Asked by: Julie Cooper (Labour - Burnley)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teachers there were in (a) state and religious schools, (b) academies and (c) free schools in Burnley in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012, (iv) 2013, (v) 2014 and (vi) 2015.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The following table provides the head count and full-time equivalent (FTE) number of teachers in (a) Local Authority maintained schools and (b) free schools in Burnley in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012, (iv) 2013, and (v) 2014. There were no academy schools open in Burnley during 2010 to 2014. 2015 data will be available in June 2016.
| LA Maintained[1] | Free Schools[1] | ||
| Head Count | FTE | Head Count | FTE |
2010 | 919 | 824.7 | 0 | 0.0 |
2011 | 881 | 801.1 | 0 | 0.0 |
2012 | 875 | 806.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
2013 | 885 | 810.0 | 10 | 9.3 |
2014 | 873 | 806.5 | 21 | 19.3 |
Source: School Workforce Census
[1] Includes faith and non-denominational schools.
Asked by: Julie Cooper (Labour - Burnley)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to paragraph 1.37 of her Department's White Paper, Educational Excellence Everywhere, published in March 2016, when she plans to convene leading headteachers and other experts to design the new voluntary National Professional Qualifications for leadership roles.
Answered by Nick Gibb
To develop a reformed suite of National Professional Qualifications, which better prepare new leaders for the full range of leadership roles, the Department for Education anticipates convening a group of leading experts, including school leaders, in the coming months.
Asked by: Julie Cooper (Labour - Burnley)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to paragraph 1.89 of the Budget 2016, when she expects Sir Nick Weller's report into transforming education across the Northern Powerhouse to be published.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The allocation of this funding will depend on the identified need and will be reassessed each year, based on the evidence. We intend to build on the Department’s strategy for Achieving Excellence Areas, as identified in our recent White Paper.
Decisions on allocation of funding for the 16-17 financial year will be made by the autumn of this year and will be informed by the emerging findings of the review by Sir Nick Weller.
We will be publishing the terms of reference for Sir Nick Weller’s report in due course.
Asked by: Julie Cooper (Labour - Burnley)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to paragraph 1.89 of Budget 2016, how much of the £20 million a year of new funding for a Northern Powerhouse school strategy she expects will be directly received by schools in Lancashire.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The allocation of this funding will depend on the identified need and will be reassessed each year, based on the evidence. We intend to build on the Department’s strategy for Achieving Excellence Areas, as identified in our recent White Paper.
Decisions on allocation of funding for the 16-17 financial year will be made by the autumn of this year and will be informed by the emerging findings of the review by Sir Nick Weller.
We will be publishing the terms of reference for Sir Nick Weller’s report in due course.
Asked by: Julie Cooper (Labour - Burnley)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to paragraph 1.89 of Budget 2016, how much of the £500 million of additional core funding for schools will be allocated to schools in Lancashire.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The funding announced at the Budget has been provided to support the Department’s school reform agenda. This will allow us to spend around £500 million over the Spending Review period, in addition to the per pupil protection of the core school budget announced at the spending review, to speed up the introduction of a fair national funding formula.
Our current consultation on a National Funding Formula for schools outlines the principles of the funding system and the funding factors that we believe should define the national funding formula for schools. This consultation closes on 17 April, and having considered the responses to this consultation, later this year we will launch a second consultation. This second stage consultation will detail our proposals for weighting each factor, the transitional arrangements and illustrate the distribution of funding for schools and local authorities that that implies, including the allocation of this funding. Until then, I am unable to comment on how additional funding will be allocated to schools in Lancashire.
A link to the consultation can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/schools-national-funding-formula.
Asked by: Julie Cooper (Labour - Burnley)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children are eligible for free school meals in (a) Lancashire and (b) Burnley.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
The number of pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals in schools in Lancashire local authority and Burnley constituency are as follows[1]:
| Lancashire Local Authority | Burnley Constituency |
State-Funded Primary Schools | 14,269 (14.4%) | 1,811 (22.5%) |
State-Funded Secondary Schools | 8,174 (12.4%) | 1,032 (21.8%) |
State-Funded Special Schools | 912 (37.3%) | 121 (49.4%) |
Pupil Referral Units | 205 (46.7%) | 32 (55.2%) |
Total | 23,560 (13.5%) | 2,996 (21.4%) |
[1] Figures as at January 2015, Source: school census.
Asked by: Julie Cooper (Labour - Burnley)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2016 to Question 24532, which secondary schools took part in the 2015 summer school programme.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
A list of the summer school allocations for 2015-16 is available on GOV.UK at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-summer-schools-programme-2014.
The list includes the names of all secondary schools who received summer school grant funding in 2015-16.
Asked by: Julie Cooper (Labour - Burnley)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2016 to Question 24532, on pupils: disadvantaged, how many of the 2,171 secondary schools that chose to take part in the 2015 summer schools programme have confirmed that they will be taking part in 2016.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
A decision to end the summer schools programme was made as part of the Spending Review in autumn 2015, and the ending of this specific grant in 2016/17 was included in revenue funding information published on 17 December 2015 in the Education Funding Agency bulletin to schools, colleges, local authorities and other 16 to 19 providers. A copy of this bulletin is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/efa-e-bulletin-17-december-2015-issue-112.
Schools can continue to run a summer school if they wish to, and they will be able to use their pupil premium allocation to fund places for their disadvantaged pupils. Schools are held to account for the progress and attainment of their disadvantaged pupils through performance tables and Ofsted inspection. The Department does not monitor how individual schools spend the pupil premium.
Asked by: Julie Cooper (Labour - Burnley)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2016 to Question 24532, how much funding from the pupil premium her Department plans to make available to support schools in delivering summer school programmes in 2016.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
A decision to end the summer schools programme was made as part of the Spending Review in autumn 2015, and the ending of this specific grant in 2016/17 was included in revenue funding information published on 17 December 2015 in the Education Funding Agency bulletin to schools, colleges, local authorities and other 16 to 19 providers. A copy of this bulletin is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/efa-e-bulletin-17-december-2015-issue-112.
Schools can continue to run a summer school if they wish to, and they will be able to use their pupil premium allocation to fund places for their disadvantaged pupils. Schools are held to account for the progress and attainment of their disadvantaged pupils through performance tables and Ofsted inspection. The Department does not monitor how individual schools spend the pupil premium.
Asked by: Julie Cooper (Labour - Burnley)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2016 to Question 24532, which secondary schools took part in the 2015 summer school programme.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
A list of the summer school allocations for 2015-16 is available on GOV.UK at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-summer-schools-programme-2014.
The list includes the names of all secondary schools who received summer school grant funding in 2015-16.