Asked by: Gareth Johnson (Conservative - Dartford)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of young people from Dartford who went to university in each of the last five years.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) publishes data on the proportion of 18 year olds entering full-time undergraduate higher education by parliamentary constituency.
The figures for the latest five years are shown in the table below:
Table 1 – Entry rates to higher education for 18 year olds in Dartford constituency
Year | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 |
Entry Rate | 29.9% | 27.3% | 32.5% | 32.8% | 31.8% |
Asked by: Gareth Johnson (Conservative - Dartford)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to encourage more students to study modern foreign languages at GCSE and A Level.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) are compulsory in maintained schools at Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3. In Key Stage 4, MFL is an essential part of the English Baccalaureate combination of subjects. The Government will also build expert hubs for languages to share best teaching practice among schools and improve access to high-quality MFL teaching.
The Government is also ensuring that all schools have the resources needed to increase the take-up of MFL by their students. As a result, several measures have been put in place to encourage more MFL specialists into Initial Teacher Training. These include targeted marketing campaigns, supporting potential MFL Initial Teacher Training applicants to increase the proportion of successful applications and offering financial incentives, such as scholarships and tax-free bursaries worth up to £26,000, for MFL trainee teachers. Seed funding will also be provided to universities so that MFL undergraduates can opt in to complete Qualified Teacher Status alongside their degree. The Teacher Subject Specialism Training initiative aims to attract existing teachers into MFL by improving current teachers’ MFL skills and helping returning teachers and career changers to enter MFL teaching.
Asked by: Gareth Johnson (Conservative - Dartford)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of young people from Dartford who went to university in each of the last five years.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) publishes data on the proportion of 18 year olds entering full-time undergraduate higher education by parliamentary constituency.
The figures for the latest five years are shown in the table below:
Table 1 – Entry rates to higher education for 18 year olds in Dartford constituency
Year | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 |
Entry Rate | 29.9% | 27.3% | 32.5% | 32.8% | 31.8% |
Asked by: Gareth Johnson (Conservative - Dartford)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department spends on each secondary school pupil in England and Wales; and how much is spent on places in (a) grammar and (b) non-selective school.
Answered by Nick Gibb
For the current financial year 2016 to 2017, the pre-16 funding for secondary pupils is published here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-block-funding-allocations-2016-to-2017
Schools selective status can be viewed here:
http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase/home.xhtml
Asked by: Gareth Johnson (Conservative - Dartford)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children in Dartford were taught in schools rated good or outstanding by Ofsted in Dartford for each year between 2005 and 2015.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Data provided in the table below include children attending all open primary schools, secondary schools, special schools, nurseries and pupil referral units in Dartford parliamentary constituency as at 31 August each year, for which data is available. Data for any years prior to 2009 is not available.
Number of children attending schools in Dartford rated as good or outstanding, 2009 to 2015 | |||
Ofsted school inspections as at 31 August | Number of pupils attending schools rated as good or outstanding[1] | Total number of pupils | Percentage of pupils attending schools rated as good or outstanding |
2009 | 8,573 | 13,549 | 63% |
2010 | 8,786 | 15,834 | 55% |
2011 | 9,177 | 16,439 | 56% |
2012 | 8,816 | 15,637 | 56% |
2013 | 13,465 | 18,060 | 75% |
2014 | 15,402 | 17,851 | 86% |
2015 | 15,908 | 17,858 | 89% |
Source: Ofsted School Inspection data | |||
[1] Data is based on the most recent section 5 (including section 8 deemed 5) Ofsted inspection of all open schools (primary, secondary, special, nursery and pupil referral units) as at 31 August from 2009 to 2015
Asked by: Gareth Johnson (Conservative - Dartford)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps are being taken to increase the numbers of primary and secondary school places in Dartford.
Answered by Edward Timpson
Supporting local authorities to ensure sufficient school places in their area is one of this Government’s top priorities. That’s why we’ve committed to investing £7 billion in new school places up to 2021, which along with our investment in the free schools programme we expect to deliver 600,000 new places.
Kent County Council, which is responsible for school places in Dartford, received £115 million in basic need funding between 2011 and 2015, helping to create nearly 17,000 new places between 2010 and 2015. Of these, around 8,700 were primary places and around 8,200 were secondary. Kent has also been allocated £144 million to create the additional places required by September 2019.
Asked by: Gareth Johnson (Conservative - Dartford)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of places available in local authority maintained nurseries in (a) Dartford and (b) Kent.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
Local authorities are required to report annually to elected council members on how they are meeting their duty to secure sufficient childcare and early education places, and make this report available and accessible to parents. The Department does not hold borough-level estimates centrally of the number of places in local authority maintained nursery schools. However, the number of pupils attending local authority maintained nurseries can be found in the statistical first release and underlying data published at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2015
The Local authority and regional tables: SFR16/2015 (Table 7b)[1] indicates that 90 pupils were registered as attending local authority maintained nursery schools in Kent in 2015.
Asked by: Gareth Johnson (Conservative - Dartford)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in Dartford are educated in (a) local authority schools and (b) academies.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The number of pupils attending local authority schools and academies in the Dartford constituency as at January 2015 is given in the table below:
- | All Schools | State-funded | State-funded | State-funded | Pupil referral |
Academies in Dartford |
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Academy Converter | 5,870 | 2,816 | 3,054 | - | - |
Academy Special Converter | 269 | - | - | 269 | - |
Academy Sponsor Led | 4,767 | 808 | 3,959 | - | - |
University Technical College | 129 | - | 129 | - | - |
Academies Total | 11,035 | 3,624 | 7,142 | 269 | - |
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Local Authority schools in Dartford |
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Community School | 5,078 | 4,345 | 733 | - | - |
Foundation School | 1,077 | - | 1,077 | - | - |
Foundation Special School | 104 | - | - | 104 | - |
Pupil Referral Unit | 11 | - | - | - | 11 |
Voluntary Aided School | - | - | - | - | - |
Voluntary Controlled School | - | 846 | - | - | - |
All Local Authority Maintained Schools | 6,270 | 5,191 | 1,810 | 104 | 11 |
Further data is available in the underlying data of the ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2015’[1] statistics.
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2015. Data is contained within the ‘Underlying data’ section within a file named ‘SFR16_2015_Schools_Pupils_UD’, and can be aggregated to the required level using the type of establishment, headcount of pupils and parliamentary constituency name fields.
Asked by: Gareth Johnson (Conservative - Dartford)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of (a) GCSE, (b) AS and (c) A-level exam results have (i) increased, (ii) decreased and (iii) stayed the same following an appeal in each of the last five years.
Answered by Nick Gibb
These are matters for Ofqual, the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation. I have therefore asked its Chief Regulator, Glenys Stacey to write directly to the Honourable Member. A copy of her replies will be placed in the House of Commons Library.
Asked by: Gareth Johnson (Conservative - Dartford)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she plans to take to ensure that exams are marked accurately on the first occasion.
Answered by Nick Gibb
These are matters for Ofqual, the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation. I have therefore asked its Chief Regulator, Glenys Stacey to write directly to the Honourable Member. A copy of her replies will be placed in the House of Commons Library.