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1731986

registered interest
date	07/10/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to recruit 6500 teachers; and what her Department's planned timetable is for this recruitment.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	7553
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2024 answer text <p>The within-school and -college factor that makes the biggest difference to a child’s outcome is high quality teaching, but there are shortages of qualified teachers across the country. This is why this government will work with the sector to deliver its pledge to recruit 6,500 additional teachers across schools and colleges over the course of this parliament, to raise standards for children and young people, and deliver its mission to break down the barriers to opportunity at every stage. The department’s measures will include getting more teachers into shortage subjects, supporting areas that face recruitment challenges and tackling retention issues. Further details will be shared in due course.</p><p>The department has already made good, early progress towards this pledge by ensuring teaching is once again an attractive and respected profession. The department has accepted in full the School Teachers’ Review Body’s recommendation of a 5.5% pay award for teachers and leaders in maintained schools, which is effective from September. The department is also removing the requirement for performance related pay.</p><p>Alongside this the department is also supporting teachers to improve their workload and wellbeing, including opportunities for greater flexible working. Teachers are now allowed to undertake planning, preparation and assessment (PPA) time remotely and the department is also delivering a programme focused on embedding flexible working in schools and multi-academy trusts (MATs). This includes the delivery of supportive webinars and peer support provided by flexible working ambassador schools and MATs. ​Additionally, the department has made available a range of resources to help address teacher workload and wellbeing, including its improve workload and wellbeing for school staff service and the education staff wellbeing charter.</p><p>The department has also expanded the school teacher recruitment campaign 'Every Lesson Shapes a Life' and the further education teacher recruitment campaign 'Share your Skills'.</p><p>My right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced a Budget on 30 October to be followed by a multi-year spending review in the spring of next year. Decisions about future funding will be subject to the outcomes of these fiscal events.</p><p>The department is dedicated to working in partnership with the sector to re-establish teaching as an attractive profession, and one that existing teachers want to remain in, former teachers want to return to, and new graduates and industry professionals wish to join.</p> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell grouped question UIN 7554 7555 question first answered 14/10/2024 13:02:13 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1731987

registered interest
date	07/10/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding has been allocated to the recruitment of 6,500 new teachers.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	7554
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2024 answer text <p>The within-school and -college factor that makes the biggest difference to a child’s outcome is high quality teaching, but there are shortages of qualified teachers across the country. This is why this government will work with the sector to deliver its pledge to recruit 6,500 additional teachers across schools and colleges over the course of this parliament, to raise standards for children and young people, and deliver its mission to break down the barriers to opportunity at every stage. The department’s measures will include getting more teachers into shortage subjects, supporting areas that face recruitment challenges and tackling retention issues. Further details will be shared in due course.</p><p>The department has already made good, early progress towards this pledge by ensuring teaching is once again an attractive and respected profession. The department has accepted in full the School Teachers’ Review Body’s recommendation of a 5.5% pay award for teachers and leaders in maintained schools, which is effective from September. The department is also removing the requirement for performance related pay.</p><p>Alongside this the department is also supporting teachers to improve their workload and wellbeing, including opportunities for greater flexible working. Teachers are now allowed to undertake planning, preparation and assessment (PPA) time remotely and the department is also delivering a programme focused on embedding flexible working in schools and multi-academy trusts (MATs). This includes the delivery of supportive webinars and peer support provided by flexible working ambassador schools and MATs. ​Additionally, the department has made available a range of resources to help address teacher workload and wellbeing, including its improve workload and wellbeing for school staff service and the education staff wellbeing charter.</p><p>The department has also expanded the school teacher recruitment campaign 'Every Lesson Shapes a Life' and the further education teacher recruitment campaign 'Share your Skills'.</p><p>My right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced a Budget on 30 October to be followed by a multi-year spending review in the spring of next year. Decisions about future funding will be subject to the outcomes of these fiscal events.</p><p>The department is dedicated to working in partnership with the sector to re-establish teaching as an attractive profession, and one that existing teachers want to remain in, former teachers want to return to, and new graduates and industry professionals wish to join.</p> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell grouped question UIN 7553 7555 question first answered 14/10/2024 13:02:13 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1731988

registered interest
date	07/10/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what resources she is allocating to new measures to achieve the recruitment of 6,500 additional teachers.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	7555
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2024 answer text <p>The within-school and -college factor that makes the biggest difference to a child’s outcome is high quality teaching, but there are shortages of qualified teachers across the country. This is why this government will work with the sector to deliver its pledge to recruit 6,500 additional teachers across schools and colleges over the course of this parliament, to raise standards for children and young people, and deliver its mission to break down the barriers to opportunity at every stage. The department’s measures will include getting more teachers into shortage subjects, supporting areas that face recruitment challenges and tackling retention issues. Further details will be shared in due course.</p><p>The department has already made good, early progress towards this pledge by ensuring teaching is once again an attractive and respected profession. The department has accepted in full the School Teachers’ Review Body’s recommendation of a 5.5% pay award for teachers and leaders in maintained schools, which is effective from September. The department is also removing the requirement for performance related pay.</p><p>Alongside this the department is also supporting teachers to improve their workload and wellbeing, including opportunities for greater flexible working. Teachers are now allowed to undertake planning, preparation and assessment (PPA) time remotely and the department is also delivering a programme focused on embedding flexible working in schools and multi-academy trusts (MATs). This includes the delivery of supportive webinars and peer support provided by flexible working ambassador schools and MATs. ​Additionally, the department has made available a range of resources to help address teacher workload and wellbeing, including its improve workload and wellbeing for school staff service and the education staff wellbeing charter.</p><p>The department has also expanded the school teacher recruitment campaign 'Every Lesson Shapes a Life' and the further education teacher recruitment campaign 'Share your Skills'.</p><p>My right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced a Budget on 30 October to be followed by a multi-year spending review in the spring of next year. Decisions about future funding will be subject to the outcomes of these fiscal events.</p><p>The department is dedicated to working in partnership with the sector to re-establish teaching as an attractive profession, and one that existing teachers want to remain in, former teachers want to return to, and new graduates and industry professionals wish to join.</p> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell grouped question UIN 7553 7554 question first answered 14/10/2024 13:02:13 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1731989

registered interest
date	07/10/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Lord Wharton of Yarm
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what were the terms of departure of Lord Wharton from his role as Chairman of Office for Students.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	7556
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2024 answer text <p>Lord Wharton resigned as chair of the Office for Students (OfS) on 9 July 2024.</p><p>Lord Wharton’s resignation was accepted by my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, who swiftly appointed Sir David Behan as temporary chair of the OfS while the process to appoint a permanent chair is undertaken.</p><p>The department thanked Lord Wharton for his service as chair of the OfS through a period of change and challenge.</p> answering member constituency Lewisham East answering member printed Janet Daby question first answered 15/10/2024 15:32:20 answering member 4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1731990

registered interest
date	07/10/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Further Education: Qualifications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Written Statement of 25 July 2024 on Technical Qualifications Reform, UIN HCWS22, what the scope of the review is.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	7557
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2024 answer text <p>The review of Qualifications Reform has already begun and will focus on Level 3 qualifications currently scheduled to have funding removed on 31 July 2025. It will aim to ensure that there are a range of high quality qualifications at Level 3 alongside T Levels and A levels to meet the needs of learners and employers.</p><p>The department will also clarify the position on the wider qualifications landscape, given that the previous government had made statements about funding expectations going forward. We will aim to do that as soon as we can, after the review. However, clarifying the position on the 2025 defunding list is our top priority.</p><p>My noble Friend, the Minister for Skills is overseeing the internal review, which is being undertaken by civil servants. We have already held a Ministerial chaired round table with key leaders in the college sector and are undertaking a series of focus groups with colleges, schools and other organisations to ensure that the views of stakeholders are fully considered.</p><p>The outcomes of the review will be published before the end of the year.</p> answering member constituency Lewisham East answering member printed Janet Daby grouped question UIN 7558 7559 question first answered 15/10/2024 12:20:06 answering member 4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1731991

registered interest
date	07/10/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Further Education: Qualifications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, who is responsible for carrying out her Department's proposed review of level 3 qualifications.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	7558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2024 answer text <p>The review of Qualifications Reform has already begun and will focus on Level 3 qualifications currently scheduled to have funding removed on 31 July 2025. It will aim to ensure that there are a range of high quality qualifications at Level 3 alongside T Levels and A levels to meet the needs of learners and employers.</p><p>The department will also clarify the position on the wider qualifications landscape, given that the previous government had made statements about funding expectations going forward. We will aim to do that as soon as we can, after the review. However, clarifying the position on the 2025 defunding list is our top priority.</p><p>My noble Friend, the Minister for Skills is overseeing the internal review, which is being undertaken by civil servants. We have already held a Ministerial chaired round table with key leaders in the college sector and are undertaking a series of focus groups with colleges, schools and other organisations to ensure that the views of stakeholders are fully considered.</p><p>The outcomes of the review will be published before the end of the year.</p> answering member constituency Lewisham East answering member printed Janet Daby grouped question UIN 7557 7559 question first answered 15/10/2024 12:20:06 answering member 4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1731994

registered interest
date	07/10/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Further Education: Qualifications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her planned timetable is for publishing the findings of her Department's review of level 3 qualifications.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	7559
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2024 answer text <p>The review of Qualifications Reform has already begun and will focus on Level 3 qualifications currently scheduled to have funding removed on 31 July 2025. It will aim to ensure that there are a range of high quality qualifications at Level 3 alongside T Levels and A levels to meet the needs of learners and employers.</p><p>The department will also clarify the position on the wider qualifications landscape, given that the previous government had made statements about funding expectations going forward. We will aim to do that as soon as we can, after the review. However, clarifying the position on the 2025 defunding list is our top priority.</p><p>My noble Friend, the Minister for Skills is overseeing the internal review, which is being undertaken by civil servants. We have already held a Ministerial chaired round table with key leaders in the college sector and are undertaking a series of focus groups with colleges, schools and other organisations to ensure that the views of stakeholders are fully considered.</p><p>The outcomes of the review will be published before the end of the year.</p> answering member constituency Lewisham East answering member printed Janet Daby grouped question UIN 7557 7558 question first answered 15/10/2024 12:20:06 answering member 4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1719425

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	Special Educational Needs: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the number of additional SEND places that each local authority that has received funding under the Dedicated schools grant: very high deficit intervention arrangements has opened since the relevant agreement was put in place.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	27163
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2024 answer text <p>The Safety Valve programme supports the local authorities with the highest Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) deficits. The programme requires the local authorities involved to develop substantial plans for reform to their high needs systems, with support and challenge from the department, to rapidly place them on a sustainable footing. If the local authorities can demonstrate sufficiently that their DSG management plans create lasting sustainability, including reaching an in-year balance, and are effective for children and young people, then the department will enter into an agreement.</p><p>Through the agreements, the local authorities are subsequently held to account for their reform and savings projections via regular reporting to the department. The department will help the local authorities with additional revenue funding over time to contribute to their historic deficits, but this is contingent on delivery of the reforms in the agreements.</p><p>Capital funding is a necessary feature of many local authorities DSG management plans, in cases where investment in local infrastructure will result in the availability of more appropriate provision and subsequent revenue savings. Local authorities with safety valve agreements are therefore invited to apply for additional high needs capital funding, to be provided as a one-off ‘top-up’ to their high needs provision capital allocations.</p><p>In order to receive additional capital funding, local authorities must demonstrate how investment would align to the reform plans and savings projections in their safety valve agreements. Proposals also need to show how capital plans will meet identified gaps in provision and improve the local provision offer.</p><p>The department has allocated additional capital funding to 26 local authorities through this route, totalling £175 million.</p><p>Once funding is allocated, local authorities have appropriate flexibility to make sensible adjustments to their plans, reflecting that the statutory duty to provide sufficient school places remains with the local authority.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston question first answered 24/05/2024 12:48:33 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1718436

registered interest
date	15/05/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	T-levels
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the number and proportion of people enrolled in (a) T level foundation year and (b) T levels who have not completed those courses in each of the last three academic years.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	26617
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2024 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 24/05/2024 13:10:08 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1718437

registered interest
date	15/05/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Further Education: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's guidance entitled Qualifications that overlap with T Levels, updated on 29 March 2023, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of the withdrawal of funding for new starts for (a) BTEC and (b) other level 3 qualifications overlapping with T levels from 1 August 2024 on students in further education.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	26618
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>This government is committed to ensuring that students in post-16 education have access to a high quality suite of qualifications that are easy to choose from and that provide the best chances for progression into higher study, or into a skilled job. The department firmly believes that A levels and T Levels are the best route at Level 3 to achieving those outcomes, supported by a range of Alternative Academic Qualifications and Technical Occupational Qualifications that are necessary, high quality and have a clear purpose.</p><p> </p><p>The scale and complexity of the qualifications landscape means it is hard for students to make good choices about what they study. The qualifications currently funded do not consistently offer good progression outcomes and the department’s reforms are designed to fix this problem. The department’s new technical qualifications are based on the Institute for Apprenticeships And Technical Education’s employer led occupational standards, which means that young people can be confident they are studying the skills, knowledge and behaviours that employers need.</p><p> </p><p>An impact assessment was undertaken to consider the post-16 reforms at Level 3 as a whole. It can be read here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1091841/Revised_Review_of_post-16_qualifications_at_level_3_in_England_impact_assessment.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1091841/Revised_Review_of_post-16_qualifications_at_level_3_in_England_impact_assessment.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>An additional impact assessment, which is the most recent assessment produced, was conducted on the Wave 1 and 2 overlap list, which can be found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6421be532fa8480013ec0c23/EIA_updated_final_wave_1_2_T_Level_overlap_inc_Health_and_Science.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6421be532fa8480013ec0c23/EIA_updated_final_wave_1_2_T_Level_overlap_inc_Health_and_Science.pdf</a>. These waves correlate to the qualifications defunded as of August 1 2024.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 23/05/2024 13:28:15 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson