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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

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

971659

registered interest
date	11/09/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Whitehaven Academy: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Oral Answer of the Minister for School Standards on 10 September 2018, Official Report, column 456, how much funding was allocated from the public purse to improve (a) teaching, (b) resources and (c) the school estate at Whitehaven Academy.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	173614
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2018 answer text <p>To date, the department has provided a package of support in the rebrokerage of The Whitehaven Academy which includes the full sponsored rebrokerage tariff of £150,000; environmental improvement grant of £80,000 and emergency strategic school improvement fund of £73,600. We are committed to supporting Cumbria Education Trust (CET) to ensure they can drive forward teaching and resource improvements at The Whitehaven Academy when they formally take on the school.</p><p> </p><p>The department is also making a substantial capital investment, to give a much needed fresh start for all at The Whitehaven Academy. The project will see the majority of the existing school buildings demolished and rebuilt, and will be delivered by the department, with CET involved throughout the design and construction phase.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 19/09/2018 14:43:24 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

971660

registered interest
date	11/09/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Oral Answer of the Minister for School Standards on 10 September 2018, Official Report, column 456, what improvements have been made by the Education and Skills Funding Agency in relation to the oversight of multi-academy trusts.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	173615
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2018 answer text <p>The department’s academy trust intervention strategy is robust, ensuring that where concerns are identified, our intervention is proportionate to the risk and preserves the effective education of children. By combining school improvement and financial management oversight, the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) works with Regional School Commissioners to ensure that the department’s intervention is joined up and consistent.</p><p> </p><p>We are continually looking to develop and strengthen our approach. The Academies Financial Handbook is strengthened year on year to enhance the accountability framework. We published a new edition in June 2018, the main changes were:</p><ul><li>Executive pay – even more focus on the board’s responsibility for ensuring decisions about senior leaders’ pay are proportionate, justifiable and clearly documented;</li><li>Related party transactions (RPTs) – embedding a new requirement for trusts to report all RPTs to the ESFA in advance and to seek approval for those over £20,000;</li><li>Management accounts – emphasising a rigorous approach to setting and monitoring financial plans, including board engagement;</li><li>Audit findings – being clear that trusts must respond in an appropriate and timely manner to advice from auditors, taking opportunities to strengthen their systems.</li></ul><p>Overall, the financial health of the academies sector is strong: the latest published accounts show no regularity exceptions for over 95% of trusts and 98% of trusts’ accounts received unqualified opinions.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 19/09/2018 14:51:46 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

969456

registered interest
date	07/09/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	The Education Fellowship Trust
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 2 May 2018 to Question 138485, on Education Fellowship Trustm, whether (a) Pembroke Park Primary in Wiltshire and (b) Wrenn Academy in Northamptonshire have been re-brokered.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	171674
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne, to the answer I gave on 10 September 2018 to Question 168005: <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-07-24/168005/" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-07-24/168005/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 12/09/2018 15:59:58 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner