Laurence Turner MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Free School Meals: West MidlandsDepartment for EducationTabled 5 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57877More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Over half a million more children to get free school meals, published on 4 June 2025, if she will make an estimate of how many additional children will
Answer: This government is determined to tackle child poverty and spread growth and opportunity to every family in every part of our country. We have now announced the biggest expansion of free school meal eligibility in England in a generation. We will give ever...
Answered 25 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordGeorge Dixon Primary SchoolDepartment for EducationTabled 13 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52108More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her spokesperson's comments in the Birmingham Mail article entitled The reason staff at a Birmingham school decided a last resort strike, published on 7 March 2025, whether she plans to make a
Answer: High and rising standards are at the heart of this government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity so every child can achieve and thrive.An academy order for George Dixon Primary School in Birmingham was issued in June 2023 and remains in place...
Answered 16 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSchool Support Staff Negotiating Body: Public AppointmentsDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47054More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her timetable is for appointing a new Chair of the School Support Staff Negotiating Body.
Answer: The government values and recognises the professionalism of the entire school workforce. School support staff play a vital role in children’s education and are crucial to ensuring we give children the best possible life chances.The School Support Staff Ne...
Answered 25 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordFurther Education: Special Educational NeedsDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46454More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 11 April to Question 40395 on Further Education: Special Educational Needs, whether any ringfenced capital grants have been made to the SEND-specialist further education sector in the
Answer: The statutory duty to provide sufficient school places for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) or who require alternative provision sits with local authorities.The department provides funding to local authorities to support the...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational NeedsDepartment for EducationTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41273More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children in state-funded schools were educated in special schools in each year from 2010-11.
Answer: The department publishes data on the number of children in special schools and the total number of pupils in state-funded schools in the following publication: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/special-educational-needs-i...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFurther Education: Special Educational NeedsDepartment for EducationTabled 21 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40395More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department has taken to support the SEND-specialist Further Education sector; and what central capital grants have been provided to that sector during the last ten years.
Answer: The department has now published allocations for £740 million of high needs capital funding for the 2025/26 financial year. Of this funding, Birmingham has been allocated a total of just under £15 million which can be used to deliver new places in mainstr...
Answered 11 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAcademies: PayDepartment for EducationTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32458More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many staff employed by single academy trusts were paid (a) between £150,000 and £199,999, (b) between £200,000 and £249,999 and (c) in excess of £250,000 in each of the last five years by trust.
Answer: The department collates and publishes data annually in the ‘Academies sector annual report and accounts’ on the number of academy trusts with an individual staff member whose emoluments are above £100,000. The data is available in the attached spreadsheet...
Answered 26 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMulti-academy Trusts: PayDepartment for EducationTabled 13 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31728More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many staff employed by multi academy trusts were paid (a) between £150,000 and £199,999, (b) between £200,000 and £249,999 and (c) in excess of £250,000 in each of the last five years by trust.
Answer: The department collates and publishes data annually in the ‘Academies sector annual report and accounts’ on the number of academy trusts with an individual staff member whose emoluments are above £100,000. The data is available in the attached spreadsheet...
Answered 26 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Education: BidfoodDepartment for EducationTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26737More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what contracts (a) BFS Group Limited and (b) subsidiary companies of BFS Group Limited hold with (i) her Department and (ii) agencies of her Department.
Answer: Following a search of the department's contract records for any supplier with “BFS Group Limited” in its name, it has been concluded that there are no live or historical contracts with that supplier.
Answered 4 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordTeachers: PayDepartment for EducationTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25523More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 10 January 2025 to Question 23229, on Teachers: Pay, if she will provide the same data for newly qualified teachers.
Answer: Information on the school workforce is published in the ‘School workforce in England’ statistical publication, which is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.The attached table prov...
Answered 24 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordTeachers: PayDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23229More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average full-time salary was for (a) classroom and (b) all teachers in (i) academies, (ii) free schools, (iii) local authority maintained schools and (iv) all publicly-funded schools in 2023.
Answer: Information on the school workforce is published in the ‘School workforce in England’ statistical publication, which is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.The attached table prov...
Answered 15 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordTeachers: PayDepartment for EducationTabled 7 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22484More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to section 7.2.12 of her Department's publication entitled School workforce census guide 2024: Guide for schools including academies within a Multi Academy Trust, published on 11 October 2024, ho
Answer: Information on the school workforce is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication, which is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.The attached table prov...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordEducational Institutions: Air ConditioningDepartment for EducationTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22210More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many air cleaning units were provided to education facilities in (a) Birmingham Northfield constituency, (b) Birmingham, (c) the West Midlands and (d) England since 2020.
Answer: Between January 2022 and April 2023, the department provided over 9,000 air cleaning units to over 1,300 education and childcare settings that had been identified with poor ventilation.Four air cleaning units were provided to education settings in the Bir...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Curriculum Tests: ScienceDepartment for EducationTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22207More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Standards and Testing Agency's publication of 20 July 2022, entitled Information: primary assessments in the 2022/23 academic year, for what reason it was decided not to undertake further
Answer: Statutory teacher assessment of science is undertaken annually at the end of key stage 2 for all pupils in the relevant cohort. Between 2014 and 2020, biennial national science sampling tests were used to supplement this teacher assessment data, with a na...
Answered 9 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordEducational Institutions: Air ConditioningDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21863More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending the provision of air cleaning units to education facilities.
Answer: The department regularly reviews its guidance to ensure that it aligns with best practice and industry standards, to deliver high-quality school environments.Between January 2022 and April 2023, the department provided over 9,000 air cleaning units to ove...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: Air PollutionDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21862More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress her Department has made on the guidance for schools on mitigating poor air quality.
Answer: The department regularly reviews its guidance to ensure that it aligns with best practice and industry standards, to deliver high-quality school environments.Between January 2022 and April 2023, the department provided over 9,000 air cleaning units to ove...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordTeachersDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21860More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 11 December 2014 to Question 217660 on Teachers, whether the programme of talks referred to is ongoing.
Answer: Following the 2024 general election, the Programme of Talks forum was stood down to enable the department to develop new and improved ways of working with employer organisations, unions and other key stakeholders. This government is committed to resetting...
Answered 8 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAcademies and Further Education: Fraud and MaladministrationDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21857More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to page 98 of the Education and Skills Funding Agency's publication entitled Annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024, published on 29 July 2024, if she will break down the tab
Answer: The information requested can be found in the attached table.
Answered 29 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordNon-teaching Staff: Conditions of EmploymentDepartment for EducationTabled 18 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 21253More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the (a) number and (b) proportion of school support staff in state-funded schools in England who are employed on (i) zero-hour and (ii) term time-only contracts.
Answer: Information on the school workforce is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.The school workforce census does not collec...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordTeachers: PayDepartment for EducationTabled 18 Dec 2024WithdrawnUIN 21252More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 12 December 2024 to Question 18795, on Classroom Assistants: Pay, if she will provide average full-time salary data in each of the last five years for (a) newly qualified teachers, (b)
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordClassroom Assistants: PayDepartment for EducationTabled 9 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18795More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 10 December 2020 to Question 126005, on Classroom Assistants: Pay, if she will provide the same salary data for (a) 2020, (b) 2021, (c) 2022, and (d) 2023.
Answer: Information on the school workforce is published in the ‘School workforce in England’ statistical publication, which can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.The attached table prov...
Answered 12 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordNon-teaching Staff: PayDepartment for EducationTabled 26 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16380More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2024 to Question 15056 on Non-teaching Staff: Pay, if she will provide a version of that table further broken down by (a) local authority maintained, (b) academy and (c) fr
Answer: Information on the school workforce is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.The attached table provides the pay ranges ...
Answered 3 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordSchool LeavingDepartment for EducationTabled 26 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16375More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the report by her Department entitled Academic year 2022/23: Key stage 4 destination measures, published on 24 October 2024, how many and what proportion of students who left key stage 4 study
Answer: The department publishes information on the destinations of pupils from state-funded mainstream schools in the year following completion of key stage 4, which shows the numbers and percentages of pupils continuing to a sustained education, employment or a...
Answered 3 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordSchool LeavingDepartment for EducationTabled 26 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16374More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the report by her Department entitled Academic year 2022/23: Progression to higher education or training, published on 24 October 2024, how many and what proportion of students who left 16-to-
Answer: The department publishes information on the percentage of level 3 pupils continuing to a sustained education or training destination at level 4 or higher, such as degrees, higher apprenticeships and higher national diplomas.The data in the links below con...
Answered 3 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordYouth Endowment FundDepartment for EducationTabled 26 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16373More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 10 May 2024 to Question 24203 on Youth Endowment Fund, whether it remains her Department's policy to (a) fund and (b) promote the alternative provision specialist taskforce progr
Answer: The alternative provision specialist taskforces (APST) programme has placed multi-professional teams, including youth workers, family workers and speech and language therapists, within alternative provision (AP) in 22 areas in England. The objective of th...
Answered 3 Dec 2024
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