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1125352

registered interest
date	08/05/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Institutes of Technology
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether there will be a competition for further Institutes of Technology as part of his Department's plan to review Institute of Technology cold spots.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	252049
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2019 answer text <p>We have always acknowledged that there might be some parts of the country where there were no proposals that met our quality standard in this competition. We will review the extent of geographical ‘cold spots’ in provision for Institutes of Technology to determine whether a future competition should be considered.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 13/05/2019 16:21:18 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1110181

registered interest
date	08/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much money has been reclaimed by employers through the apprenticeship levy in each month since it was introduced.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	242226
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>The attached table shows the monthly drawdown from employers’ apprenticeship service accounts from the introduction of the levy in May 2017 to January 2019 (the most recent month for which data are available). Employers are able to access these funds to support the costs of apprenticeship training – we have responded to feedback from employers by extending the amount of time employers have to spend their levy from 18 to 24 months. We don’t anticipate that all levy-payers will use all the funds in their accounts. Income from the levy is also used to fund apprenticeship training for non-levy paying employers.</p><p>The data provided covers funds utilised from employers’ apprenticeship service accounts to cover training costs for learning. It does not include other costs, such as incentives and additional payments for disadvantaged apprentices.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 11/04/2019 16:12:52 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton attachment 1 file name 242226_Monthly_Apprenticeship_Levy_Drawdown.doc title 242226_Monthly_Apprenticeship_Levy_Drawdown
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1109093

registered interest
date	02/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Adult Education: Trade Unions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what level of funding has been allocated from the Adult Education budget to fund trade union education modules in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	240067
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>The Adult Education Budget (AEB) is not allocated to specific provision areas. The Education and Skills Funding Agency allocates AEB to individual providers who, under the current freedoms and flexibility policy, are able to use their funds to support any learners meeting the funding rules.</p><p> </p><p>Therefore the table below shows the value of Trade Union learning delivered through the AEB for each funding year. Please note that the AEB has been operating since 2016/17. It was previously known as the Adult Skills Budget.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Adult Education Budget (and equivalent predecessor budget) delivery of Trade Union learning</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Funding Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Funding</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>£11.7 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>£11.1 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>£10.7 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>£5.9 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>£5.4 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 08/04/2019 14:03:58 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1109096

registered interest
date	02/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Adult Education: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of the Adult Education Budget will be (a) devolved to mayoral authorities, (b) be administered nationally by the Skills Funding Agency in 2019-20 and; and what estimate he has made of those same figures for subsequent years.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	240068
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>From 2019/20 academic year the Adult Education Budget (AEB) will be devolved to 6 Mayoral Combined Authorities (MCA) (Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Greater Manchester, Liverpool City Region, Tees Valley, West Midlands and West of England) and delegated to the Greater London Authority (GLA).</p><p> </p><p>49% of the AEB participation budget will be devolved to MCAs/GLA.</p><p> </p><p>51% of the AEB will be administrated by the Education Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) who will continue to be responsible for funding learners that are resident outside devolved areas.</p><p> </p><p>Ministers agreed that the methodology for calculating ESFA/MCAs/GLA budgets will be based on historic provider delivery and learner residence in 2017 to 2018. Residency calculations have been used to determine the percentage share of the budget. The 2017 to 2018 calculation establishes the baseline percentage for what ESFA/MCAs/GLA AEB allocations will be for the foreseeable future.</p><p> </p><p>The percentage split between ESFA/MCAs/GLA in future years could change dependent upon whether North of Tyne and Sheffield City Region meet the readiness conditions for their devolution deals.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 08/04/2019 14:03:18 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1109097

registered interest
date	02/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Adult Education: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) organisations, (b) learning institutions and (c) other bodies will have direct access to nationally funded adult education funds irrespective of where the learning is delivered.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	240069
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>From 2019/20 academic year the Adult Education Budget (AEB) will be devolved to 6 Mayoral Combined Authorities (Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Greater Manchester, Liverpool City Region, Tees Valley, West Midlands and West of England) and delegated to the Greater London Authority, who will be responsible for commissioning and funding adult education provision for learners resident in their areas.</p><p> </p><p>From that date the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) will be responsible for funding AEB provision for learners resident in non-devolved areas.</p><p> </p><p>In addition:</p><ul><li>From 2019/20 the traineeship programme for learners aged 19 to 24 will continue to operate as a national programme, and learners on this programme will be funded by the ESFA irrespective of where learners live.</li><li>Providers which meet all the following criteria will be funded nationally by the ESFA for a 2 year transitional period (1 August 2019 to 31 July 2021): qualify for a financial residential uplift for their learning provision, receive more than two thirds of their income from the AEB, and predominantly target the most disadvantaged learners.</li></ul><ul><li>In 2019/20, for one year only, the ESFA will continue to fund learners that were in learning in 2018 to 2019 but did not complete their program by 31 July 2019, regardless of where they reside.</li></ul><p>This means that in 2019/20 the ESFA will therefore continue to have an AEB funding relationship with the majority of current AEB providers including FE colleges, independent training providers, specialist designated institutes, local authorities and higher education institutes.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 08/04/2019 14:30:33 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1083527

registered interest
date	07/03/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Part-time Education: Private Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to implement Part 4 of the Education and Skills Act 2008 in order to require registration and inspection of independent alternative education providers that provide part-time education for at least 12.5 hours a week.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	229723
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2019 answer text <p>Alternative provision (AP) providers which are full-time and meet the criteria for registration as an independent school are already regulated under the 2008 act. The parallel provisions which would enable regulation of part-time alternative provision have not been commenced.</p><p>While Ofsted does not directly inspect unregistered settings, inspectors are expected to consider the progress of pupils who attend off-site provision, when conducting school and college inspections. In all cases, the local authority or school acting as the AP commissioner, should assure itself that the provision is delivered by high quality staff with suitable training, experience and safeguarding checks.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 12/03/2019 16:36:17 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1054771

registered interest
date	04/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Old Admiralty Building: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to date has been of refurbishing the Old Admiralty buildings, and from what Departmental budget that expenditure has been incurred.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	216415
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member for Barnsley East, Stephanie Peacock, to the answer I gave on 10 December 2018 to <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=198851" target="_blank">198851</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 07/02/2019 12:23:13 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1020780

registered interest
date	07/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Trade Unions: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has for (a) the Union Learning Fund and (b) other trade union workplace training programmes after the UK leave the EU.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	200152
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>We will continue to provide support to Unionlearn and the Union Learning Fund for the remainder of the current financial year and for the next. The total funding for Unionlearn for the financial year of 2018/19 and for 2019/20 is £24 million. Funding for the financial year of 2020/21 onwards will be decided as part of the normal spending review process.</p><p>The Trades Union Congress will continue to have an important role as part of the National Retraining Partnership, alongside the Confederation of British Industry and Government. The Partnership sets the strategic direction of the National Retraining Scheme, an ambitious, far-reaching programme to drive adult retraining.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 17/12/2018 16:20:29 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

983311

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on ensuring that adult survivors of modern slavery are able to access further and higher education.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	176555
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>We recognise that modern slavery is extremely serious, and we strive to ensure that our policies are able to support survivors to move forward in their lives.</p><p> </p><p>While the Home Office is responsible for determining an individual’s immigration status, the Department for Education is responsible for setting the criteria for accessing 16-19 and adult (19+) education and higher education funding.</p><p> </p><p>The criteria for accessing 16-19 and adult education are set out in funding rules, which further education providers refer to when assessing eligibility. Depending on individual circumstances, survivors of modern slavery who meet the eligibility criteria will be able to access further education. Officials at the Department for Education, working with Home Office officials, regularly keep these rules under review. They do everything possible to ensure that those who are entitled to access further education can do so without unnecessary bureaucracy.</p><p> </p><p>Similarly, eligibility for higher education student support is set out in the relevant regulations. It depends on a number of factors, including immigration status. Generally, to be eligible for higher education student support, a student should be resident in England, have ‘settled’ status or have a recognised connection with the UK and have been a resident of the UK and Islands (Channel Islands and the Isle of Man) for the three years prior to the start of the course. Residence in the UK and Islands must not have been wholly or mainly for the purpose of receiving full-time education.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 11/10/2018 16:26:17 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

973397

registered interest
date	13/09/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Carillion: Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many former Carillion apprentices have been made redundant in (a) Barnsley and (b) South Yorkshire.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	174832
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>The Education and Skills Funding Agency wrote to all MPs in January shortly after Carillion went into liquidation, to inform them how many Carillion apprentices were living in their constituencies. At that time there were no apprentices enrolled by Carillion living or working in Barnsley or South Yorkshire.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 11/10/2018 10:51:21 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock