Lord Watson of Invergowrie

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Secretary of State for Education is able to require local authorities to develop local strategic plans to bring local authority maintained schools into the academy system.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many schools they expect to convert to academy status though sponsorship or other means between March 2022 and December 2030.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the total cost of converting maintained schools to academy status through sponsorship or other means from March 2022 to December 2030; and what is their expectation of the average cost of convertin...

To ask Her Majesty's Government how the (1) number, and (2) percentage, of Ofsted inspectors who are (a) current, and (b) former, school senior leaders has changed in each year since 2010.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how the (1) number, and (2) percentage, of Ofsted inspectors who are (a) current, and (b) former, headteachers has changed in each year since 2010.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many Ofsted inspectors are (1) headteachers, (2) former headteachers, (3) senior leaders in schools, and (4) former senior leaders in schools; and what percentage of all inspectors each group makes up.

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to their guidance to keep windows in classrooms open to improve ventilation, what assessment they have made of (1) the amount of extra carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere because of higher energy use in all...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by Kinship Out of the shadows: A vision for kinship care in England, published on 24 March; and what steps they are taking to ensure kinship carers can access (1) information, (2...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the results of the poll undertaken by Parentkind, published in March; in particular, what assessment they have made of the findings that (1) 86 per cent of parents do not consider SAT resul...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what guidance they have given to diocesan authorities about their powers to remove diocesan-appointed governors of voluntary aided schools where the governors decline to support diocesan policy.

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the 2021 Spending Review, by how much funding for early years entitlement schemes will increase for (1) 2022–23, (2) 2023–24, and (3) 2024–25.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by Engineering UK Levelling up engineering skills: widening opportunities for young people, published in February.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the comments by the chair of the Social Mobility Commission at the Association of School and College Leaders Conference that school leaders should "put the blinkers on and ignore" Ofsted, a...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they will take to ensure that greater focus within the school curriculum is placed on the teaching of creative and practical subjects.

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will introduce a school teacher development programme to enable all leaders and teachers to access continuing professional development.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of proposed changes to student loan repayments on sectors of the economy experiencing staffing shortages, such as (1) nursing, and (2) teaching.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what their definition is of a school that is 'stuck'; and how many of the 415 schools designated by Ofsted as stuck in 2019 remain in that category.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many summary evaluations of multi-academy trusts have been carried out by Ofsted since new guidance was issued in September 2021.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to change the current system of Ofsted school inspections to make it less adversarial.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to issue renewed guidance on the requirement for the governing body of a school to meet and pass a resolution prior to an academy application being made.