Asked by: Chris Skidmore (Conservative - Kingswood)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the per pupil funding for (a) primary and (b) secondary school pupils in Kingswood constituency was in (i) 2010 and (ii) 2015.
Answered by David Laws
Funding from the Department for Education is not allocated at a parliamentary constituency level. Figures for South Gloucestershire local authority, within which Kingswood lies, are given below.
The average per-pupil revenue funding for South Gloucestershire in financial year 2010-11 was £4,490.
This figure is calculated as the sum of Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) allocations plus other school related grants for pupils aged 3-15, namely, the school standards grant, the school standards grant (personalisation) and the standards fund (rounded to the nearest £10). Most of the additional grants were mainstreamed into DSG in 2011-12.
The changes to DSG funding in financial year 2013-14, with funding allocated through three blocks; ‘schools’, ‘early years’ and ‘high needs’, mean that there is no longer a comparable overall figure with previous years. The DSG schools block unit funding figure for South Gloucestershire local authority for financial year 2014-15 was £3,969 per pupil. This has risen to £4,189 for financial year 2015-16 as the authority was one of the beneficiaries of the extra funding provided under minimum funding levels for the least fairly funded local authorities.
Since 2011-12, schools have received the pupil premium which targets funding at pupils from the most deprived backgrounds to help them achieve their full potential. In 2011-12 the pupil premium was allocated for each pupil known to be: (a) eligible for free school meals (FSM); (b) a looked after child; or (c) a child of parents in the armed services. In 2012-13 coverage was expanded to include pupils known to have been eligible for FSM at any point in the last six years. The per-pupil amounts for each type of pupil are shown in following table in cash terms:
Pupil premium per pupil (£) | 2011-2012 | 2012-2013 | 2013-2014 | 2014-2015 | 2015-2016 |
Free School Meal Pupil Primary | £488 | £623 | £953 | £1300 | £1320 |
Free School Meal Pupil Secondary | £488 | £623 | £900 | £935 | £935 |
Service Children | £200 | £250 | £300 | £300 | £300 |
Looked After Children | £488 | £623 | £900 | £1900* | £1900* |
*Also includes children adopted from care
Schools and academies in South Gloucestershire local authority have been allocated £7.652 million through the pupil premium for financial year 2014-15.
Schools and academies in Kingswood constituency have been allocated £2.782 million through the pupil premium for financial year 2014-15.
Allocations for financial year 2015-16 are not yet available.
These include funding through the deprivation, service child and the children adopted from care elements, but exclude the looked after children element for Kingswood as this is not available at a parliamentary constituency level.
Asked by: Chris Skidmore (Conservative - Kingswood)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much was spent on the pupil premium in each local authority ward in Kingswood constituency in each of the last 5 years.
Answered by David Laws
The Pupil Premium was introduced in April 2011. The available information showing pupil premium allocations for Kingswood parliamentary constituency is shown in the table below. To provide a further breakdown by ward for the four year time period would incur disproportionate cost.
STATE-FUNDED PRIMARY AND SECONDARY, MAINTAINED SPECIAL SCHOOLS, SPECIAL ACADEMIES, PUPIL REFERRAL UNITS AND ALTERNATIVE PROVISION ACADEMIES (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7): | ||||||||||
NUMBER OF PUPILS ELIGIBLE FOR THE PUPIL PREMIUM AND ALLOCATION AMOUNTS | ||||||||||
Kingswood parliamentary constituency | ||||||||||
Total Pupil Premium | ||||||||||
Total pupils eligible for the Pupil Premium | Total allocation for the Pupil Premium | |||||||||
2011-12 | 1,460 | £699,000 | ||||||||
2012-13 | 2,330 | £1,423,000 | ||||||||
2013-14 | 2,440 | £2,222,000 | ||||||||
2014-15 (illustrative) (8) | 2,400 | £2,671,000 | ||||||||
Pupil numbers rounded to the nearest 10. | ||||||||||
Premiums rounded to the nearest £1,000. | ||||||||||
1. Includes middle schools as deemed. | ||||||||||
2. Includes primary academies (including free schools) as recorded on the relevant January census. | ||||||||||
3. Includes city technology colleges and secondary academies (including free schools) as recorded on the relevant January census. | ||||||||||
4. Includes local authority maintained special schools. This does not include non-maintained special schools. | ||||||||||
5. Includes special academies (including free schools). | ||||||||||
6. Includes Alternative Provision (AP) academies which were formerly pupil referral units (PRU) which have converted and gained academy status. | ||||||||||
7. It is not possible to determine the number of parliamentary constituency pupils recorded on the AP Census or recorded as looked after children as they are both local authority returns, and not an establishment level return. Therefore, figures will be lower than published data at local authority level. | ||||||||||
8. These figures are for illustrative purposes only. The Department has published illustrative pupil premium funding allocations for the financial year 2014-15, based on census data from 2013. Final allocations for 2014-15 will be published later in the year, based on pupil data gathered through the January 2014 school census. | ||||||||||
Asked by: Chris Skidmore (Conservative - Kingswood)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, in how many schools no pupils were entered for GCSEs in (a) history and (b) biology, chemistry and physics in the latest period for which figures are available.
Answered by David Laws
Of the 3,024[1] state-funded mainstream schools:
a) 19 schools entered no pupils for GCSE history or ancient history in 2012/13.
b) 299 schools entered no pupils for biology, chemistry and physics in 2012/13
This information can be downloaded from the Performance Tables website[2].
[1] State-funded mainstream schools included in Performance Tables only. This includes academies, free schools and city technology colleges but excludes independent schools, special schools, alternative provisions and pupil referral units.
[2]http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/download_data.html