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1671495

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Literacy: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to extend the Nuffield Early Language Intervention programme.
	tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
	tabling member printed	James Wild
	uin	2687
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2023 answer text <p>The department is investing over £17 million on the Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI), improving the language skills of reception age children who need it most following the pandemic. In July 2023, the department announced that funded support for the 11,100 schools registered for the NELI programme would continue for the academic year 2023/24.</p><p>The programme targets children needing extra support with their speech and language development and is proven to help them make four months of additional progress; this is seven months for those on free school meals.</p><p>The department estimates that the programme has screened over 500,000 children in the last three years and supported 160,000 children affected by the pandemic.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston question first answered 28/11/2023 16:12:35 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
	tabling member	4787 label Biography information for James Wild

1671362

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Literacy: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve rates of literacy in children aged eight to 13.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	2523
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2023 answer text <p>The government is committed to continuing to raise literacy standards, ensuring that all children, including those from disadvantaged backgrounds, can read fluently and with understanding.</p><p> </p><p>The department funds a broad range of supportive measures designed to improve literacy rates amongst all pupils.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2010, the government has strengthened the effective teaching of phonics by placing it at the heart of the curriculum and introducing a statutory phonics screening check in 2012 for pupils at the end of year 1 to help schools measure progress. The government wants to improve literacy levels to give all children a solid base upon which to build as they progress through school by ensuring high quality, systematic synthetic phonics teaching.</p><p> </p><p>In 2018, the department launched the English Hubs Programme to improve the teaching of reading with a focus on phonics, early language and reading for pleasure. Since its launch, the Programme has provided appropriate and targeted support to several thousands of primary schools across England. The department has so far invested over £67 million in this school-to-school improvement programme and has committed a further £40 million up to the end of the 2024/25 financial year, with £25.6 million of this committed for 2023/24.</p><p> </p><p>In July 2021, the department published the ‘Reading Framework: teaching the foundations of literacy’ non-statutory guidance which was aimed at improving the teaching of the foundations of reading in primary schools by defining pedagogy and best practice. The department published an expanded Reading Framework in July 2023, which builds on the original Framework and covers the teaching of reading in key stages 2 and 3, including guidance on how to help pupils who need more support to learn to read proficiently.</p><p> </p><p>Also in July, the department announced its intention to launch an evidence review of best practice in the teaching of writing. This will be a valuable resource for schools and will inform further research and guidance. The scope of this review will likely include what the department wants children to be able to achieve at the end of primary school so that they are set up well to succeed in secondary school.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, the department is committed to offering teachers access to high quality continuous professional development. The Leading Literacy National Professional Qualification (NPQLL), launched in October 2022, supports school literacy leaders to have a secure understanding of the importance of literacy and recognise the influence it has on pupils’ future academic achievement, wellbeing and success in life. It will support leaders to develop expertise in the teaching of reading and writing and enable them to share their expertise effectively to improve literacy outcomes for every child.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 28/11/2023 12:19:45 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1138467

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Literacy: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the National Literacy Trust's report Children, young people and digital reading, published by the on 30 April 2019, on the literacy benefits of children reading both digital and print formats.
	tabling member constituency	Hove
	tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
	uin	276252
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2019 answer text <p>The Department welcomes the National Literacy Trust’s research on reading in both print and digital forms.</p><p>The Department wants children to develop the habit of reading widely and often, for both pleasure and information, whatever the format. Research suggests that reading for pleasure is more important for children’s educational development than their parents’ level of education.</p><p>There is sound evidence that systematic synthetic phonics is a highly effective method of teaching reading to children. Phonics performance is improving: in 2018, there were 163,000 more 6-year-olds on track to become fluent readers compared to 2012. This represented 82% of pupils meeting the expected standard in the phonics screening check, compared to just 58% when the check was introduced in 2012.</p><p>Building on the success of our phonics partnerships and phonics roadshows programmes, in 2018, the Department launched a £26.3 million English Hubs Programme. Hub schools are taking a leading role in improving the teaching of early reading through systematic synthetic phonics, early language development, and reading for pleasure. The Department has appointed 34 primary schools across England as English Hubs.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 16/07/2019 16:46:41 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1132890

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Literacy: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the National Literacy Trust report, Children, young people and digital reading, published on 30 April 2019, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the report's conclusions on the literacy benefits of children reading both digital and print formats.
	tabling member constituency	Haltemprice and Howden
	tabling member printed	Mr David Davis
	uin	266092
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2019 answer text <p>The Department welcomes the National Literacy Trust’s research on reading in both print and digital forms. The Department wants children to develop the habit of reading widely and often, for both pleasure and information, whatever the format. Research suggests that reading for pleasure is more important for children’s educational development than their parents’ level of education.</p><p> </p><p>There is sound evidence that systematic synthetic phonics is a highly effective method of teaching reading to children. Phonics performance is improving. In 2018, there were 163,000 more 6-year-olds on track to become fluent readers compared to 2012. This represented 82% of pupils meeting the expected standard in the phonics screening check, compared to just 58% when the check was introduced in 2012.</p><p> </p><p>In 2018 the Department launched a £26.3 million English Hubs Programme, building on the success of the Department’s phonics partnerships and phonics roadshows programmes. Hub schools are taking a leading role in improving the teaching of early reading through systematic synthetic phonics, early language development, and reading for pleasure. The Department has appointed 34 primary schools across England as English Hubs.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 26/06/2019 15:16:29 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	373 label Biography information for Sir David Davis

1132441

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Literacy: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the National Literacy Trust Report entitled Children, young people and digital reading, published April 2019, what assessment he has made of the literacy benefits of children reading both digital and print formats.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	265462
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2019 answer text <p>The Department welcomes the National Literacy Trust’s research on reading in both print and digital forms.</p><p> </p><p>The Department wants children to develop the habit of reading widely and often, for both pleasure and information, whatever the format. Research suggests that reading for pleasure is more important for children’s educational development than their parents’ level of education.</p><p> </p><p>There is sound evidence that systematic synthetic phonics is a highly effective method of teaching reading to children. Phonics performance is improving: in 2018, there were 163,000 more 6 year olds on track to become fluent readers compared to in 2012. This represented 82% of pupils meeting the expected standard in the phonics screening check, compared to just 58% when the check was introduced in 2012.</p><p> </p><p>Building on the success of the Department’s phonics partnerships and phonics roadshows programmes, the Department launched a £26.3 million English Hubs Programme in 2018. Hub schools are taking a leading role in improving the teaching of early reading through systematic synthetic phonics, early language development, and reading for pleasure. The Department has appointed 34 primary schools across England as English Hubs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 20/06/2019 13:02:50 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1086643

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Literacy: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment his Department has made of trends in the number of children daily reading unaided in England.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	230802
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold data on the number of children daily reading unaided in England. The Department does, however, hold figures on pupils’ performance in reading assessments. This is an indicator of pupils’ ability to read unaided. A new, more rigorous national curriculum has been taught in primary schools since September 2014 and new tests and assessments based on this curriculum were first taken by pupils in summer 2016. Since 2016, the proportion of pupils reaching the expected standard in the reading test at the end of key stage 2 has risen from 66% to 75% in 2018.</p><p> </p><p>Regarding pupils in the earlier stages of reading, in 2018 there were 163,000 more 6 year olds in England on track to become fluent readers compared to in 2012. This represented 82% of pupils meeting the expected standard in the year 1 phonics screening check, compared to just 58% when the check was introduced in 2012. Regarding pupils who met the expected standard in phonics in year 1 in 2013, 88% went on to meet the expected standard in the key stage 2 reading test in 2018.</p><p> </p><p>England achieved its highest ever score in reading in 2016, moving from joint 10th place to joint 8th place in the most recent Progress in International Reading Literacy Study rankings. This follows a greater focus on reading in the primary curriculum and a particular focus on phonics.</p><p> </p><p>A national network of 32 primary schools across England has been appointed to become English Hubs, backed by £26.3 million funding. In addition to improving the teaching of phonics and early language development, these schools will champion reading for pleasure in the schools that they support.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 14/03/2019 16:49:56 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens