elsewhere.</li><li>The Priory Academy, Lincoln School of Science and Technology (LSST) in Lincoln is permitted to select 10% of its intake by aptitude in technology in recognition that the predecessor school selected on this basis. A derogation was agreed so that the school did not lose its ability to select on this basis on closing and reopening as an academy in 2008.</li><li>Belvedere Academy in Liverpool became an academy in 2007. This academy’s predecessor school was an all-through fee-paying independent school. Only the secondary phase became an academy. The derogation permitted all those who were on the independent school’s roll at the point at which the academy opened, including those in the primary phase, to be admitted to the academy. This derogation will end in 2015.</li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 11/11/2014 15:46:57 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	4000 label Biography information for Ian Mearns

106271

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many staff members in all open free schools were paid a salary for their work with that school before its opening; and how much has been paid to such staff in total.
	tabling member constituency	Leyton and Wanstead
	tabling member printed	John Cryer
	uin	213342
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>Once an application to establish a free school, university technical college or studio school has received initial approval to proceed to the pre-opening stage, the Department for Education provides a grant to the proposer group to help cover essential non-capital costs, including appropriate salary costs, up to the point at which the school opens. The rates at which these grants are paid are published in the department’s guidance for free school proposer groups (at paragraph 6.11 on page 38), which is published online at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/free-school-pre-opening-guide" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/free-school-pre-opening-guide</a></p><p> </p><p>Information about how many staff were paid a salary before a particular school opened, how much was paid to staff in total, which groups made such payments and how long salaries were paid before opening is not collected centrally. However, all academy trusts, including free school trusts, are required to comply with company and charity law regarding the preparation of financial statements. Where the trust has a signed funding agreement with the Department for Education, the financial statement must comply with the Academies Accounts Direction. This direction sets out the requirements relating to financial statements, including details of expected staffing disclosures.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 213343 213344 question first answered 11/11/2014 16:02:49 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	181 label Biography information for John Cryer

106272

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which free schools have paid how many staff members a salary for their work at that school before its opening; and how much has been spent in total on salaries for such staff.
	tabling member constituency	Leyton and Wanstead
	tabling member printed	John Cryer
	uin	213343
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>Once an application to establish a free school, university technical college or studio school has received initial approval to proceed to the pre-opening stage, the Department for Education provides a grant to the proposer group to help cover essential non-capital costs, including appropriate salary costs, up to the point at which the school opens. The rates at which these grants are paid are published in the department’s guidance for free school proposer groups (at paragraph 6.11 on page 38), which is published online at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/free-school-pre-opening-guide" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/free-school-pre-opening-guide</a></p><p> </p><p>Information about how many staff were paid a salary before a particular school opened, how much was paid to staff in total, which groups made such payments and how long salaries were paid before opening is not collected centrally. However, all academy trusts, including free school trusts, are required to comply with company and charity law regarding the preparation of financial statements. Where the trust has a signed funding agreement with the Department for Education, the financial statement must comply with the Academies Accounts Direction. This direction sets out the requirements relating to financial statements, including details of expected staffing disclosures.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 213342 213344 question first answered 11/11/2014 16:02:49 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	181 label Biography information for John Cryer