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837393

registered interest
date	05/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	School Leaving: North Cornwall
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of young people in north Cornwall did not complete secondary education to GCSE level in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	North Cornwall
tabling member printed	Scott Mann
uin	126512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2018 answer text <p>The closest information the Department publishes is the percentage of pupils, at the end of Key Stage 4, who passed at least one GCSE or equivalent qualification; this is published in the Key Stage 4 statistical first releases[1]. The remaining percentage from this figure are those who did not pass any qualifications. The Department publishes these figures at a local authority level, the closest available figures to ‘north Cornwall’ are those for ‘Cornwall’. There have been some methodological changes over the years, details of these are available in the main text and footnotes of each statistical first release[2].</p><p> </p><p>[1] Figures for 2009/10 – 2014/15 are available within ‘table 16’ of the additional/local authority tables in the ‘revised’ publications from <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-gcses-key-stage-4" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-gcses-key-stage-4</a> (table 15 for 2013/14). The ‘any passes’ column provides the figures. For 2015/16 – 2016/17, the figures are available from <a href="https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/download-data" target="_blank">https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/download-data</a> (select the year, Local authority (Cornwall), ‘Final key stage 4’ (revised, for 2016/17) and download the Excel file. The column ‘PTANYQ_PTQ_EE’ is required; figures for Cornwall are in the row labelled as rectype 4, the figures for England are labelled rectype 7. Rectype is found in column A.</p><p>[2] In the revised publications for each year, from <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-gcses-key-stage-4" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-gcses-key-stage-4</a>, the SFR text and main national tables contain an explanation of how the figures are generated for that year. These changes mean that figures between years can not always be directly compared.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 13/02/2018 14:30:29 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4496 label Biography information for Scott Mann

837436

registered interest
date	05/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Small Businesses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of allocating funding from the apprenticeship levy to support apprenticeships in SMEs.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Jim Fitzpatrick
uin	126555
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2018 answer text <p>The apprenticeship levy is paid by employers with a payroll of over £3 million a year. These employers are able to spend funds they have paid into the levy through their apprenticeship service account. All other employers use funds that have been allocated to providers, who offer apprenticeship training.</p><p> </p><p>We have recently awarded hundreds of providers across the country with initial awards totalling around £485 million to deliver apprenticeship training for non-levy paying employers. Non-levy paying employers benefit from government co-investment of 90 per cent of apprenticeship training and assessment costs. 100 per cent of the cost of training is paid for small employers, with fewer than 50 employees, who take on apprentices who are 16 to 18 years old, 19 to 24 year old care leavers or 19 to 24 year olds with an Education and Health Care Plan.</p><p> </p><p>From April 2018, we will allow eligible levy-paying employers to transfer up to 10 per cent of the annual value of funds entering their digital accounts to other employers, including smaller businesses.</p><p> </p><p>By 2019/20 annual investment in apprenticeships in England will be £2.45 billion, double what was spent in 2010-11, ensuring that all employers can access high quality apprenticeships training.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 13/02/2018 10:34:11 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	197 label Biography information for Jim Fitzpatrick

837444

registered interest
date	05/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Complaints
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many complaints he or his predecessors have received in relation to local authorities acting on (a) Education, Health and Care Plans and (b) the Local Offer under the provisions of sections 496 and 497 of the Education Act 1996.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	126563
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2018 answer text <p>The department receives correspondence from parents, including complaints. To differentiate complaints from other correspondence relating to special educational needs and disability would require a significant update to our correspondence management system.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 126322 question first answered 12/02/2018 17:27:37 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

837445

registered interest
date	05/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	English Language: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding the Skills Funding Agency has provided for ESOL Plus Mandation courses since 2016; and how much such funding is forecast to be spent in 2018.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	126564
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2018 answer text <p>ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) Plus Mandation refers to specified funding that was discontinued in 2015 by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. The department’s data showed that the numbers being referred to provision were significantly lower than originally envisaged.</p><p> </p><p>The government continues to provide full funding for unemployed job seekers to improve their English, through a provider’s Adult Education Budget. Other learners are eligible for 50 per cent funding of course costs. In the academic year 2016-17, the government supported 114,100 ESOL learners using funds from the Adult Education Budget. Providers have the freedom and flexibility to deliver ESOL provision to best meet local needs.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 13/02/2018 13:00:35 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

837520

registered interest
date	05/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: STEM Subjects
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprenticeships in STEM industries have been taken up since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Telford
tabling member printed	Lucy Allan
uin	126639
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2018 answer text <p>The table attached shows the number of apprenticeship starts in ‘Construction, Planning and the Built Environment’, ‘Engineering and Manufacturing Technologies’, ‘Information and Communications Technology’ and ‘Science and Mathematics’ sector subject areas for each academic year since 2009/10.</p><p> </p><p>This data is published in the ‘FE data library: apprenticeships’ which can be viewed at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 13/02/2018 16:34:57 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton attachment 1 file name 126639 attachment.docx title Number of apprenticeship starts since 2009/10
tabling member	4411 label Biography information for Lucy Allan

837521

registered interest
date	05/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Small Businesses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to promote apprenticeship programmes to small and medium-sized businesses.
tabling member constituency	Telford
tabling member printed	Lucy Allan
uin	126640
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2018 answer text <p>Through the National Apprenticeship Service, we are working closely with employers of all sizes in growing their apprenticeship programmes and to help them make the most effective decisions for their organisation.</p><p> </p><p>Our relaunched apprenticeships campaign aims to help increase the number of vacancies created by employers of all sizes. It encourages small and medium-sized businesses to recruit apprentices and upskill their current workforce through apprenticeships. Radio advertising is supported by targeted digital, telemarketing activity, public relations and social media activity. It will continue to support employers to create new vacancies and publicise these on the ‘Find an Apprenticeship’ website.</p><p> </p><p>Links to the two apprenticeships campaign websites can be found at – one for employers: <a href="https://hireanapprentice.campaign.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://hireanapprentice.campaign.gov.uk/</a>, and one for apprentices: <a href="https://www.getingofar.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.getingofar.gov.uk/</a>.</p><p> </p><p>All UK employers with an annual pay bill of £3 million or more, pay 0.5 per cent of their pay bill to invest in apprenticeship training. We have led a major awareness-raising campaign over the past year, alongside HM Revenue and Customs. This ensures all levy-paying employers, whatever their size, are aware of both their obligations to pay the levy, and the opportunity to spend their investment through registering for an apprenticeship service account. We are providing ongoing support for smaller levy-payers via telephone to encourage them to invest their levy funds through registering for an apprenticeship service account.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 13/02/2018 10:28:36 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4411 label Biography information for Lucy Allan

837538

registered interest
date	05/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that benchmarking data is promptly available to schools so that they can report their spend to governors using such data in line with his Department's guidance.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	126657
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2018 answer text <p>Benchmarking data for local authority maintained schools, relating to the 2016-17 financial year, will be published on the Schools Financial Benchmarking tool later this month available at: <a href="https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/</a>. Benchmarking data for academies and academy trusts for the 2016/17 academy financial year will be published in the summer term.</p><p> </p><p>The department has made improvements to the data collection and internal publication processes that will improve the timeliness of updates to the Schools Financial Benchmarking tool in the future. These improvements include online data collections, streamlined validation and automated data uploads.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 13/02/2018 16:40:09 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

837596

registered interest
date	05/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: LGBT+ People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that all schools teach awareness of LGBTQ issues in an age-appropriate manner.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	126715
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2018 answer text <p>We expect schools to ensure that teaching is relevant to all children and young people, including those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT). LGBT issues can be covered by schools within the curriculum and the current Sex and Relationship Education statutory guidance (2000) states that we expect all schools to ensure that young people, whatever their developing sexuality or gender identity, feel that the subject is relevant to them, and sensitive to their needs. All schools must comply with the Equality Act (2010).</p><p> </p><p>The Government Equalities Office launched a £3 million programme from 2016-2019 to prevent and address homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying in schools. The programme will support thousands of teachers to better identify homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying, and to support LGBT pupils.</p><p> </p><p>Following the passage of the Children and Social Work Act 2017, the teaching of Relationships Education in primary schools and Relationships and Sex Education in secondary schools will be mandatory. As part of the current call for evidence, we are working with teachers, parents, experts and others to develop age-appropriate subject content, including on mental health, keeping safe online and LGBT issues.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 13/02/2018 14:33:58 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

837597

registered interest
date	05/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Young People: Politics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent steps his Department has taken to empower young people to engage in politics.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	126716
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2018 answer text <p>Citizenship education is in the national curriculum at Key Stages 3 and 4. As a result of the national curriculum review, the Government revised the programmes of study to ensure pupils are taught the core knowledge of citizenship at Key Stages 3 and 4. The new programmes of study came into effect in September 2014.</p><p>The programmes of study are designed to prepare pupils to play a full part in society, and are organised around core knowledge about democracy, government, and how laws are made and upheld. The programmes of study also require schools to prepare pupils to manage their money well and make sound financial decisions.</p><p>In addition, both Citizenship GCSE and Political Studies A-level are available for study with the number of those sitting the latter increasing in 2017.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 13/02/2018 14:31:46 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

837599

registered interest
date	05/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to provide additional resources to schools to support the mental health of their students.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	126718
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2018 answer text <p>Schools have an important role to play in supporting the mental health of pupils. On 4 December 2017, the Government published the green paper, Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health Provision. We are consulting on proposals which will be supported by over £300 million of funding.</p><p> </p><p>Up to £95 million of this money will be used to fund training for Designated Senior Mental Health Leads in schools, which will cover effective ways to establishing a whole school approach to promoting and supporting good mental health.</p><p> </p><p>Schools also need access to trained and clinically supervised support for pupils with mental health issues. The Government will provide £215 million over three years to fund new clinically supervised Mental Health Support Teams to work closely with designated senior mental health leads in schools to provide evidence based help for pupils with mild to moderate mental health needs. It will also support mental health awareness training for all schools. This preventative approach will provide earlier intervention, to help prevent mental health problems from developing. It will also provide a better link to specialist NHS mental health services.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 13/02/2018 14:27:00 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield