Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 02 Nov 2021
Budget Resolutions
"In recent weeks, the Chancellor has been promising us a Budget that would look to the future, a Budget that would reshape our economy and a Budget that would level up our left-behind communities. Working people across the country hoped for action that would tackle the growing cost of living …..."Imran Hussain - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 12th July 2021
Asked by:
Imran Hussain (Labour - Bradford East)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools that have had an academy order imposed upon them have waited (a) between 24 and 35 months, (b) between 36 and 47 months, (c) between 48 and 59 months and (d) longer than 60 months before their academisation process was completed.
Answered by Nick Gibb
As of the 1 June 2021, there have been 574 sponsored academies that have opened after the predecessor local authority maintained schools were issued with academy orders following receipt of inadequate Ofsted judgements. 56% of these sponsored academies opened in less than 12 months, and more than 90% opened in less than 24 months of the academy order being issued. Of the remainder:
- 33 took between 24 and 35 months.
- 13 took between 36 and 47 months.
- 4 took between 48 and 59 months.
- 1 took longer than 60 months.
Written Question
Thursday 18th June 2020
Asked by:
Imran Hussain (Labour - Bradford East)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils were excluded in each local authority in each year since 2010 by ethnicity.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The National Statistics release ‘Permanent and fixed-period exclusions in England 2017 to 2018’ includes information on the number and rate of permanent and fixed period exclusions.
The release is available here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england-2017-to-2018.
The underlying data includes information on exclusions by local authority. The data can be filtered to show local authority, year and school type. There is also a metadata file in the same area that gives details of the data files.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 07 May 2019
Timpson Review of School Exclusion
"I share concerns raised by Members about exclusions and illegal off-rolling, but schools make use of other tools and practices to remove children—particularly SEN children—from classes, such as isolation booths. Those booths are barbaric, leaving children in what is essentially solitary confinement for the school day. I have even heard …..."Imran Hussain - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 11 Mar 2019
Oral Answers to Questions
"11. What progress he has made on implementing the northern powerhouse schools strategy. ..."Imran Hussain - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 11 Mar 2019
Oral Answers to Questions
"Many of the projects that the Minister has referred to today and previously have a national reach and are not solely catering for the north, which betrays the very purpose of the northern powerhouse schools strategy. Will he commit to creating a northern schools improvement board, drawing together local authorities …..."Imran Hussain - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 25 Feb 2019
Relationships and Sex Education
"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir David. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Warrington North (Helen Jones) for leading this important debate today.
I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Ladywood (Shabana Mahmood) and applaud the powerful contribution she made. …..."Imran Hussain - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 25 Feb 2019
Relationships and Sex Education
"Not at the moment, because we are on the clock and I have a number of points that I want to get on the record. I may give way later.
Throughout the existing education system, the age-appropriateness of the curriculum is woven in alongside the maturity, understanding and preparedness of …..."Imran Hussain - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 25 Feb 2019
Relationships and Sex Education
"I will not.
Parents are also concerned about the faith-appropriateness of the content that will be taught. Importantly, parents of all faith backgrounds are high- lighting those concerns. It is not an issue for a single faith community, but one for the religious community as a collective. Again, my hon. …..."Imran Hussain - View Speech
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Written Question
Tuesday 3rd July 2018
Asked by:
Imran Hussain (Labour - Bradford East)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much money allocated to the Northern Powerhouse schools strategy has been spent (a) in total, (b) in Bradford and (c) on teacher recruitment.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
In answer to part (a) how much money has been spent in total and part (c) how much money has been spent on teacher recruitment, I refer the hon. Member for Bradford East, to the answer I gave on 11 June 2018 to Question 140739 https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-05-02/140739/.
This sets out how the government has spent or committed more than £70 million to support educational improvement in the North, including on teacher recruitment.
In answer to part (b), we are not able to provide a total figure for Bradford as some funding, such as funding to grow the capacity of multi-academy trusts, is spent or allocated to support schools across more than one local authority. Some examples of how the Department is supporting Bradford schools are set out below:
- We are supporting teacher recruitment and providing tailored support to some of the schools facing significant recruitment and retention issues. We have already started to support a number of schools in Bradford and will increase that support over the next two years through the tailored support programme.
- We are also investing in Bradford’s teachers through the Opportunity Area (OA). Bradford4Teaching is the city’s innovative campaign to attract the best teachers to live, work and build a career in Bradford. The campaign was developed and has been delivered in partnership by Bradford Council and the Northern Lights Teaching School Alliance. Through the OA programme, we are committed to invest at least £250,000 to extend the campaign. The Department is also committing an additional £1.5 million to support school improvement in Bradford’s most challenging schools through the OA programme. In total, as part of the OA programme, we are spending £72 million across 12 areas of the country facing challenges and Bradford will benefit from a share of that.
- The regional academy growth fund supports successful trusts to grow and to improve standards in underperforming schools. Schools in Bradford that are underperforming have already benefited from this funding.
- Through the Strategic School Improvement Fund, five applicants are supporting a total of 43 schools in Bradford. Two of the five applicants are exclusively supporting 31 Bradford schools and have been awarded funding totalling £807,970. The remaining three applications are supporting a total of 78 schools at a cost of £809,157. 12 of these schools are located in Bradford but it is not possible to isolate spend for the Bradford schools.