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511261

registered interest
date	12/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Headteachers: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many academy schools have been found to have paid the head teacher at such schools more than the publicly disclosed salary in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
tabling member printed	Rob Marris
uin	33486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2016 answer text <p>Academy trusts are subject to a more rigorous accountability regime than other types of schools, including the production of annual audited accounts that allow us to identify and act upon irregularity more quickly.</p><p>The Education Funding Agency has found one instance of where the head teacher has been paid more than the publicly disclosed salary in each of the last 3 years. The additional payments were in respect of chief executive or accounting officer responsibilities.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 22/04/2016 13:53:32 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb previous answer version 55895 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1468 label Biography information for Rob Marris

511262

registered interest
date	12/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Headteachers: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many LEA schools have been found to have paid the head teacher at such schools more than the publicly disclosed salary in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
tabling member printed	Rob Marris
uin	33487
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for the oversight of the schools they maintain and carry out their own programmes of financial monitoring.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 18/04/2016 16:32:14 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1468 label Biography information for Rob Marris

511337

registered interest
date	12/04/2016
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, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March 2016 to Question 31449, what the main components are of the expenditure that her Department incurs when a school converts to an academy.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	33491
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2016 answer text <p>The main expenditure incurred relates to the pre-opening start-up grants that are currently available to schools. Currently, grants are intended to be a contribution to the costs of conversion incurred by schools in establishing the academy. These may include legal fees, costs associated with transfer of land, transfer of software licences, Human Resources and Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 advice and setting up the Academy Trust.</p><p> </p><p>Grants to schools that become sponsored academies also include an element to support school improvement such as leadership support, teaching and learning interventions, pupil focused interventions, curriculum redesign and staff restructuring.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 19/04/2016 15:33:26 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

511338

registered interest
date	12/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Curriculum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of ending the national curriculum at the age of 14.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	33504
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government believes that the majority of pupils should study a core academic curriculum up to the age of 16. The core academic curriculum refers to the English Baccalaureate (EBacc). The Government’s ambition is for 90% of pupils to enter the EBacc subjects at GCSE. The national curriculum serves an important role in setting out the sort of knowledge-based, ambitious, academically rigorous education which every child should experience. It enables pupils to develop the knowledge, understanding, skills and attitudes necessary for their self-fulfilment and development as active and responsible citizens.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 20/04/2016 11:33:29 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

511339

registered interest
date	12/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Adoption Leadership Board
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many times the Adoption Leadership Board has met since its creation in 2014.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	33525
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2016 answer text <p>As of 14<sup>th</sup> April 2016, the Adoption Leadership Board has met 11 times since its creation.</p><p> </p><p>Information about the Adoption Leadership Board is readily available on GOV.UK: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adoption-leadership-board-quarterly-data-reports" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adoption-leadership-board-quarterly-data-reports</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Information can also be found on the website of the Consortium of Voluntary Adoption Agencies.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 19/04/2016 15:42:22 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

511340

registered interest
date	12/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Local Safeguarding Children Boards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when her Department plans to publish the Local Safeguarding Children Board review.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	33526
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2016 answer text <p>The independent review of the role and functions of Local Safeguarding Children Boards, undertaken by Alan Wood, has been submitted to the Secretary of State for Education, and will be published in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 19/04/2016 15:35:57 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

511341

registered interest
date	12/04/2016
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 her Department's policy is on where a school's deficit would be transferred at the point of its conversion to an academy.
tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
uin	33611
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>Deficits for schools which convert to become sponsored academies remain with the local authority. These deficits remain with their local authority as these schools were the responsibility of the authority when they were found to be failing or underperforming and it is the authority’s responsibility for ensuring the school managed its expenditure satisfactorily. Deficits for voluntary converter academies will normally transfer with the school.</p><p>Further information can be found in the Department’s guidance: “Treatment of surplus and deficit balances when maintained schools become academies” which can be found on GOV.UK at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/416430/School_balances_on_conversion_submission.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/416430/School_balances_on_conversion_submission.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 18/04/2016 15:27:27 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds

511342

registered interest
date	12/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	ICT: Curriculum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the present amount of Continued Professional Development funding for training teachers in the new computing curriculum will be maintained for future academic years.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	33613
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>Over the last three years, the Department has spent more than £4.5 million to support the implementation of the new curriculum and is committed to support the high quality teaching of computing. This includes £3m to establish the Network of Teaching Excellence in Computer Science, building a national network of over 300 ‘Master Teachers’ whom schools can commission to provide training for their teachers; £1m for Computing at School (CAS) to meet the needs of primary schools teachers who lacked the specialist computer science subject knowledge required to teach the new curriculum; and a £500,000 competitive match-funded scheme that has supported innovative approaches to promoting excellent computing teaching and lever additional investment and engagement from business.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 18/04/2016 15:24:55 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

511343

registered interest
date	12/04/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Autism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that all teachers in England are able to understand and respond to the needs of pupils with an autism spectrum disorder.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	33545
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2016 answer text <p>The Department has contracted with the Autism Education Trust since 2012 to deliver autism training to education staff. To date, the Trust has trained over 90,000 education staff. This training will continue to be funded in 2016-2017 to a value of £750,000. The contract extension with the Autism Education Trust will build on previous grant funding from the Department for two other projects (2013-16): a project by the National Autistic Society to provide information and advice to parents and professionals on exclusions and a project by Ambitious about Autism on strategies for supporting transition from school to college.</p><p> </p><p>Our support also includes the National Association for Special Educational Needs’ Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Gateway (www.sendgateway.org.uk).This offers education professionals free, easy access to high quality information, resources and training for meeting the needs of children with SEND, including those with autism. The Department has also funded National Association for Special Educational Needs (2015-16) to develop a free universal offer of SEND Continuous Professional Development for teachers.</p><p> </p><p>The National College for Teaching and Leadership has produced a series of specialist online courses, one of which focuses on autism. The training materials are designed to support teachers in mainstream schools who want to improve their skills in teaching pupils with SEND. The training materials can be found at: <a href="http://www.education.gov.uk/lamb" target="_blank">www.education.gov.uk/lamb</a>.</p><p> </p><p>In order to be awarded qualified teacher status, trainees must satisfy the Teachers’ Standards, which include a requirement that they have a clear understanding of the needs of all pupils, including those with SEND, and are able to use and evaluate distinctive teaching approaches to engage and support them.</p><p> </p><p>Following Sir Andrew Carter’s independent review of the quality and effectiveness of Initial Teacher Training (ITT) courses, the Secretary of State appointed an independent working group made up of expert representatives from the sector to develop a framework of core ITT content. The working group includes two SEND experts and will consider Sir Andrew’s recommendations on the SEND content of the proposed framework. The group is expected to report to DfE in spring 2016.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 19/04/2016 16:33:15 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

511344

registered interest
date	12/04/2016
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 guidance her Department has published on academy schools and their entitlement to run consultancy businesses alongside the educational function of the school.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	33546
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2016 answer text <p>The Department’s Governance Handbook states that:</p><p>“An academy trust’s Articles of Association set out its ‘object’ and the powers that it may exercise to further that object. These powers include the power to establish or support any charitable companies or trusts formed for the trust’s object and to set up subsidiary companies to carry on any trade or business to raise funds for the trust.”</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s Governance Handbook is available on GOV.UK at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/governance-handbook" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/governance-handbook</a></p><p> </p><p>The model Articles of Association also require that the trust’s income and property shall be applied solely towards the promotion of the trust’s charitable objects. The Charity Commission provides guidance for charities on trading activity on GOV.UK at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/trustees-trading-and-tax-how-charities-may-lawfully-trade-cc35/trustees-trading-and-tax-how-charities-may-lawfully-trade" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/trustees-trading-and-tax-how-charities-may-lawfully-trade-cc35/trustees-trading-and-tax-how-charities-may-lawfully-trade</a>.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 19/04/2016 15:32:26 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips