Laurence Turner MP: written questions

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Special Educational Needs: Birmingham City CouncilDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 265More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she expects a third independent report into Birmingham City Council’s SEND service to be published in 2024.
Answer: The department aims to publish the report within the coming months, in line with existing practice.
Answered 25 Jul 2024
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Free Schools: BirminghamDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 264More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department’s transparency data, entitled Local authority applications to open a special free school: waves 3 and 4, updated on 16 May 2024, what the expected opening date is of the Frankle
Answer: The school, which is planned to be a 400 place, co-educational school for pupils aged 4 to 19 with Autistic Spectrum Disorders, was approved into the pre-opening stage in March 2024. Departmental officials are working closely with the local authority and ...
Answered 25 Jul 2024
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Special Educational Needs: BirminghamDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 263More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children who were not in school there were in Birmingham who (a) held an Education, Health and Care Plan and (b) had previously been identified in the SEN Support category by their school in each of th
Answer: The department publishes statistics on education, health and care (EHC) plans at local authority level. This data can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/education-health-and-care-plans. This includes informa...
Answered 22 Jul 2024
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Non-teaching StaffDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 219More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of trends in (a) recruitment and (b) retention of school support staff in (i) Birmingham and (ii) England in the last five years.
Answer: The full-time equivalent (FTE) of support staff has increased each year since the 2019/20 academic year, to 510,400 in 2023/24, and has now passed the previous peak of 2015/16. This is an increase of 4,800 (0.9%) since last year. This increase is mainly d...
Answered 22 Jul 2024
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Birmingham City Council: InsolvencyMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 217More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made a recent estimate of the value of the equal pay liability at Birmingham City Council.
Answer: In line with the practice of successive administrations, detailed minutes of ministerial meetings - even those that are declared publicly - are not normally disclosed.The first formal report from Birmingham City Council Commissioners, which was submitted ...
Answered 22 Jul 2024
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Birmingham City Council: InsolvencyMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 216More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the notice issued by Birmingham City Council on 05 September 2023 under Section 114(3) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988, on what date (a) Ministers and
Answer: In line with the practice of successive administrations, detailed minutes of ministerial meetings - even those that are declared publicly - are not normally disclosed.The first formal report from Birmingham City Council Commissioners, which was submitted ...
Answered 22 Jul 2024
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Speech and Language Therapy: West MidlandsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 215More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many speech and language therapists there were in (a) Birmingham and (b) the West Midlands in each of the last five years.
Answer: The table below shows the number of full-time equivalent speech and language therapists working in National Health Service trusts and other core organisations, in the Birmingham and Solihull integrated care system and the West Midlands as a whole, in Marc...
Answered 24 Jul 2024
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General Practitioners: Birmingham NorthfieldDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 214More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of open GP practices (a) on the most recent date for which figures are held and (b) in 2010 in Birmingham Northfield constituency.
Answer: Data provided by NHS England Digital shows that in May 2014, the earliest year from which data is available, there were 18 open general practices (GPs) in the Birmingham Northfield constituency, and as of May 2024 there are 15 open GPs in the constituency...
Answered 23 Jul 2024
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