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1059755

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date	12/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education: North of England
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Northern Powerhouse Partnership’s report, Educating the North, published May 2018, what steps his Department is taking to improve the quality of education in (a) the North and (b) the Sheffield City Region.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	220222
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State welcomed the Northern Powerhouse Partnership’s report, ‘Educating the North’. In response to it, my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State wrote to my right hon. Friend, the Member for Harlow and Chair of the Education Committee, on 13 June 2018, detailing the government’s clear plan for improving education and skills in the North. A copy of that letter is available here: <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/education-committee/inquiries/parliament-2017/education-in-the-north-inquiry-17-19/publications/" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/education-committee/inquiries/parliament-2017/education-in-the-north-inquiry-17-19/publications/</a>.</p><p>I refer the hon. Member for Barnsley Central to the answer I gave on 11 June 2018 to Questions <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-05-02/140737/" target="_blank">140737, 140738, 140739</a> and to the answer I gave on 18 July 2018 to Questions <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-07-10/162577/" target="_blank">162577, 162578</a>. These responses set out further details of the initiatives referred to in that letter.</p><p>We have launched a school improvement support offer which means schools eligible for support have access to up to 3 days free advice from a national leader of education (NLE). A subset of these schools, judged as 'requires improvement' in their last 2 Ofsted inspections, will have access of up to £16,000 of funded support to address the needs identified by the NLE. In the Sheffield City Region and across the North, a first cohort of schools is currently being offered school improvement support with further eligible schools to be identified later in 2019. In addition, there are 10 projects funded through the Strategic School Improvement Fund (SSIF) where the lead applicant is based in the Sheffield City Region. In total these projects have been awarded over £3 million. These are among the 57 SSIF projects where the lead applicant is based in the Northern Powerhouse area. In total, these projects have been awarded just over £20 million. The complete list of successful applicants is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/strategic-school-improvement-fund-successful-applicants/strategic-school-improvement-fund-ssif-successful-applicants" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/strategic-school-improvement-fund-successful-applicants/strategic-school-improvement-fund-ssif-successful-applicants</a>.</p><p>A further cohort of schools in the Sheffield City Region and across the North, identified as facing significant challenges with teacher recruitment and retention, is receiving funded support to address those issues.</p><p>The department is working closely with the social mobility partnership South Yorkshire Futures, on our shared aims of improving educational outcomes across the Sheffield City Region and has seconded 3 members of staff to support their programme. A link to the programme can be found here: <a href="https://southyorkshirefutures.co.uk/syf/?doing_wp_cron=1550062482.9984350204467773437500" target="_blank">https://southyorkshirefutures.co.uk/syf/?doing_wp_cron=1550062482.9984350204467773437500</a>.</p><p>5 of the 12 Department for Education-funded Opportunity Areas are in areas of low social mobility across the North, with the aim of improving educational outcomes and life chances for children and young people. Doncaster Opportunity Area is one of those areas and is working closely with South Yorkshire Futures on a number of their interventions. This includes work to improve teacher recruitment and retention in the county through funding newly qualified teacher mentoring and collaborating with the Sheffield City Region on our newly-launched Careers Hub, which aims to improve the quality of careers information, advice and guidance given to young people in the borough.</p><p>‘Educating the North’ recommended that the Opportunity Areas programme be extended to the North East. My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State announced Opportunity North East in October 2018. The programme brings together North East leaders from education, local government and business to work together to improve outcomes for young people in the region. Through Opportunity North East the department will make a substantial investment in the region, including £12 million for the early roll-out of national reforms to improve support for new teachers, and a further £12 million to tackle the 5 key educational challenges identified for the area. Details of this announcement can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/education-secretary-launches-24-million-programme-for-north-east" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/education-secretary-launches-24-million-programme-for-north-east</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 19/02/2019 16:38:32 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi previous answer version 102242 answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1059796

registered interest
date	12/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent steps his Department has taken to prepare the education sector for the effects of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	220064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>Leaving the EU with a deal remains the government’s top priority. This has not changed.</p><p>The department has published “no deal notices” on GOV.UK[1] to provide information and advice to schools and to further education and higher education institutions. The purpose of these notices is to help them prepare in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.</p><p> </p><p>[1] EU Exit: No deal preparations for schools in England - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/eu-exit-no-deal-preparations-for-schools-in-england" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/eu-exit-no-deal-preparations-for-schools-in-england</a>.</p><p>EU Exit: No deal preparations for further education and apprenticeship providers - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/eu-exit-no-deal-preparations-for-further-education-and-apprenticeship-providers" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/eu-exit-no-deal-preparations-for-further-education-and-apprenticeship-providers</a>.</p><p>EU Exit: No deal preparati​ons for higher education institutions - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/eu-exit-no-deal-preparations-for-higher-education-institutions" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/eu-exit-no-deal-preparations-for-higher-education-institutions</a>.</p><p>Erasmus+ in the UK if there's no brexit deal - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/erasmus-in-the-uk-if-theres-no-brexit-deal/erasmus-in-the-uk-if-theres-no-brexit-deal" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/erasmus-in-the-uk-if-theres-no-brexit-deal/erasmus-in-the-uk-if-theres-no-brexit-deal</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 18/02/2019 11:46:00 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1059815

registered interest
date	12/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much money local authorities have spent on post-16 SEND transport in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	220249
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>The department publishes a breakdown of local authority spending in the annual local authority and school finance statistical release, found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-local-authority-school-finance-data#local-authority-and-school-finance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-local-authority-school-finance-data#local-authority-and-school-finance</a>.</p><p>This breakdown includes expenditure on home to post-16 provision, including special educational needs and learners with learning difficulties or disabilities transport expenditure for those aged 16-18 and 19-25</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 19/02/2019 16:43:36 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi previous answer version 102518 answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1059856

registered interest
date	12/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Universities: Finance
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 the Minister of State for Universities in Hansard, Official Report, 11 February 2019, Volume 654, Column 637, what the evidenial basis is for his claim that universities financed entirely by taxation would result in an increased burden of £12 billion on the taxpayer.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	220251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>My answer on 11 February 2019 was based on an observation of Labour’s Higher Education Proposals published by the Institute for Fiscal studies (IFS) in 2017. The observation can be found at: <a href="https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/9217" target="_blank">https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/9217</a>.</p><p> </p><p>My statement, that to return to a stage where universities are financed entirely by taxation would increase the burden on the taxpayer by £12 billion, is based on IFS modelling that shows that the total long run contribution of the government to remove tuition fees would be £12.5 billion, rounded down to the nearest billion. Of that £12.5 billion, the IFS estimate that around £11.6 billion would be in the form of teaching grants.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/02/2019 14:28:19 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore previous answer version 102680 answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1059857

registered interest
date	12/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Universities: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Minister of State for Universities, of 11 February 2019, Official Report, column 634, what estimate his Department has made of the number of higher education institutions that may exit the market.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	220252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>The department has not made an estimate of the number of higher education institutions that may exit the market.</p><p>In the new higher education (HE) regulatory framework, the Office for Students (OfS) has responsibilities to monitor and assess the financial viability of registered providers and in particular to protect the interests of students. The OfS may take action where it identifies particular risks to a provider’s financial viability. The department has also given the OfS powers to ensure that registered providers have plans in place to protect their students, via appropriately constructed student protection plans. Should the provider be facing difficulties, the plan may need to be strengthened in a tailored way before OfS can agree it.</p><p>It is the responsibility of Vice-Chancellors and the leaders of higher education providers to ensure their institutions are financially viable.</p><p>The terms of reference of the review of post-18 education and funding include a focus on ensuring choice and competition across a joined-up post-18 education and training sector. The review will look at how it can support a more dynamic market whilst maintaining the financial sustainability of a world–class higher education and research sector.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/02/2019 13:47:45 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1059873

registered interest
date	12/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many loans have been issued by the Office for Students to higher education institutions in England; and what the value was of each of those loans.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	220253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>The Office for Students has issued one short term loan (£900,000) to one higher education provider, which has been repaid in full.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/02/2019 13:43:13 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1059874

registered interest
date	12/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the announcement entitled, New treatment of student loans in the public sector finances and national accounts, published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in December 2018, when his Department plans to adapt their accounting practices in line the ONS decision.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	220254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) announcement is a statistical change, therefore, there are no changes to the existing policy, operation of the student loans system and Departmental Accounts. While the ONS have announced the decision to change the treatment of student loans in the national accounts, the department’s accounting practices will continue to be consistent with the International Financial Reporting Standards, as adapted by the Government Financial Reporting Manual. During the course of 2019, the department will assist the ONS to report the statistical change in line with any new guidance issued as part of the Government Debt and Deficit manual<strong>.</strong></p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/02/2019 17:21:47 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1059953

registered interest
date	12/02/2019
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, what assessment he has made of the effect of trends in the level of funding on the financial sustainability of the further education sector.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	220323
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>We are examining the trends in the level of funding for further education in considering the funding and resilience of further education and in assessing how far existing and forecast funding and regulatory structures enable high quality provision. We recognise that some of the key areas of funding have not kept up with costs and we will continue to look carefully at these issues in preparation for the next Spending Review and in the light of the recommendations of the Post-18 Review.</p><p>We have protected the base rate of funding for all 16 to 19 year old students until 2020 and plan to invest nearly £7 billion this academic year to make sure that there is a place in education or in training, including for apprenticeships, for every 16 to 19 year old. We are investing in education for adult learners, including for those furthest from learning and the labour market. We are continuing to provide Advanced Learner Loans, which is an established part of the Further Education funding framework and a key source of provider income. We are also doubling the amount of funding available for apprenticeships in England (in cash terms) by 2019-20 when compared with actual levels of spend in 2010-11. This includes funding for both 16-19 and adult apprenticeships.</p><p>From 1 April 2016 to 31 January 2019, as part of the area review programme, we made approximately £470 million available to support major college restructuring, supporting significant improvements to financial sustainability in the sector.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 18/02/2019 11:44:46 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1059986

registered interest
date	12/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the average cost of childcare for children aged between one and two years old in (a) one parent and (b) two parent families.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	220311
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>Parents of children aged 0-2 in England that use childcare reported paying an average of £79 per child per week during term-time in 2018. The amounts paid by families vary depending on the amount of childcare used by their child, by the number of children in the family, by childcare provider type used, and by home region.</p><p> </p><p>This data is published as annual official statistics from the ‘Childcare and Early Years Survey of Parents’.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 19/02/2019 16:37:14 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi previous answer version 102663 answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

1060000

registered interest
date	12/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Migration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance his Department offers to (a) teachers and (b) schools on how they present the issue of migration.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	220324
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not offer guidance to teachers or schools on how they present the issue of migration. However, sections 406 and 407 of the Education Act 1996 require maintained schools to prevent political indoctrination and secure the balanced treatment of political issues. This duty is reflected in the funding agreements for academies and free schools. In particular, Section 407 of the Education Act 1996 places a duty on schools to ensure that where political issues are brought to the attention of pupils, they are offered a balanced presentation of opposing views.</p><p> </p><p>There have been recent valuable additions to the resources available to support teaching of this issue in History. For example, the Windrush Foundation has produced key stage 2 lesson plans for primary schools, and the Runnymede Trust’s ‘Our Migration Story’ website provides extensive resources, including lesson plans.</p><p> </p><p>The Geographical Association and the Royal Geographical Society both provide resources on the issue to support teaching of the Geography curriculum.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 18/02/2019 13:38:44 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran