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100355

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2014
	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 the (a) longest and (b) shortest (i) terms and (ii) school years are in days, according to the responses from the free schools which submitted answers to her Department's questionnaire, referred to in that Report.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	211518
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 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 or other local schools.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Two out of 74 (3%) of the free schools completing the survey stated that they do not offer personal, social, health and economic education.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 211517 211521 question first answered 28/10/2014 17:52:51 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

100356

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2014
	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 is available for publication on the length of (a) terms and (b) school years, in days, from the free schools which responded to her Department's questionnaire, referred to in that Report.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	211517
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 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 or other local schools.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Two out of 74 (3%) of the free schools completing the survey stated that they do not offer personal, social, health and economic education.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 211518 211521 question first answered 28/10/2014 17:52:51 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

100357

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2014
	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 proportion of free schools which responded to the Department's questionnaire do not teach personal, social, health and economic education.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	211521
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 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 or other local schools.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Two out of 74 (3%) of the free schools completing the survey stated that they do not offer personal, social, health and economic education.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 211517 211518 question first answered 28/10/2014 17:52:51 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

43235

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2014
	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 and what proportion of academy trusts have applied to open a free school.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	192221
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2014 answer text There are 2,581 academy trusts in England. 207 (8%) of the free school applications submitted in application waves 1 to 5 have been submitted by, or have links to, academy trusts. Some academy trusts have applied a number of times. answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 24/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

43238

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2014
	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 representations he has received from local authorities indicating that the local authority does not require a proposed free school; and whether this has led to any proposed free school applications being withdrawn.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	192225
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not hold this information centrally and collecting it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p>Under Section 9 of the Academies Act 2010, the Department writes to local authorities where a free school is being proposed to seek their views on the impact that establishing the school would likely have on existing schools and colleges.</p><p>Local authorities often take this opportunity to indicate whether they support or oppose the establishment of a free school.</p><p>Any representations from local authorities are considered by my Rt hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education before he decides to enter into a funding agreement with the relevant academy trust.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 20/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

43239

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2014
	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 proportion of free schools approved to date are faith schools.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	192226
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2014 answer text <p>37 of 142 open mainstream free schools have a faith designation (26%); this compares to 34% of all state-funded mainstream schools.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 20/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

43240

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2014
	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 and what proportion of faith free schools opened to date have met the 50 per cent target of children and young people attending the school who do not belong to that faith.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	192227
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2014 answer text <p>There is no target for the proportion of children attending a free school who do not belong to the designated faith of such a school. When over-subscribed, faith designated free schools may take account of faith in allocating up to 50% of their places. The remaining places must be allocated on the basis of over-subscription criteria not related to faith, and may be filled by pupils of the faith, other faiths or none.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 20/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

43241

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2014
	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 contact his Department has had with the largest 10 academy chains to confirm whether they plan to make an application for a free school in the next (a) year, (b) two years and (c) three years.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	192223
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education has not asked academy chains to confirm whether they plan to make any applications for a free school in the next year, two years or three years.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 20/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

43364

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2014
	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 steps he is taking to improve the education of children on the autistic spectrum.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	192331
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2014 answer text <p>Children on the autism spectrum will benefit from the changes to the special educational needs system which the Government is bringing about through the Children and Families Act 2014, including the strengthened arrangements, through 0-25 Education, Health and Care plans, for the transition from children's services to adulthood which young people with autism can find particularly difficult.</p><p>The Department for Education is funding the Autism Education Trust to provide training to early years, school and further education staff on autism. From January 2012 to February 2014, 22,451 staff have received level 1 basic awareness training, 3,214 have received level 2 hands-on tools and techniques training and 775 have received level 3 training for those who want to develop their knowledge of autism further and those who will themselves take on a training role, such as school Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators.</p><p>The Department is also funding three autism organisations from 2013 to 2015, including Ambitious about Autism, to work with four general further education colleges and schools to test innovative ways of supporting the transition of young people with autism from school to college and the National Autistic Society to help young people with autism take part in the development of ‘local offers', to provide advice to professionals and to fund an exclusion adviser for parents and professionals.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 19/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

44024

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2014
	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 steps he has taken to improve the education of children on the autism spectrum.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	192755
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education continues to fund the Autism Education Trust to provide training to early years, school and further education staff on autism. From January 2012 to February 2014, 22,451 staff have received level 1 basic awareness training, 3,214 have received level 2 hands-on tools and techniques training and 775 have received level 3 training for those who want to develop their knowledge of autism further and those who will themselves take on a training role, such as school Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators.</p><p>The Department is also funding three autism organisations over 2013 to 2015, including Ambitious about Autism to work with four general further education colleges and schools to test innovative ways of supporting the transition of young people with autism from school to college and the National Autistic Society to help young people with autism take part in the development of ‘local offers', to provide advice to professionals and to fund an exclusion adviser for parents and professionals.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 24/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman