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1254232

registered interest
date	23/11/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department has taken to provide financial support to schools for non-covid-19 related emergencies during 2020.
tabling member constituency	Rutland and Melton
tabling member printed	Alicia Kearns
uin	909085
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2020 answer text <p>During an emergency situation, responsibility and liability for school buildings remains with the responsible body, whether that be the local authority or academy trust. The local authority (no matter the governance of the school(s) impacted) also has the responsibility to ensure that sufficient pupil places are made available for children in the area.</p><p>Whilst responsibility sits with those bodies, the Department for Education has a clear interest in the safety of pupils and staff and ensuring that the education system functions appropriately. In emergency situations, the department works with responsible bodies to understand what support or advice is needed on an individual basis.</p><p>Responsible bodies will need to contact their own insurers to understand the financial support available to them in the first instance. The department also provides an alternative to commercial insurance via the Risk Protection Arrangement and we have been able to support many schools through this.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Staffordshire answering member printed Gavin Williamson question first answered 23/11/2020 18:36:29 answering member 4108 label Biography information for Sir Gavin Williamson
tabling member	4805 label Biography information for Alicia Kearns

1254233

registered interest
date	23/11/2020
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	What discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on replacing the temporary arrangements for supplementary funding with a new strand of the Early Years National Funding Formula for grant-maintained nursery schools.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, West Derby
tabling member printed	Ian Byrne
uin	909086
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2020 answer text <p>We announced on 24 August 2020 that local authorities will continue to receive supplementary funding for their maintained nursery schools for the whole of the 2020-21 academic year. The department has regular discussions at official and ministerial level about all aspects of the education system for the forthcoming spending review.</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to funding for maintained nursery schools in the longer term. Any reform to the way they are funded in the future will be accompanied by appropriate funding protections. The Government plans to spend more than £3.6 billion on early education entitlements in 2020-21.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 23/11/2020 17:45:28 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4831 label Biography information for Ian Byrne

1254234

registered interest
date	23/11/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment he has made of the potential effect of the end of the transition period on (a) further and (b) higher education.
tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
uin	909088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2020 answer text <p>We are working with both the higher and further education sectors on what steps they need to take as we come to the end of the Transition Period.</p><p>This includes questions around participation in EU-funded programmes and future migration arrangements for example.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 23/11/2020 17:12:41 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

1254235

registered interest
date	23/11/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to increase (a) recruitment and (b) retention of teachers.
tabling member constituency	Bexleyheath and Crayford
tabling member printed	Sir David Evennett
uin	909089
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2020 answer text <p>Great schools need great teachers. We are transforming the support for teachers to attract more people to teaching and enable them to thrive. We are working with the profession to create the career pathways and development opportunities to make teaching more than a match for other highly-regarded professions.</p><p>We have started to roll out the Early Career Framework – the biggest teaching reform in a generation – providing the solid foundations for a successful career in teaching, backed by up to £130 million a year in funding when fully rolled out in 2021. Early roll-out from autumn 2020 is taking place in selected areas (North East, Greater Manchester, Bradford and Doncaster).</p><p>We are also launching new National Professional Qualifications, offering high-quality professional development for teachers and school leaders at all levels, from those who want to develop expertise in high quality teaching practice, to those leading multiple schools across trusts.</p> answering member constituency South Staffordshire answering member printed Gavin Williamson question first answered 23/11/2020 17:03:41 answering member 4108 label Biography information for Sir Gavin Williamson
tabling member	1198 label Biography information for Sir David Evennett

1254236

registered interest
date	23/11/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Adoption: Bureaucracy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to reduce bureaucracy within the adoption system.
tabling member constituency	Eddisbury
tabling member printed	Edward Timpson
uin	909078
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2020 answer text <p>Ensuring the adoption system is effective is a top priority for this government, and I am determined to tackle the bureaucracy and inefficiencies that can prevent children who need a stable, loving forever home from finding one quickly.</p><p>I want to make sure that enough adopters are recruited for the children who need them, that they are matched swiftly to children and that they are properly supported as they form their new family.</p><p>In 2015, we had 180 different adoption agencies, a system which resulted in inefficiencies and delays for children. Our programme to introduce fewer, more efficient regional adoption agencies (RAAs) has now created 28 RAAs and they are starting to drive change.</p><p>For example, the first annual RAA evaluation report identified improvements in recruitment, matching and support. The latest evaluation of the RAA programme shows a 14-day reduction time for children waiting for placement. We have also seen a 35-day reduction for placement for our ‘harder to place’ children.</p><p>This year we have invested £1 million into adopter recruitment. RAA leaders, working with voluntary adoption agencies and others in the adoption sector, launched the #YouCanAdopt Campaign in September. The campaign aims to dispel myths and encourage more people from all walks of life to come forward to adopt. You do not need to be married or own your home to be a loving, adoptive parent. Agencies are reporting a large increase in enquiries, including from people from black, asian and minority ethnic communities. I would encourage anyone to look into the YouCanAdopt campaign.</p><p>The government has invested significantly in the Adoption Support Fund (ASF), which has provided more than £177 million for therapeutic support to over 62,000 families since it launched in 2015. The support provided to families through the ASF means that families have managed to access more timely therapeutic support for their children/family. Through our ASF COVID-19 scheme, launched in April, we provided £6.5 million to support up to 61,000 adoptive and special guardianship families struggling to cope with the challenges arising from the COVID-19 outbreak.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 23/11/2020 17:47:38 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson

1254237

registered interest
date	23/11/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to build new schools.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Elliot Colburn
uin	909079
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2020 answer text <p>Through the free schools programme, this government has funded thousands of high quality new school places across the country.</p><p>We have approved 225 applications from groups that we are now working with to establish new free schools. This includes 73 special and 9 alternative provision free schools.</p><p>The Priority Schools Building Programme is replacing or refurbishing buildings at 537 schools.</p> answering member constituency South Staffordshire answering member printed Gavin Williamson question first answered 23/11/2020 17:00:15 answering member 4108 label Biography information for Sir Gavin Williamson
tabling member	4775 label Biography information for Elliot Colburn

1254238

registered interest
date	23/11/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Educational Institutions: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking with the Secretary of State for Health and Social care to deploy lateral flow covid-19 tests in (a) schools and (b) other education settings.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	909081
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2020 answer text <p>The Government is piloting the use of lateral flow tests in education settings. This will help us better understand how this new technology can be operationalised to protect those at high risk, find the virus and help enable us to go back to as normal a way of life as possible. Establishing this mass testing capability, with fast turn-around times, should allow students to continue their studies safely and minimise the risk of virus transmission in our communities.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 23/11/2020 17:06:52 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1254239

registered interest
date	23/11/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education: Disadvantaged
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to close the gap in (a) educational outcomes and (b) levels of wellbeing between disadvantaged children and their peers.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	909083
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2020 answer text <p>All children have had their education disrupted by the the COVID-19 outbreak. The government has announced a catch up package worth £1 billion, including a ‘Catch up Premium’ worth a total of £650m to support schools to make up for lost teaching time.</p><p>To help schools make the best use of this funding, the Education Endowment Foundation has published a support guide for schools with evidence-based approaches to catch up for all students and a further school planning guide: 2020 to 2021.</p><p>Alongside this universal grant, a National Tutoring Programme worth £350 million will deliver proven, successful interventions to the most disadvantaged young people. Research shows high quality individual and small group tuition can add up to 5 months of progress for disadvantaged pupils.</p><p>Schools continue to receive the pupil premium each quarter. As schools’ original pupil premium strategies will not have been delivered since March, and the pupils’ needs will have changed or intensified, we recommend that, as part of the planning for needs-based universal catch up, school leaders review their pupil premium strategy and amend it to reflect the new situation from this term.</p><p>We have put in place an unprecedented range of action to help schools to develop whole school approaches to mental health and wellbeing, including our £8 million Wellbeing for Education Return training; and trials of approaches to promote positive mental wellbeing in schools, which aim to provide evidence on what works in a school setting to support children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing.</p><p>We recognise that disadvantaged children may not have access to the resources to undertake remote education. That’s why we’ve invested over £195 million to support access to remote education and online social care.</p><p>As part of this, we’re making over 340,000 laptops and tablets available this term to support disadvantaged children in year 3 to 11 whose face-to-face education may be disrupted. This supplements over 220,000 laptops and tablets and over 50,000 4G wireless routers, which have already been delivered during the summer term. This represents an injection of over half-a-million laptops and tablets by the end of the year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Staffordshire answering member printed Gavin Williamson question first answered 23/11/2020 18:37:59 answering member 4108 label Biography information for Sir Gavin Williamson
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1254440

registered interest
date	23/11/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Union Learning Fund
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 potential effect of the ending of the Union Learning Fund from April 2021 on (a) workers affected by covid-19 and (b) the Government’s policy on reducing regional inequality.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	119247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2020 answer text <p>The main impact COVID-19 has had on the economy and workforce has been a rise in unemployment. We need to help these people reskill where necessary and re-enter into employment. The Union Learning Fund operates mostly through larger employers within unionised parts of the economy and is not designed to help those out of work – only <del class="ministerial">11%</del> <ins class="ministerial">2% </ins>of people supported via the Union Learning Fund are unemployed.</p><p>The decision to no longer support the Union Learning Fund after 31 March 2021 was taken as part of the wider Spending Review discussions and in light of our expanded commitment to skills development through the £2.5 million National Skills Fund, and Lifetime Skills Guarantee. This national fund will support individuals to get the training and qualifications they need wherever they are located and regardless of whether they are able to access the Unionlearn network.</p><p>As part of this expanded commitment, I can confirm all the money will be invested in skills and retraining that will be accessible to all.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 26/11/2020 11:47:56 question first ministerially corrected 02/12/2020 16:01:29 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan previous answer version 64103 answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1254450

registered interest
date	23/11/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Adult Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding from the public purse has been made available for adult education courses in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England in each of the last ten years.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
uin	119257
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2020 answer text <p>The adult education budget (AEB) is not allocated to specific geographies. The department allocates the AEB to individual providers who, under the current freedoms and flexibility policy, are able to use their funds to support any English learners in line with the funding rules set each year.</p><p>We publish our allocations by training provider. These can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/19-funding-allocations#supporting-documents" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/19-funding-allocations#supporting-documents</a>. This data relates to training providers and is therefore not a measure of allocation to residents within Coventry or the West Midlands.</p><p>From 1 August 2019, part of the AEB was devolved to 6 mayoral combined authorities and the Greater London Authority. These authorities are now responsible for funding and allocating adult education provision for learners who are resident in their areas.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 26/11/2020 11:07:43 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher