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790026

	registered interest
	date	15/11/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Adult Education: Greater London
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 3 November 2017 to Question 110007, whether each of the approved adult education budget providers that deliver in London but are not located in London were (a) co-funded or (b) fully-funded in 2015-16.
	tabling member constituency	Dudley North
	tabling member printed	Ian Austin
	uin	113422
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2017 answer text <p>‘Co-funded’ and ‘fully funded’ are terms that refer to how the aims delivered by a training provider are funded. They do not refer to how a provider receives funding allocations.</p><p> </p><p>The majority of training providers will deliver both co-funded and fully-funded provisions.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 24/11/2017 10:25:47 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

1027542

	registered interest
	date	18/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Photography: Apprentices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of photography apprenticeships.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	203333
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2018 answer text <p>​​There is no apprenticeship framework or standard called ‘photography’. The most relevant framework found was the ‘Photo imaging for Staff Photographers’ framework which is the only apprenticeship framework or standard to contain ‘photo’ or ‘image’ in its title. There were no starts on this framework in the 2017/18 academic year compared to 20 in each of the previous two academic years (2016/17 and 2015/16).</p><p>The table below shows apprenticeship starts in the Arts, Media and Publishing sector subject area, along with further subject area breakdowns for the 2017/18 academic year. This sector is most likely to contain frameworks or standards with an element of photography within them. The data is taken from the Individualised Learner Record, available at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/761151/Monthly-apprenticeship-starts_SSA-Fwk-Std-Age-Level-Fund_Nov2018.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/761151/Monthly-apprenticeship-starts_SSA-Fwk-Std-Age-Level-Fund_Nov2018.xlsx</a>.</p><p><strong>Apprenticeship starts in the 2017/18 academic year (August 2017 – July 2018) in the Arts, Media and Publishing sector subject area</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Apprenticeship starts in 2017/18 (Aug 2017 – July 2018)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total starts in Arts, Media and Publishing sector subject area</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>950</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>of which Crafts, Creative Arts and Design</p></td><td><p>380</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>of which Media and Communication</p></td><td><p>550</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>of which Performing Arts</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>of which Publishing and Information Services</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Notes</strong></p><ol start="1"><li><p>Data are based on full final year figures for the 2017/18 academic year (August 2017 to July 2018).</p></li></ol><ol start="2"><li><p>​Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10, ‘-’ indicates a value of less than 5 starts.</p></li></ol> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 21/12/2018 14:03:56 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1041433

	registered interest
	date	14/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Department for Education: Public Bodies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many staff at the (a) Education and Skills Funding Agency, (b) Equality and Human Rights Commission, (c) Standards and Testing Agency, (d) Student Loans Company and (e) Teaching Regulation Agency (i) inside and (ii) outside Greater London are paid at a rate below the London Living Wage.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	208398
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>​​Staff in the department and its executive agencies, including the Education and Skills Funding Agency, Standards and Testing Agency and Teaching Regulation Agency, are all paid at least the Real Living Wage regardless of location.</p><p>All staff based inside Greater London are paid at least the London Living Wage. There are 101 staff based outside Greater London that are paid below the London Living Wage but all of these staff are paid the Real Living Wage.</p><p>The Student Loans Company is one of the department’s non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) and we do not hold data on their staff and their rates of pay.</p><p>​The Equality and Human Rights Commission is no longer an NDPB of the department. They are sponsored by the Government Equalities Office who are housed within the Department for International Development.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton grouped question UIN 208399 question first answered 17/01/2019 18:09:35 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1041434

	registered interest
	date	14/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Department for Education: Public Bodies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many staff at the (a) Education and Skills Funding Agency, (b) Equality and Human Rights Commission, (c) Standards and Testing Agency, (d) Student Loans Company and (e) Teaching Regulation Agency (i) inside and (ii) outside Greater London are paid at a rate below the Real Living Wage.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	208399
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>​​Staff in the department and its executive agencies, including the Education and Skills Funding Agency, Standards and Testing Agency and Teaching Regulation Agency, are all paid at least the Real Living Wage regardless of location.</p><p>All staff based inside Greater London are paid at least the London Living Wage. There are 101 staff based outside Greater London that are paid below the London Living Wage but all of these staff are paid the Real Living Wage.</p><p>The Student Loans Company is one of the department’s non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) and we do not hold data on their staff and their rates of pay.</p><p>​The Equality and Human Rights Commission is no longer an NDPB of the department. They are sponsored by the Government Equalities Office who are housed within the Department for International Development.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton grouped question UIN 208398 question first answered 17/01/2019 18:09:35 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1023912

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Young People: Carers
	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 promote flexible and part-time apprenticeships for young carers.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford South
	tabling member printed	Judith Cummins
	uin	201691
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>​We know that some people experience barriers to undertaking full-time employment, such as managing caring responsibilities around a full-time role, so we have made it easier for part-time workers to undertake apprenticeships, such as those with caring responsibilities, including young carers and lone parents.</p><p>Our apprenticeships funding rules allow flexible working arrangements. The minimum duration of the apprenticeship can be extended to make sure that working fewer than 30 hours a week is not a barrier to successfully completing an apprenticeship.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 17/12/2018 16:09:26 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4391 label Biography information for Judith Cummins

1111110

	registered interest
	date	10/04/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Redundancy Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Treasury's press release entitled Six-figure taxpayer-funded public sector exit payments to end published on 10 April 2019, how many exit payments of more than £100,000 were made by (a) academy trusts and (b) your Department for its agencies and public bodies for which it is responsible in 2016-17; and what the total cost to the public purse was of exit payments made by academy trusts in that period.
	tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
	tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
	uin	243479
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2019 answer text <p>​The were 2 exit payments over £100,000 made by academy trusts in the year ended 31 August 2017.</p><p> </p><p>There were no payments over £100,000 made by the department and its agencies in the year ended 31 March 2017.</p><p> </p><p>There were 17 payments over £100,000 made by the one of the department’s public bodies in the year ended 31 March 2017. These were due to a restructure exercise that was undertaken.</p><p> </p><p>The total cost of exit packages made by academy trusts in the year ended 31 August 2017 was £63.7 million.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 15/04/2019 16:23:21 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1050205

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices: Taxation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprenticeship places, broken down by the NVQ level of each place, have been supported by funds from the apprenticeship levy.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	213238
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2019 answer text <p>​The table below provides the number of levy supported apprenticeship starts by detailed apprenticeship level:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Apprenticeship starts</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apprenticeship level</p></td><td><p>2017/18 <br>(Final full year)</p></td><td><p>2018/19 <br>(August to October, Provisional)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>71,430</p></td><td><p>20,180</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>81,820</p></td><td><p>25,830</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>11,450</p></td><td><p>4,520</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>12,620</p></td><td><p>4,370</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>5,450</p></td><td><p>3,710</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>3,270</p></td><td><p>2,740</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>186,000</p></td><td><p>61,400</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes</p><p>1) Volumes are rounded to the nearest ten, or the nearest 100 for totals.</p><p>2) The data source is the Individualised Learner Record.</p><p>3) Levy-supported starts are those supported by levy-paying organisations using at least £1 of their own levy funds.</p><p> </p><p>Please note that a level 2 apprenticeship is equivalent to NVQ level 2, a level 3 apprenticeship is equivalent to NVQ level 3 and so on. More information about equivalent qualification levels is available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/what-different-qualification-levels-mean/list-of-qualification-levels" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/what-different-qualification-levels-mean/list-of-qualification-levels</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Data for the 2017/18 academic year, and for the first quarter of the 2018/19 academic year (reported to date) were published alongside the ‘Further education and skills: November 2018’ and ‘Apprenticeship and traineeships release: January 2019’ statistics publications, available respectively at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/further-education-and-skills-november-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/further-education-and-skills-november-2018</a>.</p><p>​<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/apprenticeships-and-traineeships-january-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/apprenticeships-and-traineeships-january-2019</a>.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 01/02/2019 15:00:51 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1129750

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Home Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether (a) weekday evenings, (b) Saturdays and (c) Sundays are classified as normal school hours for the purposes of the Government's consultation entitled Children not in school: proposed legislation, launched on 2 April 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Gainsborough
	tabling member printed	Sir Edward Leigh
	uin	259857
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2019 answer text <p>​The purpose of the proposed register is to enable local authorities to track the main daytime weekday educational settings for children in scope, and to take action if it appears that a suitable education is not being received in usual school hours. This purpose would not be served by bringing into coverage the register activities carried on in places or at times not relevant to determining suitability, or by including places which are simply hosting educational visits rather than providing tuition and it is not our intention to do so.</p><p> </p><p>Issues such as the definition of usual school hours, and what is a relevant setting for the purposes of providing local authorities with information about children on the proposed register of children not in school, will be considered based on responses received to the consultation, which closes on 24 June. Implementation issues such as these are an important part of the consultation, information for which is available here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/children-not-in-school" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/children-not-in-school</a>.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton grouped question UIN 259858 259859 question first answered 13/06/2019 16:43:33 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton previous answer version 122404 answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	345 label Biography information for Sir Edward Leigh

1129751

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Home Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether (a) morning prayer meetings, (b) afternoon bible studies and (c) evening youth group meetings are included in the scope of education settings for the purposes of the Government's consultation entitled Children not in school: proposed legislation, launched on 2 April 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Gainsborough
	tabling member printed	Sir Edward Leigh
	uin	259858
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2019 answer text <p>​The purpose of the proposed register is to enable local authorities to track the main daytime weekday educational settings for children in scope, and to take action if it appears that a suitable education is not being received in usual school hours. This purpose would not be served by bringing into coverage the register activities carried on in places or at times not relevant to determining suitability, or by including places which are simply hosting educational visits rather than providing tuition and it is not our intention to do so.</p><p> </p><p>Issues such as the definition of usual school hours, and what is a relevant setting for the purposes of providing local authorities with information about children on the proposed register of children not in school, will be considered based on responses received to the consultation, which closes on 24 June. Implementation issues such as these are an important part of the consultation, information for which is available here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/children-not-in-school" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/children-not-in-school</a>.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton grouped question UIN 259857 259859 question first answered 13/06/2019 16:43:33 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton previous answer version 122403 answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	345 label Biography information for Sir Edward Leigh

1129752

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2019
	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, whether (a) museums, (b) art galleries, (c) sports clubs, (d) National Trust and English Heritage properties, (e) leisure centres and (f) Parliament are included in the scope of education settings for the purposes of the Government's consultation entitled Children not in school: proposed legislation, launched on 2 April 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Gainsborough
	tabling member printed	Sir Edward Leigh
	uin	259859
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2019 answer text <p>​The purpose of the proposed register is to enable local authorities to track the main daytime weekday educational settings for children in scope, and to take action if it appears that a suitable education is not being received in usual school hours. This purpose would not be served by bringing into coverage the register activities carried on in places or at times not relevant to determining suitability, or by including places which are simply hosting educational visits rather than providing tuition and it is not our intention to do so.</p><p> </p><p>Issues such as the definition of usual school hours, and what is a relevant setting for the purposes of providing local authorities with information about children on the proposed register of children not in school, will be considered based on responses received to the consultation, which closes on 24 June. Implementation issues such as these are an important part of the consultation, information for which is available here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/children-not-in-school" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/children-not-in-school</a>.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton grouped question UIN 259857 259858 question first answered 13/06/2019 16:43:33 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton previous answer version 122405 answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	345 label Biography information for Sir Edward Leigh