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100694

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Classroom Assistants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, in light of the announcement that a new set of standards is to be established for teaching assistants in England, what discussions she has had with her counterparts in the devolved administrations on ensuring consistency in standards for teaching assistants across the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Belfast North
	tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Dodds
	uin	211668
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2014 answer text <p>School staffing policy is a matter for the devolved administrations. A review of teacher assistant standards for schools in England was launched recently. It is led by Kate Dethridge who is being supported by a panel of experts. A public call for evidence will be initiated shortly which will explore good practice across schools. The Department for Education also plans carry out a public consultation once the standards have been agreed by the expert panel. Use of the standards will be voluntary.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 29/10/2014 12:53:16 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

93541

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Education: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she plans to take to ensure greater consistency in educational outcomes (a) from each stage of provision and (b) across all regions.
	tabling member constituency	Belfast North
	tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Dodds
	uin	210718
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>This Government has introduced an ambitious, coherent programme of reforms to ensure greater consistency in educational outcomes across all stages and regions in England.</p><p>We are reforming assessment and the curriculum across the primary and secondary phases and general and vocational qualifications to ensure we have a system that prepares young people for life in modern Britain. We are reforming GCSEs and A levels to be robust and rigorous, to match the best education systems in the world and to keep pace with universities’ and employers’ demands. The new national curriculum, introduced from this school year, also sets out expectations for children at all four key stages that match the curricula used in the world’s most successful school systems.</p><p>We are improving the accountability framework to improve standards across the country. In addition, Ofsted has implemented a more rigorous inspection framework, with performance data being used to target inspections on the weakest schools and a recognition that any school rated less than ‘good' is not performing well enough.</p><p>Some schools are still not performing well enough. We issued revised statutory guidance[1] to local authorities in May that makes very clear our expectations that they should take swift and robust action when maintained schools are performing poorly. This includes our expectation that their assessment should include the achievement of disadvantaged pupils and that poorly performing schools should become sponsored academies.</p><p>In addition, the academies and free schools programmes are shifting power and responsibility to leaders of education, giving schools greater autonomy to drive improvements, within a strong framework of accountability. The growth in sponsored academies is raising standards by turning around some of the most disadvantaged and worst performing schools in the country. Increasingly, high performing schools are taking the lead as sponsors, sharing their expertise and experience to benefit others.</p><p>Regional Schools Commissioners (RSCs) are responsible for overseeing the performance of academies, free schools, university technical colleges and studio schools in their region. RSCs, along with their headteacher boards, are helping to build the capacity of the Department for Education to pick up local and regional soft intelligence which will contribute to the ability of the Department to oversee academies and free schools and hold them to account. The RSCs will be able to take decisions on academy issues whilst being immersed in the local context. This will enable them to make decisions based on the circumstances of the school(s) and sponsor(s) in question.</p><p>All of these reforms will also help raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils and close the gap with their peers at every phase and in every region in England. In particular, the Government introduced the pupil premium in April 2011 – worth a total of £6.25 billion to date – to give schools the resources to raise the attainment of mainly economically disadvantaged pupils and those in care.</p><p>[1] <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-causing-concern--2" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-causing-concern--2</a></p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 21/10/2014 13:48:27 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

932201

	registered interest
	date	28/06/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Foster Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children and young people are in foster care in each constituent part of the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Belfast North
	tabling member printed	Nigel Dodds
	uin	158700
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2018 answer text <p>At 31 March 2017, there were 72,670 looked after children in England of whom 53,420 children were in foster placements.</p><p>The number of children in foster placements can also be expressed as a rate per 10,000 children under 18 years of age using the mid-year population estimates provided by the Office for National Statistics. Figures at 31 March 2017 show there were 45 children per 10,000 of the population aged under 18 who were in foster placements in England.</p><p>The Department for Education only holds the information for England. The devolved administrations hold the information for the other constituent countries.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 158701 question first answered 04/07/2018 15:24:27 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

932204

	registered interest
	date	28/06/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Foster Care
	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 people under the age of 18 are in foster care.
	tabling member constituency	Belfast North
	tabling member printed	Nigel Dodds
	uin	158701
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2018 answer text <p>At 31 March 2017, there were 72,670 looked after children in England of whom 53,420 children were in foster placements.</p><p>The number of children in foster placements can also be expressed as a rate per 10,000 children under 18 years of age using the mid-year population estimates provided by the Office for National Statistics. Figures at 31 March 2017 show there were 45 children per 10,000 of the population aged under 18 who were in foster placements in England.</p><p>The Department for Education only holds the information for England. The devolved administrations hold the information for the other constituent countries.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 158700 question first answered 04/07/2018 15:24:27 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

754638

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2017
	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 her Department has made of the implications for its policies of the Social Mobility Commission's findings in its report, Time for Change: An Assessment of Government Policies on Social Mobility 1997-2017, on the quality of nursery provision provided to children.
	tabling member constituency	Belfast North
	tabling member printed	Nigel Dodds
	uin	6812
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to driving up quality standards in the early years. As the Social Mobility Commission report notes, the proportion of providers rated “good” or “outstanding” has risen steadily and the latest figures from Ofsted show that 93% of providers had achieved these top ratings as at 31 March 2017. Ofsted’s annual report last year noted that the proportion of “good” and “outstanding” nurseries and pre-schools was now almost identical in the least deprived areas compared with the most deprived, the difference having decreased by seven percentage points in four years. Improving the regulatory regime is a key part of our quality strategy and we continue to work closely with Ofsted on that.</p><p>In addition, the department published its Early Years Workforce Strategy on 3 March, which set out how we plan to help employers attract, retain and develop early years staff. The workforce strategy supports the development of a well-qualified workforce with the appropriate knowledge, skills and experience to deliver high quality early education and childcare for all children from birth to age five, including through improving the quality of early years training and providing access to continuous professional development. The strategy can be viewed from this link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-workforce-strategy" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-workforce-strategy</a>.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 07/09/2017 10:28:24 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

794061

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Erasmus+ Programme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of people who have been participants in the Erasmus Plus programme since its introduction in each (a) region of the UK and (b) sector.
	tabling member constituency	Belfast North
	tabling member printed	Nigel Dodds
	uin	115149
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2017 answer text <p>The Erasmus+ programme was introduced in 2014. Data on the number of participants broken down by sector and across the UK is available at <a href="https://www.erasmusplus.org.uk/statistics-0" target="_blank">https://www.erasmusplus.org.uk/statistics-0</a>.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 30/11/2017 09:03:54 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

852631

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Universities: Migrant Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of staff employed by UK Universities are citizens of (a) another EU member state (b) a non-EU state.
	tabling member constituency	Belfast North
	tabling member printed	Nigel Dodds
	uin	130627
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2018 answer text <p>The Higher Education Statistics Agency collects and publishes statistics on staff employed at UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Annual statistics on staff employed by HEIs are published under the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/statistical-first-releases" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/statistical-first-releases</a>.</p><p> </p><p>In the academic year 2016/17, 12% of staff with known nationality were EU nationals and 8% were non-EU nationals at UK HEIs.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 09/03/2018 11:35:44 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

852633

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Universities: Staff
	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 academic staff employed by UK universities spend more than 180 days working in academic institutions in other EU member states as part of their contract of employment.
	tabling member constituency	Belfast North
	tabling member printed	Nigel Dodds
	uin	130629
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 09/03/2018 09:59:29 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

872587

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Postgraduate Education: Disadvantaged
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what programmes are in place to help students from disadvantaged backgrounds access PhD courses in universities.
	tabling member constituency	Belfast North
	tabling member printed	Nigel Dodds
	uin	134401
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2018 answer text <p>Research and innovation skills are vital to the UK economy, which is why the government invested £90 million in an additional 1,000 PhDs from 2017/18 in disciplines aligned with our industrial strategy, as part of a package of investment in research talent. Recruitment of PhD students is the responsibility of higher education providers. Research councils can provide training grants to support students once they are in post.</p><p> </p><p>Postgraduate doctoral loans will be made available from academic year 2018/19 and provide a £25,000 loan to doctoral students to contribute to the cost of their studies. These loans will help support those who face financial barriers to undertaking a doctorate qualification. The scheme particularly aims to help students who would not previously have had the opportunity to take up doctoral study, as well as helping others manage the financial pressures associated with study more easily.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 05/04/2018 16:36:37 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

872588

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Postgraduate Education: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions he has had with the Northern Ireland authorities on the effectiveness of schemes to encourage students from disadvantaged backgrounds to access PhD courses in universities in England.
	tabling member constituency	Belfast North
	tabling member printed	Nigel Dodds
	uin	134402
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2018 answer text <p>My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State has not discussed this issue with the Northern Ireland authorities. However, he has regular on-going discussions with the Northern Ireland authorities on a range of issues including those affecting the higher education sector.</p><p> </p><p>Postgraduate doctoral loans aimed at helping students who would not previously have had the opportunity to take up doctoral study will be made available in England from academic year 2018/19 and will provide a £25,000 loan to doctoral students to contribute to the cost of their studies.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 05/04/2018 16:42:35 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn