PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Pupil Premium (2 September 2014)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's press notice of 16 July 2014 on pupil premium reform, to which 87 local authorities where performance of disadvantaged pupils is a concern the Minister of State for Schools wrote.

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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