Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children's homes there are in England and Wales.
Answered by Edward Timpson
This is a matter for Ofsted. I have asked Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Amanda Spielman, to write to the Honourable Member for Wigan with the information requested.
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many grammar schools take account of whether applicants to that school are (a) in receipt of pupil premium and (b) eligible for free school meals.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Other than ensuring compliance with the Admissions Code, the Government does not monitor the admission policies of state-funded schools.
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of grammar school pupils are from each ethnic minority background.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The ethnicity of all students attending state-funded selective schools is listed in the following table:
Source: School Census, January 2016[1] |
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Percentage of pupils classified as : (a) (b) (c) (d) |
| State-funded secondary schools |
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White British |
| 70.9 | 65.9 | |||||
Other white backgrounds |
| 5.4 | 3.7 | |||||
White and black Caribbean |
| 1.4 | 0.7 | |||||
White and black African |
| 0.6 | 0.5 | |||||
White and Asian |
| 1.1 | 2.0 | |||||
Any other mixed background |
| 1.7 | 2.3 | |||||
Indian |
| 2.9 | 8.2 | |||||
Pakistani |
| 4.1 | 3.8 | |||||
Bangladeshi |
| 1.7 | 1.0 | |||||
Any other Asian background |
| 1.7 | 4.3 | |||||
Black Caribbean |
| 1.3 | 0.4 | |||||
Black African |
| 3.5 | 3.2 | |||||
Any other black background |
| 0.7 | 0.3 | |||||
Chinese |
| 0.4 | 1.6 | |||||
Any other ethnic group |
| 1.6 | 1.2 | |||||
Unclassified (e) |
| 1.2 | 1.1 | |||||
Notes: |
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a. Percentages may not sum to 100 due to rounding. |
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b. Pupils of compulsory school age and above were classified according to ethnic group. |
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c. Includes pupils who are sole or dual main registrations. |
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d. The number of pupils by ethnic group expressed as a percentage of all pupils of compulsory school age and above. |
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e. Information refused or not obtained. |
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[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2016
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of grammar school entrants were previously educated in fee-paying preparatory schools in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2014-15 and (c) 2015-16.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The data requested is not collected by the Department or local authorities.
The School Admissions Code[1] sets out that admission authorities must not “take into account any previous schools attended, unless it is a named feeder school” (para 1.9b) or “name fee-paying independent schools as feeder schools” (para 1.9l).
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-admissions-code--2
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average annual spend per pupil in secondary modern schools was in 2015-16 in (a) England and (b) each region.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Schools self-select their own admissions category on Edubase. 120 schools are identified as ‘secondary modern’.
The Department does not yet hold the income and expenditure data from 2015-16. The data will be available for those which are maintained by the local authority in December 2016, and for those which are academies in the summer of 2017.
The overall expenditure per pupil in secondary modern schools by each region for 2014-15 is listed in the following table:
Region | Number of secondary modern schools | Expenditure per pupil (£) |
East Midlands | 13 | 6,388 |
East of England | 1 | 5,738 |
London | 13 | 6,228 |
North West | 15 | 6,416 |
South East | 54 | 5,703 |
South West | 7 | 5,928 |
West Midlands | 11 | 5,547 |
Yorkshire and the Humber | 3 | 6,729 |
England Total | 117* | 5,921 |
*Note: There are 3 secondary modern schools for which we do not have comparable financial data for them for this period. One of these converted to an academy during 2014-15, and one was reported as part of a federation with another school. The remaining school did not submit data to the Department. The expenditure per pupil takes into account expenditure from all income sources, including self-generated income.
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of grammar school entrants were eligible for free school meals in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2014-15 and (c) 2015-16.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The number and proportion of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals in selective state-funded secondary schools in England in each of these years is listed in the table below:
Year | Number of Pupils | Number of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals | Percentage of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals |
2013-14 (data as at January 2014) | 162,629 | 4,204 | 2.6% |
2014-15 (data as at January 2015) | 164,149 | 4,163 | 2.5% |
2015-16 (data as at January 2016) | 166,517 | 4,237 | 2.5% |
Source: School Census
Includes sole and dual main registered pupils
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average annual spend per pupil was in grammar schools in each region in 2015-16.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Schools self-select their own admissions category on Edubase. 163 schools are identified as ‘selective (grammar).’
The Department does not yet hold the income and expenditure data from 2015-16. The data will be available for those which are maintained by the local authority in December 2016, and for those which are academies in the summer of 2017.
The overall expenditure per pupil in grammar schools by each region for 2014-15 is listed in the following table:
Region | Number of grammar schools | Expenditure per pupil (£) |
East Midlands | 15 | 5,195 |
East of England | 8 | 5,644 |
London | 19 | 5,683 |
North West | 18 | 5,392 |
South East | 55 | 5,332 |
South West | 20 | 5,210 |
West Midlands | 17 | 5,553 |
Yorkshire and the Humber | 6 | 5,557 |
England Total | 158* | 5,404 |
*Note: There are 5 selective schools which converted to academies during 2014-15 and as such we do not have comparable financial data for them for this period. The expenditure per pupil takes into account expenditure from all income sources, including self-generated income.
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of grammar school entrants are in receipt of the pupil premium in (a) England and (b) each region.
Answered by Edward Timpson
The proportion of grammar school pupils in receipt of the pupil premium in (a) England and (b) each region are given in the table.
Region | Number of grammar schools | Proportion of pupils receiving pupil premium |
East Midlands | 15 | 12.5% |
East of England | 8 | 5.6% |
London | 19 | 7.6% |
North West | 19 | 6.9% |
South East | 57 | 8.1% |
South West | 20 | 9.2% |
West Midlands | 19 | 10.0% |
Yorkshire and the Humber | 6 | 7.4% |
England Total | 163 | 8.5% |
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether all employees of his Department are required to return their departmental pass when they cease working for his Department.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
Staff passes of people who no longer work for the Department are required to be returned or deactivated.
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when Dominic Cummings last had email contact with officials, Ministers and special advisers in his Department.
Answered by Matt Hancock
Mr Cummings is an ex-employee of the Department for Education. It is not uncommon for ex-employees to be in contact with Ministers and the Department. As the Secretary of State for Education explained to the House on Monday 16 June, many people seek to visit and contact the Department for Education to exchange ideas with old friends and colleagues.