Asked by: Simon Clarke (Conservative - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what average spending per pupil was in (a) Middlesbrough and (b) Redcar and Cleveland in each year since 2009-10.
Answered by Nick Gibb
School-level figures for spending per pupil by local authority are published annually. The Department publishes information on income and expenditure in schools on the Schools Financial Benchmarking website, available at:
https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources.
To download data for all schools click on the Data Sources link and then CFR data (Consistent Financial Reporting, covering local authority maintained schools) and AAR data (Academies Accounts Return, for academy schools).
Average spending per pupil (£’s) – Local Authority Maintained schools
Year (Financial) | (a) Middlesbrough | (b) Redcar and Cleveland |
2009-10 | * | * |
2010-11 | £4,656 | £4,864 |
2011-12 | £4,945 | £4,940 |
2012-13 | £4,916 | £4,811 |
2013-14 | £4,767 | £4,918 |
2014-15 | £5,125 | £5,133 |
2015-16 | £5,211 | £5,351 |
2016-17 | £5,050 | £5,068 |
Source: CFR data (Consistent Financial Reporting, covering local authority maintained schools) available at:
Average spending per pupil (£’s) – Academy schools
Year (Academic) | (a) Middlesbrough | (b) Redcar and Cleveland |
2009/10 | * | * |
2010/11 | * | * |
2011/12 | £7,286 | £7,631 |
2012/13 | £7,164 | £7,813 |
2013/14 | £7,089 | £7,279 |
2014/15 | £6,646 | £6,291 |
2015/16 | £6,395 | £5,848 |
2016/17 | £5,464 | £5,586 |
* : Data not available
Source: AAR data (Academies Accounts Return, for academy schools) available at:
https://sat1prsfb.blob.core.windows.net/sfb/SFB_Academies_2016-17_download.xlsx.
Asked by: Simon Clarke (Conservative - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children in (a) Middlesbrough and (b) Redcar and Cleveland achieved the English Baccalaureate attainment measure in each year for which information is available.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Information on the proportion of pupils who achieved the English Baccalaureate in each year is published at local authority, regional and national level in the 'GCSE and equivalent results in England: statistical first release' series[1]; the English Baccalaureate was first available in 2009/10. The percentage of pupils, in state-funded schools, achieving the English Baccalaureate in each academic year is provided in the attached table.
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-gcses-key-stage-4.
Asked by: Simon Clarke (Conservative - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many young people in the Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency started an apprenticeship in each year since 2009-10.
Answered by Anne Milton
The attached table shows figures for apprenticeship starts in the Middleborough South and East Cleveland constituency since the 2009/10 academic year, including data for the first three quarters of the 2017/2018 academic year (August 2017 to April 2018) as published in the FE data library: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fe-data-library.
Asked by: Simon Clarke (Conservative - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of schools in (a) Middlesbrough and (b) Redcar and Cleveland are classified as Good or Outstanding by Ofsted.
Answered by Nick Gibb
As at 31 March 2018, Ofsted inspection data shows the proportion of schools in Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland:
a) There were 84% of schools in Middlesbrough classified as Good or Outstanding, and
b) There were 86% of schools in Redcar and Cleveland classified as Good or Outstanding.
Asked by: Simon Clarke (Conservative - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of (a) all pupils and (b) pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds in (i) Middlesbrough and (ii) Redcar and Cleveland entered university in each year since 2009-10.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The department publishes information on the percentage of 15 year old pupils from state-funded and special schools who entered higher education by age 19 by free school meal status, local authority and region. Figures for Middlesbrough, and Redcar and Cleveland can be found in Table 2a of the following file: