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1464750

registered interest
date	23/05/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Cost of Living
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions he has had with devolved Administrations on providing additional support for (a) school and (b) higher education students to help meet increases in the cost of living.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	900176
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text <p>Education policy is devolved, and so cost of living issues for institutions is the responsibility of the devolved administrations. Ministers in the department meet regularly with their devolved counterparts and my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, is looking forward to attending the next meeting of education ministers from across the UK in Edinburgh next week.</p><p>The department secured an excellent settlement for England in the Spending Review, and so this will be reflected in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland through the Barnett Formula.</p><p>It is for devolved administrations to determine how to spend this generous settlement, but in England we have carefully budgeted for a range of policies that will help universities, schools, their staff, and families which will help to meet the challenges in the cost of living right now. This includes our very successful Holiday Activities and Food scheme, National Tutoring Programme, and of course a huge increase in core school funding that means schools are better placed to cover cost increases.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 900184 question first answered 24/05/2022 14:27:08 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

1464752

registered interest
date	23/05/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Protection
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 help ensure schools co-operate with local safeguarding arrangements.
tabling member constituency	Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
tabling member printed	David Simmonds
uin	900178
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text <p>Safeguarding partners are under a statutory duty to safeguard and promote the wellbeing of all children in a local area. All three safeguarding partners have equal and joint responsibility for local safeguarding arrangements and must set out how they will work together and with any relevant agencies. Relevant agencies must act in accordance with those arrangements.</p><p>Schools, colleges and other educational providers have a pivotal role to play in safeguarding children and promoting their welfare. The safeguarding partners should make arrangements to allow all schools (including multi academy trusts), colleges and other educational providers in the local area to be fully engaged, involved, and included in the new safeguarding arrangements. It is expected that local safeguarding partners will name schools, colleges and other educational providers as relevant agencies and will reach their own conclusions on how best locally to achieve the active engagement of individual institutions in a meaningful way. Once designated as a relevant agency, schools and colleges, and other educational providers, in the same way as other relevant agencies, are under a statutory duty to co-operate with the published arrangements.</p><p>Following the Ofsted review of sexual abuse in schools and colleges in June 2021, Ministers from the Department for Education, Home Office, and Department of Health and Social Care wrote to all 135 all safeguarding partners to request that they review their arrangements with schools, colleges, and education providers and set out their local offer to education.</p><p>We have also held a series of national events with safeguarding partners, education providers, and other government departments to understand emerging practice and barriers to effective working. These will form part of a wider programme of work to ensure that the arrangements that have been put in place are being utilised to their fullest by both safeguarding partners, and schools and colleges.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 24/05/2022 14:17:45 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4872 label Biography information for David Simmonds

1464756

registered interest
date	23/05/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Cost of Living
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions he has had with devolved Administrations on providing additional support for (a) school and (b) higher education students in the context of the increases in the cost of living.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	900184
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text <p>Education policy is devolved, and so cost of living issues for institutions is the responsibility of the devolved administrations. Ministers in the department meet regularly with their devolved counterparts and my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, is looking forward to attending the next meeting of education ministers from across the UK in Edinburgh next week.</p><p>The department secured an excellent settlement for England in the Spending Review, and so this will be reflected in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland through the Barnett Formula.</p><p>It is for devolved administrations to determine how to spend this generous settlement, but in England we have carefully budgeted for a range of policies that will help universities, schools, their staff, and families which will help to meet the challenges in the cost of living right now. This includes our very successful Holiday Activities and Food scheme, National Tutoring Programme, and of course a huge increase in core school funding that means schools are better placed to cover cost increases.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 900176 question first answered 24/05/2022 14:27:08 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1464972

registered interest
date	23/05/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Platinum Jubilee 2022
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his Department’s press release entitled Platinum Jubilee book to arrive in primary schools from mid-May, published on 1 May 2022, what steps he is taking to ensure that the book is provided in an (a) easy read and (b) braille format.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	6839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2022 answer text <p>The commemorative book ‘Queen Elizabeth: A Platinum Jubilee Celebration’ has been written for a reading age of upper key stage 2 but is designed to be as accessible as possible for all primary school age-children, whether reading this themselves or having it read to them by a teacher, parent or carer. The book is written in a story-book style, supported by many informative and engaging illustrations throughout.</p><p>A braille edition of the book is not available, though audio versions are available via a QR code on the book or from the publisher’s website at: <a href="https://jubilee.dk.com" target="_blank">https://jubilee.dk.com</a>.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 26/05/2022 14:45:56 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1465100

registered interest
date	23/05/2022
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 he will make it is his policy to increase funding for schools where English is a second language for a significant proportion of pupils; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Wycombe
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Baker
uin	6747
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/05/2022 answer text <p>Overall, core schools funding is increasing by £4 billion in the 2022/23 financial year, a 7% increase in cash terms per pupil from the 2021/22 financial year. This includes an increase in mainstream school funding for 5 to 16 year olds of £2.5 billion, which is equivalent to an average 5.8% cash increase, or an average of £300 per pupil.</p><p>Through the English as an additional language (EAL) factor in the national funding formula (NFF), schools attract funding for pupils who are classed as having EAL and who have started in the state-funded education system in England within the last three years. This equates to an additional £565 per primary school pupil and £1,530 per secondary school pupil in the 2022/23 financial year, meaning the NFF will distribute a total of £410 million through the EAL factor.</p><p>At present, the NFF is used to determine how much funding is provided to each local authority in England, and it is for each local authority, to set a local formula to distribute it between schools. Individual authorities can decide whether to include an EAL factor in their local formulae, and where they do, how much that factor should distribute. The government has made clear its intention to move to a ‘direct NFF’, which will determine schools’ budgets directly rather than through local formulae. This includes requiring all local authorities to use the NFF methodology of EAL3, meaning that all pupils with EAL that have entered the school system during the last three years will attract this funding. This will ensure that all schools in England will be guaranteed to receive funding in respect of their pupils with EAL.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 27/05/2022 13:51:27 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker

1464661

registered interest
date	20/05/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Platinum Jubilee 2022
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the book being sent to schools about Her Majesty the Queen on the occasion of her Platinum Jubilee, if he will place a copy in the Library; and whether he made arrangements to send a copy to each of the legal deposit libraries in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	5679
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/05/2022 answer text <p>A copy of the commemorative book, ‘Queen Elizabeth: A Platinum Jubilee Celebration’, will be placed in the libraries of both Houses. I can also confirm that the publisher, DK Books, will deposit a copy with each of the legal deposit libraries in the UK.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 27/05/2022 10:50:14 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1464435

registered interest
date	19/05/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his Department's policy is on what exceptional circumstances a school with a Good or Outstanding Ofsted rating under control of a multi-academy trust could request to the regulator to move to the control of a different multi-academy trust.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	5485
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2022 answer text <p>As set out in the Schools White Paper, the department will be consulting on the exceptional circumstances in which a good school could request that the regulator agrees to the school moving to a stronger trust.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 25/05/2022 15:49:39 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1464436

registered interest
date	19/05/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Primary Education: Inspections
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 number of primary schools previously judged Outstanding by Ofsted rating who retain that status when re-inspected under the control of a (a) local authority and (b) multi-academy trust over the last ten years.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	5486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2022 answer text <p>The department has not made such an assessment as between June 2012 and November 2020 schools judged to be Outstanding by Ofsted at their most recent inspection were exempt from further routine inspections. During this period, re-inspections of outstanding primary schools only took place if there were significant concerns and those schools would have been unrepresentative of primary schools in general.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 25/05/2022 10:57:41 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1464465

registered interest
date	19/05/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions his Department has had with HM Treasury on expanding the School Rebuilding Programme.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	5497
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text <p>The department engages regularly with HM Treasury about investment in schools, including capital investment.</p><p>Well-maintained, safe school buildings are a priority for the department. In recent years the department has announced significant increases in capital funding to improve the condition of schools. We have also allocated over £13 billion to schools and those responsible for school buildings since 2015, including £1.8 billion committed this financial year. In addition, our School Rebuilding Programme will transform 500 schools over the next decade, prioritising schools in poor condition or with potential safety issues.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 24/05/2022 16:50:02 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1464466

registered interest
date	19/05/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Buildings
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 number of school and college sites which pose a risk to life; and if he will a publish a list of those sites.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	5498
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/05/2022 answer text <p>There are no open school or college buildings where the department know of an imminent risk to life. On those rare occasions where we know of buildings that do pose such a risk, immediate action is taken, ranging from partial closure and remedial works, to a complete rebuilding of the school or college.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 27/05/2022 10:28:25 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson