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1683148

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date	17/01/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Equality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many equalities impact assessments her Department completed in each of the last five years for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	10250
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2024 answer text <p>Under the Public Sector Equality Duty, all public authorities, including government departments, are required by law to ensure that they have due regard to certain equality considerations when carrying out their functions. While equality impact assessments may be produced, there is no legal requirement for duty assessments to be recorded in a specific format.</p><p>The department promotes awareness of the requirements of the Duty and how to comply with them. The department does not collect statistics on the number of assessments made. Therefore, the information requested is not available.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 25/01/2024 10:51:53 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1682108

registered interest
date	15/01/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average height was for state school pupils in (a) reception and (b) year six in each academic year since 2005-06 in England; what the average height was for state school pupils in each ethnic group in those academic years in that period; and how many state school pupils were in each ethnic group in those academic years in that period.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	9631
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2024 answer text <p>The department does not hold information about pupils’ height. The Office for Health Improvement and Monitoring within the Department of Health and Social Care are responsible for carrying out the school height and weight checks. More information is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-child-measurement-programme-operational-guidance/national-child-measurement-programme-2022-information-for-schools" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-child-measurement-programme-operational-guidance/national-child-measurement-programme-2022-information-for-schools</a>.</p><p>The attached spreadsheet contains information from the January school census on the number of pupils in England in reception and year six by ethnic group from the 2006/07 to 2022/23 academic years. The department does not hold data for 2005/06.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 22/01/2024 16:05:54 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds attachment 1 file name 9631 Data table.xlsx title 9631 Data table
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1682178

registered interest
date	15/01/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of state school pupils in each local authority (a) belonged to each ethnic group, (b) had English as their first language, (c) did not have English as their first language and (d) had their first language recorded as unknown in each year since 1998.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	9632
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2024 answer text <p>Figures for ethnicity at local authority level for the 2015/16 academic year are available at: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/94f677ea-a7ea-4157-4649-08dc15e274f3" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/94f677ea-a7ea-4157-4649-08dc15e274f3</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Figures for English as an additional language for the 2015/16 academic year are available at: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/6ff8c047-798c-45c6-aaab-08dc15deba2a" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/6ff8c047-798c-45c6-aaab-08dc15deba2a</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Figures from the 2009/10 to 2014/15 academic years are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Archived figures for academic years before 2009/10 are available in the following published sources:</p><p>2009 <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130323071655/http:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics/a00196015/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130323071655/http:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics/a00196015/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics</a>. 2009: <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130323071655/http:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics/a00196015/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130323071655/http:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics/a00196015/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics</a>.</p><p>Ethnicity tables 12a and 12b</p><p>EAL tables 13a and 13b</p><p> </p><p>2008: <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130323071719/http:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics/a00195968/pupil-absence" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130323071719/http:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics/a00195968/pupil-absence</a>.</p><p>Ethnicity not published at local authority (LA) level</p><p>EAL not published at LA level</p><p> </p><p>2007: <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130323071912/http:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics/a00195601/dcsf-schools-and-pupils-in-england-january-2007-(f" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130323071912/http:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics/a00195601/dcsf-schools-and-pupils-in-england-january-2007-(f</a>.</p><p>Ethnicity tables 32 and 33</p><p>EAL tables 34 and 35</p><p> </p><p>2006: <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130323072019/http:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics/a00195302/schools-and-pupils-in-england-january-2006-(final)" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130323072019/http:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics/a00195302/schools-and-pupils-in-england-january-2006-(final)</a>.</p><p>Ethnicity table 33</p><p>EAL 34</p><p> </p><p>2005: <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130323072209/http:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics/a00194892/schools-and-pupils-in-england-january-2005-(final)" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130323072209/http:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics/a00194892/schools-and-pupils-in-england-january-2005-(final)</a>.</p><p>Ethnicity table 33</p><p>EAL table 34</p><p> </p><p>2004: <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130104091248/http:/education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics/a00194445/statistics-of-education-schools-in-england-2004-ed" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130104091248/http:/education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics/a00194445/statistics-of-education-schools-in-england-2004-ed</a>.</p><p>Ethnicity tables 47a and 47b</p><p>EAL tables 51a and 51b</p><p> </p><p>2003: <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130104091256/http:/education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics/a00194094/statistics-of-education-schools-in-england-2003-ed" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130104091256/http:/education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics/a00194094/statistics-of-education-schools-in-england-2003-ed</a>.</p><p>Ethnicity tables 47a and 47b</p><p>EAL tables 51</p><p> </p><p>2002 <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130104091304/http:/education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics/a00193886/statistics-of-education-schools-in-england-2002-ed" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130104091304/http:/education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics/a00193886/statistics-of-education-schools-in-england-2002-ed</a>2002: <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130104091304/http:/education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics/a00193886/statistics-of-education-schools-in-england-2002-ed" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130104091304/http:/education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics/a00193886/statistics-of-education-schools-in-england-2002-ed</a>.</p><p>Ethnicity tables 47a and 47b</p><p>EAL not published at LA level</p><p> </p><p>2001: <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130113104450/https:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics/a00193690/schools-in-england-2001" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130113104450/https:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics/a00193690/schools-in-england-2001</a>.</p><p>Ethnicity not published at LA level</p><p>EAL not published at LA level</p><p> </p><p>2000 <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130113104731/https:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics/a00193434/schools-in-england-2000" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130113104731/https:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics/a00193434/schools-in-england-2000</a> 2000: <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130113104731/https:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics/a00193434/schools-in-england-2000" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130113104731/https:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics/a00193434/schools-in-england-2000</a>.</p><p>Ethnicity not published at LA level</p><p>EAL not published at LA level</p><p> </p><p>1999 <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130103145428/http:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics/a00193237/schools-in-england-1999" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130103145428/http:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics/a00193237/schools-in-england-1999</a> 1999: <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130103145428/http:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics/a00193237/schools-in-england-1999" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130103145428/http:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics/a00193237/schools-in-england-1999</a>.</p><p>Ethnicity not published at LA level</p><p>EAL not published at LA level</p><p> </p><p>1998 <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130113104903/https:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics/a00193283/schools-in-england-1998" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130113104903/https:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics/a00193283/schools-in-england-1998</a> 1998: <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130113104903/https:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics/a00193283/schools-in-england-1998" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130113104903/https:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/schoolpupilcharacteristics/a00193283/schools-in-england-1998</a>.</p><p>Ethnicity tables 49a and 49b of pdf document</p><p>EAL table 50 of pdf document</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 18/01/2024 17:28:19 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1680582

registered interest
date	08/01/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of pupils at every mainstream state (a) primary and (b) secondary school (i) were from each ethnic group and (ii) had an unclassified ethnic group in each academic year since 2006-7; and what the URN was of each school.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	8572
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2024 answer text <p>Tables containing the data requested has been emailed to my hon. Friend, the Member for Harborough, via his parliamentary office. This is due to the file size of the attachments. <br> <br> The tables contain numbers and percentages indicating the ethnicity of pupils at primary and secondary state-funded mainstream schools in England from 2006/07 to 2022/23. The data is based on the January school census in each academic year.</p><p> </p><p>Note that school unique reference numbers (URNs) may change over time; for example, where a school becomes an academy. Information on links between schools’ current and prior legal identities is available via the Get Information About Schools (GIAS) website at: <a href="https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Until January 2018 the department only collected data on ethnicity for pupils of compulsory school age and above. Figures from January 2018 include pupils of all ages.</p><p> </p><p>Notes on the tables:</p><ul><li>Ethnicity of pupils at state-funded primary and secondary schools in England 2006/07 to 2022/23.</li><li>Source: linked January school census data from the pupil data repository.</li><li>Figures may not match published figures exactly. A small number of pupil records are removed for reasons of strict confidentiality. School phase type may differ in the published data for a very small number of schools.</li></ul> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 11/01/2024 16:53:13 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1670396

registered interest
date	15/11/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Private Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of pupils are in independent special schools; and of that total how many pupils are in independent schools whose fees are not paid by a local authority.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	2210
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2023 answer text <p>A total of 23,570 pupils attended independent special schools in England in 2022/23. This is 0.26% of the 9,073,832 pupils in England that year. There are a high proportion of pupils with Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans attending independent schools. There were 21,943 pupils at independent special schools in England in 2022/23 who had a EHC plan. The Department does not hold data on how many of the pupils attending independent schools have fees that are not paid by a local authority.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 21/11/2023 15:09:44 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1236299

registered interest
date	21/09/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Equality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people his Department and its agencies employ in teams working on issues relating to diversity, equality or inclusion.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	92888
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2020 answer text <p>The Department currently has eight employees in central teams who work directly on issues relating to diversity, equality and inclusion. We do not, however, hold data on further teams across the Department who might work on these issues as part of their wider role.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 24/09/2020 15:18:11 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1232922

registered interest
date	09/09/2020
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 members of staff in their Department have one or more of the words equality, diversity, inclusion, gender, LGBT or race in their job title.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	87646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2020 answer text <p>I refer my hon. Friend, the Member for Harborough to the answer I gave on 10 September 2020 to Question <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-09-01/83930" target="_blank">83930</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 18/09/2020 11:45:34 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1232031

registered interest
date	07/09/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much the Department spent on unconscious bias training in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	86150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2020 answer text <p>The Department pays an annual subscription cost to Civil Service Learning, which includes access to a large number of e-learning packages at no charge. This includes Unconscious Bias e-learning.</p><p>In 2018/19, the Department’s HR records show a spend of £92,500 on face to face Unconscious Bias training.</p><p>The figure provided does not include spending on Unconscious Bias training which may have been arranged by Department local business areas via the Civil Service wide offer or via local procurement routes.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 15/09/2020 15:45:38 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1230111

registered interest
date	01/09/2020
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 members of staff in his Department have either equality, diversity or inclusion in their job title.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	83930
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2020 answer text <p>The Department does not hold information on job titles as our records are by job grade only, so the information requested cannot be provided.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 10/09/2020 16:58:16 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1226607

registered interest
date	20/07/2020
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	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the annual cost to the public purse of the higher education student finance system by 2030 in the absence of policy changes.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	76892
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/07/2020 answer text <p>The department publishes forecasts of higher education student numbers, student loan outlay and student loan repayments in England. The most recent publication (June 2019) is available at:<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/student-loan-forecasts-england-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/student-loan-forecasts-england-2018-to-2019</a>.</p><p>These forecasts assume policies as set in June 2019 and the forecast of economic conditions at that point by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). The forecasts of student loan outlay in 2020-21 and 2030-31 are also repeated in the attached table.</p><p>The long-term cost to the government of the student finance system depends on the proportion of the student loan outlay which is expected to be repaid. We do not routinely publish forecasts of the cost of student loans to the public purse to 2030 due to the high level of uncertainty inherent in such longer-term forecasts of income-contingent loans.</p><p>Updates to this forecast will be published in ‘Student loan forecasts, England: 2019 to 2020’, which is pre-announced for publication in September 2020.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 28/07/2020 16:15:22 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan attachment 1 file name 76892_forecasts_student_loan_outlay.xls title 76892_table
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien