PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Pupil Premium (2 September 2014)
Question Asked
Asked by:
Lucy Powell (Labour)
Answer
I wrote to 87 local authorities in March and April 2014, raising my concern about the 2013 examination results of disadvantaged pupils in particular maintained schools within their areas, and asking them to support those schools’ improvement. The recipient list and criteria are below and will be published on GOV.UK shortly.
Letters were sent to local authorities where ministerial letters had been sent in the spring to a small number of maintained schools expressing concern about the progress of disadvantaged pupils at key stage 2, and the progress and/or overall attainment of disadvantaged pupils at key stage 4. Letters were also sent to local authorities where the average GCSE results of disadvantaged pupils across all of their maintained schools declined between 2011 and 2013 or between 2012 and 2013.
Local authorities in receipt of letters:
Barking and Dagenham |
Barnsley |
Bath and North East Somerset |
Birmingham |
Blackburn with Darwen |
Blackpool |
Bolton |
Bracknell Forest |
Bradford |
Brent |
Bristol |
Buckinghamshire |
Bury |
Cambridgeshire |
Central Bedfordshire |
Cheshire East |
Cornwall |
Cumbria |
Derbyshire |
Devon |
Doncaster |
Dorset |
Dudley |
Durham |
East Sussex |
Essex |
Gateshead |
Gloucestershire |
Hammersmith and Fulham |
Hampshire |
Hartlepool |
Hertfordshire |
Isle of Wight |
Kent |
Kirklees |
Knowsley |
Lancashire |
Leeds |
Leicester city |
Leicestershire |
Lincolnshire |
Manchester |
Merton |
Norfolk |
North Lincolnshire |
North Somerset |
North Yorkshire |
Northamptonshire |
Northumberland |
Nottingham City |
Nottinghamshire |
Oxfordshire |
Peterborough |
Portsmouth |
Richmond upon Thames |
Rotherham |
Salford |
Sandwell |
Sefton |
Sheffield |
Shropshire |
Slough |
Somerset |
South Gloucestershire |
Southampton |
Southend |
Staffordshire |
Stockport |
Stockton-on-Tees |
Stoke on Trent |
Suffolk |
Surrey |
Swindon |
Tameside |
Trafford |
Wakefield |
Walsall |
Warrington |
Warwickshire |
West Berkshire |
West Sussex |
Wigan |
Wiltshire |
Wirral |
Wolverhampton |
Worcestershire |
York |
Answered by:
Mr David Laws (Liberal Democrat)
5 September 2014
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