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1728086

registered interest
date	09/09/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Overseas Students: British Overseas Territories
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 help increase the accessibility of UK university education to British Overseas Territories citizens.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	4617
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2024 answer text <p>Since 2007, persons who have settled status in the United Kingdom (UK), and who come to the UK from specified British Overseas Territories, have been eligible for home fee status if they meet the requirement of three years’ ordinary residence in the UK, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and/or specified British Overseas Territories.</p><p>Since 2022/23, those starting designated full-time and part-time undergraduate courses are also now eligible for tuition fee loans in England if they meet the residency requirements. These are that they have been ordinarily resident in the UK, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and/or specified British Overseas Territories throughout the three-year period preceding the first day of the first academic year of the course, with at least part of that period having been spent in the British Overseas Territories.</p> answering member constituency Lewisham East answering member printed Janet Daby question first answered 17/09/2024 16:37:56 answering member 4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1728096

registered interest
date	09/09/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: South Holland and the Deepings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of trends in the number of teachers in South Holland and the Deepings constituency.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	4597
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2024 answer text <p>Information on the school workforce, including the number of teachers in each school, is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication available here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england</a>. As of November 2010, when the School Workforce Census began, there were 779 full-time equivalent (FTE) teachers in the 50 out of 51 state-funded schools that returned data in the South Holland and The Deepings constituency. In November 2023, there were 848 FTE teachers in South Holland and The Deepings constituency, when all 50 schools returned data.</p><p>The ratio of pupils to teachers (qualified and unqualified) has remained broadly stable in the South Holland and The Deepings constituency, at 18.7 in 2010 and in 2023 and ranging between 17.5 and 19.9 in the years in between.</p><p>The number of staff reported by state-funded schools in November 2023, including their constituency, is available in the school level summary file in the ‘Additional supporting files’ section of the statistical publication, which is available here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england</a>.</p><p>The ratio of pupils to teachers and to adults by parliamentary constituency is published here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-catalogue/data-set/997087c9-5b1c-4635-b412-83b4bb0130a6" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-catalogue/data-set/997087c9-5b1c-4635-b412-83b4bb0130a6</a>.</p> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell question first answered 17/09/2024 16:53:10 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1728203

registered interest
date	09/09/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Leicestershire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which state secondary schools in Leicestershire county council area have no school places available.
tabling member constituency	Melton and Syston
tabling member printed	Edward Argar
uin	4723
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2024 answer text <p>The department does not hold data on places currently available.</p><p>Information on unfilled state secondary school places, as at May 2023, is published in the School Capacity statistics publication at the following link: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-capacity" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-capacity</a>. School level information is available here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-catalogue/data-set/5f26c269-bf72-41ab-8292-e17b58ed7c98" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-catalogue/data-set/5f26c269-bf72-41ab-8292-e17b58ed7c98</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell question first answered 17/09/2024 15:27:22 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
tabling member	4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar

1728210

registered interest
date	09/09/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is making additional resources available to accommodate changes in the number of Education Health and Care Plan applications (a) this and (b) next financial year.
tabling member constituency	East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Damian Hinds
uin	4623
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2024 answer text <p>The department is aware not only of the financial pressures that local authorities are facing due to the increasing cost of supporting children and young people with education, health and care (EHC) plans, but also the pressures that the government as a whole is facing because of the financial situation we have inherited. The department is acting as quickly as possible to respond to these cost pressures.</p><p> </p><p>The department is providing schools with almost £1.1 billion in the 2024/25 financial year through the new Core Schools Budget Grant (CSBG), to support with overall costs, including support for young people with EHC plans. Of this total, special schools and alternative provision settings will be receiving over £140 million through the CSBG. The additional funding through the CSBG comes alongside high needs funding for children and young people with complex needs, which totals over £10.75 billion in 2024/25.</p><p> </p><p>Decisions on future funding levels will be for the Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell question first answered 17/09/2024 16:23:14 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
tabling member	3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds

1728211

registered interest
date	09/09/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Private Education: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of charging VAT on independent schools on levels of usage of unregistered schools.
tabling member constituency	East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Damian Hinds
uin	4624
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2024 answer text <p>​Unregistered schools, by their nature, are unregistered and at risk of being unknown, therefore this is not possible to precisely ascertain.</p><p> </p><p>It is an offence under Section 96 of the Education and Skills Act 2008 for any person to conduct an unregistered independent school. Where the department finds evidence that a school is operating unlawfully, we will not hesitate to take action, working with the police, Ofsted and Crown Prosecution Service as necessary.</p><p>Anyone with intelligence or concerns relating to a potential unregistered independent school should read the department's guidance on reporting an unregistered school. This can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/report-an-unregistered-school" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/report-an-unregistered-school</a>. Any information they have can be sent to unregisteredschoolreferrals@ofsted.gov.uk.</p><p>The department has provided additional resources to Ofsted to inspect suspected unregistered independent schools. As a result, a team of dedicated inspectors has been working to identify settings and visit them to determine whether they are operating unlawfully as unregistered independent schools. Where schools are found to be operating unlawfully, Ofsted and DfE are taking action to ensure such settings cease operating unlawfully, working with other authorities as necessary.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth South answering member printed Stephen Morgan question first answered 17/09/2024 15:37:51 answering member 4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan
tabling member	3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds

1728212

registered interest
date	09/09/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to continue to report on the (a) outputs of the Teacher Workforce Model and (b) extent to which targets are met.
tabling member constituency	East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Damian Hinds
uin	4625
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2024 answer text <p>The department uses the Teacher Workforce Model to calculate postgraduate initial teacher trainee targets each year.</p><p> </p><p>These targets are published online each year as part of an official statistics publication, the department intends to publish the 2025/26 academic year targets as usual.</p><p>Performance against the published initial teacher training (ITT) recruitment targets is reported within the ITT census official statistics publication. The next publication will be reporting against the 2024/25 academic year targets and has been pre-announced for December this year. The precise date of publication will be announced nearer the time.</p><p> </p><p>Being an established official statistics publication, the department intends to continue publication of performance against ITT recruitment targets.</p> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell question first answered 17/09/2024 15:59:18 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
tabling member	3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds

1728213

registered interest
date	09/09/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Leicestershire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many vacant state secondary school places there were in (a) Leicestershire County Council LA area, (b) Melton Borough and (c) Melton and Syston constituency on 6 September 2024.
tabling member constituency	Melton and Syston
tabling member printed	Edward Argar
uin	4727
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2024 answer text <p>The department does not hold data on places vacant on 6 September 2024.</p><p>Information on unfilled state secondary school places, as at May 2023, is published in the School Capacity statistics publication at the following link: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-capacity" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-capacity</a>. For ease, local authority level information within the publication for Leicestershire can be accessed here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/a00d6b70-f8fc-4392-b2a8-08dccd7b0275" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/a00d6b70-f8fc-4392-b2a8-08dccd7b0275</a> and can be aggregated to Borough and Parliamentary Constituency level by linking to information at the following link: <a href="https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/</a>.</p><p>For Melton Borough, there were zero secondary school places unfilled in May 2023. For Melton and Syston parliamentary constituency, there were 531 secondary school places (11%) unfilled in May 2023.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell question first answered 17/09/2024 14:57:30 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
tabling member	4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar

1728270

registered interest
date	09/09/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Breakfast Clubs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her planned timetable is for making free breakfast clubs available in every primary school.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr Simon Opher
uin	4838
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2024 answer text <p>The government is committed to breaking down barriers to opportunity and giving every child the best start in life. Breakfast clubs will remove barriers to opportunity by ensuring every child, no matter their circumstances, is set-up for the day and ready to learn by providing a supportive start to the day. The government is committed to making quick progress to deliver on its commitment to offer breakfast clubs in every primary school.</p><p> </p><p>The department has taken decisive action by announcing in the King’s Speech that, under the Children’s Wellbeing Bill, every primary school in England will offer a breakfast club. Legislating for breakfast club provision will give schools the certainty they need to plan for the future. Before the legislation comes into force, the department will work closely with the sector to make sure the right support, including funding, guidance and resources are in place.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth South answering member printed Stephen Morgan question first answered 17/09/2024 16:31:43 answering member 4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan
tabling member	5030

1728334

registered interest
date	09/09/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Holiday Activities and Food Programme: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to make funding available for the Holiday Activity and Food programme beyond 31 December 2024.
tabling member constituency	Newton Abbot
tabling member printed	Martin Wrigley
uin	4902
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2024 answer text <p>The future of the Holiday Activities and Food programme beyond 31 March 2025 is subject to the next government Spending Review taking place this autumn. We will communicate the outcome in due course.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth South answering member printed Stephen Morgan question first answered 17/09/2024 16:34:49 answering member 4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan
tabling member	5111

1728335

registered interest
date	09/09/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Mid Cheshire
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 primary school age children with (a) SEN Support and (b) an Education, Health and Care Plan have not attended school in Mid Cheshire constituency in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Mid Cheshire
tabling member printed	Andrew Cooper
uin	4903
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2024 answer text <p>The requested information is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>The department collects data on children missing education (compulsory school aged children not registered at school or otherwise receiving suitable education) from local authorities on a voluntary basis. The latest figures can be found here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/children-missing-education" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/children-missing-education</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The data are collected at aggregate level, so it is not possible to identify children missing education (CME) by both year group and special educational need (SEN) status. In autumn 2023/24 8% of all CME had an additional requirement of SEN support, while 6% of CME had an education, health and care plan. This compares with 13% and 4% respectively for the overall school population (in January 2023). CME data are not available at constituency level.</p><p> </p><p>The Children’s Wellbeing Bill will legislate for local authority registers of children not in school. This will include a duty on parents to provide the necessary information for these registers if their child is eligible, which would improve the accuracy of data and ensure that fewer children slip under the radar when they are not in school.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth South answering member printed Stephen Morgan grouped question UIN 4904 question first answered 17/09/2024 12:45:12 answering member 4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan
tabling member	5195