Asked by: David Crausby (Labour - Bolton North East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many free schools have closed in each year for which data is available.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
There are currently 393 free schools open. Since 2010, eight free schools have closed. and one closure is planned for summer 2018. The primary objective of the department when making a decision to close a school is to ensure the best possible educational outcomes for pupils and to secure value for money for the taxpayer.
Academic year | Free school closures |
2013/14 | Discovery New School |
2014/15 | The Durham Free School, Dawes Lane Academy, Stockport Technical School |
2015/16 | St Michael’s Secondary School |
2016/17 | Bolton Wanderers Free School, Collective Spirit Free School |
| Southwark Free School |
Total | 8 |
Asked by: David Crausby (Labour - Bolton North East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many of her Department's staff have been employed in each region in each of the last five years.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The table attached, available from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), provides a breakdown in total headcount figures of Department staff in the last five years.
Published Civil Service statistics can be found on the ONS website: https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/civilservicestatistics.
Asked by: David Crausby (Labour - Bolton North East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people in Bolton North East constituency have undertaken an apprenticeship in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Anne Milton
The table below provides the number of people who started an apprenticeship in the Parliamentary constituency Bolton North East for the last 10 academic years.
Academic Year | Starts |
2007/08 | 570 |
2008/09 | 520 |
2009/10 | 660 |
2010/11 | 1000 |
2011/12 | 1130 |
2012/13 | 1150 |
2013/14 | 930 |
2014/15 | 1090 |
2015/16 | 1050 |
2016/17 (provisional) | 960 |
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Asked by: David Crausby (Labour - Bolton North East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprenticeships her Department supported in each subject area in the last year for which figures are available.
Answered by Anne Milton
The table below provides the number of people who started apprenticeships in England in the provisional 2016/17 academic year, by a breakdown of sector subject area.
Sector Subject Area | Starts |
Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Care | 7,290 |
Arts, Media and Publishing | 860 |
Business, Administration and Law | 137,480 |
Construction, Planning and the Built Environment | 21,010 |
Education and Training | 8,780 |
Engineering and Manufacturing Technologies | 74,010 |
Health, Public Services and Care | 138,410 |
Information and Communication Technology | 15,010 |
Leisure, Travel and Tourism | 13,670 |
Retail and Commercial Enterprise | 74,520 |
Science and Mathematics | 290 |
All | 491,300 |
Note: Figures include all funded and unfunded learners reported on the Individualised Learner Record and are rounded to the nearest 10, with the grand total rounded to the nearest 100. This is currently published by the department, and is available in the ‘Apprenticeship starts by level, framework and sector subject area data tool’:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/650226/201617_Oct_Apps_Level_SSA_And_Framework_Data_Tool_FINAL.xlsx.
Asked by: David Crausby (Labour - Bolton North East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average length of a modern apprenticeship was in the most recent period for which figures are available.
Answered by Anne Milton
In the latest 2016/17 provisional final year figures, the average length of stay on apprenticeship programmes was 479.8 days.
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Asked by: David Crausby (Labour - Bolton North East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to improve food hygiene safety in schools, children's clubs and nurseries that failed to meet satisfactory standards in inspections last year.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
Local authorities are responsible for food hygiene inspections of schools, children’s clubs and nurseries at which food is served regularly to children. Food hygiene legislation requires these premises to be registered as food businesses. The Food Standards Agency, which sets policy for and monitors enforcement of food safety legislation by local authorities, has advised that approximately 99% of educational establishments and caring establishments, including schools, children’s clubs and nurseries, have satisfactory or better food hygiene standards.
Local authorities work with food businesses to make improvements in any premises that fail to meet satisfactory standards during inspections and may take a range of enforcement actions as considered appropriate in the circumstances of each case. The honourable member for Bolton North East or members of his constituency may contact the relevant local authority or the Food Standards Agency for detailed information about specific premises that are of concern to him.
Asked by: David Crausby (Labour - Bolton North East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many unqualified teachers are employed in schools in Bolton.
Answered by David Laws
In November 2013 (the most recent available figures), there were 35 full-time equivalent teachers without qualified teacher status (QTS) working in publicly-funded schools in the Bolton local authority area. This represents 1.4% of teachers employed in the local authority. This information is based on returns from 125 of the 126 schools in the Bolton local authority area.
Further information on the proportion of qualified teachers working in every local authority, and for England as a whole, can be found in the School Workforce in England Statistical First Release, November 2013, published online at:
www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2013
Asked by: David Crausby (Labour - Bolton North East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to record cases of bullying as reported by victims in schools by counts of cyber-bullying and similar sub-categories.
Answered by Elizabeth Truss
There is no legal requirement on schools to record and report incidents of bullying and we have no plans to introduce one. Schools are free to develop their own approaches to monitoring bullying and exercise their own judgement as to what will work best for their pupils. For some schools, this will involve formal recording of incidents so that they can monitor bullying and identify where it is recurring between the same pupils. Alternatively, some schools may prefer to take a different approach, such as surveying their pupils anonymously to identify trends in bullying, including how safe young people feel at school.
Schools are held clearly to account by Ofsted for pupil behaviour and safety which includes how they tackle bullying. Inspectors consider the types, rates and patterns of bullying and the effectiveness of the school's actions to prevent and tackle all forms of bullying and harassment, including cyberbullying.