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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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 18 January 2018 to Question 123606, on special education needs, how much was spent on the training and SEND leadership programme in the last two years; and which bodies and local authorities have been involved in that training.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Frith
uin	126458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2018 answer text <p>The costs of the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities leadership programme form part of the department’s contract with the Delivering Better Outcomes Together consortium, led by Mott MacDonald, with the Council for Disabled Children and the National Development Team for Inclusion. We are unable to provide a detailed breakdown of pricing within the contract, as the information is commercially in confidence.</p><p>A list of the local authorities and their partner organisations which have participated in the programme is attached.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 13/02/2018 16:23:07 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 126458 - table.docx title A list of the LA & their partner organisations
tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

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