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1402964

registered interest
date	14/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether pension benefits that retired teachers are in receipt of will be protected, in a similar way that pension benefits of retired NHS workers have been since the start of the covid-19 outbreak, in the event that they return to work after being called upon by him in December 2021.
tabling member constituency	Elmet and Rothwell
tabling member printed	Alec Shelbrooke
uin	104312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2022 answer text <p>Generally, retired teachers returning to the classroom following the recent call for ex-teachers to help will not be subject to potential abatement of their teachers’ pension. This is because it is expected that they will be employed by supply teacher agencies, which tend not to be participating Teacher Pensions’ Scheme (TPS) employers.</p><p>TPS abatement rules would currently apply to retired teachers, with a final salary pension, if they were to be employed directly by a participating TPS employer. However, the call for ex-teachers to help in the classroom is expected to involve short-term and/or part-time appointments. Consequently, the amount of earnings involved is unlikely to result in any adjustment to individuals’ pension benefits on account of abatement.</p><p>We do not, therefore, anticipate there being a compelling need to suspend the abatement provisions in the way that the NHS has done to facilitate the longer-term re-employment of key staff. However, the department is monitoring the situation and, if needed, we will review the policy position.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 24/01/2022 14:30:07 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	3997 label Biography information for Sir Alec Shelbrooke

1402683

registered interest
date	13/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what additional plans are in place to support schools that have been impacted by teacher absences as a result of the Omicron variant of covid-19.
tabling member constituency	Southport
tabling member printed	Damien Moore
uin	103677
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2022 answer text <p>Our priority is to maintain high quality face-to-face education for all children and young people.</p><p>There are measures in place to help break the chains of COVID-19 transmission, minimise disruption to education and limit absences. These include regular testing, improving ventilation in classrooms and continuing the booster rollout for adults and vaccinations for secondary age pupils.</p><p>The department has reintroduced 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 high quality face-to-face education to all pupils.</p><p>The department has also called for ex-teachers to return to the classroom and, on 12 January, it published initial data from a sample of supply agencies gathered between 20 December 2021 and 7 January 2022. This showed that 485 former teachers have signed up with supply agencies, and over 100 Teach First alumni have also expressed interest in returning to the classroom.</p><p>Given the size of the sample, the true number of sign-ups since the call was launched will be larger. Full details of the data release can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/number-of-ex-teachers-joining-the-school-workforce-2021-to-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/number-of-ex-teachers-joining-the-school-workforce-2021-to-2022</a>.</p><p>We have also published sector-led case studies that illustrate practical ways in which schools can work to remain open in the face of staff shortage. Our priority is that all schools offer in-person learning for all pupils. This might involve hybrid lessons, remote teaching, streaming teaching to more than one class at a time, combining face-to-face classes, timetable solutions and using recorded teaching.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 21/01/2022 12:07:56 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4669 label Biography information for Damien Moore

1402718

registered interest
date	13/01/2022
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, what proportion of tutors engaged through the National Tutoring Programme are not fully qualified teachers.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	103665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2022 answer text <p>​​This data is not held by the department.</p><p>We will consider whether to collect this data going forward.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 18/01/2022 17:05:13 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1402719

registered interest
date	13/01/2022
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 pupils have started tuition courses through the National Tutoring Partnership, by region.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	103666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2022 answer text <p>​The National Tutoring Programme aims to deliver up to 2 million courses this year, and up to 90 million tuition hours by the 2024/25 academic year across the programme’s three pillars. Schools have the freedom to enrol the pupils they think could benefit most.</p><p>The programme is on course to deliver its objectives. Since September we have seen more than 300,000 courses started, almost the same number as the whole of last year. 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. A course consists of 15 tuition hours, meaning that pupils who need it most will be receiving millions of hours of high-quality support.</p><p>The department does not currently publish regional performance data. We will consider doing so going forward. We will continue to work closely with the delivery partner to ensure the tuition partner and academic mentor pillars fulfil their objectives by the end of the academic year and will publish further data for the spring and summer terms later this year.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 19/01/2022 17:47:17 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1402720

registered interest
date	13/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Voluntary Work
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 number of teaching volunteers that are required to cover staff absences.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	103667
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2022 answer text <p>The department is extremely grateful to all the teachers who are responding to our call to return temporarily to the classroom. Every single teacher that responds can make a vital difference to children and young people by keeping them in face-to-face education.</p><p>The campaign aims to further bolster the many supply staff that are already working in our schools and who have been supporting schools throughout the COVID-19 outbreak.</p><p>On 12 January, the department published initial data from a sample of supply agencies gathered between 20 December 2021 and 7 January 2022. This showed that 485 former teachers have signed up with supply agencies, and over 100 Teach First alumni have also expressed interest in returning to the classroom.</p><p>Given the size of the sample, the true number of sign-ups since the call was launched will be larger. Full details of the data release can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/number-of-ex-teachers-joining-the-school-workforce-2021-to-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/number-of-ex-teachers-joining-the-school-workforce-2021-to-2022</a>.</p><p>This call for ex-teachers is just one of many measures we have in place to support our school workforce mitigate the challenges of COVID-19, including the reintroduction of the COVID-19 workforce fund, which we extended to the February half-term.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 21/01/2022 13:21:55 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1402721

registered interest
date	13/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Initial Teacher Training Market Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many providers his Department plans to accredit as part of the proposed changes to the delivery of Initial Teacher Training in the Market Review.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	103668
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2022 answer text <p>The department invited new and existing providers to apply for accreditation under the process announced in the government’s response to the initial teacher training (ITT) review and there has been a considerable level of interest shown.</p><p>We anticipate receiving a diverse range of applications, reflecting the different types of ITT provision that exist currently. Each application will be assessed on its individual merits and so there is no set number of providers that the department aims to award accreditation. Our overall priority is to ensure that there are sufficient high-quality ITT providers and places to meet demand across the country.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 21/01/2022 11:07:22 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1402722

registered interest
date	13/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Coronavirus Workforce Fund for Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many applications were made to the Coronavirus workforce fund for schools in each month of 2021.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	103669
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2022 answer text <p>The department has had one round of claims to the COVID-19 workforce fund to date, covering the costs of staff absences experienced between 1 November and 31 December 2020. The claims window closed on 31 March 2021. We received claims from 974 schools and made payments to 902 schools by the end of June 2021.</p><p>All schools that met the conditions set out in the guidance were paid. Claims were received at school level and could cover both teacher and support staff absences experienced across the eligibility period.</p><p>The COVID-19 workforce fund has been reintroduced to cover the costs of staff absences experienced between 22 November 2021 and 18 February 2022.</p><p>The claims portal for this period will open in the spring.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 103670 103671 103672 103673 103674 103675 question first answered 19/01/2022 08:42:28 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1402723

registered interest
date	13/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Coronavirus Workforce Fund for Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many applications to the Coronavirus workforce fund for schools were accepted in each month of 2021.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	103670
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2022 answer text <p>The department has had one round of claims to the COVID-19 workforce fund to date, covering the costs of staff absences experienced between 1 November and 31 December 2020. The claims window closed on 31 March 2021. We received claims from 974 schools and made payments to 902 schools by the end of June 2021.</p><p>All schools that met the conditions set out in the guidance were paid. Claims were received at school level and could cover both teacher and support staff absences experienced across the eligibility period.</p><p>The COVID-19 workforce fund has been reintroduced to cover the costs of staff absences experienced between 22 November 2021 and 18 February 2022.</p><p>The claims portal for this period will open in the spring.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 103669 103671 103672 103673 103674 103675 question first answered 19/01/2022 08:42:30 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1402724

registered interest
date	13/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Coronavirus Workforce Fund for Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many applications to the Coronavirus workforce fund for schools were made to cover teacher absences in each month since the inception of that fund.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	103671
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2022 answer text <p>The department has had one round of claims to the COVID-19 workforce fund to date, covering the costs of staff absences experienced between 1 November and 31 December 2020. The claims window closed on 31 March 2021. We received claims from 974 schools and made payments to 902 schools by the end of June 2021.</p><p>All schools that met the conditions set out in the guidance were paid. Claims were received at school level and could cover both teacher and support staff absences experienced across the eligibility period.</p><p>The COVID-19 workforce fund has been reintroduced to cover the costs of staff absences experienced between 22 November 2021 and 18 February 2022.</p><p>The claims portal for this period will open in the spring.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 103669 103670 103672 103673 103674 103675 question first answered 19/01/2022 08:42:30 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1402725

registered interest
date	13/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Coronavirus Workforce Fund for Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many applications to the Coronavirus workforce fund for schools were made to cover support staff absences in each month since the inception of that fund.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	103672
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2022 answer text <p>The department has had one round of claims to the COVID-19 workforce fund to date, covering the costs of staff absences experienced between 1 November and 31 December 2020. The claims window closed on 31 March 2021. We received claims from 974 schools and made payments to 902 schools by the end of June 2021.</p><p>All schools that met the conditions set out in the guidance were paid. Claims were received at school level and could cover both teacher and support staff absences experienced across the eligibility period.</p><p>The COVID-19 workforce fund has been reintroduced to cover the costs of staff absences experienced between 22 November 2021 and 18 February 2022.</p><p>The claims portal for this period will open in the spring.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 103669 103670 103671 103673 103674 103675 question first answered 19/01/2022 08:42:30 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan