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759665

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices: Disadvantaged
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprentices were from below average income households in (a) England, (b) West Midlands and (c) Wolverhampton in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
	tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
	uin	10195
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p>The department does not currently hold information which is specific to the breakdown of apprentices by their household income by region.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 09/10/2017 10:42:37 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

759666

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices: Wolverhampton
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprentices are funded in the Wolverhampton local authority area through the apprenticeship levy; and how many apprenticeships in the Wolverhampton local authority area the Government expects will be funded by the apprenticeship levy, in financial year (a) 2017-18 and (b) 2018-19.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
	tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
	uin	10196
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>The number of apprenticeship starts is published as part of the further education and skills statistical first release. Apprenticeship starts broken down by geographical region and local authority are available in the further education data library:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/624428/apprenticeships-geography-data-tool-starts-v1.xlsm" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/624428/apprenticeships-geography-data-tool-starts-v1.xlsm</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Currently, data on apprenticeship starts is only available reported to the end of April 2017, before the apprenticeship levy was introduced. The statistical first release will publish apprenticeship starts supported through the levy in the October release on 12 October 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Apprenticeships are jobs and the volume and mix of apprenticeships will depend on the decisions employers make. The department has made estimates of the overall numbers of apprenticeships in future years but does not have breakdowns by local authorities.</p><p> </p><p>Data on the number of accounts registered on the apprenticeship service and the number of commitments made have been published as part of the statistical first release collection:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/further-education-and-skills-statistical-first-release-sfr" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/further-education-and-skills-statistical-first-release-sfr</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 09/10/2017 11:45:42 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

759664

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2017
	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, how many of the 200,000 new public sector apprenticeships announced by her Department on 20 January 2017 have been filled; and how many of those are based in the (a) West Midlands and (b) City of Wolverhampton.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
	tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
	uin	10255
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>Figures on the number of public sector apprenticeships are not available. Public sector bodies in scope of the public sector apprenticeships target are required annually to publish and send to the Department for Education their progress towards the target.</p><p>The first reports (covering the period 2017/18) will be due by 30 September 2018.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 09/10/2017 09:55:32 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

732636

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Migrant Workers: Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the cost to businesses in Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency of the Immigration Skills charge for the current financial year.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	1039
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2017 answer text <p>The Immigration Skills Charge was introduced on 6 April 2017. It is a charge on UK employers who sponsor workers from outside the European Economic Area through the Tier 2 skilled worker route.</p><p> </p><p>We have not modelled the cost of the Immigration Skills Charge on any individual business. The cost will depend on whether employers choose to use the Tier 2 route and will vary depending on the number of Certificates of Sponsorship employers choose to assign, whether they pay the standard or reduced rate, and the length of time an employer chooses to employ a worker for.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 27/07/2017 17:35:57 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

760864

	registered interest
	date	14/09/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Private Education: Charities
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her policy is on the charitable status of private schools.
	tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
	tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
	uin	105273
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury on 06 July 2017 to Question 1921.</p><p><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-06-29/1921/" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-06-29/1921/</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 09/10/2017 17:43:48 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

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

765669

	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	Schools: Transport
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of ending free school transport at 16-years old on the number of students continuing to study to age 18; and what estimate she has made of the quantum of costs per student for people aged over 16 not able to use free school transport.
	tabling member constituency	Chippenham
	tabling member printed	Michelle Donelan
	uin	105725
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Education’s latest participation figures suggest that the cost of travelling to education or training is not deterring young people from participating post-16. At the end of 2016, the proportion of academic age 16 and 17-year-olds (those young people under a duty to participate) in education or an apprenticeship rose to 91.1% - the highest level since consistent records began in 1994.</p><p> </p><p>The statutory responsibility for transport to education or training for 16 to 18 year olds rests with local authorities and they are expected to make appropriate decisions bearing in mind local circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>While arrangements made by authorities do not have to include free or subsidised transport, most young people do have access to a discount or concession on local bus or train travel, either from their local authority, transport provider, school or college. The £180 million 16 to 19 Bursary Fund is available to help disadvantaged young people to access education and training, and is often used to help with transport costs.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 16/10/2017 09:37:02 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan

765462

	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	Members: Correspondence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to reply to the letter of 23 June 2017 from the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare on funding for apprenticeships.
	tabling member constituency	Weston-super-Mare
	tabling member printed	John Penrose
	uin	105743
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>Our records show that a response to the letter from the MP of 23 June was issued on 25 July. I apologise for the typing error in the email address and the delay in providing a response. The response was re-issued to the correct email address on 9 October.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 16/10/2017 09:50:12 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	1584 label Biography information for John Penrose

765809

	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	Further Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of 16 to 19-year olds participate in (a) A-levels and (b) a technical or vocational pathway in each region of England.
	tabling member constituency	Dudley North
	tabling member printed	Ian Austin
	uin	105745
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The proportion of students at the end of their 16-18 study, entering A levels, tech levels and applied general qualifications is published as part of the A level and other 16-18 results Statistical First Release (SFR)<sup>1</sup>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The published figures are based on only those students at the end of their 16-18 study, not on all 16-19 year-olds. The proportion of the whole population of 16-19 year olds can be estimated using the numerators used in the above table from the SFR<sup>1 </sup>and taking the denominator from either the ONS population estimates for the relevant age group<sup>2</sup> or the number of students at the end of key stage 4 in 2013/14 as the total potential 16-18 cohort for the academic year 2015/16<sup>3</sup>.</p><p>1. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2015-to-2016-revised" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2015-to-2016-revised</a> (Local authority tables: SFR05/2017 – table 9a).</p><p>2. <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/populationestimatesforukenglandandwalesscotlandandnorthernireland" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/populationestimatesforukenglandandwalesscotlandandnorthernireland</a>. Select the mid 2016 dataset and sum the figures for all 16-19 year olds.</p><p>3. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-gcses-key-stage-4" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-gcses-key-stage-4</a>. Table 1a in the ‘national tables’ provides the number of pupils at the end of key stage 4 for that year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 16/10/2017 09:45:53 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

765807

	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	Assessments: Disadvantaged
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the attainment gap between disadvantaged and other students in (a) A-levels, (b) vocational qualifications and (c) all Level 3 qualifications by age 19 in each region of England.
	tabling member constituency	Dudley North
	tabling member printed	Ian Austin
	uin	105746
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>From 2017, the 16 to 18 performance tables and associated statistical release (A level and other revised 16-18 results) will include disadvantage measures to illustrate differences between how well disadvantaged students in a school or college do compared to non-disadvantaged state-funded students nationally. These measures will report on the 16 to 18 outcomes of students eligible for pupil premium funding in year 11, against each of the five headline measures: progress, attainment, English and mathematics progress, retention, and destinations.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the attainment gap between disadvantaged and other students in (a) A levels, (b) vocational qualifications and (c) all Level 3 qualifications by age 19 can be found as part of the ‘Education statistics by LA district and pupil disadvantage’<sup>1,2</sup> publication.</p><ol><li><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/education-statistics-by-la-district-and-pupil-disadvantage" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/education-statistics-by-la-district-and-pupil-disadvantage</a>. Select ‘16 to 19’ education data tables, tables FE1 and FE2. The A level attainment by pupil characteristics <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/a-level-attainment-by-pupil-characteristics" target="_blank">publication</a> provides attainment data for pupils eligible for free school meals (which is a component of the disadvantage index).</li><li>Disadvantaged pupils are identified based on status recorded at the end of Key Stage 4, using the pupil premium definition in operation at time. For most of the 19 in 2015/16 cohort this was in 2012/13. At this time, disadvantaged pupils were defined as pupils known to be eligible for FSM in the previous six years as indicated in any termly or annual school census, pupil referral unit (PRU) or alternative provision (AP) census or were looked after children for more than 6 months. Where there was no record of disadvantage status at key stage 4, as a proxy those who had been eligible for free school meals at any point between academic ages 10 and 15 have been included in the “disadvantaged” group.</li></ol> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 16/10/2017 10:04:10 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley