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970835

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent steps he has taken to increase the number of people entering the teaching profession.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	906766
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>This government is committed to world class public services. To ensure teaching remains an attractive and fulfilling profession, we are delivering a fully funded pay rise of up to 3.5% for classroom teachers on the main pay range, 2% for those on the upper pay range and 1.5% for those in leadership positions.</p><p>For recruitment to initial teacher training starting in September 2018 we put in place a range of measures including generous bursaries, worth up to £26,000 for priority subjects, to encourage even more talented trainees to key subjects such as maths and physics.</p><p>Earlier this year my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced the development of a new strategy to drive recruitment and boost retention of teachers. The strategy will cover a wide range of areas, including professional development, career progression, flexible working, and entry routes into teaching.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 10/09/2018 16:33:13 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

970888

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Exclusions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of school exclusions.
tabling member constituency	Ealing Central and Acton
tabling member printed	Dr Rupa Huq
uin	906760
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>We support head teachers in using exclusion where this is warranted.</p><p>We have launched a review of exclusions, led by Edward Timpson, which will explore how head teachers use exclusion in practice and differences in exclusion rates across England.</p><p>The review will aim to report by the end of the year. The full terms of reference for the review can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-exclusions-review-terms-of-reference" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-exclusions-review-terms-of-reference</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 10/09/2018 16:26:16 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq

970889

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	First Aid: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment he has made of the potential benefits to children of introducing compulsory first aid education in schools.
tabling member constituency	Colchester
tabling member printed	Will Quince
uin	906762
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>We know how important it is that pupils are taught the knowledge to be happy, healthy and safe. That is why for the first time, all state-funded schools will be required to teach Health Education, and why the draft statutory guidance, currently out for consultation, includes content on first aid.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 10/09/2018 16:19:27 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4423 label Biography information for Will Quince

970890

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Higher Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to improve the information available to prospective students on the costs and benefits of higher education.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	906764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>The Department is working to make information, advice and guidance on higher education options more accessible to prospective students.</p><p>We are running an Open Data Competition to support development of innovative online platforms to provide information on graduate outcomes. We have introduced the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework to help students identify excellent teaching and best graduate outcomes. The Student Loans Company (SLC) also regularly reviews and updates student finance information based on feedback from students.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 10/09/2018 16:42:07 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

970891

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment he has made of the adequacy of mental health support available to students attending university.
tabling member constituency	Chelmsford
tabling member printed	Vicky Ford
uin	906765
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>The University Mental Health Charter announced in June 2018 will drive up standards in promoting student and staff mental health and wellbeing. The Charter, which will reward institutions that deliver improved student mental health outcomes, will develop in an iterative process, shaped by co-production with students, staff and partner organisations.</p><p>71 per cent of universities do not have an explicit strategy for mental health provision although 94 per cent of higher education institutions (HEIs) report an increase in demand for counselling services over the past five years. In some HEIs, up to one in four students are using, or are waiting to use, counselling services.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 10/09/2018 16:51:17 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford

969155

registered interest
date	06/09/2018
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of staffing levels working on the Child Maintenance system.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	171430
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>The numbers of people working within the Child Maintenance Service is reviewed regularly to ensure we have sufficient resources to answer customer calls and progress cases. So far in 2018, we have recruited 510 people into the Child Maintenance Service, with these people joining us between February 2018 and August 2018. We will continue to review the volumes of work against our forecasting model to ensure that we adjust staffing levels as required.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 10/09/2018 15:52:38 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

967965

registered interest
date	05/09/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Social Mobility
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 improve social mobility.
tabling member constituency	Waveney
tabling member printed	Peter Aldous
uin	906754
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>Improving social mobility remains a critical challenge for our country. It is a challenge that my department is taking significant strides to overcome.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2010, 1.9 million more children are in good and outstanding schools and more disadvantaged pupils are going to university. The attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers has reduced by 10% since 2011.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, we are proud to have expanded apprenticeships and to have supported more disadvantaged students into higher education. This will help to boost productivity and to expand opportunities.</p><p> </p><p>Our plans to make further progress include spending £72 million on 12 Opportunity Areas. As my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State, mentioned in his speech in July this year, taking action on the home learning environment is also crucial so that children do not fall behind before they start school. That is why he announced plans for a summit with the National Literacy Trust and major businesses in order to find new ways to halve the number of children starting primary school without the necessary literacy skills by 2028.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 10/09/2018 16:05:10 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4069 label Biography information for Peter Aldous

968017

registered interest
date	05/09/2018
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Animal Feed: Republic of Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect of the Irish Government’s fodder transport scheme on the (a) price and (b) supply of fodder in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Canterbury
tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
uin	170556
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>Farmers in the UK, Ireland and across northern Europe, have experienced a difficult time this year with the hot, dry weather. The impacts are likely to be most severely felt by grazing livestock due to the shortage of grass, but the full effect may not be realised until later in the year. We have prioritised practical solutions to help farmers increase access to fodder and bedding both now and in the coming months. These actions will help farmers to limit the impact of extra feed costs by allocating land to forage growth and grazing, but we will keep the situation under review.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Particular measures the Government has taken to help farmers are:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li>We have clarified that English farmers, unlike farmers in other EU countries where derogations have been sought, have been able to use fallow land for grazing since 1 July. That is because our legislation reflects what we consider to be the minimum EU requirement.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li>We were the first Member State to raise a concern with the Commission to establish Ecological Focus Area (EFA) catch crops by 20 August: Other Member States agreed with us and the Commission agreed that “force majeure” would apply in these circumstances, so we could waive penalties for farmers in this situation.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li>We are seeking a derogation from the requirement to sow only certain seed types which are unpalatable to livestock in EFA areas as catch crop. The derogation we expect to secure shortly will allow for grass and herbaceous forage to be grown in those areas, and for those areas to be grazed.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li>On Countryside Stewardship, Environmental Stewardship and forestry legacy agreements farmers are able to ask Natural England to agree a temporary variation to the agreement conditions, either as an Environmental Stewardship Derogation (to date, over 130 have been granted) or a Countryside Stewardship Minor and Temporary Adjustment (over 30 have so far been granted). We will allow farmers to derogate temporarily from specific prescriptions to provide bedding, fodder and grazing for livestock without materially affecting the environmental benefits of their agreement.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>I will monitor whether the fodder import scheme that has been introduced in Ireland has an appreciable effect on supplies of fodder and bedding within the UK. We have also made the point to the European Commission that whilst the UK is committed to working to identify appropriate responses to this year’s weather impacts, these should not interfere with the normal functioning of the market or obscure the focus of farmers in mitigating weather impacts.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Opportunities such as the ones described above were discussed with a wide range of stakeholders at the National Farmers’ Union “Dry Weather Summit” on 1 August 2018 and we have received some further representations in writing from farming industry organisations. Further discussions took place at the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) Industry Partnership Group meeting in Reading on 20 August 2018. Additionally, a small number of individual farmers have made representations through the RPA’s Helpline. All representations received have been considered in the round and informed the approach we are taking to offering all available support to alleviate the impacts of the recent extreme weather conditions for farmers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 170410 170411 170417 170418 170864 question first answered 10/09/2018 12:18:32 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

968102

registered interest
date	05/09/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussion he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the funding of treatment for alcohol addiction services in (a) West Midlands and (b) Coventry.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	170685
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>No discussions have taken place between the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and the Chancellor of the Exchequer on this issue.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 10/09/2018 17:08:20 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

968103

registered interest
date	05/09/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment has he made of the quality of teacher training provision in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	170686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>Ofsted is responsible for making judgements about the quality of training provided by all providers and their partnerships. All initial teacher training (ITT) partnerships in Coventry and the West Midlands were judged to be either good or outstanding at their most recent Ofsted inspection. Across England, 99% of ITT partnerships were judged to be either good or outstanding at their most recent Ofsted inspection.</p><p>The latest newly qualified teacher (NQT) survey report was published on 5 September 2018. NQTs were largely positive about the quality of their ITT – 81% rated overall quality as 7-10 out of 10. This is a sample survey of NQTs who gained qualified teacher status (QTS) status between December 2015 and November 2016, therefore regional level analysis is not possible.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 10/09/2018 16:34:51 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham