Tag: Jess Phillips

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jess Phillips on 2016-04-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average time taken is for an academy school to be re-brokered to another academy sponsor.

Edward Timpson

Where an academy is not meeting the required standard or needs a change of sponsor, the Regional Schools Commissioner strives to ensure that this change happens as quickly as possible, with minimum impact to the school. The Department does not hold a central record of the time taken for re-brokerage.

The Education and Adoption Act 2016 gives Regional Schools Commissioners powers to tackle underperformance in academies more quickly, by allowing them to terminate their funding agreement and re-broker an academy as soon as it is judged inadequate by Ofsted or identified as coasting.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jess Phillips on 2016-05-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many free schools spent more than one year in temporary accommodation in each year since 2011.

Edward Timpson

Since the start of the programme in 2011, around 200 free schools have opened in some form of temporary accommodation. The majority of these schools have spent one to two years in temporary accommodation before moving to their permanent site.

Opening free schools in temporary accommodation has ensured that we have been able to meet a need for places and support free school trusts to open much needed new schools at the earliest opportunity.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jess Phillips on 2016-06-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to paragraph 1.89 of Budget 2016, what progress has been made on Professor Sir Adrian Smith’s review of mathematics teaching for 16 to 18 year olds; and when her Department plans to publish the terms of reference for that review.

Nick Gibb

The Government asked Professor Sir Adrian Smith to review the case for how to improve the study of mathematics from 16 to 18, to ensure the future workforce is skilled and competitive, including looking at the case and feasibility for more or all students continuing to study mathematics to 18, in the longer-term. The review will report during 2016.

Sir Adrian Smith has begun his review and the terms of reference will be published in due course.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jess Phillips on 2016-07-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department has spent on its teaching blog since that blog was established.

Nick Gibb

The teaching blog has received an average of 758 visits per week, and 15,938 visits in total. The costs are only in staff time and image usage of £2.50 per image as the blog is hosted on the GOV.UK platform. The blog is run by the Department’s social media team as a small proportion of one member of staff’s overall workload.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jess Phillips on 2016-10-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many colleges which were not recognised or listed have been shut down in each of the last three years; and how many such colleges are currently under investigation.

Joseph Johnson

The Government has clamped down on immigration abuse from poor quality institutions selling immigration rather than education. Since 2010, more than 920 institutions have been struck off the Tier 4 sponsors list.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jess Phillips on 2016-10-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of supply teachers working in schools.

Nick Gibb

The data requested is not available.

Supply teachers play a valuable role in helping schools to address their teacher deployment needs. It is for individual head teachers to determine when it is appropriate to use a supply teacher.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jess Phillips on 2015-11-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) surgical operations, (b) diagnostic tests and (c) endoscopy procedures which could be used to treat NHS patients and are available from independent sector healthcare providers in winter 2015-16.

Jane Ellison

Decisions about whether to use independent sector capacity are made at local level according to local need, as part of the operational management of capacity and demand.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jess Phillips on 2016-02-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many applications were made for each of the Troops to Teachers cohort; and how many places in each cohort have been filled.

Nick Gibb

Initially the Ministry of Defence’s resettlement contractor was responsible for recruiting trainees to the programme. Recruitment for the programme has been the responsibility of the University of Brighton.

For Cohort One, 293 applications were received and 41 trainees began the programme.

For Cohort Two, 196 applications were received and 52 trainees began the programme.

For Cohort Three, 62 applications were received and 51 trainees began the programme.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jess Phillips on 2016-02-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children of service personnel are currently in mainstream education in England.

Nick Gibb

The Department does not publish data on numbers of service children currently receiving education.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jess Phillips on 2016-04-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which schools in which parliamentary constituencies she has visited since July 2014; and when she visited each such school.

Nick Gibb

My Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State for Education has visited the following schools since July 2014. The list excludes political visits and those made as a constituency MP.