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914793

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Young People: Unemployment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will take steps to reduce the number of young people not in education, employment or training in the East Midlands.
	tabling member constituency	Mansfield
	tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
	uin	149072
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2018 answer text <p>Almost 90% young people in England, and the East Midlands, are now in education, employment or training, but there is more to do.</p><p> </p><p>The proportion of young people not in education, employment or training in the East Midlands has fallen from 12.4% in Q4 of 2010 to 11.1% in Q4 in 2017.</p><p> </p><p>In the East Midlands, the government is providing support to improve skills through Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs). For example, over £30 million of Local Growth Funding has been provided through the Derby and Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire LEP, to create a new Nottingham College campus and to extend the Vision West Nottinghamshire College in Mansfield. These projects should create places for 2,000 additional learners.</p><p> </p><p>Through the work of The Careers &amp; Enterprise Company’s Enterprise Adviser Network, we are linking young people in schools and colleges with employers so that they are more aware of the possibilities available to them. All schools in England will be offered an Enterprise Adviser (a senior business volunteer) by 2020.</p><p> </p><p>Across the East Midlands we are also funding various careers and enterprise activities. In the Derby ‘Opportunity Area’, The Careers &amp; Enterprise Company will make sure that those between 11 and 18 years old benefit from four encounters with the world of work. Some of the organisations that are being funded in Derby include the Engineering Development Trust, Future First and Young Enterprise.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 15/06/2018 13:55:19 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton previous answer version 62307 answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

903730

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Young People: Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps his Department is taking to support more pathways from education into employment for young people.
	tabling member constituency	Witham
	tabling member printed	Priti Patel
	uin	905264
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2018 answer text <p><ins class="ministerial">We are developing 15 prestigious technical routes that will set a clear pathway through apprenticeships and new flagship T level programmes to skilled employment for young people.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">High quality apprenticeships offer an excellent means of progression for many young people leaving education, giving them the skills valued by employers.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">T levels are classroom based, level 3 study programmes and will provide a distinctive and rigorous technical alternative to A levels. A substantial, high-quality industry placement will be an essential part of each T level giving students the chance to put into practice the technical skills they have learned in the classroom.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Training and qualifications within the technical education routes are being designed and developed by employers - so that students can be confident they are getting the skills that employers need.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The reformed technical routes will ensure we unlock all the talents of young people across the country, no matter where they come from, and support them into strong, rewarding jobs and careers.</ins></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">We are developing 15 prestigious technical routes to set a clear pathway through apprenticeships and new flagship T levels to skilled employment for young people.</del></p><p><br /><del class="ministerial">We are working with employers to design the content for T levels, which will provide in future a distinctive and rigorous technical alternative to A levels.</del></p><p><br /><del class="ministerial">But apprenticeships must be of high quality. I am pleased that the move from the old frameworks to the new standards has seen the proportion of these apprenticeships in the number of all starts grow from 3% to 36% since last year.</del></p><p><br /><del class="ministerial">Traineeships for those most distant from the labour market are yielding good results. With two thirds progessing to positive destinations and reporting high levels of satifaction (82%). With 84% saying it helped them gain the skills they need.</del></p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 14/05/2018 17:01:12 question first ministerially corrected 15/05/2018 09:26:10 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton previous answer version 57828 answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

991237

	registered interest
	date	19/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding the Government plans to allocate to non-academised sixth form colleges to assist with the increase of teachers' remuneration.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	181581
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>Last month, the department announced the pay award for teachers in maintained schools through the School Teachers Pay and Conditions Document. Sixth form colleges’ pay and terms and conditions are agreed separately through the National Joint Council for Staff in Sixth Form Colleges.</p><p> </p><p>The government has never taken steps to cap the pay of teachers in sixth form colleges, as these are private and independent institutions. Further education colleges are independent institutions and the government has no current plans to allocate funding specifically to assist with the increase of teachers’ remuneration in non-academised sixth form colleges. However we are considering the overall needs of these institutions as part of our work on the efficiency and resilience of the further education sector. We will continue to look carefully at their funding requirements in preparation for the next Spending Review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton grouped question UIN 181582 question first answered 01/11/2018 14:21:18 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton previous answer version 80653 answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

991238

	registered interest
	date	19/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the total cost to sixth form colleges of the removal of the teachers pay cap.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	181582
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>Last month, the department announced the pay award for teachers in maintained schools through the School Teachers Pay and Conditions Document. Sixth form colleges’ pay and terms and conditions are agreed separately through the National Joint Council for Staff in Sixth Form Colleges.</p><p> </p><p>The government has never taken steps to cap the pay of teachers in sixth form colleges, as these are private and independent institutions. Further education colleges are independent institutions and the government has no current plans to allocate funding specifically to assist with the increase of teachers’ remuneration in non-academised sixth form colleges. However we are considering the overall needs of these institutions as part of our work on the efficiency and resilience of the further education sector. We will continue to look carefully at their funding requirements in preparation for the next Spending Review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton grouped question UIN 181581 question first answered 01/11/2018 14:21:18 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton previous answer version 80654 answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

917684

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	T-levels
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions his Department had with the Chief Executive of the Institute for Apprenticeships before he decided not to take advice to defer T levels until 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
	uin	149933
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>Ministers Department for Education officials responsible for T Levels meet regularly with the Chief Executive of the Institute for Apprenticeships, where they discuss planning and delivery issues. Department officials are in regular and frequent dialogue with the Institute on this and all delivery matters.</p><p>The delivery of the programme to the timetable we have set out is ambitious, and so we have been keeping it under regular review. Alongside our apprenticeship reforms, T Levels are central to our technical and vocational education, which will help improve workforce skills and drive productivity growth.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 18/06/2018 16:21:51 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton previous answer version 62735 answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

927972

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2018
	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: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many payroll staff are employed in back-office functions in the Standards and Testing Agency; how many non-payroll staff are employed in back-office functions in the Standards and Testing Agency; and how many full-time equivalent (a) payroll and (b) non-payroll staff are employed in back office function in the Standards and Testing Agency.
	tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
	tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
	uin	155811
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>The number of payroll, non-payroll and full-time equivalent staff employed in back office functions (those functions that support the running of the department, such as Human Resources and Finance) is shown in the table attached.</p><p>These figures include the Standards and Testing Agency, Education and Skills Funding Agency and Teaching Regulation Agency who are Department for Education staff.</p><p>The School Teachers’ Review Body has no staff.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton grouped question UIN 155802 155806 155807 155810 question first answered 26/06/2018 12:51:10 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton attachment 1 file name Staff_employed_within_back_office.doc title Number_of_back_office_staff_employed_by_department previous answer version 65585 answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

770087

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Discrimination
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department monitors particular schools for gender segregation.
	tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
	tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
	uin	107715
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2017 answer text <p>As part of Ofsted school inspections, inspectors consider how well leaders and governors promote all forms of equality and how well the school prepares pupils positively for life in modern Britain.</p><p>In April 2016, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills wrote to my Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State, making clear that where inspectors identify any form of segregation in a mixed school, without a good educational reason, this would likely lead to an inadequate judgement for the school’s leadership and management. This is consistent with the Department’s longstanding position that mixed schools should only separate children by gender in limited circumstances where this can be justified and where they can demonstrate that no pupil is disadvantaged by virtue of their gender.</p><p>The recent case of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills –v- The Interim Executive Board of Al-Hijrah School has clarified the law in a way which supports that position.</p><p>It will be for any other schools affected by the judgment to decide what action they might need to take in the light of the judgment. The Department will work with any affected schools to help them comply with the law.<strong><br> </strong></p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 25/10/2017 16:19:48 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton previous answer version 16029 answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

1056712

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Antisemitism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking within schools to tackle antisemitism.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	218172
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2019 answer text <p>Any form of intolerance or bullying, including antisemitism is unacceptable. Schools must promote our shared values, which includes mutual respect and tolerance for those with different faiths and beliefs. The department supports schools to implement this requirement through a range of resources, such as those included on the Educate Against Hate website, as well as by working with networks of experts on the ground who provide direct support to schools on this. Every state-funded school, maintained and academy, must also teach religious education to all pupils up to the age of 18.</p><p> </p><p>Schools must comply with the requirements of the Equality Act and must also have a behaviour policy which includes measures to prevent bullying. Recent research commissioned by the department details common strategies that schools have found to be effective for combating bullying.</p><p> </p><p>The department is funding a number of projects to help schools tackle bullying, including hate-related bullying. This includes funding the Anne Frank Trust to develop their ‘Free to Be’ debate programme, which encourages young people to think about the importance of tackling prejudice, discrimination and bullying. We also recently published the ‘Respectful Schools Communities’ toolkit; a self-review and signposting tool to support schools to develop a whole-school approach which promotes respect and discipline.</p><p>The department is fully committed to educating pupils about the Holocaust and is the only topic that is compulsory in the national curriculum for history. We fund the Centre for Holocaust at University College London to train trainee and serving teachers to teach this important subject and to set up a network of Beacon schools to share good practice. We also fund the Holocaust Education Trust’s ‘Lessons from Auschwitz’ programme, which enables teachers and sixth form students to visit Auschwitz.</p><p>Schools can also address intolerance and bullying as part of non-statutory personal, social, health and economic education. We are also making relationships education compulsory in all primary schools and relationships and sex education compulsory in all secondary schools. We have completed a public consultation on draft guidance which is clear that pupils will be taught about the importance of building respectful relationships including, for example, understanding the impact of bullying and how stereotypes can be damaging.</p><p>Subject to making the regulations, schools will be required to teach these new subjects from September 2020, but they will be encouraged and supported to start teaching them from September 2019 on a voluntary basis.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 13/02/2019 16:22:42 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton previous answer version 101439 answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

927997

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	School Teachers' Review Body: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) staff and (b) full-time equivalent staff are employed in (i) payroll and (ii) non-payroll back-office functions in the School Teachers’ Review Body.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	155806
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>The number of payroll, non-payroll and full-time equivalent staff employed in back office functions (those functions that support the running of the department, such as Human Resources and Finance) is shown in the table attached.</p><p>These figures include the Standards and Testing Agency, Education and Skills Funding Agency and Teaching Regulation Agency who are Department for Education staff.</p><p>The School Teachers’ Review Body has no staff.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton grouped question UIN 155802 155807 155810 155811 question first answered 26/06/2018 12:51:10 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton attachment 1 file name Staff_employed_within_back_office.doc title Number_of_back_office_staff_employed_by_department previous answer version 65533 answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

890396

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	STEM Subjects: Free Schools
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of pupils at free schools studied STEM subjects in each of last three years; what steps he is taking to encourage free schools to promote the study of STEM subjects in advance of the roll-out of T levels; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	137529
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2018 answer text <p>We publish GCSE entries[1] in each subject of pupils at the end of key stage 4[2], by school type[3]. Entries in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects for 2014/15, 2015/16 and 2016/17 in free schools are provided in the table (attached).</p><p> </p><p>The number of students[4], who completed their 16-18 study in either a mainstream free school, or 16 to 19 free school, in 2014/15, 2015/16 and 2016/17 and entered[5] a STEM subject[6] during their 16-18 study are provided in the table[7] (attached):</p><p> </p><p>We do not hold data broken down as vocational STEM qualifications. We publish exam entries by Ofqual sector subject area at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/types-of-regulated-qualifications/qualification-descriptions" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/types-of-regulated-qualifications/qualification-descriptions</a>, and in the Statistical Release “ Revised A level and other 16-18 results” at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/types-of-regulated-qualifications/qualification-descriptions" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/types-of-regulated-qualifications/qualification-descriptions</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Free schools, as academies, have the freedom to choose their own curriculum, providing that it meets the requirements of its funding agreement – for example that it is broad and balanced and includes English, maths and science. It is ultimately for schools to decide whether to offer particular qualifications.</p><p> </p><p>We are working to further increase the take-up of STEM subjects which are vital to the future economic health of the UK and can help boost earnings. This is why at Budget 2017 we announced an additional £406 million in education and skills, including maths, digital and technical education.</p><p>We have a number of programmes to improve the quality of STEM teaching in schools and to encourage increased engagement in STEM subjects at GCSE and A level. This includes a new £84 million programme to improve computing teaching, the national network of Science Learning Partnerships which provide training for science teachers, the Teaching for Mastery programme to improve the teaching of mathematics, and a new advanced maths premium to encourage more schools and colleges to teach pupils maths post-16. We are also investing in initiatives to recruit more high quality maths and physics teachers, including bursaries of up to £26,000 and scholarships of up to £28,000 to attract top graduates into teaching.</p><p>We are inviting our most selective maths universities to apply to open new specialist maths schools, to help more of our most mathematically able students to succeed in maths at top universities and pursue mathematically intensive careers. We are also encouraging the take up of STEM subjects through the University Technical College programme, which has an important role to play in our reforms to technical education.</p><p> </p><p>[1] Only a pupil’s first attempt at a qualification is counted in performance measures in line with early entry policy (<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/676213/SFR01_2018_QualityandMethodology.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/676213/SFR01_2018_QualityandMethodology.pdf</a>).</p><p>[2] Pupils are identified as being at the end of key stage 4 if they were on roll at the school and in year 11 at the time of the January school census for that year. Age is calculated as at 31 August for that year, and the majority of pupils at the end of key stage 4 were age 15 at the start of the academic year. Some pupils may complete this key stage in an earlier or later year group.</p><p>[3] Tables available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-gcses-key-stage-4" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-gcses-key-stage-4</a> in the subject tables for the revised publication in each year (‘S7a’ for 2015/16 and 2016/17 and ‘S4a’ for 2014/15).</p><p>[4] Covers students at the end of advanced level study who were aged 16, 17 or 18 at the start of the academic year, i.e. 31 August.</p><p>[5] Where a student has made more than one entry in the same subject only one entry is counted: for example, if a student entered for two physics A levels in a reporting period only one of these entries is counted in the figures shown in this table.</p><p>[6] Figures for 2015/16 and 2016/17 cover maths, further maths, biological sciences, chemistry, physics and computer science A level entries during all years of 16-18 study (up to three years). Figures for earlier years cover maths and science A level entries in the final two years of advanced level study.</p><p>[7] It is not possible to directly compare figures across different years because of changes in discounting, the inclusion/exclusion of different qualifications, and changes to individual subjects.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton attachment 1 file name Entries in science, technology, engineering and maths subjects for 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17 in free schools.docx title Entries_in_GCSE_STEM)subjects_in_free_schools 2 file name Students who entered a STEM subject during their 16-18 study.docx title Entries_in_A-level_STEM)subjects_in_free_schools question first answered 04/05/2018 13:49:05 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton previous answer version 55735 answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon