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753437

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date	18/07/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Engineering
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she expects agreed apprenticeship standards for consultancy in (a) level 6 building services design engineering and (b) level 6 civil engineering design engineering to be published.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	5804
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2017 answer text <p>The Institute for Apprenticeships is an independent body with responsibility for the development and approval of apprenticeship standards. I have therefore asked the Institute to write to the hon. Member directly, responding to your question about the publication of apprenticeship standards in consultancy in level 6 building services design engineering, level 6 civil engineering design engineering and construction at levels 4 and 6.</p><p> </p><p>A copy of that response will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses when it is available.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton grouped question UIN 5805 question first answered 21/07/2017 13:42:38 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

753438

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she expects agreed apprenticeship standards related to construction at levels 4 and 6 to be published.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	5805
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2017 answer text <p>The Institute for Apprenticeships is an independent body with responsibility for the development and approval of apprenticeship standards. I have therefore asked the Institute to write to the hon. Member directly, responding to your question about the publication of apprenticeship standards in consultancy in level 6 building services design engineering, level 6 civil engineering design engineering and construction at levels 4 and 6.</p><p> </p><p>A copy of that response will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses when it is available.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton grouped question UIN 5804 question first answered 21/07/2017 13:42:38 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

753444

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Doncaster College
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when her Department agreed for Doncaster College to work out-of-area in 2015 with Worksop Town FC in recruiting for a 16 to 19 football discussion; when her Department was first contacted by Doncaster College on such work; and what discussions officials of her Department had with North Nottinghamshire and West Nottinghamshire colleges on its decision.
tabling member constituency	Bassetlaw
tabling member printed	John Mann
uin	5710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2017 answer text <p>In the early part of 2015, Doncaster College formed a partnership with Worksop Town FC for a Sports Academy.</p><p> </p><p>This type of arrangement is not one for which the then Education and Funding Agency would need to provide any formal approval.</p><p> </p><p>Doncaster College had difficulties in fulfilling their side of any proposed partnership agreement and subsequently withdrew from the arrangement.</p><p>In light of the above, Doncaster College has not worked out of area with Worksop Town FC in 2015 or in any subsequent years.</p><p> </p><p>The principal of North Nottinghamshire College contacted Worksop Town FC to discuss the development of the Sports Academy but received no response. There is no record of any discussion with West Nottinghamshire College.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 27/07/2017 11:52:55 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	1387 label Biography information for Lord Mann

753628

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Further Education: East Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what level of financial reserves were held by each further education establishment in the East Midlands at the end of each financial year from 2010 to the latest year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
uin	5637
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2017 answer text <p>The value of reserves held by each Further Education College or Sixth Form College in the East Midlands is shown in the attached table for the period 2009/10 to 2015/16, which is the latest college information available. The data also includes information from colleges that were dissolved during this period, following mergers with other colleges (highlighted in red).</p><p> </p><p>For the purpose of the information provided, the level of financial reserves is defined as the total net assets/(liabilities) and includes all assets/liabilities including pension liabilities.</p><p> </p><p>The 2015/16 college accounts were the first set of college financial statements produced under the requirements of the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting for Further and Higher Education (SORP2015). This update from SORP2007 reflected changes in the underlying accounting standards. Due to the changes in accounting standards a comparison between the 2015/16 reserves totals and the results from previous years is not a fair comparison.</p><p> </p><p>The source of the data is the college accounts annual datasets, which are published at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sfa-financial-management-college-accounts" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sfa-financial-management-college-accounts</a></p><p>The datasets comprise the annual returns submitted to the Education and Skills Funding Agency (or predecessor bodies) by the respective individual colleges, which are then consolidated into one annual dataset.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 26/07/2017 17:10:46 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton attachment 1 file name 5637 - attached table Final - 260717.pdf title Total College Reserves
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

753685

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Vocational Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the timetable is for delivery of the first T-levels.
tabling member constituency	Taunton Deane
tabling member printed	Rebecca Pow
uin	5990
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>The Post-16 Skills Plan set out our plan to reform technical education including the introduction of 15 new technical routes to skilled employment, new college-based training programmes (T Levels) based on employer-designed standards, and high quality T Level work placements.</p><p>Delivering these reforms will be transformational; and we are determined to ensure they are a success and achieve their overall aims: to transform technical education and create a high quality system that delivers the skills, knowledge and behaviours that employers and the country need.</p><p>The only way to deliver this challenge successfully is through genuine partnership between government, business experts/leaders and education professionals.</p><p>My officials have now carried out extensive testing of the current delivery plans, including in relation to work placement provision, in discussion with employers, providers and awarding organisations. Following that assessment, we have concluded that we will deliver a small number of T levels from September 2020, with all routes available as planned in September 2022.</p><p>Over the summer, we will continue to refine and develop our plans working with business and the providers, and we will provide an update on progress in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 20/07/2017 15:02:19 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow

752608

registered interest
date	17/07/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Vocational Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what options are available to learners on college-based technical routes who do not have access to structural work placements as a result of the variation of work experience within the sector they are studying.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	5219
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2017 answer text <p>In the Post 16 Skills Plan, every young person taking a college-based technical education route (T Level) will be entitled to a substantial work placement when T levels are rolled out.</p><p>At the Spring Budget, we announced significant funding to boost the sector’s capacity to deliver work placements with the first £50m available from April 2018.</p><p>We will also be running a series of work placement pilots from September to test different approaches and to see what works across different sectors and employer sizes. These pilots will address any challenges.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 21/07/2017 13:28:41 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

752620

registered interest
date	17/07/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	College of West Anglia: 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 21 June 2017 to Question 212, for what reasons the Answer does not say how much was paid to West Anglia College in 2015-16 for the Worksop Town FC 16 to 19-year-old football academy; and how much was paid.
tabling member constituency	Bassetlaw
tabling member printed	John Mann
uin	5408
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2017 answer text <p>The education provision delivered at Worksop Town academy was delivered via a sub-contracting relationship with the College of West Anglia and under such arrangements, the students were enrolled by, and were the responsibility of, the college.</p><p> </p><p>16 to 19 college funding is calculated using a funding formula based on lagged student numbers, so there is no specific breakdown of how that funding relates to individual students or provision.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 21/07/2017 15:26:46 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	1387 label Biography information for Lord Mann

752621

registered interest
date	17/07/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	College of West Anglia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department has taken in relation to Worksop Town football academy since March 2017.
tabling member constituency	Bassetlaw
tabling member printed	John Mann
uin	5409
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2017 answer text <p>The former Minister for Apprenticeships and Skills, Robert Halfon, wrote to the hon. Member in April 2017 in response to concerns he had raised about Worksop Town football academy.</p><p>I have asked officials to meet with the hon. Member to discuss further action in relation to his correspondence on this issue.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 24/07/2017 09:38:41 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	1387 label Biography information for Lord Mann

752850

registered interest
date	17/07/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprenticeship providers operate in (a) Greater London and (b) the London Borough of Newham.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	5416
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>In the 2015 to 2016 academic year, there were 400 apprenticeship providers that trained apprentices for employers in Greater London and 140 apprenticeship providers that trained apprentices for employers in the London Borough of Newham.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 20/07/2017 16:49:09 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

752853

registered interest
date	17/07/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of apprenticeship starts in (a) Greater London and (b) the London Borough of Newham are with (i) levy-paying and (ii) non-levy-paying businesses.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	5418
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>The number of apprenticeship starts is published as part of the further education and skills statistical first release. Apprenticeship starts broken down by geographical region and local authority are available in the further education data library:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/624428/apprenticeships-geography-data-tool-starts-v1.xlsm" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/624428/apprenticeships-geography-data-tool-starts-v1.xlsm</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Currently, data on apprenticeship starts is only available reported to the end of April 2017, before the apprenticeship levy was implemented. The statistical first release will publish details of starts, where an apprenticeship service account holder has been able to use funds to support an apprenticeship, when data becomes available.</p><p> </p><p>Data on the number of accounts registered on the apprenticeship service and the number of commitments made have been published as experimental statistics. This is available as part of the statistical first release collection:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/further-education-and-skills-statistical-first-release-sfr" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/further-education-and-skills-statistical-first-release-sfr</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 20/07/2017 16:51:03 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms