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Written Question
Curriculum
Wednesday 10th December 2014

Asked by: Iain Stewart (Conservative - Milton Keynes South)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will estimate the total number of hours per week spent teaching (a) mathematics, (b) English, (c) individual or combined sciences, (d) history, (e) French, (f) Spanish, (g) German, (h) media studies and (i) citizenship in secondary schools at key stage 4 in (i) 2009-10, (ii) 2010-11, (iii) 2011-12, (iv) 2012-13 and (v) 2013-14.

Answered by Nick Gibb

The following table shows the numbers of teachers and total hours spent teaching selected subjects at Key Stage 4 in a typical week for each November from 2010 to 2013:

Numbers of teachers and total hours per week spent teaching selected subjects at Key Stage 4 in a typical week in November of each year

(Thousands)

SUBJECT

2010

2011

2012

2013

Teachers

Hours

Teachers

Hours

Teachers

Hours

Teachers

Hours

Mathematics

27.4

184.9

27.9

189.2

27.1

188.3

27.5

193.0

English

29.0

194.4

29.5

197.1

28.7

195.9

29.1

201.3

Physics

2.9

12.7

3.0

13.4

3.3

14.9

3.5

15.7

Chemistry

3.2

12.8

3.3

13.5

3.7

15.0

3.9

15.9

Biology

3.5

13.5

3.7

14.2

4.0

16.0

4.3

17.4

Combined/ General Science

27.6

201.1

27.8

200.2

26.6

190.5

26.6

189.1

Other Sciences

1.7

7.5

1.7

7.2

1.3

5.3

1.2

5.4

History

9.4

43.8

10.0

48.6

10.2

52.9

10.4

54.1

French

8.7

34.4

8.8

41.9

9.1

40.0

9.2

40.7

Spanish

3.9

15.7

9.0

37.2

4.5

20.6

4.7

21.7

German

3.6

14.6

4.2

18.2

3.5

15.1

3.4

14.8

Media Studies

4.3

17.4

4.0

16.2

3.7

14.9

3.6

14.8

Citizenship

5.4

10.7

4.6

9.2

3.7

7.4

3.2

6.5

ALL SUBJECTS

211.9

1,422.6

211.1

1,425.8

205.4

1,382.5

205.6

1,379.9

Source: School Workforce Census

Data is not available for earlier years.

Written Question
Armed Forces: Children
Tuesday 9th December 2014

Asked by: Iain Stewart (Conservative - Milton Keynes South)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of children from families serving in the armed forces in each local authority area who will be eligible for the pupil premium in 2015-16.

Answered by David Laws

It is not possible to estimate how many children from families serving in the armed forces will be in maintained schools in England and classified as disadvantaged in 2015-16 who will attract the pupil premium until the information is gathered in the January 2015 school census.

Our analysis of data from the January 2014 school census showed that nationally there were 57,940 pupils with a parent in the armed services who attended maintained schools in England. All of these pupils attracted additional service premium funding to their school, which is intended to be used to help service children with the potential challenges they may face as a result of their parent’s service to the country.

Of these pupils, 6,161 also attracted pupil premium funding to the schools they attended in 2014-15 by virtue of being disadvantaged. The majority of these pupils (6,009) attracted the pupil premium through having been registered for free school meals at any point in the last six years. There are also 152 pupils who attracted the pupil premium through having left care through adoption, or via a Special Guardianship, Residence or Child Arrangements Order. These figures do not include those pupils who were in local authority care and were also classed as service children through having had a parent in the armed forces, as this data is currently unavailable.

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