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1404485

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date	19/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	GCSE: Assessments
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 pupils are not disadvantaged due to the disruption caused by the covid-19 pandemic when undertaking their GCSE examinations this year.
tabling member constituency	South Leicestershire
tabling member printed	Alberto Costa
uin	107611
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2022 answer text <p>It is our firm intention that examinations will go ahead this year. It is of great importance to give pupils the opportunity to sit their examinations and we have put measures in place to ensure they can do so fairly.</p><p>We have worked with Ofqual to put in place several adaptations to support the safe and fair delivery of examinations in this academic year to recognise the disruption pupils have already faced, and to account for further disruption. The adaptations being made were welcomed during our joint consultation with Ofqual and include:</p><ul><li>A choice of topics in GCSE English literature, history, ancient history, and choice of content in GCSE geography.</li><li>Provision of advance information which will set out the content focus of examinations in subjects where there is no choice of topic or content, to be released by 7 February.</li><li>Changes to the requirements for the delivery of practical assessments in a range of subjects.</li><li>Provision of support materials such as formula sheets for examinations in GCSE mathematics, physics, and combined science.</li></ul><p>In balancing public confidence in qualifications with fairness, Ofqual have also confirmed that 2022 will be a transition year for grading. Grades will be set at a mid-point between 2021 and pre-pandemic grades. In 2023, Ofqual plans to return to results that are in line with those in pre-pandemic years<strong>.</strong> This package of adaptations, combined with Ofqual’s approach to grading, provides unprecedented support to maximise fairness and help pupils reach their potential.</p><p>Alongside these adaptations, we have announced almost £5 billion in dedicated education recovery funding, including a further £1.8 billion in the recent Spending Review. We have made significant investments in areas that evidence tells us will be the most effective, such as tutoring and teaching, and have directed funding at the most disadvantaged.</p><p>In the unlikely event that examinations cannot go ahead fairly or safely, we have contingency arrangements in place and have confirmed pupils will receive teacher assessed grades instead.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 26/01/2022 17:38:36 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4439 label Biography information for Alberto Costa

1403844

registered interest
date	18/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	National Tutoring Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) primary and (b) secondary pupils are receiving tutoring or academic mentoring from National Tutoring Programme tuition partners.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	106691
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2022 answer text <p>The national tutoring programme aims to deliver up to 2 million tuition courses this year, and up to 90 million tuition hours by the 2024/25 academic year across the programme’s 3 pillars.</p><p>The programme is currently on course to deliver its objectives. Schools know their pupils best and have the freedom to enrol those who will benefit most. So far, an estimated 230,000 courses have been started by pupils through the school-led tutoring pillar, an estimated 20,000 with academic mentors and an estimated 52,000 with tuition partners. As a course consists of 15 tuition hours, this means pupils who need it most will be receiving millions of hours of high quality support.</p><p>We do not currently publish statistics by school phase but will consider doing so going forward.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 21/01/2022 12:20:14 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1403874

registered interest
date	18/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Supply Teachers: Vetting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the total amount of funding paid to supply agencies from schools was in (a) 2018-19, (b) 2019-20 and (c) 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	106845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2022 answer text <p>Local authority and school expenditure is published annually, with the latest available data being the 2020-21 financial year, and is available here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure</a>. Please note that this publication does not include academies.</p><p>School level data (including academies) is available at the Schools Financial Benchmarking website, with the latest available data being the 2020-21 financial year for local authority maintained schools and the 2019-20 academic year for academies (to be updated to the 2020-21 academic year in spring 2022): <a href="https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources" target="_blank">https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources</a>.</p><p>Available data on expenditure in schools on agency supply teaching staff is set out below.</p><p>Table 1: Schools in England expenditure on agency supply teaching staff, £million and percentage of total expenditure</p><p>2018-19 to 2020-21<sup>1</sup></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>2020-21<sup>2</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Local authority maintained schools (£ million)</p></td><td><p>£425.8</p></td><td><p>£410.7</p></td><td><p>£274.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>% of total expenditure</p></td><td><p>1.8%</p></td><td><p>1.7%</p></td><td><p>1.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Academies<sup>3</sup> (£ million)</p></td><td><p>£373.1</p></td><td><p>£333.2</p></td><td><p>.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>% of total expenditure</p></td><td><p>1.5%</p></td><td><p>1.2%</p></td><td><p>.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: local authority maintained schools - Consistent Financial Reporting. Academies - academy account returns.</p><p><sup>1</sup> Local authority maintained schools by financial year, academies by academic year.</p><p><sup>2</sup> Information for academies for the academic year 2020-21 will be available in spring 2022.</p><p><sup>3</sup> Includes expenditure by academies and central expenditure by multi academy trusts.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 106846 question first answered 21/01/2022 17:59:27 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1403875

registered interest
date	18/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Supply Teachers: Vetting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the total amount spent by schools as a proportion of they public funding receive on additional staff from supply agencies in (a) 2018-19, (b) 2019-20 and (c) 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	106846
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2022 answer text <p>Local authority and school expenditure is published annually, with the latest available data being the 2020-21 financial year, and is available here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure</a>. Please note that this publication does not include academies.</p><p>School level data (including academies) is available at the Schools Financial Benchmarking website, with the latest available data being the 2020-21 financial year for local authority maintained schools and the 2019-20 academic year for academies (to be updated to the 2020-21 academic year in spring 2022): <a href="https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources" target="_blank">https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources</a>.</p><p>Available data on expenditure in schools on agency supply teaching staff is set out below.</p><p>Table 1: Schools in England expenditure on agency supply teaching staff, £million and percentage of total expenditure</p><p>2018-19 to 2020-21<sup>1</sup></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>2020-21<sup>2</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Local authority maintained schools (£ million)</p></td><td><p>£425.8</p></td><td><p>£410.7</p></td><td><p>£274.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>% of total expenditure</p></td><td><p>1.8%</p></td><td><p>1.7%</p></td><td><p>1.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Academies<sup>3</sup> (£ million)</p></td><td><p>£373.1</p></td><td><p>£333.2</p></td><td><p>.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>% of total expenditure</p></td><td><p>1.5%</p></td><td><p>1.2%</p></td><td><p>.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: local authority maintained schools - Consistent Financial Reporting. Academies - academy account returns.</p><p><sup>1</sup> Local authority maintained schools by financial year, academies by academic year.</p><p><sup>2</sup> Information for academies for the academic year 2020-21 will be available in spring 2022.</p><p><sup>3</sup> Includes expenditure by academies and central expenditure by multi academy trusts.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 106845 question first answered 21/01/2022 17:59:27 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1403876

registered interest
date	18/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much schools have paid to supply agencies to bring retired and ex-teachers back to teaching to cover for covid-19-related absences in (a) November 2021 and (b) December 2021.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	106847
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2022 answer text <p>Schools have continued to receive their budgets in full throughout the COVID-19 outbreak regardless of periods of full or partial closure.</p><p>In addition, the department has re-introduced the COVID-19 workforce fund to provide financial support to eligible schools and colleges for additional staff absence costs incurred from 22 November until the February spring half term in 2022. The fund is available to support schools and colleges facing the greatest staffing and funding pressures to continue to deliver face-to-face, high quality education to all pupils.</p><p>School funding remains one of the department’s key priorities, which is why this government continues to deliver year on year, real terms per pupil increases to school funding with the total core school budget increasing to £56.8 billion by 2024-25.</p><p>In 2022-23 alone core schools funding will increase by £4 billion compared to 2021-22, a 5% real terms per pupil boost. This will help schools rise to the challenges of COVID-19, increase teacher pay, and meet the cost of the Health and Social Care Levy, while continuing their work to raise attainment.</p><p>Local authority and school expenditure is published annually, with the latest available data being the 2020-21 financial year, and is available here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure</a>.</p><p>Please note that this publication does not include academies.</p><p>School level data (including academies) is available at the schools financial benchmarking website, with the latest available data being the 2020-21 financial year for local authority maintained schools and the 2019/20 academic year for academies (to be updated to the 2020/21 academic year in spring 2022): <a href="https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources" target="_blank">https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 106848 106849 question first answered 21/01/2022 17:58:37 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1403878

registered interest
date	18/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the total amount of funding schools will have pay to supply agencies to bring retired and ex-teachers back to teaching to cover for covid-19-absences in (a) January, (b) February and (c) March 2022.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	106848
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2022 answer text <p>Schools have continued to receive their budgets in full throughout the COVID-19 outbreak regardless of periods of full or partial closure.</p><p>In addition, the department has re-introduced the COVID-19 workforce fund to provide financial support to eligible schools and colleges for additional staff absence costs incurred from 22 November until the February spring half term in 2022. The fund is available to support schools and colleges facing the greatest staffing and funding pressures to continue to deliver face-to-face, high quality education to all pupils.</p><p>School funding remains one of the department’s key priorities, which is why this government continues to deliver year on year, real terms per pupil increases to school funding with the total core school budget increasing to £56.8 billion by 2024-25.</p><p>In 2022-23 alone core schools funding will increase by £4 billion compared to 2021-22, a 5% real terms per pupil boost. This will help schools rise to the challenges of COVID-19, increase teacher pay, and meet the cost of the Health and Social Care Levy, while continuing their work to raise attainment.</p><p>Local authority and school expenditure is published annually, with the latest available data being the 2020-21 financial year, and is available here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure</a>.</p><p>Please note that this publication does not include academies.</p><p>School level data (including academies) is available at the schools financial benchmarking website, with the latest available data being the 2020-21 financial year for local authority maintained schools and the 2019/20 academic year for academies (to be updated to the 2020/21 academic year in spring 2022): <a href="https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources" target="_blank">https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 106847 106849 question first answered 21/01/2022 17:58:37 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1403879

registered interest
date	18/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the total cost to schools as a proportion of the public funding they receive of rehiring retired and ex-teachers to cover for teacher absences due to covid-19.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	106849
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2022 answer text <p>Schools have continued to receive their budgets in full throughout the COVID-19 outbreak regardless of periods of full or partial closure.</p><p>In addition, the department has re-introduced the COVID-19 workforce fund to provide financial support to eligible schools and colleges for additional staff absence costs incurred from 22 November until the February spring half term in 2022. The fund is available to support schools and colleges facing the greatest staffing and funding pressures to continue to deliver face-to-face, high quality education to all pupils.</p><p>School funding remains one of the department’s key priorities, which is why this government continues to deliver year on year, real terms per pupil increases to school funding with the total core school budget increasing to £56.8 billion by 2024-25.</p><p>In 2022-23 alone core schools funding will increase by £4 billion compared to 2021-22, a 5% real terms per pupil boost. This will help schools rise to the challenges of COVID-19, increase teacher pay, and meet the cost of the Health and Social Care Levy, while continuing their work to raise attainment.</p><p>Local authority and school expenditure is published annually, with the latest available data being the 2020-21 financial year, and is available here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure</a>.</p><p>Please note that this publication does not include academies.</p><p>School level data (including academies) is available at the schools financial benchmarking website, with the latest available data being the 2020-21 financial year for local authority maintained schools and the 2019/20 academic year for academies (to be updated to the 2020/21 academic year in spring 2022): <a href="https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources" target="_blank">https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 106847 106848 question first answered 21/01/2022 17:58:37 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1403880

registered interest
date	18/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Supply Teachers: Vetting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many supply agencies did not furlough supply staff during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	106850
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2022 answer text <p>The department does not collect or hold the information that has been requested.</p><p>Supply agencies providing temporary staff to schools are independent private companies and as such decisions over their use of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme are not reported to the department, but a matter for employees and employers.</p><p>The department does not hold data on the general numbers of supply staff, or any data on whether they are active as supply teachers at any time.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 106851 question first answered 21/01/2022 17:40:26 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1403881

registered interest
date	18/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Supply Teacher: Resignations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many supply staff left the teaching profession as a result of not being furloughed in (a) 2019-20 and (b) 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	106851
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2022 answer text <p>The department does not collect or hold the information that has been requested.</p><p>Supply agencies providing temporary staff to schools are independent private companies and as such decisions over their use of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme are not reported to the department, but a matter for employees and employers.</p><p>The department does not hold data on the general numbers of supply staff, or any data on whether they are active as supply teachers at any time.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 106850 question first answered 21/01/2022 17:40:26 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1403910

registered interest
date	18/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Local Government and Schools: Autism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on working strategically across schools and local authorities to help ensure that all staff receive autism training.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	106796
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2022 answer text <p>All teachers are teachers of special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), and the department is committed to ensuring that all children and young people, particularly those with SEND receive high quality teaching that will enable them to reach their full potential at school.</p><p>That is why the revised Initial Teacher Training (ITT) Core Content Framework (CCF), that all new entrants to the profession benefit from, has been designed around how to support all pupils to succeed, including those pupils identified within the four areas of need set out in the SEND code of practice.</p><p>When developing the framework, there were a range of views from stakeholders and SEND experts about things that could or should be included in the framework. However, there was consensus that our approach of ‘quality-first teaching’, would be the best way to improve outcomes for all children, particularly those with special educational needs. The framework, therefore, deliberately does not detail approaches specific to particular additional needs, such as autism, but what makes the most effective teaching.</p><p>In addition to the mandated minimum set out in the ITT CCF, we expect ITT providers and their partners to continue to tailor their curricula to the needs of their trainees and the children in the schools where they train and will work. However, ITT courses must be designed so that trainee teachers can demonstrate that they meet the Teachers’ Standards at the appropriate level. This includes the requirement in Standard 5, that all teachers must have a clear understanding of the needs of all pupils, including those with special educational needs.</p><p>Within the new autism strategy, published in July 2021 and extended to children and young people for the first time, we set out how we will continue our programme of developing training and resources for education staff. We also committed to working in collaboration across government, with autistic people and their families, the NHS, local government, and the voluntary sector, to implement the strategy, and we are continuing to do so.</p><p>£600,000 of the strategy’s first year of funding has gone towards the department’s contract with the Autism Education Trust (AET) for the 2021/22 academic year. The department has funded the AET since 2011 to deliver autism awareness training to education staff in early years, schools, and further education settings. It has so far reached more than 305,000 people across the country. This includes not only teachers and teaching assistants, but also support staff such as receptionists, dining hall staff and caretakers, encouraging a 'whole school' approach to supporting autistic pupils.</p><p>The department has also provided £2 million of funding for the Whole School SEND consortium in 2021/22, through our contract with nasen. This will continue their wider programme of work to equip the workforce to deliver high quality teaching for all children and young people with SEND, including autism, this year.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 106798 question first answered 26/01/2022 12:20:28 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft