Asked by: Kelvin Hopkins (Independent - Luton North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether a decision has been made on the proposal to remove the 50 per cent cap on religious selection at free schools; and when her Department plans to publish its response to the Schools that Work for Everyone consultation.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Church and faith schools play an important role in promoting integration and an understanding of different faiths and communities. We will continue to work closely with Church and faith schools to promote and support integration and will set out further details in due course. The Department will provide further information on the Schools that work for everyone consultation, including in relation to the 50% cap on faith-based admissions, in due course.
Asked by: Kelvin Hopkins (Independent - Luton North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much of her Department's budget for 16-to-19 education was not spent on education for that age group in each of the (a) 2014-15, (b) 2015-16 and (c) 2016-17 financial years.
Answered by Anne Milton
Budgets for 16 to 19-year-old education are set on the basis of the established 16 to 19 funding rates and formula, using estimates of student numbers.
In 2014-15 and 2015-16, student numbers and associated costs were lower than these estimates, which resulted in lower spending than the forecast, by £135m and £132m respectively, representing 2.2% of the budget.
Final expenditure is not yet available for 2016-17 and will be published in the Education and Skills Funding Agency accounts shortly.
Asked by: Kelvin Hopkins (Independent - Luton North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the Resource Departmental Expenditure Limit budget was for 16 to 19 education, excluding apprenticeships, in each of the last three years.
Answered by Robert Halfon
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before prorogation.”
Asked by: Kelvin Hopkins (Independent - Luton North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much of the Resource Departmental Expenditure Limit budget for 16 to 19 education, excluding apprenticeships, was reallocated to other budgets in each of the last three years.
Answered by Robert Halfon
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Kelvin Hopkins (Independent - Luton North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much of her Department's budget for 16 to 19 education was underspent in each of the last three years.
Answered by Robert Halfon
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Kelvin Hopkins (Independent - Luton North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the (a) planned and (b) actual expenditure on 16-19 education was in each of the last three years.
Answered by Robert Halfon
The data for the last 3 years allocations are in the public domain and can be sourced at the following location:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/16-to-19-education-funding-allocations#published-allocations
16-19 funding operates under a lagged funding methodology which uses historic funding factors and student numbers to calculate a funding allocation for each of our c.3,300 funded institutions for each academic year.
With the exception of c.150 commercial and charitable providers we do not reconcile institutions’ allocated funding to their actual expenditure or funding earned, so we do not operate post 16 funding on the basis of planned and actual expenditure.
The figures quoted above represent the actual allocations made to institutions for the stated academic years, based on the lagged principle explained above.
Asked by: Kelvin Hopkins (Independent - Luton North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many 16 to 19 free schools have opened in 2014-15 to date; how many students those schools have recruited in that period; and when details of the capital funding of those schools will be published.
Answered by Edward Timpson
A total of eight 16 to 19 free schools have opened in 2014-15. We hold student recruitment data for seven of these schools who have, in total, recruited 686 students in that period.
After contracts for site acquisition and construction are finalised, and the cost of the project is no longer commercially sensitive, we will publish details of the capital funding received by each open free school here: www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-funding-for-open-free-schools. None of the schools opened in 2014-15 are at this stage, so the data is not yet published.
Asked by: Kelvin Hopkins (Independent - Luton North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) schools and (b) academies have established sixth forms since January 2014; and how much (i) revenue and (ii) capital funding has been allocated to those sixth forms.
Answered by Edward Timpson
In the academic year 2014/15, there were two maintained schools and 29 academies that established a new sixth form. The total revenue funding allocated to these sixth forms in 2014/15 was £11.4 million and the total capital funding identified for these sixth forms was £16.6 million.
Asked by: Kelvin Hopkins (Independent - Luton North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much (a) start-up, (b) revenue and (c) capital funding has been allocated to 16 to 19 academies and free schools that have opened since January 2014.
Answered by Edward Timpson
The Department for Education has provided £6.7 million in revenue funding to 16-19 academies that opened since January 2014. This figure includes £1.6 million in start-up funding. All of the 16-19 academies that opened since January 2014 are free schools.
The Department publishes details of capital funding allocated to free schools once contracts for site acquisition and renovation are finalised and once the cost of the project is no longer commercially sensitive. None of the schools opened since January 2014 is at this stage, so the data is not yet published. Once available, details of capital funding for free schools is published at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-funding-for-open-free-schools
Asked by: Kelvin Hopkins (Independent - Luton North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students are enrolled in those school and academy sixth forms that have opened since 2010.
Answered by Edward Timpson
In 2013/14, the latest year for which data is available, there were 12,500 students enrolled in those new sixth forms which had opened between 2011/12 and 2013/14. The Department for Education does not have records for new sixth forms prior to 2011.