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1545765

registered interest
date	28/11/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Music
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of funding for music lessons in state schools.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Duncan Baker
uin	902443
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2022 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to continued support for music education. The Government published the National Plan for Music Education in June 2022 which sets out the vision for ‘all children and young people to learn to sing, play an instrument and create music together, and have the opportunity to progress their musical interests and talents, including professionally’. At the heart of the new plan is the Model Music Curriculum published in March 2021, which sets out how schools can deliver an excellent music education.</p><p>The Government recognises the vital importance of every child accessing instruments and equipment they need to make progress with music, including technology and adaptive instruments where needed for pupils with SEND. We therefore also announced £25 million of new funding for musical instruments alongside the Plan. This funding will increase the existing stock available to all children and young people. We will work with schools, hubs, Arts Council England and the wider sector to focus on best practice in managing access to instruments and equipment. We will publish further details in due course.</p><p>The Department committed £79 million per year for the Music Hubs programme over three years up to and including 2024-25, which was confirmed with the publication of the Plan. Music Hubs are groups of organisations, such as local authorities, schools, art organisations, community, or voluntary organisations, that work together to create joined-up music education provision and provide specialist music education services to around 90% of state-funded schools. This includes whole class and group ensemble teaching, and individual instrument tuition.</p><p>Hubs also ensure that progression routes are clear and affordable, and some hubs provide instrument loans to children and young people to achieve this.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 28/11/2022 17:37:28 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4784 label Biography information for Duncan Baker

1545770

registered interest
date	28/11/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	PE and Sport Premium
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether funding for the PE and sport premium will continue at current levels for the 2023-24 school year.
tabling member constituency	Sedgefield
tabling member printed	Paul Howell
uin	902450
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2022 answer text <p>Improving school sport and physical education (PE) is a key priority. The Department recognises the important role the PE and sport premium plays in helping schools ensure that children and young people play sport and keep fit.</p><p>We are considering arrangements for the Primary PE and sport premium for the 2023/24 academic year and beyond and will confirm the position as early as possible.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 28/11/2022 17:40:39 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4830 label Biography information for Paul Howell

1544421

registered interest
date	22/11/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Workplace Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) independent and (b) state schools have left the Teachers' Pension Scheme in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Brent North
tabling member printed	Barry Gardiner
uin	93408
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2022 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">324 independent schools have left the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) between August 2019, when this information started to be compiled, and November 2022. 22 independent schools have joined the Scheme between January 2018 and November 2022.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">State schools and academies cannot choose to leave the TPS. The records show that 1,008 academies have ceased to be registered as scheme employers and 4,383 new academy employers have been registered in the TPS between January 2018 and November 2022. This is a result of state schools converting to academies and some single academy trusts joining multi-academy trusts.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">463 independent schools have left the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) between January 2018 and November 2022. 37 independent schools have joined the Scheme between January 2018 and November 2022. </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">State schools and academies cannot choose to leave the TPS. The records show that 814 state schools have closed and so have ceased to be registered as scheme employers since January 2018. This is largely as a result of state schools converting to academies. 79 new state schools have been registered in the TPS since January 2018.</ins></p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 28/11/2022 18:14:08 question first ministerially corrected 20/12/2022 19:15:23 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb previous answer version 37093 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	146 label Biography information for Barry Gardiner

1544422

registered interest
date	22/11/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Workplace Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) independent and (b) state schools have joined the Teachers' Pension Scheme in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Brent North
tabling member printed	Barry Gardiner
uin	93409
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2022 answer text <p>324 independent schools have left the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) between August 2019, when this information started to be compiled, and November 2022. 22 independent schools have joined the Scheme between January 2018 and November 2022.</p><p>State schools and academies cannot choose to leave the TPS. The records show that 1,008 academies have ceased to be registered as scheme employers and 4,383 new academy employers have been registered in the TPS between January 2018 and November 2022. This is a result of state schools converting to academies and some single academy trusts joining multi-academy trusts.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 93408 question first answered 28/11/2022 18:14:08 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	146 label Biography information for Barry Gardiner

1544488

registered interest
date	22/11/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Redundancy Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much ministerial severance pay has been (a) paid out by her Department and (b) accepted since 1 June 2022.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	93659
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2022 answer text <p>The provision of severance payments for Ministers is set out in legislation.</p><p>Details of the severance payments made to ministers when leaving office are published in Departments’ annual reports and accounts.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 25/11/2022 13:49:49 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1543899

registered interest
date	21/11/2022
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 the estimated cost to the public purse is of the capital projects announced in each of the three rounds of the school rebuilding programme.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	92364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2022 answer text <p>The School Rebuilding Programme (SRP) was announced in 2020 and will rebuild or significantly refurbish buildings at 500 schools over the next decade. So far, the Department has confirmed 161 projects for the programme across three rounds, with each round supported by approximately £1 billion in capital funding.</p><p>Forecasted costs and scope for SRP projects are known once a feasibility study has been completed and following the awarding of contracts. The Department publishes details of all contracts awarded over £10,000, including for SRP, to the ‘contracts finder’ section of GOV.UK. This service is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 24/11/2022 13:59:30 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1544093

registered interest
date	21/11/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Refugees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the adequacy of the steps taken to support children and young people from Ukraine adapt to UK schools; and whether her Department has any plans to review the requirement for Ukrainian pupils to take English and Maths’ GCSE exams if they cannot show physical proof of having passed previous similar exams.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Duncan Baker
uin	92368
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2022 answer text <p>The Department is clear that the best place for all children to be educated is in school and that attending school will help newly arrived Ukrainian children integrate into the communities in which they are living. It is the experience and skill of local authorities and schools that provides the support and care necessary for these children as they adjust to their new lives in the UK.</p><p>Schools and colleges are responsible for deciding which qualifications they enter pupils for, based on what is in their best interests. Schools will want to carefully consider the individual circumstances of the students before deciding the appropriateness of an exam entry. Exam centres should make these decisions carefully on a case-by-case basis.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 25/11/2022 14:14:06 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4784 label Biography information for Duncan Baker

1543590

registered interest
date	18/11/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Hampshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the impact of the rising cost of living on teachers in north Hampshire; and whether he plans for the Education and Skills Funding Agency to conduct a review of the areas classed as London fringe.
tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
uin	90850
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2022 answer text <p>Schools will benefit from the Energy Bill Relief Scheme. This will reduce how much schools need to spend on their energy, and give schools greater certainty over their budgets through the winter months. The Department knows that every school’s circumstances are different, and where schools are in serious financial difficulty, they should contact their Local Authority or the Education and Skills Funding Agency.</p><p>The 2022/23 pay awards should be viewed in parallel with the Government’s £37 billion package of support for the Cost of Living, which is targeted to those most in need. The Government has also taken action to limit energy bills for households through the Energy Price Guarantee. The typical household, which had been facing forecast bills of £6,000, can now expect to pay £2,500 per year for average usage.</p><p>Decisions on pay ranges are based on recommendations by the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB), the independent body that advises on teachers’ pay and conditions.</p><p>The geographical areas covered by the different ranges were defined some years ago to reflect a practical approach to compensate teachers working in London, and the STRB has not recommended any changes since then, although the Department will consider these issues in the future.</p><p>Pay awards must strike a careful balance, recognising the vital importance of teachers and other public sector workers, whilst delivering value for the taxpayer. The Department has implemented the STRB’s recommendation of an 8.9% uplift to starting salaries outside London in the 2022/23 academic year, keeping the Department on track for delivering its manifesto commitment of a £30,000 starting salary. The Department has implemented the STRB’s recommendation of a 5% pay uplift for experienced teachers and leaders in the 2022/23 academic year. This award constituted the highest pay award for experienced teachers in 30 years.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 28/11/2022 17:34:06 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1543684

registered interest
date	18/11/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Vacancies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) teacher and (b) teaching assistant positions are vacant in (i) St Helens, (ii) Merseyside and (iii) England.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	90830
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2022 answer text <p>Information on the state funded school workforce in England, including the number and rate of teacher vacancies by school each November, is published in the annual ‘School Workforce in England’ national statistics release, which can be found here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england</a>. Data for November 2022 will be published in summer 2023.</p><p>In November 2021, there were three teacher vacancies in St Helens, 29 in Merseyside and 1,564 in England.</p><p>Information on teaching assistant vacancies is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 23/11/2022 14:21:18 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

1543265

registered interest
date	17/11/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	GCE A-level and GCSE: Assessments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to release advance information on GCSE and A Level Exams in 2023.
tabling member constituency	Bradford West
tabling member printed	Naz Shah
uin	89845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2022 answer text <p>On 29 September, the Department and Ofqual confirmed examinations will largely return to well-established, pre-pandemic arrangements in summer 2023.</p><p>The Department confirmed that advance information will not be provided for any examinations taken in summer 2023. The Department has, however, decided that formulae and equation sheets for GCSE mathematics, physics and combined sciences examinations should be provided in summer 2023, as was the case for examinations in 2022. Ofqual has also confirmed a return to pre-pandemic grading in 2023. To protect pupils against the disruption of recent years, and in case pupils’ performance is slightly lower than before the COVID-19 pandemic, senior examiners will use the grades achieved by previous cohorts of pupils, along with prior attainment data, to inform their decisions regarding where to set grade boundaries.</p><p>These decisions reflect that while the 2023 cohort may have experienced some disruption due to the pandemic over the course of their qualifications, it has not been as significant as that experienced by pupils who received qualifications in 2022. Pupils will, for example, have had more time to cover the curriculum, practise assessments and use education recovery programmes and interventions.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 23/11/2022 14:02:39 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4409 label Biography information for Naz Shah