We are not able, in the time available, to assess how many schools have received the pupil premium in total since its introduction in 2011 as this data is not held in the format requested. However, in the 2013-14 financial year, 19,986 schools attracted funding due to having one or more pupils who had been registered for free school meals at any point in the previous six years. There were also 1,349 schools (maintained special schools, special academies, pupil referral units (PRUs) or Alternative Provision academies) for which the local authority received any pupil premium funding due, in line with the conditions of grant. These figures do not take into account schools receiving pupil premium plus for looked after children, as this funding was also allocated to local authorities to distribute.<\/p>
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The gap in pupils achieving Level 4 or above in key stage 2 reading and mathematics has narrowed from 19.3 to 16.2 percentage points between 2011 and 2013. The gap in pupils achieving at least five good GCSEs including English and mathematics has narrowed from 27.4 to 26.7 percentage points over the same period.<\/p>
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Whilst it is too soon to see significant evidence of the impact of the policy on the national attainment statistics, our assessments of the policy show an improving picture. Ofsted concurs with this view, and in its most recent report of July 2014 stated that schools are using the funding more effectively than ever before to raise the attainment of their disadvantaged pupils, and that gaps in many schools are beginning to close, in some cases quite quickly.<\/p>
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There are currently two cohorts for the Troops to Teachers programme. The first cohort started training in January 2014 with 41 trainees; the second started in September 2014 with 54 trainees. Cohort one attracted 982 applications, cohort 2 attracted 250. In total 1,232 Service Leavers have applied for the Troops to Teachers programme. The numbers of applications dropped between cohorts because we improved the process to eliminate applications from those who are ineligible.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1473", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Mr David Laws"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Yeovil"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Mr David Laws"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2014-12-05", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2014-12-05T10:50:15.957Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "60"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2014-12-02", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Teachers: Veterans"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many service leavers have (a) applied to and (b) been accepted onto the Troops to Teachers programme to date.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4243", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Dan Jarvis"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Barnsley Central"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Dan Jarvis"} ], "uin" : "216826"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/167465", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Education"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/167465/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
In the academic year 2014/15 the base rate of funding for all full time 16-19 students funded by the Department for Education (including grammar school sixth forms) was £4,000. This is set out in the \u2018Funding rates and formula\u2019 guidance: www.gov.uk/government/publications/funding-guidance-for-young-people-2013-to-2014-rates-and-formula<\/a>.<\/p> <\/p> The funding allocation for each institution includes factors that allocate additional funding for disadvantaged students, the nature of the learning programme, and area costs. As these factors are particular to each institution, the average per student will differ in each institution.<\/p> <\/p> It is not possible to give an average for grammar schools, as the Department does not identify them as a separate category from school sixth forms.<\/p> <\/p> It is not possible to give figures for 2005 and 2010 that are comparable to 2014/15, as there were significant differences in the funding systems used in those years.<\/p>"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/167467/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The available data for local authority maintained schools is shown in Table 1. Data for the 2013-14 financial year will be published on 11 December and will be available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-local-authority-school-finance-data<\/a>.<\/p> Table 1<\/p>
School expenditure on supply teachers (1)<\/sup> in Local Authority maintained nursery, primary, secondary and special schools <\/strong><\/p><\/td> Coverage: England<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Years: 2009-10 to 2012-13<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Financial years<\/p><\/td> School expenditure on supply teachers £000s<\/p><\/td> 2009-10<\/p><\/td> £1,043,302<\/p><\/td> 2010-11<\/p><\/td> £1,049,209<\/p><\/td> 2011-12<\/p><\/td> £917,309<\/p><\/td> 2012-13<\/p><\/td> £893,389<\/p><\/td> Source: Section 251 Outturn (9-10, 10-11 and 11-12), Consistent <\/em><\/p> Financial Reporting survey (12-13)<\/em><\/p><\/td><\/tr> (1) Includes supply teaching staff, agency supply teaching staff and supply teacher insurance.<\/p><\/td><\/tr> The available data for academies is shown in Table 2. The department does not hold data on academies\u2019 income and expenditure before the 2010/11 academic year. Data for the 2013/14 academic year for academies will be available in the summer of 2015.<\/p> Table 2<\/p> School expenditure on supply teachers (1)(2)<\/sup> in academies(3)(4)<\/sup><\/strong><\/p><\/td> Coverage: England<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Years: 2010/11 to 2012/13<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Academic years<\/p><\/td> School expenditure on supply teachers £000s<\/p><\/td> 2010/11<\/p><\/td> £31,228<\/p><\/td> 2011/12<\/p><\/td> £101,573<\/p><\/td> 2012/13<\/p><\/td> £176,384<\/p><\/td> Source: Academies Accounts Returns<\/em><\/p><\/td> (1) 2010/11 data includes salaries and wages for supply staff only.<\/p><\/td> (2) 2011/12 and 2012/13 data includes salaries and wages for supply teaching staff employed directly by the school, premiums paid to insurers for supply teacher cover and includes costs paid to an agency for teaching staff that have been brought in to cover teacher absence. Includes cover of any period and for all reasons including illness, absence for training, and any leave.<\/p><\/td> (3) Figures include only those academies that were open for the whole of the respective reporting year.<\/p><\/td> (4) Academies report finance data on an academic year basis, running September to August.<\/p><\/td> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much was spent on supply teachers in England in the academic years (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12 and (d) 2012-13.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/166978/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The Property Data Survey Programme, which carried out high-level condition surveys of the school estate in England, completed its last survey in July 2014. To ensure that the data is sufficiently robust before it is put to any further use, I asked officials to share the data we had gathered with schools and responsible bodies and rectify any significant variances in the dataset.<\/p> <\/p> The deadline for feedback from schools and responsible bodies has recently passed and officials are presently considering where we need to update the survey information. Once this is completed, we will be giving further consideration to future publication of the data.<\/p>"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/166980/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " In financial year 2012/13, 1202 participants commenced the NPQH programme. In financial year 2013/14, 1140 participants commenced the NPQH programme.<\/p> |