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1489383

registered interest
date	14/07/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Educational Psychology: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many places for trainee educational psychologists his Department will fund in 2023; and whether he is taking steps to increase this number in future years.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	36873
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2022 answer text <p>Since 2020, the department has increased the number of educational psychologist trainees that we fund to over 200, from 160 per annum. We have invested £30 million to train three more cohorts for the 2020, 2021, and 2022 academic years, to reflect increased demand. The first cohort will enter the workforce in 2023 to provide crucial support to children and young people, schools, families, and local authorities.</p><p> </p><p>On 29 March 2022 the department announced a further investment of over £10 million to train over 200 more educational psychologists. These trainees will begin their courses in September 2023, and graduate in 2026.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 19/07/2022 16:49:53 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1488701

registered interest
date	13/07/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Food
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 Cabinet colleagues on the potential effect of inflation on the levels of access to food over the school holidays for children in living in low income families.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	35998
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2022 answer text <p>The department is investing over £200 million a year in its holiday activities and food programme to support families in England during the school holidays. This programme provides heathy meals, enriching activities, and free childcare places to children from low-income families. The provision is for school-aged children from reception to year 11 who receive benefits-related free school meals. Local authorities also have discretion to use up to 15% of their funding to provide holiday club places for other children who are not in receipt of benefits-related free school meals, but who the local authority believe could benefit from the provision.</p><p>Schools are responsible for the provision of school meals and may enter individual contracts with suppliers and caterers to meet this duty. The department is confident that schools will continue providing pupils with nutritious school meals as required by the school food standards.</p><p>The government understands the pressures people are facing with the cost of living. These are global challenges, that is why the government is providing over £15 billion in further support, targeted particularly on those with the greatest need. This package is in addition to the over £22 billion announced previously, with government support for the cost of living now totalling over £37 billion this year.</p><p>To support people who need additional welfare help, the government is providing an extra £500 million of local support in England, via the Household Support Fund, which is being extended to March 2023. This brings the total amount provided to £1.5 billion since October 2021.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 18/07/2022 16:45:23 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1488725

registered interest
date	13/07/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many staff by (a) number and (b) full-time equivalence worked for each directorate in (i) his Department and (ii) agencies for which he is responsible in (A) each of the last ten financial years and (B) 2022-23.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	35927
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2022 answer text <p>The data on staff numbers working for the department and its executive agencies, over the last few years, can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dfe-monthly-workforce-management-information" target="_blank">DfE: monthly workforce management information - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>. More detailed information on our workforce and structures can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/5a1f3831-86d6-4979-9164-99e982361ca4/organogram-of-staff-roles-salaries" target="_blank">Organogram of Staff Roles &amp; Salaries - data.gov.uk</a>.</p><p>The data is taken directly from the department’s HR system and snapshots are provided monthly for the first link and quarterly for the second. Our resources are routinely reviewed to ensure we have the right workforce to respond to changing priorities and different operating models for managing staff. Over the period for which the data has been provided, the responsibilities of the department have changed considerably.</p><p>As recently announced, my right hon. Friend, the Prime Minister and Cabinet have tasked the Civil Service with bringing its workforce back to 2016 numbers over the next three years, meaning a reduction of around 91,000 roles.</p><p>The department and our executive agencies, like every other civil service department, are involved in this work and the number of people we have working in the department is under review.</p><p>No decisions have been made at this point.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 35928 question first answered 19/07/2022 16:22:51 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1488726

registered interest
date	13/07/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to maintain the (a) number and (b) full-time equivalent of staff in any of the directorates within (i) his Department and (ii) other public bodies for which he is responsible.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	35928
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2022 answer text <p>The data on staff numbers working for the department and its executive agencies, over the last few years, can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dfe-monthly-workforce-management-information" target="_blank">DfE: monthly workforce management information - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>. More detailed information on our workforce and structures can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/5a1f3831-86d6-4979-9164-99e982361ca4/organogram-of-staff-roles-salaries" target="_blank">Organogram of Staff Roles &amp; Salaries - data.gov.uk</a>.</p><p>The data is taken directly from the department’s HR system and snapshots are provided monthly for the first link and quarterly for the second. Our resources are routinely reviewed to ensure we have the right workforce to respond to changing priorities and different operating models for managing staff. Over the period for which the data has been provided, the responsibilities of the department have changed considerably.</p><p>As recently announced, my right hon. Friend, the Prime Minister and Cabinet have tasked the Civil Service with bringing its workforce back to 2016 numbers over the next three years, meaning a reduction of around 91,000 roles.</p><p>The department and our executive agencies, like every other civil service department, are involved in this work and the number of people we have working in the department is under review.</p><p>No decisions have been made at this point.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 35927 question first answered 19/07/2022 16:22:51 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1488772

registered interest
date	13/07/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the report by the Children's Commissioner for England entitled Voices of England’s Missing Children, published in June 2022, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of locating (a) education psychologists, (b) emotional learning support assistants and (c) speech and language therapists within (i) individual and (ii) networks of schools.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	35828
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2022 answer text <p>Education is a devolved matter, and the response outlines the information for England only.</p><p> </p><p>The department is grateful to the Commissioner for her report on the ‘Voices of England’s Missing Children’, and her commitment to ensuring that the voices of children and young people are heard. The department shares her ambition to support the most disadvantaged and vulnerable children and young people, through high-quality education and local services, to ensure no one is left behind.</p><p> </p><p>Through the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and Alternative Provision Green Paper, the department is publicly consulting on a number of proposals to bring together a multidisciplinary support offer, and to provide more timely access to specialist support from health and social care partners.</p><p> </p><p>Meanwhile, the department is taking steps to increase the capacity of the specialist workforce. Since 2020, we have increased the number of educational psychologist trainees that we fund from 160, to over 200 per annum, and have invested £30 million to train three more cohorts for academic years 2020, 2021 and 2022. In February 2022, the department announced a further investment of over £10 million to train over 200 more educational psychologists, who will begin their courses in September 2023.</p><p> </p><p>The department is actively exploring the impact of embedding multi-disciplinary specialist teams in education providers. Since November 2021, we have established specialist taskforces in 22 alternative provision schools, in areas where serious youth violence is most prevalent. Through this work, professionals, including speech and language therapists, youth workers and mental health specialists, are delivering targeted support to minimise the risk of children and young people disengaging from education.</p><p> </p><p>The department has worked with the Youth Endowment Fund to commission an evaluator to understand the impacts that the specialist taskforces are having.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 18/07/2022 16:41:31 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1488852

registered interest
date	13/07/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	National Curriculum Tests
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 the Government's delivery partner Capita on reports of missing SATs papers.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	36079
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2022 answer text <p>The Standards and Testing Agency (STA) oversees the logistics and marking operation for assessments for almost 680,000 pupils in over 16,000 schools, including the collection, scanning, and marking of some 3.8 million test scripts. The vast majority of these were collected, scanned, and marked without any issues. STA is in constant communication with Capita over service delivery, including understanding and investigating the small number of instances where papers may be flagged as missing.</p><p> </p><p>STA will work with Capita to identify lessons learned from the delivery of this year’s assessments so that service improvements can be implemented for the next test cycle.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 18/07/2022 16:49:01 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1487553

registered interest
date	08/07/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Visual Impairment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the absence rates from education of blind and partially sighted pupils at (a) primary and (b) secondary school were in each year from 2012 to date.
tabling member constituency	Loughborough
tabling member printed	Jane Hunt
uin	33034
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2022 answer text <p>The department publishes annual statistics on absence from school broken down by pupils’ type of special educational need (SEN). The most recent figures, for the 2020/21 academic year, are published here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/pupil-absence-in-schools-in-england" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/pupil-absence-in-schools-in-england</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The publication includes figures for pupils whose type of SEN is visual impairment. The figures for primary and secondary schools are available here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/34b7634d-01b2-45bb-be2e-5003ac8ea73f" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/34b7634d-01b2-45bb-be2e-5003ac8ea73f</a>. For comparative purposes, ‘Total’ includes all pupils, including those who have no SEN.</p><p> </p><p>The figures do not include the 2019/20 academic year, because the publication was cancelled that year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 18/07/2022 16:37:46 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4839 label Biography information for Jane Hunt

1487629

registered interest
date	08/07/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	School Meals: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to (a) monitor schools progress towards and (b) enforce the School Food Standards.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	33009
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2022 answer text <p>The department supports the provision of nutritious food in schools via the Requirements for School Food Regulations 2014: <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1603/contents/made" target="_blank">https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1603/contents/made</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Compliance with the School Food Standards is mandatory for all maintained schools including academies and free schools. School Governors have a responsibility to ensure compliance and can ask the headteacher for evidence that the school is compliant with the School Food Standards.</p><p> </p><p>In February 2022 the Levelling Up White Paper outlined what the department is doing to strengthen adherence with the School Food Standards, including investing up to £200,000 in a pilot Governor Training Scheme. We will also be running a joint project with the Food Standards Agency to design and test a new approach for local authorities in England, to help assure compliance with the School Food Standards. We will promote accountability and transparency of school food arrangements by encouraging schools to complete a statement on their school websites, which sets out their whole school approach to food. The reporting would be voluntary initially, with the intention that this will become mandatory when schools can do this effectively.</p><p> </p><p>The Healthy Schools Rating Scheme celebrates the positive actions that schools are delivering in terms of healthy living, healthy eating and physical activity, and supports schools in identifying further actions that they can take in this area. This voluntary rating scheme is available for both primary and secondary schools. Schools engage in a self-assessment exercise and receive their rating based on their responses to questions on subjects including compliance with the mandatory school food standards.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 13/07/2022 16:55:29 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1487296

registered interest
date	07/07/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Food Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department has taken to prevent hunger over the school holidays for children who are eligible for free school meals.
tabling member constituency	Neath
tabling member printed	Christina Rees
uin	32604
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2022 answer text <p><strong></strong></p><p>Education is a devolved matter, and the response outlines the information for England only.</p><p> </p><p>In England, the holiday activities and food programme provides heathy meals, enriching activities, and free childcare places to children from low-income families. This benefits their heath, wellbeing and learning, and contributes to recovery from COVID-19. This is supported by over £200 million funding each year.</p><p>To support people who need additional welfare help, the government is providing an extra £500 million of local support via the Household Support Fund, which is being extended to March 2023. This brings the total amount provided to £1.5 billion since October 2021.</p><p> </p><p>Devolved administrations will receive £79 million through the Barnett formula up to October 2022, and a further £79 million from October 2022 to March 2023.</p><p> </p><p>Schools are responsible for the provision of school meals and may enter individual contracts with suppliers and caterers to meet this duty.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 32605 question first answered 15/07/2022 13:55:49 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4525 label Biography information for Christina Rees

1487297

registered interest
date	07/07/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Food
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effect of inflation on the levels of access to food over the school holidays for children in living in low income families.
tabling member constituency	Neath
tabling member printed	Christina Rees
uin	32605
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2022 answer text <p><strong></strong></p><p>Education is a devolved matter, and the response outlines the information for England only.</p><p> </p><p>In England, the holiday activities and food programme provides heathy meals, enriching activities, and free childcare places to children from low-income families. This benefits their heath, wellbeing and learning, and contributes to recovery from COVID-19. This is supported by over £200 million funding each year.</p><p>To support people who need additional welfare help, the government is providing an extra £500 million of local support via the Household Support Fund, which is being extended to March 2023. This brings the total amount provided to £1.5 billion since October 2021.</p><p> </p><p>Devolved administrations will receive £79 million through the Barnett formula up to October 2022, and a further £79 million from October 2022 to March 2023.</p><p> </p><p>Schools are responsible for the provision of school meals and may enter individual contracts with suppliers and caterers to meet this duty.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 32604 question first answered 15/07/2022 13:55:49 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4525 label Biography information for Christina Rees