Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, since the introduction of the GCSE resit policy for maths and English in England, how many and what proportion of students resitting sat those exams (a) once, (b) twice and (c) more than twice.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The information requested is not routinely available in 16 to 18 publications and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
The closest available information can be found in tables 11a and 11b as part of the ‘A level and other 16 to 18 results: 2018 to 2019 (revised)’[1] national statistics, which were released on the 23 January 2020.
Students who are continuing to study English and mathematics, who are not yet at the end of 16 to 18 study, or who had previously achieved a grade 4/C or above in these subjects, will not be included in these figures.
[1] A level and other 16 to 18 results: 2018 to 2019 (revised): https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2018-to-2019-revised. Please refer to table 11a “Matrix of prior attainment and progress point scores in GCSE English and other English qualifications by students at the end of 16-18 studies”, and table 11b “Matrix of prior attainment and progress point scores in GCSE mathematics and other mathematics qualifications by students at the end of 16-18 studies”.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, since the introduction of the GCSE resit policy in maths and English, how many and what proportion of 16-18 year olds resat (a) maths GCSE, (b) English GCSE and (c) maths and English GCSE and were also enrolled on (i) Level 3 courses, (ii) Level 2 courses, (iii) Level 1 courses and (iv) other courses.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The information requested is not routinely available in 16 to 18 publications and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
The closest available information can be found in tables 11a and 11b as part of the ‘A level and other 16 to 18 results: 2018 to 2019 (revised)’[1] national statistics, which were released on the 23 January 2020.
Students who are continuing to study English and mathematics, who are not yet at the end of 16 to 18 study, or who had previously achieved a grade 4/C or above in these subjects, will not be included in these figures.
[1] A level and other 16 to 18 results: 2018 to 2019 (revised): https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2018-to-2019-revised. Please refer to table 11a “Matrix of prior attainment and progress point scores in GCSE English and other English qualifications by students at the end of 16-18 studies”, and table 11b “Matrix of prior attainment and progress point scores in GCSE mathematics and other mathematics qualifications by students at the end of 16-18 studies”.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding was allocated to each (a) primary and (b) secondary school in Harborough constituency in 2017-18; and how much funding will be allocated in 2020-21.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Prior to the introduction of the National Funding Formula (NFF) in 2018-19, the Government allocated school funding at local authority level only, not at school level. The funding allocated to each school in 2017-18 by local authorities can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-block-funding-allocations-2017-to-2018.
For 2020-21, the Department has published provisional school level allocations based on what they attract under the NFF, which can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-funding-formula-tables-for-schools-and-high-needs-2020-to-2021. The provisional allocations for Harborough can be found in the attached table. Local authorities continue to be responsible for determining final allocations, in consultation with local schools, and will inform schools of their budgets for 2020/2021 early next year. The Government has committed in future to deliver funding directly to schools through our single national formula, rather than local formulae set independently by each local authority.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding was allocated to (a) secondary and (b) primary schools in (i) Harborough constituency and (ii) England in 2017-18; and what the provisional allocation is for (A) Harborough constituency and (B) England for 2020-21.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Schools block funding figures for 2017-18 and 2020-21 in Leicestershire local authority and England are set out in the table below, with the latter being provisional and subject to finalisation of the Dedicated Schools Grant. Total schools block funding is not allocated to parliamentary constituencies nor by phase.
School block funding figures
Financial Year | 2017-18 | 2020-21 (provisional) |
Leicestershire (£million) | 368.3 | 409.7 |
England (£million) | 33,093.6 | 35,593.4 |
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of primary schools which had (a) fewer than 100, (b) 101 to 200, (c) 201 to 300, (d) 301 to 400, (e) 401 to 600 and (f) 601 or more pupils, were in deficit in each of the five most recent years for which data are available.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The Department publishes the income and expenditure, including revenue balances, annually for local authority maintained schools and for academies.
The Department published data for local authority maintained schools’ Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR) for the years 2013-14 to 2017-18 at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-local-authority-school-finance-data#local-authority-and-school-finance.
The Department published data for academy schools’ Academies’ Accounting Returns (AAR) for 2016/17, when revenue reserve was first collected at school level, and 2017/18 at: https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources.
The attached tables give the requested breakdown. Information for years prior to those provided are not available. The figures for academies are as reported for the individual schools and do not include any surpluses or deficits at trust level for those in multi academy trusts.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) exclusions for violence against an adult and (b) exclusions for verbal abuse or threatening behaviour against an adult there have been in each of the last 20 years for which data available.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The National Statistics release, ‘Permanent and fixed-period exclusions in England 2016 to 2017’, includes information on the number of permanent and fixed period exclusions.
The release is available here:
The data includes information on exclusions by main reason and year from 2006/07 to 2016/17. Comparable data is not available before 2006/07.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for each local authority (a) how many pupils studied in state schools in that local authority who lived in another local authority, (b) how many pupils who lived in that local authority went to a state school in a different local authority, (c) and what the average level of per pupil funding per pupil was in each local authority in real terms in (i) the most recent year for which data are available and (ii) in 2010.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The information required for parts (a) and (b) are published in the local authority cross border movement tables of the annual “School, Pupils and their characteristics” statistical release. The latest data, relating to January 2018, can be found at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2018.
The revenue funding allocated for schools for financial years 2010-2011 and 2018-2019 for each local authority (LA) are shown in the attached table.
The government publishes gross domestic product deflators that can be used to understand the impact of inflation over time. These are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/gdp-deflators-at-market-prices-and-money-gdp-june-2019-quarterly-national-accounts.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of state schools in England are classified as (a) rural town and fringe, (b) in a sparse setting, (c) rural village and hamlet, (d) urban, (f) urban major conurbation, (g) urban minor conurbation and (h) urban city and town.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Table 1 below details the number of state[1] schools in England at each rural/urban classification.
Table 2 below details the percentage of state schools in England at each rural/urban classification.
Table 1
| Number of schools | ||
Rural/Urban Classification | Primary | Secondary | All-through |
Rural hamlet and isolated dwelling | 731 | 48 | 4 |
Rural hamlet and isolated dwellings in a sparse setting | 83 | 3 | 0 |
Rural town and fringe | 1766 | 325 | 8 |
Rural town and fringe in a sparse setting | 83 | 33 | 1 |
Rural village | 2051 | 58 | 7 |
Rural village in a sparse setting | 153 | 6 | 1 |
Urban city and town | 6422 | 1511 | 64 |
Urban city and town in a sparse setting | 24 | 11 | 0 |
Urban major conurbation | 4900 | 1124 | 79 |
Urban minor conurbation | 553 | 106 | 5 |
Table 2
Rural/Urban Classification | Percentage of state schools |
Rural hamlet and isolated dwelling | 3.88% |
Rural hamlet and isolated dwellings in a sparse setting | 0.43% |
Rural town and fringe | 10.41% |
Rural town and fringe in a sparse setting | 0.58% |
Rural village | 10.50% |
Rural village in a sparse setting | 0.79% |
Urban city and town | 39.67% |
Urban city and town in sparse setting | 0.17% |
Urban major conurbation | 30.27% |
Urban minor conurbation | 3.29%[2] |
Information about all open and closed schools in England is available on Get Information about Schools[3] (the Department’s register of schools). This can be found at:
www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk.
[1] The Ofsted definition of a state funded school has been used. This definition does not include local authority maintained nursery schools, alternative provision or special schools.
[2] The percentages used have been rounded to two decimal places.
[3] Responsibility for updating Get Information about Schools is shared between the Department, schools and local authorities and therefore we cannot guarantee the accuracy of this data.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many mainstream (a) primary and (b) secondary schools received a lump sum payment, and for how many schools that lump sum represented (i) less than one per cent, (ii) 2 to five per cent; (iii) five to 10 per cent, (iv) 10 to 20 per cent, (v) 20 to 30 per cent, (vi) 30 to 40 per cent, and (vii) over 50 per cent of their total income.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The table below shows the number of mainstream schools in England that received a lump sum payment in 2018-19 and the proportion of their total income (from the schools block allocation) this represented.
| Primary | Secondary |
Number of schools | 16,756[1] | 3,109 |
Lump Sum | 16,756 | 3,098 |
Less than 1% | 0 | 1 |
1% to 5% | 601 | 2,788 |
5% to 10% | 5,332 | 230 |
10% to 20% | 7,482 | 55 |
20% to 30% | 2,060 | 15 |
30% to 40% | 808 | 4 |
40% to 50% | 326 | 4 |
Over 50% | 147 | 1 |
[1] In line with the published data the figures exclude two primary schools whose data has been suppressed.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of (a) primary and (b) secondary schools (i) are eligible for and (ii) receive the full amount of funding under the sparsity element of the national funding formula; and what the average amount was that each eligible school received in the latest period for which data is available.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The table below shows the number and proportion of mainstream schools in England that received sparsity funding in 2018-19.
| Primary | Secondary |
Number of schools | 16,758 | 3,109 |
Number eligible for sparsity funding1 | 992 | 112 |
Proportion eligible for sparsity funding1 | 5.90% | 3.60% |
Number eligible for maximum sparsity funding1 | 234 | 18 |
Proportion eligible for maximum sparsity funding1 | 1.40% | 0.60% |
Average sparsity funding for eligible schools (£)2 | 14,766 | 34,625 |
[1] Schools are only counted as eligible for sparsity funding if the local authority has included the factor in their funding formula. The maximum amount of sparsity funding under the national funding formula is £25,000 for primary schools and £65,000 for secondary schools.
[2] This is the mean value for schools receiving sparsity funding where the local authority has included the factor in their funding formula.