Tag: Sharon Hodgson

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mrs Sharon Hodgson on 2015-11-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 5 November 2015 to Question 13930, how many key stage one children receiving universal infant free school meals would not be eligible for such meals through a benefit-related claim.

Mr Sam Gyimah

This information is published in Table 3d of the National Tables in the statistical first release available at

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2015.

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mrs Sharon Hodgson on 2015-11-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 30 October 2015 to Question 12304, on consumer protection measure, what the names are of the main stakeholders who were alerted to the call for evidence; when those stakeholders were altered; and how those stakeholders were alerted.

Nick Boles

These stakeholders were notified by email on 13 October 2015:

Academy Music Group

Advertising Standards Authority

All England Lawn Tennis Club

Association of Leading Visitor Attractions

AEG Worldwide

Agents Association

Andrew Bingham MP

Arts & Business Scotland

Arts Council England

Arts Council of Northern Ireland

Arts Council of Wales

Association of Chief Trading Standards Officers

Association of Festival Organisers

Association of Independent Festivals

Association of Independent Music

Association of Secondary Ticket Agents

Association of Show and Agricultural Organisations

Baroness Grey Thompson

Baroness Hayter

Baroness Heyhoe Flint

Birmingham Hippodrome

British Association of Concert Halls

Brighton Centre

British Arts Festival Association

British Boxing Board of Control

British Cycling

British Phonographic Industry

Business in Sport and Leisure

Cardiff International Arena (Motorpoint Arena)

Chartered Trading Standards Institute

Cinema Exhibitors Association

Citizens Advice

City of London Police

Competition and Markets Authority

CBI

Concert Promoters Association

Creative Scotland

eBay UK Ltd

David Morris MP

Direct Selling Association

England and Wales Cricket Board

England Rugby Union

Equity

European Arenas Association

European Commission

European Secondary Ticketing Association

Event Industry News

Fan Freedom

Federation of Small Businesses

Festival Republic

Festivals Edinburgh

Football Association

Football Supporters Federation

Greater London Assembly

Historic Houses Association

Historic Royal Palaces

Incorporated Society of Musicians

International Live Music Conference

Lawn Tennis Association

Live Nation

Live UK

Liverpool Echo Arena

Local Government Association

Lord Addington

Lord Borwick

Lord Clement-Jones

Lord Moynihan

Lord Stoneham

Lord Younger

Manchester Arena

Mark Garnier MP

Mark Pritchard MP

Mastercard

Millennium Stadium plc

Motor Sports Association

Musicians Union

National Campaign for the Arts

National Operatic and Dramatic Association

National Police Chiefs’ Council

National Theatre

National Trading Standards Board

NEC Group

Nick Smith MP

Nigel Adams MP

NOISE Festival

Paypal

Penny Mordaunt MP

Premier League

Premiership Rugby

Racecourse Association

Ricoh Arena

Royal Albert Hall

Royal Horticultural Society

Royal Opera House

Royal Parks

Royal Shakespeare Company

Rugby Football League

Rugby Football Union

Sadler’s Wells

Sage Gateshead

Seatwave

See Tickets

Sharon Hodgson MP

Society of London Theatre

Sound Diplomacy

Southbank Centre

Sport and Recreation Alliance

Sport England

Sport Northern Ireland

Sport Scotland

Sport Wales

Sports Rights Group

STAR (Secure Tickets from Authorised Retailers)

Stephen McPartland MP

Stubhub

Supporters Direct

The Federation of Scottish Theatre

Ticketmaster UK

Trading Standards Institute

Trading Standards Scotland

UK Cards Association

UK Music

UK Sport

UK Theatre Association

Viagogo

Visa

Visit Britain

Welsh Government

Wembley Arena

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mrs Sharon Hodgson on 2015-11-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 30 October 2015 to Question 12304, what the names are of the main stakeholders who the Government consulted on the terms of reference of the Review into Secondary Ticketing Market.

Nick Boles

The following stakeholders were invited to provide input:

All England Lawn Tennis Club

Association of Leading Visitor Attractions

CBI

Competition and Markets Authority

eBay UK Ltd (StubHub)

England and Wales Cricket Board

England Rugby Football Union

European Commission Representation in the UK

Fan Freedom

Lawn Tennis Association

Northern Ireland Executive

Parliament

Royal Opera House

Scottish Government

Society of London Theatre

Sport and Recreation Alliance

STAR (Secure Tickets from Authorised Retailers)

Ticketmaster

UK Music

Viagogo

Welsh Government

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mrs Sharon Hodgson on 2016-01-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if protocols are in place for the sharing of information between officials in her Department and Ofsted on the outcome of Ofsted inspections of provision for children with special educational needs or disabilities in a local area.

Edward Timpson

I can confirm that Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission will publish outcomes from the local area SEND inspections.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mrs Sharon Hodgson on 2016-01-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will take steps to ensure that attachment theory is understood by teachers across schools in England to help readiness for learning.

Edward Timpson

Attachment issues can impact on educational outcomes, particularly for looked after children and for those children who have left care through adoption. The attachment of these children may have been adversely affected through difficult experiences in their early years.

Every school must have a designated teacher for looked after children who promotes their educational achievement. Every looked after child must also have the support of the local authority’s Virtual School Head. These vulnerable children, including those who have left care, also attract the pupil premium worth £1900 per eligible pupil. Schools may use this funding to purchase training for staff on recognising and responding to attachment related issues.

Stephen Munday is leading an independent group to develop a framework of core Initial Teacher Training content to build a better shared understanding of the essential elements of the training. Although we cannot pre-empt what will be included in the framework, the group will be considering a broad range of course content including special educational needs and disabilities and classroom management, amongst other things. Stephen Munday will report to Ministers in the spring of 2016.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mrs Sharon Hodgson on 2016-01-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to improve children’s character and resilience.

Edward Timpson

All schools should develop character traits like self-confidence, motivation and resilience in their students. These traits support academic attainment, are valued by employers, and encourage young people to make a positive contribution to British society.

At the Character Symposium in January 2016[1], the Secretary of State for Education outlined her vision for character education. She announced that the Department intends to promote character education through the building and strengthening of our evidence base. We will facilitate this via an online digital platform which will share evidence, innovation, and examples of best practice in character education. We will also promote character education to schools and organisations through a new round of character awards.

To support schools in this, we are already investing £5 million in character education. This figure includes £3.5m of grants for 14 projects and £1m to the Education Endowment Foundation to build research the most effective ways that character can be developed.

Of course, many schools and organisations are already supporting children to develop their character, through programmes such as National Citizen Service. We will be investing over a billion pounds over the next four years to make NCS a rite of passage and to ensure that 60% of 16 year olds can take part by 2021.

School sport can also help children and young people develop positive character traits such as fair play, leadership and resilience. It can teach them how to bounce back from defeat, how to respect others and how to work together in teams to achieve a goal. PE remains a compulsory subject at all four key stages in the new national curriculum which came into force in September 2014.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/nicky-morgan-opens-character-symposium-at-floreat-school

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mrs Sharon Hodgson on 2016-01-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will issue a notice to improve to local authorities where Ofsted identify significant concerns over provision for children with special educational needs or disabilities in a local area.

Edward Timpson

The Department continues to monitor progress with implementation of the special educational needs duties set out in the Children and Families Act 2014. Our intention is that a combination of local accountability measures, data and analysis and independent inspection will show how the SEND system is performing, which parts are working well and less well and whether outcomes are improving for children and young people. The Department will consider the findings from the local area inspections as part of our approach to monitoring progress to assess where additional support and challenge may be required.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mrs Sharon Hodgson on 2016-03-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many young people left school without a Grade C in GCSE English and maths in each region in each of the last five academic years.

Nick Gibb

The number of pupils at the end of key stage 4 without at least a grade C in GCSE English and maths in 2014/2015 can be deduced from Table LA1 of the local authority tables published in the “Revised GCSE and equivalent results in England 2014 to 2015” statistical first release.[1] This table shows the percentage of pupils who achieved an A*-C in English and mathematics GCSEs including equivalents, including the total number of pupils at the end of key stage 4 in each local authority and region – from which the number and percentage of pupils not achieving a grade C in English and mathematics can be determined. Equivalent information for the previous four academic years is published in Table 15 in 2013/14[2] and Table 16 of the releases for earlier years.[3][4][5]

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/revised-gcse-and-equivalent-results-in-england-2014-to-2015 (Local authority tables: SFR 01/2016)

[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/revised-gcse-and-equivalent-results-in-england-2013-to-2014 (Subject and LA tables: SFR 02/2015)

[3] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/revised-gcse-and-equivalent-results-in-england-academic-year-2010-to-2011 (Additional tables: SFR 02/2012)

[4] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/revised-gcse-and-equivalent-results-in-england-academic-year-2011-to-2012 (Additional tables: SFR 02/2013)

[5] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/gcse-and-equivalent-results-in-england-2012-to-2013-revised (Subject and LA tables: SFR 01/2014)

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mrs Sharon Hodgson on 2016-03-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the Government plans to publish the outcomes of the review of training for educational and clinical psychologists.

Edward Timpson

This review of clinical and educational psychology training arrangements has been agreed by myself and Ben Gummer, the Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for Quality at the Department of Health. The report will be published in spring 2016.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mrs Sharon Hodgson on 2015-10-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the number of kinship carers which are affected by the benefit cap.

Justin Tomlinson

We do not collect data on the number of kinship carers subject to the benefit cap.