Asked by: Nick de Bois (Conservative - Enfield North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 12 March 2015 to Question 226581, what support her Department provides to primary schools to ensure that the free school meals offered by those schools are healthy.
Answered by David Laws
The new School Food Standards came into force in January 2015 ensuring schools provide heathy meals throughout the week. The Department for Education provides guidance on the standards[1] and funds the implementation support service, including a menu checker service helping schools to provide hot, healthy menu choices for all their pupils. The School Food Plan website also provides a range of support and advice on providing healthy food in schools.[2]
[1] www.gov.uk/school-meals-healthy-eating-standards
[2] http://whatworkswell.schoolfoodplan.com/
Asked by: Nick de Bois (Conservative - Enfield North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of the decision by Oxford Cambridge and RSA not to redevelop GCSE and A Level Turkish on the ability of students to acquire skills in Turkish; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The Government has been clear that it wants to see all pupils provided with the opportunity to take a core set of academic subjects, including modern foreign languages. There are considerable benefits to learning a second language and the Government is keen to see the range of languages at GCSE and A level preserved. It is, however, up to Awarding Organisations to decide which languages they want to continue offering as reformed GCSEs and A levels.
Asked by: Nick de Bois (Conservative - Enfield North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support her Department provides to primary schools to ensure that all infants take up the provision of free school meals.
Answered by David Laws
The Department for Education has provided substantial support to help schools deliver this policy. More than £1 billion of revenue funding is being provided to schools over two years on top of almost £175 million capital funding allocated this year to support them in improving their kitchen and dining facilities. The department has also allocated £22.5 million transitional funding in 2014-15 to help schools with 150 pupils or fewer to implement the policy. All this funding has been provided to ensure that the meals provided are of high quality, and particularly that all schools are able to offer hot meals.
The department has also set up an implementation support service, staffed by school food experts, which schools can contact for advice and support to help them to increase take-up of meals by their infant pupils.
Over 1.6 million infant pupils (85.2% of all infant pupils) took a free school meal on autumn census day in 2014. This is a rise of 1.3 million from the 0.3 million infant pupils who were estimated to have taken a free school meal in the January 2014 school census.
Asked by: Nick de Bois (Conservative - Enfield North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what capital funding has been made available to free schools in Enfield North constituency since May 2010.
Answered by Edward Timpson
The Department for Education publishes the final capital costs for all free schools online at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-funding-for-open-free-schools
Asked by: Nick de Bois (Conservative - Enfield North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many creditors had remained unpaid by his Department on 1 June 2014 for (a) 45, (b) 60, (c) 75 and (d) 76 days and over.
Answered by Matt Hancock
The information requested is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost. In common with other government departments, the
Annual Report and Accounts for the Department for Education, which are available in the libraries of both Houses, contain information on supplier payment performance.
Asked by: Nick de Bois (Conservative - Enfield North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) managerial, (b) teaching and (c) clerical staff in schools in Enfield were paid more than (i) £42,000, (ii) £69,000 and (iii) £100,000 in the last year for which figures are available.
Answered by David Laws
The table below provides the full- and part-time numbers of qualified leadership and classroom teachers in publicly-funded schools in Enfield local authority area who are paid salaries of more than £42,000, £69,000 and £100,000.
Over £42,000 | Over £69,000 | Over £100,000 | |
Leadership | 390 | 80 | 10 |
Classroom | 580 | - | - |
Total | 970 | 80 | 10 |
The information provided is from the November 2012 School Workforce Census. Local authority area figures from the November 2013 School Workforce Census will be published in summer 2014.
Data is not available for managerial and clerical staff.