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1254440

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Union Learning Fund
	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 potential effect of the ending of the Union Learning Fund from April 2021 on (a) workers affected by covid-19 and (b) the Government’s policy on reducing regional inequality.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	119247
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2020 answer text <p>The main impact COVID-19 has had on the economy and workforce has been a rise in unemployment. We need to help these people reskill where necessary and re-enter into employment. The Union Learning Fund operates mostly through larger employers within unionised parts of the economy and is not designed to help those out of work – only <del class="ministerial">11%</del> <ins class="ministerial">2% </ins>of people supported via the Union Learning Fund are unemployed.</p><p>The decision to no longer support the Union Learning Fund after 31 March 2021 was taken as part of the wider Spending Review discussions and in light of our expanded commitment to skills development through the £2.5 million National Skills Fund, and Lifetime Skills Guarantee. This national fund will support individuals to get the training and qualifications they need wherever they are located and regardless of whether they are able to access the Unionlearn network.</p><p>As part of this expanded commitment, I can confirm all the money will be invested in skills and retraining that will be accessible to all.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 26/11/2020 11:47:56 question first ministerially corrected 02/12/2020 16:01:29 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan previous answer version 64103 answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1242530

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Training: Remote Education
	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 has been spent on The Skills Toolkit online learning platform in each year since the beginning of that platform.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	102155
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2020 answer text <p>The Skills Toolkit was announced in April 2020 and the cost of developing the platform in this financial year is £798,700. This includes the launch and the two subsequent expansions of the platform. A further £325,700 has been spent on communications activities to promote the platform.</p><p><del class="ministerial">As of 4 October there have been a total of 118,011 starts of the courses on the platform and 19,564 course completions. As of 11 October, the platform had 1.2 million page views.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">As of 1 November 2020 there have been an estimated 119,000 course registrations. As of 1 November 2020 there have been 1,323,450 page views. These are experimental statistics and further information can be found in the official statistical release of 27 November 2020 in the following link: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/apprenticeships-and-traineeships." target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/apprenticeships-and-traineeships.</a></ins></p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 19/10/2020 16:09:57 question first ministerially corrected 17/12/2020 18:41:06 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan previous answer version 54420 answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1342536

	registered interest
	date	30/06/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Arts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools lack a qualified teacher in (a) art and design, (b) drama and (c) music.
	tabling member constituency	Hove
	tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
	uin	25092
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2021 answer text <p>The number of state-funded schools in England with no teachers holding a relevant post-A level qualification in art and design, drama or music is provided in the attached table.</p><p>To reduce burden during the COVID-19 outbreak, schools and local authorities were not required to provide information on teacher qualifications in 2020. Therefore, the information provided relates to the November 2019 School Workforce Census.</p><p>Please note that this information relates to qualifications of teachers, not the subjects taught. Information on subjects taught and teacher post-A level qualifications is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication at the following link: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england</a>.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 05/07/2021 15:09:36 question first ministerially corrected 07/04/2022 09:37:35 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker attachment 1 file name 25092_table.xlsx title 25092_table previous answer version 11142 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 25092_table_teachers_without_post_a_level_qualification_Art_Drama_music.xls title Table for teacher employment qualifications
	tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1145211

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Students: Rents
	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 rents levied by developers of student accommodation.
	tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
	uin	HL17738
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Higher education providers are autonomous bodies, independent from the government. The department plays no direct role in the provision of student residential accommodation.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> <ins class="ministerial">The department assesses student accommodation rent levels through the Student Income and Expenditure Surveys that have been undertaken at regular intervals since the mid-1980s. Information on student rents is also reported in the Accommodation Costs Surveys published jointly by the National Union of Students and the student housing charity, Unipol.</ins></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> <ins class="ministerial">The report published by the independent panel supporting the Post-18 Review of Education and Funding recommends that the Office for Students:</ins></ins></p><blockquote><p><ins class="ministerial"><ins class="ministerial"> <ins class="ministerial">examines the costs of student accommodation; and</ins></ins></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><ins class="ministerial"><ins class="ministerial"><ins class="ministerial">works with students and providers to improve data about costs, rents, profits and quality.</ins></ins></ins></ins></p></blockquote><p><ins class="ministerial">The department has not yet taken decisions on these recommendations but will consider the panel’s proposals in due course.</ins></p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Berridge question first answered 09/09/2019 16:46:52 question first ministerially corrected 03/10/2019 16:40:06 answering member 4218 label Biography information for Baroness Berridge previous answer version 134418 answering member printed Baroness Berridge answering member 4218 label Biography information for Baroness Berridge
	tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

1144179

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Students: Loans
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many students who have overpaid their student loans since 2009–10 have yet to be refunded.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
	uin	HL17667
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> The information is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</ins></p> answering member printed Baroness Berridge question first answered 09/09/2019 16:46:35 question first ministerially corrected 30/09/2019 17:08:22 answering member 4218 label Biography information for Baroness Berridge previous answer version 134450 answering member printed Baroness Berridge answering member 4218 label Biography information for Baroness Berridge
	tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

1144086

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Finance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of any estimated overspend of council funding special needs education; and what steps they are taking to provide financial support to protect the service.
	tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
	uin	HL17574
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">We have asked local authorities with a cumulative deficit on their Dedicated Schools Grant of more than 1% to submit recovery plans to the department. We are now reviewing those plans and will be discussing these with local authorities in due course.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">For 2020-21, we have announced more than £700 million of additional high needs funding, which funds children with more complex special educational needs. This represents an increase of 11% compared to 2019-20, leading to a total of over £7 billion. Every local authority will receive a minimum increase of 8% per head of population aged 2-18. We will provide local authorities with provisional allocations in October. This will help local authorities to manage the pressures that they will face next year.</ins></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 09/09/2019 16:52:51 question first ministerially corrected 07/10/2019 15:47:18 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton previous answer version 134559 answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
	tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

1144171

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Uniforms
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the timetable for implementing the commitment in their 2015 report A better deal: boosting competition to bring down bills for families and firms to put best practice guidance for school uniform supply in England on a statutory footing.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
	uin	HL17659
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">It is for the governing body of a school (or in the case of academies, the academy trust) to decide rules relating to appearance, including whether there should be a school uniform, what it will be and how it should be sourced.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">No school uniform should be so expensive as to leave pupils or their families feeling unable to apply to, or attend, a school of their choice. The Department’s best-practice guidance advises schools that they should give the highest priority to cost considerations and achieving value for money for parents.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Department intends to put the school uniform guidance on a statutory footing when a suitable opportunity arises.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Department’s guidance is attached and is available at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-uniform" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-uniform</a>.</ins></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 09/09/2019 16:33:41 question first ministerially corrected 04/10/2019 13:54:19 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton previous answer version 134480 answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
	tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

1133569

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Closures
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish the (a) postcode, (b) local authority area and (c) rural and urban classification for each state school that has closed and not reopened in another form in each year since 2000.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
	uin	267249
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2019 answer text <p>654 schools have closed with no direct replacement provision between 1 January 2000 and 21 June 2019. Of these, 183 were designated as rural schools. Between 1 January 2010 and 21 June 2019, <del class="ministerial">260</del> <ins class="ministerial">249 </ins>schools closed with no direct replacement provision. Of these, <del class="ministerial">104</del> <ins class="ministerial">102 </ins>were designated as rural schools. A full list can be found attached.</p><p>Information about all open and closed schools in England is available on Get Information about Schools[1] (the department’s register of schools). This can be found at:</p><p><a href="http://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk" target="_blank">www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk</a>.</p><p>The Ofsted definition of a state funded school has been used. This definition does not include local authority maintained nursery schools, alternative provision<ins class="ministerial"> or special schools.</ins><del class="ministerial">, studio schools or university technical colleges.</del></p><p> </p><p>[1] Responsibility for updating Get Information about Schools is shared between the Department, schools and local authorities and therefore we cannot guarantee the accuracy of this data.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 28/06/2019 10:48:31 question first ministerially corrected 10/07/2019 15:39:58 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 267249_state_school_closures.pdf title 267249_table previous answer version 125528 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 267249_state_school_closures.pdf title 267249_table
	tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1144095

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools
	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 risks for schools of a no-deal Brexit.
	tabling member printed	Lord Black of Brentwood
	uin	HL17583
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.</del></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Department is considering all aspects of how exiting the EU might affect schools in England and has well-developed plans for leaving the EU without a deal.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Department has issued guidance for schools on how to prepare for EU exit, which has been attached and is available from:</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/eu-exit-no-deal-preparations-for-schools-in-england/eu-exit-no-deal-preparations-for-schools-in-england" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/eu-exit-no-deal-preparations-for-schools-in-england/eu-exit-no-deal-preparations-for-schools-in-england</a>.</ins></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 09/09/2019 16:28:59 question first ministerially corrected 03/10/2019 17:00:50 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton previous answer version 134524 answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
	tabling member	4171 label Biography information for Lord Black of Brentwood

1144096

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what preparations they have made to ensure that schools are not adversely affected by a no-deal Brexit.
	tabling member printed	Lord Black of Brentwood
	uin	HL17584
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.</del></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Department is considering all aspects of how exiting the EU might affect schools in England and has well-developed plans for leaving the EU without a deal.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Department has issued guidance for schools on how to prepare for EU exit, which is available from:</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/eu-exit-no-deal-preparations-for-schools-in-england/eu-exit-no-deal-preparations-for-schools-in-england" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/eu-exit-no-deal-preparations-for-schools-in-england/eu-exit-no-deal-preparations-for-schools-in-england</a>.</ins></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 09/09/2019 16:28:59 question first ministerially corrected 03/10/2019 17:00:29 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton previous answer version 135342 answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
	tabling member	4171 label Biography information for Lord Black of Brentwood