Asked by: Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that Muslim students unable to access the traditional student finance system are able to access an alternative, faith-compliant method; and what his planned timetable is for such a system becoming fully operable.
Answered by Michelle Donelan
I refer my hon. Friend, the member for Altrincham and Sale West, to the answer I gave in response to question 129057.
Asked by: Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if his Department will take steps to encourage the (a) take-up and (b) provision of apprenticeships in the childcare sector in response to the shortfall in recruitment during the covid-19 outbreak.
Answered by Gillian Keegan
We have introduced a broad range of flexibilities to ensure that apprentices can continue with their learning, as far as possible, and to encourage the take up of apprenticeships. These include encouraging the remote delivery of training, allowing changes to be made to end-point assessment, and removal of the requirement that level 2 apprentices should work towards or sit their level 2 English and maths GCSE or functional skills exams this academic year.
Apprenticeships will have an important role to play in creating employment opportunities, particularly for young people, and supporting employers in all sectors to access the skilled workforce they need to recover and grow post-COVID-19. We are looking to support employers of all sizes, and particularly smaller businesses such as childcare providers, to take on new apprentices this year. We will set out further details in due course. We will also ensure that there is sufficient funding to support small businesses wanting to take on an apprentice this year.
Asked by: Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number of SEND pupils in each local authority area in England in the most recent year for which figures are available; and what the cost of educating those pupils in each of those areas was in that year.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The number of SEND pupils in each local authority area in England at January 2017, is available in the local authority tables published on GOV.UK at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england-january-2017.
Local authority expenditure data is published on GOV.UK at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/section-251-materials.
This includes expenditure on SEN support services provided directly by local authorities, and their expenditure on special schools. We do not hold information on the costs of educating pupils with SEND that are met by mainstream schools from their budgets.
Asked by: Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of secondary schools in England that will not meet the £4,800 floor per pupil funding in (a) 2018-19 and (b) 2019-20; and in each case what estimate she has made of the cost of raising those schools to the floor per pupil amount.
Answered by Nick Gibb
We are providing an additional £1.3 billion for schools across 2018-19 and 2019-20 to support the introduction of the national funding formula from April next year. Along with the funding we had already committed for schools at the 2015 Spending Review, this will mean the core schools budget rises from just under £41 billion in 2017-18 to £43.5 billion by 2020. Full details of the arrangements are set out at: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/justine-greening-statement-to-parliament-on-school-funding.
The national funding formula will provide local authorities with per pupil funding of at least £4,800 for all secondary schools by 2019-20. We will set out further details on the £4,800 per pupil amount and the associated funding on each factor when we publish the consultation response in September.
Asked by: Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will rank (a) selective, (b) partially selective and (c) comprehensive local authority areas in England by correlating guaranteed per pupil funding against the proportion of pupils attaining five or more grade A* to C GCSEs including English and mathematics in the last year for which data is available.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Please see the table below showing the per-pupil amounts we allocated to local authorities in 2015-16, with the level of academic selection in their area, and the percentage of pupils achieving 5+ A*-C grades at GCSE, including English and mathematics, for the academic year 2015/2016.
We have been clear that the current funding system is unfair and that the variation in the amounts local authorities receive for their schools does not reflect real levels of need. We have committed to address this unfairness by introducing a national funding formula from April 2018. We will set out our detailed proposals for consultation later this year, including our proposals for targeting funding to pupils with additional needs.
Asked by: Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which (a) selective, (b) partially selective and (c) comprehensive local authority areas in England ranked by correlating guaranteed per pupil against the proportion of pupils attaining five or more grade A* to C GCSEs including English and mathematics in core subjects in the last year for which data is available.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The percentage of pupils achieving 5 A* - C grade GCSEs including English and mathematics for areas with different selection policies is listed in the table below. These figures relate to 2014/2015 final data.
| GCSE and equivalents | |
| Pupils at state funded schools at the end of key stage 4 2014/2015 | Proportion of pupils achieving 5A*-C grade GCSEs including English and Maths |
Fully selective areas1 | 47,258 | 60.6 |
Partially selective areas2 | 124,962 | 58.4 |
Non-selective areas | 378,534 | 56.6 |
Source: Key Stage 4 attainment data: final
Notes:
1. Includes schools in the following areas which operate area wide arrangements for academic selection: Bexley, Buckinghamshire, Kent, Lincolnshire, Medway, Slough, Southend, Sutton, Torbay and Trafford.
2. Includes schools in twenty-six local authorities that have selective schools operating their own arrangements for academic selection.
Asked by: Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children obtained five or more GCSEs at grade A* to C including English and mathematics in (a) selective, (b) partially selective and (c) comprehensive local authority areas in the last year for which data is available; and what that proportion was by ethnic group in each of those categories.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The table below shows the number and percentage of pupils achieving five A* to C grade GCSEs including English and mathematics by ethnicity, for areas with different selection policies.
Pupils at state funded schools at the end of key stage 4 2015 | Ethnicity | Number of pupils | Percentage of pupils achieving 5A*-C grade GCSEs including English and mathematics |
Fully selective areas1 | White | 39,190 | 58.7 |
Mixed | 1,976 | 66.4 | |
Asian | 3,358 | 75 | |
Black | 1,665 | 62.6 | |
Chinese | 268 | 85.8 | |
Any other ethnic group | 387 | 70.8 | |
Unclassified | 414 | 66.2 | |
All pupils | 47,258 | 60.6 | |
Pupils at state funded schools at the end of key stage 4 2015 | Ethnicity | Number of pupils | Percentage of pupils achieving 5A*-C grade GCSEs including English and mathematics |
Partially selective areas2 | White | 98,600 | 58.2 |
Mixed | 5,101 | 58.5 | |
Asian | 12,857 | 62.4 | |
Black | 4,992 | 50.2 | |
Chinese | 488 | 81.4 | |
Any other ethnic group | 1,727 | 57.2 | |
Unclassified | 1,197 | 57 | |
All pupils | 124,962 | 58.4 | |
Pupils at state funded schools at the end of key stage 4 2015 | Ethnicity | Number of pupils | Percentage of pupils achieving 5A*-C grade GCSEs including English and mathematics |
Non-selective areas | White | 299,490 | 56.4 |
Mixed | 15,332 | 57.2 | |
Asian | 32,578 | 60.3 | |
Black | 20,281 | 52.4 | |
Chinese | 1,264 | 75.6 | |
Any other ethnic group | 5,336 | 59.2 | |
Unclassified | 4,253 | 49.9 | |
All pupils | 378,534 | 56.6 |
Source: key stage 4 attainment data: final
Notes: 1. Includes schools in the following areas which operate area wide arrangements for academic selection: Bexley, Buckinghamshire, Kent, Lincolnshire, Medway, Slough, Southend, Sutton, Torbay and Trafford. |
2. Includes schools in twenty-six local authorities that have selective schools operating their own arrangements for academic selection. |
Asked by: Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children achieved (a) five A* to C grade GCSEs including English and mathematics and (b) two or more A grades at A-level nationally; and what proportion of children achieved such grades in (i) selective, (ii) partially selective and (iii) comprehensive local education authority areas in the most recent year for which data is available.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The proportion of students achieving two or more A grades at A level is not available.
The table below shows the number and percentage of pupils achieving five A* to C grade GCSEs including English and mathematics and the number and percentage of pupils achieving three or more A grades at A level for areas with different selection policies.
| GCSE and equivalents |
| A level | ||
| Pupils at state funded schools at the end of key stage 4 2014/2015 | Percentage of pupils achieving five A*-C grade GCSEs including English and mathematics |
| Students at the end of advance level study at state funded schools entered for at least one A level or applied single/double award A level 2014/15 | Percentage of students achieving three or more A grades at A level or applied single/double level award |
Fully selective areas1 | 47,258 | 60.6 |
| 20,085 | 14.0 |
Partially selective areas2 | 124,962 | 58.4 |
| 41,737 | 12.4 |
Non-selective areas | 378,534 | 56.6 |
| 96,619 | 8.1 |
Source: KS4 & KS5 attainment data 2014/2015: final
Notes: |
|
1. Includes schools in the following areas which operate area wide arrangements for academic selection: Bexley, Buckinghamshire, Kent, Lincolnshire, Medway, Slough, Southend, Sutton, Torbay and Trafford. | |
2. Includes schools in twenty-six local authorities that have selective schools operating their own arrangements for academic selection. | |
Asked by: Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children in (a) England and (b) Northern Ireland achieved five A* to C grade GCSEs including English and mathematics in the last five years for which data is available.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The information requested is not available.
The number of pupils achieving the individual subject components of the English Baccalaureate is available from the 'Revised GCSE and equivalent results in England: 2014 to 2015' statistical first release[1]. This refers to 2015 revised data.
The Department for Education produces statistics on England only. The responsibility for education statistics in Northern Ireland lies with Northern Irish devolved administration.
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/revised-gcse-and-equivalent-results-in-england-2014-to-2015 (Table 1b)
Asked by: Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children obtained five or more good GCSEs including English and Mathematics in (a) selective, (b) partially selective and (c) comprehensive local authority areas in 2015; and what that proportion was by ethnic group in each of those categories.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The proportion of pupils achieving five or more GCSEs at A*-C, including English and mathematics, by local authority and ethnic group was published in the GCSE and equivalent statistical first release for 2015.[1]
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/revised-gcse-and-equivalent-results-in-england-2014-to-2015