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Lords motion to take note of the application of immigration policy to overseas students at United Kingdom universities and colleges. Agreed to on question.

Lead member

Lord Lucas

Answering member

Baroness Williams of Trafford

Department

Home Office

Type

Debates

Date

17 November 2016

Reference

776 cc1593-1631

House

House of Lords

Social Security (Claims and Payments) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2010

Social Security (Claims and Payments) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2010 (SI 2010/870). Lords debate on a motion that the House regrets the Regulations have been based on inadequate design which will be unable to produce reliable evidence. Motion withdrawn.

Lead member

Lord Lucas

Answering member

Lord Freud

Department

Department for Work and Pensions

Type

Debates on delegated legislation

Date

21 June 2010

Reference

719 c1237-51

House

House of Lords

Education: Home Schooling

To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Baroness Morgan of Drefelin on 11 December (WA 168–9), whether they will provide an example to justify the statement that the release of the data requested might lead to individual children being identified.

Asked by

Lord Lucas (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Answered on

7 January 2010

Some years ago a journalist located two children convicted of murdering another child using statistics provided through the Department of Heath secure units bulletin. Since then the Department for Children, Schools and Families has adopted protocols that prevent individual children from being identified through published statistical information. The department has closely examined and reviewed its statistical disclosure controls when considering the release of data that could lead to individuals being self-identified or identified by others. Where there is a risk that individual children could be identified, the data are released by aggregation with other data, or released in a form where small numbers are rounded or suppressed. We have applied this policy to the information collected recently on home education. We released much of the raw data in the form of graphs, which allowed users to see the distribution of data but which did not identify individual local authorities. This is because where numbers are low it would be possible for journalists or other researchers to combine press reports or other information collected formally or informally with published statistical information to identify individual children subject to child protection plans, or young people not in education, employment and training, for example. This could lead to home-educating families being pursued for further information about their children—for example, the sort of information set out in the Answers given on 11 December (Official Report cols. WA 167 and WA 169) and 15 December (Official Report cols. WA 206 and WA 207-WA 209). We are considering how we can release more of the statistical data collected in a format that protects individuals from being identified but which is more informative than the data already released.

Date

7 January 2010

Reference

813; 716 c115WA

House

House of Lords

Education: Home Schooling

To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Baroness Morgan of Drefelin on 11 December (WA 167), whether they will provide an example to justify the statement that the release of the data requested might lead to individual children being identified.

Asked by

Lord Lucas (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Answered on

7 January 2010

Date

7 January 2010

Reference

812; 716 c115WA

House

House of Lords

Education: Home Schooling

To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Baroness Morgan of Drefelin on 10 December (HL433), why they consider that individual children might be identified as a result of data released combined with other data publicly available.

Asked by

Lord Lucas (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

5 January 2010

Reference

759; 716 c21-2WA

House

House of Lords

Schools: Performance Tables

To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Baroness Morgan of Drefelin on 20 April (WA 370), why they do not rely on the work of UCAS to judge the compatibility of IGCSE and GCSE; why the inclusion of a qualification in school performance tables should be...

Asked by

Lord Lucas (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Answered on

12 May 2009

The school and college achievement and attainment tables provide a reliable source of comparative information to help focus the debate on standards and strengthen the accountability of schools and colleges. It follows that the indicators of performance at the end of key stage 4 must be based on performance in comparable examinations. This means that for inclusion in the tables qualifications must first be accredited by Ofqual as meeting certain standards and be subject to regulation to ensure those standards are maintained. International GCSEs (iGCSEs) have not been submitted to Ofqual for accreditation by the awarding bodies concerned and so cannot be considered for inclusion in the tables. Once accredited, qualifications for use in maintained schools must also be approved for funding under Section 96 of the Learning and Skills Act 2000. The achievement and attainment tables only recognise qualifications which have been approved under Section 96 because it is unlawful for maintained schools to offer other qualifications. While independent schools can legally offer qualifications which are not approved under Section 96, these are not recognised in the tables because to do so would mean that the tables would not be comparing performance across a common set of qualifications. In the key performance indicator showing the number of pupils achieving five A*-C GCSEs or equivalent, including GCSEs in English and mathematics, we specify GCSEs in these core subjects because they have been accredited by Ofqual as meeting the statutory requirements of the national curriculum. Ofqual has not determined whether iGCSEs meet these requirements because they have not been submitted for accreditation. However, the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) conducted a comparability study into the extent to which iGCSEs met GCSE criteria and corresponding programmes of study required for use in England, the results of which are available on Ofqual's website at www.ofqual.gov.uk/309.aspx. This found that, for example, the iGCSE in English literature includes no prescribed reading to meet the requirement to study Shakespeare. The QCA is responsible for the methodology for establishing the relative value of qualifications reported in the achievement and attainment tables and the points awarded to those qualifications. Their system was designed as a measure of a school's effort and effectiveness in teaching these qualifications. UCAS's system, on the other hand, was designed as a measure of students' preparedness for higher education.

Date

12 May 2009

Reference

3035; 710 c196-7WA

House

House of Lords

Schools: Performance Tables

To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Baroness Morgan of Drefelin on 2 April (HL 2339), why qualifications have to be approved by the Secretary of State for use in maintained schools before they can be reported in the achievement and attainment tables.

Asked by

Lord Lucas (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

20 April 2009

Reference

2807; 709 c369-70WA

House

House of Lords

Schools: International GCSEs

To ask Her Majesty's Government why it is necessary for International GCSEs to be accredited in order for them to be included in contextual value added calculations.

Asked by

Lord Lucas (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

2 April 2009

Reference

2439; 709 c286-7WA

House

House of Lords

Schools: Performance Tables

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for that Answer. Is it not the case that the Government could simply ask the exam boards for the IGCSE results and incorporate them into the tables? There would then be no chance whatever of bias. Is it not much more important that the tables provide parents with the information that they need to help them choose schools than to keep the Government’s amour propre clean concerning a little dispute about what an exam is called?

Asked by

Lord Lucas (Conservative)

Oral questions - 1st Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

23 March 2009

Reference

709 c441

House

House of Lords

Schools: Performance Tables

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the practice of excluding International GCSE results from value-added calculations in the post-16 school performance tables has the effect of artificially enhancing the results of independent schools against those of state schools; and whether they have plans to change the practice.

Asked by

Lord Lucas (Conservative)

Oral questions - Lead

Status

Answered

Date

23 March 2009

Reference

709 c441

House

House of Lords

Schools: Performance Tables

To ask Her Majesty's Government why IGCSE examination results are not included in calculations of value added between key stage 4 and key stage 5 for the 2008 school performance tables.

Asked by

Lord Lucas (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

12 February 2009

Reference

707 c245WA; 1212

House

House of Lords

Schools: Value-added League Tables

What is their reaction to the recent paper Questioning The Value-Added League Tables: The Politicians' Error Revisited by Professor Stephen Gorard of the University of York.

Asked by

Lord Lucas (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

20 June 2005

Reference

480; 672 c150-1WA

House

House of Lords

Ashton of Upholland, Baroness

Whether they will publish an indicator of the uncertainties which arise in performance measures in educational performance tables. [HL 3572].

Asked by

Lord Lucas (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

6 July 2004

Reference

HL 3572; 663 c75WA

House

House of Lords

Hunt of Kings Heath, Lord

In the context of the draft mental health Bill, which of the academic studies of the prevalence of personality disorder (a) in the general population; (b) in primary care; and (c) in prisoners they believe to be most reliable. [HL 5448]. - Includes figures.

Asked by

Lord Lucas (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

9 October 2002

Reference

639 c24-5WA; HL 5448

House

House of Lords

BLACKSTONE, BARONESS

If they have, in the last five years, undertaken any complete comparisons of the GCSE results obtained by individual students with the A-level results which those students subsequently achieved; and if so, if the data on which those comparisons were based will be made available (subject to suitable safeguards) to...

Asked by

Lord Lucas (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

3 June 1997

Reference

580 c23WA

House

House of Lords

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