The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nick Gibb on 2014-06-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what current contracts (a) his Department and (b) each of his Department’s executive agencies or non-departmental public bodies hold with the educational testing service or any of that organisation’s subsidiaries.
Elizabeth Truss
The Department and agencies have no current contracts with the educational testing service or its subsidiaries.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nick Gibb on 2014-06-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what current contracts (a) his Department and (b) each of his Department’s executive agencies or non-departmental public bodies hold with the Educational Testing Service or any of that organisation’s subsidiaries.
Gregory Barker
Neither (a) The Department of Energy and Climate Change nor (b) its non-Departmental public bodies hold any contracts with the Educational Testing Service or its subsidiaries.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nick Gibb on 2014-06-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what current contracts (a) his Department and (b) each of his Department’s executive agencies or non-departmental public bodies hold with the Educational Testing Service or any of that organisation’s subsidiaries.
Dan Rogerson
Neither Core Defra, nor its Executive Agencies or Non-Departmental public bodies hold any contracts with the Educational Testing Service or any of its subsidiaries.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nick Gibb on 2014-06-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what current contracts (a) his Department and (b) each of his Department’s executive agencies or non-departmental public bodies hold with the Educational Testing Service or any of that organisation’s subsidiaries.
Jo Swinson
The Department does not have any contracts with the Educational Testing Service or any of its subsidiaries.
I have approached the Chief Executives of the Department’s Executive Agencies (Insolvency Service, Companies House, National Measurement Office, Intellectual Property Office, UK Space Agency, Ordnance Survey, Met Office, Land Registry and the Skills Funding Agency) and they will respond to my Hon. Friend directly.
Information for non-departmental public bodies is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nick Gibb on 2014-06-24.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what current contracts (a) his Department and (b) each of his Department’s executive agencies or non-departmental public bodies hold with the Educational Testing Service or any of that organisation’s subsidiaries.
Andrea Leadsom
Since January 2011, central government departments have been required to publish on Contracts Finder information on the contracts they award (www.contractsfinder.businesslink.gov.uk/). In addition, departments publish details of spend in excess of £25,000.
HM Treasury and its executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies do not hold any current contracts with the Educational Testing Service or any of that organisation’s subsidiaries.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nick Gibb on 2014-04-03.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will amend the School Admissions Code to allow primary schools’ admission arrangements to give priority to pupils attending a primary school’s own nursery.
Mr David Laws
I refer the hon. Member to the response given to hon. Member for Enfield North, Nick de Bois, on 6 March 2014, Official Report Column 905W.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nick Gibb on 2014-04-08.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether Ofsted’s interpretation of closing the attainment gap between pupils eligible and not eligible for free school meals relates to the gap in attainment nationally or in the school being inspected.
Mr David Laws
This question is a matter for Ofsted. I have asked Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, to write to the hon. Member. A copy of his reply has been placed in the House Library.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nick Gibb on 2014-04-08.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria Ofsted uses when inspecting academies that do not follow the National Curriculum in Key Stage 3 and do not use National Curriculum levels; and how Ofsted judges pupil progress in these circumstances.
Mr David Laws
This question is a matter for Ofsted. I have asked Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, to write to the hon. Member. A copy of his reply has been placed in the House Library.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nick Gibb on 2014-04-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the student loan default rate is for students and graduates of (a) Bristol, (b) Cambridge, (c) Durham, (d) Exeter, (e) Leeds, (f) Manchester and (g) Oxford Universities.
Mr David Willetts
Information on the repayment status of student loans is available in the Student Loans Company (SLC) publication ‘Income Contingent Repayments by Repayment Cohort and Tax Year’, which is availableat the following link: http://www.slc.co.uk/media/589346/slcosp012013.pdf .
Institution-specific information is not published and can only be provided at disproportionate cost.
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nick Gibb on 2014-04-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 8 April 2014, Official Report, column 205W, on primary education: admissions, and of 6 March 2014, Official Report, column 904W, on academies, regarding primary school admissions from nursery schools, if he will make it his policy to reject the Chief Schools Adjudicator’s recommendation to issue further guidance for admission authorities and instead amend the admissions code to enable primary schools to create all-through primary schools that include the years prior to reception.
Mr David Laws
The School Admissions Code does not prevent a school from becoming an all-through primary school for children aged 2 or 3 to age 11. It does, however, prevent schools from giving priority for reception places to children who have been admitted to the nursery class unless they can do so fairly and without disadvantaging children whose parents choose other forms of early education.
Ministers are considering the Chief Schools Adjudicator’s recommendation that they issue further guidance for admission authorities so that there is fair access to schools for all children.
We take fair access very seriously but also want to explore the incentives for schools to use their expertise to enhance early years education.