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date	10/12/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	ICT: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to promote coding as part of the curriculum or otherwise amongst young people.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	19546
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2015 answer text <p>The new computing curriculum, introduced in September 2014 and compulsory for ages 5-16, has been designed to ensure the study of topics such as computational logic, algorithms and coding.</p><br /><p>The government has spent more than £4.5 million over the past three years to support schools in delivering high quality computing teaching. This includes £3 million for Computing At School to build a national network of over 350 ‘Master Teachers’ in computer science whom schools can commission to provide training for their teachers.</p><br /><p>In primary school, pupils will be looking at designing, writing and debugging programs. With these skills, pupils can create games or useful tools like a number generator for maths.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 17/12/2015 17:17:19 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier

437134

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Cybercrime: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the page on the National Crime Agency website entitled, Cyber crime: Preventing young people from getting involved, what discussions she has had with the Home Secretary on interest in coding and possession of independent learning material on computing being considered possible indicators of risk of involvement in cyber crime.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	19545
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2015 answer text <p>The Secretary of State holds discussions on a range of topics with Cabinet Ministers.</p><br /><p>The National Crime Agency (NCA) has recently published guidance on preventing young people from becoming involved in cyber-crime: <a href="http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/crime-threats/cyber-crime/cyber-crime-preventing-young-people-from-getting-involved" target="_blank">www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/crime-threats/cyber-crime/cyber-crime-preventing-young-people-from-getting-involved</a></p><p><br></p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 17/12/2015 17:16:25 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier