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1648581

registered interest
date	28/06/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	ICT: Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many computing teachers (a) left teaching and (b) were recruited in (i) 2018, (ii) 2019, (iii) 2021 and (iv) 2022.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	191589
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2023 answer text <p>The Department has invested over £100 million to support the quality of computing teaching through the creation of the National Centre for Computing Education. This has provided a computing hub network and high quality training and resources for pre and in service teachers.</p><p>Information on the school workforce, including the number of subject teachers in state funded secondary schools and the overall number of teachers joining and leaving the state funded sector, is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication, available at: <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>.</p><p>As at November 2022, the latest data available, there were 7,529 full time equivalent (FTE) teachers teaching computer science, and 6,179 FTE teachers teaching information, computing and technology (ICT) in state funded secondary schools. It is important to note that it is possible for teachers to teach both subjects, therefore, some may be counted in both of these figures.</p><p><strong>FTE teachers of computer science and ICT<sup>1</sup> in statefunded secondary schools</strong><br> 2018/19 to 2021/22<sup>2</sup></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Computer Science</p></td><td><p>ICT</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022/23</p></td><td><p>7,529</p></td><td><p>6,179</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>6,573</p></td><td><p>6,691</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>6,049</p></td><td><p>6,670</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>4,305</p></td><td><p>8,069</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>3,954</p></td><td><p>8,834</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: School Workforce Census, published at: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/8bcbf8de-57df-4ae4-8a65-08db7860a436" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/8bcbf8de-57df-4ae4-8a65-08db7860a436</a>.</p><p><br> 1: Teachers were counted once against each subject. Therefore, teachers may be counted against both computer science and ICT</p><p>2: Computer science was introduced as a new code from 2017/18 to reflect reformed GCSEs.</p><p>The requested figures for leavers and joiners by subject taught are not available.</p><p>47,954 teachers joined the state funded school sector for 2022/23, up by 3,943 since last year.</p><p>43,997 teachers left the state funded sector in 2021/22, up by 7,818 since last year.</p><p>Leavers are defined as qualified teachers leaving the state funded sector in England, for example due to a change of career or joining other UK education sectors, and those leaving on career breaks such as maternity leave or secondments outside of the school sector. Some of these teachers may later rejoin a state funded school in England.</p><p>Almost 9 in 10 (87.2%) teachers who qualified in 2021 are still teaching one year after qualification. Almost 8 in 10 (76.1%) teachers who qualified three years ago are still teaching, and almost 7 in 10 (68.7%) teachers who qualified five years ago are still teaching.</p><p>It is the Department’s priority to make sure that teachers not only stay in the profession, but thrive in it. The Department has taken action to improve teacher and leader workload, working with the profession to understand and address longstanding issues around marking, planning and data management. The Department continues to work proactively with the sector to understand the drivers behind workload and wellbeing issues and improve our policies and interventions.</p><p>The Department is supporting schools to act and remove unhelpful practice that creates unnecessary workload. The Department School Workload Reduction Toolkit, developed alongside headteachers, is a helpful resource for schools to review and reduce workload.</p><p>The Department also worked in partnership with the education sector and mental health experts to create the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter. The Department is encouraging schools to sign up to as a shared commitment to promote staff wellbeing. So far, 2,600 schools have signed up to the Charter.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 03/07/2023 16:58:51 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1304573

registered interest
date	22/03/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Iron and Steel
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 level of UK-produced steel procured by his Department and associated departmental public bodies and agencies in (a) 2019-20 and (b) 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	173043
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/04/2021 answer text <p>The Government is working with the steel industry, the unions and devolved administrations to support the UK steel sector to develop a long-term sustainable future. This includes making sure that UK producers of steel have the best possible chance of competing for and winning contracts across all Government procurement.</p><p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) collates and publishes annually information on how much steel is purchased for the Government’s major infrastructure projects in the previous financial year, including what proportion is UK-produced.</p><p>BEIS has collated the 2019/20 data and expect to publish later this year. BEIS will start collating the data on UK steel procured in 2020/21 in due course.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 06/04/2021 14:47:24 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1192940

registered interest
date	05/05/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Disadvantaged
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to ensure that the attainment gap between disadvantaged children and their peers does not widen during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	902259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2020 answer text <p>The government has already committed over £100 million to boost remote education, including by providing devices and internet access to vulnerable children who need it most.</p><p>Schools also continue to receive the pupil premium – worth around £2.4 billion annually – to help them support their disadvantaged pupils.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 902247 902250 902255 question first answered 06/05/2020 12:16:10 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1186220

registered interest
date	18/03/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	After School Clubs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to provide financial support to protect the viability of after school clubs in the event of school closures in England.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	31518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2020 answer text <p>Schools and all childcare providers are closed, except for a limited number of children - children who are vulnerable and children whose parents are critical to the COVID-19 response and cannot be safely cared for at home.</p><p>In his speech of 20 March 2020, my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced a range of measures to support businesses, including:</p><ul><li>the coronavirus job retention scheme for employees who are not working but kept on payroll – the Government will contribute 80% of a worker’s wages of up to £2,500, backdated to 1 March 2020;</li><li>the Business Interruption Loan Scheme will now be interest-free for 12 months rather than 6 months; and</li><li>VAT payments for next quarter will be deferred – they will not need to be paid until March 2021.</li></ul> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 02/04/2020 16:20:04 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb previous answer version 14167 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1166610

registered interest
date	28/10/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Weald of Kent Grammar School
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on how many occasions and for how long the (a) headteacher and (b) other members of the Senior Leadership team based at the original school site at the Weald of Kent grammar school have visited the annex site in Sevenoaks.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	6391
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally. The Department does not hold operational information at this level. However, given the uniqueness of this particular case, the Department has assured itself that the Weald of Kent does indeed continue to operate as one school across two sites.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 31/10/2019 16:08:25 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1151968

registered interest
date	23/10/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Selective Schools Expansion Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of funding was allocated from the Selective Schools Expansion Fund since that fund has been established; and how much such funding each school has received from that fund.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	4425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>The Selective Schools Expansion Fund (SSEF) 2018-19 has provided funding of £49.3 million for 16 expansion projects to date. The Department has not published the amount of funding allocated to each school as this is commercially sensitive information.</p><p>The Department estimates that SSEF funding will create over 2,700 more good school places. The number of school places created at individual schools will be announced as part of each school’s published admission numbers following completion of the expansion project.</p><p>All of the 16 successful projects have planned to build capacity on their existing sites. There are no expansion projects on satellite sites.</p><p>Details of the Selective Schools Expansion Fund for 2019-20 is due to be announced during the autumn. Information will be available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/selective-schools-expansion-fund" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/selective-schools-expansion-fund</a>.</p><p>The factors taken into account when assessing whether a proposal to expand onto a satellite site is a genuine expansion are provided in our guidance “Making significant changes to an open academy and closure by mutual agreement,” available here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/751304/Making_significant_changes_and_closure_academy.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/751304/Making_significant_changes_and_closure_academy.pdf</a>.</p><p>The former Secretary of State for Education (Nicky Morgan), my right hon. Friend the Secretary for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport made a statement in the house in October 2015, outlining the reasons for the decision to approve the expansion of the Weald of Kent Grammar school. The statement is available here: <a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2015-10-19/debates/15101917000002/SchoolExpansion#contribution-15101917000003" target="_blank">https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2015-10-19/debates/15101917000002/SchoolExpansion#contribution-15101917000003</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has no plans to publish any further information about the decision to approve the expansion of the Weald of Kent grammar school.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 4426 4427 4428 question first answered 28/10/2019 15:06:46 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1151969

registered interest
date	23/10/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Selective Schools Expansion Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many school places his Department has estimated will be created through the Selective Schools Expansion Fund (a) in total and (b) at each of those schools awarded such funding.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	4426
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>The Selective Schools Expansion Fund (SSEF) 2018-19 has provided funding of £49.3 million for 16 expansion projects to date. The Department has not published the amount of funding allocated to each school as this is commercially sensitive information.</p><p>The Department estimates that SSEF funding will create over 2,700 more good school places. The number of school places created at individual schools will be announced as part of each school’s published admission numbers following completion of the expansion project.</p><p>All of the 16 successful projects have planned to build capacity on their existing sites. There are no expansion projects on satellite sites.</p><p>Details of the Selective Schools Expansion Fund for 2019-20 is due to be announced during the autumn. Information will be available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/selective-schools-expansion-fund" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/selective-schools-expansion-fund</a>.</p><p>The factors taken into account when assessing whether a proposal to expand onto a satellite site is a genuine expansion are provided in our guidance “Making significant changes to an open academy and closure by mutual agreement,” available here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/751304/Making_significant_changes_and_closure_academy.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/751304/Making_significant_changes_and_closure_academy.pdf</a>.</p><p>The former Secretary of State for Education (Nicky Morgan), my right hon. Friend the Secretary for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport made a statement in the house in October 2015, outlining the reasons for the decision to approve the expansion of the Weald of Kent Grammar school. The statement is available here: <a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2015-10-19/debates/15101917000002/SchoolExpansion#contribution-15101917000003" target="_blank">https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2015-10-19/debates/15101917000002/SchoolExpansion#contribution-15101917000003</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has no plans to publish any further information about the decision to approve the expansion of the Weald of Kent grammar school.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 4425 4427 4428 question first answered 28/10/2019 15:06:46 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1151970

registered interest
date	23/10/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Selective Schools Expansion Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many of the grammar schools that have been awarded funding from the Selective Schools Expansion have planned to build capacity on (a) their existing site and (b) a satellite site.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	4427
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>The Selective Schools Expansion Fund (SSEF) 2018-19 has provided funding of £49.3 million for 16 expansion projects to date. The Department has not published the amount of funding allocated to each school as this is commercially sensitive information.</p><p>The Department estimates that SSEF funding will create over 2,700 more good school places. The number of school places created at individual schools will be announced as part of each school’s published admission numbers following completion of the expansion project.</p><p>All of the 16 successful projects have planned to build capacity on their existing sites. There are no expansion projects on satellite sites.</p><p>Details of the Selective Schools Expansion Fund for 2019-20 is due to be announced during the autumn. Information will be available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/selective-schools-expansion-fund" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/selective-schools-expansion-fund</a>.</p><p>The factors taken into account when assessing whether a proposal to expand onto a satellite site is a genuine expansion are provided in our guidance “Making significant changes to an open academy and closure by mutual agreement,” available here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/751304/Making_significant_changes_and_closure_academy.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/751304/Making_significant_changes_and_closure_academy.pdf</a>.</p><p>The former Secretary of State for Education (Nicky Morgan), my right hon. Friend the Secretary for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport made a statement in the house in October 2015, outlining the reasons for the decision to approve the expansion of the Weald of Kent Grammar school. The statement is available here: <a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2015-10-19/debates/15101917000002/SchoolExpansion#contribution-15101917000003" target="_blank">https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2015-10-19/debates/15101917000002/SchoolExpansion#contribution-15101917000003</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has no plans to publish any further information about the decision to approve the expansion of the Weald of Kent grammar school.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 4425 4426 4428 question first answered 28/10/2019 15:06:46 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1151972

registered interest
date	23/10/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Weald of Kent Grammar School
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria his Department uses to assess whether expansion to a satellite site is part of an existing school; and if he will publish his Department's assessment of the bid from Weald of Kent grammar for its satellite site in Sevenoaks which was granted permission in 2015.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	4428
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>The Selective Schools Expansion Fund (SSEF) 2018-19 has provided funding of £49.3 million for 16 expansion projects to date. The Department has not published the amount of funding allocated to each school as this is commercially sensitive information.</p><p>The Department estimates that SSEF funding will create over 2,700 more good school places. The number of school places created at individual schools will be announced as part of each school’s published admission numbers following completion of the expansion project.</p><p>All of the 16 successful projects have planned to build capacity on their existing sites. There are no expansion projects on satellite sites.</p><p>Details of the Selective Schools Expansion Fund for 2019-20 is due to be announced during the autumn. Information will be available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/selective-schools-expansion-fund" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/selective-schools-expansion-fund</a>.</p><p>The factors taken into account when assessing whether a proposal to expand onto a satellite site is a genuine expansion are provided in our guidance “Making significant changes to an open academy and closure by mutual agreement,” available here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/751304/Making_significant_changes_and_closure_academy.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/751304/Making_significant_changes_and_closure_academy.pdf</a>.</p><p>The former Secretary of State for Education (Nicky Morgan), my right hon. Friend the Secretary for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport made a statement in the house in October 2015, outlining the reasons for the decision to approve the expansion of the Weald of Kent Grammar school. The statement is available here: <a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2015-10-19/debates/15101917000002/SchoolExpansion#contribution-15101917000003" target="_blank">https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2015-10-19/debates/15101917000002/SchoolExpansion#contribution-15101917000003</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has no plans to publish any further information about the decision to approve the expansion of the Weald of Kent grammar school.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 4425 4426 4427 question first answered 28/10/2019 15:06:46 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1150327

registered interest
date	17/10/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Finance
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 adequacy of maintained nursery school budgets when the supplementary funding for the 2019-20 academic year ends.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	1676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>The Government recognises that maintained nursery schools are an important part of the early years sector and that they provide valuable services to disadvantaged children.</p><p>The Government invests approximately £60 million of supplementary funding each financial year for local authorities to preserve the funding rates of maintained nursery schools.</p><p>The Government plans to spend £3.6 billion to support early education in the financial year 2020-21 and details of how this is to be distributed across local authorities will be issued shortly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 22/10/2019 16:31:59 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell