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1466489

	registered interest
	date	26/05/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Turing Scheme: Labour Mobility
	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 relevant stakeholders on the decision to exclude staff mobility from the Turing Scheme; and what assessment he has made of the impact of that decision on staff and participants under the scheme.
	tabling member constituency	North East Fife
	tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
	uin	10015
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2022 answer text <p>Teaching and college staff mobility will not be funded as part of the Turing Scheme in the 2022/23 academic year, to maximise the amount of student, learner, and pupils’ access to life-changing mobilities. The department will continue to keep this decision under review and plans to assess the impact of the scheme following its first year of delivery.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 06/06/2022 12:06:42 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1401511

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of apprenticeship starts in (a) Quarter 1 of 2021, (b) Quarter 2 of 2021 and (c) Quarter 3 of 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
	uin	100488
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>The latest published apprenticeship starts data covers the 2020/21 academic year and was published in November 2021 in the Apprenticeships and traineeships statistics publication: <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>.</p><p>Quarterly apprenticeship starts breakdowns for the 2021 calendar year show:</p><ul><li>83,500 starts in the first quarter (January to March).</li><li>65,900 starts in the second quarter of the 2021 academic year (April to June).</li><li>So far, for the third quarter (only July), 21,300 starts have been reported so far.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The attached file contains monthly breakdowns of starts for the entire 2020/21 academic year.</p><p>The first in-year apprenticeship starts data for the 2021/22 academic year (covering August to October 2021) will be published in January 2022.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 13/01/2022 12:36:49 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart attachment 1 file name 100488_apprenticeship_starts_table.xlsx title 100488_table
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1401515

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Adult Education: Finance
	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 financial effect of the adult education clawback for the academic year 2021- 22 on affected further education colleges.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
	uin	100489
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>We monitor college financial health on a regular basis and use this information to determine where support and intervention from the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) and Further Education Commissioner can help colleges to improve their position.</p><p>Where colleges are at risk of running out of cash, emergency funding is considered on a case-by-case basis and based on a thorough assessment of each college's circumstances and the minimum funding needed to minimise disruption to learners.</p><p>The financial impact on further education (FE) colleges who did not meet the Adult Education Budget (AEB) Reconciliation threshold for 2020 to 2021 funding year was assessed using information in the College Financial Forecasting Return (CFFR) submitted to the ESFA in July 2021. In addition, eligible FE colleges were able to submit an AEB Reconciliation business case with an updated CFFR or additional financial information, where clawback of funds meant this had a material financial impact on their cashflow in 2021-22 financial year.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 13/01/2022 12:15:57 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1401517

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	BTEC Qualifications
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has (a) sought and (b) received representations from employers about the value that they place on BTEC qualifications.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
	uin	100490
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>The department has consulted in two stages on reforms to level 3 qualifications. For both consultations the department sought responses from employers and their representative bodies about our proposals for the range of qualifications that will be funded alongside T Levels and A levels in future. The review has engaged with employer groups representing a range of industry, including construction, digital, engineering, hair and beauty, as well as bodies representing both small and large employers.</p><p>We published our plans for reform in July 2021 alongside a summary of the responses received to the most recent consultation. This summary did not separate the responses by employers and their representatives from wider respondents.</p><p>We continue to work with the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (the Institute) to ensure that employers remain at the heart of our reforms. The Institute works extensively with employers to make certain that qualifications are grounded in the needs of the workplace.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 13/01/2022 12:21:28 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1401518

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices: Construction and Manufacturing Industries
	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 encourage employers in the (a) construction and (b) manufacturing sectors to offer apprenticeships, particularly to those aged under 25 years old.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
	uin	100491
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>Apprenticeships provide people with the opportunity to earn and learn the skills needed to start an exciting career in the construction and manufacturing industries. Employers in the construction, engineering and manufacturing sectors have developed over 230 high-quality apprenticeship standards in their industries. These range from level 2 to level 7 in occupations such as Stonemason, Town Planning and Process Automation Engineer.</p><p>In the 2020/21 academic year there were 20,000 apprenticeship starts in the Construction, Planning and the Built Environment sector subject area, and 39,500 starts in Engineering and Manufacturing Technologies.</p><p>The department is making apprenticeships more flexible so that they better meet the needs of employers in all sectors, including construction and manufacturing. This is so more employers and individuals can benefit from the high-quality training apprenticeships.</p><p>The department is supporting employers to offer more apprenticeships to young people in the construction sector where flexible working practices are commonplace, including short periods of project-based employment. The department is encouraging the use of more flexible training models, front-loaded training and flexi-job apprenticeships to ensure apprentices are ready to work on-site and can benefit from high-quality long-term training that an apprenticeship provides.</p><p>Employers can continue to benefit from the £3,000 incentive payment for hiring new apprentices until January 2022. Over 160,000 incentive payments have been claimed by employers so far, as of 22 December 2021, 78% of claims were for apprentices under 25.</p><p>The department continues to provide £1,000 to both employers and training providers when they take on apprentices aged between 16 and 18 years old, or 19-to-24-year-old apprentices who either have an education, health and care plan.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 13/01/2022 12:11:06 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1401519

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2022
	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, what assessment he has made of the ability of apprenticeship levy paying employers to transfer levy funds to non-levy paying employers.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
	uin	100492
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>The department is committed to supporting more employers to use apprenticeships to develop the skilled workforces they need, and to supporting more people, from all backgrounds, to benefit from the high-quality training that apprenticeships offer.</p><p>The department continues to make improvements to the levy transfer system to make it easier for large employers to make full use of their levy funds and support starts in their supply chain, sector, or local area, and to support more employers, including small and medium sizes enterprises, to take on new apprentices. In September 2021, the department launched a new online service to allow levy-paying employers to advertise funding pledges, and to enable other businesses to browse and apply for these funds.</p><p>It is encouraging to see that employers, including DPD, Mace Group, and Amazon UK, are taking advantage of this opportunity to support new apprenticeship starts in all sectors of the economy. So far in the 2021-22 financial year, over 100 employers have pledged £7 million of levy funds for transfer.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 13/01/2022 12:25:39 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1401993

	registered interest
	date	11/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Unemployment: York
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of people who are classified as not in education, employment or training in (a) York Central constituency and (b) York.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	101773
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2022 answer text <p>The department publishes national statistics on those not in education, employment or training (NEET) for England from the labour force survey for young people aged 16-24. However, these are only published at national and regional level due to limitations with sample sizes for lower-level geographies. Therefore, NEET rates for young people aged 16-24 cannot be provided for the areas requested.</p><p>The publication is available to view here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/neet-statistics-annual-brief" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/neet-statistics-annual-brief</a>.</p><p>Local authorities are required to encourage, enable, or assist young people’s participation in education or training and return management information for those aged 16 and 17. This data is published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/neet-and-participation-local-authority-figures" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/neet-and-participation-local-authority-figures</a>.</p><p>This shows that of the 3,500 16 and 17 year olds who were known to York local authority around the end of 2020 (average of December 2020, January 2021 and February 2021), 110 were NEET or their activity was not known (65 known to be NEET and 45 young people whom the local authority could not confirm their activity). These are not national statistics but published as transparency data so some caution should be taken if using these figures.</p><p>In addition, 16-18 destination measures are published. These official statistics show the percentage of pupils not continuing to a sustained education, apprenticeship, or employment destination in the year after completing 16-18 study, that is 6 months of continual activity. This can be used as a proxy for NEET at age 18.</p><p>The below statistics show that of the cohort of young people leaving state funded mainstream schools and colleges<sup>1</sup> in 2019/20:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>16-18 Destination measures<sup>2,3</sup>, 2019/20</strong></p></td><td><p>Number in cohort</p></td><td><p>Number not in a sustained destination<sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p>Number activity not captured<sup>5</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>York</p></td><td><p>3,510</p></td><td><p>525</p></td><td><p>248</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>York Central Constituency</p></td><td><p>353</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><ol><li>Covers all state-funded mainstream schools, academies, free schools, city technology colleges, sixth forms and other and further education sector colleges. Excludes alternative provision, special schools, other government department funded colleges and independent schools.</li><li>Local authority figures are based on the local education authority area responsible for the young person whereas constituency figures are based on the provider location.</li><li>Links to the destination measures statistics quoted in table:<ul><li>York local authority: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/8dacd6e4-a5b1-401c-b834-3fbc62621b0e" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/8dacd6e4-a5b1-401c-b834-3fbc62621b0e</a></li><li>York Central Constituency: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/ebedb6cb-4536-4aa5-aca9-cbad3c42ea9b" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/ebedb6cb-4536-4aa5-aca9-cbad3c42ea9b</a></li></ul></li><li>Students who had participated in education, apprenticeships or employment during the academic year but did not complete the required 6 months participation.</li><li>Student was not found to have any participation in education, apprenticeship, or employment in England.</li></ol><p><strong><br> </strong></p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 19/01/2022 10:40:02 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1402217

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Sixth Form Education: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will take steps to extend sixth-form education for pupils who have suffered from long covid.
	tabling member constituency	New Forest West
	tabling member printed	Sir Desmond Swayne
	uin	102524
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2022 answer text <p>Whilst all students in sixth form education have seen disruption and changes in the way they have received their education during the COVID-19 outbreak, we expect all institutions providing education for students aged 16 to 19 to support their student cohort to progress to a suitable destination in education, training or the workplace.</p><p>As part of the government’s commitment to long-term education recovery we have made available £102 million to extend the 16 to 19 tuition fund in this academic year. This fund allows students in 16 to 19 education to access one-to-one and small group catch up tuition to help them catch up in subjects that will benefit them the most, including maths, English, and vocational courses. We are extending the fund further by £222 million for an additional two academic years from 2022/23.</p><p>The department is also investing £828 million across the Spending Review period to fund an average of 40 additional learning hours for students in 16 to 19 education. This funding will start from the 2022/23 academic year and provide students aged 16 to 19 with further opportunities to catch up on the vital teaching and learning they need to progress.</p><p>For students who were in the final year of their 16 to 19 study programme in academic year 2020/21 and whose education was impacted significantly more than their peers by COVID-19, we are funding institutions to enable these students to repeat up to a year of their studies within academic year 2021/22. This repeat year offer supports students whose chances of progression had been limited during academic year 2020/21, for example students whose practical skills development, work experience or assessments had been adversely impacted and with the least time left in their education.</p><p>We will continue to assess the need to develop existing or further interventions in response to the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 18/01/2022 17:34:12 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne

1402379

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Vocational Education: Swindon
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of vocational educational opportunities in Swindon.
	tabling member constituency	North Swindon
	tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
	uin	102619
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2022 answer text <p>We are investing £3.8 billion in further education and skills, to ensure people can access high-quality training and education that leads to good jobs, addresses skills gaps, boosts productivity and supports levelling up.</p><p>We are introducing T Levels, boosting access to high quality technical education for thousands of 16-19 year olds. Young people in Swindon are now benefitting from these new qualifications, as New College Swindon began teaching T Levels in Digital, Education &amp; Childcare, Health and Science from September last year.</p><p>The department is also committed to supporting more people to benefit from the high-quality training that apprenticeships offer, including those at the start of their career or those looking to retrain. Funding for apprenticeships will grow to £2.7 billion by financial year 2024-25, delivering the first increase to employer-led apprenticeships funding since financial year 2019-20. We are also investing over £550 million by financial year 2024-25 to make sure adults can upskill to reach their potential, delivering on the National Skills Fund commitment.</p><p>The Free Courses for Jobs offer, launched in April 2021, gives adults the chance to access their first level 3 qualification for free. We have also recently announced that from April, any adult in England earning under the National Living Wage annually (£18,525) or unemployed, will also be able to access these qualifications for free, regardless of their prior qualification level. New Swindon College is amongst many training providers who have been allocated funding to deliver this offer.</p><p>Complementing this, Skills Bootcamps offer free, flexible courses of up to 16 weeks, giving people the opportunity to build up sector-specific skills and fast-track to an interview with an employer. Skills Bootcamps are now available in areas across the country as well as online, covering digital, technical, construction, logistics (HGV driving), and green skills. In Swindon, Skills Bootcamps in HGV driving are currently available. We continue to expand Skills Bootcamps further, and more courses will become available across England over the next few months.</p><p>We are also launching Multiply, a new £560 million programme to help people improve their basic numeracy skills through free digital training, flexible courses and tutoring. Launching in Spring 2022, the Multiply programme is in addition to the England-wide statutory entitlement for numeracy and will give people who don’t have at least a GCSE Grace C/4 or equivalent in maths, access to free new flexible courses to improve their maths skills. This will include a new website with bitesize training and online tutorials, as well as flexible courses.</p><p>Apprenticeships have long been a growth area for New College Swindon and in September 2021, the college opened the Swindon and Wiltshire Institute of Technology, with a mission to be a high-quality employer-led training facility delivering high level technical and digital skills training for young people and to those already in employment.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 18/01/2022 17:17:31 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

1402381

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices and Vocational Education: Swindon
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of people in (a) apprenticeships and (b) vocational educations in (i) Swindon and (b) England.
	tabling member constituency	North Swindon
	tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
	uin	102620
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2022 answer text <p>The latest published apprenticeship starts data covers the 2020/21 academic year and was published in November 2021 in the apprenticeships and traineeships statistics publication: <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>.</p><p>Apprenticeship participation for Swindon between academic years 2018/19 and 2020/21 is contained in the below table:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2018/19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019/20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020/21</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Participation</strong></p></td><td><p>3,030</p></td><td><p>2,920</p></td><td><p>2,720</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>More data on apprenticeship participation by region can be found here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/fast-track/7cb8ccbd-43d2-4909-822d-6cac2fae30eb" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/fast-track/7cb8ccbd-43d2-4909-822d-6cac2fae30eb</a></p><p>Apprenticeship participation for England between 2018/19 and 2020/21 is contained in the below table:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2018/19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019/20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020/21</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>England - Participation</strong></p></td><td><p>742,400</p></td><td><p>719,000</p></td><td><p>713,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>More information on apprenticeship participation can be explored here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/8b98defb-9b2b-4edd-89a5-4177bbf27fed" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/8b98defb-9b2b-4edd-89a5-4177bbf27fed</a></p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 18/01/2022 18:15:26 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson