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451122

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Faith Schools: Admissions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consideration they have given to the finding of the report <i>An Unholy Mess</i>, published by the Fair Admissions Campaign and the British Humanist Association last year, that a number of religiously selective schools have sought to require all parents to commit to supporting the particular religious ethos of the school as part of the admission process; and what assessment they have made of the impact of any such practice on the encouragement of applications from a diverse range of religious and non-religious backgrounds.
tabling member printed	Viscount Ridley
uin	HL5988
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>I refer the Noble Lord to my response to questions HL5900 and HL5901, submitted to Parliament on 18 February 2016.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 22/02/2016 16:26:45 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4272 label Biography information for Viscount Ridley

451234

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	GCSE
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of pupils who achieved five A* to C grades at GCSE in each of the last five years received an A* to C grade in (a) a modern foreign language and (b) science.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	26257
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2016 answer text <p>The table below provides information for the percentage of pupils that achieved five A* to C grades at GCSE in each year from 2010/11 to 2013/14 who received an A* to C grade in a modern foreign language (MFL) or in each of the science pathways[1]. Data for 2014/15 has not yet been finalised.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p>Of those pupils[2] who achieved 5 or more GCSEs or equivalent at grade A* to C in the relevant year</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Pupils who achieved 5 or more GCSEs or equivalent at grade A* to C</p></td><td><p>Percentage achieving a modern foreign language[3] GCSE at grade A* to C</p></td><td><p>Percentage achieving Core and additional science[4] GCSE at grade A* to C</p></td><td><p>Percentage achieving Separate science[5] GCSE at grade A* to C</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>499,057</p></td><td><p>35.9</p></td><td><p>33.0</p></td><td><p>24.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>508,228</p></td><td><p>35.0</p></td><td><p>30.7</p></td><td><p>26.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>517,388</p></td><td><p>40.7</p></td><td><p>29.1</p></td><td><p>26.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>394,752</p></td><td><p>51.2</p></td><td><p>42.1</p></td><td><p>29.6</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] Note that separate figures are provided for the core science and triple award science pathways. Information is not provided for double award science due to low numbers of entries.</p><p>[2] Based on pupils at the end of key stage 4 in each year.</p><p>[3] Based on the highest grade achieved in any modern foreign language GCSE - if pupils achieved two or more languages and achieved different grades then they only appear once in the figures.</p><p>[4] Figures include only those pupils who entered and achieved the core science pathway (having entered core and additional science and have achieved an A*-C in both) and are based on the highest grade achieved in either of the component subjects.</p><p>[5] Figures include only those pupils who entered and achieved the separate science pathway (having entered three of biology, chemistry, physics and computer science and having achieved A*-C in two of them) and are based on the highest grade achieved in any of the component subjects.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 24/02/2016 17:15:11 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

451245

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free Schools: Radlett
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she was first made aware that the site initially secured for Harperbury Free School was too small for that school; and what steps she took in response to that information.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne Main
uin	26187
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2016 answer text <p>Approval to build the school on the site is subject to the views of the Local Planning Authority. They first raised concerns, alongside a range of other concerns arising from its location in the Green Belt, to my officials in March 2015.</p><p>Discussions between officials at both Departments did identify that two adjacent properties could be purchased to provide additional car parking. However, the nature of the sale of the remainder of the former hospital site to a residential developer meant that further land could not be released for the school. Even if additional land were made available, there remain substantial risks associated with developing this Green Belt site.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 26185 26186 question first answered 23/02/2016 12:11:21 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1568 label Biography information for Mrs Anne Main

451247

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free Schools: Radlett
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Health on making more land available at the proposed site for Harperbury Free School to enable the planning application for that site to proceed with a site large enough to meet local planning officers' requirements.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne Main
uin	26186
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2016 answer text <p>Approval to build the school on the site is subject to the views of the Local Planning Authority. They first raised concerns, alongside a range of other concerns arising from its location in the Green Belt, to my officials in March 2015.</p><p>Discussions between officials at both Departments did identify that two adjacent properties could be purchased to provide additional car parking. However, the nature of the sale of the remainder of the former hospital site to a residential developer meant that further land could not be released for the school. Even if additional land were made available, there remain substantial risks associated with developing this Green Belt site.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 26185 26187 question first answered 23/02/2016 12:11:21 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1568 label Biography information for Mrs Anne Main

451248

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free Schools: Radlett
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, by what process her Department ensured the site secured for the proposed Harperbury Free School (a) was large enough and (b) met other requirements to be suitable for a secondary school with the capacity for up to 840 students and 70 staff.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne Main
uin	26185
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2016 answer text <p>Approval to build the school on the site is subject to the views of the Local Planning Authority. They first raised concerns, alongside a range of other concerns arising from its location in the Green Belt, to my officials in March 2015.</p><p>Discussions between officials at both Departments did identify that two adjacent properties could be purchased to provide additional car parking. However, the nature of the sale of the remainder of the former hospital site to a residential developer meant that further land could not be released for the school. Even if additional land were made available, there remain substantial risks associated with developing this Green Belt site.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 26186 26187 question first answered 23/02/2016 12:11:21 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1568 label Biography information for Mrs Anne Main

451250

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free Schools: Radlett
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the letter from her Department to the Harperbury Free School governors of 17 November 2015, if she will make an assessment of the implications for housing and other planned developments in the catchment area of the proposed Harperbury Free School of the risk referred to in that letter that no suitable site can ever be found for that school.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne Main
uin	26190
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2016 answer text <p>Assessing the implications for housing and other developments is a matter for the Council rather than the Department.</p><p>In order for planning permission to be granted for a site in the Green Belt, as is the case for the trust’s preferred site, the Local Planning Authority would have to accept that there is a strong need for a school in the locality of the identified site, which they do not.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 23/02/2016 14:44:57 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1568 label Biography information for Mrs Anne Main