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1719446

registered interest
date	20/05/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Secondary Education: Wellingborough
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many hours of (a) mathematics, (b) English, (c) sciences and (d) modern foreign languages were taught in secondary schools in Wellingborough constituency by teachers without a relevant (i) A-level and (ii) higher level qualification in the last full year for which data are available.
tabling member constituency	Wellingborough
tabling member printed	Gen Kitchen
uin	27184
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>Information on the school workforce, including subjects taught in state-funded secondary schools, is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication, which is available here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england</a>.</p><p>The total number of hours taught for each subject are available here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/e2daf3ac-54a6-4b06-16e6-08dc75fe4005" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/e2daf3ac-54a6-4b06-16e6-08dc75fe4005</a>.</p><p>The proportion of those hours that were taught by teachers without a relevant post A level or higher level qualification are available here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/53228608-dd97-4fc0-0b82-08dc74c3bb80" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/53228608-dd97-4fc0-0b82-08dc74c3bb80</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Timetabled teaching is reported for a typical week in November, as determined by the school. It does not cover an entire year of teaching. If there are variations in timetabling across the year, this is not covered in the data available to the department.</p><p> </p><p>Subject taught is only collected from secondary schools that use electronic timetabling software that can produce data in the format required. Data is then weighted to provide national totals. Breakdowns by local authority and parliamentary constituency are not available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 23/05/2024 14:17:54 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	5011 label Biography information for Gen Kitchen

1719452

registered interest
date	20/05/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Secondary Education: Wellingborough
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average staff to student ratio was in secondary schools (a) nationally and (b) in Wellingborough constituency in (i) 2019, (ii) 2020, (iii) 2021 and (iv) 2022.
tabling member constituency	Wellingborough
tabling member printed	Gen Kitchen
uin	27190
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>Information on the school workforce, including the pupil to adult and pupil to teacher ratios at national, regional, local authority and individual school level, is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england</a>.</p><p>As of November 2022, which is the latest data available, there were record numbers of full-time equivalent (FTE) teachers in state-funded schools in England at over 468,000. This is an increase of 27,000, equivalent to 6%, since 2010. This makes the highest number of FTE teachers since the School Workforce Census began.</p><p>The table below provides the pupil to adult ratio and the pupil to teacher ratio for state-funded secondary schools in Wellingborough constituency and England for the 2019/20 to 2022/23 academic years.</p><p><strong>Pupil to adult and pupil to teacher ratios for state-funded secondary schools in Wellingborough constituency and England, by year <br></strong>2019/20 and 2022/23<sup>1</sup></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Wellingborough constituency<sup>2</sup></strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>England</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Pupil to adult ratio<sup>3, 5</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Pupil to teacher ratio<sup>4, 5</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Pupil to adult ratio<sup>3, 5</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Pupil to teacher ratio<sup>4, 5</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019/20</strong></p></td><td><p>11.0</p></td><td><p>17.2</p></td><td><p>11.9</p></td><td><p>16.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2020/21<sup>2</sup></strong></p></td><td><p>11.1</p></td><td><p>16.9</p></td><td><p>11.9</p></td><td><p>16.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2021/22</strong></p></td><td><p>11.0</p></td><td><p>17.0</p></td><td><p>11.9</p></td><td><p>16.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2022/23</strong></p></td><td><p>10.6</p></td><td><p>17.5</p></td><td><p>12.0</p></td><td><p>16.8</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: School Workforce Census.</p><p>1. Workforce data as at November and pupil data as at the following January. For instance, 2019/20 relates to November 2019 workforce and January 2020 pupils.</p><p>2. There are 6 secondary schools in Wellingborough constituency.</p><p>3. Pupil to adult ratio includes teachers and support staff (excluding auxiliary staff).</p><p>4. Pupil to teacher ratio includes all teachers.</p><p>5. The ratios are calculated using pupil numbers taken from the publication, Schools, Pupils and their Characteristics, available at: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics</a>.</p><p><br></p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 23/05/2024 14:30:44 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	5011 label Biography information for Gen Kitchen

1719022

registered interest
date	17/05/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Veterans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 17 April 2024 to Question 20857 on Schools: Veterans, what estimate her Department has made of the number of veterans that will take up the undergraduate veteran teaching bursary in 2024.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	26835
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>The department does not forecast how many veterans will take up the undergraduate veteran teaching bursary. The bursary is paid to eligible veterans if they enrol on an eligible undergraduate initial teacher training course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 23/05/2024 14:14:54 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1719041

registered interest
date	17/05/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Digital Technology: Qualifications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people have enrolled to study for a Essential Digital Skills qualification since 1 January 2024.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	26851
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2024 answer text <p>Education is a devolved matter, and the response outlines the information for England only.</p><p> </p><p>The number of learners undertaking an Essential Digital Skills qualification as of January 2024 is 11,250.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 22/05/2024 14:18:30 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1719107

registered interest
date	17/05/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education: Gender
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her comments on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme in relation to on her Department’s consultation on the new Relationships, Sex and Heath Education guidance on 16th May 2024, if she will publish the names of the schools at which the alleged inappropriate content she has seen on gender identity has been taught.
tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
uin	26826
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2024 answer text <p>The department does not systematically collect information on what is taught by schools. The department has made it clear in the draft Relationships, Sex and Heath Education (RSHE) guidance that schools have to ensure that parents are aware of what their children are being taught, which provides the basis for most issues to be resolved locally.</p><p> </p><p>The department’s draft guidance is very clear that schools should teach the facts about equality and the protected characteristics, including gender reassignment, but they should not include contested theory on gender identity in their teaching.</p><p> </p><p>This cautious approach is in line with the draft guidance for schools and colleges on gender questioning pupils, which the department consulted on recently, and the recommendations from the Cass Review.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 26827 question first answered 22/05/2024 14:57:35 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

1719108

registered interest
date	17/05/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education: Gender
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference her comments on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme in relation to her Department’s consultation on the new Relationships, Sex and Heath Education guidance on 16th May 2024, what information her Department holds on the number of schools at which alleged inappropriate content on gender identity is being taught.
tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
uin	26827
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2024 answer text <p>The department does not systematically collect information on what is taught by schools. The department has made it clear in the draft Relationships, Sex and Heath Education (RSHE) guidance that schools have to ensure that parents are aware of what their children are being taught, which provides the basis for most issues to be resolved locally.</p><p> </p><p>The department’s draft guidance is very clear that schools should teach the facts about equality and the protected characteristics, including gender reassignment, but they should not include contested theory on gender identity in their teaching.</p><p> </p><p>This cautious approach is in line with the draft guidance for schools and colleges on gender questioning pupils, which the department consulted on recently, and the recommendations from the Cass Review.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 26826 question first answered 22/05/2024 14:57:35 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

1718760

registered interest
date	16/05/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Sixth Form Education: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many funded enrolments there were on each of the courses for 16 to 19 year olds that will have funding withdrawn after 1 August 2024 in each financial year since 2021-22.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	26685
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The exact information requested is not published. Data on the number of enrolments in the 2020/21 academic year, funded through 16 to 19 study programmes on each of the qualifications that will be defunded from 1 August 2024, is published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/qualifications-that-overlap-with-t-levels" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/qualifications-that-overlap-with-t-levels</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 21/05/2024 16:03:20 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1718813

registered interest
date	16/05/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Nurseries: Leeds
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will have discussions with the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on making funding available to Leeds City Council to ensure the continuation of Little Owls nursery provision.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North East
tabling member printed	Fabian Hamilton
uin	26664
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The department funds local authorities to deliver the early years entitlements. Local authorities are then responsible for funding early years providers at a local level, setting individual provider funding rates in consultation with their providers and schools forum, and fund providers using their local funding formula.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities receive their government funding via the early years block of the Dedicated Schools Grant. For 2024/25, Leeds local authority’s indicative allocation for delivering the early years entitlements is £96,966,731, which has increased from £63,075,651.</p><p> </p><p>The department maintain a regular dialogue with local authorities, who are responsible for ensuring that the provision of childcare is sufficient to meet the requirements of parents in their area. Leeds City Council has not informed the department of any current sufficiency issues in its area.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston question first answered 21/05/2024 16:44:58 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
tabling member	415 label Biography information for Fabian Hamilton

1718863

registered interest
date	16/05/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Statutory Guidance on Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education and Health Education will include (a) variations in sex characteristics and (b) intersex.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North West
tabling member printed	Taiwo Owatemi
uin	26764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>Compulsory Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) should help pupils to understand that society consists of a diverse range of people. The department is currently consulting on updated RSHE guidance, with a view to finalising it later in the year. The consultation runs until 11 July 2024 and can be found at: <a href="https://consult.education.gov.uk/rshe-team/review-of-the-rshe-statutory-guidance/" target="_blank">https://consult.education.gov.uk/rshe-team/review-of-the-rshe-statutory-guidance/</a>.</p><p>The draft guidance includes a requirement that pupils should be taught about equality and the law relating to the protected characteristics by the end of their secondary education. The guidance is also clear that pupils should be taught the importance of respecting others, even when they are very different from them.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 23/05/2024 14:11:21 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4779 label Biography information for Taiwo Owatemi

1718868

registered interest
date	16/05/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: North East
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 trends in the level of funding for schools in (a) Newcastle upon Tyne Central constituency, (b) Newcastle upon Tyne and (c) the North East since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	26683
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>This government is committed to providing a world class education system for all children and has invested significantly in education to achieve that.</p><p> </p><p>Including the additional funding for teachers’ pay and pensions, funding for both mainstream schools and high needs nationally is £2.9 billion higher in 2024/25, compared to 2023/24. The overall core school budget will total £60.7 billion in 2024/25, the highest ever level in real terms per pupil. This means school funding is set to have risen by £11 billion by 2024/25, compared to 2021/22.</p><p> </p><p>The department cannot provide funding comparisons for the Newcastle upon Tyne Central constituency, Newcastle upon Tyne, or the North East back to 2010, as comparable data is not available. However, at national level, school funding will be 5.5% higher in real terms per pupil in 2024/25 compared to 2010/11 when using the GDP deflator measure of inflation which is based on independent Office for National Statistics and Office for Budget Responsibility data, the routine measure of public spending. The additional 2024/25 pensions funding is provided on top of that.</p><p> </p><p>Mainstream schools in Newcastle upon Tyne Central Constituency are attracting an extra £3.8 million in 2024/25 compared to 2023/24 through the schools national funding formula (NFF), an increase of 2.2% per pupil in their pupil-led funding. As a result, schools in the Newcastle upon Tyne Central Constituency will attract over £89.9 million, based on the schools NFF. Constituency figures are based on an aggregation of school-level allocations through the NFF.</p><p> </p><p>Through the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG), Newcastle upon Tyne local authority is receiving an extra £7.1 million for mainstream schools in 2024/25 compared to 2023/24, taking total school funding to over £228.7 million. This represents an increase of 2.1% per pupil compared to 2023/24 and an increase of 15.1% per pupil compared to 2021/22 (excluding growth funding).</p><p> </p><p>Through the DSG, the North East is receiving an extra £45.7 million for mainstream schools in 2024/25 compared to 2023/24, taking total school funding to over £2.0 billion. This represents an increase of 2.1% per pupil compared to 2023/24 and an increase of 14.8% per pupil compared to 2021/22 (excluding growth funding).</p><p> </p><p>All schools will receive additional funding through the Teachers’ Pay Additional Grant and Teachers' Pension Employer Contribution Grant 2024 in the 2024/25 financial year.</p><p> </p><p>The precise funding that individual schools in Newcastle upon Tyne Central constituency, Newcastle upon Tyne and the North East will receive year-on-year will depend on each school’s unique circumstances, and the decisions that local authorities have made about how to deploy funding. The national funding formula is designed to fund each school according to its relative needs and is updated annually to reflect how those needs change over time.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 21/05/2024 15:02:30 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah