Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria his Department uses to assess whether expansion to a satellite site is part of an existing school; and if he will publish his Department's assessment of the bid from Weald of Kent grammar for its satellite site in Sevenoaks which was granted permission in 2015.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The Selective Schools Expansion Fund (SSEF) 2018-19 has provided funding of £49.3 million for 16 expansion projects to date. The Department has not published the amount of funding allocated to each school as this is commercially sensitive information.
The Department estimates that SSEF funding will create over 2,700 more good school places. The number of school places created at individual schools will be announced as part of each school’s published admission numbers following completion of the expansion project.
All of the 16 successful projects have planned to build capacity on their existing sites. There are no expansion projects on satellite sites.
Details of the Selective Schools Expansion Fund for 2019-20 is due to be announced during the autumn. Information will be available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/selective-schools-expansion-fund.
The factors taken into account when assessing whether a proposal to expand onto a satellite site is a genuine expansion are provided in our guidance “Making significant changes to an open academy and closure by mutual agreement,” available here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/751304/Making_significant_changes_and_closure_academy.pdf.
The former Secretary of State for Education (Nicky Morgan), my right hon. Friend the Secretary for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport made a statement in the house in October 2015, outlining the reasons for the decision to approve the expansion of the Weald of Kent Grammar school. The statement is available here: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2015-10-19/debates/15101917000002/SchoolExpansion#contribution-15101917000003.
The Department has no plans to publish any further information about the decision to approve the expansion of the Weald of Kent grammar school.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many of the grammar schools that have been awarded funding from the Selective Schools Expansion have planned to build capacity on (a) their existing site and (b) a satellite site.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The Selective Schools Expansion Fund (SSEF) 2018-19 has provided funding of £49.3 million for 16 expansion projects to date. The Department has not published the amount of funding allocated to each school as this is commercially sensitive information.
The Department estimates that SSEF funding will create over 2,700 more good school places. The number of school places created at individual schools will be announced as part of each school’s published admission numbers following completion of the expansion project.
All of the 16 successful projects have planned to build capacity on their existing sites. There are no expansion projects on satellite sites.
Details of the Selective Schools Expansion Fund for 2019-20 is due to be announced during the autumn. Information will be available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/selective-schools-expansion-fund.
The factors taken into account when assessing whether a proposal to expand onto a satellite site is a genuine expansion are provided in our guidance “Making significant changes to an open academy and closure by mutual agreement,” available here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/751304/Making_significant_changes_and_closure_academy.pdf.
The former Secretary of State for Education (Nicky Morgan), my right hon. Friend the Secretary for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport made a statement in the house in October 2015, outlining the reasons for the decision to approve the expansion of the Weald of Kent Grammar school. The statement is available here: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2015-10-19/debates/15101917000002/SchoolExpansion#contribution-15101917000003.
The Department has no plans to publish any further information about the decision to approve the expansion of the Weald of Kent grammar school.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many school places his Department has estimated will be created through the Selective Schools Expansion Fund (a) in total and (b) at each of those schools awarded such funding.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The Selective Schools Expansion Fund (SSEF) 2018-19 has provided funding of £49.3 million for 16 expansion projects to date. The Department has not published the amount of funding allocated to each school as this is commercially sensitive information.
The Department estimates that SSEF funding will create over 2,700 more good school places. The number of school places created at individual schools will be announced as part of each school’s published admission numbers following completion of the expansion project.
All of the 16 successful projects have planned to build capacity on their existing sites. There are no expansion projects on satellite sites.
Details of the Selective Schools Expansion Fund for 2019-20 is due to be announced during the autumn. Information will be available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/selective-schools-expansion-fund.
The factors taken into account when assessing whether a proposal to expand onto a satellite site is a genuine expansion are provided in our guidance “Making significant changes to an open academy and closure by mutual agreement,” available here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/751304/Making_significant_changes_and_closure_academy.pdf.
The former Secretary of State for Education (Nicky Morgan), my right hon. Friend the Secretary for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport made a statement in the house in October 2015, outlining the reasons for the decision to approve the expansion of the Weald of Kent Grammar school. The statement is available here: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2015-10-19/debates/15101917000002/SchoolExpansion#contribution-15101917000003.
The Department has no plans to publish any further information about the decision to approve the expansion of the Weald of Kent grammar school.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made adequacy of maintained nursery school budgets when the supplementary funding for the 2019-20 academic year ends.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The Government recognises that maintained nursery schools are an important part of the early years sector and that they provide valuable services to disadvantaged children.
The Government invests approximately £60 million of supplementary funding each financial year for local authorities to preserve the funding rates of maintained nursery schools.
The Government plans to spend £3.6 billion to support early education in the financial year 2020-21 and details of how this is to be distributed across local authorities will be issued shortly.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) number and (b) proportion of nursery schools in each (i) region and (ii) local authority area in budget deficit.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The Department publishes the income and expenditure, including revenue balances, annually for local authority maintained schools and for academies. The attached table gives the requested breakdown.
Schools’ Consistent Financial Reporting and Academies’ Accounting Returns are published here: https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much supplementary funding each maintained nursery school has received in the current financial year.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Local authorities receive funding from central government for delivering the early years entitlements through the Dedicated Schools Grant. Local authorities are then responsible for deciding how they fund individual early years providers, including maintained nursery schools.
Our provisional allocations to local authorities in respect of the Maintained Nursery School supplementary funding for the financial year 2019-20 are available in the 2019-20 Dedicated Schools Grant allocations table on GOV.UK at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2019-to-2020.
Final allocations for 2019-20 will be made in the summer of 2020.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children with SEND attend each maintained nursery school.
Answered by Michelle Donelan - Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
The National Statistics release, ‘Special educational needs in England’, includes information on the number of children with special educational needs (SEN) attending each maintained nursery school.
The latest release is available at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england-january-2019.
In the document titled ‘Underlying data: Special educational needs in England - January 2019’, the number of pupils with SEN support and the number of pupils with an education, health and care plan are presented for each school in England.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children who access 30 hours of funded childcare attend a maintained nursery school in each (a) region and (b) local authority area.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The number of children benefiting from extended funded early education places by type of provider, region and local authority is available within Table 3LA on the GOV.UK website at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2019.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) number and (b) proportion of children eligible for the early years pupil premium attend a maintained nursery school in each (i) region and (ii) local authority area in each of the last three years.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The attached table shows the number and percentage of 3 and 4 year old children in receipt of early years pupil premium. Regarding children eligible for early years pupil premium, the information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of the £66 million in early years funding announced in the 2019 Spending Review will be allocated to maintained nursery schools.
Answered by Kemi Badenoch - President of the Board of Trade
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.