Asked by: Iain Stewart (Conservative - Milton Keynes South)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the efficacy of music therapy in increasing students' educational attainment.
Answered by Nick Gibb
We have not made an assessment on the efficacy of music therapy in increasing students’ educational attainment.
Research shows however that Music education may have a positive cognitive impact, particularly amongst primary school pupils (Huat See, and Kokotsaki, 2017).
Music education is a statutory element of the National Curriculum in key stages 1-3.
Asked by: Iain Stewart (Conservative - Milton Keynes South)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the total additional premium funding paid to maintained schools to help pupils from families serving in the armed forces will be in 2014-15.
Answered by David Laws
All pupils classed as service children under the school census in England attract the Service Pupil Premium funding and this is paid directly to state-funded schools. For financial year 2014 to 2015, the final allocation will be £19.3 million. This figure is based on data collected in the January 2014 school census.
Asked by: Iain Stewart (Conservative - Milton Keynes South)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of pupils were entered for GCSEs in all subjects comprising the English Baccalaureat in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2013-14.
Answered by David Laws
The percentage of pupils entered for all subject areas of the English Baccalaureate was 22% in 2009/10 and 36.1%[1] in 2013/14.
Information on the percentage of pupils entered for the components of the English Baccalaureate for 2009/10 and 2013/14 is published online in table 1b of the 2013/14 GCSE statistical first release at:
www.gov.uk/government/statistics/provisional-gcse-and-equivalent-results-in-england-2013-to-2014
[1] The 2014 performance measures are published on the basis of only including qualifications which were identified as part of the Wolf review and also applying the rules regarding the changes in early entry policy, this is different to the methodology used in earlier years. Comparisons between 2013/14 and earlier years should not be made before understanding the nature and the rationale of these changes as outlined in sections 2 and 3 of the statistical first release above.
Asked by: Iain Stewart (Conservative - Milton Keynes South)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will estimate the average numbers of hours per week spent teaching (a) mathematics, (b) English, (c) individual or combined sciences, (d) history, (e) French, (f) Spanish, (g) German, (h) media studies and (i) citizenship in secondary schools at key stage 4 in (i) 2009-10, (ii) 2010-11, (iii) 2011-12, (iv) 2012-13 and (v) 2013-14.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The following table shows the average number of hours per week taught per teacher in selected subjects at Key Stage 4 in a typical week for each November from 2010 to 2013:
Average number of hours per week taught per teacher in selected subjects at Key Stage 4 in a typical week in November of each year | ||||
SUBJECT | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
Mathematics | 6.7 | 6.8 | 7.0 | 7.0 |
English | 6.7 | 6.7 | 6.8 | 6.9 |
Physics | 4.4 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.5 |
Chemistry | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 4.1 |
Biology | 3.9 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 4.1 |
Combined/General Science | 7.3 | 7.2 | 7.2 | 7.1 |
Other Sciences | 4.4 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 4.3 |
History | 4.7 | 4.9 | 5.2 | 5.2 |
French | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 4.4 |
Spanish | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 4.6 |
German | 4.1 | 4.1 | 4.3 | 4.4 |
Media Studies | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 4.1 |
Citizenship | 2.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 2.1 |
ALL SUBJECTS | 6.7 | 6.8 | 6.7 | 6.7 |
Source: School Workforce Census | ||||
Data is not available for earlier years.
Asked by: Iain Stewart (Conservative - Milton Keynes South)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will estimate the total number of hours per week spent teaching (a) mathematics, (b) English, (c) individual or combined sciences, (d) history, (e) French, (f) Spanish, (g) German, (h) media studies and (i) citizenship in secondary schools at key stage 4 in (i) 2009-10, (ii) 2010-11, (iii) 2011-12, (iv) 2012-13 and (v) 2013-14.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The following table shows the numbers of teachers and total hours spent teaching selected subjects at Key Stage 4 in a typical week for each November from 2010 to 2013:
Numbers of teachers and total hours per week spent teaching selected subjects at Key Stage 4 in a typical week in November of each year | ||||||||
(Thousands) | ||||||||
SUBJECT | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | ||||
Teachers | Hours | Teachers | Hours | Teachers | Hours | Teachers | Hours | |
Mathematics | 27.4 | 184.9 | 27.9 | 189.2 | 27.1 | 188.3 | 27.5 | 193.0 |
English | 29.0 | 194.4 | 29.5 | 197.1 | 28.7 | 195.9 | 29.1 | 201.3 |
Physics | 2.9 | 12.7 | 3.0 | 13.4 | 3.3 | 14.9 | 3.5 | 15.7 |
Chemistry | 3.2 | 12.8 | 3.3 | 13.5 | 3.7 | 15.0 | 3.9 | 15.9 |
Biology | 3.5 | 13.5 | 3.7 | 14.2 | 4.0 | 16.0 | 4.3 | 17.4 |
Combined/ General Science | 27.6 | 201.1 | 27.8 | 200.2 | 26.6 | 190.5 | 26.6 | 189.1 |
Other Sciences | 1.7 | 7.5 | 1.7 | 7.2 | 1.3 | 5.3 | 1.2 | 5.4 |
History | 9.4 | 43.8 | 10.0 | 48.6 | 10.2 | 52.9 | 10.4 | 54.1 |
French | 8.7 | 34.4 | 8.8 | 41.9 | 9.1 | 40.0 | 9.2 | 40.7 |
Spanish | 3.9 | 15.7 | 9.0 | 37.2 | 4.5 | 20.6 | 4.7 | 21.7 |
German | 3.6 | 14.6 | 4.2 | 18.2 | 3.5 | 15.1 | 3.4 | 14.8 |
Media Studies | 4.3 | 17.4 | 4.0 | 16.2 | 3.7 | 14.9 | 3.6 | 14.8 |
Citizenship | 5.4 | 10.7 | 4.6 | 9.2 | 3.7 | 7.4 | 3.2 | 6.5 |
ALL SUBJECTS | 211.9 | 1,422.6 | 211.1 | 1,425.8 | 205.4 | 1,382.5 | 205.6 | 1,379.9 |
Source: School Workforce Census | ||||||||
Data is not available for earlier years.
Asked by: Iain Stewart (Conservative - Milton Keynes South)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of children from families serving in the armed forces in each local authority area who will be eligible for the pupil premium in 2015-16.
Answered by David Laws
It is not possible to estimate how many children from families serving in the armed forces will be in maintained schools in England and classified as disadvantaged in 2015-16 who will attract the pupil premium until the information is gathered in the January 2015 school census.
Our analysis of data from the January 2014 school census showed that nationally there were 57,940 pupils with a parent in the armed services who attended maintained schools in England. All of these pupils attracted additional service premium funding to their school, which is intended to be used to help service children with the potential challenges they may face as a result of their parent’s service to the country.
Of these pupils, 6,161 also attracted pupil premium funding to the schools they attended in 2014-15 by virtue of being disadvantaged. The majority of these pupils (6,009) attracted the pupil premium through having been registered for free school meals at any point in the last six years. There are also 152 pupils who attracted the pupil premium through having left care through adoption, or via a Special Guardianship, Residence or Child Arrangements Order. These figures do not include those pupils who were in local authority care and were also classed as service children through having had a parent in the armed forces, as this data is currently unavailable.