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1713880

registered interest
date	25/04/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education: Standards
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 implications for her policies of the findings in the report by Action for Children in their report entitled Above and beyond, published on 25 April 2024, on the number of children that experience barriers to their education due to issues outside school.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	23758
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2024 answer text <p>This government recognises the importance of providing early and timely help for children to support them to achieve their full potential at school so that they can thrive in adulthood.</p><p>At the last spending review, the department announced over £1 billion toward programmes to improve early help services from birth to adulthood, including delivering on Family Hubs and helping families facing multiple disadvantage through the Supporting Families and Holiday Activities and Food programmes.</p><p>The department’s statutory guidance, titled ‘Working together to safeguard children’, which was updated in 2023, confirms the expectation that local areas should have a range of evidence-based services available to provide early support for children and families who need it.</p><p>In ‘Stable Homes, Built on Love’, the department announced plans to build on the strengths of early help services through the implementation of Family Help. In the Families First for Children Pathfinder, the department is investigating how multi-disciplinary family help teams can provide targeted support to help children and families overcome challenges at the earliest opportunity.</p><p>The department is spending more on children’s mental health services than ever before and working across government to ensure partnerships working across different sectors are delivering for children who need support.</p><p>The department is also continuing to roll out Mental Health Support Teams in education settings and supporting schools and colleges to train senior mental health leads, ensuring that as many young people as possible have access to the support they need.</p><p>Up to an additional £2.3 billion of additional funding a year since 2018/19 has been allocated to expand and transform mental health services. This is with the aim that 345,000 more children and young people will have been able to access NHS-funded mental health support by March 2024.</p><p>The department is making the ‘Working together to improve school attendance’ guidance statutory from September 2024. This sets out how schools, local authorities and other services need to work together to support pupils at risk of poor attendance and how support provided to these families is consistent across the country.</p><p>The department’s package of wide-ranging reforms designed to support schools to improve attendance means there were 440,000 fewer children persistently absent or not attending in 2022/23 compared to 2021/22.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston grouped question UIN 23759 question first answered 01/05/2024 14:18:36 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1713883

registered interest
date	25/04/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the findings in the report by Action for Children in their report entitled Above and beyond, published on 25 April 2024 on the number of children that experience barriers to their education due to issues outside school, what steps her Department is taking to provide (a) early and (b) timely help to affected families.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	23759
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2024 answer text <p>This government recognises the importance of providing early and timely help for children to support them to achieve their full potential at school so that they can thrive in adulthood.</p><p>At the last spending review, the department announced over £1 billion toward programmes to improve early help services from birth to adulthood, including delivering on Family Hubs and helping families facing multiple disadvantage through the Supporting Families and Holiday Activities and Food programmes.</p><p>The department’s statutory guidance, titled ‘Working together to safeguard children’, which was updated in 2023, confirms the expectation that local areas should have a range of evidence-based services available to provide early support for children and families who need it.</p><p>In ‘Stable Homes, Built on Love’, the department announced plans to build on the strengths of early help services through the implementation of Family Help. In the Families First for Children Pathfinder, the department is investigating how multi-disciplinary family help teams can provide targeted support to help children and families overcome challenges at the earliest opportunity.</p><p>The department is spending more on children’s mental health services than ever before and working across government to ensure partnerships working across different sectors are delivering for children who need support.</p><p>The department is also continuing to roll out Mental Health Support Teams in education settings and supporting schools and colleges to train senior mental health leads, ensuring that as many young people as possible have access to the support they need.</p><p>Up to an additional £2.3 billion of additional funding a year since 2018/19 has been allocated to expand and transform mental health services. This is with the aim that 345,000 more children and young people will have been able to access NHS-funded mental health support by March 2024.</p><p>The department is making the ‘Working together to improve school attendance’ guidance statutory from September 2024. This sets out how schools, local authorities and other services need to work together to support pupils at risk of poor attendance and how support provided to these families is consistent across the country.</p><p>The department’s package of wide-ranging reforms designed to support schools to improve attendance means there were 440,000 fewer children persistently absent or not attending in 2022/23 compared to 2021/22.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston grouped question UIN 23758 question first answered 01/05/2024 14:18:36 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1713075

registered interest
date	23/04/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	T-levels: Student Wastage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students who have started T-Level courses have not completed them in the last two years.
tabling member constituency	Bexleyheath and Crayford
tabling member printed	Sir David Evennett
uin	23141
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2024 answer text <p>The department’s recently published 2023/24 T Level Action Plan outlines the developments and next steps for T Levels and includes the latest student data for the programme. It shows that 5,321 students began their T Level in 2021/22. In summer 2023, 3,592 of those students were retained (68%), and 3,510 were retained and assessed (66%). Further data about T Levels, as well as details of the methodology used in the above can be found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66290c86b0ace32985a7e6d6/T_Level_action_plan_-_analytical_annex.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66290c86b0ace32985a7e6d6/T_Level_action_plan_-_analytical_annex.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 01/05/2024 13:59:24 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	1198 label Biography information for Sir David Evennett

1713078

registered interest
date	23/04/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Overseas Students: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an estimate of the number of British National Overseas visa holders that are unable to access student finance.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	23263
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2024 answer text <p>Under the existing student support regulations, Hong Kong British National Overseas (BNO) visa holders would not have access to student finance until they have acquired a settled status in the UK and meet the three-year ordinary residence requirement. As the BNO route only opened in January 2021, the earliest a person is likely to become settled (and have access student finance) is in January 2026. As such, all persons who have been granted leave under the BNO route, are not currently able to access student finance.</p><p>Home Office statistics show that 140,300 people have arrived in the UK on the scheme since it began. However, not all of these people will go on to study in higher education.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 01/05/2024 13:57:32 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1702000

registered interest
date	17/04/2024
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what is the current value of the resource accounting and budgeting charge for student finance.
tabling member printed	Baroness Taylor of Bolton
uin	HL3915
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2024 answer text <p>In the 2022/23 financial year, the Resource Accounting and Budgeting (RAB) charge was £5.5 billion, or 27% of the £20.0 billion of loans issued that financial year. The RAB charge for 2023/24 will be published in the department’s 2023/24 Annual Report and Accounts this summer.</p><p> </p><p>Of student loans issued in the 2023/24 financial year, the government is expected to subsidise:</p><ul><li>28% of full-time Plan 2 Loans.</li><li>23% of part-time Plan 2 Loans.</li><li>48% of Plan 2 Advanced Learner Loans.</li><li>27% of full-time Plan 5 Loans.</li><li>19% of part-time Plan 5 Loans.</li><li>37% of Plan 5 Advanced Learner Loans.</li><li>0% of Master’s Loans.</li></ul><p> </p><p>These forecasts are subject to change. The final RAB forecasts for 2023/24 will be available as part of the annual student finance statistical publication, released in June 2024.</p><p> </p><p>The RAB charge, the government subsidy anticipated on student loans issued in any particular financial year, is calculated as the present value of student loan outlay less expected future repayments, in accordance with relevant International Financial Reporting Standards and guidance from HMT’s Government Financial Reporting Manual (FReM).</p><p> </p><p>The FReM requires future repayments of student loans to be discounted at the higher of the intrinsic rate and HMT’s discount rate, based on analysis of real yields on UK index linked Gilts and are specifically appropriate to central government.</p><p> </p><p>The FReM is kept under constant review. It is updated to reflect developments in relevant standards and best practice.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran grouped question UIN HL3916 question first answered 01/05/2024 11:10:10 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	407 label Biography information for Baroness Taylor of Bolton

1702001

registered interest
date	17/04/2024
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government when they expect to publish an update to the calculation of the resource accounting and budgeting charge for student finance; and whether they propose to make any changes to the basis for calculation used at the time it was last updated.
tabling member printed	Baroness Taylor of Bolton
uin	HL3916
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2024 answer text <p>In the 2022/23 financial year, the Resource Accounting and Budgeting (RAB) charge was £5.5 billion, or 27% of the £20.0 billion of loans issued that financial year. The RAB charge for 2023/24 will be published in the department’s 2023/24 Annual Report and Accounts this summer.</p><p> </p><p>Of student loans issued in the 2023/24 financial year, the government is expected to subsidise:</p><ul><li>28% of full-time Plan 2 Loans.</li><li>23% of part-time Plan 2 Loans.</li><li>48% of Plan 2 Advanced Learner Loans.</li><li>27% of full-time Plan 5 Loans.</li><li>19% of part-time Plan 5 Loans.</li><li>37% of Plan 5 Advanced Learner Loans.</li><li>0% of Master’s Loans.</li></ul><p> </p><p>These forecasts are subject to change. The final RAB forecasts for 2023/24 will be available as part of the annual student finance statistical publication, released in June 2024.</p><p> </p><p>The RAB charge, the government subsidy anticipated on student loans issued in any particular financial year, is calculated as the present value of student loan outlay less expected future repayments, in accordance with relevant International Financial Reporting Standards and guidance from HMT’s Government Financial Reporting Manual (FReM).</p><p> </p><p>The FReM requires future repayments of student loans to be discounted at the higher of the intrinsic rate and HMT’s discount rate, based on analysis of real yields on UK index linked Gilts and are specifically appropriate to central government.</p><p> </p><p>The FReM is kept under constant review. It is updated to reflect developments in relevant standards and best practice.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran grouped question UIN HL3915 question first answered 01/05/2024 11:10:10 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	407 label Biography information for Baroness Taylor of Bolton