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1196526

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: Coronavirus
	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 merits of increasing the range of workers that should be regarded as key workers for the purposes of giving access to schools for their children during the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	48399
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government has published guidance on critical workers who can access schools or educational settings, which is available here:<br> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-maintaining-educational-provision/guidance-for-schools-colleges-and-local-authorities-on-maintaining-educational-provision" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-maintaining-educational-provision/guidance-for-schools-colleges-and-local-authorities-on-maintaining-educational-provision</a>.</p><p>The definition of critical workers remains unchanged.</p><p>As we have made progress in reducing the transmission of COVID-19, we are encouraging all eligible children to attend schools or educational settings, even if parents are able to keep their children at home. This is only where there are no shielding concerns for the child or their household.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 02/06/2020 16:13:16 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1218208

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Assessments: Coronavirus
	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 covid-19 outbreak on exam results for school students sitting exams in summer 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	65115
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2020 answer text <p>​​This is a matter for Ofqual, the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation. I have asked its Chief Regulator, Sally Collier, to write to the hon. Member 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 01/07/2020 16:40:55 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1242362

	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	Schools: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what payments have been made to schools in (a) Sefton, (b) Merseyside and (c) the North West from the covid-19 exceptional costs fund; and when schools that have applied for that funding will receive a decision on their application.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	102063
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2020 answer text <p>The first window for schools to claim funding back for exceptional costs due to COVID-19 closed on 21 July. The following payments against claims within the published scope of the fund have been arranged for schools in the named areas for those costs incurred between March to July 2020:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Paid in September 2020</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>To be paid in November 2020</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sefton<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>£289,962</p></td><td><p>£491,796</p></td><td><p>£781,758</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Merseyside<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>£2,133,315</p></td><td><p>£2,953,468</p></td><td><p>£5,086,783</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West<sup>3</sup></p></td><td><p>£7,763,083</p></td><td><p>£8,738,090</p></td><td><p>£16,501,173</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Schools also made claims for costs outside of the published scope of the fund and an assessment is currently being undertaken to determine which of these other costs can be reimbursed. We expect to write to schools in November to confirm the outcome of that assessment.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><sup>1</sup> Schools in the Sefton local authority area.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><sup>2</sup> Schools in the Liverpool, Knowsley, Wirral, St Helens, Sefton and Halton local authority areas.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><sup>3</sup> Schools in the government office region of the North West.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 15/10/2020 16:15:11 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1242363

	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	National Tutoring Programme
	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 ability of schools to access the national tutoring programme.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	102064
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2020 answer text <p>The National Tutoring Programme (NTP) is an ambitious scheme that will provide additional, targeted support for those children and young people who need the most help to catch up.</p><p>Through the NTP programme for 5-16 year olds, schools will be able to access high quality, subsidised tuition from approved tuition partners. Schools in the most disadvantaged areas will be supported to employ in-house academic mentors to provide tuition to their pupils. The NTP has not gone live yet so the Department does not have figures on the number of pupils who have accessed it. It is expected that the first group of tutors will be supporting schools from November, with provision continuing into the spring term. Further information on the processes for delivering and accessing tuition support is set out here: <a href="https://nationaltutoring.org.uk/faqs" target="_blank">https://nationaltutoring.org.uk/faqs</a>.</p><p>NTP funding will also be used to provide additional targeted early language and literacy support for reception classes. The Department is inviting applications from all state-funded schools with a reception class, with priority given to those with a high proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals. The application deadline is 30 October 2020. Participating schools will begin delivering to children from January 2021.</p><p>The Department is also providing funding to support small group tuition for 16-19 year olds, in English, maths and other courses where education has been disrupted as a result of COVID-19. The 16-19 tuition fund is a one-off, ring-fenced grant available to school sixth forms, colleges and all other 16-19 providers.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 102065 question first answered 15/10/2020 16:37:54 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1242364

	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	National Tutoring Programme
	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 children who have accessed the National Tutoring Programme.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	102065
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2020 answer text <p>The National Tutoring Programme (NTP) is an ambitious scheme that will provide additional, targeted support for those children and young people who need the most help to catch up.</p><p>Through the NTP programme for 5-16 year olds, schools will be able to access high quality, subsidised tuition from approved tuition partners. Schools in the most disadvantaged areas will be supported to employ in-house academic mentors to provide tuition to their pupils. The NTP has not gone live yet so the Department does not have figures on the number of pupils who have accessed it. It is expected that the first group of tutors will be supporting schools from November, with provision continuing into the spring term. Further information on the processes for delivering and accessing tuition support is set out here: <a href="https://nationaltutoring.org.uk/faqs" target="_blank">https://nationaltutoring.org.uk/faqs</a>.</p><p>NTP funding will also be used to provide additional targeted early language and literacy support for reception classes. The Department is inviting applications from all state-funded schools with a reception class, with priority given to those with a high proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals. The application deadline is 30 October 2020. Participating schools will begin delivering to children from January 2021.</p><p>The Department is also providing funding to support small group tuition for 16-19 year olds, in English, maths and other courses where education has been disrupted as a result of COVID-19. The 16-19 tuition fund is a one-off, ring-fenced grant available to school sixth forms, colleges and all other 16-19 providers.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 102064 question first answered 15/10/2020 16:37:54 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1242365

	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	Coronavirus Catch-up Premium
	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 how schools are using payments from the Coronavirus catch-up premium.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	102066
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2020 answer text <p>The Government has announced a catch-up package worth £1 billion, including a ‘Catch-Up Premium’ worth a total of £650 million to support schools to make up for lost teaching time. Our expectation is that this funding will be spent on the additional activities required to support children and young people to catch up after a period of disruption to their education. To help schools make the best use of this funding, the Education Endowment Foundation has published a support guide for schools with evidence based approaches to catch up for all students and a further 'school planning guide: 2020-2021'. These are available at: <a href="https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/covid-19-resources/guide-to-supporting-schools-planning/" target="_blank">https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/covid-19-resources/guide-to-supporting-schools-planning/</a> and: <a href="https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/covid-19-resources/national-tutoring-programme/covid-19-support-guide-for-schools/#nav-covid-19-support-guide-for-schools1" target="_blank">https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/covid-19-resources/national-tutoring-programme/covid-19-support-guide-for-schools/#nav-covid-19-support-guide-for-schools1</a>.</p><p>Schools are held accountable for the outcomes they achieve with all their funding and this will be no exception. The Department understands that each school will have different needs as a result of this outbreak and we trust school leaders to make the appropriate decisions for their students to ensure that this money is spent wisely.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 15/10/2020 16:23:44 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1242426

	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	Schools: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on whether contact tracers are required to follow up cases of covid-19 reported in schools.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	102067
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2020 answer text <p>Where a member of staff or child tests positive, contact tracers will ask the individual to provide details of their contacts.</p><p>Staff or the parents of children who test positive should inform their school immediately. The school will then take swift action to ask those who have been in close contact with the confirmed case to self-isolate. Schools can contact the dedicated Public Health England (PHE) advice service via the Department’s own helpline for support on the latest public health advice.</p><p>PHE’s advice service will work with the school to carry out a rapid risk assessment and make recommendations based on the latest public health advice. If, following triage, further expert advice is required, the adviser will escalate the call to the local health protection team.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 15/10/2020 16:27:29 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1242841

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Educational Visits: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to review the covid-19 regulations on overnight stays on school residential trips.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	102773
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2020 answer text <p>The Department’s educational visits advice is in line with guidance from Public Health England, the Cabinet Office and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and will be reviewed again in November 2020.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 16/10/2020 13:54:03 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1243331

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Assessments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason schools are being asked to provide assessment data for (a) phonics screening and (b) key stage 1 and 2 statutory tests for academic year 2019-20 when those tests did not take place.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	103493
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2020 answer text <p>In the light of the COVID-19 outbreak and associated school closures, the Department made the decision to cancel Key Stage 1 and 2 national curriculum assessments in the 2019/20 academic year, including the Phonics Screening Check. The Department has made a firm commitment not to hold schools to account on data based on the 2020 assessments. The Department will not be publishing or sharing institution level data from the 2020 assessments and has advised all those working with schools, such as local authorities, to use the previous year’s data when assessing school performance, until new data is available.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 20/10/2020 12:12:44 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1246282

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Sefton
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to award grants from the Coronavirus (COVID-19) fund to (a) St Luke's Halsall primary school in Crosby and (b) schools in Sefton.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	107641
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2020 answer text <p>The first window for submitting claims for exceptional costs related to the COVID-19 closed on 21 July. At that time, St Luke’s, Halsall had submitted a claim which included £1,651 for costs within the published scope of the funding and £6,025 for costs outside of that published scope. A payment for the in-scope costs of £1,651 was due to be made to the local authority at the end of October 2020 to be passed onto the school in line with the usual practice. The assessment process to determine which types of out-of-scope costs will be included is ongoing and we intend to write out to schools by the end of November to confirm the outcome of this part of their claim.</p><p>This applies to all schools who made a claim against this funding. The attached table includes the details of the in-scope and out-of-scope claims made by schools in the Sefton local authority area.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 02/11/2020 17:58:42 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 107641_Table_COVID-19_claims_by_schools_in_Sefton_LA.xlsx title 107641_Table
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson