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1002544

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	Schools: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that school admissions authorities are aware of the guidance to give second highest priority in their over-subscription criteria to children who were previously in state care outside of England.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	188810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2018 answer text <p>In December 2017 the Department announced that, when the opportunity arises, it intends to amend the School Admissions Code to require admission authorities to give children who were previously in state care outside of England highest priority for admission into school.</p><p> </p><p>Until such time when the relevant changes to the Code can be made, admission authorities have been asked to use their current flexibilities in setting their own admission arrangements to grant such children second highest admissions priority in their oversubscription criteria.</p><p> </p><p>To further encourage admission authorities to make this change, additional advice was issued about this matter to all local authorities, with a request that it is circulated to all own admission authorities in their respective areas in August 2018.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 15/11/2018 12:25:28 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1010552

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much money from the public purse has been spent by (a) further education colleges and (b) academies in offering subsidies to attract students in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	193423
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally. The department does not collect information regarding such subsidies.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 26/11/2018 17:05:05 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1045611

registered interest
date	21/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department plans to update its document, Teachers’ standards: Guidance for school leaders, school staff and governing bodies, last updated in June 2013; and for what reason care experienced children are not identified as a cohort of children in Standard 5 of that document.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	210600
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department is committed to ensuring that all children, regardless of background, have the opportunity to fulfil their potential. There are currently no plans to update the document, Teachers’ Standards: Guidance for school leaders, school staff and governing bodies. The document does reflect the needs of looked after children by setting out the expectation for teachers to: have a secure understanding of how a range of factors can inhibit pupils’ ability to learn and; have a clear understanding of the needs of all pupils, and be able to use and evaluate distinctive teaching approaches to engage and support them.</p><p>Further information, including the reports of the independent review of the Teachers’ standards, is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/teachers-standards" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/teachers-standards</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 25/01/2019 13:16:14 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

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

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

155821

registered interest
date	17/11/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Sixth Form Colleges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, through what mechanism sixth form colleges will apply for capital funding from 2015-16; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	214515
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education announced the new Condition Improvement Fund (CIF) on 16 October 2014. Sixth form colleges can apply to the CIF for capital funding to improve the condition of their buildings and expand them. Details of the fund and the guidance surrounding applications are published online at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/condition-improvement-fund" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/condition-improvement-fund</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 20/11/2014 11:50:48 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

155822

registered interest
date	17/11/2014
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 criteria she uses when deciding to withdraw funding for a free school or university technical school which has opened since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	214514
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2014 answer text <p>The terms and conditions under which free schools and University Technical Colleges (UTCs) are funded are set out in a funding agreement between the Secretary of State and the school’s trust. A school’s funding agreement gives the Secretary of State a range of powers to intervene, including moving to close a school, if failure is identified. All free school and UTC funding agreements are available on the Department for Education's performance table website at <a href="http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/" target="_blank">http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/</a></p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 20/11/2014 15:35:06 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

167458

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	A Level Content Advisory Board
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding her Department provided to the A-level Content Advisory Board in (a) 2011-12, (b) 2013-14 and (c) 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	216822
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>The A-level Content Advisory Board (ALCAB) was established by the Russell Group in 2013, to review the subject content for facilitating A levels. The Department for Education provided £100,360.61 to ALCAB in 2013-14, and has provided £361,034.53 in 2014-15. No funds for ALCAB have been included in expenditure plans for 2015-16.</p><p>ALCAB have made their final recommendations for A and AS level subject content in mathematics, further mathematics, modern languages, ancient languages, and geography. These new qualifications are designed to prepare young people to meet the demands of universities and employers. We will soon be publishing our response to ALCAB’s recommendations.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 216823 216824 question first answered 05/12/2014 14:14:00 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin