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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 20 Mar 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"It is deeply shocking that in the 21st century, some girls, including in Leeds, are not going to school because they cannot afford sanitary products. Will the Secretary of State eliminate the problem by introducing free sanitary products for all girls receiving free school meals?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 06 Feb 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"Leeds is reviewing its support for transport to school for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities, and there is a risk that people over-16 may not get such funding. Will the Government commit to ensuring that all children in such a situation in the country get the funding they …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 14 Nov 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"Encouraging children to take an interest in current affairs can also boost literacy. Will the right hon. Lady welcome the Let’s Read: Leeds initiative organised by the News Foundation and supported by the Yorkshire Evening Post?..."
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Written Question
Teachers: Labour Turnover
Thursday 20th October 2016

Asked by: Greg Mulholland (Liberal Democrat - Leeds North West)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the retention figures are for (a) primary and (b) secondary school teachers who began their employment in each of the last five years.

Answered by Nick Gibb

Retention rates for all teachers by phase are not available.

Published statistics are available that show the retention rates for newly qualified teachers (not split by phase). The latest information is contained in the following table. It shows around 90% of teachers continue in the profession following their first year of teaching (and this has been the case since 1996). Of the teachers who started teaching in 2010, 70% were still teaching five years later.

Percentage of teachers in regular service in the state-funded schools sector in England after: [1]

Year qualified[2]

Recorded In service by[3]

Number of newly qualified entrants entering service[4]

1 year

2 years

3 years

4 years

5 years

2010

November 2010

24,100

87%

82%

77%

73%

70%

2011

November 2011

20,600

88%

83%

77%

73%

2012

November 2012

23,000

88%

81%

75%

2013

November 2013

23,600

87%

80%

2014

November 2014

24,200

87%

2015

November 2015

25,500

The statistics are shown in table 8 and are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2015.

[1] The percentage of teachers in service in anyone year will include those who may not have had continuous service to that year. For example, teachers could be in service for 3 consecutive years, miss a year, and then be in service in year 5 onwards after qualifying.

[2] Calendar year in which the teachers qualified.

[3] Financial year during which the teachers entered service

[4] Newly qualified entrants in year x are defined as all teachers who qualified between November x-1 and November x and were in service in school year x/x+1.


Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 10 Oct 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"I commend the Secretary of State for announcing, or perhaps forcing, the U-turn on the nasty policy of employers naming foreign employees. Will she now give us another U-turn and announce that schools do not need to ask parents to provide birth certificates, thus potentially turning schools into immigration offices?..."
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Written Question
Erasmus+ Programme
Tuesday 20th September 2016

Asked by: Greg Mulholland (Liberal Democrat - Leeds North West)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what representations she has received from the higher education sector on the future of the Erasmus programme.

Answered by Lord Johnson of Marylebone

The referendum result has no immediate effect on students abroad under the Erasmus scheme or applying for 2016/17. Payments will be made in the usual way. Access to the programme after we leave the EU is a matter for the forthcoming negotiations, and the potential effects could vary considerably. Since the referendum, I have met with stakeholders including representatives from:

  • Edinburgh University
  • Guild HE
  • Independent Universities Group
  • Independent HE
  • Manchester University
  • Million Plus
  • National Union of Students
  • Russell Group
  • Surrey University
  • Universities UK
  • University Alliance
  • University of Winchester
  • The All-Party Parliamentary University Group
  • Newcastle University
  • Sheffield University
  • Manchester Metropolitan University
  • Lancaster University
  • British and Irish Modern Music Institute
  • Durham University
  • Liverpool University
  • Leeds University
  • Salford University
  • York University
  • Aberdeen University
  • Dundee University
  • Universities Scotland
  • Heriot-Watt
  • University of the West of Scotland
  • Stirling University
  • Glasgow Caledonian University
  • Glasgow University
  • Queen Mary University Edinburgh
  • Strathclyde University

Officials have additionally met with or spoken to:

  • the Learned Societies
  • the Open University
  • University and College Union
  • Higher Education Academy

They have also received various representations.


Written Question
Schools: Finance
Monday 12th September 2016

Asked by: Greg Mulholland (Liberal Democrat - Leeds North West)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will provide a regional breakdown of her Department's spending on schools since 2010.

Answered by Nick Gibb

The main revenue funding allocations from this department to schools and local authorities comprise the dedicated schools grant (DSG), pupil premium, education services grant (ESG), universal infant free school meals (UIFSM), PE & Sport premium and Year 7 catch-up grant.

Details of these allocations to all schools or local authorities for financial or academic years 2010 to 2017 (dependent on each grant), can be found at the links below:

2010-11 data:

2011-12 data:

2012-13 data:

2013-14 data:

2014-15 data:

2015-16 data:

2016-17 data (for those that are available):

Capital allocations for devolved grants allocated to local authorities from the financial year 2011/12 to present are provided below.

In addition to these allocations the Department for Education has the following nation-wide programmes for which we do not publish regional spend figures:

  • Building Schools For The Future

  • 71 Academies

  • Framework Academies

  • Multi Academy Trust School Condition Allocation

  • Condition Improvement Fund

  • Free Schools/ University Technical Colleges and Studio Schools

  • Priority School Building Programme 1

  • Priority School Building Programme 2

Basic Need & TBN

Allocation data for all LAs from 11/12 onwards can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/basic-need-allocations

Condition

Allocation data for all LAs from 11/12 onwards can be found here:

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110306040545/http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/adminandfinance/schoolscapital/a0070303/schools-capital-allocations-for-2011-12

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130123124929/http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/adminandfinance/schoolscapital/a00200794/schools-capital-allocations-for-2012-13

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130123124929/http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/adminandfinance/schoolscapital/funding/a00222251/capital-fund-allocations-mar-13

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140322133531/https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-allocations

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-allocations

UIFSM

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-allocations-for-basic-need-and-infant-free-school-meals


Written Question
Erasmus+ Programme
Tuesday 6th September 2016

Asked by: Greg Mulholland (Liberal Democrat - Leeds North West)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions she has had with her EU counterparts on the future of the Erasmus programme.

Answered by Lord Johnson of Marylebone

The EU referendum result has no immediate effect on students abroad under Erasmus or those applying in 2016/17. Payments will be made in the usual way. Access after we leave the EU is a matter for the forthcoming negotiations.


Written Question
Primary Education: Class Sizes
Wednesday 27th July 2016

Asked by: Greg Mulholland (Liberal Democrat - Leeds North West)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in Key Stage 1 were taught in classes of more than (a) 30 and (b) 35 pupils in the academic year beginning September 2015 in each region of England.

Answered by Nick Gibb

The number of pupils in Key Stage 1 classes of more than 30 and 35 pupils in each region of England relating to the academic year beginning September 2015 can be found in table 11 of the ‘schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2016’ statistics[1].

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2016


Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 21 Jul 2016
School Funding

"As a former Select Committee colleague, I am delighted to see the Secretary of State in her new place and congratulate her. I urge her not to follow the example of her two predecessors; she should build a strong relationship with headteachers and teachers.

Will the Secretary of State make …..."

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