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984366

registered interest
date	09/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Relationships and Sex Education: Homosexuality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his Department's consultation on draft regulations, statutory guidance, and regulatory impact assessment relating to Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education, which opened on 19 July 2018, for what reason his Department is providing discretion to schools on whether they teach same sex relationships in the regulations being consulted on.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	177164
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2018 answer text <p>The Department is making Relationships Education compulsory in all primary schools, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) compulsory in all secondary schools and Health Education compulsory in all state-funded primary and secondary schools.</p><p>A guiding principle of the subjects is that teaching will start from the basis that pupils, at age appropriate points, need to know the laws on relationships and sex to ensure they act appropriately and can be safe. The draft guidance is also clear that there should be an equal opportunity to explore the features of stable and healthy same-sex relationships.</p><p>As with other aspects of the curriculum, schools will have flexibility over how they deliver this content; and, in the case of schools with a religious character, in accordance with their faith. All schools must comply with the Equality Act.</p><p>The Department hopes as many people as possible will contribute to the consultation, which closes on 7 November.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 15/10/2018 16:49:23 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

982719

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	Pupils: Arthritis
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure that schools are offering adequate help and support for children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	175891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>It is important that children with medical conditions, such as juvenile idiopathic arthritis, are supported to receive a full education. Under Section 100 of the Children and Families Act 2014, governing boards are required to make arrangements to support pupils with medical conditions and to have regard to statutory guidance.</p><p>The guidance is available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/supporting-pupils-at-school-with-medical-conditions--3" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/supporting-pupils-at-school-with-medical-conditions--3</a>, and covers a range of areas including the preparation and implementation of school policies for supporting pupils with medical conditions, the use of individual healthcare plans, staff training, medicines administration, roles and responsibilities, consulting with parents and collaborative working with healthcare professionals. It was developed with a range of stakeholders including the Health Conditions in Schools Alliance (HSA), school leaders, academy organisations, unions, young people and their parents, and Department of Health and Social Care officials and is based on good practice in schools.</p><p>We continue to work with organisations such as the HSA to help raise further awareness of the duty on schools.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 16/10/2018 10:37:25 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

964754

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Exclusions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has plans to commission an independent investigation into trends in the level of school exclusions; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	168965
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>In March, the Government launched an externally led review of exclusions practice, led by Edward Timpson CBE. The review will explore how head teachers use exclusion in practice, and why pupils with particular characteristics are more likely to be excluded from school. It will also consider the differences in exclusion rates between areas and schools across England.</p><p> </p><p>The review will aim to report by the end of the year. The full terms of reference for the review can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-exclusions-review-terms-of-reference" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-exclusions-review-terms-of-reference</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 06/09/2018 13:05:44 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

964757

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of including additional educational needs funding in the base budget for schools as part of the new funding formula.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	168968
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>Core schools funding is increasing to £43.5 billion by 2020, and within that total the high needs budget is £6 billion this year, the highest on record.</p><p> </p><p>All the evidence shows that pupils from deprived families, those with low prior attainment, those who do not speak English as a first language, and those who start school part-way through the year are most likely to fall behind their peers. The national funding formula protects the £5.9 billion of funding directed towards pupils with additional needs, to help them catch up. This funding is provided to schools through their base budgets. In addition to the schools formula, the pupil premium will provide schools with over £2.4 billion to improve the support provided to children who have been in receipt of free school meals in the last 6 years. Beyond this, the national funding formula for high needs provides funding for local authorities to direct to the most vulnerable children and young people. In 2018-19, the high needs national funding formula totalled £6 billion; £140 million more than in 2017-18.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 11/09/2018 15:57:30 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

938716

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Exclusions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish the number of permanent exclusions from school as a proportion of the overall school population in each local authority area in each of the last five years where figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	162978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>The National Statistics release ‘Permanent and fixed-period exclusions in England: 2015 to 2016’ includes numbers and rates of exclusions. The full release is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england-2015-to-2016</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Table 15 of the ‘Local Authority tables: SFR35/2017’ includes a breakdown of exclusion rates for each local authority in England in the 2015/16 academic year. Historic information (from the 2006/07 academic year onwards) is also available in the release’s Underlying data: SFR35/2017 section, in file ‘SFR35_2017_national_region_la_school_data.csv’. The figures can be filtered by the ‘la_name’ column.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 16/07/2018 16:27:53 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

934963

registered interest
date	05/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Serco
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many current contracts his Department has with Serco; and what the (a) value, (b) start date and (c) end date of each of those contracts is.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	161084
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2018 answer text <p>Since January 2011, details of central government contracts above the value of £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder. Contracts published prior to 26 February 2015 can be viewed at: <a href="https://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive" target="_blank">https://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Those published after 26 February 2015 can be viewed at: <a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search" target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 13/07/2018 13:34:57 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

930987

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effect of his Department's reform of apprenticeship on progress on meeting the Government's target of three million new apprenticeships by the end of the 2017 Parliament.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	157020
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>Our apprenticeship reforms will give employers and apprentices the skills they need to grow and progress in the long term.</p><p> </p><p>Our reforms are making apprenticeships higher quality, at all levels, with a minimum duration of one year and 20 per cent off-the job training, and with a proper end point assessment. The 20 per cent off the job training rule, the shift to higher quality standards with a longer average duration, and the drop off in use of frameworks, have already contributed to a 20 per cent rise in expected apprenticeship training hours over the past year. Nearly 37 per cent of starts are now on the new, employer-designed apprenticeship standards, compared to just 3 per cent in the same period last year. More information on the progress of our reforms can be found at the link below: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/707896/Progress_report_on_the_Apprenticeships_Reform_Programme_May_2018.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/707896/Progress_report_on_the_Apprenticeships_Reform_Programme_May_2018.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 28/06/2018 15:44:53 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

930988

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
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 and what proportion of the apprenticeship levy has been invested in apprenticeships in each region of the UK.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	157021
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>Information on the apprenticeship levy collected by HM Treasury and invested in each region of the UK is not available in the format requested.</p><p>The majority of levy-paying employers operate across multiple geographical areas which means we cannot reasonably attribute the levy collected and spent in individual locations within the UK.</p><p>In England, these employers are free to spend their apprenticeship funding wherever they wish, in locations that best meet the skills needs of the business.</p><p>Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will receive their fair share of the levy so the devolved administrations will receive £460 million (in 2019/20). As skills is a devolved matter it will be for the devolved administrations to decide how funds raised from the levy should be used in their administrations.</p><p>We publish regular statistics on apprenticeships here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/apprenticeship-and-levy-statistics-june-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/apprenticeship-and-levy-statistics-june-2018</a>.</p><p>These reflect the way that the levy is collected and spent.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 28/06/2018 15:34:50 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

930989

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Assessments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to ensure that apprentices enrolled and training on a Standard Appenticeship Course, and working towards their end-date have an end-point assessment organisation in place.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	157022
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>All new apprenticeship standards will have an end point assessment. Apprentices cannot start until the relevant assessment plan has been approved and published. Apprentices will know what their end point assessment will involve before they start on a standard.</p><p> </p><p>Over 99 per cent of apprentices on programmes have an end point assessment organisation registered against the standard. However, there are a small number of standards with starts which have not yet confirmed the end point assessment organisation. We are tracking these starts so that we can confirm an end point assessment organisation for these standards at the earliest opportunity.</p><p> </p><p>The number of end point assessment organisations on the register and coverage of standards is increasing each month; and we are confident that we will have assessment organisations in place for all apprentices taking their end point assessment.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 28/06/2018 15:31:08 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

921883

registered interest
date	11/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Dyslexia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure that the procedures for students with dyslexia taking external exams are compliant with the Equality Act 2010.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	152037
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2018 answer text <p>This is a matter for Ofqual, the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation. I have asked its Chief Regulator, Sally Collier, to write to the hon. Member for Stroud and copy of her reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 19/06/2018 15:37:29 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew