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794171

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Equal Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps the Government is taking to achieve equal pay for men and women.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	902535
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2017 answer text <p>Paying men and women unequally for the same work has been unlawful for nearly 50 years. Where an employer is found to have breached equal pay law, an employment tribunal can order them to produce an equal pay audit. Our requirement for all larger employers to publish their gender pay gap will help increase transparency of all the factors underlying the endemic differences in pay between men and women.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 23/11/2017 17:41:31 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

773955

registered interest
date	19/10/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Lifelong Education: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the lifelong learning pilots announced in the Spring 2017 Budget, when funding for the pilots will be allocated; how the criteria used to determine that allocation funding will be allocated; and what the timetable is for the delivery of that funding.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	108670
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government allocated £40m at the Spring Budget to create career learning pilots to help individuals up-skill and re-skill throughout their working lives. These pilots are helpful in understanding how best to inform adults of the opportunities and benefits to such training. Details of the implementation of the pilots will be set out in due course.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 24/10/2017 16:36:04 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

748146

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Young People: Vocational Guidance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the findings of the Social Mobility Commission's report, entitled The time for change, published on 28 June 2017, what steps she plans to take to increase careers advice and training opportunities for young people.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	2942
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>We want to ensure young people have the skills they need to do the well-paid, high-skilled jobs of the future. That is why we are investing money into improving skills provision and giving young people real choice, including an additional £500 million per year investment in England’s technical education system.</p><p> </p><p>We want to improve the quality and coverage of careers advice for young people in schools and colleges. We will set out our plans in a comprehensive careers strategy later this year.</p><p> </p><p>We set up the Careers &amp; Enterprise Company (CEC) in 2014 to connect employers with schools and colleges and improve opportunities for young people to learn about work. The CEC has made good progress in delivering its programmes. There are now over 1,700 Enterprise Advisers working with over 1,700 schools and colleges to improve their careers and enterprise strategies and link up with employers.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 10/07/2017 16:53:34 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

748640

registered interest
date	05/07/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	GCE A-level: Disadvantaged
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Social Mobility Commission's report: Time for Change: an assessment of government policies on social mobility 1997-2017, what steps her Department plans to take to reduce the attainment gap identified between disadvantaged young people and other students at A level or equivalent.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	3217
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government welcomes the Commission’s report, which considers efforts to improve social mobility over the last twenty years. The Commission rightly concludes that too often life chances can be determined not by effort and ability, but by where you come from, who your parents are and which school you attend.</p><p>Educational achievement is at the heart of this Government’s commitment to make ours a meritocratic country. This is why we invested around £552m on disadvantaged learners aged 16-19 in 2016-17, on top of standard funding rates.</p><p>The attainment gap between those eligible and those not eligible for Free School Meals at age 15 achieving level 3 by age 19 has decreased from 26.4% in 2005 to 24.5% in 2016, but we know there is more to do. The department is pursuing a range of policies aimed at benefiting disadvantaged learners. Improvements in the delivery of high-quality basic skills and careers advice benefit disadvantaged learners by ensuring they have the qualifications, support and experience needed to get on in life, and have access to clear advice on their options. Funding uplifts support apprentices from disadvantaged areas, care leavers and those with learning difficulties and disabilities.</p><p>Traineeships, programmes combining pre-employment training, work experience and English and maths are available for young people aged 16-24 (and for young people with an Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan up to academic age 25) who are within six months of being ready to enter the labour market.</p><p>Latest data shows that there were 24,100 traineeship starts in the 15/16 academic year (14,700 aged 16-18 and 9,400 aged 19-24). Supported internships can be life-changing opportunities for young people with a SEN statement or EHC plan aged 16-24 who need more help to move from education into employment.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 28/07/2017 13:41:42 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

755743

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Parliament: Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answers of 21 April 2017 to Questions 70502 and 70503, on apprentices: Parliament, how much has been paid by the House of Commons and by hon. Members of the House of Commons and Members of the House of Lords.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	7075
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>Introduced on 6 April 2017, the apprenticeship levy requires all UK employers with an annual pay bill of £3 million or more to pay 0.5% of their paybill to invest in apprenticeship training.</p><p> </p><p>The levy is collected from UK employers on a monthly basis via PAYE.</p><p> </p><p>The expected yield for the apprenticeship levy is published in table B.5 (‘Current Receipts’) in the Spring Budget 2017 document. This is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/597467/spring_budget_2017_web.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/597467/spring_budget_2017_web.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Data on how much individual employers contribute to the levy will not be made publicly available because of taxpayer confidentiality.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 12/09/2017 14:36:43 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

732602

registered interest
date	26/06/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Sixth Form 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 Answer of 24 April 2017 to Question 71090, how much spending was forecast to be spent on education for 16 to 19-year-olds as a result of announcements in the Autumn Statement 2015; and how much was allocated to institutions offering education to 16 to 19-year-olds as a result of those announcements.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	1097
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2017 answer text <p>Following the 2015 Autumn Statement, the department’s budget for spending on 16-19 education in the 2016-17 financial year was £5.9bn. High needs funding is included in this figure but funding for student support is not. The funding allocations for institutions in the 2016/17 academic year can be found at the following location:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/16-to-19-education-funding-allocations#published-allocations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/16-to-19-education-funding-allocations#published-allocations</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 30/06/2017 13:51:42 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

746430

registered interest
date	28/06/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	GCE A-level: Knowsley
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 20 July 2016 to Question 43655, what progress she has made on ensuring that A-level provision will be available in Knowsley Metropolitan Borough by September 2017.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	1861
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2017 answer text <p>I understand that Maria Eagle met with the Chief Executive of the Education and Skills Funding Agency, Peter Lauener, on 7 December 2016, when she was assured that the department continues to work with the local authority Executive Director (Children) to determine the demand for A level provision above and beyond existing accessible provision.</p><p> </p><p>Following a number of meetings, both the local authority and department have concluded that there is no clear evidence of immediate demand for A Level provision above and beyond that which currently exists and is available. The most recent meeting, confirming this position, took place on 15 June 2017.</p><p> </p><p>The department remains committed to working with the local authority on a continued basis in order to review the need to establish new viable A Level provision within Knowsley Metropolitan Borough, and will consider taking steps to implement appropriate A Level provision should demand arise in the future.</p><p> </p><p>In the interim, the local authority confirmed that it is working with a local college to look at ways to improve KS4 attainment within Knowsley Metropolitan Borough.</p><p> </p><p>Knowsley Metropolitan Borough will also benefit from some limited A Level provision brought about through Knowsley Community College’s pending merger with St Helens College, where A Level provision will be delivered in the borough from September 2018.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 07/07/2017 15:08:55 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

786882

registered interest
date	10/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to point 9 on page 4 of the Association of Colleges' proposals for Autumn Budget 2017, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies on apprenticeships of the recommendation to earmark up to 25 per cent of apprenticeship levy funds to ensure access, quality and progression.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
uin	112296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>Our reforms, the largest changes to apprenticeships government has ever made, are supporting an increase in the quality of apprenticeships and allowing apprentices to develop their talents and progress their careers. We are continually reviewing the impact of these reforms on employers, providers and apprentices and we welcome input from organisations like the Association of Colleges to help inform our decisions.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 16/11/2017 17:42:55 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

794359

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
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, with reference to paragraph 4.27 of the Autumn Budget 2017, whether her Department plans to work with employers in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, and (c) the North East on how the apprenticeship levy can be spent to support productivity in those areas.
tabling member constituency	Jarrow
tabling member printed	Mr Stephen Hepburn
uin	115332
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2017 answer text <p>The department maintains regular dialogue with employers and representative bodies across England regarding apprenticeship reforms. We will provide assistance with any questions or concerns they have primarily through the National Apprenticeship Service.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 01/12/2017 13:56:32 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	520 label Biography information for Mr Stephen Hepburn

794581

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Unionlearn: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to paragraph 4.23 of Autumn Budget 2017, how much her Department will provide to Unionlearn in each of the next two years.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	115554
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>Funding for Unionlearn was previously provided by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) but following the machinery of government changes in 2017, this responsibility moved across to the Department for Education.</p><p> </p><p>BIS provided Unionlearn with £14 million in the financial year 2015-16 and £12 million in the financial year 2016-17.</p><p> </p><p>The department is providing £11.89 million funding in the current financial year and a further £12 millon in financial year 2018-19 and £12 million in financial year 2019-20.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton grouped question UIN 115574 question first answered 28/11/2017 11:48:01 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff