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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

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

1167435

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	Supply Teachers: Training
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 supply teachers are sufficiently trained in the subjects they teach.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	7767
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>Headteachers use their professional judgement to decide the structure of the school’s workforce, including recruiting and deploying staff in a way that best meets the needs of their school and pupils. Schools, academies, and local authorities are responsible for the recruitment of their supply teachers, which includes deciding whether to use private supply agencies to fill temporary posts and teacher absences, and the level of training required to teach those subjects.</p><p>The Education (Specified Work) (England) Regulations 2012 set out the qualifications for teachers employed by schools, including supply teachers. In maintained schools, teachers must hold Qualified Teacher Status (QTS), except those who satisfy the requirements for non-qualified teachers to carry out specified work set out in the Education (Specified Work) (England) Regulations 2012, for example, instructors with special qualifications or experience.</p><p>Academies and Free Schools can employ teaching staff without the automatic requirement for them to hold QTS. This applies equally to supply teachers and teachers employed by schools. The Education (Specified Work) (England) Regulations 2012 are available here: <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/762/introduction/made" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/762/introduction/made</a>.</p><p>To be awarded QTS, a teacher must demonstrate that they meet all of the Teachers’ Standards at the appropriate level, including those relating to subject knowledge. The Teachers’ Standards are available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teachers-standards" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teachers-standards</a>.</p><p>The Department has launched a new deal in conjunction with the Crown Commercial Service to improve agency practices and support schools with getting value for money when hiring agency workers. Agencies on the deal must be open with schools and staff about the rates they charge, conduct consistent, rigorous background screening checks, and adhere to strict controls around the charging of temp-to-perm fees. Information on the guidance included in the deal is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/deal-for-schools-hiring-supply-teachers-and-agency-workers" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/deal-for-schools-hiring-supply-teachers-and-agency-workers</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 04/11/2019 17:36:55 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

1167439

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	Primary Education: National Curriculum Tests
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 support the mental well-being of primary school students undertaking Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 examinations.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	7771
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The Department’s aim is for all children to leave primary school feeling that they have worked hard and achieved all that they can. We do not want assessments to worry pupils and impact their self-esteem or mental wellbeing.</p><p> </p><p>In response to the consultation on the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Green Paper, published July 2018, the Government has made several commitments to help safeguard the mental wellbeing of primary school children. We confirmed our commitment to take forward three core proposals which will transform support for children and young people by: putting in place Mental Health Support Teams for schools; incentivising every school to have a Designated Senior Lead for mental health; and the piloting of a four-week waiting time standard for NHS Children and Young People’s mental health services.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also committed to mental health awareness training for a member of staff from all state funded primary schools by 2022, providing further support for schools to help promote mental wellbeing for all children.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 04/11/2019 17:31:08 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

1167444

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	Supply Teachers: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of the schools budget was spent on supply teachers in (a) St Helens borough, (b) the Liverpool city region and (c) England in the most recent period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	7773
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The Department publishes annual income and expenditure, including on supply teachers, for local authority maintained schools and academies.</p><p>Schools’ Consistent Financial Reporting and Academies’ Accounting Returns are published and available at the following link: <a href="https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources" target="_blank">https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources</a>.</p><p>Spending on supply teaching staff comprises the following categories: supply teaching staff, plus supply teacher insurance, plus agency supply teaching staff, minus receipts from supply teacher insurance claims.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 04/11/2019 16:19:35 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

1167446

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	Special Educational Needs: Merseyside
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding his Department has allocated to the (a) Liverpool city region and (b) St Helens borough to support children with SEND in each year since April 2010.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	7775
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>Funding for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) is drawn from the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG).</p><p>Local authorities are required to provide sufficient funds to enable schools to meet the cost of additional support for pupils with SEND, up to the value of £6,000.</p><p>When the costs of additional support required for a pupil with SEND exceed £6,000, the local authority should also allocate additional top-up funding to cover the excess costs. This top-up funding, and funding for special schools, comes from the local authority’s high needs block of the DSG.</p><p>In 2013, the schools and high needs funding blocks DSG were created. As the DSG includes other funding such as for early years, the department is unable to provide comparable figures before the creation of the blocks within the DSG in 2013-14.</p><p>The high needs funding allocations for those children with more complex SEND, from 2013-14, are set out below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>For Liverpool city region (which includes the following local authorities: Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral):</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>High needs funding allocation</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£148.9 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>£155.0 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>£157.5 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>£157.9 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>£162.3 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>£169.4 million*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>£174.1 million*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21 provisional allocations</p></td><td><p>£198.5 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>For St Helen’s borough:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>High needs funding allocation</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£17.1 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>£17.8 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>£18.4 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>£18.4 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>£18.7 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>£22.4 million*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>£22.3 million*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21 provisional allocations</p></td><td><p>£24.1 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>*In December 2018, the department allocated an additional £250 million of high needs funding, in recognition of funding pressures. This additional funding is included within the final totals displayed.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 04/11/2019 17:15:17 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

1167483

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: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many parents who are students are eligible for 15 and not 30 free hours of childcare.
tabling member constituency	Kenilworth and Southam
tabling member printed	Jeremy Wright
uin	7683
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not hold any data on the number of students eligible for the universal 15 hours free childcare and not eligible for the additional 15 hours free childcare entitlements.</p><p>The Government recognises the value of parents continuing in education and therefore funds childcare support for eligible students studying a publicly-funded higher education course. Parents under 20 can apply for Care to Learn which provides financial support for childcare so young parents can complete their post-16 education.</p><p>Parents aged 19 or over and in further education can apply for Discretionary Learner Support, for example, if they are studying for an NVQ, BTEC or PGCE.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 04/11/2019 16:25:47 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright

1167493

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	Apprentices: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Government’s apprenticeship and levy statistics, published in October 2019, how many of the 780 recorded accounts of apprenticeship levy voucher transfers resulting on starts on standards were transferred from levy-paying companies to non-levy paying small to medium-sized employers; and what proportion of those apprenticeships were in the construction sector.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	7734
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>Levy-paying employers in England do not use digital vouchers. Employers that pay the apprenticeship levy use funds in their apprenticeship service accounts to pay for training and assessment and to transfer to other employers</p><p><br> In October 2019, the apprenticeships and levy statistics publication reported that there were 780 transferred commitments that have materialised into apprenticeship starts as recorded on the Individualised Learner Record (ILR) as at 31 August 2019. Of these, 20 (2.7%) were starts in the Construction, Planning and Built Environment sector subject area.</p><p>Please note:<br> 1) The figures above are rounded to the nearest 10 and percentage to 1 decimal place.</p><p>2) The percentage is derived from unrounded figures.</p><p>3) The figures above show only those transfers where a start is taking place on a standard in the Construction, Planning and Built Environment sector subject area. The construction industry sector could include starts on standards in other sector subject areas (i.e. Business, Administration and Law). <br> <br> We are unable to identify whether a transfer between apprenticeship service accounts was from a levy-paying company to a non-levy paying company as we do not centrally hold data on the size of employer and their industry sector. This means we cannot identify if these transfers of levy funds were to the apprenticeship service accounts of small to medium-sized employers. The Department for Education does, however, periodically perform an analysis linking ILR data to the Inter-Departmental Business Register data (held by the Office for National Statistics) to identify the size and industry sector of employers, with the most recent analysis covering the 2016/17 academic year. Thes statistics are available at the following link:<br> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/apprenticeships-in-england-by-industry-characteristics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/apprenticeships-in-england-by-industry-characteristics</a>.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 04/11/2019 16:37:23 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1167494

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	Apprentices: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Level 2 apprenticeship starts there were in construction in (a) 2018-19, (b) 2017-18, (c) 2016-17 and (d) 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	7735
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The below table shows level 2 apprenticeship starts in the construction industry sector for the 2015/16 and 2016/17 academic years. This is the latest available data, and it is taken from the ‘Apprenticeships in England by Industry Characteristics’ statistics publication: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/apprenticeships-in-england-by-industry-characteristics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/apprenticeships-in-england-by-industry-characteristics</a>.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Table 1: Level 2 apprenticeship starts in the construction industry sector: 2015/16 to 2016/17</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Academic year</p></td><td><p>Number of level 2 apprenticeship starts</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>19,470</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>18,390</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes:</p><p>1) All numbers are rounded to the nearest 10.</p><p> </p><p>We also publish apprenticeship starts by sector subject area. The number of level 2 apprenticeship starts for the sector subject area ‘Construction, Planning and the Built Environment’ for the academic years 2015/16 to 2017/18 is shown in the table below, along with starts in the first 3 quarters of the 2018/19 academic year. Data for 2015/16 to 2017/18 are published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/804343/Monthly-apprenticeship-starts-fwk-tool_May-2019.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/804343/Monthly-apprenticeship-starts-fwk-tool_May-2019.xlsx</a>.</p><p>Data for the first 3 quarters of 2018/19 are published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/814997/Apprenticeship-starts-ach-framework-standard-tool_201718_Q3-201819_July2019.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/814997/Apprenticeship-starts-ach-framework-standard-tool_201718_Q3-201819_July2019.xlsx</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 2: Level 2 apprenticeship starts in Construction, Planning and the Built Environment sector subject area: 2015/16 to Q3 2018/19</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Academic year</p></td><td><p>Number of level 2 apprenticeship starts</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>16,670</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>15,840</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>14,770</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19 (August to April 19) provisional</p></td><td><p>11,630</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>1) The data source is the Individualised Learner Record (ILR).</p><p>2) In this table, numbers are a count of the number of starts at any point during the period. Learners starting more than one apprenticeship will appear more than once.</p><p>3) Apprenticeship starts include all funded and unfunded learners reported on the ILR.</p><p>4) For the 2018/19 academic year (reported to date), numbers are counted only for months August 18 to April 19 (quarter 3).</p><p>5) All numbers are rounded to the nearest 10.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 04/11/2019 17:34:56 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin