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1415936

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date	24/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: York
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprenticeships are currently being undertaken in (a) York and (b) York Central constituency, by level of apprenticeship.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	110462
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2022 answer text <p>Apprenticeship participation, by apprenticeship level, for York Local Authority District and York Central Parliamentary Constituency in the academic year 2020/21 are shown in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Apprenticeship Participation</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>York LAD</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>York Central PCON</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><p><strong>Apprenticeship level</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Intermediate</strong></p></td><td><p>560</p></td><td><p>320</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Advanced</strong></p></td><td><p>1,020</p></td><td><p>500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Higher</strong></p></td><td><p>700</p></td><td><p>360</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p>2,270</p></td><td><p>1,170</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>Note:</p><ol><li>Volumes are rounded to the nearest 10</li><li>Source: Individualised Learner Record</li></ol><p>Further information on apprenticeship participation can be found in the apprenticeships and traineeships statistics publication: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/99259960-1fe7-4dd6-b81b-95881f664a94" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/99259960-1fe7-4dd6-b81b-95881f664a94</a>.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 27/01/2022 17:05:29 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1415938

registered interest
date	24/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: York
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprenticeship placements are currently available in (a) York and (b) York Central constituency.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	110463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2022 answer text <p>Apprenticeships provide people with the opportunity to earn and learn the skills needed to start an exciting career in a wide range of industries with over 640 high-quality standards to choose from in roles such as Baker, Veterinary Nurse and Nuclear Desk Engineer.</p><p>As apprenticeships are jobs, employers choose which apprenticeships they offer and where and when they offer them.</p><p>The Find an Apprenticeship (FAA) service on: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship</a> allows individuals to register for apprenticeship vacancy alerts, search and apply for vacancies, and receive feedback from employers. Around 2.8 million people have registered to use this service, and we are working with employers so they advertise more apprenticeships in this way.</p><p>The department publishes data on apprenticeship adverts and vacancies on the FAA service details of which can be found here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/apprenticeships-and-traineeships/2020-21" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/apprenticeships-and-traineeships/2020-21</a>. In November 2021, there were over 19,500 apprenticeship vacancies advertised across England on FAA. There are currently 149 apprenticeship vacancies being advertised through FAA in York, and 30 in the York Central constituency.</p><p>Employers may choose to advertise through their own recruitment platforms or other job sites, therefore, the number of vacancies available on FAA does not provide a true measure of the available apprenticeship vacancies.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 27/01/2022 16:56:01 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1415939

registered interest
date	24/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	School Leaving: Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of school leavers take up an apprenticeship (a) nationally, (b) in Yorkshire, (c) in York and (d) in York Central constituency.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	110464
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2022 answer text <p>The table below shows the number and proportion of pupils who left key stage 4 from state-funded mainstream schools in 2018/19 and went on to sustain an apprenticeship destination in 2019/20. The table shows these figures nationally, in Yorkshire, in York and in the York Central constituency. A pupil must have 6 months of consecutive activity in an apprenticeship at any point within the destination year to be categorised as having a sustained apprenticeship destination. There may be pupils who started an apprenticeship who did not sustain their destination for 6 months. These pupils are not included in the figures below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Number of key stage 4 pupils in the cohort</p></td><td><p>Sustained apprenticeships (%)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>531,917</p></td><td><p>3.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and the Humber<sup>1 2</sup></p></td><td><p>53,539</p></td><td><p>5.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>York<sup>1 2</sup></p></td><td><p>1,683</p></td><td><p>3.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>York Central<sup>1 3</sup></p></td><td><p>735</p></td><td><p>2.7</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Footnotes</p><p>(1) State-funded mainstream schools include community schools, voluntary aided schools, voluntary controlled schools, foundation schools, academies, free schools, city technology colleges and further education colleges with provision for 14- to 16-year-olds.</p><p>(2) The data are based on local education authority area. Local education authority area uses the provider’s administrative local authority.</p><p>(3) The data are based on the provider’s location.</p><p> </p><p>The data which have been used to create the table can be found in the following links:</p><p>England: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/ea915f4a-f3ab-44c7-9dc6-d53da1589337" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/ea915f4a-f3ab-44c7-9dc6-d53da1589337</a>.</p><p>Yorkshire and the Humber and York local authority: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/a8dafbce-bcb6-4278-94ba-578e9f770a13" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/a8dafbce-bcb6-4278-94ba-578e9f770a13</a>.</p><p>York Central: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/27db1050-831e-4eb6-87c8-6f40b7bbcfa8" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/27db1050-831e-4eb6-87c8-6f40b7bbcfa8</a>.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 27/01/2022 16:40:07 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1416076

registered interest
date	24/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Russell Scott Primary School: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress his Department has made on urgent improvements to Russell Scott Primary School in Denton and Reddish constituency; and whether officials from his Department have met with officers from Tameside Council.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	110287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2022 answer text <p>We are aware of the condition issues at Russell Scott Primary School and officials within the department have been engaging with Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council to understand and advise on these issues. The department has committed to review and discuss evidence from any further investigative work or surveys undertaken.</p><p>The department provides local authorities with an annual School Condition Allocation (SCA) to invest in improving the condition of their maintained schools. We expect local authorities to effectively prioritise this funding on what they identify to be the most urgent priorities across the school estate, ensuring schools are kept safe and operational.</p><p>For the financial year 2021-22, Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council has been allocated £1,328,013 in SCA funding. Allocations for the financial year 2022-23 will published in due course.</p><p>In addition to annual condition funding, the department has launched a ten-year School Rebuilding Programme. We have announced the first 100 schools that will benefit from the programme as part of a commitment to 500 projects over the next decade.</p><p>We recently consulted on how to prioritise future places on the programme. We plan to set out our response to the consultation and details of further rounds of the programme early this year.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 27/01/2022 16:12:58 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1405206

registered interest
date	21/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Further Education: Teachers
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 need to attract industry professionals in green jobs to teaching positions in the further education sector; and what steps he plans to take to encourage industry professionals to engage with and share their skills with the further education sector.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
uin	109205
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2022 answer text <p>​​The government is committed to supporting green skills across the country and a crucial part of this is ensuring further education (FE) providers have the best quality teachers and lecturers to teach the next generation workforce.</p><p>At the recent Spending Review, we set out investment of £3.8 billion in FE and skills over the course of the Parliament as a whole, to ensure people can access high-quality training and education that leads to good jobs, addresses skills gaps, boosts productivity and supports levelling up. This includes funding for programmes to support green skills crucial to the net zero transition.</p><p>In November 2020, we launched the Green Jobs Taskforce, working in partnership with business, local areas, skills providers, and unions, to ensure we have the skilled workforce to deliver net zero and our Ten Point Plan. Following that, and building on the Skills for Jobs White Paper, the Net Zero Strategy was published in October 2021 and set out how the government’s skills reforms will support teachers understanding of sustainability, strengthen links between employers and providers, support workers in high carbon sectors with the transition, and help to build a pipeline of future talent. The government is taking a number of steps to ensure the FE teacher workforce supports the transition to net zero.</p><p>We have worked with employers to develop a refreshed apprenticeship standard for FE teaching (Level 5 Learning and Skills Teacher), which came into effect in September 2021. For the first time, all FE teachers training via an apprenticeship will be required to integrate sustainability into their teaching, including through modelling sustainable practices and promoting sustainable development principles in relation to their subject specialism. This standard will soon be incorporated into all future FE teaching qualifications, so that all teachers across all subject areas will be able to embed and promote sustainability in their teaching.</p><p>The ‘Teach in FE’ service which launched in January this year, provides a new online service to raise awareness of FE teaching and encourage and support new teachers into the profession. It is supported by a campaign to bring potential teachers to the new service.</p><p>Our FE teacher training bursaries worth up to £26,000, are available to support those who want to train in a range of subjects including STEM, engineering and computing that can contribute to the expansion of green jobs</p><p>Since 2018, the Taking Teaching Further (TTF) programme has supported over 350 industry professionals to become FE teachers with another 550 places made available in the 2021/22 academic year. This has allowed FE providers across all of the 15 technical teaching routes, including in green and sustainable industries to get technical expertise into the classroom.</p><p>The Emerging Skills Electrification pilot is currently supporting providers and businesses to upskill their employees within electrification technology. The pilot funds free upskilling days for trainers at all further and higher education providers which enables them to teach new emerging skills courses in their colleges or universities.</p><p>Taken together, and alongside the wider suite of reforms to the skills system being implemented by government in partnership with industry, these measures will help to ensure more people can get the skills they need to enter and progress within green jobs.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 26/01/2022 11:53:06 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1405207

registered interest
date	21/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	T-levels
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish data on the number of companies that (a) provided T-level placements in 2020-21 and (b) confirmed to provide placements in 2021-22.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
uin	109206
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2022 answer text <p>We currently do not, nor plan to, collect data on the number of T Level industry placements delivered, or committed to, by individual companies. Instead, this information is held by education providers, who are responsible for securing industry placements for their T Level students. Therefore, we are unable to report on the number of companies currently offering or planning on offering placements.</p><p>However, through our ongoing engagement with employers, education providers and key stakeholders, we are able to identify which sectors and geographical locations we need to focus on to support the delivery of further industry placement opportunities for T Level students.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 26/01/2022 11:39:14 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1405208

registered interest
date	21/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	T-levels
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 ensure sufficient placements for T-Levels over the next three years.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
uin	109207
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2022 answer text <p>We have provided an extensive programme of employer and provider support to help with the delivery and scale up of high-quality industry placements. We have invested £200 million over the past 4 years to help providers build their capacity and relationships with employers, and we have published practical industry placement delivery guidance for both education providers and employers. We are engaging directly with employers through the department’s employer engagement teams to provide a strong pipeline of employers, across all sectors, ready to offer placements and there is comprehensive package of support available for employers offering online guidance, webinars, and direct hands-on support to help them deliver industry placements. We have established a T Level employer ambassador network to engage with others in their industries on T Levels and placements, and we are further developing our communications materials to continue to raise the profile of T Levels and industry placements to an employer audience. We will continue to work closely with education providers and employers to identify any potential barriers to the delivery of placements for each of the T Levels and identify appropriate mitigations.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 26/01/2022 11:04:19 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1405209

registered interest
date	21/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Further Education: Government Assistance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason post-16 providers rated by Ofsted as requiring improvement are unable to apply for certain funds, grants and Government initiatives.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
uin	109208
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2022 answer text <p>The vast majority of funds available to post-16 providers are available to all providers, regardless of Ofsted rating. This includes the Further Education Capital Transformation Fund which seeks to improve the condition of the further education college estate, the Post-16 Capacity Fund which seeks to ensure there is adequate space to accommodate the demographic increase in 16-18 year old learners, and the Skills Accelerator Development Fund which supports projects that build providers’ capacity to meet locally agreed skills priorities. Some funds may be targeted at providers with stronger Ofsted grades for a variety of reasons, including where programmes are at an early stage, and it makes sense to ask the strongest providers to work on the initial development phase or where we are looking for a provider to lead the delivery of a programme where the quality of provision is the overriding immediate priority.</p><p>The T Levels capital fund was restricted to providers rated Ofsted good or outstanding on a temporary basis while the programme embedded but now, in Wave 4 of the T Levels capital fund worth £150 million, all providers offering T Levels in 2023 are eligible to apply. The Higher Technical Education Growth Fund and the Institutes of Technology programme were also restricted to providers rated good or outstanding. This was to ensure effective delivery of these new qualifications and provision. Funding for Institutes of Technology was restricted to bids where all core further education partners were Ofsted good or outstanding, this is because they are expected to lead the provision of Higher Technical Education in an area. The impact of eligibility requirements for funds on learners are considered on a case by cases basis for each fund, bearing in mind the impact on protected characteristics and on learners in less affluent areas.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart grouped question UIN 109209 question first answered 26/01/2022 10:56:26 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1405211

registered interest
date	21/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Further Education: Government Assistance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the impact on learners studying at post-16 providers which have been rated by Ofsted as requiring improvement of the inability of those providers to apply for certain funds, grants and Government initiatives.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
uin	109209
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2022 answer text <p>The vast majority of funds available to post-16 providers are available to all providers, regardless of Ofsted rating. This includes the Further Education Capital Transformation Fund which seeks to improve the condition of the further education college estate, the Post-16 Capacity Fund which seeks to ensure there is adequate space to accommodate the demographic increase in 16-18 year old learners, and the Skills Accelerator Development Fund which supports projects that build providers’ capacity to meet locally agreed skills priorities. Some funds may be targeted at providers with stronger Ofsted grades for a variety of reasons, including where programmes are at an early stage, and it makes sense to ask the strongest providers to work on the initial development phase or where we are looking for a provider to lead the delivery of a programme where the quality of provision is the overriding immediate priority.</p><p>The T Levels capital fund was restricted to providers rated Ofsted good or outstanding on a temporary basis while the programme embedded but now, in Wave 4 of the T Levels capital fund worth £150 million, all providers offering T Levels in 2023 are eligible to apply. The Higher Technical Education Growth Fund and the Institutes of Technology programme were also restricted to providers rated good or outstanding. This was to ensure effective delivery of these new qualifications and provision. Funding for Institutes of Technology was restricted to bids where all core further education partners were Ofsted good or outstanding, this is because they are expected to lead the provision of Higher Technical Education in an area. The impact of eligibility requirements for funds on learners are considered on a case by cases basis for each fund, bearing in mind the impact on protected characteristics and on learners in less affluent areas.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart grouped question UIN 109208 question first answered 26/01/2022 10:56:26 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1404826

registered interest
date	20/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Home Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children are home-schooled in (a) Coventry North East constituency, (b) Coventry, (c) the West Midlands and (d) England.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
uin	108534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2022 answer text <p>The department does not collect data on the number of electively home-educated children as there is no statutory requirement for local authorities to maintain such a register. Such data as is currently collected is held by local authorities.</p><p>However, the government is committed to a form of a register for children not in school, which would include home educated children. This would improve data collection and sharing, as well as help local authorities undertake their existing duties and help safeguard all children who are in scope. We will set out further details on this in the government response to the children not in school consultation, which we will publish in the coming weeks.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 25/01/2022 17:06:31 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher