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724554

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: Bolsover
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much (a) revenue and (b) capital funding was provided per pupil in state (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools in Bolsover constituency in the last seven years.
	tabling member constituency	Bolsover
	tabling member printed	Mr Dennis Skinner
	uin	72006
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2017 answer text <p><B>The House of Commons was prorogued before the earliest date of answer for this Question.</B></p> answering member constituency answering member printed question first answered 02/05/2017 10:00:00 answering member 0
	tabling member	325 label Biography information for Mr Dennis Skinner

724555

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2017
	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 proportion of families in Bolsover constituency are in receipt of 15-hours a week of free childcare for three and four-year olds.
	tabling member constituency	Bolsover
	tabling member printed	Mr Dennis Skinner
	uin	72011
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2017 answer text <p><B>The House of Commons was prorogued before the earliest date of answer for this Question.</B></p> answering member constituency answering member printed question first answered 02/05/2017 10:00:00 answering member 0
	tabling member	325 label Biography information for Mr Dennis Skinner

1422737

	registered interest
	date	18/02/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices: Standards
	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 ensure that apprentices are not affected by the transition to the provision by Ofqual of external quality assurance of apprenticeship end-point assessments through the regulation of end-point assessment organisations.
	tabling member constituency	South Leicestershire
	tabling member printed	Alberto Costa
	uin	125281
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2022 answer text <p>Simplifying and strengthening the way we conduct external quality assurance of endpoint assessment organisations (EPAOs) will help to ensure that EPAOs are consistently delivering high quality, fair and reliable endpoint assessments for apprentices and their employers.</p><p>To ensure a smooth transition to the new arrangements we are working closely with Ofqual, EPAOs and the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education. Throughout the transition process our primary aim is to minimise any disruption to apprentices or employers. We are maintaining effective quality oversight of end point assessments in the interests of all stakeholders, including apprentices and have, for example, extended the overall transition deadline to December 2022 to minimize any disruption and will work with any EPAO that fails to achieve the required standard in order to deliver a bespoke plan which priorities the quality of the apprenticeship experience.</p><p>We actively manage the register of EPAOs to ensure there is sufficient coverage of EPAOs for all apprenticeship standards and apprentices and continue to do so throughout the transition.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 28/02/2022 16:46:59 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4439 label Biography information for Alberto Costa

1437098

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Training: Regional Planning and Development
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, of the 200,000 additional people completing high-quality skills training referred to in the Levelling Up in the United Kingdom White Paper, how many of those people he expects to be on (a) STEM courses and (b) apprenticeships; and how many are young people up to the age of 25.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	132347
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2022 answer text <p>The mission of 200,000 additional people completing high-quality skills training will focus on increasing the number of adults (those aged 19 and above) completing high quality skills training, including science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) courses and apprenticeships.</p><p>We know that successfully completing these courses improves people’s earnings and life chances and helps them get good jobs.</p><p>The department already has a range of high-quality training offers available to adults across every region of the country including Skills Bootcamps, our Free Course for Jobs offer as well as access to free courses in English, maths, and basic digital skills.</p><p>Meeting the mission will depend on national government, Mayoral Combined Authorities, local authorities, employers and skills providers working together.</p><p>The missions are rolling decade-long endeavours and will be reviewed periodically by the UK government.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart grouped question UIN 132348 question first answered 07/03/2022 15:20:19 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1437099

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Training: Regional Planning and Development
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will provide a breakdown of the number of additional people expected to complete high-quality skills training, as set out in the Levelling Up in the United Kingdom White Paper, in each year between 2022 and 2030.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	132348
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2022 answer text <p>The mission of 200,000 additional people completing high-quality skills training will focus on increasing the number of adults (those aged 19 and above) completing high quality skills training, including science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) courses and apprenticeships.</p><p>We know that successfully completing these courses improves people’s earnings and life chances and helps them get good jobs.</p><p>The department already has a range of high-quality training offers available to adults across every region of the country including Skills Bootcamps, our Free Course for Jobs offer as well as access to free courses in English, maths, and basic digital skills.</p><p>Meeting the mission will depend on national government, Mayoral Combined Authorities, local authorities, employers and skills providers working together.</p><p>The missions are rolling decade-long endeavours and will be reviewed periodically by the UK government.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart grouped question UIN 132347 question first answered 07/03/2022 15:20:19 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1437100

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Training: Regional Planning and Development
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to table 2.3 in the Levelling Up in the United Kingdom White Paper, what steps he plans to take to ensure that local authorities that fall under level 1 devolution plans are able to feed local skills needs into the development of Local Skills Improvement Plans.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	132349
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2022 answer text <p>The Levelling Up White Paper sets out how local areas with devolved adult education functions and the core Adult Education Budget provide input into Local Skills Improvement Plans (LSIPs). However, we will also encourage other local authorities to share relevant local knowledge and intelligence with employer representative bodies that can inform the development of LSIPs. We will set out our expectations for engagement with stakeholders in statutory guidance.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 07/03/2022 11:29:58 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1437101

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Education: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how the Unit for Future Skills is planned to work alongside Local Skills Improvement Plans.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	132350
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2022 answer text <p>The Unit for Future Skills is being set up to bring together data and intelligence on skills and jobs from across government. This will be made available to local and central government, employers, the education sector and academics, and to individuals.</p><p>An early focus for its work will be to provide data and evidence to employer representative bodies and other local partners. This is so Local Skills Improvement Plans (LSIPs) can be built on the best available skills, labour market information, and insights. The unit will be drawing on lessons learned from the trailblazer LSIPs to understand how it can best support employer representative bodies and local stakeholders when LSIPs are rolled out nationally.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 07/03/2022 15:34:54 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1437445

	registered interest
	date	02/03/2022
	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: Carbon Emissions
	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 with the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on ensuring that local skills improvement plans contribute to the UK's net zero targets.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	133258
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2022 answer text <p>The government introduced an amendment to the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill which ensures that skills required in relation to jobs that support compliance with the UK net zero emissions target are considered in the development of Local Skills Improvement Plans. The Department for Education will work closely with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy as we develop statutory guidance on this to ensure we have the right skills to meet the requirements of the net zero transition.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 07/03/2022 14:46:33 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1437446

	registered interest
	date	02/03/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: T-levels
	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 ensure that all SMEs are able to offer t-Level placements across the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	133259
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2022 answer text <p>Small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are key to ensuring that industry placements are a successful component of T Levels, as they make up a large proportion of the employer landscape. We are engaging directly with employers of all sizes, including SMEs, through the department’s employer engagement teams to explain the benefits of T Levels and of industry hosting placements, and to help provide a strong pipeline of employers, across all sectors, ready to offer placements.</p><p>We are providing an extensive programme of support to help ensure employers of all sizes, including SMEs, are able to deliver placements. This includes a comprehensive employer support package, which offers guidance, workshops, and webinars, as well as tailored advice and direct hands-on support, to help build employer confidence and capability to deliver high-quality industry placements. We have also implemented several different delivery models to ensure placements can be delivered by employers of different sizes, across all industries and locations, and our T Level ambassador network is enabling employers, including SMEs, to engage with others in their industries on T Levels and placements. Finally, we have put in place a short-term incentive fund, offering employers £1,000 per industry placement, to encourage employers to offer placements during the COVID-19 outbreak, which has been warmly welcomed by SMEs.</p><p>We will continue to monitor the delivery of placements and work closely with employers, including SMEs, to identify what support they will need going forward to enable them to deliver high quality placements.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 07/03/2022 14:58:22 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1437447

	registered interest
	date	02/03/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	T-levels
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure work placements for t-levels are available in every town in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	133260
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2022 answer text <p>Ensuring employers are made aware of T Levels and are well prepared to deliver high quality industry placements is key to the success of T Level delivery. We have invested over £200 million over the past 4 years to help providers build their capacity and relationships with employers, and have developed a comprehensive package of advice and guidance to support providers to deliver placements, as well as networking opportunities to share best practice.</p><p>We are engaging directly with employers of all sizes throughout England, via the department’s employer engagement teams, to promote the benefits of T Levels and of hosting industry placements. We are providing an extensive programme of employer focussed support to help ensure employers are able to deliver placements. This includes a comprehensive employer support package, which offers guidance, workshops and webinars, as well as tailored advice and direct hands-on support, to help build employer confidence, and capability and capacity to deliver high-quality industry placements. We have also implemented different delivery models to ensure placements can be delivered by employers across all industries and locations. Our T Level ambassador network is enabling employers to engage with others in their industries on T Levels and placements. Finally, we have put in place a short-term incentive fund, offering employers £1,000 per industry placement, to encourage employers to offer placements during the pandemic, which has been warmly welcomed by employers.</p><p>We will continue to monitor the delivery of placements throughout England and work closely with employers to identify what support they will need going forward to enable them to deliver high quality placements.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 07/03/2022 11:52:23 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris