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1167650

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date	31/10/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his Department's press release, Prime Minister boosts schools with £14 billion package, published on 30 August 2019, when the £700 million for children with special educational needs will be allocated; and whether that funding will be ring-fenced.
tabling member constituency	Walsall North
tabling member printed	Eddie Hughes
uin	8269
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>On 11 October 2019 we notified local authorities of their provisional allocations of high needs funding for the next financial year 2020-21, which included an additional £780 million, compared to their 2019-20 allocations. This additional £780 million will not be ring-fenced within the total high needs funding allocations to local authorities, which will rise to over £7 billion next year. The high needs allocations will form part of the dedicated schools grant to local authorities, and can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-funding-formula-tables-for-schools-and-high-needs-2020-to-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-funding-formula-tables-for-schools-and-high-needs-2020-to-2021</a>.</p><p>The dedicated schools grant is ring-fenced and has to be spent by local authorities on education in accordance with the regulations and conditions of the grant.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 05/11/2019 09:04:47 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes

1167683

registered interest
date	31/10/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the amount owed is in respect of loans for (a) tuition fees and (b) living costs to date; and what projections his Department has made of the amounts owed in respect of each of those loans in (i) 2025, (ii) 2030, (iii) 2040 and (iv) 2050.
tabling member constituency	Ludlow
tabling member printed	Mr Philip Dunne
uin	8237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>At the end of the 2018-19 financial year, the total outstanding loan balance was £121.8 billion[1].</p><p> </p><p>This figure includes all loan products and covers borrowers who received loans as English</p><p> </p><p>domiciled students studying in the UK or as EU domiciled students studying in England.</p><p> </p><p>The corresponding forecasts are detailed in table 1 (attached).</p><p> </p><p>The information by product (maintenance loans/tuition fee loans) is not readily available</p><p>and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] Source: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/student-loans-in-england-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/student-loans-in-england-2018-to-2019</a>. (Table 1A)</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 04/11/2019 17:23:21 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore attachment 1 file name 8237_total)outstanding_balance_at_the_start_of_the_financial_year.pdf title 8237_PDF
tabling member	1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne

1167684

registered interest
date	31/10/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Loans
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 of whether it is possible to replace tuition fees with maintenance grants and be cost-neutral to the public purse; and whether there would need to be a reduction in the number of student places to achieve that change in the current spending round.
tabling member constituency	Ludlow
tabling member printed	Mr Philip Dunne
uin	8238
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>Taxpayers subsidise around 50% of the cost of higher education. The cost of the student finance system is a function of 3 main parameters: (i) the number of students supported, (ii) the level of resource per student and (iii) the terms of the funding (for example the balance of loan vs. grant funding) provided to students and institutions. Changing any of these parameters, for example by reintroducing maintenance grants, will require changes either or both of the other 2 if the outcome is to be cost neutral.</p><p>The Institute for Fiscal Studies has recently published illustrative estimates of the potential cost to HM Treasury of abolishing tuition fees. This can be found here: <a href="https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/14369" target="_blank">https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/14369</a>.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 04/11/2019 17:32:02 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne

1167685

registered interest
date	31/10/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Universities: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many more students have attended university since the cap on student numbers was lifted; and what recent assessment his Department has made of whether there has been an increase in the number of students from disadvantaged backgrounds attending university since that cap was lifted.
tabling member constituency	Ludlow
tabling member printed	Mr Philip Dunne
uin	8239
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>In 2013, the government announced that the student number controls at publicly funded higher education institutions in England would be removed by 2015/16. This was preceded by a relaxation of student number controls for AAB students, who were made exempt from 2012/13, and ABB students, who were exempt from 2013/14.</p><p>Student number controls applied to full-time undergraduate students at English higher education institutions who were domiciled in the UK or European Union prior to study.</p><p>The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes statistics on students enrolled in higher education institutions in England. Time series for UK and EU domiciled full-time undergraduate entrants at higher education institutions in England have been provided in the table.</p><p> </p><p><strong>UK and EU domiciled full-time undergraduate entrants </strong></p><p><strong>English Higher Education Institutions</strong></p><p><strong>Academic years 2011/12 to 2017/8</strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Academic year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016/17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017/18</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total entrants</p></td><td><p>389,575</p></td><td><p>334,820</p></td><td><p>362,910</p></td><td><p>373,950</p></td><td><p>387,610</p></td><td><p>395,485</p></td><td><p>393,675</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) Student Record 2011/12 to 2017/18</em></p><p> </p><p><em>Note: (1) Figures in this table are rounded to the nearest multiple of five.</em></p><p><em>(2) Entrants refers to first year students.</em></p><p> </p><p>The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) publish data on the proportion of disadvantaged 18-year-olds from England accepted to full-time higher education. In 2018 there were a record proportion of disadvantaged 18-year-olds from England accepted onto full-time higher education courses.</p><p><strong>Entry rates for English disadvantaged 18 year olds</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Application cycle</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Disadvantaged entry rate</p></td><td><p>14.4%</p></td><td><p>14.4%</p></td><td><p>15.6%</p></td><td><p>17.0%</p></td><td><p>18.0%</p></td><td><p>18.9%</p></td><td><p>19.9%</p></td><td><p>20.2%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source: UCAS End of Cycle report 2018 </em></p><p> </p><p><em>Note: The disadvantage measure refers to POLAR Quintile 1. POLAR is an area-based measure of educational disadvantage.</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 04/11/2019 17:12:21 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne

1167702

registered interest
date	31/10/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Private Education: Admissions
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 children are registered as attending an independent school in each (a) local authority area and (b) constituency in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Fylde
tabling member printed	Mark Menzies
uin	8290
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>The department publishes figures on the number of independent schools and pupils attending them in the annual ‘Schools, Pupils and Characteristics’ release, by national totals and by local authority in tables 1a, 1b, and 1c, available here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2019</a>.</p><p>The underlying data file includes figures for individual schools including school name, school type, parliamentary constituency and location. Full addresses can be found at the Get Information About Schools website, available here: <a href="https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/</a>.</p><p>The Oxford Analytics October 2018 report, 'The Impact of Independent Schools on the UK Economy' estimated that independent schools provide an annualised taxpayer cost saving of £3.5 billion, compared to the cost of educating all pupils in the state sector.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 8291 8293 question first answered 05/11/2019 14:22:23 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	3998 label Biography information for Mark Menzies

1167359

registered interest
date	30/10/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Digital Technology
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, who is responsible for digitisation in his Department; and what mechanisms the person with responsibility for digitisation uses to champion digitisation.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	7660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The Chief Digital Officer (CDO), Emma Stace, is responsible for leading Digital Delivery across the Department for Education (DfE).</p><p> </p><p>The DfE Transformation Aims involve promoting user-centred, end-to-end service design and delivery across the whole department.</p><p> </p><p>The CDO and policy directors have jointly sponsored scoping work to identify opportunities for the development of digital services to deliver better outcomes for our users and continue the transformation of DfE into a service delivery department.</p><p> </p><p>The Digital, Data and Technology (DDT) Directorates within DfE are supporting the government-wide focus on the development of “digital maturity”, developing the department’s processes, tools, infrastructure and capabilities. In support of this, the CDO is promoting the development of the community of service owners, sharing experience and best practice and identifying how the DfE can continue to develop to better support the development and delivery of digital services. This includes work to grow and develop DDT capability across the department, including through improving recruitment, training and procurement.</p><p> </p><p>The DfE works with the Government Digital Service to provide assurance against the Government Service Standards, to ensure that the services being delivered are high quality, user centred, and delivering value to users.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 04/11/2019 14:28:06 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1167387

registered interest
date	30/10/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Sports
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 of the role that summer holiday clubs play in supporting the ambition set out in the Government's School Sport and Activity Action Plan to help children undertake more physical activity.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	7630
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The Government’s School Sport and Activity Action Plan, published in July, provides children with a greater opportunity to do 60 minutes of sport and physical activity every day inside and outside school. The Department is investing £2.5 million in 2019-20 to support schools to improve their physical education and school sport offer to pupils, including helping schools to open up their facilities beyond the school day.</p><p> </p><p>The £320 million PE and Sport Premium supports primary schools to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of their physical education, physical activity and sport including extra-curricular activities after school and holiday clubs.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Government’s Holiday Activities and Food programme aims to provide children with access to free healthy food and enriching activities over the summer, including physical activity. In 2019, the Department invested £9 million in 11 local authority areas and have just launched a bidding round for a further £9 million for 2020.</p><p>The Department has commissioned an independent evaluation of the 2019 programme which will report early next year.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 04/11/2019 16:41:17 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1167388

registered interest
date	30/10/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Sports
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 of the effectiveness of holiday clubs in (a) helping children remain physically active outside of school terms and (b) reducing childhood obesity.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	7631
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The activities on offer at clubs funded through our Holiday Activities and Food programme will vary but our minimum standards set out that they must deliver activities that meet physical activity guidelines; provide food which meets School Food Standards; and provide nutritional education. The independent evaluation of our 2019 programme will be published in 2020.</p><p>The Government’s School Sport and Activity Action Plan, published in July 2019, sets out the cross-government action plan to provide children with greater opportunity to do 60 minutes of sport and physical activity every day, inside and outside school.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 04/11/2019 16:13:51 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1167400

registered interest
date	30/10/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Mental Health
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 ensure that students who are particularly vulnerable to mental health issues are (a) identified and (b) receive support after a terrorist incident near their school or home.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	7632
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member for Coventry South to the answer I gave on 4 November 2019 to Questions <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2Clords&amp;uin=7039" target="_blank">7039, 7040, 7041, and 7042.</a></p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 04/11/2019 16:31:33 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1167418

registered interest
date	30/10/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	University Technical Colleges: Standards
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 increase the number of University Technical Colleges achieving good and outstanding Ofsted reports.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	7633
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The department wants university technical colleges (UTCs) to flourish so that they offer a high standard of education for young people who want to follow a technical pathway.</p><p>We have been supporting UTCs to improve their educational performance through a range of measures, including funding intensive support from a local teaching school and providing advice, guidance and challenge from experienced secondary education experts. We are also encouraging and supporting UTCs to join multi-academy trusts, which we believe is the best way to ensure they improve educationally, as well as helping improve their financial viability.</p><p>The department has also introduced several measures to support pupil recruitment in UTCs. Changes in the Technical and Further Education Act 2017 (known as the Baker Clause), introduced in January 2018, require maintained schools and academies to provide opportunities for providers of technical education, such as UTCs, to visit schools to talk to students in years 8-13, to inform them of their offer. UTCs are also now able to apply to the department to extend their age range to 11-19, further embedding them in their local education landscape, and widening the offer to local pupils.</p><p>Strong UTCs help young people progress into further education, employment and apprenticeships. In 2016, 87% of students who left a UTC progressed into a sustained destination after key stage 5, which is higher than the national average for all schools and colleges. 21% progressed into sustained apprenticeships, double the national average.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 04/11/2019 16:10:20 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham