First elected: 6th May 2010
Left House: 6th November 2019 (Standing Down)
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Andrew Griffiths has not been granted any Urgent Questions
The Bill failed to complete its passage through Parliament before the end of the session. This means the Bill will make no further progress. A Bill to entitle women aged under 40 and with a family history of breast cancer to breast cancer screening services; and for connected purposes.
The Bill failed to complete its passage through Parliament before the end of the session. This means the Bill will make no further progress. A Bill to require the Lord Chancellor to report on the use by courts of compensation orders for child sexual abuse offences; and for connected purposes.
Nurse Staffing Levels Bill 2017-19
Sponsor - Maria Caulfield (Con)
Data published by UCAS show that young people from the most disadvantaged areas in England were more likely to enter higher education in 2014 than ever before, and the latest figures for 2015 show that the application rate was at a record level.
Acceptances and entry rates1 for 18 year olds from the most disadvantaged areas2 in England
Year of entry | ||||||
2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | |
Acceptances | N/A | 19,130 | 19,920 | 19,890 | 21.180 | 22,980 |
Entry rate | 13.6% | 14.0% | 15.0% | 15.1% | 16.4% | 18.2% |
Source: UCAS end of cycle report December 2014. Comparable figures for 2015 will be published in December. N/A = not available.
Application rates3 for 18 year olds from the most disadvantaged areas2 in England
Year of entry | ||||||
2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | |
Application rate | 18.0% | 18.6% | 17.9% | 18.9% | 20.4% | 21.0% |
Source: UCAS application rate report January 2015.
1. The entry rate is the percentage of the 18 year old population accepted into higher education through UCAS.
2. Quintile 1 of the POLAR indicator. The POLAR classification developed by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) classifies small areas across the UK into five groups according to their level of young participation (entry at age 18 or 19) in higher education. Each of these groups represents around 20 per cent of young people and are ranked from quintile 1 (areas with the lowest young participation rates, considered as the most disadvantaged) to quintile 5 (highest young participation rates, considered most advantaged).
3. The application rate is the percentage of the 18 year old population who apply to higher education via UCAS.
The Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) regulates the relationships between the ten largest supermarkets and their direct suppliers only. The Groceries Code Adjudicator Act 2013 requires the Secretary of State to conduct and consult on a review every three years into the operational effectiveness of the GCA. The first of these reviews will cover the period from the establishment of the GCA in June 2013 to March 2016.
The Act requires that the review must, in particular:
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
There is no set timeframe for how long it takes the Office for Students (OfS) to process an application. This is because a final registration decision is dependent on a number of factors. These include the completeness of the application, the scale of the information requested by the assessor during the assessment process and the length of time taken by the provider to respond to such information requests. The time taken for the provider’s bespoke access and participation plan to be negotiated and approved also has an impact on the length of the process.
As higher education establishments may choose to apply for registration onto the Office for Students’ (OfS) register at any time, there is no set deadline or timeframe for when they should receive a decision on their applications. To date, 356 higher education establishments have successfully registered with the OfS since the OfS started accepting applications.
There is no meaningful average time for higher education establishments receiving an outcome on their Office for Students (OfS) registration application. This is because the time taken from initial receipt of the application to a final registration decision is dependent on a number of factors. These factors include the completeness of the application initially submitted, the scale of the clarificatory information requested by the assessor during the assessment process and the length of time taken by the provider to respond to such information requests. In addition, other factors include the time taken for the provider’s access and participation plan to be negotiated and approved, the likelihood of the provider to breach its ongoing conditions of registration, including the ways in which that would impact its students. Furthermore, consideration is also given to the overall readiness of the provider to be regulated.
In cases where decisions that have been reached more quickly often relate to circumstances where the provider has submitted a near-complete application or where queries during the assessment have been minimal. In addition, more timely decisions can be made where the risk assessment suggests that the provider is unlikely to breach any of its ongoing conditions of registration. Cases that have taken longer to assess have typically involved several attempts to obtain relevant information from the provider. The risk assessment also suggests either that the provider does not satisfy one or more initial conditions of registration (in which case the provider may make representations against the proposed decision to refuse registration), or that the provider may be at increased risk of breaching one or more of its ongoing conditions of registration once registered. In these cases, the OfS is likely to conclude that the interests of students are best protected by taking regulatory action with which the provider must comply, such as applying specific conditions of registration or enhanced monitoring arrangements. Such occurrences would lengthen the timeframe for a decision on an application.
The requested information for 2013-14, the most recent year available, was published in table L5 of the ‘Additional tables’ available online here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/characteristics-of-children-in-need-2013-to-2014
Information on how many and what proportion of children designated as in need achieved five A* to C grades at GCSE including English and mathematics, excluding equivalents, for the most recent year for which figures are available is published in table L5 in the additional tables, online at:
www.gov.uk/government/statistics/characteristics-of-children-in-need-2013-to-2014
Information on how many and what proportion of children designated as in need achieved no A* to C grades at GCSE, excluding equivalents, is not held in the requested format.
The Department for Education does not hold the requested information in the correct format. However, the department has published data on the percentage of children going missing from foster homes and regulated children’s homes in the year ending 31 March 2013, once, twice, three times, and four or more times. This is available on slide 17 of the Children’s homes data pack published at:
Additionally, information on the numbers of children who were missing from care for the latest 5 years are available in table B1 of the Statistical First Release ‘Children looked after in England, year ending 31 March 2014’, however, this does not provide information on the number of times each child went missing. This can be found online at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/outcomes-for-children-looked-after-by-local-authorities
The information is not held in the format requested.
The Department for Education publishes information at regional and local authority level on the proportion of white boys eligible for free school meals. This information, along with information on the proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals, can be found in tables 3 and 5 of the “GCSE and equivalent attainment by pupil characteristics: 2014”, available online at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/gcse-and-equivalent-attainment-by-pupil-characteristics-2014
This is a matter for Ofsted. I have asked Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, to write to the Hon Member with the information requested. A copy of his reply will be placed in the House library.
This is a matter for Ofsted. I have asked Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, to write to the Hon Member with the information requested. A copy of his reply will be placed in the House library.
This is a matter for Ofsted. I have asked Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, to write to the Hon Member with the information requested. A copy of his reply will be placed in the House library.
This is a matter for Ofsted. I have asked Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, to write to the Hon Member with the information requested. A copy of his reply will be placed in the House library.
This is a matter for Ofsted. I have asked Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, to write to the Hon Member with the information requested. A copy of his reply will be placed in the House library.
Information is not held in the requested format.
The Department for Education does publish information separately at local authority level on the number of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals and the breakdown by major ethnicities in the ‘GCSE and equivalent attainment by pupil characteristics:2014’.[1] Data for earlier years is also available from this publication.
[1] www.gov.uk/government/statistics/gcse-and-equivalent-attainment-by-pupil-characteristics-2014
The information requested can be derived from published key stage 4 school performance tables data for 2012[1], 2013[2] and 2014[3].
[1] File labelled KS4 XLS files at: www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/2012/download_data.html
[2] File labelled KS4 XLS files at: www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/2013/download_data.html
[3] File labelled KS4 XLS files at: www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/download_data.html
The information requested can be derived from published key stage 2 school performance tables data for 2012[1], 2013[2] and 2014[3].
[1] File labelled KS2 XLS files at: www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/2012/download_data.html
[2] File labelled KS2 XLS files at: www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/2013/download_data.html
[3] File labelled KS2 XLS files at: www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/download_data.html
Information on the numbers of placements in the care history of children ceasing to be looked after in the year ending 31 March 2014 is published in Table D5 of the ‘Children looked after, including adoption’ statistical first release. This table sets out the total number of children who had between one and nine, or ten or more placements in their care history[1].
[1] www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption--2
I am pleased that over one million more children are now in schools that are good or better than in 2010. Ofsted publish data for each local authority area and I have asked Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw to write to you on this matter. A copy of his reply will be placed in the library of the House.
The information requested has been placed in the House Library.
Only the last three years of data have been provided. Figures for 2010 and 2011 could only be made available at disproportionate cost.
The requested information is not held in this format due to confidentiality with the small numbers involved.
The national data on the number of placements during the year (1, 2, 3 or more) is published in Table A3 and the numbers of placements in the care history is published in Table D5 of the ‘Children looked after, including adoption’ statistical first release. [1]
[1] www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption--2.
The Department for Education does not collect data on how many weapons have been confiscated from pupils in schools.
The Department has produced and updated advice for schools which makes it clear that school staff can search pupils for their possessions, without consent where there are reasonable grounds to do so. If a pupil refuses to be searched, the school may bar them from the premises. The advice is available online at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/searching-screening-and-confiscation.
Information in the form requested is not readily available and could be calculated only at disproportionate cost.
The number of pupil enrolments by fixed period exclusion count and national curriculum year group, for the 2012/13 academic year, can be found in the attached table.
The Department for Education does not collect information on the number of pupils excluded from school for the possession and supply of illegal drugs. The Department publishes information on the number of pupils excluded permanently or for a fixed period for ‘drug and alcohol’ related reasons. Guidance to schools clarifies that this category includes exclusions for alcohol abuse, drug dealing, inappropriate use of prescribed drugs, possession of illegal drugs, smoking and substance abuse.
Information showing the number of drug and alcohol related exclusions for 2008/09 to 2012/13 has been included in the attached Excel document. Further information on permanent and fixed period exclusions can be found in the “Statistics: exclusions” series [1].
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-exclusions
The Department for Education does not collect data on truancy.
Information on the number and proportion of pupils classified as persistent absentees in the 2012/13 academic year is published in the “Pupil absence in schools in England: 2012 to 2013” Statistical First Release[1].
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/pupil-absence-in-schools-in-england-2012-to-2013
The number of children looked after who went missing from their agreed placement for more than 24 hours during the year ending 31 March 2014 by age is shown in the below table. It is known in some cases that younger children who go missing from their agreed placement are the children of mothers who are themselves looked after.
Looked after children who went missing from their agreed placement by age1,2,3,4,5
Year ending 31 March 2014
Coverage: England
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Source: SSDA903
1. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10.
2. Figures exclude children looked after under an agreed series of short-term placements.
3. Where a child went missing from his/her placement on more than one occasion during the year, the child has only been counted once during the year.
4. Data on children missing from their agreed placement are known to be under reported for some local authorities. The Department for Education is currently engaged in a process to improve the reporting for this group of vulnerable children.
5. The number of looked after children who have a period where they are classed as being missing from their agreed placement for a period of more than 24 hours which started during the year ending 31 March.
The Department for Education’s Sure Start Children’s Centres statutory guidance states that health services and local authorities should share information such as live birth data and data on families with children under five who have recently moved into the area with children’s centres on a regular basis.
Individual data items that this would include are subject to local partnership agreements or protocols, developed in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.
The Department for Education does not hold the information in the form requested and to produce the analysis would incur disproportionate cost.
The Evaluation of Children’s Centres in England (ECCE) published in June 2014 shows that of those centres evaluated in 2013, 17 per cent were situated in the 10 per cent most disadvantaged neighbourhoods nationally. This is only based on a small sample (128 centres) and is unlikely to be generally representative.
The Department collects information on the number of children looked after by local authorities in England via the SSDA903 return. However data on the number of children looked after who have parents who misuse alcohol or drugs is not collected.
Figures are provided in the table below for assessments of children in need:
Number of assessments of children referred to social care where alcohol or drug misuse by the parent or carer was identified as a factor, year ending 31 March 2014
Factor identified1 | At initial assessments2 | At continuous assessments2 | |||
Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | ||
Total assessments completed at which factors were reported | 206,000 | . | 145,700 | . | |
Of which reported: | |||||
Alcohol misuse: Concerns about alcohol misuse by the parent/carer | 18,800 | 9.1 | 16,100 | 11.1 | |
Drug misuse: Concerns about alcohol misuse by the parent/carer | 15,300 | 7.4 | 13,800 | 9.5 |
Source: Children in Need census
1. This data was reported for the first time in 2013/14 for initial and continuous assessments completed in the year. A child may have more than one assessment in the year and an assessment may have more than one factor recorded.
2. An initial assessment is a brief assessment and a continuous assessment is a more in depth assessment of a child’s needs where the child has been referred to children’s social care services with a request that services be provided.
This was the first year this data item was collected. Data was provided by around two thirds of local authorities so this information should be treated with caution.
Factor information is published within table A6 of the ‘Characteristics of children in need: 2013 to 2014’ statistical first release: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/characteristics-of-children-in-need-2013-to-2014
Local authorities are responsible for maintaining records of their main children’s centres (and any additional sites that are open to children and families that are providing children's centre services as part of a network) on the Department for Education’s children’s centre database.
Information from the database about the governance of main children’s centres, at 30 November 2014, was listed as follows:
Governance | Number | % |
Local Authority (LA) | 1974 | 70% |
Private, Voluntary or Independent provider (PVI) | 665 | 24% |
Other Community Group | 105 | 4% |
Health | 71 | 3% |
NULL | 1 | 0% |
Total | 2816 | 100% |
Further details about governance and the list of children’s centre names by each governance type (giving the type and/or name of the organisation) have been provided in the attached Excel file.
Local authorities are responsible for maintaining records of their main children’s centres (and any additional sites that are open to children and families that are providing children's centre services as part of a network) on the Department for Education’s children’s centre database.
Information from the database about the governance of main children’s centres, at 30 November 2014, was listed as follows:
Governance | Number | % |
Local Authority (LA) | 1974 | 70% |
Private, Voluntary or Independent provider (PVI) | 665 | 24% |
Other Community Group | 105 | 4% |
Health | 71 | 3% |
NULL | 1 | 0% |
Total | 2816 | 100% |
Further details about governance and the list of children’s centre names by each governance type (giving the type and/or name of the organisation) have been provided in the attached Excel file.
This question is a matter for Ofsted. I have asked Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, to write to the Hon. Member. Copies of his response will be placed in the House Library.
As part of the Transforming Youth Custody Programme, the Government will shortly announce the outcome of a competition for new education contracts in under-18 Young Offender Institutions, which will aim to more than double the average number of hours of education provided for young people each week. The Government is taking forward reforms of Young Offender Institutions to support a stronger focus on education and reduce interruptions that impact on the number of hours provided.
The question asked about the average number of hours of education provided per week for a young offender in young offender institutions can only be answered at disproportionate cost.
The following table provides the number of boys[1] on roll in publicly funded primary schools[2] who were eligible and not eligible for free school meals in those schools with one, two and three full-time equivalent male teachers.
Boys known to be eligible for | Boys known not to be eligible for | |
FTE number of teachers[3] | ||
1 | 73,800 | 379,400 |
2 | 81,500 | 391,100 |
3 | 63,000 | 278,300 |
Sources: Pupils: School Census, January 2014. Teachers: School Workforce Census, November 2013.
Under this Government more men are becoming primary school teachers - the proportion of primary teacher trainees who are men has increased from 18% in 2010 to 21% in 2013.
[1] Boys who have full time attendance and are aged 15 or under, or pupils who have part time attendance and are aged between 5 and 15. Includes sole and dual registered pupils.
[2] Includes primary local authority maintained, academies and free schools.
[3] Includes the proportion of full-time equivalent hours of a full-time teacher for part-time teachers and therefore the headcount number in service may be more than shown.
Information on the number of pupils in each national curriculum year group in each state-funded school was published on 12 June 2014 in “Schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2014”. It is published online at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2014
The table below lists the 51 state-funded mainstream schools that had at least one pupil in reception and at least one pupil in year 13 in January 2014.
School name | School type | Local authority area |
The Business Academy Bexley | Sponsored academy | Bexley |
Waverley School | Community school | Birmingham |
Bolton St Catherine's Academy | Sponsored academy | Bolton |
Appleton Academy | Sponsored academy | Bradford |
Bradford Academy | Sponsored academy | Bradford |
Bradford Girls' Grammar School | Free school | Bradford |
Dixons Allerton Academy | Sponsored academy | Bradford |
Preston Manor School | Converter academy | Brent |
Merchants' Academy | Sponsored academy | Bristol City of |
St Michael's Catholic School | Voluntary Aided School | Buckinghamshire |
The Aylesbury Vale Academy | Sponsored academy | Buckinghamshire |
Oasis Academy Shirley Park | Sponsored academy | Croydon |
Dartmouth Academy | Sponsored academy | Devon |
Alec Reed Academy | Sponsored academy | Ealing |
Edmonton County School | Community school | Enfield |
Oasis Academy Hadley | Sponsored academy | Enfield |
Samuel Ryder Academy | Sponsored academy | Hertfordshire |
Guru Nanak Sikh Academy | Converter academy | Hillingdon |
Rosedale College | Converter academy | Hillingdon |
St Mary Magdalene Academy | Sponsored academy | Islington |
Folkestone Academy | Sponsored academy | Kent |
The John Wallis Church of England Academy | Sponsored academy | Kent |
Batley Grammar School | Free school | Kirklees |
Dunraven School | Converter academy | Lambeth |
Carr Manor Community School, Specialist Sports College | Community school | Leeds |
Roundhay School | Community school | Leeds |
Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College | Sponsored academy | Lewisham |
Haberdashers' Aske's Knights Academy | Sponsored academy | Lewisham |
Priory Witham Academy | Sponsored academy | Lincolnshire |
Liverpool College | Sponsored academy | Liverpool |
William Hulme's Grammar School | Sponsored academy | Manchester |
Excelsior Academy | Sponsored academy | Newcastle upon Tyne |
Iceni Academy | Sponsored academy | Norfolk |
Kings Priory School | Sponsored academy | North Tyneside |
Caroline Chisholm School | Converter academy | Northamptonshire |
DSLV E-ACT Academy | Sponsored academy | Northamptonshire |
Kettering Buccleuch Academy | Sponsored academy | Northamptonshire |
Kettering Science Academy | Sponsored academy | Northamptonshire |
Bede Academy | Sponsored academy | Northumberland |
Northumberland CofE Academy | Sponsored academy | Northumberland |
Nottingham Academy | Sponsored academy | Nottingham |
Serlby Park Academy | Sponsored academy | Nottinghamshire |
St Gregory the Great Catholic Secondary School | Converter academy | Oxfordshire |
Hampton College | Community school | Peterborough |
Loxford School of Science and Technology | Converter academy | Redbridge |
The Ridings Federation Yate International Academy | Sponsored academy | South Gloucestershire |
Grindon Hall Christian School | Free school | Sunderland |
Swindon Academy | Sponsored academy | Swindon |
The Mirus Academy | Sponsored academy | Walsall |
Birkenhead High School Academy | Sponsored academy | Wirral |
The Piggott School | Converter academy | Wokingham |