Asked by: Julian Huppert (Liberal Democrat - Cambridge)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many primary school teachers in each parliamentary constituency in the East of England have a science degree.
Answered by David Laws
The following table provides the headcount number and percentage of all regular teachers[1] in service in primary schools in each constituency in the East of England with a degree in a science subject in November 2013. This is the latest information available.
Name of Constituency | Number of Teachers with Science Degree[2] | Number of Teachers with a Qualification Recorded[3] | Percentage with a Science Qualification
| Confidence Interval[4] | Percentage of Teachers with Qualification Recorded | |
Basildon and Billericay | 20 | 379 | 5.3 | +/- | 2.3 | 92.7 |
Bedford | 17 | 327 | 5.2 | +/- | 2.4 | 95.1 |
Braintree | 32 | 411 | 7.8 | +/- | 2.6 | 95.8 |
Brentwood and Ongar | 22 | 354 | 6.2 | +/- | 2.5 | 90.8 |
Broadland | 25 | 376 | 6.6 | +/- | 2.5 | 95.2 |
Broxbourne | 38 | 526 | 7.2 | +/- | 2.2 | 97.4 |
Bury St. Edmunds | 31 | 348 | 8.9 | +/- | 3.0 | 91.1 |
Cambridge | 43 | 380 | 11.3 | +/- | 3.2 | 96.7 |
Castle Point | 16 | 329 | 4.9 | +/- | 2.3 | 92.9 |
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | 39 | 423 | 9.2 | +/- | 2.8 | 91.4 |
Chelmsford | 30 | 452 | 6.6 | +/- | 2.3 | 96.4 |
Clacton | 17 | 245 | 6.9 | +/- | 3.2 | 92.8 |
Colchester | 31 | 476 | 6.5 | +/- | 2.2 | 94.8 |
Epping Forest | 18 | 338 | 5.3 | +/- | 2.4 | 86.9 |
Great Yarmouth | 41 | 389 | 10.5 | +/- | 3.1 | 93.3 |
Harlow | 27 | 401 | 6.7 | +/- | 2.5 | 92.4 |
Harwich and North Essex | 28 | 385 | 7.3 | +/- | 2.6 | 93.7 |
Hemel Hempstead | 40 | 507 | 7.9 | +/- | 2.3 | 94.6 |
Hertford and Stortford | 46 | 541 | 8.5 | +/- | 2.4 | 97.3 |
Hertsmere | 30 | 487 | 6.2 | +/- | 2.1 | 96.2 |
Hitchin and Harpenden | 48 | 610 | 7.9 | +/- | 2.1 | 98.2 |
Huntingdon | 42 | 508 | 8.3 | +/- | 2.4 | 96.6 |
Ipswich | 39 | 505 | 7.7 | +/- | 2.3 | 89.1 |
Luton North | 39 | 649 | 6.0 | +/- | 1.8 | 93.5 |
Luton South | 31 | 508 | 6.1 | +/- | 2.1 | 92.2 |
Maldon | 23 | 327 | 7.0 | +/- | 2.8 | 90.8 |
Mid Bedfordshire | 20 | 366 | 5.5 | +/- | 2.3 | 97.6 |
Mid Norfolk | 47 | 380 | 12.4 | +/- | 3.3 | 94.3 |
North East Bedfordshire | 23 | 389 | 5.9 | +/- | 2.3 | 94.9 |
North East Cambridgeshire | 42 | 409 | 10.3 | +/- | 2.9 | 93.8 |
North East Hertfordshire | 41 | 510 | 8.0 | +/- | 2.4 | 95.9 |
North Norfolk | 35 | 284 | 12.3 | +/- | 3.8 | 92.5 |
North West Cambridgeshire | 40 | 600 | 6.7 | +/- | 2.0 | 95.7 |
North West Norfolk | 18 | 349 | 5.2 | +/- | 2.3 | 86.4 |
Norwich North | 27 | 348 | 7.8 | +/- | 2.8 | 93.8 |
Norwich South | 32 | 373 | 8.6 | +/- | 2.8 | 94.7 |
Peterborough | 36 | 607 | 5.9 | +/- | 1.9 | 97.0 |
Rayleigh and Wickford | 25 | 383 | 6.5 | +/- | 2.5 | 92.5 |
Rochford and Southend East | 35 | 445 | 7.9 | +/- | 2.5 | 93.1 |
Saffron Walden | 33 | 459 | 7.2 | +/- | 2.4 | 91.3 |
South Basildon and East Thurrock | 23 | 472 | 4.9 | +/- | 1.9 | 94.6 |
South Cambridgeshire | 40 | 531 | 7.5 | +/- | 2.2 | 96.5 |
South East Cambridgeshire | 45 | 506 | 8.9 | +/- | 2.5 | 96.9 |
South Norfolk | 33 | 434 | 7.6 | +/- | 2.5 | 96.2 |
South Suffolk | 40 | 367 | 10.9 | +/- | 3.2 | 93.4 |
South West Bedfordshire | 29 | 396 | 7.3 | +/- | 2.6 | 94.1 |
South West Hertfordshire | 39 | 548 | 7.1 | +/- | 2.2 | 98.6 |
South West Norfolk | 32 | 385 | 8.3 | +/- | 2.8 | 92.8 |
Southend West | 21 | 358 | 5.9 | +/- | 2.4 | 91.1 |
St. Albans | 44 | 562 | 7.8 | +/- | 2.2 | 96.2 |
Stevenage | 35 | 487 | 7.2 | +/- | 2.3 | 98.2 |
Suffolk Coastal | 36 | 358 | 10.1 | +/- | 3.1 | 89.9 |
Thurrock | 34 | 527 | 6.5 | +/- | 2.1 | 91.2 |
Watford | 41 | 540 | 7.6 | +/- | 2.2 | 97.1 |
Waveney | 36 | 425 | 8.5 | +/- | 2.6 | 89.7 |
Welwyn Hatfield | 43 | 536 | 8.0 | +/- | 2.3 | 97.8 |
West Suffolk | 29 | 394 | 7.4 | +/- | 2.6 | 88.5 |
Witham | 29 | 355 | 8.2 | +/- | 2.8 | 94.2 |
Total East of England | 1,896 | 25,264 | 7.5 | +/- | 0.3 | 94.1 |
Total England | 18,795 | 227,513 | 8.3 | +/- | 0.1 | 95.5 |
Source: School Workforce Census
[1] Includes qualified and unqualified teachers.
[2] Includes teachers with a first or higher science degree but excluding those with a science PGCE where no record of a science degree exists and those with a BEd in sciences.
[3] Those recorded with a qualification (degree or higher, Bachelor of Education, Post-Graduate Certificate in Education, Certificate in Education, other qualification at NVQ level 4 or higher, relevant non-UK qualification) in any subject, (the total in the sample from which the rate is calculated).
[4] The range within which we can be 95% confident that the true value exists.
Asked by: Julian Huppert (Liberal Democrat - Cambridge)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much extra funding, over and above that provided to school sixth forms, her Department provides to sixth form colleges to cover their VAT costs.
Answered by David Laws
The Department for Education does not cover the VAT costs of sixth form colleges. To do this in full would cost around £30 million each year.
Asked by: Julian Huppert (Liberal Democrat - Cambridge)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the amount of VAT paid by sixth form colleges in the UK in each of the last three years.
Answered by David Laws
The Department for Education funds sixth form colleges in England, not in the rest of the UK. We estimate that the total cost of VAT for sixth form colleges in England has been approximately £30 million for each of the last three years.
Asked by: Julian Huppert (Liberal Democrat - Cambridge)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions she has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on VAT paid by sixth form colleges.
Answered by David Laws
Officials at the Department for Education have had discussions with officials at HM Treasury regarding VAT paid by sixth form colleges. There are no plans to change existing policy.