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date	14/05/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Autism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions (a) he (b) Ministers in his Department and (c) officials in his Department have had with AET on the benchmarking exercise for AET secondary schools in London; and whether his Department approved benchmarking process; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the benchmark against which AET secondary schools in London are being assessed.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	254192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2019 answer text <p>The department, including ministers and officials, have held no detailed discussions with the Academies Enterprise Trust on a benchmarking exercise for their London Academies. We have not approved a benchmarking process, as this is for the trust to determine, and do not have a copy of any benchmark London Academies are currently being assessed against.</p><p>The department does publish a range of financial benchmarking tools, and signposts trusts to these. They include the Schools Financial Benchmarking tool which can be accessed publicly here: <a href="https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 22/05/2019 11:24:25 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi previous answer version 119073 answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1126547

registered interest
date	14/05/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Morning Lane Associates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what work is outstanding under his Department's contracts with Morning Lane Associates as (a) sole provider and (b) part of a consortium.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	254203
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2019 answer text <p>There are no outstanding contracts with Morning Lane Associations (MLA). The department entered in to a consortium contract, which included MLA and was led by KPMG on 26 March 2015. This contract was to develop an assessment and accreditation process for child and family social workers. This contract was extended in October 2015 and ended on 31 May 2016. MLA was not directly awarded £4.4 million. MLA received £1.6 million of funding to support the innovation project ‘Reclaiming Social Work’. The additional money for this project was paid directly to local authorities through a section 31 grant.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 254204 254205 question first answered 20/05/2019 14:03:14 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1126548

registered interest
date	14/05/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Morning Lane Associates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education,pursuant to the Answer of 9 May 2019 to Question 250518 on Morning Lane Associates, what the start and end dates were of the contracts that Morning Lane Associates undertook, in partnership with KPMG, in relation to the national assessment and accreditation system for children and family social workers.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	254204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2019 answer text <p>There are no outstanding contracts with Morning Lane Associations (MLA). The department entered in to a consortium contract, which included MLA and was led by KPMG on 26 March 2015. This contract was to develop an assessment and accreditation process for child and family social workers. This contract was extended in October 2015 and ended on 31 May 2016. MLA was not directly awarded £4.4 million. MLA received £1.6 million of funding to support the innovation project ‘Reclaiming Social Work’. The additional money for this project was paid directly to local authorities through a section 31 grant.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 254203 254205 question first answered 20/05/2019 14:03:14 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1126549

registered interest
date	14/05/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Morning Lane Associates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 9 May 2019 to Question 250518, Morning Lane Associates, for what reason the £4.4 million awarded to Morning Lane Associates to implement the Reclaiming Social Work approach in five local authorities was not included in that Answer.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	254205
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2019 answer text <p>There are no outstanding contracts with Morning Lane Associations (MLA). The department entered in to a consortium contract, which included MLA and was led by KPMG on 26 March 2015. This contract was to develop an assessment and accreditation process for child and family social workers. This contract was extended in October 2015 and ended on 31 May 2016. MLA was not directly awarded £4.4 million. MLA received £1.6 million of funding to support the innovation project ‘Reclaiming Social Work’. The additional money for this project was paid directly to local authorities through a section 31 grant.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 254203 254204 question first answered 20/05/2019 14:03:15 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1126652

registered interest
date	14/05/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the answer of 14 May 2019 to Question 250743 on Special Educational Needs: Finance, how many and what proportion of children and young people had an Education Health and Care Plan in each year since 2013 and 2019; and how much funding his Department allocated to high needs in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	254085
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2019 answer text <p>The level of high needs funding for children and young people with special educational needs (SEN) for each year are published in the dedicated schools grant (DSG) allocations each year, as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Amount</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£5.0 billion</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>£5.2 billion</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>£5.2 billion</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>£5.3 billion</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18*</p></td><td><p>£5.8 billion</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19**</p></td><td><p>£6.1 billion</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20**</p></td><td><p>£6.3 billion</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>* In 2017-18 the baselines of the high needs block and the schools block within DSG were adjusted, to take account of local authorities’ spending decisions.</p><p>** Includes the £125 million added to the high needs block in 2018-19 and 2019-20, in recognition of the cost pressures local authorities have been facing, announced in December 2018.</p><p>Information on the number and proportion of children in schools with an education, health and care (EHC) plan or previously statement of SEN are published in the annual ‘SEN in England’ statistical release. A time series can be found in Table 1 at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england-january-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england-january-2018</a>.</p><p>Information on all young people (up to age 25) with an EHC plan is published in the annual ‘Statements of SEN and EHC Plans’ statistical release. A time series can be found in Table 1 at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statements-of-sen-and-ehc-plans-england-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statements-of-sen-and-ehc-plans-england-2018</a>.</p><p>The first full year that statutory EHC plans were in place was 2015. Figures prior to this, therefore, relate to statements only. Table 2 in the following link includes the number of new EHC plans during 2014: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statements-of-sen-and-ehc-plans-england-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statements-of-sen-and-ehc-plans-england-2018</a>.</p><p>It is important to note that the number of EHC plans and statements of SEN does not include learning difficulty assessments (LDAs). These were previously used in a similar way as an EHC plan, for young people with SEN at a post-16 level, but were replaced by EHC plans from 2015. The last record of LDAs were removed from the system in 2016.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 22/05/2019 11:33:26 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies