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1645655

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	School Rebuilding Programme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her Department holds on the number of school rebuilding programme projects that have experienced construction delays of more than one month in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Exeter
	tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
	uin	190025
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2023 answer text <p>The Department is transforming buildings at 500 schools over the next decade as part of its School Rebuilding Programme. The construction programmes of building projects in all Department programmes is monitored by the Department through programme management and project delivery teams.</p><p>In the four school rebuilding projects which have been completed, three were delayed more than a month against initial forecasts. These initial programme forecasts were made ahead of the impact of significant events that could not have been reasonably predicted and that affected the global market.</p><p>The Department has continuously improved its approach to building schools since the Sebastian James’ review. This identified that the Building Schools for the Future programme, introduced under the last Government in 2004, was overly bureaucratic and not designed to target poor condition, did not support high and consistent quality, did not use standardised specifications that work for education, and did not deliver value for money and economies of scale from central procurement and delivery, which are all things that are now prioritised when building schools.</p><p>Under the Priority School Building Programme (PSBP) this Government launched in 2014, whole schools were built<del class="ministerial"> at</del> one third <ins class="ministerial">cheaper</ins><del class="ministerial"> of the cost</del> per square metre on average than schools built under the Building Schools for the Future Programme. The Department has further built on this success in its School Rebuilding Programme, which is exceeding delivery timescales compared to PSBP, while delivering schools that will be net zero in operation. The Infrastructure and Project Authority has highlighted that our progress is very good.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 27/06/2023 16:39:14 question first ministerially corrected 10/07/2023 11:59:26 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb previous answer version 83604 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

1658153

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Nurseries: Buildings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has plans to assess maintained nurseries for risks associated with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	197808
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2023 answer text <p><ins class="ministerial">Nothing is more important than the safety of children and staff, and it has always been the case that where the Department is made aware a building may pose an immediate risk, immediate action is taken. The Department knows how important it is for young people to be in classrooms with their friends and teachers, but their safety must come first. </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Department has been talking to schools about the potential risks of RAAC since 2018 when it first published a warning note with the Local Government Association. The Office of Government Property wrote to all Government Property Leaders in 2019, and again in September 2022, highlighting safety alerts on RAAC and signposting guidance on identification and remediation. The Government also created a cross-Government working group on RAAC this year to collectively address the issue. Since then, Departments have been surveying properties and depending on the assessment of the RAAC, decided to either continue or monitor the structure, reinforce it, or replace it. This is in line with the approach recommended by the Institution of Structural Engineers. </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Department discovered details of three new cases over the summer, where RAAC that would have been graded as non-critical had failed. The first of these was in a commercial setting. The second was in a school in a different educational jurisdiction. It was right to carefully consider the cases and scrutinise the technical details from these. Departmental technical officials were able to investigate the situation in one case where the plank that had failed was fully intact as it was resting on a steel beam after it failed. They concluded that it would previously been rated non-critical. Ministers were carefully considering the first two cases and advice from officials when a third failure of a panel occurred, at a school in late August. The Department’s technical officials also visited this school to investigate the failure.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">In light of all three cases, it was right to make the difficult decision to change our guidance for education settings and take a more cautious approach within the education estate in England. </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Following careful analysis of these recent cases, a precautionary and proactive step has been taken to change the approach to RAAC in education settings ahead of the start of the academic year, as outlined in our guidance. </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Maintained nursery schools are treated the same as schools and FE colleges. In 2022, the Department’s questionnaire to all responsible bodies, including those who run maintained nursery schools, asked them to provide information on RAAC.</ins></p><p><del class="ministerial">The UK higher education (HE) system is amongst the best in the world. Attracting the brightest students internationally is good for our universities and delivers growth at home.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Domestic students continue to make up the vast majority of overall undergraduate students within UK universities. The proportion of international acceptances on results day this year was 12.3%, having been 14.7% at the same point in 2019.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">This year on A level and T level Results Day, 186,710 English-domiciled 18-year-olds were accepted to HE providers in England compared to 162,680 in 2019.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to access a world class education remains a top priority and is fundamental to the department’s ambition to level-up skills, growth, and economic opportunity across the country.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">As autonomous bodies independent from the government, universities are responsible for their own recruitment decisions. Most universities have separate home and international student recruitment targets, set before the admissions cycle even begins. Universities plan their student numbers very carefully, not least because there are important implications for the provision of student support and wellbeing services, accommodation, and everything else needed to deliver the best student experience.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The department and I regularly engage with the HE sector to support policy making and delivery and did so throughout the 2023 cycle.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Most recently, on 7 September 2023, I attended the Universities UK annual conference and discussed how the government is supporting universities to maximise their immense economic and social impact. Key topics discussed included degree apprenticeships, the Lifelong Loan Entitlement and Horizon.</del></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 19/09/2023 15:09:59 question first ministerially corrected 16/10/2023 13:42:11 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb previous answer version 95935 answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon answering member 3985
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1641174

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Department for Education: Paper
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on its office paper costs in (i) the current financial year and (ii) each of the last five financial years.
	tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
	tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
	uin	187172
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>The Department does not specifically budget for or capture financial data narrowly on paper costs for the core Department and its agencies, due to how office occupancy and facilities management (including access to printing services) is structured. The Department does report paper consumption in its Annual Report and Accounts as part of the sustainability reporting requirements in central government. On the basis of these consumption numbers and applying indicative market prices for paper the estimated paper costs in 2022-23 and the previous five years for the Department and its Agencies is as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Actual performance</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2022-23</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021-22</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020-21</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019-20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018-19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017-18</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Baseline</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Reams of Paper</p></td><td><p>11,816</p></td><td><p>12,385</p></td><td><p>12,369</p></td><td><p>22,348</p></td><td><p>34,374</p></td><td><p>27,250</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Expected cost</p></td><td><p>£53,172</p></td><td><p>£49,929</p></td><td><p>£42,242</p></td><td><p>£76,680</p></td><td><p>£121,032</p></td><td><p>£92,887</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 187175 187176 187177 question first answered 20/07/2023 16:31:09 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1641175

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Ofsted: Paper
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much Ofsted (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on its office paper costs in (i) the current financial year and (ii) each of the last five financial years.
	tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
	tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
	uin	187173
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>Budgets and spend relating to office supplies and other office costs is a matter for the relevant non-ministerial department or Executive non-departmental public body. The Department neither holds nor is required to hold this information.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 187174 187178 187179 187180 187181 187182 187183 question first answered 20/07/2023 16:43:29 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1641176

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Ofqual: Paper
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much Ofqual (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on its office paper costs in (i) the current financial year and (ii) each of the last five financial years.
	tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
	tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
	uin	187174
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>Budgets and spend relating to office supplies and other office costs is a matter for the relevant non-ministerial department or Executive non-departmental public body. The Department neither holds nor is required to hold this information.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 187173 187178 187179 187180 187181 187182 187183 question first answered 20/07/2023 16:43:29 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1641177

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Education and Skills Funding Agency: Paper
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much the Education and Skills Funding Agency (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on its office paper costs in (i) the current financial year and (ii) each of the last five financial years.
	tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
	tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
	uin	187175
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>The Department does not specifically budget for or capture financial data narrowly on paper costs for the core Department and its agencies, due to how office occupancy and facilities management (including access to printing services) is structured. The Department does report paper consumption in its Annual Report and Accounts as part of the sustainability reporting requirements in central government. On the basis of these consumption numbers and applying indicative market prices for paper the estimated paper costs in 2022-23 and the previous five years for the Department and its Agencies is as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Actual performance</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2022-23</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021-22</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020-21</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019-20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018-19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017-18</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Baseline</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Reams of Paper</p></td><td><p>11,816</p></td><td><p>12,385</p></td><td><p>12,369</p></td><td><p>22,348</p></td><td><p>34,374</p></td><td><p>27,250</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Expected cost</p></td><td><p>£53,172</p></td><td><p>£49,929</p></td><td><p>£42,242</p></td><td><p>£76,680</p></td><td><p>£121,032</p></td><td><p>£92,887</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 187172 187176 187177 question first answered 20/07/2023 16:31:09 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1641178

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Standards and Testing Agency: Paper
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much the Standards and Testing Agency (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on its office paper costs in (i) the current financial year and (ii) each of the last five financial years.
	tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
	tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
	uin	187176
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>The Department does not specifically budget for or capture financial data narrowly on paper costs for the core Department and its agencies, due to how office occupancy and facilities management (including access to printing services) is structured. The Department does report paper consumption in its Annual Report and Accounts as part of the sustainability reporting requirements in central government. On the basis of these consumption numbers and applying indicative market prices for paper the estimated paper costs in 2022-23 and the previous five years for the Department and its Agencies is as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Actual performance</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2022-23</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021-22</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020-21</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019-20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018-19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017-18</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Baseline</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Reams of Paper</p></td><td><p>11,816</p></td><td><p>12,385</p></td><td><p>12,369</p></td><td><p>22,348</p></td><td><p>34,374</p></td><td><p>27,250</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Expected cost</p></td><td><p>£53,172</p></td><td><p>£49,929</p></td><td><p>£42,242</p></td><td><p>£76,680</p></td><td><p>£121,032</p></td><td><p>£92,887</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 187172 187175 187177 question first answered 20/07/2023 16:31:09 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1641179

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teaching Regulation Agency: Paper
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much the Teaching Regulation Agency (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on its office paper costs in (i) the current financial year and (ii) each of the last five financial years.
	tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
	tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
	uin	187177
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>The Department does not specifically budget for or capture financial data narrowly on paper costs for the core Department and its agencies, due to how office occupancy and facilities management (including access to printing services) is structured. The Department does report paper consumption in its Annual Report and Accounts as part of the sustainability reporting requirements in central government. On the basis of these consumption numbers and applying indicative market prices for paper the estimated paper costs in 2022-23 and the previous five years for the Department and its Agencies is as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Actual performance</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2022-23</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021-22</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020-21</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019-20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018-19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017-18</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Baseline</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Reams of Paper</p></td><td><p>11,816</p></td><td><p>12,385</p></td><td><p>12,369</p></td><td><p>22,348</p></td><td><p>34,374</p></td><td><p>27,250</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Expected cost</p></td><td><p>£53,172</p></td><td><p>£49,929</p></td><td><p>£42,242</p></td><td><p>£76,680</p></td><td><p>£121,032</p></td><td><p>£92,887</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 187172 187175 187176 question first answered 20/07/2023 16:31:09 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1641180

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Office for Students: Paper
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much the Office for Students (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on its office paper costs in (i) the current financial year and (ii) each of the last five financial years.
	tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
	tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
	uin	187178
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>Budgets and spend relating to office supplies and other office costs is a matter for the relevant non-ministerial department or Executive non-departmental public body. The Department neither holds nor is required to hold this information.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 187173 187174 187179 187180 187181 187182 187183 question first answered 20/07/2023 16:43:29 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1641181

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children's Commissioner for England: Paper
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much the Office of the Children's Commissioner (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on its office paper costs in (i) the current financial year and (ii) each of the last five financial years.
	tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
	tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
	uin	187179
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>Budgets and spend relating to office supplies and other office costs is a matter for the relevant non-ministerial department or Executive non-departmental public body. The Department neither holds nor is required to hold this information.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 187173 187174 187178 187180 187181 187182 187183 question first answered 20/07/2023 16:43:29 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson