• Reference: 2012/3648
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 21 November 2012

How much do you estimate your summer training schools for teachers to cost?

• Reference: 2012/3647
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 21 November 2012

Will your proposal to create a 'Gold Club' of London schools create a two tier system of achieving schools which will receive additional funding and failing schools which get singled out and marginalised?

• Reference: 2012/3646
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 21 November 2012

Do you believe that London Schools need additional funding?

• Reference: 2012/3645
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 21 November 2012

Do you agree with the Leaders of all 33 London local authorities who have called for the government to recognise the essential role of councils in education?

• Reference: 2012/3644
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 21 November 2012

In your report you state that you will try to provide a link between the DfE and London Local Authorities regarding Free Schools. How will you improve the relationships between Free Schools and Local Authorities?

• Reference: 2012/3643
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 21 November 2012

What will be the relationship between the new unit at the GLA dedicated to Education and the 'New Schools Network'?

• Reference: 2012/3642
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 21 November 2012

How much will the new unit for Education at the GLA cost per annum?

• Reference: 2012/3641
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 21 November 2012

Have any community groups wishing to form a Free School contacted you about acquiring any building within the GLA estate? If so, which sites have been suggested by community groups?

• Reference: 2012/3640
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 21 November 2012

In your recommendations you promise to provide up to 10 sites within the GLA estate for the use of Free Schools. Have you identified any of those 10 sites yet?

• Reference: 2012/3639
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 21 November 2012

Will any Independent Schools be able to apply for funding from the London Schools Excellence Fund?