Asked by: Christopher Chope (Conservative - Christchurch)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government plans to take to reduce the need for schools to pay for the advertising of school staff vacancies; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The Department is developing a free national digital service for schools to publish teacher vacancies and for teachers to search for them. This new service aims to reduce the cost to schools of teacher recruitment, and make it easier for teachers to find new posts.
PriceWaterhouseCoopers has estimated that school spend between £65-75 million per year on teacher recruitment advertisements. This is set out on page 12 of this report: https://www.pwc.co.uk/assets/pdf/teacher-recruitment-pwc-education-insight-23may2016.pdf.
Testing will start with a sample of schools in May and the evidence from this user testing will inform the next stage of roll out.
Asked by: Christopher Chope (Conservative - Christchurch)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 5 July to Question 2169 on Parkfield School, Bournemouth, whether that project is now complete.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The school moved to its permanent site in September 2017 and the Education and Skills Funding Agency is currently commissioning the remaining works on site, for completion in 2018.
Asked by: Christopher Chope (Conservative - Christchurch)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the Acting Chief Executive of the Student Loans Company Ltd will give a substantive reply to the complaint on behalf of Customer 67178459697 made by the hon. Member for Christchurch.
Answered by Lord Johnson of Marylebone
The Student Loans Company (SLC) has confirmed that its Acting Chief Executive wrote to the hon. Member for Christchurch on 31 October providing a substantive response to his complaint in line with published timescales.
The SLC has also confirmed that it wrote to the customer concerned on the same date confirming that, in line with its complaints procedure, their complaint has been escalated to Independent Assessor review stage
Asked by: Christopher Chope (Conservative - Christchurch)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to date has been of the acquisition, adoption and repair of new premises in Hurn, Christchurch for Parkfield Free School.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The acquisition cost of the site was £3,000,000, which was assessed to be an appropriate price for the site by the EFA and its advisors.
Construction costs, professional fees and ICT costs associated with the permanent site for the school are currently commercially sensitive and will be published once the project is completed.
Asked by: Christopher Chope (Conservative - Christchurch)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when her Department plans to respond to the email of 22 November 2016 from Tim Fuller, the Director of Reality Business, on the apprenticeship levy.
Answered by Robert Halfon
I can confirm that a response has been issued to Mr Fuller on 24 January.
Asked by: Christopher Chope (Conservative - Christchurch)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on what date the Education Funding Agency applied to Christchurch Borough Council for planning permission to erect temporary classrooms for Parkfield School at Hurn; and on what date that application was withdrawn.
Answered by Edward Timpson
The planning application for temporary accommodation for Parkfield School at Hurn was made on 9 May 2016 and withdrawn on 1 July 2016.