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1381326

registered interest
date	23/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria his Department is using to determine whether proposals for a Sharia-compliant alternative student finance system will be included in the conclusion of the Review of Post-18 Education and Funding; if he will publish the (a) timetable for considering the recommendations made by the independent panel that reported to that review and (b) estimated date of conclusion of that review; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	80274
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2021 answer text <p>The government has been carefully considering an alternative student finance product, alongside wider reforms to the higher education system, and an update will be provided alongside the conclusion to the Review of Post-18 Education and Funding. The interim conclusion of the review was published on 21 January 2021, and we will conclude the review in full at a future date.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 29/11/2021 13:19:13 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1381338

registered interest
date	23/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: UN Climate Conference 2021
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to WPQ 75126, pursuant to the Answer of 23 November 2021 to Question 75126 on UN Climate Conference 2021: Government, how many Ministers in his Department travelled to COP26 by airplane.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	80471
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2021 answer text <p>Four ministers attended COP26 including myself, my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, my hon. Friend, the Minister for Skills, and my hon. Friend, the Minister for the School System. Ministers took the train to COP26 in Glasgow. Any unavoidable carbon emissions from COP26 will be offset, including those associated with travel.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 29/11/2021 15:44:58 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1381430

registered interest
date	23/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Post-18 Education and Funding Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when his Department plans to publish the full response to Sir Philip Augar's review of Post-18 Education and Funding.
tabling member constituency	Southport
tabling member printed	Damien Moore
uin	80445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2021 answer text <p>Further to the interim conclusion to the Review of Post-18 Education and Funding published in January 2021, we continue to carefully consider the recommendations made by the independent panel that reported to the Review. We plan to provide a full response in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 29/11/2021 13:22:36 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4669 label Biography information for Damien Moore

1381443

registered interest
date	23/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Non-teaching Staff: Schools and Local Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has undertaken or commissioned a study or review of the capacity and effectiveness of (a) school based and (b) local authority based educational support staff.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	80299
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2021 answer text <p>In 2019, the department commissioned research about the use and effects of teaching assistants in primary and secondary mainstream schools. The research was published in June 2019 and is available on the government’s website: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-deployment-of-teaching-assistants-in-schools" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-deployment-of-teaching-assistants-in-schools</a>.</p><p>The research explores models of deployment in a range of primary and secondary mainstream schools in England, including the factors that affect deployment and reasons for changes to deployment.</p><p>Schools have the freedom to make decisions about the recruitment, training, use and pay for teaching assistants, according to their own circumstances.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 26/11/2021 12:49:48 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1381444

registered interest
date	23/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Non-teaching Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) teaching assistants and (b) other educational focused support staff employed in schools in England in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	80300
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2021 answer text <p>Information on the number of staff, including teaching assistants and other support staff, employed in state-funded schools in England is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication at: <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>In 2020/21, the full-time equivalent of 271,370 people were working as teaching assistants in state-funded schools in England. This figure is 49,889 (equivalent to 22.5%) higher than in 2011/12.</p><p>'Teaching Assistants' comprises those support staff based in the classroom for learning and pupil support, for example higher level teaching assistants, teaching assistants, special needs support staff, nursery officers/assistants, minority ethnic pupils support staff and bilingual support assistants.</p><p>Special support assistants are included in the teaching assistant totals and special educational needs coordinator assistants are included in the administrative staff totals.</p><p>Information on the number of school-based support staff trained to aid children with special educational needs and disabilities is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 80301 question first answered 26/11/2021 14:23:43 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1381445

registered interest
date	23/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many school-based support staff are trained to aid children with special educational needs and disabilities.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	80301
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2021 answer text <p>Information on the number of staff, including teaching assistants and other support staff, employed in state-funded schools in England is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication at: <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>In 2020/21, the full-time equivalent of 271,370 people were working as teaching assistants in state-funded schools in England. This figure is 49,889 (equivalent to 22.5%) higher than in 2011/12.</p><p>'Teaching Assistants' comprises those support staff based in the classroom for learning and pupil support, for example higher level teaching assistants, teaching assistants, special needs support staff, nursery officers/assistants, minority ethnic pupils support staff and bilingual support assistants.</p><p>Special support assistants are included in the teaching assistant totals and special educational needs coordinator assistants are included in the administrative staff totals.</p><p>Information on the number of school-based support staff trained to aid children with special educational needs and disabilities is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 80300 question first answered 26/11/2021 14:23:43 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1381491

registered interest
date	23/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Exploitation: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children known to children’s services teams in England and Wales have had child criminal exploitation noted as a risk factor in each of the past three years.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	80261
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2021 answer text <p>Information on the number of children known to children’s services teams in England, that have child criminal exploitation recorded as a factor at the end of assessment, is not yet collected centrally by the department.</p><p>Data on child criminal exploitation will be collected for the first time in the 2021 to 2022 children in need census and included in the associated statistics release, scheduled for publication at the end of October 2022. More information on the children in need census can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/children-in-need-census-2021-to-2022-guide" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/children-in-need-census-2021-to-2022-guide</a>.</p><p>Further information on the child criminal exploitation factor is included in the 'Additional guide on the factors identified at the end of assessment' document which is available under the subheading 'Factors identified at the end of assessment' here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/children-in-need-census" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/children-in-need-census</a>.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 26/11/2021 11:26:57 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1380888

registered interest
date	22/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education
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 29 September 2021 to Question 62680, on Pre-school Education, what assessment he has made of the consistency of early years services that are specifically non-childcare for children up to five years old across the UK.
tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
uin	79313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2021 answer text <p>The government is committed to championing family hubs. Local service delivery will vary from place to place, reflecting the needs of the local population. Family hubs bring together a wide range of services, including non-childcare services, for families with children of all ages (0-19) or up to 25 with special educational needs and disabilities, and contain a great Start for Life offer (for children aged 0-2) at their core.</p><p>The department has announced a £300 million package to transform services for parents and babies, carers, and children in half of local authorities across England. This will provide thousands of families access to support when they need it, ensuring that babies have the best start in life, as set out in ‘Best Start for Life: a vision for the critical 1,001 days’, the Early Years Review led by my right hon. Friend, the Member for South Northamptonshire, and delivering on our manifesto commitment to champion family hubs.</p><p>We are determined to ensure that family hubs are consistently applying the best evidence on what works in delivering family services. That is why we have established:</p><ul><li>a new National Centre for Family Hubs, run by the Anna Freud Centre, which will support councils with best practice, including how to effectively incorporate a range of 0-5 services into a family hub network;</li><li>an evaluation innovation fund through which we are working with Ecorys UK, Sheffield Hallam University and 6 local authorities to build the evidence base.</li></ul> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 25/11/2021 16:29:48 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1380891

registered interest
date	22/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Overseas Students
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an estimate of the number of overseas students in the UK, broken down by (a) nationality and (b) university.
tabling member constituency	Walsall South
tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
uin	79360
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2021 answer text <p>The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes data about students enrolled at UK higher education (HE) providers.</p><p>Statistics on the total number of overseas students at each HE provider in the UK can be found in Table 1 of HESA’s Open Data tables. This data is available here: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-1" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-1</a>.</p><p>Further detail, which includes the country of domicile prior to study, is available in Table 28. This data is available here: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-28" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-28</a>.</p><p>The statistics available in HESA’s Open Data tables refer to the academic years 2014/15 to 2019/20. Figures for the academic year 2020/21 will be published by HESA in February 2022.</p><p>The government fully recognises the important contribution that international students make to the UK’s HE sector, both economically and culturally. International students enrich the university experience for all students, including those from the UK themselves. They bring greater diversity to university and college campuses adding an international dimension to the experience of all students. We are proud that so many international students choose to study here each year and look forward to welcoming many more in the future.</p><p>The International Education Strategy update published in February 2021, reaffirms the government’s commitment to the two key ambitions of the International Education Strategy to increase the value of our education exports to £35 billion per year, and to sustainably increase the number of international HE students hosted in the UK to at least 600,000 per year, both by 2030.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 25/11/2021 16:38:36 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

1380922

registered interest
date	22/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Per Capita Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the per pupil funding is for schools in Hitchin and Harpenden constituency for the academic year (a) 2021-22, (b) 2022-23 and (c) 2023-24.
tabling member constituency	Hitchin and Harpenden
tabling member printed	Bim Afolami
uin	79452
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2021 answer text <p>Schools in Hitchin and Harpenden are attracting £4,862 per pupil through the schools national funding formula (NFF) in the 2021-22 financial year. This will increase to £5,007 per pupil in the 2022-23 financial year and is based on notional school-level NFF allocations.</p><p>The department is investing a further £4.7 billion by the 2024-25 financial year for the core schools budget in England, over and above the Spending Review 2019 settlement for schools in 2022-23.</p><p>This includes a further £1.6 billion for schools and high needs in 2022-23, on top of the notional school-level NFF allocations set out above. The department will announce the distribution of this additional funding for 2022-23 shortly. The department will make announcements on the breakdown of the 2023-24 and 2024-25 financial year core school budget in due course.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 29/11/2021 13:09:12 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4639 label Biography information for Bim Afolami