Asked by: Angela Eagle (Labour - Wallasey)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he will make it his policy to increase the 16-19 funding by five per cent a year for the next five years.
Answered by Anne Milton
16 to 19 funding for all institutions including those in the North West, Merseyside and the Wirral is shown in the published allocations for each year, and allocations for the last 6 years from the period 2013 to 2014 onwards is available at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/16-to-19-education-funding-allocations#published-allocations.
Allocations for previous years are also available at the following link:
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140107132325/https://www.education.gov.uk/aboutdfe/executiveagencies/efa/funding/fundinga/b00204972/16-19-allocations. However, they cannot be directly compared on a like for like basis with later years as the funding system changed in 2013.
We have protected the base rate of funding for 16 to 19 year olds for all types of providers until the end of the current spending review period in 2020. As with other areas of departmental spending, 16 to 19 funding for subsequent years will be agreed as part of the next Spending Review.
All 16 to 19 providers, including those in the North West, have a vital role to play in making sure young people have the skills they need. Our commitment to the 16 to 19 sector across England has contributed to the current record high proportion of 16 and 17 year olds who are participating in education or apprenticeships.
We are currently considering the efficiency and resilience of the further education sector and assessing how far existing funding and regulatory structures meet the costs of delivering quality further education. We will continue to look carefully at funding for the sector in preparation for the next Spending Review.
Asked by: Angela Eagle (Labour - Wallasey)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the level of funding was for 16 to 19 education in (a) the North West b) Merseyside and c) Wirral in each of the last eight years.
Answered by Anne Milton
16 to 19 funding for all institutions including those in the North West, Merseyside and the Wirral is shown in the published allocations for each year, and allocations for the last 6 years from the period 2013 to 2014 onwards is available at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/16-to-19-education-funding-allocations#published-allocations.
Allocations for previous years are also available at the following link:
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140107132325/https://www.education.gov.uk/aboutdfe/executiveagencies/efa/funding/fundinga/b00204972/16-19-allocations. However, they cannot be directly compared on a like for like basis with later years as the funding system changed in 2013.
We have protected the base rate of funding for 16 to 19 year olds for all types of providers until the end of the current spending review period in 2020. As with other areas of departmental spending, 16 to 19 funding for subsequent years will be agreed as part of the next Spending Review.
All 16 to 19 providers, including those in the North West, have a vital role to play in making sure young people have the skills they need. Our commitment to the 16 to 19 sector across England has contributed to the current record high proportion of 16 and 17 year olds who are participating in education or apprenticeships.
We are currently considering the efficiency and resilience of the further education sector and assessing how far existing funding and regulatory structures meet the costs of delivering quality further education. We will continue to look carefully at funding for the sector in preparation for the next Spending Review.
Asked by: Angela Eagle (Labour - Wallasey)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many primary schools in Wallasey constituency were full or oversubscribed in the school years commencing in (a) 2016, (b) 2017 and (c) 2018.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The Department collects information from each local authority on the number of school places through the annual school capacity survey. The Department does not collect school capacity information at parliamentary constituency level. Data relating to the position in the 2017/18 academic year is currently being collected and quality assured. The latest published data held relates to the position in the 2016/17 academic year and can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-capacity-academic-year-2016-to-2017.
As of 1 May 2017 (2016/17 academic year), Wirral Local Authority had 27 primary schools that were full or had one or more pupils in excess of capacity, out of a total of 90 primary schools. Additional figures for the 2015/16 and 2014/15 academic years can be found in the table below:
| Primary schools in Wirral | |
Academic Year | Number of primary | Number of primary schools |
2016/17 | 90 | 27 |
2015/16 | 90 | 25 |
2014/15 | 90 | 24 |
Source: School Capacity survey
Asked by: Angela Eagle (Labour - Wallasey)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many secondary schools in Wallasey constituency were full or oversubscribed in the school years commencing in (a) 2016 , (b) 2017 and (c) 2018.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The Department collects information from each local authority on the number of school places through the annual school capacity survey (SCAP). The Department does not collect school capacity information at parliamentary constituency level. Data relating to the position in the 2017/2018 academic year is currently being collected and quality assured. The latest published data held relates to the position in the 2016/17 academic year and can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-capacity-academic-year-2016-to-2017.
As of 1 May 2017 (2016/17 academic year), Wirral Local Authority had two secondary schools that were full or had one or more pupils in excess of capacity, out of a total of 21 secondary schools. Additional figures for the 2015/16 and 2014/15 academic years can be found in the table below:
| Secondary schools in Wirral | |
Academic Year | Number of | Number of secondary schools |
2016/17 | 21 | 2 |
2015/16 | 21 | 1 |
2014/15 | 22 | 1 |
Source: School Capacity survey
Asked by: Angela Eagle (Labour - Wallasey)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils have been excluded from primary schools in Wallasey constituency in each of the last five academic years.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Statistics on exclusion are not available at constituency level.
The National Statistics release ‘Permanent and fixed-period exclusions in England 2016 to 2017’ includes information on the number and rate of permanent and fixed period exclusions. The full release is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england-2016-to-2017.
Information for local authorities by academic year is available in the Underlying data section of the release, in the file “national_region_la_school_data_exc1617.csv”.
Asked by: Angela Eagle (Labour - Wallasey)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils have been excluded from secondary schools in Wallasey constituency in each of the last five academic years.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Statistics on exclusion are not available at constituency level.
The National Statistics release ‘Permanent and fixed-period exclusions in England 2016 to 2017’ includes information on the number and rate of permanent and fixed period exclusions. The full release is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england-2016-to-2017.
Information for local authorities by academic year is available in the Underlying data section of the release, in the file “national_region_la_school_data_exc1617.csv”.
Asked by: Angela Eagle (Labour - Wallasey)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of foster carers in (a) Merseyside and (b) Wirral in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
This is a matter for Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Amanda Spielman. I have asked her to write to the hon. Member and a copy of her reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.
Asked by: Angela Eagle (Labour - Wallasey)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to increase the number of foster carers in Merseyside.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
It is crucial that there are enough foster parents with the right skills in the right areas to meet the diverse needs of looked-after children.
‘Fostering Better Outcomes’ sets out how local authorities could improve their recruitment efforts by considering greater cooperation and joint recruitment, testing their approach to initial enquiries and reviewing the demographics to which they appeal during recruitment. We have committed to providing seed funding for fostering services to introduce new or expanded collaborative approaches across fostering, which includes sufficiency planning.
We have also committed to exploring how technology could give us a more accurate picture of capacity to have an impact on targeted recruitment both nationally and locally.
Alongside this, we will work with Ofsted to identify whether existing national data collection and insight from inspection reports have an impact on improved sufficiency planning to inform strategic recruitment.
Asked by: Angela Eagle (Labour - Wallasey)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of (a) all pupils and (b) pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds in (i) The North West (ii) Merseyside and (iii) Wallasey Constituency entered university in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The department publishes information on the percentage of 15 year old pupils from state-funded and special schools who entered higher education by the age of 19 by free school meal status, local authority and region.
Figures for the North West can be found in Table 2a of the following file: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/635104/SFR39-2017-MainTables.xlsx.
Figures are not available for Merseyside or Wallasey Constituency on this basis.
An alternative source of data for entry to higher education is the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) End of Cycle Report 2017. UCAS publishes data on the proportion of 18 year olds entering full-time undergraduate higher education by parliamentary constituency. However, figures are not available for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
The figures show that the proportion of 18 year olds entering full-time undergraduate higher education from Wallasey was 23.4% in 2006 and 31.1% in 2017.
Asked by: Angela Eagle (Labour - Wallasey)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the (a) planned and (b) actual expenditure on 16-19 education was in each of the last three years in Wallasey constituency.
Answered by Anne Milton
The Education and Skills Funding Agency publish annually the funding allocations for individual institutions delivering education to 16 to 19 year olds. In terms of planned and actual expenditure, for schools and colleges, what is allocated is paid to the institutions. Therefore, the allocations data for these institution types equates to planned and actual expenditure by the department. Data for 16 to 19 further education includes the funding allocated and the related student numbers for each institution. The allocations data is available on GOV.UK, as follows;
2015/16:
2016/17:
2017/18: