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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

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

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

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

922469

registered interest
date	12/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department has taken to (a) consult and (b) respond to disabled young people who have secured an apprenticeship.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Frith
uin	152841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2018 answer text <p>Our Pacesetter project was established in 2017 with the aim of working with selected partners to test our policy approaches, and gain better understanding of the experiences of disabled apprentices. We work with organisations and individuals who have proven experience and success in this area, and can help us identify initiatives which work and can be scaled up, with a view to delivering tangible progress towards growing numbers of apprentices from this group. Pacesetters include local authorities, employment organisations, a special school and the learning disability charity Mencap.</p><p> </p><p>As part of department's annual Apprenticeship Evaluation Surveys, information is routinely collected about the experiences and satisfaction levels of apprentices that identify as having a disability.</p><p> </p><p>The Further Education Learner and Apprentices survey, which samples approximately 6,500 apprentices, collects detailed demographic and social mobility data along with information on barriers to learning.</p><p> </p><p>To inform our new funding policy, published in May 2018, we commissioned the Learning and Work Institute to interview providers, employers and third party organisations providing additional support to apprentices with a range of disabilities- selected for their experience working with this group. The report can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/exploring-funding-for-apprentices-with-additional-needs" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/exploring-funding-for-apprentices-with-additional-needs</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have recently produced a new apprenticeship learner support guide following requests from organisations who offer careers support to those seeking to apply for an apprenticeship. It contains information for those seeking an apprenticeship and for those already in an apprenticeship and includes the support and funding available for those people with disabilities and for those who might require mental health support: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/a-guide-to-apprenticeships" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/a-guide-to-apprenticeships</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 20/06/2018 16:25:00 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

968268

registered interest
date	05/09/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	T-levels
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to support employers to provide placements for T-level students.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Frith
uin	170872
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2018 answer text <p>We have put in place a range of measures to make sure that employers are supported to offer T Level industry placements. This includes the National Apprenticeships Service who will provide a dedicated and fully trained team of account managers to provide advice and support to employers, and broker links with local education providers delivering industry placements during the current academic year. Education providers are receiving capacity and delivery funding in 2018-19 and 2019-20 to support their work with employers to deliver industry placements. In academic year 2017/18, we ran a pilot to test potential models for industry placements and understand delivery challenges and how to overcome them. This ran with 21 post 16 providers and up to 2000 students were involved with over 1000 employers offering placements in the 2017/18 academic year. The department has recently published a suite of online guidance and materials based on the learnings from this pilot to assist both providers and employers in delivering placements. We are establishing this support well in advance of the first T Levels being delivered in 2020.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 14/09/2018 12:57:15 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

968266

registered interest
date	05/09/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	T-levels: Publicity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to raise awareness of T-Levels with employers in advance of the 2020 start date for those qualifications.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Frith
uin	170871
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2018 answer text <p>As part of the T Level panels, employers are at the heart of the programme and they play a key role in developing the outline content for the new programmes. We have also provided £5 million to the National Apprenticeship Service, who have widened their remit to offer an advice and support service for employers. This includes raising awareness and promoting the benefits of T Levels and industry placements to employers, including those that may not be actively engaged in education and training activities.</p><p>As we move closer to delivery in 2020, we will increase the scale and pace of our communications with providers and employers to raise awareness of T Levels and how they fit in with other post-16 choices.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 14/09/2018 13:08:51 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

922004

registered interest
date	11/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	T-levels
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 number of learners taking T levels in the first year of the level's introduction.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Frith
uin	152273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2018 answer text <p>Our plan is for a measured implementation of T levels, the most radical reform of post-16 education since the introduction of A Levels almost 70 years ago, which will transform the technical education landscape. On 27 May we announced the 52 colleges and other providers that have been selected to deliver the first three T Levels in 2020 and have since selected a further two providers.</p><p>Teaching is to begin in 2020 in the first three subjects in 54 providers. As providers are considering the outline content of the first T Levels and developing their own implementation plans, the number of potential learners for the first years of T Levels is still under consideration but is expected to grow over time.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 15/06/2018 17:26:28 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