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452297

registered interest
date	11/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Governing Bodies
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have any plans to ensure that every academy has its own governing body.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL6198
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2016 answer text <p>Under the Academies Act 2010 an academy is a charitable company limited by guarantee and is therefore required under the Companies Act 2006 to have members and a board of trustees/ directors.</p><p> </p><p>In a Multi-Academy Trust (MAT), individual academies do not have a separate legal identity and are all under the control of the trust board. Whether the board establishes local governing boards for each academy or local governing bodies to oversee groups of academies, and the range of functions delegated to any such boards, are both a matter for the board to determine – but in all cases the board remains accountable for all the academies in the MAT.</p><p> </p><p>Fewer, higher quality and more highly skilled boards overseeing groups of schools is central to the Government’s strategy for improving the quality of governance. It is also the key to schools realising a wide range of other financial and educational benefits. While every academy may not therefore have its own governing body, our guidance in the Governance Handbook makes clear that boards should have meaningful and effective arrangements in place for engaging with and listening to the views and needs of parents, staff and the wider local community.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 18/02/2016 15:19:53 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

451966

registered interest
date	10/02/2016
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what representations she has received from civil society organisations on the admissions criteria of faith schools; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	26962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>It is the role of the Schools Adjudicator, not the Secretary of State, to consider concerns about school admission arrangements. Where a person or body has concerns that a school’s admission arrangements do not comply with the School Admissions Code, they may refer an objection to the Adjudicator. The Adjudicator must consider whether the arrangements comply with the Code and the law relating to admissions.</p><p>It has been possible for groups such as civil society organisations to refer objections since 2012. Since then, the Adjudicator has received objections from a range of groups or organisations about the admission arrangements of faith schools.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 22/02/2016 08:03:09 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

451971

registered interest
date	10/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Physical Education: Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many qualified PE teachers entered the teaching profession in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	26850
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>In the academic year 2013 to 2014 (the latest available), there were 1,443 initial teacher trainees on physical education courses in their final year. Further information is detailed in the table below.</p><p>Physical education ITT trainees in their final year:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Academic year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Awarded QTS</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>1,557</p></td><td><p>1,487</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>1,385</p></td><td><p>1,321</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>1,366</p></td><td><p>1,243</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>1,443</p></td><td><p>1,368</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>(Excludes Teach first)</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 22/02/2016 08:27:14 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

451480

registered interest
date	09/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Ferndown
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will direct Ofsted to undertake re-inspections of (a) Parley First School and (b) Ferndown Upper School within two years of their last inspections.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
uin	26624
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>The scheduling of school inspections is a matter for Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector. Ofsted’s general policy is to inspect ‘requires improvement’ and ‘inadequate’ schools after approximately two years.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 22/02/2016 08:27:51 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

451770

registered interest
date	09/02/2016
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, in the light of the report by the Fair Admissions Campaign and British Humanist Association last year claiming widespread breaches of the School Admissions Code among religiously selective schools, what assessment they have made of the impact on the number of breaches of the School Admissions Code of preventing groups and organisations from submitting objections to school admission arrangements.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL6045
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>I refer the Baroness Lister to the answer to HL5704, which was submitted to Parliament on 12 February 2016.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 22/02/2016 13:29:30 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

451771

registered interest
date	09/02/2016
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps the Department for Education has taken to ensure that schools whose admission arrangements were objected to by the Fair Admissions Campaign in 2014 and 2015 have changed their arrangements in line with any determinations of the Office of the Schools Adjudicator.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL6046
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>A decision made by the School’s Adjudicator is binding and enforceable. Where the Adjudicator upholds an objection about a school’s admission arrangements, the statutory School Admissions Code requires the school’s admission authority to revise their admission arrangements to give effect to the Adjudicator’s decision within two months of that decision, or by 28 February following the decision, whichever is the sooner. Should an admission authority fail to comply with this requirement, the Secretary of State is able to take action to require them to comply.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 22/02/2016 13:29:10 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

451773

registered interest
date	09/02/2016
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consideration they have given to the comment made in the 2014–15 annual report of the Chief Schools Adjudicator, that "the complex [admissions] arrangements of some schools do not serve local children well".
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL6048
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>I refer the Baroness Lister to the answer to parliamentary question HL5707 submitted to parliament on 12 February 2016.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 22/02/2016 13:29:48 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

451141

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	Department for Education: Legislation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what advice has been provided this Session for ministers or senior officials in the Department for Education on whether to use secondary legislation or primary legislation for significant legislation.
tabling member printed	Baroness Smith of Basildon
uin	HL6007
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2016 answer text <p>There has been no change in approach to the use of primary and secondary legislation since the General Election. Each piece of legislation is approached within the context of the policy and the existing legislative framework. There is no evidence of an increase in the number of statutory instruments laid since 2010 or since the General Election. Briefing produced by the House of Commons Library (CBP 7438) shows that the number of statutory instruments laid before the House of Commons peaked at 1,885 in the 2005-06 session, compared to 1,378 last session and 540 so far this session.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 18/02/2016 16:56:21 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash attachment 1 file name HL6009 attachment CBP-7438 (1) 170216.pdf title CBP 7438
tabling member	4170 label Biography information for Baroness Smith of Basildon