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1359783

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2021
	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, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding for sixth form students.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
	uin	56926
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2021 answer text <p>We forecast future 16-19 year old student numbers and take into account population forecasts when considering the future need for education funding for 16-19 year olds. Future budgets for this education provision are being considered in the current Spending Review.</p><p>We have invested an extra £291 million in 16-19 education in the 2021-22 financial year. This is in addition to the £400 million awarded in the 2019 Spending Review, which was the biggest injection of funding into 16-19 education in a single year since 2010. This has allowed us to raise the base rate of funding for all providers of 16-19 education, including school sixth forms and sixth form colleges, from £4,000 in the 2019/20 academic year to £4,188 in the 2020/21 and 2021/22 academic years, as well as to make further funding increases targeted on high value and high cost programmes.</p><p>This year, we have also made £83 million in capital funding available through the Post-16 Capacity Fund to support eligible post-16 providers to accommodate the upcoming increase in 16-19 year olds. Bids are currently being assessed and the outcome will be announced in due course.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 25/10/2021 11:56:34 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1473152

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Overseas Students: Fees and Charges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate he has made of the number of overseas university students resident in the UK who have not paid full fees in each of the last three years; what recent assessment he has made of the impact of non-payment of full fees due to the effects of the covid-19 pandemic on (a) university finances, (b) overseas students being unable to complete their courses and (c) overseas students losing their migration status; and what recent steps he has taken to support overseas university students whose difficulty paying fees is related to the covid-19 pandemic.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
	uin	24567
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2022 answer text <p>The setting and payment of fees is a matter for universities as autonomous institutions and therefore, the department does not hold data on the exact number of international students in the UK who have not paid full fees in each of the last three years.</p><p>The Office for Students (OfS) collects and analyses financial data from higher education (HE) providers in England to ensure they have an up to date understanding of the sustainability of the sector. We work closely with the OfS and recognise that although there is variation in the performance and strengths of individual institutions the overall financial position of the HE sector remains sound.</p><p>Where the OfS identifies concerns about the financial viability of an HE provider, they will implement enhanced monitoring of that provider.</p><p>Payment of tuition fees and course progression is a matter between a student and their sponsor (HE institution). If a sponsor decides to withdraw a student from a course for non-payment of fees, they are required to notify the UK Visas and Immigration which may subsequently result in the student’s visa being cancelled</p><p>During the COVID-19 pandemic the department, alongside the government, worked hard to ensure that international students were supported throughout this difficult time, including visa concessions so that students who could not travel to the UK during the pandemic were not adversely impacted.</p><p>In addition, the department provided grant funding to the OfS for the 2021/22 financial year included an allocation of £5 million to HE providers in England in order to provide additional support for student hardship. This hardship funding could be accessed by international students and would be allocated by providers to where the need was greatest.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 04/07/2022 09:36:06 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

755752

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what arrangements are in place in the apprenticeships service account system in relation to payments made through (a) the apprenticeships levy and (b) co-investments to ensure that funding levels for apprenticeships are not negatively affected by macro-economic trends in wage levels.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	7213
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>The apprenticeship budget has been set by Her Majesty’s Treasury at a level that will provide sufficient funds to provide 3 million apprenticeship starts in England by 2020. By 2020 the total apprenticeships investment in England will be almost £2.5 billion, double what was spent in 2010-11.</p><p> </p><p>In England, levy-paying employers can access their funds through the apprenticeship service. The government provides a 10% top up paid monthly into apprenticeship service accounts. Where an employer has spent all of their levy funds, they will pay 10% towards the additional training and assessment costs with government paying the remaining 90%.</p><p> </p><p>For non-levy payers, government pays 90% of the cost of training and assessment, whilst the employer pays the remaining 10% of the balance. Non-levying paying employers do not currently use the apprenticeship service – both the employer and government pay the training provider directly.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 12/09/2017 14:41:09 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

765214

	registered interest
	date	06/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices
	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 assessment of the potential merits of ensuring that funding levels for apprenticeships could not be negatively affected by macro-economic trends in wage levels.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	105486
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The apprenticeship budget has been set until 2020 to support the Government’s commitment to 3 million apprenticeship starts in England by 2020. This budget does not change irrespective of wider economic trends. By 2020 the total apprenticeships investment in England will be almost £2.5 billion; double what was spent in 2010-11.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 16/10/2017 10:46:44 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

872259

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Disadvantaged
	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 long-term (a) education, (b) employment, (c) training, (d) housing and (e) health outcomes of children who are classified as in need at the age of (a) 16 and (b) 17.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	134173
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2018 answer text <p>On 16 March 2018, the government published data and analysis as part of the Department for Education’s Children in Need Review. This included the finding that Children in Need are more likely than other children to become a young adult who is not in education, employment or training three years after completing key stage 4.</p><p> </p><p>The department does not currently hold data on other long-term outcomes of Children in Need. The department’s data publication will access long-term outcomes analysis to better understand child journeys and lifetime outcomes, which includes the feasibility of matching the Department for Education’s Children in Need data with outcomes data from other government policy areas.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 05/04/2018 12:14:49 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

652624

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Young People: Disclosure of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to make anonymised ward level data on post-16 student work, education and training destinations, as reported by local authorities to the National Client Information System, open data and available through the data.gov.uk website.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	56347
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2016 answer text <p>The Department is currently exploring ways to utilise the data it collects on education, training and employment outcomes further, with a view to publishing more comprehensive data on educational outcomes in the future. However, there are currently no plans to publish NCCIS data from local authorities at ward level.</p><p> </p><p>The Department applies data suppression and rounding protocols when publishing data to ensure that individuals cannot be identified. This means that estimates produced for very small sub-groups within the population, such as 16 and 17 year olds in each of more than 7,000 wards in England, are unlikely to lead to meaningful results for comparison between wards or within wards over time.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 13/12/2016 16:01:10 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

720414

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Poverty
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to page 123 of the report, UK Poverty: Causes and Solutions, published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on 6 September 2016, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of implementing the recommendations in that report on providing all children with an excellent education.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	70976
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>We are taking wide-ranging action to address the issues raised by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation report and ensure that all children are provided with an excellent education.</p><p> </p><p>In the <em>Schools that work for everyone</em> consultation we signalled our intention to build a diverse education system in which all children can receive a high-quality education that is right for them, regardless of their background or postcode. We are seeking to overturn the ban on new selective schools to ensure that the best and brightest students can enjoy a stretching curriculum, implementing this reform in a way that places conditions on grammar schools, as well as independent schools and universities, to ensure that they do more to raise standards across the whole system.</p><p> </p><p>Working with head teachers and other sector experts we have reformed the National Professional Qualifications to better prepare leaders for the range of roles in today’s school system and have funded the High Potential Middle Leaders and High Potential Senior Leaders programmes to develop excellent leaders in challenging schools. An independent expert group convened by the department has defined a new standard for teachers’ professional development and we have announced plans to invest around £75 million in the Teaching and Leadership Innovation Fund over the next three years to support high-quality professional development for teachers and school leaders in the areas of the country and schools that need it most.</p><p> </p><p>Our £137 million investment in the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) is expanding the evidence base on what works to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils. As part of its dissemination activity the EEF, in partnership with the Institute for Effective Education, has established a network of Research Schools to support the use of evidence in improving teaching practice.</p><p> </p><p>Reforms brought in by the Children and Families Act 2014 are transforming the support available to children and young people with SEN and disabilities (SEND) by joining up services for 0-25 year olds across education, health and social care and by focusing on positive outcomes for education, employment, housing, health and community participation. Building on effective practice to support disadvantaged pupils we have funded the development of the SEND Review, based on the model of the Pupil Premium Review, to support SEND focussed school-to-school improvement. Since 2015, we have funded the Whole School SEND consortium to embed the SEND review nationally and encourage school leaders to give greater priority to improving their SEND provision.</p><p> </p><p>Schools have a clear legal duty not to discriminate against pupils under the Equality Act 2010. Statutory guidance on exclusions is clear that head teachers should make additional efforts to consider what extra support is needed to avoid exclusion for groups with disproportionately high rates of exclusion, including those with SEND and pupils from Gypsy Roma Traveller communities. Our plans to reform the use of alternative provision (AP) include making schools accountable for the ongoing education and outcomes of pupils who require AP, such as those who are permanently excluded. This will further strengthen incentives for schools to take earlier action where problems emerge that put pupils at risk of exclusion.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 24/04/2017 14:32:48 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

523467

	registered interest
	date	07/06/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Fire Prevention
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Education Funding Agency guidance, Building Bulletin 100: Design for fire safety in schools, published on 11 March 2014, how many schools with pupils with Special Educational Needs have scored (a) high, (b) medium and (c) low on the fire risk assessment.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	39768
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2016 answer text <p>Building Bulletin 100 advises on fire safety design for new school buildings and includes a fire risk assessment within its suite of guidance. This risk assessment is not intended to be part of a data collection exercise and therefore the Department does not hold the information requested.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 39767 question first answered 14/06/2016 16:28:58 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

523466

	registered interest
	date	07/06/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Fire Extinguishers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Education Funding Agency guidance, Building Bulletin 100: Design for fire safety in schools, published on 11 March 2014, how many schools that scored high or medium on the risk assessment have not been fitted with sprinklers.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	39767
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2016 answer text <p>Building Bulletin 100 advises on fire safety design for new school buildings and includes a fire risk assessment within its suite of guidance. This risk assessment is not intended to be part of a data collection exercise and therefore the Department does not hold the information requested.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 39768 question first answered 14/06/2016 16:28:58 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

755722

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Students: Disadvantaged
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to page 49 of the Social Mobility Commission's report, Time for Change: an assessment of government policies on social mobility 1997-2017, published on 28 June 2017, what assessment she has made of the level of (a) retention and (b) graduate outcomes among students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	6879
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>Application rates to Higher Education by disadvantaged 18-year-olds in England are at record levels and retention rates for this group, as well as mature, and BME students are higher than they were in 2010. According to HEFCE data (<a href="http://www.hefce.ac.uk/analysis/ncr/nhe/" target="_blank">http://www.hefce.ac.uk/analysis/ncr/nhe/</a>), we have seen non-continuation rates for the most disadvantaged students fall from 9.3% in 2009/10 to 8.8% in 2015/16. There has also been an increase in the rate of those on free school meals entering HE by age 19, up from 18% in 2009/10 to 24% in 2014/15 (the most recent year for which data is available). Graduates on average earn comfortably over £100K more over their lifetime, and 73% of those from less advantaged backgrounds are employed in the most advantaged occupational groups six months after graduating.</p><p>There is more to do, and this Government has put in place actions to make further progress. Retention rates and graduate outcomes are both core metrics of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). The TEF explicitly assesses providers on how well they are delivering positive outcomes for students from disadvantaged groups and this is reflected in the rating that providers receive.</p><p>The Higher Education and Research Act 2017 requires institutions to publish admissions and retention data by gender, ethnicity and socio-economic background. This greater transparency will help the sector make further progress to build on its achievements so far.</p><p> </p><p>The new regulatory framework for Higher Education and the Office for Students (OfS) will put students at the heart of the OfS’ remit. The OfS will have a statutory duty to promote equality of opportunity across the whole lifecycle for disadvantaged students, not just access. As a result, widening access and participation for students from disadvantaged backgrounds will be at the core of OfS functions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 12/09/2017 14:17:02 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown