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1136561

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	T-levels: Adult Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether funding will be allocated to support adult learners taking T Levels.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	James Frith
	uin	272917
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2019 answer text <p>T Levels have been designed to provide a high-quality technical study programme for students aged 16 to 19 to support entry to skilled employment in technical occupations at level 3 and above. We will consider whether they might be appropriate for some adults to study but the current focus of the government and providers is on a successful roll out of these transformational courses to the core 16-19 demographic.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 10/07/2019 13:20:28 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

772126

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	English Language: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing an English as a second language strategy.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	James Frith
	uin	108238
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2017 answer text <p>We are working across government to support adults in England to secure the English language skills they need for life and work. This is why adults in England are eligible for fully- or co-funded English for Speakers of Other Languages courses, depending on their employment status. In 2016/17 the Department supported 114,400 adults to improve their English language skills.</p><p>Since 2013, the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has invested £12 million to support 54,000 isolated adults to learn English in community settings at pre-entry level, focusing on women with no or very little English who are unlikely to access classes in more formal settings.</p><p>The Government has also made available up to £10 million over five years for additional English language training and support for people resettled under the Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme to help them integrate into British society.</p><p>DCLG has been reviewing the available evidence on the main causes of poor integration and we will bring forward plans for tackling these issues through a new integration strategy.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 25/10/2017 13:51:36 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

805106

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Further Education: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that the post-16 educational sector has the capacity to train young people to find employment in a post-automation jobs market.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	James Frith
	uin	118778
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2017 answer text <p>It is essential that we have training providers that are able to deliver the high quality training that employers and learners need. Following a series of locally led Area Reviews, significant recommendations have been made that will deliver a more efficient post-16 system.</p><p> </p><p>Our focus is on further improving the quality of the education provided through a risk-based Ofsted inspection programme, a robust intervention framework where failing colleges are referred to the Further Education (FE) Commissioner, who will also have an extended role by working to support improvement. We have introduced a new Strategic College Improvement Fund, worth £15 million over two years, to enable weaker colleges to access support from their stronger peers and a National Leaders Programme for FE, to help drive improvement across the sector. These initiatives should help us to achieve our ambition of a further education sector comprised of high status institutions, which can confer the same advantages as academic institutions.</p><p> </p><p>Having the best-quality teachers and leaders is also key to delivering high-quality provision across FE. We have invested £40 million in the FE workforce since 2013. This has provided bursaries to support over 1,200 graduates to train to teach maths or English in the FE sector. It has also funded training for thousands of teachers in FE institutions to help them improve their teaching of English and maths.</p><p> </p><p>To complement further education colleges and other training providers, and to support wider reforms to technical education, government is establishing five new post-16 specialist providers. The department is investing £80 million alongside contributions from business to establish National Colleges which will target sectoral skills gaps, where existing providers are not able to equip people with technical skills the sector’s employers need. We are also providing £170 million capital funding to create prestigious Institutes of Technology (IoTs) to deliver the higher-level technical skills employers demand, with a Call for Proposals to establish IoTs being launched on the 15 December. IoTs will be a prestigious and high quality employer-led institutions delivering hig</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 20/12/2017 17:44:26 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

1105869

	registered interest
	date	28/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices: Taxation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the (a) terms of reference and (b) scope is of his Department's review of the Apprenticeship Levy.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	James Frith
	uin	238388
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>​In the Autumn Statement last year, my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced that the government would work with employers and providers on the use of the apprenticeship levy after 2020.</p><p>We have been looking at how organisations have responded to the introduction of the levy and associated reforms as well as how we can help develop future demand for, and provision of, apprenticeships. We have also been exploring the impact of the levy across different sectors and regions and for different types of apprentices as well as the contribution of apprenticeships to the wider skills landscape.</p><p>Over the past few months, we have used a number of channels, including a survey and regional roundtables across England, to work with a range of different employers, providers and representative organisations. We will continue to listen to the views of employers and providers in the run-up to the Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 02/04/2019 14:00:07 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

1108653

	registered interest
	date	01/04/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the conclusions of the National Audit Office’s report of 6 March 2019, The apprenticeships programme, HC 1987 2017-19, what plans he has to address concerns that funding for that programme may be insufficient should there be an increase in demand for apprenticeships.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	James Frith
	uin	239284
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>We are pleased that employers are choosing to move to our new, higher quality apprenticeship offer to make a sustainable investment in the skills that they need to grow. Employers are designing higher level apprenticeships that take longer and require more off-the-job training and, while this is something to be welcomed, we are conscious of the challenges it presents.</p><p> </p><p>In 2019-20, funding available for investment in apprenticeships in England will be over £2.5 billion, this is double what was spent in 2010-11. The apprenticeship budget is set in advance by Her Majesty’s Treasury for the current spending review period. Currently, we expect to be within budget in the 2018-19 and 2019-20 financial years. We continue to monitor the trend of increasing spending on apprenticeships and to make use of our engagement with employers in addition to all available data from the programme to inform forecasts of demand and future costs.</p><p> </p><p>The level of funding for the programme beyond 2020 will be determined by the forthcoming Spending Review announced by my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his Spring Statement.</p><p><em><br> </em></p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 08/04/2019 10:14:05 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton previous answer version 112154 answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

868447

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices: Bury North
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprenticeship places have been taken up in North Bury constituency; which sectors those apprenticeships are in; and at what levels those apprenticeships are at.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	James Frith
	uin	133667
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2018 answer text <p>This information is in the public domain. Apprenticeship starts in the 2016/17 academic year for the Bury North constituency broken down by sector subject areas and levels is published in the apprenticeships section of the ‘Further education data library’: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/661046/201617_apprenticeships_geography_tool_by_sector_subject_area.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/661046/201617_apprenticeships_geography_tool_by_sector_subject_area.xlsx</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Full year apprenticeship starts by young people (under 19s) between 2011/12 and 2016/17 in the Bury North constituency is published in the ‘Further education data library’: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/675497/FE_and_Skills_Participation_by_Level_-_Age_-_Region_-_LEA_FINALv4.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/675497/FE_and_Skills_Participation_by_Level_-_Age_-_Region_-_LEA_FINALv4.xlsx</a>. The proportion of young people in Bury North starting an apprenticeship is not available from the official data.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton grouped question UIN 133670 question first answered 03/04/2018 15:21:28 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

868450

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices: Bury North
	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 young people in Bury North constituency started an apprenticeship in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	James Frith
	uin	133670
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2018 answer text <p>This information is in the public domain. Apprenticeship starts in the 2016/17 academic year for the Bury North constituency broken down by sector subject areas and levels is published in the apprenticeships section of the ‘Further education data library’: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/661046/201617_apprenticeships_geography_tool_by_sector_subject_area.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/661046/201617_apprenticeships_geography_tool_by_sector_subject_area.xlsx</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Full year apprenticeship starts by young people (under 19s) between 2011/12 and 2016/17 in the Bury North constituency is published in the ‘Further education data library’: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/675497/FE_and_Skills_Participation_by_Level_-_Age_-_Region_-_LEA_FINALv4.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/675497/FE_and_Skills_Participation_by_Level_-_Age_-_Region_-_LEA_FINALv4.xlsx</a>. The proportion of young people in Bury North starting an apprenticeship is not available from the official data.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton grouped question UIN 133667 question first answered 03/04/2018 15:21:28 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

868451

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices: Taxation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans his Department has to ensure that any Apprenticeship Levy underspend can be retained for the sectors from which that Levy was raised and directed to address specific skills gaps in those sectors.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	James Frith
	uin	133671
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2018 answer text <p>The apprenticeships programme is demand led, and employers will recruit apprentices and spend their funds on the apprenticeship training that they judge best meets their skills needs. The programme makes sure that funds move to where there is a need; to retain levy funds for specific sectors could restrict the use of funding.</p><p> </p><p>Using our apprenticeship budget to fund wider skills training would have a significant impact on our ability to meet our target of three million apprenticeship starts by 2020 as less of the funding would be focussed on apprenticeship training. We want to retain and meet this target to give more people the opportunity to get the skills they need to get on in life.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton grouped question UIN 133673 question first answered 03/04/2018 15:22:55 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

868452

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices: 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 on the extent to which the new apprenticeship standards are closing the skills gap in sectors such as engineering, facilities management and construction.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	James Frith
	uin	133672
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2018 answer text <p>The department continues to monitor apprenticeships market performance including levels of starts by sector subject areas such as Engineering and Manufacturing Technologies as well as Construction, Planning and the Built Environment. In the first quarter of this academic year we have seen particular growth in the number of starts at Level 4 and above in Engineering and Manufacturing, in comparison to the same period last year.</p><p> </p><p>Quality is at the heart of our changes to apprenticeships and new employer-designed high quality standards are replacing frameworks to ensure apprenticeships meet employers’ needs and address national skills shortages.</p><p> </p><p>Employers are taking on the standards rapidly - there were 40,900 apprenticeship starts on the new apprenticeship standards for quarter one of the 2017/18 academic year – more than the whole of last year combined. This represents 36% of all starts in the first quarter of this year compared to 3.1% in the same period the previous year, and much quicker growth than expected - showing that employers are moving to the new higher quality offer.</p><p> </p><p>Higher quality training leads to increased productivity; of the new standards approved, 37 are standards in construction and engineering-related occupations and in Facilities Management. Around 300 more standards are in development, including more than 100 in construction and engineering and three more in Facilities Management occupations.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 03/04/2018 15:30:16 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

868453

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices: Taxation
	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 the potential merits of broadening the apprenticeship levy into a wider skills levy which would encompass other forms of training.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	James Frith
	uin	133673
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2018 answer text <p>The apprenticeships programme is demand led, and employers will recruit apprentices and spend their funds on the apprenticeship training that they judge best meets their skills needs. The programme makes sure that funds move to where there is a need; to retain levy funds for specific sectors could restrict the use of funding.</p><p> </p><p>Using our apprenticeship budget to fund wider skills training would have a significant impact on our ability to meet our target of three million apprenticeship starts by 2020 as less of the funding would be focussed on apprenticeship training. We want to retain and meet this target to give more people the opportunity to get the skills they need to get on in life.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton grouped question UIN 133671 question first answered 03/04/2018 15:22:55 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith