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date	15/03/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of allocating a portion of the savings in direct schools grants from home education to local authorities to provide exam centres.
tabling member constituency	St Ives
tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
uin	18913
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>The department allocates school funding to local authorities through the dedicated schools grant, on the basis of pupil numbers in the preceding autumn census. That some children are home educated does not, therefore, lead to unallocated funding. The department does not have current plans to fund exam centres for children who are home educated, but all funding is kept under careful review. Local authorities do have some flexibility to support children and young people who are home educated.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 25/03/2024 15:54:31 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas

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date	21/11/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Relationships and Sex Education: Public Consultation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her Department's planned timescale is for publishing its consultation on relationship, health, and sex education in schools.
tabling member constituency	St Ives
tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
uin	3039
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2023 answer text <p>The department has brought forward the review of the relationships, sex and health education statutory guidance, including an independent expert advisory panel, which will advise my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, on the introduction of minimum ages for certain subjects. More information about the panel is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/terms-of-reference-for-review-panel-on-rshe" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/terms-of-reference-for-review-panel-on-rshe</a>.</p><p>The work of the expert panel will inform the public consultation, which will be published at the earliest opportunity, prior to publishing revised guidance in 2024.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 27/11/2023 15:38:07 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas