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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	Free School Meals
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the Welsh Government’s initiative on free breakfasts in primary schools; and what steps they will take to ensure that more schools provide breakfast clubs for pupils.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL3382
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2014 answer text <p>The Government has not made a formal assessment of the Welsh Government’s initiative on free breakfasts in primary schools.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Provision of breakfast was one of the issues considered in the independent School Food Plan. In response to the Plan’s recommendations, the Government is now funding the setting up of self-sustaining breakfast clubs in 184 schools in England which have free school meal entitlement of 35% or higher.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 09/12/2014 13:02:55 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

167282

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	Regional Schools Commissioners
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what measures they will put in place to support regional schools commissioners in their oversight of under-performing academy chains.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL3383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p>Regional Schools Commissioners (RSCs) are responsible for monitoring academy performance and prescribing intervention in underperforming academies and free schools.</p><p> </p><p>RSCs have authority to act on behalf of the Secretary of State for Education to fulfil this function. To support them we have created headteacher boards which provide additional local context and educational expertise to the decision making process.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 08/12/2014 17:28:35 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

167283

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	Schools: Admissions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what measures they will take to ensure that transparent criteria are set out in advance of admissions processes for all schools, including academies.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL3384
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p>All state-funded schools must comply with the School Admissions Code. The Code requires that the criteria which are used to decide the allocation of school places must be ‘fair, clear and objective’. Parents should be able to look at a set of arrangements and understand easily how places for that school will be allocated.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Code also requires all schools to publish their admission arrangements significantly in advance of parents applying for a place. Ministers permit specific derogations from compliance with the Code within the funding agreements of free schools and academies where to do so would support fairness.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 08/12/2014 17:49:45 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

167284

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Postgraduate Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consideration they have given to Master’s degree funding opportunities.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL3385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>At Autumn Statement 2014 the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced the Government’s intention to introduce an income contingent postgraduate loan of up to £10,000 for those students aged under 30 studying for a 1 year full-time, or 2 year part-time, Master's course. BIS will launch a public consultation in the New Year on the loan terms and eligibility criteria, before finalising the design of the scheme.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 16/12/2014 17:08:34 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

167285

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	Schools: Vocational Guidance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they will take to incorporate careers education into the national curriculum.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL3386
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>The Government’s vision is to make sure that every young person leaves school or college prepared for life in modern Britain. An important element of this is ensuring that young people get the careers education and guidance they need to succeed in the workplace. My Rt hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, made available £20 million to support improvements in this area in the Autumn Statement, and my Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, announced on 10 December the creation of a new employer-led careers and enterprise company. The new company will support much greater engagement between employers on the one hand and schools and colleges on the other, to create inspired and skilled young people ready to engage positively with the world of work.</p><p>The Department for Education has issued schools with revised statutory guidance, which underpins their duty to secure independent careers guidance. The statutory guidance makes it clear that schools should have a strategy for the careers advice and guidance they provide to young people, which should be embedded within a clear framework, linked to outcomes for pupils.</p><p>Personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education is a subject that can encompass careers education and employability skills. All schools should teach PSHE, drawing on good practice. We have outlined this expectation in the introduction to the new national curriculum and in our communications to schools.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 15/12/2014 12:30:48 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey