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349230

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Further Education: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to reduce the budget for the education and training of 16 to 19-year olds to meet the £450 million savings to be found in her Department in this financial year.
	tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
	tabling member printed	Graham Evans
	uin	1520
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2015 answer text <p>The savings announced by the Chancellor will come from a variety of measures including expected departmental underspends in demand-led budgets, efficiencies and some small budgetary reductions.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 15/06/2015 16:24:46 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4081 label Biography information for Lord Evans of Rainow

638659

	registered interest
	date	18/11/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pre-school Education: North West
	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 reduce the difference in attainment for children under five between the North West and the national average.
	tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
	tabling member printed	Graham Evans
	uin	53792
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2016 answer text <p>Every child deserves the best possible start in life and support to fulfil their potential. A child’s experience in the early years has a major impact on their future outcomes and social mobility. On 20 October, the department published the early years foundation stage profile (EYFSP) results for the 2015 to 2016 academic year, at national and local authority level. At a national level, 69.3% of children achieved a good level of development, which is an increase of 3 percentage points on 2015 (compared to 66.7% in the North West, which also represents an increase of 3 percentage points on the North West’s 2015 data). The latest EYFSP results are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/early-years-foundation-stage-profile-results-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/early-years-foundation-stage-profile-results-2015-to-2016</a></p><p> </p><p>High quality early education is key to future outcomes, particularly for disadvantaged children. That is why we are working hard to ensure parents and children - wherever they live in England - have access to high quality early years education places through the funded 15 hour entitlement for disadvantaged two-year-olds and the universal 15 hours entitlement for all three- and four-year-olds. At present, 84% of all two-year-olds (compared with 84% in the North West) and 86% of all three- and four-years-olds (compared to 88% in the North West) take up their entitlement in a good or outstanding setting.</p><p>From September 2017, working parents who meet the eligibility criteria will also have access to an additional 15 hours of funded early education. Our proposed early years funding formula includes an additional needs factor - to better target funding towards local authorities with a higher relative proportion of children with additional needs - and an area cost adjustment to reflect local operating costs. This will help to ensure that all children can access quality early education in their area.</p><p>The government is taking further steps to understand the regional attainment gap. In May 2016, the department commissioned a feasibility study to investigate the regional gap in early years at age 5, including recommendations to undertake a further study through longitudinal analysis of the Millennium Cohort Study (MSC) to assess variation in attainment and evaluate the potential drivers of a regional gap.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 28/11/2016 16:59:59 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4081 label Biography information for Lord Evans of Rainow

673504

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Holocaust Memorial Day
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
	tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
	tabling member printed	Graham Evans
	uin	59999
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2017 answer text <p>The Department held a Holocaust Memorial event on Monday 16 January. All of the staff were invited to a talk given by Harry Spiro, a Holocaust survivor.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 23/01/2017 16:19:32 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4081 label Biography information for Lord Evans of Rainow

673572

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Universities: Antisemitism
	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 tackle anti-Semitism and holocaust denial on university campuses.
	tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
	tabling member printed	Graham Evans
	uin	59998
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2017 answer text <p>This Government takes anti-Semitism extremely seriously. There is no place in our society - including within higher education – for hatred or any form of harassment, discrimination or racism, including anti-Semitism.</p><p><br>The Government has recently adopted the non-legally binding definition of anti-Semitism, to help clarify how anti-Semitism can manifest itself in the 21<sup>st</sup> century.</p><p><br>Universities have a responsibility to provide a safe and inclusive environment for all students. The legal obligation for ensuring that students do not face discrimination, harassment, abuse or violence rests with individual institutions. Universities should have robust policies and procedures in place to comply with the law, and to enable them to investigate and address swiftly any anti-Semitic incidents that are reported.</p><p>The Government asked Universities UK (UUK) to set up an Harassment Taskforce in 2015, to consider what more can be done to address harassment on campus, including on the basis of religion and belief. The Union of Jewish Students, Jewish Leadership Council, Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Community Security Trust were part of its wider advisory group. The taskforce published its report: ‘Changing the Culture’, on 21 October 2016.</p><p>The Government has asked UUK to monitor progress. UUK plan to establish more baseline evidence, and to assess institutions’ progress in implementing the recommendations and report later this year.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 24/01/2017 08:53:30 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	4081 label Biography information for Lord Evans of Rainow

674244

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Nazi War Crimes: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether it remains her Department's policy to support the Holocaust Educational Trust's Lessons from Auschwitz Project.
	tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
	tabling member printed	Graham Evans
	uin	60214
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2017 answer text <p>The Department continues to believe that young people should be taught about the Holocaust and the lessons it teaches us today. We are committed to promoting, supporting and funding Holocaust Education.</p><p> </p><p>Since the Holocaust Educational Trust’s Lessons from Auschwitz project begun in 1999, it has taken more than 31,000 students and teachers to visit the site of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz-Birkenau" target="_blank">Auschwitz-Birkenau</a> concentration camp. The Government announced in April last year that we had renewed our grant for the project for a further three years.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 23/01/2017 11:39:27 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4081 label Biography information for Lord Evans of Rainow

776117

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Adult Education: Liverpool
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to publish detailed guidance relating to the operational differences between the influencing role and the delegated model in relation to the interim options provided to the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority on responsibility for the 2018-19 adult skills budget; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
	tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
	uin	108974
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government will offer Mayoral Combined Authorities the oppotunity to shape their Adult Education Budgets (AEBs) in 2018/19.</p><p> </p><p>We are working closely with Mayoral Combined Authorities to help them prepare for devolution of the AEB in 2019/20, including the proposed 2018/19 transitional year.</p><p> </p><p>The Mayoral Combined Authorities have been consulted with regards to the interim options available and the details of these will be communicated within the next few weeks.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 26/10/2017 15:54:27 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

786195

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2017
	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, what estimate her Department has made of the number of people not being offered jobs after the completion of apprenticeship; and what assessment she has made of the most common reasons for those people not being offered jobs.
	tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
	tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
	uin	111912
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2017 answer text <p>Data in SFR52/2017 ‘Further education: Outcome based success measures’ show that 85 per cent of apprentices who completed in academic year 2014/2015 continue into sustained work or further training at the end of their apprenticeship. The data can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/654370/SFR52_2017.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/654370/SFR52_2017.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Data in the Apprenticeship evaluation: 2015 learner survey shows that 92% of apprentices who had completed their apprenticeship were in work. 64% of Level 2 and 3 apprentices who had completed their apprenticeship were employed by the same employer.</p><p> </p><p>The locations and sectors where apprenticeships are available are determined by employers choosing to offer apprenticeships and recruit apprentices. The department has not therefore made an assessment of the reasons why employers have not continued to offer employment to apprentices.</p><p>We know that many employers support apprenticeships and recognise the long-term benefits they bring to an organisation. In the Apprenticeship evaluation: 2015 employer survey, 87% of employers said they were satisfied with the programme, 76% say that productivity has improved and 75% reported that apprenticeships improved the quality of their product or service.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 13/11/2017 17:03:42 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

789039

	registered interest
	date	14/11/2017
	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 estimate her Department has made of the amount of underspend on the apprenticeship levy; and what proportion of this amount is for the North West.
	tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
	tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
	uin	112983
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>The apprenticeships programme is demand-led, which means employers will recruit apprentices that are appropriate for their business needs.</p><p> </p><p>The 2015 Spending Review set forward budgets for apprenticeship investment, and £2.45 billion will be invested in apprenticeships in England by 2019-20. This is double the amount spent in 2010-11. The apprenticeships budget from 2016-2020 can be found on page 8 of ‘Information on apprenticeship levy’, which can viewed via: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/545145/Apprenticeships_-expected_levy_and_total_spend_-_Aug_2016.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/545145/Apprenticeships_-expected_levy_and_total_spend_-_Aug_2016.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>We will publish details on aggregate apprenticeship spending in the Departmental end-of-year accounts as part of our normal financial reporting cycle.</p><p> </p><p>We have not made a geographical assessment of apprenticeship spending.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 20/11/2017 17:31:52 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

805337

	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	Vocational Guidance: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has plans for the development of specialist careers advice for people with disabilities.
	tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
	tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
	uin	119009
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2017 answer text <p>The government’s careers strategy, published on 4 December 2017, sets out a long term plan to build a world class careers system that will help young people and adults choose the career that is right for them.</p><p>The National Careers Service is delivering positive outcomes for people from all backgrounds. People with a disability are included in the National Careers Service’s priority groups and, in the last year, the Service has seen over 90,000 people with a disability. People are generally satisfied with the help they receive. Recent survey data shows that 93% of adults felt the quality of the telephone and local area based service was good and 80% of users were satisfied or very satisfied with the website.</p><p>In 2012, schools were given a legal duty to secure independent careers guidance for year 8-13 pupils. Statutory guidance underpins the duty and makes it clear that schools should offer work placements, work experience and other employer-based activities as part of their careers programme for all pupils, including those with disabilities. Ofsted will continue to hold schools to account for the quality of careers provision.</p><p>The government is funding specialist training for careers advisers working with young people who have special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). We are also funding training and materials for post-16 providers on curriculum design and delivery, including pathways to employment for these young people.</p><p>The careers strategy includes proposals to improve the quality and coverage of careers advice in schools, including offering more aspirational careers advice for children, young people and adults with SEND who are often held back by a lack of support to make important decisions.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton grouped question UIN 119012 question first answered 18/12/2017 17:42:28 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

805340

	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	Vocational Guidance: Disability
	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 quality of careers advice and work experience services provided to young people with disabilities.
	tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
	tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
	uin	119012
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2017 answer text <p>The government’s careers strategy, published on 4 December 2017, sets out a long term plan to build a world class careers system that will help young people and adults choose the career that is right for them.</p><p>The National Careers Service is delivering positive outcomes for people from all backgrounds. People with a disability are included in the National Careers Service’s priority groups and, in the last year, the Service has seen over 90,000 people with a disability. People are generally satisfied with the help they receive. Recent survey data shows that 93% of adults felt the quality of the telephone and local area based service was good and 80% of users were satisfied or very satisfied with the website.</p><p>In 2012, schools were given a legal duty to secure independent careers guidance for year 8-13 pupils. Statutory guidance underpins the duty and makes it clear that schools should offer work placements, work experience and other employer-based activities as part of their careers programme for all pupils, including those with disabilities. Ofsted will continue to hold schools to account for the quality of careers provision.</p><p>The government is funding specialist training for careers advisers working with young people who have special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). We are also funding training and materials for post-16 providers on curriculum design and delivery, including pathways to employment for these young people.</p><p>The careers strategy includes proposals to improve the quality and coverage of careers advice in schools, including offering more aspirational careers advice for children, young people and adults with SEND who are often held back by a lack of support to make important decisions.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton grouped question UIN 119009 question first answered 18/12/2017 17:42:28 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury