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1002594

registered interest
date	06/11/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his Department’s policy is on the period in which a multi-academy trust must repay advances made by the Education and Skills Funding Agency; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	188839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2018 answer text <p>An advance to an academy trust is an early payment on its General Annual Grant, which is allocated to the trust for that year. It is not additional funding for the trust. With each advance, there will be a mutually agreed schedule of monthly reductions to offset the advance.</p><p> </p><p>The department continues to work with the sector to build capacity and expertise in financial management and support effective school resource management with specialist advisers, three year financial forecasting and developing buying hubs and national deals for all schools. Where an academy trust requires additional support, the Education and Skills Funding Agency will work with the trust to build its capacity and help it reach a stronger position.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 15/11/2018 14:33:15 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1002595

registered interest
date	06/11/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his Department’s policy is on (a) the provision for schools of (a) financial and (b) other information on a multi-academy trust that they are due to join and (b) whether having been provided with that information those schools should have the opportunity to review their decision; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	188840
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2018 answer text <p>The department makes a range of information publicly available for schools and other interested parties. Information on the finances of the multi-academy trust (MAT) they intend to join is available through the schools financial benchmarking tool, found here:</p><p><a href="https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/</a>.</p><p>Information on the people involved in the governance of the trust is available, from either the trust’s own website, or the Get Information about Schools website here:</p><p><a href="https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/</a>.</p><p>The department encourages Governing Bodies to consider this information before applying to become an academy.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, where a school is applying for an academy order to become an academy and join a trust, the Regional Schools Commissioner (RSC) will consider the financial health of the school and the MAT the school is joining as part of a robust assessment of the ability of the MAT to run the school. The Governing Body of a maintained school can decide not to proceed with conversion before an academy funding agreement is entered into.</p><p> </p><p>There are different arrangements when a school is directed to become an academy. In this situation, the RSC, with advice from their Headteacher Board, identifies an approved sponsor to run the school. The finances of the school, MAT and the MATs ability to run and improve the school are key elements that inform the decision. The sponsor is however under a duty to communicate their plans to improve the school to parents.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 15/11/2018 15:08:18 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1002674

registered interest
date	06/11/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	TBAP Multi-academy Trust: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether there has been a delay in the TBAP Multi-Academy Trust making contributions to the pension schemes of its employees.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	188841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2018 answer text <p>The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) is aware of historical delays in payment of TBAP Trust’s pension contributions due to poor financial management and controls. The ESFA has intervened and in August 2018, issued the trust with a financial notice to improve. We have been informed that all pension payments are now up to date.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 16/11/2018 14:49:27 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1002677

registered interest
date	06/11/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	TBAP Multi-academy Trust: Cambridge
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the TBAP multi-academy trust rented a residential property in Cambridge.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	188842
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2018 answer text <p>The TBAP Trust has informed the Education and Skills Funding Agency that between March and May 2016, the Trust entered into a rental agreement for a residential property to be used by staff who were deployed to support the setup of their Cambridgeshire branch.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 16/11/2018 14:50:00 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

999522

registered interest
date	01/11/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference paragraph 5.18 of Budget 2018, how his Department will determine which local authorities receive funding for the children's social care improvement pilot schemes.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	187043
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2018 answer text <p>We will be investing £84 million over the next five years to support a number of local authorities who are struggling with issues of performance and demand. This targeted fund will support up to 20 local authorities to improve their social work practice and decision-making, enabling them to work more effectively with the most vulnerable children and their families. This investment will build on the lessons learned from promising innovation programmes in Hertfordshire, Leeds and North Yorkshire, which have supported more children to stay safely at home. We will work closely with local authorities and other sector partners between now and April to determine how best to allocate the funding.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 09/11/2018 14:43:27 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

997324

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if his Department will publish a list of instances where multi-academy trusts have entered into a non-disclosure agreement with staff in each of the last five calendar years; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	185036
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p>All academy trusts are bound by the requirements of the Academies Financial Handbook. This handbook establishes that they must ensure that the use of confidentiality clauses associated with staff severance payments do not prevent an individual’s right to make disclosures in the public interest under the Public Interest Disclosure Act (1998).</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 06/11/2018 14:58:02 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

994300

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Confederation of School Trusts: Speeches
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will place in the Library an unredacted version of the speech entitled Damian Hinds speech at Confederation of School Trusts conference, published by his Department on Gov.uk on 11 October 2018.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	183519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>A copy of this speech will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 29/10/2018 17:48:48 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

983242

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Adventure Learning Academy Trust and Bright Tribe Trust
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will place in the Library a copy the Education and Skills Funding Agency report Multi-Academy Trust Review of Bright Tribe and Adventure Learning Academies Trust: Final Report, published in March 2016.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	176325
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>The purpose of Multi Academy Trust reviews conducted by the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) is to obtain assurance and to provide trusts with an opportunity to improve their governance. Such reviews are routine, but require openness by both sides and it is not the policy of the agency to routinely publish or otherwise make public the outputs of the work. However, the ESFA published a Financial Management and Governance Report in November 2016 of the two trusts in question and this is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/financial-management-and-governance-review-bright-tribe-trust-and-adventure-learning-academies-trust" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/financial-management-and-governance-review-bright-tribe-trust-and-adventure-learning-academies-trust</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 11/10/2018 16:42:29 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

983251

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	St Neots Learning Partnership
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has plans to publish the results of the Education and Skills Funding Agency investigation into St Neots Learning Partnership.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	176326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>It is the policy of the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) to publish all reports concerning investigations that it conducts at academy trusts. While the ESFA is currently working with the trust to resolve some issues regarding the governance and oversight of financial management by the board, it has not conducted, nor is conducting, any investigation and so there is no investigation report which can be published. The issues are set out in a Financial Notice to Improve which is publicly available on GOV.UK and can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/financial-notice-to-improve-st-neots-learning-partnership" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/financial-notice-to-improve-st-neots-learning-partnership</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 16/10/2018 14:32:53 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

972311

registered interest
date	12/09/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many academy schools were waiting to be re-brokered at 1 September 2018.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	174066
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>As at 1 September 2018, there are 66 academies that have been approved by Regional Schools Commissioners (RSC) to transfer to another trust.</p><p> </p><p>Academies may transfer to other trusts in a range of circumstances. In some cases, RSCs may be intervening due to concerns about academy performance. In other cases, an academy may be moving trust as part of an agreed voluntary arrangement. Although transfers are agreed in principle, some may end up not going ahead for any number of reasons.</p><p> </p><p>Information on transfers that have occurred during the financial years 2013/14 to 2017/18 is published here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/academy-transfers-and-funding-england-financial-year-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/academy-transfers-and-funding-england-financial-year-2017-to-2018</a>.</p><p> </p><p>RSCs actively encourage single academy trusts to join multi-academy trusts, where a good fit is identified and these transfers are included in this data.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 09/10/2018 15:38:08 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner