Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of young people in north Cornwall ,took up an apprenticeship after completing GCSEs, in each year since 2010.
Answered by Anne Milton
The table attached shows the number and proportion of pupils who completed key stage 4 (including GCSEs) in North Cornwall and took up an apprenticeship the following year as part of at least two terms’ education, employment or training. Information on destinations in academic years 2010-11 to 2015-16 is given. This is the most recent data available. Destinations data for all of England is provided for comparison.
Information on pupil destinations is published annually on GOV.UK at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-destinations.
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of young people in north Cornwall did not complete secondary education to GCSE level in each year since 2010.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The closest information the Department publishes is the percentage of pupils, at the end of Key Stage 4, who passed at least one GCSE or equivalent qualification; this is published in the Key Stage 4 statistical first releases[1]. The remaining percentage from this figure are those who did not pass any qualifications. The Department publishes these figures at a local authority level, the closest available figures to ‘north Cornwall’ are those for ‘Cornwall’. There have been some methodological changes over the years, details of these are available in the main text and footnotes of each statistical first release[2].
[1] Figures for 2009/10 – 2014/15 are available within ‘table 16’ of the additional/local authority tables in the ‘revised’ publications from https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-gcses-key-stage-4 (table 15 for 2013/14). The ‘any passes’ column provides the figures. For 2015/16 – 2016/17, the figures are available from https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/download-data (select the year, Local authority (Cornwall), ‘Final key stage 4’ (revised, for 2016/17) and download the Excel file. The column ‘PTANYQ_PTQ_EE’ is required; figures for Cornwall are in the row labelled as rectype 4, the figures for England are labelled rectype 7. Rectype is found in column A.
[2] In the revised publications for each year, from https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-gcses-key-stage-4, the SFR text and main national tables contain an explanation of how the figures are generated for that year. These changes mean that figures between years can not always be directly compared.
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the proportion of (a) primary and (b) secondary age children in (i) Cornwall and (ii) North Cornwall who attend a school rated (A) outstanding and (B) good by Ofsted.
Answered by Nick Gibb
In England, 20% of pupils were in outstanding and 70% were in good primary schools as at August 31, 2017.
Ofsted inspection data shows that in Cornwall, 20% of pupils were in outstanding and 69% were in good primary schools as at August 31, 2017. In North Cornwall, 9% of pupils were in outstanding, and 77% were in good primary schools as at August 31, 2017.
In England, 28% of pupils were in outstanding and 55% were in good secondary schools as at August 31, 2017.
Ofsted inspection data also shows that in Cornwall 10% of pupils were in outstanding and 78% were in good secondary schools as at August 31, 2017. In North Cornwall, 10% of pupils in outstanding and 78% were in good secondary schools as at August 31, 2017.
Ofsted’s latest statistics are available here:
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average weekly cost was of a childcare place in Cornwall in each year since 2010.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
The department collects data on the weekly regional cost of childcare through our regular parent surveys. These can be found at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-childcare-and-early-years.
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the number of children in schools rated as good or outstanding in Cornwall (a) is now and (b) was in 2010.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The latest Ofsted inspection data shows the number of children in Cornwall in schools rated good or outstanding as at 31 August 2017, is 61,835. In August 2010 the figure was 51,360.
Ofsted’s latest release is available at:
Ofsted’s 2010 data is available at:
https://public.tableau.com/profile/ofsted#!/vizhome/Dataview/Viewregionalperformanceovertime.
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions her Department has had with retailers on assisting parents to identify healthy lunchbox items (a) in store and (b) online.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
Officials at the Department for Education have not held discussions with retailers on this issue.
We want to make it easier for parents to feel confident that they are preparing balanced, nutritious lunches for their children. The Department for Health has published further information such as recipes, tips and swap suggestions that are practical and affordable for parents. These are available on the Change4Life website at: https://www.nhs.uk/change4life-beta/healthier-lunchboxes.
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of school funding in North Cornwall constituency after the implementation of the national funding formula.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The introduction of the national funding formulae is supported by significant extra funding of £1.3bn across 2018-19 and 2019-20, over and above the budget announced at the 2015 spending review. Core funding for schools and high needs will rise from almost £41 billion in 2017-18 to £42.4 billion in 2018-19 and £43.5 billion in 2019-20. This will allow us to maintain school and high needs funding in real terms per pupil for the next two years.
Overall, schools in North Cornwall would be allocated a 4.3% increase in their funding if the national funding formula were implemented in full, with gains of 2.0% in 2018-19 and 3.1% in 2019-20, over their 2017-18 baselines, as we transition towards the formula.
Full details on the provisional allocations for local authorities and schools can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-funding-formula-tables-for-schools-and-high-needs.