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date	13/11/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will allocate additional funding for high needs provision in schools.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	1477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2023 answer text <p>The majority of high needs funding from the department is allocated to local authorities, as they are responsible for allocating that funding to schools to support pupils with complex needs. The department has substantially increased high needs funding in recent years and has announced a further increase of £440 million for the 2024/25 financial year, which will bring the total high needs budget to over £10.5 billion, an increase of over 60% from the 2019/20 allocations. This funding will help local authorities and schools with the increasing costs of supporting children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston question first answered 23/11/2023 12:13:30 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1462832

registered interest
date	13/05/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many retired civil servants are in receipt of a pension via the civil service Classic scheme; and how many of those individuals are in receipt of a (a) widows and (b) widowers’ pension.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	1477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2022 answer text <p>A total of 660,782 Civil Servants are in receipt of a pension under classic terms.</p><p> </p><p>Of those</p><ol><li><p>92,550 are in receipt of a widows pension and;</p></li><li><p>15,905 a widowers pension.</p></li><li><p>552,327 are in receipt of the classic pension</p></li></ol><p> </p><p>50.47% (278,762) of retired Civil Servants in receipt of a classic pension are women.</p><p> </p><p>The number of widows and widowers who have had their pensions suspended is given in the below table.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Number of pensions suspended in year</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year in which pension suspended</p></td><td><p>Widows</p></td><td><p>Widowers</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>48</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>MyCSP, the pension administrator, are unable to split the numbers based on those remarrying and those cohabiting as their system does not record it in this manner.</p><p> </p><p>The numbers provided are based on MyCSP’s current data holding and include those that were suspended and have not since been restored on their system.</p><p> </p><p>Where a spouse’s Guaranteed Minimum Pension (GMP) remains payable and only the spouse pension in excess of this is suspended, MyCSP are unable to include these in the data provided because their system will show the benefit as ‘in payment’ although the excess element is suspended. Therefore, the record does not show as suspended.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler grouped question UIN 1478 question first answered 19/05/2022 10:31:52 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

733018

registered interest
date	27/06/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to bring forward further proposals for a National Funding Formula; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	1477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>We published our response to the first stage of our consultation on a national funding formula for schools in December 2016. The response to this consultation can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/schools-national-funding-formula" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/schools-national-funding-formula</a>.</p><p> </p><p>We are considering the more than 25,000 responses we received to the consultation on the National Funding Formula, and will publish our response in due course.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 04/07/2017 15:21:41 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

348987

registered interest
date	08/06/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Office for Life Sciences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what his policy is on future government support for the Office for Life Sciences.
tabling member constituency	Hartlepool
tabling member printed	Mr Iain Wright
uin	1477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2015 answer text <p>Our manifesto committed to support the long-term economic plan by fostering research, innovation and jobs in the life science industry. We will therefore continue to invest in growing the life sciences sector, to help people compete and win in the intense global race for high value, high knowledge jobs, to unleash the potential of innovation, and to drive investment and growth in the UK economy. The Office of Life Sciences will continue to be an important part of that.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 11/06/2015 13:45:56 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	1478 label Biography information for Mr Iain Wright