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To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills whether the access performance indicators referred to in his Department's Guidance to the Director of Fair Access will include (a) non-UK citizens attending UK schools, (b) UK citizens attending schools outside the UK and (c) non-UK citizens attending schools...

Asked by

James Clappison (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

28 February 2011

Reference

42745; 524 c304-5W

House

House of Commons

Pupils: English Language

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what projections for future years have been made by the Office for National Statistics of (a) the number and (b) the proportion of schoolchildren with (i) one or both parents who were born abroad and (ii) English as a second language.

Asked by

James Clappison (Conservative)

Answering body

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

19 May 2008

Reference

476 c51W; 206272

House

House of Commons

Gifted Pupils

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what recent research she has collated into the performance of gifted pupils at state schools with particular reference to the performance of children in Key Stage 2 tests.

Asked by

James Clappison (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

7 June 2005

Reference

434 c473-4W;434 c475-6W; 1739

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what estimate he has made of the proportion of pupils attending (a) state and (b) independent schools who are from an ethnic minority. - Inc figures and fact that info not collected from independent schools.

Asked by

James Clappison (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

2 November 2004

Reference

194195; 426 c163-4W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what account will be taken of the position of children from lower income families in receipt of scholarships or bursaries at independent schools under his proposals set out in Widening Participation in Higher Education.

Asked by

James Clappison (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

18 June 2003

Reference

118396; 407 c311W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many children have been in receipt of assisted places at independent schools since 1997. - Inc table.

Asked by

James Clappison (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

11 June 2003

Reference

118392; 406 c886W;406 c888W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, what estimate he has made of (a) the number of children in receipt of scholarships, bursaries or other such assistance attending independent schools and (b) the total value of such assistance. - Inc figures.

Asked by

James Clappison (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

11 June 2003

Reference

118397; 406 c886W;406 c888W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what was the pupil teacher ratio in (a) primary, (b) secondary and (c) all maintained schools in (i) January 1997 and (ii) according to the most recent figure available - Inc table.

Asked by

James Clappison (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

28 July 2000

Reference

354 c1051-2W; 131690

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what the percentage change was between January 1997 and January 2000 in the number of pupils in classes taught by one teacher with 31 or more pupils in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools. - Inc figures.

Asked by

James Clappison (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

28 July 2000

Reference

354 c1051W; 131679

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his Answer of 20 July 2000, 354 c306W regarding the exclusion of overseas pupils from performance tables, ref. 132063, what criteria are to be used in determining which pupils are to be excluded; and what estimate he has...

Asked by

James Clappison (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

27 July 2000

Reference

354 c857-8W; 132658

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what estimate he has made of the number of children with emotional and behavioural difficulties in (a) special and (b) mainstream schools; and what guidance he is giving to teachers in mainstream schools regarding the handling of challenging behaviour by...

Asked by

James Clappison (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

18 July 2000

For answer on

25 July 2000

Answered on

25 July 2000

Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what estimate he has made of the number of children with emotional and behavioural difficulties in (a) special and (b) mainstream schools; and what guidance he is giving to teachers in mainstream schools regarding the handling of challenging behaviour by children with emotional and behavioural difficulties. [131717] Jacqui Smith: My Department does not collect statistics identifying children with special educational needs by specific categories. The total special needs population was shown as 1,700,000 on the last full return in 1999--just over 20 per cent. of the total school population. This Government have demonstrated their commitment to improving education for all children with special needs. Schools are educating children with a wide range of needs, and so need a range of programmes and advice. We are supporting schools with a broad package of measures, including the SEN Programme of Action, the National Literacy and Numeracy Strategies and our Excellence in Cities programme. To improve the education for children with emotional and behavioural difficulties in particular, this year we have: provided £140 million through the Social Inclusion Pupil Support programme--guidance to support this programme, on pupil attendance, behaviour, exclusion and re-integration, was issued in July 1999; developed On-Site Learning Support Units. We will increase the number of these units to over 1,000 in mainstream schools in England within two years. To help meet this target we announced earlier this year that £28 million is being provided to create a further 360 units in secondary schools and £8 million to pilot 60 units in primary schools. These units are school-based centres for pupils at risk of exclusion owing to behavioural problems; they provide tailored teaching and support programmes. produced a revised SEN Code of Practice and guidance on thresholds to simplify, and to support better, teachers' assessment of a child's needs and their planning of appropriate strategies to address these. Both documents are currently out for consultation; issued to all schools the Index for Inclusion produced by the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education. This practical, self review tool will help all schools develop their policies for addressing barriers to participation pupils face, including those with emotional and behavioural difficulties; consulted on additional guidance on promoting positive handling strategies for pupils with severe behavioural difficulties. This guidance will be issued in the autumn, to supplement existing guidance on Section 550A of the Education Act 1996. In addition, we are planning further practical guidance on best practice in the education of children with emotional and behavioural difficulties, and on effective teaching for children with mental health problems. We have also provided guidance on the wider issue of dealing with violent or very disruptive pupils. We do not expect teachers to keep troublemakers in the classroom at any cost, and have written to all headteachers so that they know they have our full support if they have to exclude such pupils permanently. The Secretary of State also announced at the National Association of Headteachers' conference on 1 June that he would be changing the guidance to exclusion appeal panels to indicate that where there has been violence or severe threat of violence it is inappropriate for a permanently excluded child to be re-instated to the same school.

Date

25 July 2000

Reference

354 c562-3W; 131717

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many (a) pupils, (b) teachers and (c) members of non-teaching staff have been the victims of (i) assaults and (ii) other criminal offences on school premises in each of the last 10 years. - Inc fact that information requested...

Asked by

James Clappison (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

25 July 2000

Reference

354 c563W; 131718

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his oral statement of 27th June, 352 c755, if pupils at schools which are to be designated as city academies will have an entitlement to attend the city academy if they so wish.

Asked by

James Clappison (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

6 July 2000

Reference

128592; 353 c277-8W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if personal advisers will be provided for pupils in independent schools through the ConneXions Service.

Asked by

James Clappison (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

18 May 2000

Reference

122702; 350 c189W;350 c191W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his Answer of 2nd May, Official Report, column 92W, what was the pupil teacher ratio in (a) former grant maintained primary schools and (b) former grant maintained secondary schools in each of the last five years. - Inc...

Asked by

James Clappison (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

3 May 2000

For answer on

9 May 2000

Answered on

9 May 2000

Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his answer of 2 May 2000, Official Report, column 92W, what was the pupil teacher ratio in (a) former grant-maintained primary schools and (b) former grant-maintained secondary schools in each of the last five years. [121270] Ms Estelle Morris: The available information on pupil:teacher ratios in maintained primary and secondary schools is shown in the following table. The Department is currently collecting information on pupil:teacher ratios in all schools for January 2000. Provisional national estimates for maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools were published in Statistical First Release "Pupil: Teacher ratios in maintained schools in England (14/2000)" on 12 April 2000, a copy of which is available from the Library. Final data will be published in a statistical volume in September. Pupil:teacher ratios in maintained primary and secondary schools: 1995-99--Position as at January England _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Year Number of schools Full-time equivalent Full-time equivalent Pupil Teacher ratio {4} pupils {2} qualified teachers {3} All maintained primary schools {1} 1999 18,234 4,300,563 182,646 23.5 1998 18,312 4,300,388 181,394 23.7 1997 18,392 4,271,131 182,442 23.4 1996 18,480 4,232,514 182,626 23.2 1995 18,551 4,159,021 181,910 22.9 All maintained secondary schools {1} 1999 3,560 3,121,901 183,578 17.0 1998 3,567 3,072,822 181,853 16.9 1997 3,569 3,041,584 181,692 16.7 1996 3,594 3,010,416 180,868 16.6 1995 3,614 2,992,857 181,445 16.5 Grant-maintained primary schools 1999 511 142,478 6,056 23.5 1998 508 139,619 5,947 23.5 1997 483 131,712 5,656 23.3 1996 448 120,319 5,214 23.1 1995 410 107,803 4,731 22.8 Grant maintained secondary schools 1999 668 641,774 38,514 16.7 1998 667 625,781 38,030 16.5 1997 652 602,936 36,838 16.4 1996 642 579,924 35,493 16.3 1997 622 553,007 34,154 16.2 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Includes local education authority (LEA) maintained and grant-maintained schools. {2} Includes all full-time pupils and full-time equivalent of part time pupils (each part-time pupil is treated as 0.5 full-time equivalents). {3} Includes all full-time qualified teachers and full-time equivalent of part time qualified teachers (the directed hours of part-time teachers are converted to full-time equivalent teacher numbers by dividing by 32.5) {4} The Pupil: Teacher ratio relates the full-time equivalent number of pupils to the full-time equivalent number of qualified teachers.

Date

9 May 2000

Reference

121270; 349 c344-5W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what assessment he has made of the provision of specialist staff through Ethnic Minority and Travellers Educational Achievement Grant funding. - Inc figures.

Asked by

James Clappison (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

3 May 2000

For answer on

9 May 2000

Answered on

9 May 2000

Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what assessment he has made of the provision of specialist staff through Ethnic Minority and Travellers Educational Achievement Grant funding. [121253] Jacqui Smith: The Ethnic Minority and Traveller Achievement Grant (EMTAG) is designed to raise standards for those ethnic minority and traveller pupils at risk of under-achieving and to meet the particular needs of pupils for whom English is an additional language. We are making available more money than ever before as part of our drive to raise the academic achievements of those ethnic minority groups at risk of under-achieving. For 2000-01, £162.5 million will be available to local education authorities and schools to improve the attainment of ethnic minority, traveller and refugee pupils--an increase of 7 per cent. on the amount available for these purposes in 1999-2000. A key element of the grant programme is that the funding should largely go direct to schools, so that head teachers can use it where it is most needed--to employ more teachers and teaching assistants and to work with their local communities. Specialist teachers, bilingual assistants and other classroom assistants supported through the grant have a vital role to play in raising standards for ethnic minority pupils. We expect that, depending on local needs, a large proportion of the grant will be spent on teachers and classroom assistants. As a requirement of the grant, local education authorities are required to provide information about their plans for spending the grant and details of actual expenditure. We will also monitor the numbers of specialist staff employed by EMTAG through an independent evaluation of the grant.

Date

9 May 2000

Reference

349 c344W; 121253

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how much each local education authority has spent per sixth form pupil in each of the last five years. - Inc fact that information is not recorded in the form requested.

Asked by

James Clappison (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

5 May 2000

Reference

349 c217W; 120256

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many fresh start schools (a) have increased pupil numbers and (b) are oversubscribed. - Includes table.

Asked by

James Clappison (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

21 March 2000

Reference

346 c512W;346 c510W; 115290

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what estimate he has made of the number of state school pupils receiving lessons from independent school teachers as a result of the Independent State Schools Partnership scheme. - Including figures.

Asked by

James Clappison (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

7 February 2000

Reference

108573; 344 c37-8W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how much was spent per pupil in maintained schools in each year for each of the last 20 years. - Inc figures.

Asked by

James Clappison (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

17 November 1999

For answer on

24 November 1999

Answered on

24 November 1999

Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how much was spent per pupil in maintained schools in each year for each of the last 20 years. [98630] Ms Estelle Morris: The following table presents the unit costs per pupil for LEA maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools in England for the period 1979-80 to 2001-02. The costs are presented both in cash terms and in real terms (i.e. constant 1999-2000 prices). The budgets from 1998-2002 are the responsibility of this administration. Previous budgets had been set, distributed and agreed before May 1997. Unit costs (in cash and real terms) per pupil in LEA maintained schools in England £ _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Unit costs (per FTE pupil) Cash terms Real terms 1979-80{1} 510 1,450 1980-81{1} 650 1,550 1981-82{1} 740 1,610 1982-83{1} 810 1,640 1983-84{1} 870 1,690 1984-85{1} 925 1,710 1985-86{1} 990 1,730 1986-87{1} 1,110 1,890 1987-88{1} 1,240 2,000 1988-89{1} 1,360 2,050 1989-90{1} 1,490 2,090 1990-91{1} 1,620 2,120 1991-92{1} 1,750 2,150 1992-93{1} 1,860 2,210 1993-94{1} 1,870 2,170 1994-95{1} 1,890 2,160 1995-96{1} 1,190 2,120 1996-97{1} 1,960 2,110 1997-98{2} 1,980 2,070 1998-99{3} 2,050 2,090 1999-2001{3} 2,150 2,150 2000-01{3} 2,270 2,210 2001-02{3} 2,400 2,290 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Actual outturn {2} Provisional outturn {3} Projected estimate

Date

24 November 1999

Reference

339 c135-6W; 98630

House

House of Commons

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