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1729606

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Music: Education
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the mental health benefits of music education for children; and what plans they have to promote music in the national curriculum for primary schools.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne
	uin	HL1072
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2024 answer text <p>The government believes that creative subjects like arts, music and drama are important elements of the rounded and enriching education every child deserves to receive. Under this government, the arts and music will no longer be the preserve of a privileged few.</p><p>Music is in the current National Curriculum, which is compulsory in all maintained schools from the age of 5 to 14 years. The government has established an independent Curriculum and Assessment Review, which will be chaired by Professor Becky Francis CBE, and one of the aims is to deliver a broader curriculum so that pupils do not miss out on subjects such as music. When the review has concluded, and subject to Parliament passing the Children’s Wellbeing Bill, the department will require all state-funded schools, including academies and free schools, to follow the National Curriculum.</p><p>The department additionally supports children to learn music through the Music Hubs programme, which supports instrumental teaching in schools, as well as providing continuing professional development for teachers and access to local, regional and national ensembles. In 2022/23, Music Hubs provided support to around 90% of primary schools across England.</p><p>The department has not made a specific assessment of whether promoting music education in the National Curriculum for primary schools would help diminish pressures on the NHS arising from children’s mental health. However, studies show that music education has a wide range of wellbeing benefits for children.</p><p>The government is committed to improving mental health support for all children and young people. The right support should be available to every young person that needs it, which is why the government will provide access to specialist mental health professionals in every school.</p><p>The government will also be putting in place new Young Futures hubs, including access to mental health support workers, and will recruit an additional 8,500 new mental health staff to treat children and adults.</p> answering member printed Baroness Smith of Malvern grouped question UIN HL1073 question first answered 25/09/2024 14:44:04 answering member 269 label Biography information for Baroness Smith of Malvern
	tabling member	1164 label Biography information for Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne

1729607

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Music: Education
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether promoting music education in the national curriculum for primary schools would help diminish pressures on the NHS arising from children’s mental health.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne
	uin	HL1073
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2024 answer text <p>The government believes that creative subjects like arts, music and drama are important elements of the rounded and enriching education every child deserves to receive. Under this government, the arts and music will no longer be the preserve of a privileged few.</p><p>Music is in the current National Curriculum, which is compulsory in all maintained schools from the age of 5 to 14 years. The government has established an independent Curriculum and Assessment Review, which will be chaired by Professor Becky Francis CBE, and one of the aims is to deliver a broader curriculum so that pupils do not miss out on subjects such as music. When the review has concluded, and subject to Parliament passing the Children’s Wellbeing Bill, the department will require all state-funded schools, including academies and free schools, to follow the National Curriculum.</p><p>The department additionally supports children to learn music through the Music Hubs programme, which supports instrumental teaching in schools, as well as providing continuing professional development for teachers and access to local, regional and national ensembles. In 2022/23, Music Hubs provided support to around 90% of primary schools across England.</p><p>The department has not made a specific assessment of whether promoting music education in the National Curriculum for primary schools would help diminish pressures on the NHS arising from children’s mental health. However, studies show that music education has a wide range of wellbeing benefits for children.</p><p>The government is committed to improving mental health support for all children and young people. The right support should be available to every young person that needs it, which is why the government will provide access to specialist mental health professionals in every school.</p><p>The government will also be putting in place new Young Futures hubs, including access to mental health support workers, and will recruit an additional 8,500 new mental health staff to treat children and adults.</p> answering member printed Baroness Smith of Malvern grouped question UIN HL1072 question first answered 25/09/2024 14:44:04 answering member 269 label Biography information for Baroness Smith of Malvern
	tabling member	1164 label Biography information for Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne

1729610

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Outdoor Education
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the benefit of forest schools and similar nature-focused learning for child development.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Norwich
	uin	HL1076
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2024 answer text <p>Forest schools provide children with frequent opportunities for outdoor play and exploration.</p><p>The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) statutory framework sets the standards and requirements that all early years providers must follow to ensure every child has the best start in life.</p><p>The EYFS framework states that providers must provide access to an outdoor play area. If that is not possible, they must ensure that outdoor activities are planned and taken on a daily basis, unless circumstances make this inappropriate, for example unsafe weather conditions. The EYFS framework also specifies that young children should develop positive values towards the environment and the natural world.</p><p>By creating games and providing opportunities for play both indoors and outdoors, such as in larger parks and spaces in the local area or through forest schools, adults can support children to develop in a number of areas, including core strength, stability, balance and spatial awareness.</p><p>The department is committed to supporting all early years settings to deliver the EYFS well, for the benefit of all children.</p> answering member printed Baroness Smith of Malvern question first answered 25/09/2024 14:42:45 answering member 269 label Biography information for Baroness Smith of Malvern
	tabling member	4999 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Norwich

1729624

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Speech and Language Disorders
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government which providers of language intervention programmes for schools they support with funding.
	tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
	uin	HL1093
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2024 answer text <p>The department works with the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) to support building the evidence base for early language interventions. In July 2024, the department announced that funded support for the 11,100 schools registered for the Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) programme (two thirds of English state primary schools) would continue for the 2024/25 academic year. NELI is the most robustly evidenced early language programme in the UK, helping children who need extra support with their speech and language development to make four months of additional progress and seven months for those on free school meals.</p><p>To support early language skills, the department has invested over £20 million in NELI. The department does not hold the exact number of children who have completed NELI since 2020, but an estimate is based on the data included in EEF’s 'NELI Scale-up: Evaluation Report - Year 2', as attached. The programme has screened more than 650,000 children in the last four years and supported more than 210,000 four and five-year-olds since the pandemic. Broken down by academic year, this is:</p><p>2020/21: 35,000</p><p>2021/22: 59,000</p><p>2022/23: 58,000</p><p>2023/24: 59,000</p><p>The Stronger Practice Hubs, which provide advice, share good practice and offer evidence-based professional development for early years practitioners, have also collaborated with the EEF to fund and make places available on several early language programmes. This is helping to strengthen and add to the evidence base of early years professional development programmes. The department does not hold data on the number of children who have benefitted from these programmes.</p><p>The number of new schools who registered to deliver NELI in each academic year since 2020 are as follows:</p><p>2020/21: 6,668</p><p>2021/22: 4,418</p><p>2022/23: 26</p><p>2023/24: no new school registration undertaken</p><p>For registered schools, the government has continued to fund the intervention so that schools can deliver the programme to new cohorts of reception children, where they are identified with below or well-below average language levels. We do not hold figures on how many of these schools completed the full work programme in each of those years.</p> answering member printed Baroness Smith of Malvern grouped question UIN HL1094 HL1095 question first answered 25/09/2024 14:50:13 answering member 269 label Biography information for Baroness Smith of Malvern attachment 1 file name HL1093_HL1094_HL1095_NELI_Scale_Up_Evaluation_Report_Year_2.pdf title HL1093_HL1094_HL1095_attachment
	tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

1729625

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Speech and Language Disorders
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many children have completed language intervention programmes each year since such programmes were first funded by the Government in 2021.
	tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
	uin	HL1094
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2024 answer text <p>The department works with the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) to support building the evidence base for early language interventions. In July 2024, the department announced that funded support for the 11,100 schools registered for the Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) programme (two thirds of English state primary schools) would continue for the 2024/25 academic year. NELI is the most robustly evidenced early language programme in the UK, helping children who need extra support with their speech and language development to make four months of additional progress and seven months for those on free school meals.</p><p>To support early language skills, the department has invested over £20 million in NELI. The department does not hold the exact number of children who have completed NELI since 2020, but an estimate is based on the data included in EEF’s 'NELI Scale-up: Evaluation Report - Year 2', as attached. The programme has screened more than 650,000 children in the last four years and supported more than 210,000 four and five-year-olds since the pandemic. Broken down by academic year, this is:</p><p>2020/21: 35,000</p><p>2021/22: 59,000</p><p>2022/23: 58,000</p><p>2023/24: 59,000</p><p>The Stronger Practice Hubs, which provide advice, share good practice and offer evidence-based professional development for early years practitioners, have also collaborated with the EEF to fund and make places available on several early language programmes. This is helping to strengthen and add to the evidence base of early years professional development programmes. The department does not hold data on the number of children who have benefitted from these programmes.</p><p>The number of new schools who registered to deliver NELI in each academic year since 2020 are as follows:</p><p>2020/21: 6,668</p><p>2021/22: 4,418</p><p>2022/23: 26</p><p>2023/24: no new school registration undertaken</p><p>For registered schools, the government has continued to fund the intervention so that schools can deliver the programme to new cohorts of reception children, where they are identified with below or well-below average language levels. We do not hold figures on how many of these schools completed the full work programme in each of those years.</p> answering member printed Baroness Smith of Malvern grouped question UIN HL1093 HL1095 question first answered 25/09/2024 14:50:13 answering member 269 label Biography information for Baroness Smith of Malvern attachment 1 file name HL1093_HL1094_HL1095_NELI_Scale_Up_Evaluation_Report_Year_2.pdf title HL1093_HL1094_HL1095_attachment
	tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

1729626

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Speech and Language Disorders
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many schools registered to deliver language intervention programmes in (1) 2021, (2) 2022, and (3) 2023, and how many completed the full work programme in each of those years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
	uin	HL1095
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2024 answer text <p>The department works with the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) to support building the evidence base for early language interventions. In July 2024, the department announced that funded support for the 11,100 schools registered for the Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) programme (two thirds of English state primary schools) would continue for the 2024/25 academic year. NELI is the most robustly evidenced early language programme in the UK, helping children who need extra support with their speech and language development to make four months of additional progress and seven months for those on free school meals.</p><p>To support early language skills, the department has invested over £20 million in NELI. The department does not hold the exact number of children who have completed NELI since 2020, but an estimate is based on the data included in EEF’s 'NELI Scale-up: Evaluation Report - Year 2', as attached. The programme has screened more than 650,000 children in the last four years and supported more than 210,000 four and five-year-olds since the pandemic. Broken down by academic year, this is:</p><p>2020/21: 35,000</p><p>2021/22: 59,000</p><p>2022/23: 58,000</p><p>2023/24: 59,000</p><p>The Stronger Practice Hubs, which provide advice, share good practice and offer evidence-based professional development for early years practitioners, have also collaborated with the EEF to fund and make places available on several early language programmes. This is helping to strengthen and add to the evidence base of early years professional development programmes. The department does not hold data on the number of children who have benefitted from these programmes.</p><p>The number of new schools who registered to deliver NELI in each academic year since 2020 are as follows:</p><p>2020/21: 6,668</p><p>2021/22: 4,418</p><p>2022/23: 26</p><p>2023/24: no new school registration undertaken</p><p>For registered schools, the government has continued to fund the intervention so that schools can deliver the programme to new cohorts of reception children, where they are identified with below or well-below average language levels. We do not hold figures on how many of these schools completed the full work programme in each of those years.</p> answering member printed Baroness Smith of Malvern grouped question UIN HL1093 HL1094 question first answered 25/09/2024 14:50:13 answering member 269 label Biography information for Baroness Smith of Malvern attachment 1 file name HL1093_HL1094_HL1095_NELI_Scale_Up_Evaluation_Report_Year_2.pdf title HL1093_HL1094_HL1095_attachment
	tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

1728454

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Lincolnshire
	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) Lincolnshire County Council and (b) South Holland and The Deepings constituency on 6 September 2024.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	4967
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>The department does not hold data on places vacant on 6 September 2024.</p><p> </p><p>Information on unfilled state secondary school places, as at May 2023, is published in the School Capacity statistics publication here: <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>.</p><p> </p><p>For ease, local authority level information within the publication for Lincolnshire local authority can be accessed here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/62411dcf-5a26-4262-e175-08dccd7b577b" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/62411dcf-5a26-4262-e175-08dccd7b577b</a>.</p><p> </p><p>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>. This information can be aggregated to borough and parliamentary constituency level by linking to here: <a href="https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/</a>.</p><p> </p><p>In summary, for South Holland and The Deepings parliamentary constituency, there were 605 unfilled secondary school places (8%) in May 2023.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell question first answered 18/09/2024 15:57:24 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1728473

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Citizenship: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps this Government is taking to promote British values.
	tabling member constituency	Salisbury
	tabling member printed	John Glen
	uin	4990
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>Education plays a vital role in promoting integration and ensuring children and young people are prepared for life in modern Britain, including learning about the values that underpin and unite our society. All schools have specific duties to promote the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of their pupils and to prepare them for the opportunities and responsibilities of adult life. Schools are also required to actively promote the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs. The department has issued guidance for maintained schools here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a758c9540f0b6397f35f469/SMSC_Guidance_Maintained_Schools.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a758c9540f0b6397f35f469/SMSC_Guidance_Maintained_Schools.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The duty is also reflected in guidance for independent schools (including academies) on compliance with the Independent Schools Standards. The guidance provides that schools should encourage respect for democracy and support for participation in the democratic processes. It can be found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5cd3fc2fe5274a3fd6ee74b0/Independent_School_Standards-_Guidance_070519.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5cd3fc2fe5274a3fd6ee74b0/Independent_School_Standards-_Guidance_070519.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Promotion of these values plays an important role in preparing our children and young people for life in a modern and diverse Britain. The department continues to provide free resources for teachers and school leaders to support them with this via our Educate Against Hate website, which can be found here: <a href="https://www.educateagainsthate.com/" target="_blank">https://www.educateagainsthate.com/</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell question first answered 18/09/2024 15:47:32 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
	tabling member	4051 label Biography information for John Glen

1728479

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: Per Capita Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the real-term funding per pupil in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in South Holland and the Deepings constituency was in each financial year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	4968
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>Local authorities receive their core funding for schools through the dedicated schools grant (DSG). Local authorities are then responsible for designing a local formula, within certain parameters, to distribute the funding that they receive from the department to schools in their area. This local formula is used to determine funding for both the maintained schools and academies in each area.</p><p>As the DSG is allocated at local authority level, DSG allocations are not available broken down to the level of individual constituencies. The individual allocations that schools within South Holland and The Deepings constituency receive are determined, each year, by the local funding formula set by Lincolnshire local authority.</p><p>The table below provides the cash per pupil funding levels from 2018/19 to 2024/25 for Lincolnshire local authority. The department cannot provide comparable funding data back to 2010, due to the changes in the funding system since that time. In particular, funding for schools was only identified separately from funding for high needs or early years in 2013, and funding for central school services provided by local authorities was split out from the schools block funding in 2018/2019.</p><p>The figures below represent the core funding schools receive through the schools block of the DSG. All the figures in the table exclude growth and premises funding. They also do not include additional funding that schools have received for pay and pensions or other funding streams such as the pupil premium.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>DSG Schools Block Per Pupil Funding: Lincolnshire Local Authority</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Primary per pupil funding</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Secondary per pupil funding</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>£3,811</p></td><td><p>£4,933</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>£3,914</p></td><td><p>£5,069</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>£4,184</p></td><td><p>£5,279</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>£4,570</p></td><td><p>£5,724</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022/23</p></td><td><p>£4,735</p></td><td><p>£5,899</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023/24</p></td><td><p>£4,993</p></td><td><p>£6,216</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2024/25</p></td><td><p>£5,278</p></td><td><p>£6,552</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell question first answered 18/09/2024 16:20:05 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1728495

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Further Education: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is taking steps to increase pay in the further education sector.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Wyre
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	5065
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>The government does not set or recommend pay in further education (FE), and the FE sector does not have a Pay Review Body (PRB). Colleges are not bound by the national pay and conditions framework for school teachers and are free to implement their own pay arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>The department will continue with its plans to invest in FE teachers, as part of approximately £600 million funding across the 2024/25 and 2025/26 financial years, including targeted retention incentive payments of up to £6,000 for eligible early career FE teachers.</p><p> </p><p>This government will consider the important contribution of non-PRB workforces, including FE, and will consider workforce sufficiency and what this might mean for FE funding in future years, as part of the Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Lewisham East answering member printed Janet Daby question first answered 18/09/2024 15:42:45 answering member 4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1728513

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Tom Crick
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the (a) pay band, (b) salary and (c) responsibilities are of Mr Tom Crick in his role as Senior Advisor to her Department's Curriculum and Assessment Review; whether that role was open to external candidates; and on what basis he was appointed as a civil servant rather than a special adviser.
	tabling member constituency	Salisbury
	tabling member printed	John Glen
	uin	5012
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>The role of the Senior Adviser to the Curriculum and Assessment Review is to support the Review Group and its Chair, Professor Becky Francis, in their engagement with the education sector to develop proposals on how best to refresh the curriculum to ensure it is cutting edge, fit for purpose and meeting the needs of children and young people to support their future life and work.</p><p>The role was a direct appointment to the civil service to a grade below the Senior Civil Service for a fixed term and with no line management responsibilities.</p><p>Making a direct appointment ensured appointment at pace with someone with a unique combination of skills including a strong connection to the sector and alignment with the anticipated time period of the review. As a civil servant, the role is embedded within departmental line management and wider policies, for example the Civil Service Code.</p> answering member constituency Lewisham East answering member printed Janet Daby question first answered 18/09/2024 15:23:59 answering member 4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby
	tabling member	4051 label Biography information for John Glen

1728593

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Social Workers: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to provide mandatory training for social workers on identifying signs of coercive and controlling behaviour.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Paula Barker
	uin	5135
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>The regulator for the social work profession, Social Work England, sets the professional standards which all social workers must meet. The professional standards include that social workers must be able recognise the risk indicators of different forms of abuse and neglect and their impact on people, their families and their support networks. Social workers complete initial education and training courses which are approved by the regulator against the education and training standards. The provision of continuous professional development for employed social workers is a matter for their employer.</p> answering member constituency Lewisham East answering member printed Janet Daby question first answered 18/09/2024 14:47:13 answering member 4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby
	tabling member	4828 label Biography information for Paula Barker

1728619

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Students: Loans
	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 prevalence of outstanding student loan balances increasing despite repayments being made as a result of high interest charges; and whether her Department is taking steps to review student loan interest rates to ensure excessive financial burdens are not imposed on borrowers.
	tabling member constituency	Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire
	tabling member printed	Angus MacDonald
	uin	5161
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>As education is a devolved issue, the following response outlines the student finance system in England only.</p><p> </p><p>Interest rates on student loans do not affect monthly repayments made by borrowers. Repayments are based on earnings above the applicable repayment threshold, not on amount borrowed or the rate of interest. As such, some borrowers will see their balance increasing at certain times despite making regular repayments to their student loan.</p><p> </p><p>Student loans have very different terms and conditions to commercial loans. Unlike commercial unsecured personal loans, student loans are available to all eligible students regardless of their background or financial history. Student loans also carry significant protections for borrowers. For instance, monthly repayments are based only on earnings, and if a borrower’s income drops, so does the amount they repay. If income is below the relevant repayment threshold or a borrower is not earning, they do not have to make repayments at all. Any outstanding debt, including interest accrued, is written off after the loan term ends (or in case of death or disability) at no detriment to the borrower. The government is not aware of any commercial loans that offer such protections.</p> answering member constituency Lewisham East answering member printed Janet Daby question first answered 18/09/2024 15:29:34 answering member 4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby
	tabling member	5362

1728623

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Qualifications
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will pause the defunding of applied general qualifications scheduled for 2025 and 2026.
	tabling member constituency	Chichester
	tabling member printed	Jess Brown-Fuller
	uin	5165
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>In July 2024, my Right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education announced a short pause to the defunding of qualifications to enable a review of post-16 qualification reforms at level 3 and below. This was followed by a Written Ministerial Statement by my noble Friend, the Minister for Skills, on 25 July. This statement is available here: <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2024-07-25/hlws20" target="_blank">https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2024-07-25/hlws20</a>.</p><p>The department is now working to review the defunding due to take place in 2025 and it will set out the position before Christmas.</p><p>The department has not announced any defunding for 2026.</p> answering member constituency Lewisham East answering member printed Janet Daby question first answered 18/09/2024 15:32:35 answering member 4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby
	tabling member	5335

1728625

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Nuneaton
	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 adequacy of SEND provision services in Nuneaton constituency; and what steps she is taking to work with local authorities in Nuneaton to improve SEND provision.
	tabling member constituency	Nuneaton
	tabling member printed	Jodie Gosling
	uin	5167
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>Following the last Ofsted inspection, departmental officials have been working with Warwickshire County Council to closely monitor progress against the areas for improvement identified by inspectors.</p><p>The areas were:</p><p>(i) Autism spectrum disorder waiting times, assessments and support following diagnosis.</p><p>(ii) Co-production.</p><p>(iii) Placement of children and young people with an education, health and care plan.</p><p>(iv) Uptake of training for school staff working with children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).</p><p>(v) And the quality of the online local offer.</p><p> </p><p>The department has appointed a SEND advisor to support and work alongside Warwickshire County Council and the local area partnership.</p><p> </p><p>This government’s ambition is that all children and young people with SEND or in alternative provision receive the right support to succeed in their education and as they move into adult life. The department is committed to taking a community-wide approach in collaboration with local area partnerships to improve inclusivity and expertise in mainstream schools, as well as ensuring special schools cater to those with the most complex needs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell question first answered 18/09/2024 15:53:25 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
	tabling member	5036

1728635

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Protection
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she made of the implications for her policies of the document entitled General Election 2024: NSPCC priorities for manifestos and programmes for government, published in May 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Harpenden and Berkhamsted
	tabling member printed	Victoria Collins
	uin	5177
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>Nothing is more important than keeping children safe and the government is committed to protecting children experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, significant harm as well as tackling the underlying factors driving this. The department is interested in all reports, evidence and recommendations which can help it drive forward better outcomes for children and young people, and to that end, regularly engages the NSPCC and stakeholders across the children and families sector.</p> answering member constituency Lewisham East answering member printed Janet Daby question first answered 18/09/2024 15:18:11 answering member 4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby
	tabling member	5201

1728636

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: Attendance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the rate of fines for parents and carers taking their children out of school during term times on encouraging school attendance.
	tabling member constituency	Harpenden and Berkhamsted
	tabling member printed	Victoria Collins
	uin	5178
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>Tackling absence is at the heart of the government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity. The government understands that reasons for absence are varied, which is why updated statutory attendance guidance sets out that schools, trusts and local authorities should always work together with other local partners to understand the barriers to attendance and establish strategies for removing them.</p><p> </p><p>The government’s support-first approach is the right one. Penalty notices should only be used in cases where support is not appropriate, such as in cases of holidays taken in term-time, or where support has already been provided and has not been engaged with or has not worked.</p><p> </p><p>Information about the rates of fixed penalty notices is published here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/parental-responsibility-measures" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/parental-responsibility-measures</a>.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth South answering member printed Stephen Morgan question first answered 18/09/2024 15:10:37 answering member 4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan
	tabling member	5201

1728640

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Department for Education: Equality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many positions in her Department included (a) diversity, (b) inclusion, (c) equity and (d) equality in their job title in each of the last five years; and what the total cost of the salaries of each such job was in each of those years.
	tabling member constituency	Great Yarmouth
	tabling member printed	Rupert Lowe
	uin	5182
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>The department does not routinely collate information on specific words and collating this information would come at a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Information on spending and staffing can be found in the department’s annual report and accounts.</p> answering member constituency Lewisham East answering member printed Janet Daby question first answered 18/09/2024 15:40:14 answering member 4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby
	tabling member	5158

1728045

	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	Vocational Education: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to announce funding arrangements for post-16 vocational education for after 2025.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
	tabling member printed	Layla Moran
	uin	4770
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>This government is determined to ensure all young people have high quality education and training pathways post-16. To help secure this, my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, announced that the department would pause and review the defunding of qualifications in July 2024. The department will conclude and communicate the outcomes of this internal review of post-16 qualifications, before Christmas 2024.</p><p>The focused review announced in July is already underway and the department is working as quickly as possible to provide certainty to the sector. The review will look at the defunding lists that have been published and communicate any changes. Colleges will be able to reflect the outcomes of the review in their planning and marketing materials in the new year so that students can make the best decisions about their futures.</p><p>There are many qualifications not subject to defunding and which provide certainty and continuity to the sector. These include A levels, T Levels, and alternative qualifications in subjects and routes not affected by defunding.</p> answering member constituency Lewisham East answering member printed Janet Daby grouped question UIN 4771 4772 question first answered 18/09/2024 16:03:21 answering member 4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby
	tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1728046

	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	Further Education: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate she has made of when the review of post-16 education funding will be completed; and what her planned timescale is for responding to that review.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
	tabling member printed	Layla Moran
	uin	4771
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>This government is determined to ensure all young people have high quality education and training pathways post-16. To help secure this, my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, announced that the department would pause and review the defunding of qualifications in July 2024. The department will conclude and communicate the outcomes of this internal review of post-16 qualifications, before Christmas 2024.</p><p>The focused review announced in July is already underway and the department is working as quickly as possible to provide certainty to the sector. The review will look at the defunding lists that have been published and communicate any changes. Colleges will be able to reflect the outcomes of the review in their planning and marketing materials in the new year so that students can make the best decisions about their futures.</p><p>There are many qualifications not subject to defunding and which provide certainty and continuity to the sector. These include A levels, T Levels, and alternative qualifications in subjects and routes not affected by defunding.</p> answering member constituency Lewisham East answering member printed Janet Daby grouped question UIN 4770 4772 question first answered 18/09/2024 16:03:21 answering member 4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby
	tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1728047

	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	Vocational Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Written Statement of 25 July 2024 on Technical Qualifications Reform update, HCWS22, what steps her Department is taking to help support education providers to plan for the provision of post-16 vocational education beyond the 2024-25 academic year.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
	tabling member printed	Layla Moran
	uin	4772
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>This government is determined to ensure all young people have high quality education and training pathways post-16. To help secure this, my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, announced that the department would pause and review the defunding of qualifications in July 2024. The department will conclude and communicate the outcomes of this internal review of post-16 qualifications, before Christmas 2024.</p><p>The focused review announced in July is already underway and the department is working as quickly as possible to provide certainty to the sector. The review will look at the defunding lists that have been published and communicate any changes. Colleges will be able to reflect the outcomes of the review in their planning and marketing materials in the new year so that students can make the best decisions about their futures.</p><p>There are many qualifications not subject to defunding and which provide certainty and continuity to the sector. These include A levels, T Levels, and alternative qualifications in subjects and routes not affected by defunding.</p> answering member constituency Lewisham East answering member printed Janet Daby grouped question UIN 4770 4771 question first answered 18/09/2024 16:03:21 answering member 4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby
	tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

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