Asked by: David Ward (Liberal Democrat - Bradford East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that Bradford has enough school places.
Answered by David Laws
Local authorities are responsible for planning and securing sufficient school places in their area. We have committed £5 billion between 2011 and 2015 to help local authorities to create new school places, and an additional £2.35 billion up to 2017. Bradford has been allocated £88million in Basic Need funding for 2011 to 2017, in addition to centrally funded places through the Free Schools programme.
Asked by: David Ward (Liberal Democrat - Bradford East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many primary school children have received funding through the pupil premium in (a) Bradford East constituency and (b) Bradford.
Answered by David Laws
The Pupil Premium was introduced in April 2011. The available information is shown in the tables attached.
Information on deprivation pupil premium by primary and secondary year groups was first published in 2013/14. Data in this form prior to this date is not readily available.
Asked by: David Ward (Liberal Democrat - Bradford East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many nursery school places have been created in (a) Bradford East constituency and (b) Bradford since 2008.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The Department for Education does not collect or hold information about the number of places which have been created or are available in nursery schools.
Information is available about the number of pupils in nursery schools in Bradford in 2014[1] and 2008[2] and this can be found in the respective Schools, Pupils and their Characteristics statistical first releases.
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2014
[2] http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20120504203418/http://education.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000786/index.shtml
Asked by: David Ward (Liberal Democrat - Bradford East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many secondary school children in (a) Bradford East constituency and (b) Bradford have received funding through the pupil premium.
Answered by David Laws
The Pupil Premium was introduced in April 2011. The available information is shown in the tables attached.
Information on deprivation pupil premium by primary and secondary year groups was first published in 2013/14. Data in this form prior to this date is not readily available.
Asked by: David Ward (Liberal Democrat - Bradford East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 15 October 2014, to Question 209601, on free schools: Sheffield, who was named as Chair of Governors in the application to establish a free school at Milner Fields in Bradford.
Answered by Edward Timpson
There is a police investigation taking place regarding events at Kings Science Academy. Until such time as those investigations are brought to a close and a full and final determination reached, it would not be appropriate to release any related information held by the Department for Education.
The Department has made a public commitment to release all successful free school applications once all personal information has been removed. Should the investigation conclude by the time the first batch of applications are released in December, the application for the Kings Science Academy in Bradford will be released at that time.
The release of the names of the proposed Chairs of Governors at the proposed schools in Milner Fields and Darnall might contravene the data protection rights of the individuals concerned.
Asked by: David Ward (Liberal Democrat - Bradford East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 15 October 2014, to Question 209601, on free schools: Sheffield, who was named as Chair of Governors in the application to establish a free school at Darnall in Sheffield.
Answered by Edward Timpson
There is a police investigation taking place regarding events at Kings Science Academy. Until such time as those investigations are brought to a close and a full and final determination reached, it would not be appropriate to release any related information held by the Department for Education.
The Department has made a public commitment to release all successful free school applications once all personal information has been removed. Should the investigation conclude by the time the first batch of applications are released in December, the application for the Kings Science Academy in Bradford will be released at that time.
The release of the names of the proposed Chairs of Governors at the proposed schools in Milner Fields and Darnall might contravene the data protection rights of the individuals concerned.