Asked by: Andrew Lewin (Labour - Welwyn Hatfield)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of children in year three who are eligible for free school meals attend schools rated (a) Outstanding, (b) Good, (c) Requires Improvement and (d) Inadequate in England.
Answered by Stephen Morgan - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
Data on the number pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM) broken down by a schools’ single headline grade is not held by the department. Ofsted has, as of September 2024, ceased providing headline grades as part of the move to a comprehensive school report card to provide greater information for parents and proportionate accountability for schools. Subject to the ongoing consultation report, cards will include reporting on inclusion.
Information on the total number of pupils in year 3 who are eligible for FSM is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/d86ace7e-c9c0-4fd6-6cbc-08dd48e2728c.
Information on the number and percentage of pupils eligible for FSM by school, is published as part of the statistical release. The release is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics.
Asked by: Andrew Lewin (Labour - Welwyn Hatfield)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of children in year three and above who are eligible for free school meals attend schools rated (a) Outstanding, (b) Good, (c) Requires Improvement and (d) Inadequate in Welwyn Hatfield constituency.
Answered by Stephen Morgan - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
Data on the number pupils eligible for free school meals broken down by a schools’ single headline grade is not held by the department. Ofsted has, as of September 2024, ceased providing headline grades as part of the move to a comprehensive school report card to provide greater information for parents and proportionate accountability for schools. Subject to the ongoing consultation report, cards will include reporting on inclusion.
Information on the total number and percentage of pupils eligible for free school meals at school level, including the constituency of the school, is published in an additional supporting file as part of the statistical release. The release is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics.
Asked by: Andrew Lewin (Labour - Welwyn Hatfield)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number and proportion of children in England who (a) are aged between four and 18 and (b) have an EHCP that attend schools rated (a) Outstanding, (b) Good and (c) Requires improvement and (d) Inadequate.
Answered by Catherine McKinnell - Minister of State (Education)
Data on children with education, health and care (EHC) plans broken down by a schools’ single headline grade is not held by the department. Ofsted has, as of September 2024, ceased providing headline grades as part of the move to a comprehensive school report card to provide greater information for parents and proportionate accountability for schools. Subject to the ongoing consultation report, cards will include reporting on inclusion.
Information on the total number of pupils in schools in England with an EHC plan by their age is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/4c599f37-7eed-462d-6cbe-08dd48e2728c.
Information on the special educational needs of pupils in schools in England is published as part of the statistical release, Special Educational Needs in England. The release is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england.
Asked by: Andrew Lewin (Labour - Welwyn Hatfield)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of children aged four to 18 who have an EHCP attend schools rated (a) Outstanding, (b) Good, (c) Requires Improvement and (d) Inadequate in Welwyn Hatfield constituency.
Answered by Catherine McKinnell - Minister of State (Education)
Data on children with education, health and care (EHC) plans broken down by a schools’ single headline grade is not held by the department. Ofsted has, as of September 2024, ceased providing headline grades as part of the move to a comprehensive school report card to provide greater information for parents and proportionate accountability for schools. Subject to the ongoing consultation report cards will include reporting on inclusion.
Information on the total number of pupils with an EHC plan by school, including the constituency of the school, is published in an additional supporting file as part of the statistical release. It is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england.
Asked by: Andrew Lewin (Labour - Welwyn Hatfield)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average funding per pupil was in mainstream schools in (a) Welwyn Hatfield constituency, (b) Hertfordshire and (c) England in over the past five academic years.
Answered by Catherine McKinnell - Minister of State (Education)
The tables below set out funding statistics for Welwyn Hatfield constituency, Hertfordshire and England in each of the last five years. The Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) funding cycle is on a financial year basis, rather than an academic one, so this is what has been provided in this answer.
For Hertfordshire and England, the figures represent the funding provided through the schools block of the DSG. The figures in table one include premises funding but exclude falling rolls and growth funding (funding for local authorities to support schools with significant increases or decreases in pupil numbers).
The DSG is allocated at local authority level and, as such, the equivalent figures are not available for Welwyn Hatfield constituency. The constituency level data for Welwyn Hatfield is instead calculated based on the notional schools national funding formula (NFF) allocations for all mainstream schools in the constituency. The figures in table two are not comparable to those in table one because DSG funding cannot be broken down to constituency level, so the context of the funding figures are not the same.
The tables below provide average per-pupil funding for the last five years, 2020/21 to 2024/25:
Table one
Year | DSG Schools Block per-pupil funding * | |
Hertfordshire | England | |
2020/21 | £4,642 | £4,845 |
2021/22 | £5,024 | £5,228 |
2022/23 | £5,330 | £5,534 |
2023/24 | £5,634 | £5,838 |
2024/25 | £5,764 | £5,957 |
* Additional grants, such as the School Supplementary Grant (SSG) and the Mainstream Schools Additional Grant (MSAG) are included in these figures once they have been incorporated into the DSG.
Table two
NFF Schools Block per-pupil funding * | |
Year | Welwyn Hatfield |
2020/21 | £4,806 |
2021/22 | £4,981 |
2022/23 | £5,150 |
2023/24 | £5,445 |
2024/25 | £5,755 |
* The allocations that schools within a constituency actually receive are determined by the local funding formula in their area. Additional grants, such as the SSG and the MSAG are included in these figures once they have been incorporated into the DSG.