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1128834

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Free School Meals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of apprenticeship starters were eligible for free school meals in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire and (c) England in each quarter of each academic year since 2014.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	259156
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>Information on the proportion of apprenticeship starters who were eligible for free school meals is not held in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>We publish data on apprenticeship starts with various breakdowns by level, local authority and parliamentary constituency in the apprenticeships geography and sector subject area tool of the apprenticeships data library. This can be found 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> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton grouped question UIN 259158 question first answered 06/06/2019 16:40:26 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

1128835

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Higher Education: Free School Meals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of people entering higher education by age 19 in (a) 2018-19 and (b) each of the last five academic years were eligible for free school meals in (i) Ashfield constituency, (ii) Nottinghamshire and (iii) England.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	259157
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>The Department publishes information at a national level on the proportion of students who entered higher education by age 19 who were eligible for free school meals at age of 15 in state-funded and special schools.</p><p> </p><p>The latest figures for England can be found in Table 1 here:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/757901/WP2018-MainTables.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/757901/WP2018-MainTables.xlsx</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The information is not held centrally, regarding figures at local authority or parliamentary constituency level.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 06/06/2019 15:56:56 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

1128836

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Free School Meals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of apprenticeship starters who were eligible for free school meals started (a) intermediate, (b) advanced and (c) higher apprenticeships in (i) Ashfield constituency, (ii) Nottinghamshire and (iii) England, in the first quarter of the academic year (A) 2018-19 (B) 2017-18, (C) 2016-17, (D) 2015-16 and (E) 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	259158
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>Information on the proportion of apprenticeship starters who were eligible for free school meals is not held in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>We publish data on apprenticeship starts with various breakdowns by level, local authority and parliamentary constituency in the apprenticeships geography and sector subject area tool of the apprenticeships data library. This can be found 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> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton grouped question UIN 259156 question first answered 06/06/2019 16:40:26 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

1128837

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
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 many businesses in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire and (c) England pay the apprenticeship levy; and how many of these businesses have apprentices working with them.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	259159
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>Disaggregated information on the apprenticeship levy that is collected in each constituency, local authority or region of the UK by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is not available. Many larger levy-paying employers are headquartered in one region but they employ staff across the country. Therefore, levy data is reported to HMRC by PAYE scheme rather than by organisation, which means that we cannot attribute the levy collected and spent to individual locations. Individual employers can control where apprenticeship funds are spent in order to meet their current and future skills needs.</p><p> </p><p>Since May 2015, there have been 4,690 apprenticeship starts in the Ashfield constituency, 39,650 starts in Nottinghamshire (including in the city of Nottingham) and over 1.7 million starts in England as a whole, reported to date. 49.4% of apprenticeship starts in England were supported by the levy in the first half of 2018/19, which is the most recent period for which data are available.</p><p> </p><p>Income from the levy in England is used to fund apprenticeships for all employers, including apprenticeships started before the introduction of the levy as well as apprenticeships started since the introduction of the levy. We recently announced our intention to move non levy-paying employers onto the apprenticeship service, beginning later this year, giving small to medium-sized businesses a greater choice of quality training providers and the opportunity to be more engaged in apprenticeship training decisions for their business.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton grouped question UIN 259160 question first answered 06/06/2019 16:27:41 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

1128838

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
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 many and what proportion of businesses in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire, and (c) England do not pay the apprenticeship levy; and how many of those businesses have apprentices.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	259160
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>Disaggregated information on the apprenticeship levy that is collected in each constituency, local authority or region of the UK by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is not available. Many larger levy-paying employers are headquartered in one region but they employ staff across the country. Therefore, levy data is reported to HMRC by PAYE scheme rather than by organisation, which means that we cannot attribute the levy collected and spent to individual locations. Individual employers can control where apprenticeship funds are spent in order to meet their current and future skills needs.</p><p> </p><p>Since May 2015, there have been 4,690 apprenticeship starts in the Ashfield constituency, 39,650 starts in Nottinghamshire (including in the city of Nottingham) and over 1.7 million starts in England as a whole, reported to date. 49.4% of apprenticeship starts in England were supported by the levy in the first half of 2018/19, which is the most recent period for which data are available.</p><p> </p><p>Income from the levy in England is used to fund apprenticeships for all employers, including apprenticeships started before the introduction of the levy as well as apprenticeships started since the introduction of the levy. We recently announced our intention to move non levy-paying employers onto the apprenticeship service, beginning later this year, giving small to medium-sized businesses a greater choice of quality training providers and the opportunity to be more engaged in apprenticeship training decisions for their business.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton grouped question UIN 259159 question first answered 06/06/2019 16:27:41 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

1129029

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Primary Education: Children's Play
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what sources of funding from the public purse are available for new outdoor play equipment for (a) Foulds Primary School in High Barnet and (b) other primary schools in England.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	259100
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government has allocated over £7.4 billion in condition funding since 2015 to maintain and improve school buildings and grounds. This funding supports the Department’s priority of ensuring the school estate is safe and supports a high-quality education.This can include works related to outdoor play areas.</p><p>The Department provides condition funding through different routes, depending on the type of school. Local authorities and large academy trusts receive an annual formulaic allocation through School Condition Allocations (SCA) and are best placed to prioritise investment based on local needs. For the financial year 2019-20, Barnet has been allocated £2,254,070 in SCA for schools for which they are responsible, including Foulds Primary School. Smaller trusts and sixth form colleges are instead eligible for condition funding through the Condition Improvement Fund.</p><p>All schools also receive funding to spend on their own capital priorities through an annual Devolved Formula Capital allocation. In the financial year 2018-19, Foulds Primary School received £20,568, including its allocation from the additional £400 million in capital funding announced at Budget 2018. For 2019-20, the school has been allocated £7,555.</p><p>In 2018-19, £100 million of revenue generated from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy was made available for the Healthy Pupils Capital Fund. Barnet received £215,686 to invest in its maintained schools. This one-year fund was intended to improve children’s and young people’s physical and mental health by enhancing access to facilities for physical activity, healthy eating, mental health and medical conditions. The Healthy Pupils Capital Fund could be used to fund outdoor play equipment.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 06/06/2019 16:30:39 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

1129081

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Young People
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 young people with special needs in non-local authority schools receive the education and care they need.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	259046
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>The provisions of the Children and Families Act 2014, together with the associated statutory regulations and Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Code of Practice, apply to academies and free schools as well as to schools maintained by local authorities. All schools are required to use their best endeavours to identify and address the SEND of pupils and to apply the graduated approach to support that is outlined in chapter 6 of the SEND Code of Practice.</p><p>Academies and free schools are inspected by Ofsted under the same framework as local authority maintained schools. The quality of education and support for pupils with SEND is taken into account by inspectors when making a judgement on the performance of a school.</p><p>The department has a contract with the Whole School SEND Consortium to embed SEND within approaches to school improvement and to equip the school workforce to deliver high quality teaching for all pupils with SEND. The programme of work includes building a community of practice with the involvement of 10,000 schools by 2020 and 15,000 schools by 2022, across the 8 regional school commissioner regions.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 10/06/2019 17:16:43 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1129083

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Independent Reviewing Officers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent steps he has taken to strengthen the Independent Reviewing Officer service for children in care.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	259248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>In Fostering Better Outcomes, published in July 2018, we committed to working with organisations representing Independent Reviewing Officers (IROs) and local authorities to consider how the role of IROs can be put to best effect in the current system and under existing legislation. My officials have been in regular conversations with both the National Association of Independent Reviewing Officers and the National Independent Reviewing Officers Manager’s Partnership to discuss how the role of IROs can be strengthened. Both organisations have worked with their members to develop proposals. We will continue to offer support and challenge to both these organisations as they move forward in introducing practice improvements.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 259249 question first answered 06/06/2019 15:44:18 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1129084

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Independent Reviewing Officers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had with representatives from the National Association of Independent Reviewing Officers on strengthening the Independent Reviewing Officer service.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	259249
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>In Fostering Better Outcomes, published in July 2018, we committed to working with organisations representing Independent Reviewing Officers (IROs) and local authorities to consider how the role of IROs can be put to best effect in the current system and under existing legislation. My officials have been in regular conversations with both the National Association of Independent Reviewing Officers and the National Independent Reviewing Officers Manager’s Partnership to discuss how the role of IROs can be strengthened. Both organisations have worked with their members to develop proposals. We will continue to offer support and challenge to both these organisations as they move forward in introducing practice improvements.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 259248 question first answered 06/06/2019 15:44:18 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1129095

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department has taken to help families access childcare.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	259262
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>This government is committed to making childcare more affordable and more accessible. We plan to spend around £3.5 billion on our early education entitlements this year alone – more than any previous government. All 3 and 4-year olds and the most disadvantaged 2-year olds can access 15 hours a week of early education. From September 2017, this government doubled the childcare entitlement for eligible working parents of 3 and 4-year olds to 30 hours a week.</p><p>We want 30 hours to continue to build on the flexible provision that we were already seeing across the country with the universal 15 hours. All the free entitlements can be “stretched” by taking fewer hours per week over up to 52 weeks of the year to cover term-time and the school holidays and free places can be delivered at weekends.</p><p>Parents can find out information about all the government childcare offers on the Childcare Choices website and use the Childcare Calculator to help them understand what childcare support they are eligible for.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 10/06/2019 16:57:58 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight