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1386204

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date	08/12/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	National Tutoring Programme: Randstad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has carried out a review of the procurement process that led to Randstad being awarded the contract to run the National Tutoring Programme; and what plans he has to improve his Department’s oversight of Randstad’s delivery of that contract.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	89549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2021 answer text <p>The National Tutoring Programme is on track to reach hundreds of thousands more pupils this year, as part of a significant expansion to give schools more flexibility to deliver tutoring that works for them and families, and ensure no child is left behind.</p><p>We have set high standards for the programme and feedback from schools shows the positive impact it is having in helping pupils to catch up.</p><p>Randstad Education was awarded the contract to run the Tutoring Partner and Academic Mentors element of the National Tutoring Programme for the 2021/22 academic year, following an open competition in line with government procurement regulations.</p><p>We are working closely with Randstad to build on the successes of year 1. The delivery and performance of the National Tutoring Programme is monitored closely through a comprehensive governance process.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 14/12/2021 09:52:50 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

1386205

registered interest
date	08/12/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	National Tutoring Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Tuition Partners pillar of the National Tutoring Programme, how many pupils have (a) been enrolled against the target of 524,000 for 2021-22 and (b) had at least one tutoring session as of 8 December 2021; how many schools have booked in tutoring; and whether those figures are above, below or on target for this point in the academic year.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	89550
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2021 answer text <p>National Tutoring Programme participation data for last year has not yet been published.</p><p>We continue to collect data from schools for all three strands of the programme in the current year and will be publishing this in due course. This covers School-Led Tutoring, Tuition Partners and Academic Mentors.</p><p>The National Tutoring Programme aims to engage up to 2 million pupils this year, and to deliver up to 90 million <del class="ministerial">packages</del> <ins class="ministerial">hours</ins> of tuition by the 2024/25 academic year.</p><p><strong><br /> </strong></p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 14/12/2021 14:44:51 question first ministerially corrected 10/01/2022 12:52:15 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker previous answer version 38324 answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

1385706

registered interest
date	07/12/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Advertising
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department is currently spending on television advertising on E4.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	88693
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2021 answer text <p>The estimated amount spent on advertising on E4 by the department in financial year 2021/22 to date, is approximately £450,000.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 13/12/2021 12:05:53 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1385748

registered interest
date	07/12/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Refugees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the impact of No Recourse to Public Funds on children's ability to access (a) the internet and (b) a computer to complete school work.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
uin	88813
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2021 answer text <p>The department is investing over £520 million to support access to remote education and online social care through the Get Help with Technology programme. This programme has already provided over 1.35 million devices to enable disadvantaged children and young people to access education stay in touch with their school and peers and improve their digital skills. On 22 October, the department announced a further rollout of an additional 500,000 devices. Schools and colleges decide how to best use the devices to make sure all pupils, no matter their background, can access education.</p><p>In addition, the programme also provided support for over 110,000 families to get online through uplifts in mobile data and 4G wireless routers. This included partnering with the UK’s leading mobile operators to provide free data to help over 33,000 disadvantaged children get online and delivering over 77,000 4G wireless routers for pupils without connection at home. The department has announced new funding to support schools and colleges in providing internet access for disadvantaged pupils whose face-to-face education is disrupted during the autumn term and enabled ordering of 4G routers for schools and colleges.</p><p>The department supports the role of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in leading digital inclusion across government and welcomes the efforts of organisations such as the Digital Poverty Alliance in improving understanding of digital inclusion impacts, co-ordinating the wide range of existing local and national initiatives and highlighting gaps in support.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 10/12/2021 13:03:08 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

1385800

registered interest
date	07/12/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	16-19 Bursary Fund: Houghton and Sunderland South
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of young people in the constituency of Houghton and Sunderland South are in receipt of the 16-19 Bursary, and whether that proportion has increased since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	88706
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2021 answer text <p>The department provides a range of financial support for students who need it to enable them to participate in post-16 education, including free meals, bursaries to help with the cost of education (such as travel, books, equipment, and trips), and support for childcare and residential costs where required.</p><p>16 to 19 Bursary funding is designed to help students overcome the individual financial barriers to participation that they face, and institutions must ensure the funds go to those who genuinely need them. The funding is allocated to individual education institutions for them to allocate to students.</p><p>The administration of the bursary fund is devolved to individual colleges, schools and other providers who are best placed to understand and support the needs of their students. We do not hold the information requested.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 14/12/2021 17:10:45 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1385825

registered interest
date	07/12/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children's Centres
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Sure Start centres have closed or been downgraded in each of the last 10 years in (a) Enfield North, (b) London and (c) England.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Feryal Clark
uin	88834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2021 answer text <p>Based on the information supplied by local authorities, as of 8 December 2021[1] there were 2,301 children’s centres and 699 children’s centre linked sites[2] open to families and children providing children's centre services as part of a network.</p><p>The attached table shows the number of children’s centres sites that have closed in Enfield North, London and England in each year since 2011[3].</p><p>The department does not routinely collect data on the services provided by children’s centres. This data is held at a local level.</p><p>[1] Source: This is based on information supplied by local authorities to the Get Information about Schools (GIAS) database: <a href="https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk" target="_blank">https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk</a> and internal management information held by the department on historical children’s centre closure dates as of 8 December 2021. These figures may be different to previous answers, and could change again in future, since local authorities may update their data at any time. The GIAS collects data on children’s centres that local authorities have closed on a permanent basis. It does not collect data on children’s centres that local authorities may have closed temporarily in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.</p><p>[2] No data is held on the date a children’s centre converts to a children’s centre linked site, therefore, while a figure for the split between children’s centres and linked sites at the point a query is made can be established, it is not possible to provide a historic breakdown of this figure in previous years.</p><p>[3] No closures have been reported in 2021.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 15/12/2021 16:30:56 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince attachment 1 file name 88834_sure_start_centres.xlsx title 88834_table
tabling member	4822 label Biography information for Feryal Clark

1385826

registered interest
date	07/12/2021
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 recent steps he has taken to support nurseries, childminders, and other early years providers in (a) Enfield North, (b) London and (c) England.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Feryal Clark
uin	88835
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2021 answer text <p>The department has spent over £3.5 billion in each of the past three years on early education entitlements, and the government will continue to support families with their childcare costs.</p><p>At the Spending Review on 27 October 2021, we announced that we are investing additional funding for the early years entitlements worth £160 million in the 2022-23 financial year, £180 million in 2023-24 and £170 million in 2024-25, compared to the current year. This is for local authorities to increase hourly rates paid to childcare providers for the government’s free childcare entitlement offers and reflects cost pressures as well as anticipated changes in the number of eligible children.</p><p>As a result of this additional funding, for 2022-23 we will increase the hourly funding rates for all local authorities by 21p an hour for the two-year-old entitlement and, for the vast majority of areas, by 17p an hour for the three and four-year-old entitlement. We are also increasing the minimum funding floor, meaning no council can receive less than £4.61 per hour for the three and four-year-old entitlements.</p><p>We continue to work with the early years sector and officials from the department are in regular telephone and email contact with Early Years Leads in all local authorities in England, including Enfield and the other 32 boroughs in the London region, to understand how they can best be supported to ensure that sufficient safe, appropriate and affordable childcare is available for those who need it now, and for all families who need it in the longer term.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 15/12/2021 16:10:53 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4822 label Biography information for Feryal Clark

1385829

registered interest
date	07/12/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	National Tutoring Programme: Enfield
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students have been supported by the National Tutoring Programme in (a) Enfield North and (b) the London Borough of Enfield since November 2020.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Feryal Clark
uin	88837
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2021 answer text <p>National tutoring programme (NTP) participation data has not yet been published. We continue to collect data from schools for all three strands of the programme – school-led tutoring, tuition partners and academic mentors, and will be publishing this in due course.</p><p>The NTP aims to engage up to 2 million pupils this year, and to deliver up to 90 million <del class="ministerial">packages</del> <ins class="ministerial">hours</ins> of tuition by the 2024/25 academic year.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 13/12/2021 11:58:41 question first ministerially corrected 10/01/2022 12:52:06 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker previous answer version 38281 answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4822 label Biography information for Feryal Clark

1385830

registered interest
date	07/12/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Enfield
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools have been supported by the School Rebuilding Programme in (a) Enfield North constituency and (b) the London Borough of Enfield since June 2020.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Feryal Clark
uin	88838
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2021 answer text <p>Earlier this year, the department announced the first 100 schools in the new School Rebuilding Programme, as part of a commitment to 500 projects over the next decade: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-rebuilding-programme/school-rebuilding-programme" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-rebuilding-programme/school-rebuilding-programme</a>. There are no schools from the Enfield North constituency or the London Borough of Enfield in the programme. Two schools in the Enfield North constituency and a further two in the London Borough of Enfield have been rebuilt under the Priority School Building Programme.</p><p>The department will publish details of how schools will be prioritised for future places in the programme following a review of the results from our recent consultation, which closed on 8 October 2021.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 14/12/2021 14:53:03 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4822 label Biography information for Feryal Clark

1385831

registered interest
date	07/12/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Enfield
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent steps his Department has taken to (a) support schools in Enfield North constituency and (b) tackle regional inequality in school outcomes in the London Borough of Enfield.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Feryal Clark
uin	88839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2021 answer text <p>The department is pursuing an ambitious programme of work to provide continued support to all schools across the country as well as tackling inequality in outcomes.</p><p>The department wants to ensure that children and young people, including in Enfield, leave education better educated, better skilled, and equipped for successful and productive careers. The COVID-19 outbreak has been disruptive, but the department is helping pupils to recover, and support is especially focused on helping the most disadvantaged, vulnerable or those with least time left in education, wherever they live. Almost £5 billion in direct investment has been announced for education recovery. This includes an additional £1.8 billion of funding announced in the recent Spending Review to support young people to catch up on missed education. This is in addition to a strong core funding settlement, which will see core schools funding rise by £4.7 billion by the 2024-25 financial year compared to existing plans. The department’s overall £5 billion direct investment in education recovery includes:</p><ul><li>funding for up to 100 million tutoring hours for 5-19 year olds</li><li>multi-year direct funding, so schools can deliver evidence-based interventions based on pupil needs</li><li>summer schools in 2021</li><li>extra time in 16-19 education</li><li>500,000 training opportunities for school teachers and early years practitioners</li></ul><p>We are investing in teachers, tutors and direct funding to schools and colleges, so they can determine how best to support the pupils that most need support, all of which benefits students in Enfield.</p><p> </p><p>This is in addition to the core school funding through the National Funding Formula (NFF) which targets 17% of its funding towards pupils with additional needs, including deprived pupils. This financial year, 2021-22, schools in Enfield North are attracting £5,730 per pupil through the schools NFF. In 2022-23, this NFF funding will increase to £5,879 per pupil. These figures are based on notional school-level NFF allocations. The department does not update constituency figures on actual school-level allocations. The distribution of the additional £1.6 billion for schools and high needs in 2022-23 secured in the Spending Review will be confirmed in due course.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 13/12/2021 12:08:55 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4822 label Biography information for Feryal Clark