Asked by: Jess Phillips (Labour - Birmingham, Yardley)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of level of funding from the public purse required by Birmingham City Council to deliver children’s services in (a) 2018-19, (b) 2019-20, and (c) 2020-21.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
Information on every local authority’s demand and spend in children’s services are published in the department’s statistical first releases and brought together in our local authority interactive tool: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-authority-interactive-tool-lait.
Birmingham’s core spending power for 2018 to 2019 is £888.3 million and is rising to £888.6 million in 2019 to 2020.
My right hon. Friend, the Prime Minister and my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer have agreed that all long-term spending decisions are for the Spending Review, which will take place later this year.
The department is working alongside the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and the sector as part of the fair funding review of relative needs and resources to develop a robust, up-to-date approach to funding distribution for children's services, which will determine new baseline funding allocations for local authorities in England in 2020 to 2021.
Asked by: Jess Phillips (Labour - Birmingham, Yardley)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the timetable is for the publication of the Student Loans Company's annual report for 2016-17.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The Student Loans Company has agreed an extended deadline of 31 March 2018 with Companies House and will file its annual report and accounts for 2016/17 before then. Copies will also be placed in the Libraries of both Houses at the same time.
Asked by: Jess Phillips (Labour - Birmingham, Yardley)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether any Ministers in his Department attended the Presidents Club Charity Dinner run by the Meller Educatonal Trust in an official capacity.
Answered by Anne Milton
No Department for Education ministers attended the Presidents Club Charity Dinner in an official capacity. The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Minister Zahawi, attended the event in a private capacity.
Asked by: Jess Phillips (Labour - Birmingham, Yardley)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria the Government will use to determine eligibility for free school meals after the roll-out of universal credit.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
My Department is working closely with DWP, other government departments and other interested parties to establish new criteria for determining entitlement to benefits-related free school meals (FSM) as the roll-out of universal credit (UC) progresses. No decision has been taken yet; our proposals on this matter will be announced in due course.
As an interim measure, all pupils whose parents are in receipt of UC are currently entitled to FSM.
Asked by: Jess Phillips (Labour - Birmingham, Yardley)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many new nursery places have been created by free schools that have opened since November 2015.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
The most recent school census (January 2016) shows that 520 nursery pupils were attending free schools. The census is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2016
This census does not include data for the 20 primary free schools that opened in September 2016. The number of nursery pupils attending these schools will be included in the January 2017 school census, which is due to be published in June this year.
In January this year the Department announced £50 million of capital funding to help create almost 9,000 new places for children eligible for 30 hours of free childcare. This will support the expansion of a range of nurseries and pre-schools, and we expect free schools to make a modest contribution to the creation of additional nursery places.
Asked by: Jess Phillips (Labour - Birmingham, Yardley)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many nursery places have been created by free schools since November 2015.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
The January 2016 school census shows that 520 pupils were attending nurseries within a free school.
The census is available here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2016
Asked by: Jess Phillips (Labour - Birmingham, Yardley)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to paragraph 1.89 of the Budget 2016, what progress has been made on Professor Sir Adrian Smith's review of mathematics teaching for 16 to 18 year olds; and when her Department plans to publish the terms of reference of that review.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Professor Sir Adrian Smith’s review of post-16 mathematics will be published in due course. Some of the initial findings of the review are set out in the Building our Industrial Strategy Green Paper, which can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/building-our-industrial-strategy.
The terms of reference were published in July 2016, they can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/south-asian-method-of-teaching-maths-to-be-rolled-out-in-schools.
Asked by: Jess Phillips (Labour - Birmingham, Yardley)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's statistical release entitled Children looked after in England including adoption: 2015 to 2016, published on 28 February 2017, to which countries the 40 young people who have left care were deported.
Answered by Edward Timpson
The Department does not hold details of the countries to which care leavers are deported.
Asked by: Jess Phillips (Labour - Birmingham, Yardley)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the total number of nursery places created by free schools is since such schools were established.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
The January 2016 school census shows that 520 pupils were attending nurseries within a free school.
The census is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2016
Asked by: Jess Phillips (Labour - Birmingham, Yardley)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the take-up of the service pupil premium in the last 12 months.
Answered by Edward Timpson
The Service Pupil Premium (SPP), which was introduced in April 2011, is additional funding that schools receive to support the educational needs of their pupils who are currently or have recently been Service children in recognition of the specific challenges children that service families face and as part of the commitment to delivering the armed forces covenant. The following table sets out the numbers of pupils attracting the Service Pupil Premium since its introduction:
Year | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 |
Pupils attracting SPP | 45,070 | 52,370 | 57,940 | 64,390 | 68,771 | 73,415 |
We have allocated more than £22.0 million in 2016/17 financial year to support the needs of over 73,000 Service pupils through the SPP.
Schools are encouraged to identify children eligible for the SPP in their school census returns and the funding is allocated to schools based on these returns.