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Written Question
Department for Education: Software
Thursday 29th February 2024

Asked by: Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding her Department (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on software updates to legacy computer systems in each of the last three financial years.

Answered by Damian Hinds

As per the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) definition of legacy, the department is only reporting one legacy system centrally. This service provides supporting checks for multiple policies within the department and is end of life. This service links to other government services and shares data through application programming interfaces. There have been two costs associated with this service that the department can report.

Costings will be published in the usual way in the department’s annual reports and accounts.


Written Question
Department for Education: Pay
Monday 25th July 2022

Asked by: Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) direct employees, (b) contractors, and (c) agency workers who work in her Department and relevant agencies and public bodies, receive a wage below that of either (i) the UK Real Living Wage outside of Greater London, or (ii) the London Living Wage inside of Greater London, as determined by the Living Wage Foundation.

Answered by Will Quince

I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 25 July 2022 to Question 30189.


Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 20 Oct 2020
Remote Education: Self-isolating Pupils

"I thank my hon. Friend for her amazing work on this most crucial of issues and join her in praising the excellent work of Councillor Beverley Momenabadi, who is the innovation digital champion for Wolverhampton. Her survey of pupils and schools has shown that at five primary schools in the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 03 Jul 2018
Department for Education

"It is pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent South (Jack Brereton), whose constituency I suspect shares many problems with mine. We could range widely in this debate about education estimates, but I wish to focus on one particular area: the role of our nursery schools and their importance …..."
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Written Question
Schools: EU Nationals
Wednesday 11th January 2017

Asked by: Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many EU nationals work in each local authority area (a) as teachers and (b) in other positions in schools.

Answered by Nick Gibb

The information requested is not collected centrally.


Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Nov 2016
Education and Social Mobility

"Today’s debate is about how to ensure that every child, no matter what their background, is able to make the most of their life. As the world changes and the labour market changes, that becomes more important than ever.

Good education is the best possible route to opportunity. It is …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Nov 2016
Education and Social Mobility

"I thank my hon. Friend for mentioning the early years. Does she think that, given the closures of Sure Start centres in recent years, the money devoted to this new policy would be better spent on early years intervention?..."
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Written Question
GCSE
Thursday 15th September 2016

Asked by: Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children receiving free school meals obtained five GCSEs, including English and mathematics in each local authority area in England in the latest year for which figures are available.

Answered by Edward Timpson

The percentage of pupils who are eligible for free school meals and obtained five GCSEs, including English and mathematics, in each local authority area in England is published in table LA8 as part of the “GCSE and equivalent attainment by pupil characteristics 2015” statistical first release (SFR)[1].

[1] KS4 SFR 2014/15: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/493475/SFR01_2016_LA_Tables.xlsx (Table LA8)


Written Question
Universities: Admissions
Thursday 15th September 2016

Asked by: Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what percentage of children from each local authority area in England go to university in the most recent year for which figures are available.

Answered by Lord Johnson of Marylebone

Information on the percentage of pupils from state-funded schools aged 15 in 2009/10 who entered higher education in 2012/13 at age 18, or in 2013/14 at age 19, by local authority, is available in Table 2 of the Statistical First Release ‘Widening Participation in Higher Education, England, 2013/14 age cohort’. The publication is available at the following weblink:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/543126/SFR37-2016_-_WPHE2016_01.08.2016.pdf


Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 12 Sep 2016
Schools that work for Everyone

"Let us deal with this nonsense that if we are not in favour of the Secretary of State’s reform, we are not in favour of any change. Where there is failure, underachievement or lack of ambition in the system, there should be change. The system should not be a reform-free …..."
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