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1652429

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date	12/07/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Postgraduate Education: Stem Subjects
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the (a) cost and (b) eligibility of childcare on the diversity of PHD candidates studying STEM subjects.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	193644
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2023 answer text <p>The department does not hold information relating to the potential impact of cost and childcare eligibility relating to the diversity of PhD students studying science, technology, engineering or mathematics.</p><p>The department knows that for families with younger children, childcare costs are often a significant part of their household expenditure, which is why we are committed to improving the cost, choice and availability of childcare.</p><p>At the Spring Statement 2023, the department announced the single largest investment in childcare in England ever. This begins from September, with £204 million of additional funding to uplift the rates for existing entitlements.</p><p>By the 2027/28 financial year, the government expects to be spending in excess of £8 billion every year on free hours and early education. These are transformative plans helping families with young children with their childcare costs.</p><p>In addition to the 30 hours, the department remains committed to continuing the universal 15 hours of free early education, which this year helped over 1 million children get a positive start to their education. Students who are parents are eligible for the universal 15 hours of free early education which is available to all 3 and 4-year-olds, regardless of family circumstances.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 17/07/2023 15:10:35 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1652542

registered interest
date	12/07/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to offer additional funding to areas where the Early Years Supplementary Grant results in below national average funding for early years education.
tabling member constituency	North Shropshire
tabling member printed	Helen Morgan
uin	193824
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2023 answer text <p>At the Spring Budget 2023, the Chancellor announced an increase to the funding for the existing early years entitlements for two, three and four-year-olds of £204 million from this September, and £288 million in 2024/25, for local authorities to increase the rates paid to childcare providers.</p><p>On 7 July 2023, the department confirmed that the £204 million for 2023/24 would be distributed via a new Early Years Supplementary Grant (EYSG), and the hourly funding rates that each local authority will receive from September 2023.</p><p>This additional funding through the EYSG, coming on top of local authorities’ existing allocations, will allow an increase to an average of 32% for the current two year old entitlement, and by an average of 6.3% for the three and four-year-old entitlements. For two-year-olds, this means that the average hourly rate received by local authorities will rise from the current £6 per hour in 2023/24, to an effective £7.95 per hour. The three and four-year-old national average hourly rate will rise from £5.29, to an effective £5.62 from September 2023.</p><p>In order to recognise cost variations between local authority areas, the existing funding formulae for two, three and four-year-olds has been used to determine the EYSG rates for individual local authorities. This means there will be variation around the average increases stated above.</p><p>For three and four-year-olds, as with the 2023/24 early years national funding formula (EYNFF) rates, the department is including protections to ensure that all local authorities see an increase in the effective combined hourly funding rate (September to March) they receive. The minimum increase that local authorities can see between their effective combined hourly rate (September to March) and their 2023/24 EYNFF hourly rate is +1%. Without this protection, some areas would see very low percentage increases, or decreases, compared to their 2023/24 rates based on the pre-protection calculation.</p><p>For two-year-olds, no protection or gains cap have been applied in calculating the effective combined hourly funding rates, because all local authorities will see a substantial increase to their hourly funding rates.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 17/07/2023 15:02:58 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4934 label Biography information for Helen Morgan

1651890

registered interest
date	11/07/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Cricket
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number and proportion of state schools that offer cricket as part of games and sports lessons.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	193345
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2023 answer text <p>The Department does not routinely collect data on which sports schools offer and how much they are spending to deliver them during physical education (PE) lessons and extracurricular time.</p><p>Schools can organise and deliver a diverse and challenging PE and school sport offer which best suits the needs of their pupils. Factors influencing that decision include the spaces available for sports, along with available equipment.</p><p>Where schools want to provide specific sports, they can draw on support from the relevant national governing body. The England and Wales Cricket Board offer a wide range of resources and age appropriate guidance and advice for delivering cricket in schools.</p><p>On 8 March 2023, the Department announced over £600 million across the next two academic years for the Primary PE and Sport Premium, and £57 million up to March 2025 for the Opening School Facilities programme. Schools can use this funding to increase provision and raise the quality of sports such as cricket.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 193346 193347 193348 193349 question first answered 17/07/2023 15:09:20 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1651896

registered interest
date	11/07/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Cricket
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made of an estimate of the cost to the public purse of cricket equipment procured by academy schools in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	193346
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2023 answer text <p>The Department does not routinely collect data on which sports schools offer and how much they are spending to deliver them during physical education (PE) lessons and extracurricular time.</p><p>Schools can organise and deliver a diverse and challenging PE and school sport offer which best suits the needs of their pupils. Factors influencing that decision include the spaces available for sports, along with available equipment.</p><p>Where schools want to provide specific sports, they can draw on support from the relevant national governing body. The England and Wales Cricket Board offer a wide range of resources and age appropriate guidance and advice for delivering cricket in schools.</p><p>On 8 March 2023, the Department announced over £600 million across the next two academic years for the Primary PE and Sport Premium, and £57 million up to March 2025 for the Opening School Facilities programme. Schools can use this funding to increase provision and raise the quality of sports such as cricket.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 193345 193347 193348 193349 question first answered 17/07/2023 15:09:20 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1651897

registered interest
date	11/07/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Maintained Schools: Cricket
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an estimate of the cost to the public purse of cricket equipment procured by local authority maintained schools in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	193347
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2023 answer text <p>The Department does not routinely collect data on which sports schools offer and how much they are spending to deliver them during physical education (PE) lessons and extracurricular time.</p><p>Schools can organise and deliver a diverse and challenging PE and school sport offer which best suits the needs of their pupils. Factors influencing that decision include the spaces available for sports, along with available equipment.</p><p>Where schools want to provide specific sports, they can draw on support from the relevant national governing body. The England and Wales Cricket Board offer a wide range of resources and age appropriate guidance and advice for delivering cricket in schools.</p><p>On 8 March 2023, the Department announced over £600 million across the next two academic years for the Primary PE and Sport Premium, and £57 million up to March 2025 for the Opening School Facilities programme. Schools can use this funding to increase provision and raise the quality of sports such as cricket.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 193345 193346 193348 193349 question first answered 17/07/2023 15:09:20 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1651898

registered interest
date	11/07/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Cricket
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her Department holds on the number of pupils in academies playing cricket each week in school hours in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	193348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2023 answer text <p>The Department does not routinely collect data on which sports schools offer and how much they are spending to deliver them during physical education (PE) lessons and extracurricular time.</p><p>Schools can organise and deliver a diverse and challenging PE and school sport offer which best suits the needs of their pupils. Factors influencing that decision include the spaces available for sports, along with available equipment.</p><p>Where schools want to provide specific sports, they can draw on support from the relevant national governing body. The England and Wales Cricket Board offer a wide range of resources and age appropriate guidance and advice for delivering cricket in schools.</p><p>On 8 March 2023, the Department announced over £600 million across the next two academic years for the Primary PE and Sport Premium, and £57 million up to March 2025 for the Opening School Facilities programme. Schools can use this funding to increase provision and raise the quality of sports such as cricket.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 193345 193346 193347 193349 question first answered 17/07/2023 15:09:20 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1651899

registered interest
date	11/07/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Maintained Schools: Cricket
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her Department holds on the number of pupils in local authority maintained schools playing cricket each week in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	193349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2023 answer text <p>The Department does not routinely collect data on which sports schools offer and how much they are spending to deliver them during physical education (PE) lessons and extracurricular time.</p><p>Schools can organise and deliver a diverse and challenging PE and school sport offer which best suits the needs of their pupils. Factors influencing that decision include the spaces available for sports, along with available equipment.</p><p>Where schools want to provide specific sports, they can draw on support from the relevant national governing body. The England and Wales Cricket Board offer a wide range of resources and age appropriate guidance and advice for delivering cricket in schools.</p><p>On 8 March 2023, the Department announced over £600 million across the next two academic years for the Primary PE and Sport Premium, and £57 million up to March 2025 for the Opening School Facilities programme. Schools can use this funding to increase provision and raise the quality of sports such as cricket.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 193345 193346 193347 193348 question first answered 17/07/2023 15:09:20 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1651900

registered interest
date	11/07/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Secondary Education: Vocational Guidance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of section 42B of the Education Act 1997 on the number of pupils entering post-16 technical education or apprenticeships.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	193424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2023 answer text <p>On 1 January 2023, legislation came into force that strengthens the provision originally introduced in 2018, in section 42B of the Education Act 1997. This provider access legislation, sometimes known as the ‘Baker Clause’, specifies that schools must provide at least six opportunities for providers of technical education and apprenticeships to speak to all pupils, during school years 8-13.</p><p>However, even before the strengthened legislation came into force there were grounds for optimism, as young people had more encounters with providers of technical education last year, including apprenticeships. In 2022, awareness of apprenticeships doubled by Year 11 with 39% of young people reporting awareness in Year 7, increasing to 81% in Year 11. In 60% of reporting schools, young people met independent training providers. This has risen from 45% in 2020/21, and 44% in 2018/19.</p><p>The department is aware of the importance of provider access legislation following a report from the Careers &amp; Enterprise Company (CEC). This report showed uptake of apprenticeships was 16% higher in the schools that provided information on apprenticeships to most, or all, of their pupils, compared with the schools that provided information to a small minority.</p><p>The department is investing approximately £34 million in careers provision for young people, including a grant of up to around £32.5 million for the CEC to support secondary schools and colleges to improve their careers programmes.</p><p>The department also continues to increase outreach of apprenticeships to pupils of all ages and backgrounds through our Apprenticeship Support and Knowledge (ASK) programme. The ASK programme, funded at £3.2 million per year, provides schools and further education colleges across England with a free bespoke package of comprehensive information and support about apprenticeships. Furthermore, the department’s new ‘Career Starter Apprenticeships’ campaign is raising awareness of apprenticeships which offer great opportunities for those looking for their first role after leaving full-time education.</p><p>Additionally, Get the Jump, a digital campaign provided by the National Careers Service, brings together all the different education and training pathways open to young people at post-16 and post-18. The campaign helps to support informed choice and raise awareness of technical education options, including T Levels, traineeships, apprenticeships, and higher technical qualifications.</p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon grouped question UIN 193446 question first answered 17/07/2023 14:50:51 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1651931

registered interest
date	11/07/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Secondary Education: Vocational guidance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to provide secondary school pupils with information about the opportunities available to study (a) T-Levels, (b) apprenticeships, and (c) other post-16 applied, technical and vocational qualifications.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	193446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2023 answer text <p>On 1 January 2023, legislation came into force that strengthens the provision originally introduced in 2018, in section 42B of the Education Act 1997. This provider access legislation, sometimes known as the ‘Baker Clause’, specifies that schools must provide at least six opportunities for providers of technical education and apprenticeships to speak to all pupils, during school years 8-13.</p><p>However, even before the strengthened legislation came into force there were grounds for optimism, as young people had more encounters with providers of technical education last year, including apprenticeships. In 2022, awareness of apprenticeships doubled by Year 11 with 39% of young people reporting awareness in Year 7, increasing to 81% in Year 11. In 60% of reporting schools, young people met independent training providers. This has risen from 45% in 2020/21, and 44% in 2018/19.</p><p>The department is aware of the importance of provider access legislation following a report from the Careers &amp; Enterprise Company (CEC). This report showed uptake of apprenticeships was 16% higher in the schools that provided information on apprenticeships to most, or all, of their pupils, compared with the schools that provided information to a small minority.</p><p>The department is investing approximately £34 million in careers provision for young people, including a grant of up to around £32.5 million for the CEC to support secondary schools and colleges to improve their careers programmes.</p><p>The department also continues to increase outreach of apprenticeships to pupils of all ages and backgrounds through our Apprenticeship Support and Knowledge (ASK) programme. The ASK programme, funded at £3.2 million per year, provides schools and further education colleges across England with a free bespoke package of comprehensive information and support about apprenticeships. Furthermore, the department’s new ‘Career Starter Apprenticeships’ campaign is raising awareness of apprenticeships which offer great opportunities for those looking for their first role after leaving full-time education.</p><p>Additionally, Get the Jump, a digital campaign provided by the National Careers Service, brings together all the different education and training pathways open to young people at post-16 and post-18. The campaign helps to support informed choice and raise awareness of technical education options, including T Levels, traineeships, apprenticeships, and higher technical qualifications.</p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon grouped question UIN 193424 question first answered 17/07/2023 14:50:51 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1651949

registered interest
date	11/07/2023
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, what steps her Department is taking to increase SEND support in schools.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	193326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2023 answer text <p>The department is determined that all children and young people receive the support they need to benefit from their education and progress to the next stage of their lives. All teachers should be confident in identifying and supporting pupils with Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND). The SEND Code of Practice:0-25 Years (2015), sets out what schools should do to fulfil their duties to identify and support all children with SEND, regardless of whether they have an Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan. The SEND Code of Practice can be found at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/398815/SEND_Code_of_Practice_January_2015.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/398815/SEND_Code_of_Practice_January_2015.pdf</a>.</p><p>The department published the SEND and Alternative Provision (AP) Improvement Plan in March 2023. Quality teaching and support are vital for children with SEND to reach their full potential. As part of this a new leadership level Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCO) National Professional Qualification will be introduced for schools. The department is also taking steps to build teacher expertise in meeting the needs of children with SEND through a review of the Initial Teacher Training (ITT) Core Content Framework and Early Career Framework.</p><p>The most recent Ofsted education inspection framework also places greater emphasis on what schools are doing to support children and young people with SEND to progress and achieve their goals.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 17/07/2023 15:08:23 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron