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1404437

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Vocational Education: Environment Protection
	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 ensure that there is sufficient provision of technical and practical education in green skills to meet the future demands of the economy.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	107474
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2022 answer text <p>​​The government is committed to supporting green skills across the country. At the recent Spending Review, we set out investment of £3.8 billion in further education 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>Building on the skills for jobs white paper, the Net Zero Strategy (published in October 2021) sets out how the government’s skills reforms will strengthen links between employers and providers, support workers in high carbon sectors with the transition, and help to build a pipeline of future talent.</p><p>Through the Lifetime Skills Guarantee, we are supporting workers to gain the skills they need to transition to the green economy, including through targeted support for retraining. As part of this and through the National Skills Fund investment, we are delivering Skills Bootcamps, which are short, flexible courses covering digital, technical and green skills. Green Skills Bootcamps are available in areas such as housing retrofit, solar, nuclear energy and vehicle electrification.</p><p>The Free Courses for Jobs offer has, since April 2021, been supporting adults who do not have a qualification at level 3 or higher to access over 400 level 3 courses for free. The offer currently includes qualifications linked to green sectors such as agriculture, building and construction, engineering, environmental conservation, horticulture and forestry and science. This offer replaces loan funding with grant funding for any adult over the age of 23 looking to achieve their first level 3 qualification. In addition, we have recently announced that, from April this year, any adult in England who is earning under the National Living Wage annually (£18,525), or is unemployed, will also be able to access these qualifications for free, regardless of their prior qualification level.</p><p>At post-16 level, we will continue to build on our apprenticeship reforms, to align the majority of post-16 technical education and training with employer-led standards by 2030. A strengthened system of employer-led standards, underpinning apprenticeships, T Levels and new higher technical qualifications will ensure employers, including in low carbon sectors, have a central role in designing and developing qualifications and training.</p><p>High quality apprenticeships give students of all ages the practical skills, knowledge, and behaviours to make an immediate impact across all industries. The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (the Institute) has convened a Green Apprenticeships Advisory Panel (GAAP) to work with employers to align apprenticeships to net zero objectives. Work is underway to map existing apprenticeship standards against green occupations and identify opportunities to create new standards in areas including retrofit, agri-tech and renewable energy and the GAAP has endorsed existing apprenticeships which support green career pathways.</p><p>In 2021, we introduced the first occupational traineeships, in collaboration with sector bodies, to provide a clear, planned transition to an apprenticeship at level 2 to 3 for young people aged 16 to 24. They allow young people to continue in learning with a work-based programme of training. Going forward, we will consider the potential to develop and introduce other occupational traineeships, including in priority and green sectors to ensure that young people secure the jobs of the future.</p><p>We are continuing to roll out T Levels that support green careers, providing high quality technical qualifications as an alternative to A levels which are underpinned by the same employer-led approach as apprenticeships. The building services engineering for construction T Level, launched in September 2021, will cover housing retrofit and heat pump installation. From September 2022, new T Levels will be available in engineering, manufacturing, processing and control, with agriculture, land management and production available by September 2023. The Institute is exploring the suitability of potential future T Levels and occupational specialisms, focusing on areas to support green skills.</p><p>Our network of Institutes of Technology (IoT) across England specialise in delivering higher technical education and are utilising their state of the art facilities to offer training in green skills. This includes the East London IoT which offers training in green and zero carbon energy production, and the Greater Birmingham and Solihull IoT which focuses on sustainable engineering. The network is supporting increased participation from underrepresented groups, including women, helping to grow the pipeline of individuals with science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) skills needed for green jobs. We are investing £120 million in the second wave of IoTs, to be up and running this year.</p><p>Working alongside industry, we will continue to ensure that our existing skills programmes can be directed to support the net zero agenda, and where appropriate identify further opportunities to flex key skills programmes to support green sectors and occupations.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 24/01/2022 16:46:09 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

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

1388074

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Training
	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 adequacy of professional training available within companies for existing staff seeking to upskill within their current role.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
	uin	93735
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2022 answer text <p>Whilst the professional development and training of employees is a matter for individual employers, we are committed to supporting employers to equip staff with the skills they need.</p><p>Through apprenticeships, the government is supporting employers of all sizes to equip their staff with the skills they need now and in the future.</p><p>Apprenticeships funding will grow to £2.7 billion by the 2024-25 financial year, the first increase to apprenticeships funding since 2019-20, as we continue to support businesses to recruit the right people and develop the skills they need.</p><p>Apprenticeships are a great way for employers in all sectors to upskill or retrain existing employees at all levels of their organisations, and to support new employees, including those starting out in their careers. We are making apprenticeships more flexible so employers can choose the apprenticeship training that works for them, and even more people can benefit. For example, accelerated apprenticeships are supporting those with industry experience to achieve occupational competence more quickly by using their prior learning and tailoring the apprenticeship to meet their needs.</p><p>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 a local employer. For employers wanting to train their own employees through Skills Bootcamps, the government funds 70% of the cost.</p><p>Complementing this, the Free Courses for Jobs offer, which was launched in April 2021, gives eligible adults the chance to access their first level 3 qualifications for free. Employers can encourage their staff to take up courses available under this offer to upskill and access new opportunities in their current place of work.</p><p>In addition, from April 2022, any adult in England earning under the National Living Wage annually or unemployed, will also be able to access these qualifications for free, regardless of their prior qualification level.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart grouped question UIN 93736 question first answered 05/01/2022 15:22:30 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1388075

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Employment: Training
	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 support employers with the provision of (a) training and (b) continuing professional development for existing staff.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
	uin	93736
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2022 answer text <p>Whilst the professional development and training of employees is a matter for individual employers, we are committed to supporting employers to equip staff with the skills they need.</p><p>Through apprenticeships, the government is supporting employers of all sizes to equip their staff with the skills they need now and in the future.</p><p>Apprenticeships funding will grow to £2.7 billion by the 2024-25 financial year, the first increase to apprenticeships funding since 2019-20, as we continue to support businesses to recruit the right people and develop the skills they need.</p><p>Apprenticeships are a great way for employers in all sectors to upskill or retrain existing employees at all levels of their organisations, and to support new employees, including those starting out in their careers. We are making apprenticeships more flexible so employers can choose the apprenticeship training that works for them, and even more people can benefit. For example, accelerated apprenticeships are supporting those with industry experience to achieve occupational competence more quickly by using their prior learning and tailoring the apprenticeship to meet their needs.</p><p>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 a local employer. For employers wanting to train their own employees through Skills Bootcamps, the government funds 70% of the cost.</p><p>Complementing this, the Free Courses for Jobs offer, which was launched in April 2021, gives eligible adults the chance to access their first level 3 qualifications for free. Employers can encourage their staff to take up courses available under this offer to upskill and access new opportunities in their current place of work.</p><p>In addition, from April 2022, any adult in England earning under the National Living Wage annually or unemployed, will also be able to access these qualifications for free, regardless of their prior qualification level.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart grouped question UIN 93735 question first answered 05/01/2022 15:22:30 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

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

1387486

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Local Skills Improvement Plans
	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 ensure that bodies responsible for local skills improvement plans have access to local data on youth unemployment at a regional level; and with what frequency that data will be available.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
	uin	91922
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2021 answer text <p>When developing Local Skills Improvement Plans, designated employer representative bodies will be expected to draw on a variety of local labour market data and intelligence, including that on youth unemployment and young people not in education, employment or training. In addition to the information published by the Office for National Statistics on a quarterly basis, employer representative bodies will be expected to engage with local Jobcentre Plus representatives to better understand the specific and emerging circumstances for their local area. Our expectations of designated employer representative bodies, in terms of developing a robust Local Skills Improvement Plan, will be set out in statutory guidance.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 16/12/2021 17:15:11 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1378913

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2021
	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, what steps he will take to ensure that BTEC qualifications are (a) accessible to students and (b) recognised as legitimate qualifications.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	75918
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2021 answer text <p>We will continue to fund some BTECs and other Applied General qualifications (AGQs) in future where there is a clear need for skills and knowledge that A levels and T Levels cannot provide and where they meet new quality standards. Qualifications such as BTECs will continue to play an important role for 16 to 19 year olds and adults. This includes for students combining BTECs and other AGQs as part of mixed programmes alongside A levels, and those taking qualifications such as BTECs as their full programme of study where there is no A level or T Level.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 23/11/2021 15:47:32 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1363069

	registered interest
	date	25/10/2021
	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 current academic qualifications will lose funding following the proposed introduction of T-Level qualifications.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	62594
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2021 answer text <p>We will continue to fund high quality qualifications that can be taken alongside, or as alternatives to, T Levels and A levels, where there is a clear need for skills and knowledge that T Levels and A levels cannot provide.</p><p>We have not pre-judged which subject areas will be funded in future, but our plans for reform published in July listed a number of areas where we see a clear role for academic qualifications to sit alongside A levels. These include performing and creative arts, sport and STEM subjects.</p><p>Funding approval criteria for academic qualifications to be approved for delivery from 2024 and beyond will be published in 2022.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 02/11/2021 16:43:33 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1360753

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Education: Business
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what resources are available for education institutions to engage with local businesses and employers in their community.
	tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
	tabling member printed	Holly Mumby-Croft
	uin	58574
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2021 answer text <p>We want to create quality interactions between schools, colleges, and businesses. The Careers and Enterprise Company supports schools and colleges to make links with local employers. Over 3,500 volunteer business professionals are now working with schools and colleges through the Enterprise Adviser Network to help open young people’s eyes to a range of different career possibilities, challenge stereotypes and help prepare them for the workplace. We also have over 300 major employers, known as cornerstone employers, driving the delivery of encounters for young people in opportunity areas and careers hubs across England.</p><p>As part of the Skills for Jobs white paper, a £65 million Strategic Development Fund is being piloted in several areas across the country to test a new collaborative approach to skills planning and delivery. Some of the pilots are establishing college business centres to work with local employers to develop a joint understanding of the skills and technology needed to drive innovation and productivity, and to develop a more targeted response.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 26/10/2021 13:28:18 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4867 label Biography information for Holly Mumby-Croft

1356966

	registered interest
	date	20/09/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	T-levels: Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans his Department has to encourage more young people to study T Levels.
	tabling member constituency	Bury South
	tabling member printed	Christian Wakeford
	uin	51900
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2021 answer text <p>We want as many young people as possible to benefit from T Levels. The T Level communications campaign launched in October 2019, aimed at potential students and parents of 14-16 year olds. We are working with the Careers and Enterprise Company to ensure that careers staff can articulate their benefits to students and have included T Levels in the Apprenticeships Support and Knowledge programme, which offers free support and resources to schools to upskill their staff.</p><p>We continue to support T Level providers with their recruitment, and going forward T Levels will be part of a new ‘Young People’s Futures’ campaign. This will support 14-19 year olds to understand the range of education, training and work options open to them, including T Levels. T Levels also feature in our Employer Support campaign, helping to increase awareness nationally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 28/09/2021 14:34:47 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4871 label Biography information for Christian Wakeford