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1697398

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Workplace Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the potential impact of ending funding for employers' contributions to the teachers' pension scheme for music teachers employed by music hubs unattached to schools on costs to the public purse.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	uin	19580
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>In March 2024, the department announced an additional £1.1 billion in the 2024/25 financial year to support schools and local authorities with the increased Teachers’ Pension Scheme employer contribution rate. This additional funding will be distributed in 2024/25 via the new teachers’ pension employer contribution grant (TPECG) 2024.</p><p> </p><p>The department is providing additional funding through the TPECG 2024 to local authorities in respect of teachers categorised as centrally employed on the schools’ workforce census 2023. The department expects local authority-based Music Hub teachers to be recorded on the schools’ workforce census, and so to be in scope for this grant.</p><p> </p><p>The department has also committed to providing funding to cover the increase in employer contribution rates for existing non-local authority hubs for the current academic year, until August 2024, and officials are working to agree the precise amount. Further details, including funding rates and allocations, will be provided soon.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 25/03/2024 13:15:41 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1697530

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Music: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many times the national plan for music education monitoring board has met since it was established; and on how many occasions a Minister attended a meeting of the board.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	uin	19581
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>The National Plan for Music Education Monitoring Board has met three times since the announcement of the Board in June 2023. The second meeting was attended by the former Minister of State for Schools. The terms of reference of the Board are published on GOV.UK and there are no plans to publish the minutes of these meetings. The ‘National plan for music education monitoring board terms of reference’ can be found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1162481/National_plan_for_music_education_monitoring_board_terms_of_reference_-_June_2023.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1162481/National_plan_for_music_education_monitoring_board_terms_of_reference_-_June_2023.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 19582 question first answered 25/03/2024 13:22:17 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1697531

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Music: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to publish minutes for the meetings of the national plan for music education monitoring board.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	uin	19582
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>The National Plan for Music Education Monitoring Board has met three times since the announcement of the Board in June 2023. The second meeting was attended by the former Minister of State for Schools. The terms of reference of the Board are published on GOV.UK and there are no plans to publish the minutes of these meetings. The ‘National plan for music education monitoring board terms of reference’ can be found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1162481/National_plan_for_music_education_monitoring_board_terms_of_reference_-_June_2023.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1162481/National_plan_for_music_education_monitoring_board_terms_of_reference_-_June_2023.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 19581 question first answered 25/03/2024 13:22:17 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1696610

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Music: Workplace Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding her Department has committed to cover the increase in employer contribution rates for Music Hubs this academic year.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	uin	19026
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2024 answer text <p>The department has secured £1.25 billion to support eligible settings with the increased Teachers’ Pension Scheme employer contribution rate in the 2024/25 financial year. This includes additional funding of £9.3 million to local authorities for their centrally employed teachers, including those employed in local authority based music hubs.</p><p>The Teachers’ Pension Employer Contribution Grant 2024 will provide funding to local authorities in respect of teachers categorised as centrally employed on the schools workforce census 2023. The department expects local authority based music hub teachers to be recorded on the census.</p><p>The department has also committed to providing funding to cover the increase in employer contribution rates for existing non local authority hubs for the current academic year (until August 2024), and departmental officials are working to agree the precise amount. Further details, including funding rates and allocations, will be provided soon.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 21/03/2024 17:18:21 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1676273

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Music: Education
	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 4 December 2023 to Question 4115 on Music: Education, when her Department plans to (a) commission and (b) publish the independent evaluation of the Music Hub programme.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	uin	5792
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2023 answer text <p>Information on the planned independent evaluation of the Music Hubs programme will be released in due course, including on a timetable for relation to the commissioning and publication.</p><p> </p><p>The department regularly commissions independent evaluation of funded programmes, to assess their effectiveness and to inform future delivery, and this includes the Music Hubs programme.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 5793 question first answered 12/12/2023 17:59:51 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1676274

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Music: Education
	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 4 December 2023 to Question 4115 on Music: Education, for what reason her Department is undertaking an independent evaluation of the Music Hub programme after the restructuring of the programme.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	uin	5793
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2023 answer text <p>Information on the planned independent evaluation of the Music Hubs programme will be released in due course, including on a timetable for relation to the commissioning and publication.</p><p> </p><p>The department regularly commissions independent evaluation of funded programmes, to assess their effectiveness and to inform future delivery, and this includes the Music Hubs programme.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 5792 question first answered 12/12/2023 17:59:51 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1676275

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Music: Teachers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many primary school music teachers there were in (a) 2010, (b) 2015, (c) 2019 and (d) 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	uin	5794
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2023 answer text <p>The department does not collect information on subjects taught in primary schools.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 12/12/2023 17:59:33 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1673498

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Music: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has (a) commissioned and (b) undertaken an outcomes-based evaluation of the effectiveness of music education hubs.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	uin	4115
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2023 answer text <p>The existing Music Hubs programme is monitored by Arts Council England and they publish a Hub Data Dashboard that contains annual survey data from 2012/13 onwards. The Dashboard can be found at: <a href="https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/MusicEducationHubs/music-education-hubs-survey-and-data#t-in-page-nav-3" target="_blank">https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/MusicEducationHubs/music-education-hubs-survey-and-data#t-in-page-nav-3</a>. As set out in June 2023, as part of the Music Hubs Investment Programme, the department plans to commission an independent evaluation to measure and assess the impact of the Music Hub programme against the key aims, to track how the programme meets the overall aims and objectives, as set out in the National Plan for Music Education published in June 2022. This will inform how to improve delivery over the life of the programme.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 04/12/2023 16:01:13 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1673516

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Music: Education
	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 27 November 2023 to Question 2118 on Music: education, what the cost to the public purse was of (a) consultations and (b) legal advice on proposals to change the structure of music education hubs.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	uin	4116
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2023 answer text <p>As set out in the Answer to Question 2118, as part of the refreshed National Plan for Music Education, published in June 2022, the government set out its intention to re-compete the hubs lead organisation (HLO) role and reduce the number of HLOs. Alongside these reforms, the Department also committed significant funding for the Music Hubs programme, with £79 million per annum revenue funding to academic year 2024/25 and an additional £25 million capital for instruments and musical equipment.</p><p> </p><p>Music Hubs are partnerships co-ordinated by a HLO and made up of schools and academy trusts, local authorities, music and wider arts and education organisations and charities, community or youth organisations, and more. When launched in 2012, there were 123 Music Hubs covering the 152 upper-tier local authority (LA) areas in England. Following various transfers and restructures over the last ten years, there are now 118 HLOs: 98 covering single LA areas and 20 covering multi-LA areas. These changes reflect the approach which other similar initiatives and infrastructure that are relevant to the lives of children and young people have taken, including Teaching School Hubs, English and Maths Hubs, Multi Academy Trusts, Local Enterprise Partnerships and Sport England’s Active Partnerships.</p><p> </p><p>Having 43 HLOs working across a wider set of music education partnerships from September 2024 should bring significant benefits to children, young people and schools, as HLOs will be able to more strategic, building stronger partnerships with schools, academy trusts, local authorities and others, resulting in high quality support in every local area and to ensure there are no local ‘cold spots’ where access to provision is limited. This should also support a more consistent high quality approach to music education for all children regardless of where they live or go to school, by offering:</p><ul><li>improved and more equitable access to a diverse range of musical activities, opportunities, teachers, instruments and equipment</li><li>greater consistency of provision and ability to scale up effective programmes and ways of working for children and young people and schools</li><li>greater access to more advanced ensembles and a wider range of progression opportunities</li><li>greater access to the cultural capital centred around urban centres, thus improving connections and reducing isolation for rural communities</li><li>more strategic leadership and governance, plus a wider range of employment opportunities and progression routes for the music education workforce</li><li>access to greater resources, capacity and capability to use government funding to leverage further investment, and</li><li>an increased profile with wider musical stakeholders and a stronger connection with the music industry.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p>The current Music Hubs investment programme led by Arts Council England (ACE) is due to conclude next year, with newly competed HLOs commencing from September 2024. In relation to costs competition and legal costs to date, the department has provided funding to ACE to deliver the investment programme and, as part of this programme, ACE has spent a total of £21,000 on consultation and legal advice. The department has also sought specialist legal advice in relation to aspects of the competition, and has spent a total of £29,000.</p><p><strong><br> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 13/12/2023 17:27:59 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1673103

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Music: Education
	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 21 November 2023 to Question 1382 on Music: Education, what estimate her Department has made of the cost to Music Education Hubs of increased employer contributions to the teachers’ pension scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	uin	3752
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2023 answer text <p>The department will announce further details on the increased employer contributions to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS), including the approach for centrally employed teachers, and funding rates and allocations, in due course. In the meantime, the department can confirm that the existing TPS grant to non-local authority Hub Lead Organisations will continue to the end of August 2024.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 30/11/2023 11:21:17 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley