Tag: Karen Lumley

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Karen Lumley on 2014-06-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many applications his Department has received from academies seeking to change their admissions policies; and how many such applications his Department accepted.

Mr Edward Timpson

Academies can only change their admission arrangements following the procedures set out in the School Admissions Code.

During the 2013/14 academic year the Education Funding Agency has received requests to change admissions arrangements for 8 academies. Of these, 7 were approved and 1 was withdrawn by the academy trust.

These figures do not include applications to change admissions arrangements that form part of a request for a wider change to an academy’s funding agreement, for example extending the age range, as this data is not recorded centrally.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Karen Lumley on 2014-06-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many local education authorities currently operate a three-tier system; how many such authorities have sought to change to a two-tier system since 2010; and how many such authorities have changed to a two-tier system.

Mr David Laws

The Department does not hold records about the number of local authorities that operate three-tier systems.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Karen Lumley on 2014-06-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many middle schools there are in England; and how many of those schools are academies.

Mr David Laws

There are 190 schools in England that are recorded on Edubase, the Department’s database of education providers, as being middle schools. Of these, 59 are converter academies and three are sponsored academies.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Karen Lumley on 2014-06-10.

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, whether recall powers for local elected representatives will be included in the Government’s Bill to enable recall of hon. Members.

Mr Nick Clegg

The Government has no plans at this time to extend the power of recall beyond Members of Parliament.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Karen Lumley on 2014-06-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 8 May 2014, Official Report, column 276W, on motor vehicles: exhaust emissions, if he will place the data from his Department’s 2006 study of liquefied petroleum and petrol vehicles in the Library.

Stephen Hammond

The report produced for the Department at the end of the study (Ref: M. Clark, P. Sayer, Euro 3 LPG Retrofit Emissions Factor Testing, Tickford Powertrain Test Ltd., ER07/015, June 2007) contains the data captured by the testing. Copies of the report will be placed in the in the Libraries of the House.