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1077720

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Department for Education: Apprentices
	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 (a) number and (b) proportion of staff employed in each group of his Department that are apprentices.
	tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
	tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
	uin	226124
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2019 answer text <p>The department currently employs 209 apprentices. This can be broken down into the following groups in the attached table, which also shows the proportion against the total number of employees.</p><p>Regarding the proportion of apprentices employed at the Institute for Apprenticeships, this is a matter for the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education. I have asked the Chief Executive, Sir Gerry Berragan, to write to the hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne and a copy of his reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.</p><p>Within the Education and Skills Funding Agency, 5 employees working on apprenticeships strategy, policy and delivery are apprentices, which represents 1.6% of the total of 317 employees.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 04/03/2019 15:34:53 question first ministerially corrected 07/03/2019 17:32:32 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton attachment 1 file name 226124_226125_226126_table_of_apprentices_employed_by_the_Department_for_Education.doc title 226124_125_126_Table_of_apprentices previous answer version 104932 answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton attachment 1 file name 226124_226125_226126_table_of_apprentices_employed_by_the_Department_for_Education.doc title 226124_226125_226126_table_of_apprentices
	tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1077723

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Institute for Apprenticeships: Apprentices
	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 staff at the Institute for Apprenticeships are apprentices.
	tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
	tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
	uin	226125
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2019 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The department currently employs 209 apprentices. This can be broken down into the following groups in the attached table, which also shows the proportion against the total number of employees.</del></p><p>Regarding the proportion of apprentices employed at the Institute for Apprenticeships, this is a matter for the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education. I have asked the Chief Executive, Sir Gerry Berragan, to write to the hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne and a copy of his reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.</p><p><del class="ministerial">Within the Education and Skills Funding Agency, 5 employees working on apprenticeships strategy, policy and delivery are apprentices, which represents 1.6% of the total of 317 employees.</del></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 04/03/2019 15:34:53 question first ministerially corrected 23/07/2019 15:41:44 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi previous answer version 105461 answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton attachment 1 file name 226124_226125_226126_table_of_apprentices_employed_by_the_Department_for_Education.doc title 226124_226125_226126_table_of_apprentices
	tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1077725

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Department for Education: Apprentices
	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 staff in his Department working on apprenticeship strategy, policy, and delivery are apprentices.
	tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
	tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
	uin	226126
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2019 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The department currently employs 209 apprentices. This can be broken down into the following groups in the attached table, which also shows the proportion against the total number of employees.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Regarding the proportion of apprentices employed at the Institute for Apprenticeships, this is a matter for the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education. I have asked the Chief Executive, Sir Gerry Berragan, to write to the hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne and a copy of his reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Education and Skills Funding Agency is responsible for apprenticeship strategy, policy and delivery and there are 317 employees in this division. </ins>Within the Education and Skills Funding Agency, <del class="ministerial">5<del class="ministerial"> </del></del><ins class="ministerial">8 </ins>employees working on apprenticeships strategy, policy and delivery are apprentices, which represents <del class="ministerial">1.6%</del> <ins class="ministerial">2.5% </ins>of <ins class="ministerial">their workforce.</ins> <del class="ministerial">the total of 317 employees. </del></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 04/03/2019 15:34:53 question first ministerially corrected 23/07/2019 15:41:57 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi previous answer version 105462 answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton attachment 1 file name 226124_226125_226126_table_of_apprentices_employed_by_the_Department_for_Education.doc title 226124_226125_226126_table_of_apprentices
	tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1079011

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Academies: Governing Bodies
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the effectiveness of the governance of multi-academy trusts.
	tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
	uin	HL14128
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2019 answer text <p>The department’s expectations of effective governance in multi academy trusts (MATs) is set out in the Academies Financial Handbook and Governance Handbook. This includes the skills, knowledge and behaviours that boards need to demonstrate to be effective. Both handbooks are currently being updated and once completed, copies will be <ins class="ministerial">placed</ins> <del class="ministerial">available</del> in the Libraries of both Houses. The Academies Financial Handbook is updated annually.</p><p> </p><p>Through the Academies Ambassadors Programme, over 1200 volunteers with commercial and business experience have been recruited to join academy boards.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 13/03/2019 17:05:25 question first ministerially corrected 14/03/2019 12:35:55 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton previous answer version 107039 answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
	tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie

1027366

	registered interest
	date	17/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Universities: Pay
	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 to encourage universities to tackle their BME and intersecting gender pay gaps.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
	uin	202859
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>​​As independent and autonomous institutions, higher education institutions are responsible for decisions about who they employ and the pay offered to their staff.</p><p>All employers with over 250 employees are now required to report their gender pay gap data. The transparency created through reporting is crucial to accelerating progress to close the gender pay gap.</p><p>Through her Race Disparity Audit, my right hon. Friend, the Prime Minister has asked employers to commit to tackling barriers facing ethnic minorities in the workplace and has launched a consultation on ethnicity pay reporting, which is open until January.</p><p>​In the New Year, government will be announcing a package of measures to address disparities that affect both ethnic minority staff and students in higher education.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/12/2018 16:20:04 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1121887

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2019
	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, with reference to pages 16 and 17 of the document entitled, Elective Home Education: Call for Evidence 2018 Government consultation response, what progress his Department has made on (a) providing clearer guidance to (i) schools and (ii) local authorities on (A) how to operate and (B) the effect of flexi-schooling arrangements and (b) establishing a separate code of practice to ensure that schools are not penalised as a result of the absence of flexi-schooled pupils.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
	uin	245991
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2019 answer text <p>The department’s revised guidance for local authorities on elective home education published on 2 April 2019 can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/elective-home-education" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/elective-home-education</a>.</p><p>This document can be used by schools and contains guidance on flexi-schooling at pages 34-35. The guidance makes clear that schools are free to agree to flexi-schooling arrangements and need not suffer any disadvantage in doing so.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 30/04/2019 15:46:52 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1082334

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools which were classified at their previous inspection as (a) outstanding, (b) good, (c) requires improvement and (d) inadequate were subsequently classified in an inspection in 2018 or 2019 as (a) outstanding, (b) good, (c) requires improvement and (d) inadequate.
	tabling member constituency	Brentwood and Ongar
	tabling member printed	Alex Burghart
	uin	228748
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2019 answer text <p>This is a matter for Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Amanda Spielman. I have asked her to write to my hon. Friend and a copy of her reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 13/03/2019 17:35:05 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart

1082339

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: Essex
	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 funding per pupil at (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in (i) Brentwood and Ongar constituency and (ii) Essex in (A) 2016-17, (B) 2017-18, (C) 2018-19, (D) 2019-20 and (E) 2020-21.
	tabling member constituency	Brentwood and Ongar
	tabling member printed	Alex Burghart
	uin	228753
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>The table below shows the per pupil funding allocated to Essex through the schools block of the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) for 2018/19 to 2019/20:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Primary </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Secondary </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total schools block allocation</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2018/19</strong></p></td><td><p>£3,777</p></td><td><p>£4,976</p></td><td><p>£837.9 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019/20</strong></p></td><td><p>£3,843</p></td><td><p>£5,018</p></td><td><p>£855.8 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br> Prior to 2018/19 schools block allocations were not calculated at phase level. The table below shows the total and per pupil schools block funding that Essex received in 2016/17 and 2017/18.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Per pupil</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total schools block allocation</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016/17</strong></p></td><td><p>£4,392</p></td><td><p>£814.7 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017/18</strong></p></td><td><p>£4,347</p></td><td><p>£819.5 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Since 2018/19, schools block allocations have been calculated through the national funding formula (NFF), based on individual schools’ characteristics. The following table outlines notional NFF allocations per pupil for Brentwood and Ongar schools in 2018/19 and 2019/20. These figures include the premises and mobility factors so are not directly comparable to the local authority figures provided above. Constituency level per pupil funding data prior to this is not held centrally.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Primary per pupil</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Secondary per pupil</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2018/19</strong></p></td><td><p>£3,821</p></td><td><p>£4,871</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019/20</strong></p></td><td><p>£3,892</p></td><td><p>£4,886</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Department is unable to provide figures for 2020/21 as spending plans beyond 2019/20 will be set at the next Spending Review and these decisions cannot be pre-empted.</p><p>In addition to funding through the schools block of the DSG, schools also receive funding from separate funding streams and additional grants, such as the high needs blocks of the DSG and the Pupil Premium.</p><p>To provide stability for schools, local authorities will continue to be responsible for designing the distribution of funding in their areas in 2018/19 through to 2020/21. Because of this, the actual amount that schools receive may be different to the amount they are attracting through the national funding formula. Local authorities set their local formula in consultation with schools.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 11/03/2019 17:47:39 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart

1023039

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the early years attainment gap over the last ten years.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	200645
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>The ‘Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (EYFSP) results 2017-2018’ include time series data on attainment gaps for pupil characteristics - including eligibility for free school meals (FSM), special educational needs and disabilities and ethnicity - for the period 2013 to 2018. (EYFSP 2018 additional tables by pupil characteristics – Table 1: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/759345/EYFSP2018_additional_tables.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/759345/EYFSP2018_additional_tables.xlsx</a>).</p><p>Since 2013, the gap between the percentage of children eligible for FSM achieving a good level of development and their peers has narrowed by 1.7 percentage points.</p><p>EYFSP data for 2008 to 2012 can be found online, however since the EYFSP was revised for academic year 2012-13, any data prior to this is not comparable.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 13/12/2018 15:13:11 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1023040

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much money from the public purse his Department has allocated to marketing for the (a) early years initial (b) primary and (c) secondary teacher training courses.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	200646
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>The marketing budget allocated for recruitment to post-graduate initial teacher training for the financial year 2018-19 is £16,671,000.</p><p> </p><p>A budget breakdown between primary and secondary recruitment is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>There is no budget allocated for the financial year 2018-19 for marketing the separate early years teaching entry routes.</p><p> </p><p>The marketing campaign for teacher training directs people to visit the Get Into Teaching site here:</p><p><a href="https://getintoteaching.education.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://getintoteaching.education.gov.uk/</a>.</p><p>On this website, they can find out more about training for early years, primary and secondary teaching.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 13/12/2018 16:55:13 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham