Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 18 Jan 2017
Education Funding: Devon
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 08 Sep 2016
New Grammar Schools
"I have listened carefully to the Secretary of State, and I have not heard her explicitly support the policy that was announced by the Prime Minister at last night’s private Back-Bench Conservative meeting and leaked to the media. The Secretary of State smiles, but that is an interesting fact. The …..."Ben Bradshaw - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 05 Nov 2015
School Funding
"I hope to take considerably less than 10 minutes, Mr Walker, although I may take one or two interventions.
We all agree that every child and family deserves the same chance in life when it comes to state-funded education; but at present, as the hon. Member for Beverley and Holderness …..."Ben Bradshaw - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 05 Nov 2015
School Funding
"I entirely agree, and I will come to some of the historical reasons for the underfunding in a minute, but first I want to mention one of my fantastic headteachers in Exeter, Moira Marder, who is the executive head of two of my high schools: St James school and Isca …..."Ben Bradshaw - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 05 Nov 2015
School Funding
"We face exactly the same challenge in Exeter, which is a growth area. We have huge additional housing developments everywhere, and I share the right hon. Gentleman’s concerns that the funding formula does not keep up with the growth in demand caused by those developments and growing populations.
I mentioned …..."Ben Bradshaw - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 05 Nov 2015
School Funding
"Is it not the case that the SNP Administration in Scotland have dramatically cut funding for further education to fund their so-called free higher education for university students? The hon. Lady claims that Scottish pupils are performing better than English pupils with higher funding, but her Government’s recent report showed …..."Ben Bradshaw - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 05 Nov 2015
School Funding
"A question has occurred to me during this debate. Broadly speaking—I know this is a simplification—Conservative shire counties had lower education funding and lower council tax, while Labour urban authorities tended to have higher education funding and higher council tax. Given the Government’s policy of capping increases in council tax, …..."Ben Bradshaw - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 16th March 2015
Asked by:
Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what forecasts her Department has made of the number of parents who will be eligible to claim free school meals under universal credit in (a) 2015, (b) 2016 and (c) 2017.
Answered by David Laws
It is not possible at this stage to report the number of parents who will meet the necessary criteria to be eligible to claim free school meals for their children in future years.
Written Question
Monday 16th March 2015
Asked by:
Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what forecast she has made of the number of parents who will be eligible to claim free school meals for their children in April 2016.
Answered by David Laws
It is not possible at this stage to report the number of parents who will meet the necessary criteria to be eligible to claim free school meals for their children in 2016.
Written Question
Wednesday 4th March 2015
Asked by:
Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the total (a) capital and (b) revenue expenditure has been to date on free schools opened in districts which did not have a forecast need for extra school places.
Answered by Edward Timpson
Every free school has been opened in response to either the need to provide extra school places, the need to provide parents with greater choice or the need to provide more high quality school places. Almost three quarters of free schools have opened in areas with a forecast need for more places and 94 per cent of free schools approved since January 2014 plan to open in areas with a need for more school places.
To date, the total (a) published capital costs of the schools that have opened in response to parental demand or a need for high quality school places is around £50 million and (b) the revenue expenditure for these schools is approximately £76 million.