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101831

registered interest
date	30/10/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Uniforms
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to prohibit schools from taking a commission on the sale of school uniform to parents.
tabling member constituency	Gateshead
tabling member printed	Ian Mearns
uin	212672
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education’s school uniform guidance is clear that schools should not seek to profit from the sale of school uniform. Revisions made in September 2013 emphasise the importance of ensuring that uniform is widely available and affordable for parents. The guidance sets out that governing bodies should be able to demonstrate that they have obtained the best value for money from suppliers, and that any savings negotiated with suppliers should be passed on to parents wherever possible.</p><p> </p><p>The school uniform guidance is published online at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-uniform" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-uniform</a></p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 04/11/2014 14:24:15 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4000 label Biography information for Ian Mearns

102035

registered interest
date	31/10/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Supply Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her Department's policy is on the use of umbrella companies for supply teachers.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	Mr John Spellar
uin	212792
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2014 answer text <p>Schools and local authorities are responsible for the recruitment of their supply teachers and deciding whether to use private supply agencies to recruit and employ supply teachers. If a supply teacher is employed by a private agency, this is a private commercial arrangement between the school and the agency.</p><p>The Department for Education is not responsible for the regulation of teacher supply agencies or their umbrella organisations. Teacher supply agencies are regulated by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills under the employment agency provisions in the Employment Agencies Act 1973 and the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 05/11/2014 16:14:02 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	318 label Biography information for Lord Spellar

102036

registered interest
date	31/10/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to update the Accountability System Statement outlining the roles and responsibilities for school oversight.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	212821
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education’s System Accountability Statement is currently under routine review. We expect to publish an update to the existing statement by the end of the year.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 06/11/2014 16:16:31 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

105895

registered interest
date	03/11/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Supply Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much was spent on supply teachers in England and Wales in the academic year 2013-14.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne East
tabling member printed	Mr Nicholas Brown
uin	212870
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>Local authority (LA) maintained schools’ funding is allocated per financial year, whereas academy school funding is allocated on the basis of the academic year.</p><p>In the financial year 2012-13 the amount spent on supply teachers<a title="" href="http://3dcpri-papp09/new_parliamentaryquestion/212870-%20Nicholas%20Brown/Draft/212870%20QA%205.11.14.docx#_ftn1" target="_blank">[1]</a> in LA maintained schools in England was £893,389,000. The 2013-14 data for LA maintained schools will be available in December. The amount spent on supply teachers in academies<a title="" href="http://3dcpri-papp09/new_parliamentaryquestion/212870-%20Nicholas%20Brown/Draft/212870%20QA%205.11.14.docx#_ftn2" target="_blank">[2]</a> in England in the 2012-13 academic year was £176,384,000. The 2013/14 data for academies will be available in the summer of 2015.</p><p>Academies have responsibilities that maintained schools do not, particularly around services previously provided by the local authority (library services, behavioural support services, audit costs, etc.) and maintenance of capital assets. This can affect what the academy spends its funding on, meaning that an academy, by its nature, is likely to have a different pattern of spend than a maintained school. For this reason, figures for academies and maintained schools are not directly comparable.</p><p>Expenditure on supply teachers in Wales is a devolved matter.</p><p><a title="" href="http://3dcpri-papp09/new_parliamentaryquestion/212870-%20Nicholas%20Brown/Draft/212870%20QA%205.11.14.docx#_ftnref1" target="_blank">[1]</a> 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><p><a title="" href="http://3dcpri-papp09/new_parliamentaryquestion/212870-%20Nicholas%20Brown/Draft/212870%20QA%205.11.14.docx#_ftnref2" target="_blank">[2]</a> The figures quoted for academies only include 1633 Single Academy Trusts and 135 Multi Academy Trusts that returned an accounting return (AR) for at least the full academic year of 2012/13. Multi academy trusts where one or more school within the trust was not open for the full 2012/13 academic year are not included.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 10/11/2014 16:59:02 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	523 label Biography information for Mr Nicholas Brown

105896

registered interest
date	03/11/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many places were distributed in the initial allocations for initial teacher training trainees to School Direct and HE providers in (a) 2011-12, (b) 2012-13, (c) 2013-14, (d) 2014-15 and (e) 2015-16; and what the target number of trainees estimated by the National College of Teaching and Leadership, the National College for School Leadership and the Teaching Agency was in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	212886
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>The data for initial teacher training (ITT) allocations for School Direct and HE providers over the last 5 years is shown in the table below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HE providers</p></td><td><p>28,669</p></td><td><p>28,841</p></td><td><p>26,790</p></td><td><p>23,095</p></td><td><p>22,224</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>School Direct</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>772</p></td><td><p>9,586</p></td><td><p>15,254</p></td><td><p>17,609</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 10/11/2014 17:23:23 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

105897

registered interest
date	03/11/2014
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 trainee teachers were recruited in the initial allocations to School Direct in each subject to (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in each of the last four years.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	212887
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>The academic year 2013/14 was the first time School Direct information was available in the Initial Teacher Training (ITT) Census.<a title="" href="http://3dcpri-papp09/new_parliamentaryquestion/212887-%20Nic%20Dakin/Draft/212887%20QA%20Version%204%20-%205.11.14%20FINAL.docx#_ftn1" target="_blank">[1]</a> The information is published online at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-trainee-number-census-2013-to-2014" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-trainee-number-census-2013-to-2014</a></p><p>Information from the 2013/14 ITT Census shows that 6,580 new entrants were recruited to School Direct initial teacher training places. Of these, 2,890 (44%) were recruited to primary places (i.e. primary schools) and the remaining 3,690 (56%) to secondary schools.</p><p>The 2014/15 Census will be published on 27 November 2014.</p><p><a title="" href="http://3dcpri-papp09/new_parliamentaryquestion/212887-%20Nic%20Dakin/Draft/212887%20QA%20Version%204%20-%205.11.14%20FINAL.docx#_ftnref1" target="_blank">[1]</a> There was a small number of School Direct providers in the academic year 2012-13; however the data was aggregated for publication.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 10/11/2014 17:02:11 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

105898

registered interest
date	03/11/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Primary Education: Warrington
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 requirement for primary school places in Warrington in the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Helen Jones
uin	212903
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education collects information from local authorities on the number of school places in state-funded primary and secondary schools and local authorities’ own pupil forecasts as part of the annual School Capacity Collection. The most recent data available relates to the position at May 2013, with primary forecasts through to 2017/18, and is published online at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-capacity-academic-year-2012-to-2013" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-capacity-academic-year-2012-to-2013</a></p><p>The Department has estimated that Warrington local authority needs 270 additional primary places to meet demand in 2015/16. Warrington local authority has reported that there are 980 new places planned for delivery between 2013/14 and 2015/16. This information, along with technical notes, is published in the Local Authority Basic Need Scorecards which is published online at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/primary-school-places-local-authority-basic-need-scorecards" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/primary-school-places-local-authority-basic-need-scorecards</a></p><p>The Department provides capital funding to local authorities in line with the estimated level of need in each local authority. Warrington has been allocated a total of £6 million for the period 2011-2015 and a further £8.6 million for 2015-2017 to help create the additional school places that will be needed by September 2017.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 06/11/2014 16:21:01 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

105904

registered interest
date	03/11/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many places from the initial allocation were relinquished by School Direct in the 2013-14 admissions year.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	213003
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2014 answer text <p>In the 2013/14 academic year we allocated extra School Direct requests, as well as allowing relinquishments. The School Direct initial allocations were 9,441 and the final allocations 9,586, meaning the net change for School Direct was an extra 145 places allocated throughout the year.</p><p>The initial and final allocations for the 2014/15 academic year are both published on the NCTL/Gov.uk website:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/initial-teacher-training-allocations-for-academic-year-2013-to-2014-final" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/initial-teacher-training-allocations-for-academic-year-2013-to-2014-final</a></p><p>The Department for Education does not hold information on relinquishments in the format requested. The National College for Teaching and Leadership plans to publish updated management information by the end of December 2014. This will include line by line initial and final allocations by school (and provider) by subject and will enable the calculation of relinquishments.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 06/11/2014 16:22:05 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

105905

registered interest
date	03/11/2014
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 places were allocated to School Direct for recruitment in the 2014-15 acacemic year.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	213004
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2014 answer text <p>The initial allocations for School Direct for the academic year were 15,254.</p><p>The initial allocations for the 2014/15 academic year were published in October 2013 and are published online at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/initial-teacher-training-allocations-for-academic-year-2014-to-2015" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/initial-teacher-training-allocations-for-academic-year-2014-to-2015</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 06/11/2014 16:17:35 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

106268

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, if her Department will make a comparative assessment of the rates of pay of (a) agency supply teachers and (b) teachers employed in schools under the School Teachers' Pay and Conditions document.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Mr Bob Ainsworth
uin	213209
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>Arrangements for the engagement of agency supply teachers, including their pay rates, are private commercial arrangements. The Government does not collect data on these arrangements and so is unable to make a comparative assessment with the salaries of teachers who are subject to the terms of the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 10/11/2014 17:29:23 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	306 label Biography information for Mr Bob Ainsworth