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1171702

registered interest
date	20/01/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Further Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State Education, what recent discussions he has had with the Home Secretary on the potential effect of the Government's proposed immigration legislation on tertiary education.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	900253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2020 answer text <p>The Department remains closely engaged with the Home Office around the future immigration system, its design and its impact on tertiary education.</p><p>Officials are involved in a number of cross-Whitehall meetings on system design, and attend the Education Sector Forum where the sector shares their views directly with the Home Office.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/01/2020 17:48:06 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1171755

registered interest
date	20/01/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to improve quality and choice in the provision of (a) further and (b) higher education.
tabling member constituency	Cheadle
tabling member printed	Mary Robinson
uin	900256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2020 answer text <p>We are increasing funding to improve participation for 16 to 19 year olds, introducing T-Levels, investing in further education (FE) and providing support for college improvement.</p><p>The Office for Students and Ofsted hold higher education and FE providers to account for delivering quality and successful outcomes.</p><p>The Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework incentivises quality teaching, and new digital tools support student choice.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/01/2020 17:46:20 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4406 label Biography information for Mary Robinson

1171973

registered interest
date	20/01/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Grants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing non-repayable maintenance grant funding in (a) further and (b) higher education.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	5382
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2020 answer text <p>​The independent panel’s report on the Review of Post-18 Education and Funding was published in May 2019. The government is considering the recommendations made in the report, including those relating to maintenance support for higher education and further education students. The government will conclude the review alongside the next spending review.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 28/01/2020 15:39:33 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1172021

registered interest
date	20/01/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Universities: Fire Regulations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many university vice-chancellors have replied to his letter of November 2019 on the issue of fire safety procedures and safeguards across university residential, teaching and research accommodation.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	5444
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2020 answer text <p>We are pleased to see that the engagement with the letter of 18 November from my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education to all 138 higher education institutions has had a 100% response rate.</p><p>The safety of pupils, students and staff remains ministers’ highest priority. Since the Grenfell fire, the department has worked closely with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, as part of the cross government programme to remediate buildings with potentially dangerous cladding, including student accommodation. That approach will continue, and we welcome the package of measures to improve building safety standards announced on 20 January by my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government. We are already looking at ways to ensure the education estate complies fully with the updated advice to building owners, announced as part of that package, on actions they should take in relation to cladding.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 5445 question first answered 28/01/2020 17:46:00 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1172022

registered interest
date	20/01/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that unsafe combustible cladding is removed from student accommodation.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	5445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2020 answer text <p>We are pleased to see that the engagement with the letter of 18 November from my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education to all 138 higher education institutions has had a 100% response rate.</p><p>The safety of pupils, students and staff remains ministers’ highest priority. Since the Grenfell fire, the department has worked closely with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, as part of the cross government programme to remediate buildings with potentially dangerous cladding, including student accommodation. That approach will continue, and we welcome the package of measures to improve building safety standards announced on 20 January by my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government. We are already looking at ways to ensure the education estate complies fully with the updated advice to building owners, announced as part of that package, on actions they should take in relation to cladding.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 5444 question first answered 28/01/2020 17:46:00 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1172066

registered interest
date	20/01/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Learning Records Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on the privacy of young people of the Learning Records Service's provision of access to their data by gambling firms.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	5494
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2020 answer text <p>The recent use of the Learning Records Service (LRS) by a data broker was unauthorised and not sanctioned by the department. There was no data released about individual learners, only a confirmation or denial that a record existed.</p><p>Learning Record Service is designed to help learning providers verify their potential student’s previous educational achievements and their eligibility for additional funding.</p><p>Education Providers who wish to use the service must register with the UK Register of Learning Providers (UKRLP). Once they are registered with UKRLP, Education Providers fill out an LRS registration form where their UKRLP data is verified, and sign the LRS provider agreement that states their data protection and security responsibilities.</p><p>We have temporarily disabled the service whilst our investigations are ongoing.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 23/01/2020 17:13:57 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1172090

registered interest
date	20/01/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Learning Records Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when his Department plans to conclude its investigation into the reasons why an unauthorised third party was given access to data held by the Learning Records Service.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	5525
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2020 answer text <p>The recent use of the Learning Records Service by a data broker was unauthorised and not sanctioned by the department. There was no data released about individual learners, only a confirmation or denial that a record existed.</p><p>The department is conducting thorough and urgent investigations into this which will conclude shortly.</p><p>In addition to internal investigations, the department is working with the Information Commissioner’s Office to provide information on the events around this unsanctioned and unauthorised use of the Learning Records Service data by a third party.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 5526 question first answered 23/01/2020 17:23:21 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1172092

registered interest
date	20/01/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Learning Records Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish the conclusions of his Department’s investigation into the reasons why an unauthorised third party was given access to data held by the Learning Records Service.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	5526
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2020 answer text <p>The recent use of the Learning Records Service by a data broker was unauthorised and not sanctioned by the department. There was no data released about individual learners, only a confirmation or denial that a record existed.</p><p>The department is conducting thorough and urgent investigations into this which will conclude shortly.</p><p>In addition to internal investigations, the department is working with the Information Commissioner’s Office to provide information on the events around this unsanctioned and unauthorised use of the Learning Records Service data by a third party.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 5525 question first answered 23/01/2020 17:23:21 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1172097

registered interest
date	20/01/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academic Freedom
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to take steps in response to proposals by Sheffield university to pay some students to monitor and report on statements made by other students which might be regarded as micro-aggressions; what progress he has made on bringing forward proposals to safeguard free speech in colleges and universities; and if he will draw the lessons of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four to the attention of college and university staff during this 70th anniversary year of the author’s death.
tabling member constituency	New Forest East
tabling member printed	Dr Julian Lewis
uin	5319
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2020 answer text <p>This government will ensure that our universities are places where free speech can thrive and work to strengthen academic freedoms. The freedom to express views openly, challenge ideas and engage in robust debate is crucial to the student experience and to democracy. Lawful freedom of speech and the right to discuss all kinds of issues is an integral part of our higher education system.</p><p> </p><p>Under the Education (No 2) Act (1986), higher education providers have a specific duty to take reasonably practicable steps to secure freedom of speech within the law for staff, students and visiting speakers. Higher education providers also have clear responsibilities under the Equality Act (2010).</p><p> </p><p>Higher education providers should discharge their responsibilities fully and have robust policies and procedures in place to comply with the law and to investigate and address incidents reported to them. Universities, as autonomous bodies regulated by the Office for Students, should ensure that they are balancing their legal duties carefully and proportionately.</p><p> </p><p>The government worked with the Equality and Human Rights Commission, who published clear guidance in February 2019 on freedom of speech in higher education to support higher education providers and students’ unions in delivering their duties.</p><p> </p><p>The government will be looking closely at how well higher education providers are meeting their obligations and will consider whether further action is needed, working with a range of partners.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 29/01/2020 17:37:56 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	54 label Biography information for Sir Julian Lewis