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759694

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Relationships and Sex Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the Government plans to consult on statutory guidance on Relationships and Sex Education provided for in the Children and Social Work Act 2017.
	tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
	tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
	uin	10022
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2017 answer text <p>The Children and Social Work Act (2017) places a duty on the Secretary of State for Education to make Relationships Education mandatory in all primary schools, and Relationships and Sex Education mandatory in all secondary schools, in England.</p><p>As part of our next steps, the Department intends to conduct a thorough and wide ranging engagement on Relationships Education and Relationships and Sex Education. This will determine the content of the regulations and statutory guidance, covering subject content, school practice and quality of delivery. We will ensure the subjects are carefully designed to safeguard and support pupils whilst being deliverable for schools.</p><p>The Department is fully committed to this programme of work and will set out shortly more details about the engagement process, the timetable and the work to consider age appropriate subject content.</p><p>This will result in draft regulations and guidance on which we will consult. Following consultation, regulations will be laid in the House allowing for a full and considered debate.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 20/09/2017 14:58:52 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

759690

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Primary Education: Admissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many unfilled places there were in primary schools in 2016-17; and what proportion of the total number of school places that figure represents in each such area.
	tabling member constituency	Westminster North
	tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
	uin	10059
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2017 answer text <p>As of 1 May 2016, the total number of unfilled primary places in England was 461,065; the number of unfilled places as a percentage of total primary places was 9.7 per cent.</p><p> </p><p>The capacity data are published on an annual basis, giving equivalent local authority and regional totals, through the SCAP tables. Further information can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-capacity-academic-year-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-capacity-academic-year-2015-to-2016</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 20/09/2017 15:12:08 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck

759691

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	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, which statutory functions allow her to guarantee that no school will see a cut in funding as a consequence of the national funding formula for local authority maintained schools and academy schools.
	tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
	tabling member printed	Mike Kane
	uin	10063
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>Under the national funding formula for schools, every school will attract at least 0.5% more per pupil in 2018-19, and 1% more in 2019-20, compared to its baseline.</p><p> </p><p>As set out in the Secretary of State’s announcement on 17 July, local authorities will continue to be responsible for determining actual funding allocations to schools in 2018‑19 and 2019-20, to support the implementation of the national funding formula.</p><p>As every local authority in every part of the country will receive a per pupil cash increase in funding, the great majority of schools should be able to receive a per pupil cash increase, too. But ultimately, this is a decision for local authorities to make following local consultation with their schools.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 09/10/2017 09:53:30 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

759688

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Basic Skills: Greater London
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number of adults lacking core skills in (a) literacy, (b) numeracy and (c) information technology in (i) Greater London and (ii) the London Borough of Newham.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	10068
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government is supporting adults in England to develop the basic English, mathematics and digital expertise they need for future employment. This is why we provide full funding for adults to access a range of English and mathematics courses up to and including GCSE and equivalent qualifications. We are introducing a similar right to funding for specified Information and Communication Technology (ICT) courses.</p><p> </p><p>The Skills for Life Survey, 2011, estimated the literacy, numeracy and ICT knowledge of adults aged 16-64 in England, including estimates for regions and local authorities. ICT knowledge was assessed against four component elements, including word processing, emailing, spreadsheets and a multiple choice assessment of other ICT expertise such as internet use. The estimates of the numbers and percentage of the adult population with different levels for these components, for England, London, and Newham are in the attached table.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 21/09/2017 09:20:40 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 10068 table attachment.docx title table_attachment
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

759683

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Shoeburyness High School
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the funding required to provide new capacity in Shoeburyness High School before September 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Rochford and Southend East
	tabling member printed	James Duddridge
	uin	10099
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2017 answer text <p>Nationally, we have allocated £5.8bn from 2015 to 2020 to create more school places. Between 2010 and 2016, 735,000 new school places have been created.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities are responsible for planning and securing sufficient school places in their area, and supporting them in doing so is one of this Government’s top priorities. Local authorities make decisions on where to add capacity, based on local circumstances. Southend-on-Sea has received £20 million for new places between 2011 and 2017 and has been allocated a further £9.5 million for 2017 to 2020.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 21/09/2017 09:48:29 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1559 label Biography information for Sir James Duddridge

759685

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Internet
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of teaching in secondary schools on how to stay safe online.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	10106
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>‘Keeping children safe in education’ (KCSIE) is the statutory guidance which schools and colleges must have regard to, when carrying out their duties to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. KCSIE sets out that governing bodies and proprietors should ensure that children are taught about safeguarding, including staying safe online, through appropriate teaching. This may include covering relevant issues through Personal, Social, Health and Economic education and through Sex and Relationship education.</p><p>The Children and Social Work Act 2017 places a duty on the Secretary of State for Education to make Relationships Education at primary and Relationship and Sex Education at secondary mandatory through regulations. We expect the teaching of safe online relationships to be part of this. To get this right, the Department will be engaging with schools, teachers; parents and pupils; experts in safeguarding and child wellbeing; subject experts; faith groups; voluntary organisations and other interested parties; and other Government Departments and public sector bodies.</p><p>The new computing curriculum (ages 5-16) was introduced in September 2014 to replace the ICT curriculum, which was widely regarded by industry and academics as outdated. The development of the content was largely led by sector representatives and includes topics on digital literacy and using communications technology responsibly.</p><p> </p><p>The Department funds the Network of Excellence programme which provides high quality teacher continuous professional development to support the new computing curriculum and reformed computer science GCSE, provided by a team of around 400 ‘Master Teachers’ and coordinated by ten university based regional centres.</p><p> </p><p>Ofsted takes into account pupils’ understanding of how to stay safe online and the dangers of inappropriate use of mobile technology and social networking sites as part of their inspection process.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 09/10/2017 08:00:00 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

759686

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: Bullying
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of trends in the level of bullying in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	10107
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>Our most recent assessments of the levels of bullying in schools were published in July this year within The National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) Teacher Voice Survey and the Omnibus Survey of Pupils and their Parents / Carers.</p><p> </p><p>Questions in the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/625908/NFER_Teacher_Voice_report_November_2016.pdf" target="_blank">NFER Teacher Voice Omnibus</a> and a senior leader booster survey found that for each type of bullying asked about, the majority of respondents said they had rarely or never seen them occurring amongst pupils over the previous 12 months. This ranged from 73% of respondents saying they had rarely or never seen bullying based on sexist or sexual language, to 94% of respondents who said they had rarely or never seen anti-Semitic bullying. The most commonly observed form of bullying was sexist/related to sexual language with 27% reporting seeing it ‘sometimes’, ‘often’ or ‘very often’. For all types of bullying asked about in the survey, the proportion of respondents saying they had seen or received reports of them occurring in the last 12 months was higher in secondary schools than primary schools.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/626068/PPC_Omnibus_Wave_2_Report.pdf" target="_blank">Omnibus Survey of Pupils and their Parents/Carers</a> found that nearly half of pupils (45%) said they had been bullied at least once in the past year. This survey did not cover primary age pupils.</p><p>Although we plan to ask these questions on an annual basis going forward, this was the first time these surveys have asked about levels of bullying and so we do not have comparable data to assess trends.</p><p>However, a separate survey published in 2015 - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bullying-evidence-from-lsype2-wave-2" target="_blank">wave 2 results from the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England 2 </a>(LSYPE 2) - compared bullying among two cohorts of 14 year olds (year 10) from 2004 and 2014. It found that 30,000 fewer people in year 10 said they had been bullied in the last twelve months - a drop from 41% in 2004 to 36% in 2014. The analysis of later LSYPE2 waves will also include bullying figures. These findings will be published when the analysis is complete and quality assured.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 09/10/2017 12:21:53 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

759687

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Vacancies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate she has made of the number of secondary teaching posts that are (a) vacant and (b) being filled by a person who is not a specialist in that subject in each region in England.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington North
	tabling member printed	Helen Jones
	uin	10130
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>Information on the number of secondary teaching posts that are vacant or temporarily filled is shown in Table 15 of the statistical release, School Workforce in England 2016, available at the following web link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2016</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of secondary school teachers that have relevant post A level qualifications for the subjects they teach is shown in Table 12.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 09/10/2017 07:54:17 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

759677

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Medicine: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent proposals she has received for the establishment of new medical schools; and how many new training places each of these proposals would provide.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington North
	tabling member printed	Helen Jones
	uin	10145
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>In 2016, the Secretary of State for Health announced the Government’s commitment to expanding the number of undergraduate medical training places available each year by 1,500. The Government response to the public consultation on how to implement these proposals was published on 9 August 2017. It confirmed the commitment to an expansion of 1,500 places, starting with an increase of 500 places in August 2018.</p><p>The consultation response also outlined the Government’s priorities for inclusion in the bidding criteria for the allocation of the remaining 1,000 places from August 2019. There will be some flexibility to consider phased starts in 2018-19 or 2020-21 where bids that are best able to meet the Government’s policy objectives provide strong evidence of the need to provide places to a different timescale.</p><p>Since publication of the consultation response, the Secretary of State for Education has not received proposals for the establishment of new medical schools. Further information is due in the autumn from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and Health Education England (HEE), who are currently designing the competitive bidding process in which established, new and aspiring medical schools can participate.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 09/10/2017 11:01:12 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

759684

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	English Language and Literature: GCSE
	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 11 September 2017 to Question 9252, what assessment she has made of trends in performance at Progress 8 in the event that grades for both GCSE English language and GCSE English literature were recorded.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	10176
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>Progress 8 was published for the first time for all schools in 2016. It compares the progress pupils make across eight subjects and, so far, only one year of complete data exists.</p><p>Progress 8 focuses on an academic core in which both English language and English literature can be double weighted to signify their importance. In order to qualify for that additional weighting in English, a pupil must be entered to sit both GCSE English language and GCSE English literature. If a pupil does sit both qualifications, the highest grade achieved in either GCSE English language or GCSE English literature will receive double weighting for the English element of Progress 8. The other English GCSE can also contribute to the ‘open’ element of Progress 8 if it is one of the three highest grades achieved eligible for that element.</p><p>There is not sufficient data available yet to comment on any trends in Progress 8 performance, or the differences between sitting either one of, or both, English language and English literature.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 09/10/2017 11:15:06 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah