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School Funding — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Andrew Bingham (Conservative, Centre-right): Schools in my constituency have suffered greatly under the current formula. For example, funding in Glossop is almost £300 per pupil less than in neighbouring Tameside, so for the sake of just a few miles the funding is about 6% less than it is elsewhere. Will the Secretary of State therefore ensure that the new funding formula she is going to work on—I am pleased to hear that she has started so quickly—will at last remedy this anomaly, which has been going on for far too long?
School Funding — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Social Welfare
Nicky Morgan (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend puts into words just one of the differentials between areas. It shows exactly why we need to tackle this unfairness in the funding formula—it is a matter of social justice that drives our determination to solve it—and why the Government are committed to introducing a funding formula to ensure that funding is transparently matched to need.
School Funding — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Alan Mak (Conservative, Centre-right): Will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating Purbrook Park school, Havant academy and Crookhorn college, which have all recently received good ratings from Ofsted and all stand to benefit from this new fair funding formula?
School Funding — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Nicky Morgan (Conservative, Centre-right): I, of course, take great pleasure in congratulating all the staff and pupils at Purbrook Park school, Havant academy and Crookhorn college on their hard work and their excellent Ofsted rating—I know how much hard work goes into getting that. As I said, we will consult in the new year and set out the schools benefiting in the detailed plans for a national funding formula.
School Funding — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Pauline Elizabeth Latham (Conservative, Centre-right): I am glad the Chancellor announced that we would fulfil our manifesto commitment of creating a fairer funding system for schools during the spending review last week. Will the Secretary of State confirm when we will have a formula that is fair for all schools across the country? There are winners and losers now, as there have always been. Will it be any different in the future?
School Funding — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Nicky Morgan (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is right to say that there is patent unfairness in the system now. Some £16 million extra was allocated to schools in Derbyshire in 2015-16, and we will work with her and other stakeholders to make sure that the funding is based on the characteristics of pupils, rather than on unfair historical calculations.
School Funding — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Andrew James Bridgen (Conservative, Centre-right): As my right hon. Friend will be well aware, Leicestershire is second from bottom of the current funding formula league. Despite my constituency having some of the most deprived areas in the county, its children receive almost £500 per pupil less than those in the city of Leicester and a staggering £1,000 per year per pupil less than those in Birmingham, which is only 22 miles away. Will she assure the House that the new funding formula will correct this for our county of Leicestershire?
School Funding — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Nicky Morgan (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank my hon. Friend very much for that. He will not be surprised to know that I am very well aware of the position of Leicestershire, having talked to parents, school governors and of course local councillors. In 2015-16, we made an additional £20 million available to Leicestershire and the county will continue to receive that funding in 2016-17, but he is absolutely right to say that we will be introducing a national funding formula to end the grossly unfair variations he highlighted in his question.
School Funding — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Nicky Morgan (Conservative, Centre-right): I am pleased that we have got to questions from other Members of the House, and the hon. Gentleman rightly says that the principle is of course right. We will be looking in detail at the needs of the disadvantaged pupils. I should point out that we have also introduced the pupil premium—we did so after the funding formula was first introduced—at a cost of more than £2.5 billion a year. We want to make sure that there will be full consultation, and all Members and others will have an opportunity to have their say.
School Funding — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Nicky Morgan (Conservative, Centre-right): As I have said, there will be a full consultation, but I think that the hon. Gentleman has got the wrong end of the stick. The funding formula to be consulted on will absolutely take into account the needs of disadvantaged pupils. If he wants to talk about working-class boys, let me say that it cannot be right that there are schools in Knowsley that are receiving hundreds of pounds less than schools in Wandsworth, and that is just one such example. We must end that inequity, and this Government have taken the difficult decision to do that.
School Funding — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Macroeconomics
Nicky Morgan (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. He will not be surprised to hear that I have also been lobbied by Cambridgeshire MPs, as well as by many other MPs from across the country. The £390 million extra that was announced for 2015-16 will continue to 2016-17. That amount of money will continue into the baseline for the rest of this Parliament. We must strike a balance between ensuring that we make swift progress on something that is demanded by MPs from across the House and getting it right, so that we do not end up having to untangle things again in a decade’s time.
School Funding — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Nigel Adams (Conservative, Centre-right): What assurances can the Secretary of State give the parents of pupils at Tadcaster grammar school, who were alarmed and surprised to receive a letter from the school recently consulting on potential financial contributions from them?
School Funding — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Nicky Morgan (Conservative, Centre-right): Schools are able to ask for voluntary contributions, but they must make it clear to parents that the contributions are voluntary and that there is absolutely no obligation for them to pay. I understand that the Tadcaster grammar school consultation has been published on the website and that it does clearly state that children of parents who do not contribute will not be treated differently and that there is no obligation on parents to contribute. I am happy to clarify that message for my hon. Friend.
School Funding — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Nicky Morgan (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. I know that, in the past, he has been an influential member of the f40 group of local authorities. We will have a full consultation. We absolutely realise that we will not solve the problem by making schools’ lives more difficult. Last week, my right hon. Friend the Chancellor confirmed that core schools funding is protected in real terms per pupil until the end of this Parliament.
Education Funding: Scotland — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Questions: What the effect of the spending review was on the amount her Department plans to spend on policies and services which in Scotland are devolved to the Scottish Government.
Nicky Morgan (Conservative, Centre-right): First, I wish the hon. Lady and all Members a happy St Andrew’s day. As she will know, education is fully devolved in Scotland, so the Scottish Government will benefit from the Barnett consequentials of the cash terms increase to my Department’s budget that was announced last week. That includes real-terms protection for core schools funding, investing a record extra £1 billion a year by 2020 in free childcare and protecting core 16-to-19 funding, so that all young people gain the skills they need.
Education Funding: Scotland — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Questions: What the effect of the spending review was on the amount her Department plans to spend on policies and services which in Scotland are devolved to the Scottish Government.
Nicky Morgan (Conservative, Centre-right): I am very happy to look further into the decision, which has not been raised with me before. I think we all agree—those of us who, presumably, are in this Chamber today because we care about education and the standards in our schools—that the most important thing in children learning is the quality of the teaching. As I have said, education is a devolved matter, and the Scottish Government will make decisions about how they are spending on languages.
Education Funding: Scotland — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Questions: What the effect of the spending review was on the amount her Department plans to spend on policies and services which in Scotland are devolved to the Scottish Government.
Nicky Morgan (Conservative, Centre-right): I admire my hon. Friend’s bid to help the Scottish Government to write the curriculum, and I can see that SNP Members are ready to take him up on that offer. I should clarify that I was talking about the extra £1 billion a year for free childcare, but he is absolutely right to say that we are spending more on education in this Parliament.
Education Funding: Scotland — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Questions: What the effect of the spending review was on the amount her Department plans to spend on policies and services which in Scotland are devolved to the Scottish Government.
Nicky Morgan (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Lady will be pleased to hear that I am not going to compete with her Gaelic Education funding, as I have already said, is devolved to Scotland and although BBC Alba might provide a valuable service I am sure that there is much more that the Scottish Government can do to support both parents and teachers in schools with the funding that they receive. I note that the attainment gap between the advantaged and disadvantaged in education in Scotland has not narrowed at all.
Sixth Form Colleges: VAT — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Nicholas Edward Coleridge Boles (Conservative, Centre-right): Following a sustained and effective campaign by my hon. Friend and others, in last week’s autumn statement the Government announced that we will give sixth form colleges the opportunity to establish themselves as 16-to-19 academies as part of the area reviews of post-16 education and training. A sixth form college that becomes an academy will be eligible to recover its non-business VAT costs.
Sixth Form Colleges: VAT — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Robert John Blackman (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank my hon. Friend for all his efforts to lobby the Chancellor to ensure that that sensible decision was made. Will he update the House on the timescale for 16-to-19 colleges to transfer to the new regime? Most importantly, will those that are involved in mid-term reviews or area reviews at the moment or have not chosen to take this route be eligible for this new opportunity?
Sixth Form Colleges: VAT — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Nicholas Edward Coleridge Boles (Conservative, Centre-right): Proposals for individual sixth form colleges to become academies will be considered alongside other recommendations from the relevant area reviews, which are taking place between now and March 2017. When a college’s application is approved, it will be eligible for VAT reimbursement as soon as it has been re-established with 16-to-19 academy status. Once all the area reviews have been completed, we will of course review which sixth form colleges have not yet taken up the option and what course they want to take.
Sixth Form Colleges: VAT — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Neil Carmichael (Conservative, Centre-right): Does the Minister agree that a great advantage of this change will be that it will enable sixth form colleges to become academies and therefore part of multi-academy trusts, which will stimulate them to even greater things?
Sixth Form Colleges: VAT — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Nicholas Edward Coleridge Boles (Conservative, Centre-right): I entirely agree with the Chairman of the Select Committee on Education. One of the great opportunities that this proposal offers is for sixth form colleges to become part of academy groups, to become the sixth form for those academy groups and to thrive.
Sixth Form Colleges: VAT — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Nicholas Edward Coleridge Boles (Conservative, Centre-right): Last week—perhaps it was the week before—the hon. Gentleman was shroud waving, suggesting that there would be cuts of somewhere between 25% and 40% to the per pupil funding for 16-to-19 education. I did not hear him welcome the Chancellor’s confirmation that it will remain flat cash throughout this Parliament. It is, of course, important that sixth form colleges can prosper, which is why we introduced this proposal.
Education Maintenance Allowance — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Samuel Phillip Gyimah (Conservative, Centre-right): The purpose of the education maintenance allowance was to raise educational participation. Our reforms, including targeted routes to employment for all 16 to 19-year-olds and the creation of 3 million apprenticeships, deliver far higher participation and attainment than EMA on its own ever did.
Education Maintenance Allowance — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Samuel Phillip Gyimah (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank the hon. Lady for her question and congratulate her on her recent engagement to a Conservative councillor. I did not think such things were possible, but they are yet another reminder that there are ways in which we are better together. I draw the hon. Lady’s attention to the point made by the Scottish Education Minister on narrowing the gap: children from the 20% most deprived areas in Scotland are seven times less likely to attain three A grades in their highers than their most affluent peers. There are no lessons that we can take from Scotland on narrowing the gap.
Education Maintenance Allowance — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Samuel Phillip Gyimah (Conservative, Centre-right): Education is a devolved matter in Scotland, but if we are talking about huge cuts, there were 141,726 fewer college places in 2013-14 than in 2008-09. As I said, we will take no lessons from the Scottish National party.
School Attendance — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Nicolas John Gibb (Conservative, Centre-right): Regular attendance at school is vital for academic success. Overall absence rates are down from 6% in 2009-10 to 4.4% in 2013-14, amounting to some 14.5 million fewer school days lost. We have supported head teachers to improve school behaviour, and we have addressed the misconception that pupils are entitled to time off for holidays in term time. Some 200,000 fewer pupils regularly miss school compared with 2010.
School Attendance — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Caroline Fiona Ellen Nokes (Conservative, Centre-right): I echo the Speaker’s comments. Does my hon. Friend agree that improving attendance can sometimes come about as a result of a range of innovative and interesting measures? The all-girls breakfast club at Cantell school in Southampton is a brilliant example of how building a strong and cohesive school community can improve attendance.
School Attendance — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Nicolas John Gibb (Conservative, Centre-right): I am grateful to you, Mr Speaker, and to my hon. Friend for the congratulations. I echo the words of the Under-Secretary of State for Education, my hon. Friend the Member for East Surrey (Mr Gyimah): we are better together I am delighted to pay tribute to the work of the breakfast club at Cantell school in Southampton, which is an excellent example of the innovative approaches that many schools take to improve attendance. The Department funds the charity Magic Breakfast to provide free, sustainable breakfast clubs in 184 schools in disadvantaged areas. We are also giving parents new rights to request breakfast clubs and other wrap-around care, which should expand their availability.
Holiday and Wrap-around Care — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Samuel Phillip Gyimah (Conservative, Centre-right): Childcare is the key issue for many parents, not just for under-fives, but for all children. That is why my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced in October that parents will be granted a new right to request wrap-around or holiday childcare at their school. Childcare providers will also be given the right to request the use of school sites outside school hours to provide this care.
Holiday and Wrap-around Care — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Social Welfare
Michael Jon Wood (Conservative, Centre-right): Flexibility is key in the provision of childcare, for both school-age and pre-school children. Can the Minister assure my constituents that, as the Government extend childcare provision, they will allow for greater flexibility over things such as drop-off and pick-up times?
Holiday and Wrap-around Care — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Social Welfare
Samuel Phillip Gyimah (Conservative, Centre-right): The autumn statement set out the record levels of funding available to deliver our pledge of 30 hours of free childcare. As working fathers, my hon. Friend and I know that it is not just about the money; it is about flexible childcare available when it is needed. We will be consulting in the new year on ways to deliver that.
Holiday and Wrap-around Care — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Samuel Phillip Gyimah (Conservative, Centre-right): That is precisely the purpose behind the announcement that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State made. Where schools cannot deliver wrap-around care themselves, they can work with private and voluntary providers to use their site to deliver that wrap-around care. This change will set a new expectation for schools to follow through on it.
Holiday and Wrap-around Care — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Social Welfare
Samuel Phillip Gyimah (Conservative, Centre-right): It was impossible for the IPPR to know how much the Government’s policy would cost before it knew the eligibility criteria for the new entitlement. The Chancellor announced the eligibility criteria at the autumn statement and made it clear that there is record investment going into childcare—£1 billion in 2019-20. That is something we should all be proud of.
Educational Provision: City Regions’ Contribution — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Questions: What discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on the potential contribution by city regions to developing educational provision.
Anthony Edward Timpson (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Gentleman will be pleased, I am sure, to learn that the Secretary of State regularly meets Cabinet colleagues to discuss a range of issues. City regions can certainly play a role, as seen from our work with Greater Manchester on a review of children’s services, and we already have combined authorities in Sheffield and Manchester leading the area reviews of post-16 education provision. We expect new combined authorities and city regions to work closely with the eight regional school commissioners.
Educational Provision: City Regions’ Contribution — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Questions: What discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on the potential contribution by city regions to developing educational provision.
Anthony Edward Timpson (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Gentleman has a habit of calling anything that anyone else says waffle. I have described what is happening, which is devolution, which I am sure he will welcome, as the area in which his constituency is located is looking to create a combined authority. We have the regional school commissioners doing excellent work, holding each area to account and making sure that regions are raising the performance of schools and education across their area. I am sure that is something he would welcome in Bassetlaw and elsewhere.
Educational Provision: City Regions’ Contribution — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Questions: What discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on the potential contribution by city regions to developing educational provision.
Kevin John Foster (Conservative, Centre-right): Does the Minister agree that the bonus of city regions is that they are a way of bringing together public services, including those delivering skills and education to younger people, to create better outcomes that reflect the priorities of their areas, such as the heart of the south-west?
Educational Provision: City Regions’ Contribution — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Questions: What discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on the potential contribution by city regions to developing educational provision.
Anthony Edward Timpson (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is absolutely right. One of the advantages, of course, is that such regions bring together post-16 education and employers, which are parts of the system that we need to connect much more closely so that we deliver the opportunities that we know are out there for young people who have ambition about where their world of work will be, they have a greater understanding of what they can achieve and a much closer relationship with the businesses that want to employ them.
Educational Provision: City Regions’ Contribution — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Questions: What discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on the potential contribution by city regions to developing educational provision.
Anthony Edward Timpson (Conservative, Centre-right): Like the hon. Gentleman, I am always delighted to hear from my hon. Friend the Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip (Boris Johnson), who speaks with a lot of wisdom on a range of subjects. On this issue, the most important thing is that we devolve power to where it is most needed—to teachers and head teachers, so that they can run their schools in the free way that I know deep down he really wants them to.
Teacher Recruitment — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Nicolas John Gibb (Conservative, Centre-right): There are now more better qualified teachers in England’s classrooms than ever before. We are attracting top graduates and career changers with generous incentives, including tax-free bursaries worth up to £30,000 and the opportunity to earn a salary while training. This year over 2,000 more post-graduate trainee teachers were recruited than in 2014-15. We exceeded our target for new primary teachers and finished ahead of last year in key secondary subjects such as maths and physics.
Teacher Recruitment — House of Commons, 2015-11-30
Topic: Education
Nicolas John Gibb (Conservative, Centre-right): My right hon. Friend raises an important point. That is why we have established the new national teaching service, which by 2020 will place 1,500 outstanding teachers and middle leaders in underperforming schools in areas that, as he suggests, find it hardest to attract, recruit and retain good teachers.