Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 09 Sep 2019
Oral Answers to Questions
"Following the deeply regrettable closure of Stourbridge College earlier this summer, will my right hon. Friend consider meeting the principals of all the Dudley colleges—Dudley College, Halesowen College and King Edward VI College—with a view to discussing their wish to continue to provide vocational skills training, particularly adult education, in …..."Margot James - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 04 May 2016
Education Funding in London
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 09 Jul 2015
Education and Adoption Bill (Seventh sitting)
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 30 Jun 2015
Education and Adoption Bill (Second sitting)
"Q 100 We heard this morning about Downhills primary school and the campaign against its academisation. I am a governor of a school in Stourbridge which is now an academy and the process of academisation there took place against an orchestrated campaign, which ran for more than 12 months. Given …..."Margot James - View Speech
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 30 Jun 2015
Education and Adoption Bill (First sitting)
"Q 56 I have two brief questions. First, Councillor Watts, you mentioned a concern you had about the capacity of high-performing academy chains to take over coasting schools. Earlier, we heard that, in a lot of cases, a school once defined as coasting will, in fact, be able to put …..."Margot James - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 05 Mar 2015
International Women’s Day
"Does my hon. Friend share with me a very positive response to the fact that 37% of candidates for start-up loans provided by the Government are women, and 35% of successful candidates for the new enterprise allowance provided by the Government are women?..."Margot James - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 05 Mar 2015
International Women’s Day
"Does my right hon. Friend agree that the Government’s recent announcements and the placing of responsibilities on the health service and schools for reporting suspicions of FGM should help to bring about a prosecution, and hopefully many more prosecutions in the future?..."Margot James - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 05 Mar 2015
International Women’s Day
"My hon. Friend has given the excellent examples of Rolls-Royce and Bombardier, which have been encouraging women to take up careers in engineering. Such careers require scientific qualifications. Does she agree that it is imperative for us to encourage girls to stick with the sciences when they are very young …..."Margot James - View Speech
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Written Question
Friday 16th January 2015
Asked by:
Margot James (Conservative - Stourbridge)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of pupils in each primary school in Stourbridge constituency met the required standard of phonic decoding in the 2013-14 academic year.
Answered by Nick Gibb
School level performance in the phonics screening check is not published in the performance tables. Schools are not held to account for their performance in this diagnostic check, although they do have to inform parents of their child’s result in the way they think most suitable. The results are available on www.raiseonline.org for schools to use and for local authorities and Ofsted as part of their inspections process.
The overall proportion of pupils attending schools in Stourbridge constituency who met the required standard of phonics decoding by the end of year 1 in the 2013/14 academic year was 77%. Nationally 74% of year 1 pupils met the required standard of phonic decoding in the 2013/14 academic year.
Written Question
Wednesday 17th December 2014
Asked by:
Margot James (Conservative - Stourbridge)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many state-funded primary schools whose phonics check results were below the national average have been judged (a) outstanding and (b) good in their most recent Ofsted inspection.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Nationally 74 per cent of year one pupils met the required standard of phonic decoding in the 2013/14 academic year.
Out of 15,658 state-funded primary schools[1] in England, 6,783 had year one phonics checks results that were below the national average. Of these, 780 schools were judged as outstanding and 4,341 were judged as good schools according to their most recent Ofsted inspection [2],[3],[4] on overall effectiveness.
[1] Defined as schools with pupils with highest statutory age below 12.
[2] This covers inspection outcomes of September 2005 to August 2014 published at http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/latest-official-statistics-maintained-schools-and-academies-inspections-and-outcomes. The school type of an institution is as of 31 August 2014, which means that schools may have received their rating under a different school type.
[3] The inspections have taken place before the 2013/14 phonics results were available to Ofsted (late October 2014). As the phonics check was only introduced in 2011/12, the inspections may have taken place before any phonics results were available to Ofsted.
[4] There have been changes in the framework on how schools are inspected and ranked. Prior to September 2012, schools graded 3 were judged as ‘satisfactory’. Since 1 September 2012 they are judged as ‘requires improvement’. From 1 January 2012 inspections of maintained schools have taken place under a new framework, in accordance with sections 5 and 8 of the Education Act 2005. This framework was revised on 1 September 2012 and under the revised framework, schools can be judged as outstanding, good, requires improvement or inadequate.