Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people who graduated into paid jobs within sport attended football or other sports academies for 16 to 19 year olds which received funding from the public purse in the last three years.
Answered by Robert Halfon
The Department for Education does not hold this information.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much public funding has been allocated to each (a) football and (b) other sports academy for 16 to 19 year olds in each of the last three years; and how many participants dropped out of those academies in each of the last three years.
Answered by Robert Halfon
The Department for Education funds sports provision in a wide range of schools, colleges and other providers. The Department does not directly fund any football or other sport academies, but it does fund League Football Education and the FA Premier League Limited for delivery of education and training in association with football clubs. Some education and training linked to football clubs is also delivered through sub-contracting arrangements with funded institutions. The Department does not hold information on the numbers of students who drop out from sports academies.
The Department currently funds 16 to 19 provision in 36 schools and academies that have sports as a specialism and are identified as such in their title. The allocations to those schools and academies, along with the allocations for all other 16 to 19 provision, are published online at the following links:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/16-to-19-allocation-data-2016-to-2017-academic-year
Most students enrolled on sports provision are enrolled on general qualifications that are not specific to any particular sport.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which sports academies for 16 to 19 year olds which are not football academies have received funding from the public purse in the last three years; how much funding each such academy has received; how many participants each such academy has had; and which sports each such academy represented.
Answered by Robert Halfon
The Department for Education funds sports provision in a wide range of schools, colleges and other providers. The Department does not directly fund any football or other sport academies, but it does fund League Football Education and the FA Premier League Limited for delivery of education and training in association with football clubs. Some education and training linked to football clubs is also delivered through sub-contracting arrangements with funded institutions. The Department does not hold information on the numbers of students who drop out from sports academies.
The Department currently funds 16 to 19 provision in 36 schools and academies that have sports as a specialism and are identified as such in their title. The allocations to those schools and academies, along with the allocations for all other 16 to 19 provision, are published online at the following links:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/16-to-19-allocation-data-2016-to-2017-academic-year
Most students enrolled on sports provision are enrolled on general qualifications that are not specific to any particular sport.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what safeguarding systems have been used in football and other sports academies for 16 to 19 year olds which have received funding from the public purse in the last three years; who has responsibility for such systems at (a) local, (b) regional and (c) national level; and how much funding such academies have received from the public purse in the last three years.
Answered by Robert Halfon
Safeguarding and child protection duties and powers sit with the education provider and the local authority or authorities where the student resides and studies, the police and other agencies. The Secretary of State for Education has the general duty to promote the wellbeing of children in England under section 7 of the Children and Young Persons Act 2008.
We cannot comment on the precise safeguarding systems used by individual providers. We do, however, require all funded providers for 16-18 to be compliant with legislation and regulation in respect of students’ health and safety. Colleges are explicitly referenced in ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’, the statutory guidance for schools and colleges on safeguarding children and safer recruitment. Our Contract for Services with Charitable and Commercial Providers requires them to be compliant with the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 and to have regard to guidance from the Secretary of State on safeguarding practice. We can take action in cases of non-compliance.
Where provision is delivered through a subcontracting arrangement with a third party, the Education Funding Agency is clear that safeguarding arrangements remain the responsibility of the directly funded provider. This is set out in the subcontracting control regulations that form part of our funding guidance, with which all directly funded providers are required to comply.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many free schools have no spare capacity for more pupils.
Answered by Edward Timpson
There are now 345 open free schools. New schools typically open with one or two year groups and then increase in size by a year group each academic year. In some cases, a school’s capacity increases at the point at which it moves from temporary accommodation to its permanent site or a school could decide to expand in response to parental demand. Due to these fluctuations, we do not maintain a running total of the number of free school places available at any one time. However, we know that when they reach full capacity, the free schools already open will provide 180,000 new school places.
In addition, there over 230 schools aiming to open in 2017 and beyond; these schools will provide a further 150,000 new places when at full capacity.
A breakdown of the total number of pupils at each individual school is available from the school census on this link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers.
As the data represents the total number of pupils attending a school as of the start of the calendar year the most recently published data will not include the 56 new schools opened in September 2016. These new schools will create 36,000 extra places when at full capacity.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the pupil spare capacity is in free schools.
Answered by Edward Timpson
There are now 345 open free schools. New schools typically open with one or two year groups and then increase in size by a year group each academic year. In some cases, a school’s capacity increases at the point at which it moves from temporary accommodation to its permanent site or a school could decide to expand in response to parental demand. Due to these fluctuations, we do not maintain a running total of the number of free school places available at any one time. However, we know that when they reach full capacity, the free schools already open will provide 180,000 new school places.
In addition, there over 230 schools aiming to open in 2017 and beyond; these schools will provide a further 150,000 new places when at full capacity.
A breakdown of the total number of pupils at each individual school is available from the school census on this link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers.
As the data represents the total number of pupils attending a school as of the start of the calendar year the most recently published data will not include the 56 new schools opened in September 2016. These new schools will create 36,000 extra places when at full capacity.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which 20 secondary schools have had the biggest improvement in GCSE results over the last 15 years.
Answered by Nick Gibb
There is not a consistent metric to measure school performance at Key Stage 4 over this time period. However, the data showing the performance of schools in each of the last 15 years as measured at the time is available at the download data page of the “Compare school and college” website[1].
[1] https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/download-data
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the relative performance at GCSE of (a) pupils who are home schooled and (b) other pupils.
Answered by Edward Timpson
The Department does not hold information for pupils taking GCSEs who are home schooled. The latest information for other pupils is available from the “Revised GCSE and equivalent results in England: 2014 to 2015” statistical first release available on GOV.UK at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/revised-gcse-and-equivalent-results-in-england-2014-to-2015.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils are home schooled; and how many were so schooled in (a) 2005 and (b) 2010.
Answered by Edward Timpson
Data for the numbers of children educated at home in England are not collected by the Department for Education. Some local authorities maintain voluntary registers of children educated at home but as they have no statutory basis, they cannot be regarded as an authoritative source of data.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils were registered in Bassetlaw in (a) year 6 in primary schools and (b) year 11 in secondary schools in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The number of year 6 pupils in primary schools and year 11 pupils in secondary schools in the Bassetlaw constituency for each of the last 10 years were as follows:
Number of pupils on roll in schools in Bassetlaw, 2006-2015 [1] | ||
Year | Number of Year 6 Pupils in state-funded primary schools [2] | Number of Year 11 pupils in state-funded secondary schools [2] |
2006 [3] | 1,143 | 1,091 |
2007 [3] | 1,132 | 1,163 |
2008 [3] | 1,088 | 1,163 |
2009 [3] | 1,121 | 1,046 |
2010 [3] | 1,075 | 1,030 |
2011 [3] | 1,048 | 1,029 |
2012 [3] | 943 | 983 |
2013 | 1,001 | 970 |
2014 | 994 | 959 |
2015 | 1,013 | 906 |
[1] Includes sole and dual main registered pupils, as at January each year | ||
[2] Includes middle schools as deemed | ||
[3] Number of pupils by year group not available. Pupils aged 10 at 31 August previous year used as a proxy for Year 6 pupils, and pupils aged 15 at 31 August previous year used as proxy for year 11 pupils. | ||