Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the total cost to the public purse has been of converting local authority schools to academy schools since 2010.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
As of 1 December 2018, there are 7,814 open academies.
During the last nine financial years, the department has spent £443 million on pre-opening start-up grants to support local authority schools to convert to become academies. Further details are found in the table below:
Financial Year | Costs |
2018-19 (as at end November 18) | £17 million |
2017-18 | £38 million |
2016-17 | £54 million |
2015-16 | £28 million |
2014-15 | £48 million |
2013-14 | £59 million |
2012-13 | £65 million |
2011-12 | £67 million |
2010-11 | £67 million |
Total | £443 million |
Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has made an estimate of the number of first-year undergraduates who do not live in accommodation sponsored by their university.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes data about higher education (HE) in the UK.
Information on the term-time accommodation arrangements of entrants to full-time undergraduate study at UK HE institutions in the academic year 2016/17 has been provided in the table, and shows that 60% of entrants lived in accommodation other than provider-maintained properties. Provider-maintained property refers to residences owned by the institution returning data.
Full-time undergraduate entrants by term-time accommodation type | ||
UK HE Institutions | ||
Academic Year 2016/17 | ||
Term-time accommodation type | Number of entrants | Share of entrants (%) |
Provider maintained property | 213,535 | 40% |
Parental/guardian home | 110,645 | 21% |
Own residence | 75,080 | 14% |
Private-sector halls | 59,895 | 11% |
Other rented accommodation | 50,225 | 9% |
Other | 12,600 | 2% |
Not known | 12,645 | 2% |
Not in attendance at the provider | 540 | 0% |
Missing | 20 | 0% |
Total | 535,185 | 100% |
Source: Department for Education analysis of the HESA Student Record
Notes
1. Percentages are rounded to nearest whole number.
2. All figures are rounded to the nearest multiple of five.
Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of suicides by students in (a) further and (b) higher education in the 2017-2018 academic year.
Answered by Anne Milton
The information requested is not held centrally.
However, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) release ‘Suicides in the UK: 2017 registrations’ is available at the following link: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/suicidesintheunitedkingdom/2017registrations. This provides statistics on the number of registered suicides by five-year age groups for England between 1981 and 2017. Specifically, the figures are shown in table 10 of the accompanying dataset, which is available at the following link: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/suicidesintheunitedkingdomreferencetables.
In 2017, there were 155 recorded suicides for those aged 15 to 19 and 261 registered suicides for those aged 20 to 24. However, the figures are based on the entire population for the associated age groups and they do not indicate whether the suicides were among higher or further education students.
In addition, the ONS release ‘Estimating suicide among higher education students, England and Wales: Experimental Statistics’ is available at the following link: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/articles/estimatingsuicideamonghighereducationstudentsenglandandwalesexperimentalstatistics/2018-06-25.
This provides experimental statistics on suicides among higher education students in England and Wales between the academic years of 2012 to 2013 and 2016 to 2017. In the academic year 2016 to 2017, the figures show that there were 95 suicides among higher education students.
Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate his Department has made of the proportion of school children who received at least six swimming lessons in the last academic year for which information is available.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
Swimming is a vital life skill. That is why we have made sure that swimming and water safety is compulsory in the national curriculum for PE at primary levels (key stages 1 and 2). The curriculum sets out the expectation that all pupils should be taught to:
The department does not collect data on the number of swimming lessons provided by individual schools. Schools have the freedom to choose the swimming programme to meet the needs of their pupils.
All primary schools must report annually on the percentage of pupils who can meet the national curriculum requirements for swimming by the end of KS2 as a condition of the primary PE and sport premium funding. Since September 2017, schools can use this premium to provide top-up swimming for those pupils who are not able to meet the national curriculum requirements after completing their primary school swimming lessons.
Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the risk of university closures due to financial pressures.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
I refer the hon. Member for Cardiff Central to the answer I gave on 12 November to Question 188033.
Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation, of 17 May 2018, Official Report, column 241WH, what information his Department holds on the (a) number of speaking events blocked by a university or students’ union, (b) books removed from university libraries and (c) changes to courses due to changes in equalities guidance.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The information requested is not held centrally.
The department does not collect data on the number of speaking events blocked by a University or Students’ Union, books removed from university libraries and changes to courses due to changes in equalities guidance
As set out in a statement on 17 May, we do not believe that measuring free speech on campus by events that happen is sufficient, as this does not evidence self-censorship or those events that do not happen in the first place. We are committed to defending free speech on campus to avoid a culture of censorship which risks leading to those outcomes to which the question refers. Comprehensive guidance on Freedom of Speech for the higher education sector is due to be published by the end of the year.
Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of teachers who are nationals of other EU countries who have left employment in schools in England in the last 12 months.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the proportion of school teachers in England that are paid over £50,000 per annum.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The proportion of full and part-time teachers in state-funded schools in England with salaries of £50,000 or more in November 2017 is 13%.
The figures provided are available from table 9a, from the publication ‘School Workforce in England, November 2017’. This is available at the following web link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2017.
Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of pupils in England attained GCSE grades A* to C in a modern languages in each year from 2010 to 2017.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The proportion of students achieving A*-C in modern foreign languages since 2010 is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-gcses-key-stage-4.[1]
[1] Select the ‘revised’ publication for each year, then open the ‘subject tables’ (‘subject and LA tables’ or ‘Additional table 1’ in earlier years) and then open tab ‘S2’ (‘table 8’ in earlier years).
Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of pupils in England attained GCSE grades A* to C in a modern languages in each year from 2010 to 2017.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The proportion of students achieving A*-C in modern foreign languages since 2010 is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-gcses-key-stage-4.[1]
[1] Select the ‘revised’ publication for each year, then open the ‘subject tables’ (‘subject and LA tables’ or ‘Additional table 1’ in earlier years) and then open tab ‘S2’ (‘table 8’ in earlier years).