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To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many students residing in Luton unitary authority area were (a) eligible for and (b) successfully applied for the pupil premium in each year from its introduction to 2012.
[136585]
To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many students residing in Luton unitary authority area were (a) eligible for and (b) successfully applied for the pupil premium in each year from its introduction to 2012.
[136585]
[holding answer 14 January 2013]: The Pupil Premium was introduced in April 2011. Pupil Premium funding is provided to schools which have on
roll pupils known to be eligible for free school meals (the Deprivation Premium); children in care who have been continuously looked after for at least six months (the Looked After Child Premium); and children whose parents are serving in the armed forces (the Service Child Premium).
In the financial year 2011-12, 7,470 pupils attending schools in Luton local authority area were eligible for the Deprivation Premium, the Looked After Child Premium or Service Child Premium, attracting £3.642 million.
In the financial year 2012-13, 10,840 pupils attending schools in Luton local authority area were eligible for the Deprivation Premium, the Looked After Child Premium or Service Child Premium, attracting £6.753 million.
The Department has calculated these Pupil Premium figures based on pupils who attend schools in Luton. We are unable to provide information on those pupils who actually reside in Luton local authority without incurring disproportionate cost.
In 2013-14 Pupil Premium funding will rise from £1.25 billion to £1.875 billion per year. This will enable the level of funding for the Deprivation and Looked After Child Premium to increase to about £900 per pupil and the Service Child Premium will increase to about £300 per pupil—these values are estimates and actual figures will be calculated when exact pupil numbers are known.
Pupils do not have to specifically register or apply for the Pupil Premium as we identify eligible pupils from the School Census return, local authority return SSDA903 (which provides information on children looked after by local authorities) and Ministry of Defence child pensions data.
We are unable to identify how many pupils in Luton local authority may be eligible for Pupil Premium funding but are not attracting it because they do not claim Free School Meals (FSM). At a national level, benefits data from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs suggests that around 200,000 pupils aged four to 15 in England are entitled to receive FSM but are not currently claiming them. Some of these pupils may still be receiving the Pupil Premium through our “Ever 6” FSM measure which extends eligibility to pupils who have claimed FSM at any point in the last six years. It is nevertheless important that all eligible pupils are registered for FSMs to ensure that pupils receive a healthy school meal, and that schools are able to attract the appropriate Pupil Premium funding for their disadvantaged pupils. That is why the Department has recently published research which highlights local areas where take-up rates are low.11 ‘Pupils not claiming free school meals’ research can be found here:
https://www.education.gov.uk/publications/RSG/AllPublications/Page1/DFE-RR235
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what recent estimate he has made of the number of students residing in Luton unitary authority area that will be eligible for the pupil premium in each year from 2013 to 2016, by annual cohort.
[136586]
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what recent estimate he has made of the number of students residing in Luton unitary authority area that will be eligible for the pupil premium in each year from 2013 to 2016, by annual cohort.
[136586]
[holding answer 14 January 2013]: In 2013-14, total Pupil Premium funding will rise from £1.25 billion to £1.875 billion per year. This will enable the level of
funding for the Deprivation and Looked After Child Premium to increase to £900 per pupil and the Service Child Premium to increase to £300 per pupil. Illustrative Pupil Premium allocations using January 2012 pupil numbers show that Luton local authority will receive approximately £9.755 million of Pupil Premium funding in 2013-14 for 10,840 eligible pupils attending Luton schools. A break-down of this figure by pupil age group is at Annex A. Final allocations will be available next summer when pupil numbers from the January 2013 school census are confirmed.
The Department has calculated these Pupil Premium figures based on pupils who attend schools in Luton. We are unable to provide information on those pupils who actually reside in Luton local authority without incurring disproportionate cost.
We do not have estimates for the numbers of pupils who will be eligible for the Pupil Premium in Luton local authority between 2014 and 2016. Pupil Premium eligibility will be determined by the number of pupils who receive Free School Meals.
Annex A
| Illustrative
Pupil Premium allocations based on pupils attending schools in Luton
local authority in
2013-14 | ||
| Age | Provisional
number of pupils entitled to Pupil Premium in
2013-14 | Provisional
amount of Pupil Premium funding in 2013-14
(£) |
| 4 | 685 | 615,900 |
| 5 | 787 | 708,300 |
| 6 | 933 | 839,700 |
| 7 | 922 | 829,200 |
| 8 | 983 | 884,700 |
| 9 | 994 | 894,600 |
| 10 | 913 | 821,700 |
| 11 | 981 | 882,900 |
| 12 | 920.5 | 828,450 |
| 13 | 899 | 807,900 |
| 14 | 915 | 823,500 |
| 15 | 903 | 812,700 |
| 16 | 6 | 5,400 |
| Total | 10,840 | 9,755,000 |
| Notes: 1. There may be discrepancies between the sum of constituent items and totals as shown due to rounding. 2. The table uses pupil numbers based on January 2012 census data using full time equivalent (FTE) numbers of pupils aged four and over with age calculated as at 31 August 2011. 3. The table uses Pupil Premium funding levels for 2013-14—the Deprivation and Looked After Child Premium will be £900 per pupil and the Service Child Premium will be £300 per pupil. |
My hon. Friend the Member for Luton South (Gavin Shuker) and I recently met teachers and head teachers in Luton to discuss the problems involved in the GCSE results. It is clear that some pupils were not permitted to take the sixth-form courses that they had chosen, as a consequence of their results, and that some schools that made strenuous efforts to improve their English results have actually been knocked back. Is that not a disgrace, and should not apologies be made?
My hon. Friend the Member for Luton South (Gavin Shuker) and I recently met teachers and head teachers in Luton to discuss the problems involved in the GCSE results. It is clear that some pupils were not permitted to take the sixth-form courses that they had chosen, as a consequence of their results, and that some schools that made strenuous efforts to improve their English results have actually been knocked back. Is that not a disgrace, and should not apologies be made?
I share the concern felt by the hon. Gentlemen. We must wait to see the Ofqual report before we can be more certain about what went wrong this year, but it is clear that there were a variety of factors consequent on the design of the examination, and that we need to take steps to remedy them.
I share the concern felt by the hon. Gentlemen. We must wait to see the Ofqual report before we can be more certain about what went wrong this year, but it is clear that there were a variety of factors consequent on the design of the examination, and that we need to take steps to remedy them.
I share the concern felt by the hon. Gentlemen. We must wait to see the Ofqual report before we can be more certain about what went wrong this year, but it is clear that there were a variety of factors consequent on the design of the examination, and that we need to take steps to remedy them.
My hon. Friend the Member for Luton South (Gavin Shuker) and I recently met teachers and head teachers in Luton to discuss the problems involved in the GCSE results. It is clear that some pupils were not permitted to take the sixth-form courses that they had chosen, as a consequence of their results, and that some schools that made strenuous efforts to improve their English results have actually been knocked back. Is that not a disgrace, and should not apologies be made?