Asked by: Christian Matheson (Independent - City of Chester)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of key stage 2 tests in 2016 have required remarking.
Answered by Nick Gibb
If a school believes that there is a discrepancy between how questions have been marked and the published mark scheme for Key Stage 2 National Curriculum tests, they had until 15 July 2016 to apply for a marking review. Statistics related to marking reviews will be published in November 2016.
Asked by: Christian Matheson (Independent - City of Chester)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many primary schools have raised concerns with her Department on the marking of the key stage 2 reading assessment in 2016.
Answered by Nick Gibb
If a school believes that there is a discrepancy between how questions have been marked and the published mark scheme for Key Stage 2 National Curriculum tests, they had until 15 July 2016 to apply for a marking review. Statistics related to marking reviews will be published in November 2016.
Asked by: Christian Matheson (Independent - City of Chester)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the (a) provisional overall pass rate was for key stage 2 reading in 2016 and (b) overall pass rate for key stage 2 reading was in each of the preceding four years.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The percentage of pupils who achieved the expected standard (a scaled score of 100 or above) in reading at Key Stage 2 (KS2) in 2016 is 66%. This is published as part of the “National curriculum assessments at KS2 in England, 2016 (interim)”[1] statistical first release (SFR).
Children sitting KS2 tests in 2016 were the first to be taught and assessed under the new National Curriculum, tests and teacher assessments. The expected standard has also been raised. The Head of Profession for Statistics has made clear that due to these changes the expected standard this year is not comparable with the expected standard used in previous years’ statistics; it would be incorrect and misleading to make direct comparisons showing changes over time.
The expected standard under the previous system was the percentage of pupils achieving level 4 or above. Performance against this standard for previous years is published in table 1 of the “National curriculum assessments: key stage 2, 2015 (revised)”[2] SFR.
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/534573/SFR30_2016_text.pdf
[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-curriculum-assessments-at-key-stage-2-2015-revised
Asked by: Christian Matheson (Independent - City of Chester)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what total value of assets has been transferred from local authority control to control by academy schools or combinations of academy schools in each of the last five years.
Answered by Edward Timpson
The majority of the assets that transfer to academy control on conversion are land and buildings. In the vast majority of conversions the local authority (LA) retains the freehold, and will lease the land and buildings to the academy. No academy can dispose of land without the Secretary of State’s consent and – where they retain the freehold – the LA.
In accordance with government accounting requirements the Department for Education is obliged to consolidate academy trust’s accounts into our own and record the total value of net assets that academies control; including land and buildings leased from LAs.
The table below summarises information we hold and have published on the transfer, in accountancy terms, of assets to academies. As the Department for Education has only been required to consolidate academy trust’s accounts into our own from financial year 2012-13, it is not possible to provide individual figures for 2010-11 and 2011-12.
Net assets transferred to EFA on conversion of academy trusts from local authorities.
Year | Net assets transferred from local authorities (£m) |
Academies converting before 1st April 2012 | 13,900 |
Academies converting in 2012-13 | 6,213 |
Academies converting in 2013-14 | 3,390 |
Academies converting in 2014-15 | 2,707 |
Total | 26,210 |