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1723615

registered interest
date	25/07/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children in Care: Southampton
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she plans to take to help improve the outcomes for care-experienced children and young people in Southampton.
tabling member constituency	Southampton Itchen
tabling member printed	Darren Paffey
uin	1849
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2024 answer text <p>Reforming children’s social care is critical to giving all our children and young people the start in life they deserve. The government is committed to working in partnership with local government to support children in care across all settings, and to improve outcomes for care leavers.</p><p> </p><p>The King’s Speech set out the government’s plans to introduce a Children’s Wellbeing Bill, which will help raise standards for children in care and ensure that every child can thrive in a safe, loving home as part of the government’s commitment to deliver high and rising standards in education for children and young people in England. The Bill is expected to be introduced within the first session of Parliament and will be a crucial step in breaking down barriers to opportunity for children and young people.</p> answering member constituency Lewisham East answering member printed Janet Daby question first answered 30/07/2024 16:54:29 answering member 4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby
tabling member	5270

1723177

registered interest
date	24/07/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals: Ealing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to pages 63-65 of the policy paper entitled, King's Speech 2024: background briefing notes, published by the Prime Minister's Office on 17 July 2024, how many primary-aged children her Department expects to receive free breakfast at school in Ealing.
tabling member constituency	Ealing Southall
tabling member printed	Deirdre Costigan
uin	1599
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2024 answer text <p>The government is committed to breaking down barriers to opportunity and giving every child the best start in life. Breakfast clubs will remove barriers to opportunity by ensuring every child, no matter their circumstances, is well prepared for school and can achieve their full potential by providing a supportive start to the day.</p><p> </p><p>The government has taken decisive action by announcing in the King’s Speech that, under the Children’s Wellbeing Bill, every primary school in England will offer a free breakfast club. The department will be working closely with the sector on the details of the programme.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth South answering member printed Stephen Morgan question first answered 29/07/2024 15:45:59 answering member 4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan
tabling member	5075

1723188

registered interest
date	24/07/2024
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, how many and what proportion of children at (a) key stage one and two, (b) key stage three and four and (c) post-16 education are in (i) state-funded and (ii) privately-funded independent education in each local education authority area.
tabling member constituency	Basildon and Billericay
tabling member printed	Mr Richard Holden
uin	1573
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2024 answer text <p>The department publishes figures on schools and pupils, including information on state-funded and independent schools. More information can be found here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Data is collected from independent schools through the school level annual school census. This does not include phase but does include the age of pupils. A table showing the number of pupils by age, school type and local authority can be found here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/f68a2ed7-d308-4e17-b82a-08dcab23a860" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/f68a2ed7-d308-4e17-b82a-08dcab23a860</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Please note that age does not necessarily directly align to state-funded sector primary, secondary and post-16 schools.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell question first answered 29/07/2024 12:32:27 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
tabling member	4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden

1723212

registered interest
date	24/07/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Primary Education: Free School Meals
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 estimate of the cost for introducing free school meals for all primary school children.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	1481
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2024 answer text <p>This government has not made a formal assessment of the cost of providing free school meals to all primary school children.</p><p> </p><p>The department is separately committed to introducing free breakfast clubs in every primary school to ensure children are set-up for the day and ready to learn.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth South answering member printed Stephen Morgan question first answered 29/07/2024 12:56:56 answering member 4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1723314

registered interest
date	24/07/2024
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, if she will make a comparative assessment of the adequacy of school funding per pupil in (a) Aldershot constituency and (b) the rest of the country.
tabling member constituency	Aldershot
tabling member printed	Alex Baker
uin	1610
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2024 answer text <p>The overall core schools budget will total £61.8 billion in 2024/25. Average per pupil funding in England, as allocated through the schools block of the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG), is £5,957.</p><p> </p><p>The DSG is allocated at local authority level, and as such the equivalent figures are not available for Aldershot constituency. For Aldershot constituency, the notional national funding formula (NFF) average per-pupil funding is £5,447. That is calculated based on the notional schools NFF allocations for all mainstream schools in the constituency. The allocations that schools within a constituency actually receive are determined by the local funding formula in their area. The funding figures for Aldershot constituency are based on the constituency boundaries before the July 2024 general election.</p><p> </p><p>All of the figures provided include premises funding, but exclude growth funding. The figures do not include the additional grant funding that schools in the Aldershot constituency and across the country have received to support pay and pensions increases in 2024/25.</p><p> </p><p>Schools in Aldershot constituency have a lower proportion of pupils who attract deprivation funding through the NFF than the national average.</p><p> </p><p>The precise funding that individual schools in Aldershot constituency and across the country receive depends on each school’s unique circumstances and the decisions that it has made about how to deploy its funding.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell question first answered 29/07/2024 16:35:50 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
tabling member	5173

1722860

registered interest
date	23/07/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Antisemitism: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of implementing mandatory education on antisemitism in schools.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North East
tabling member printed	Fabian Hamilton
uin	1194
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2024 answer text <p>The department is committed to tackling antisemitism and all forms of prejudice. Education is a key component of building a fairer and more equal society.</p><p> </p><p>As part of a broad and balanced curriculum, there are many opportunities in the existing curriculum for schools to teach about antisemitism, including through:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Citizenship education, which is compulsory at key stages 3 and 4, and teaches about religious diversity, mutual respect and understanding.</li><li>Relationships education, which is compulsory in all schools, and teaches about the impact of prejudice and the importance of respect.</li><li>Religious education, which is compulsory in all state-funded schools, and educates about religious tolerance.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Young people should be taught the history of the Holocaust. Effective Holocaust education, and learning about other genocides, supports pupils to learn about the possible consequences of antisemitism and other forms of extremism and to help reduce the spread of antisemitism, religious intolerance and other forms of intolerance and extremism.</p><p> </p><p>The department has been supporting greater understanding of the Holocaust by providing funding to the Holocaust Educational Trust to provide the Lessons from Auschwitz programme, and to UCL Centre for Holocaust Education which provides a programme of continuing professional development for teachers.</p> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell question first answered 30/07/2024 14:37:56 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
tabling member	415 label Biography information for Fabian Hamilton

1722862

registered interest
date	23/07/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Islamophobia: Education
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 mandating education on islamophobia in schools.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North East
tabling member printed	Fabian Hamilton
uin	1195
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2024 answer text <p>The department is committed to tackling all forms of prejudice, including religious prejudice, and education is a key component of building a fairer and more equal society.</p><p>As part of a broad and balanced curriculum, there are many opportunities in the existing curriculum for schools to teach about islamophobia, including through:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Citizenship education, which is compulsory at key stages 3 and 4, and teaches about religious diversity, mutual respect and understanding.</li><li>Relationships education, which is compulsory in all schools, and teaches about the impact of prejudice and the importance of respect.</li><li>Religious education, which is compulsory in all state-funded schools, and educates about religious tolerance.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The department’s ‘Educate Against Hate’ campaign also provides teachers, school leaders and parents with guidance, advice and trusted resources to help them safeguard students from radicalisation and build students’ resilience to all forms of extremism. Further information can be found here: <a href="https://www.educateagainsthate.com/" target="_blank">https://www.educateagainsthate.com/</a>.</p><p>The government will keep the effectiveness of this approach under review and will consider the issue further in the Curriculum and Assessment Review.</p> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell question first answered 29/07/2024 16:17:56 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
tabling member	415 label Biography information for Fabian Hamilton

1722958

registered interest
date	23/07/2024
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, if she will commission a review into the funding of further education.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	1287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2024 answer text <p>Further education (FE) plays a critical role in delivering the government’s missions and ensuring that everyone has access to the opportunities they need, breaking down the barriers to their success and boosting economic growth.</p><p> </p><p>FE funding in future years will be considered as part of the Spending Review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewisham East answering member printed Janet Daby question first answered 31/07/2024 15:11:37 answering member 4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1722959

registered interest
date	23/07/2024
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, what discussions she has had with Universities on the financial viability of the sector.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	1288
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2024 answer text <p>The Office for Students (OfS), as the independent regulator of higher education (HE) in England, is responsible for monitoring the financial sustainability of registered HE providers, and therefore undertakes regular engagement with the sector.</p><p> </p><p>The government recognises the financial strain that some providers are facing, and works closely with the OfS to monitor emerging risks and issues within the sector and to ensure there are robust mitigations in place to ensure the interests of students are protected.</p><p> </p><p>The department also undertakes regular engagement with sector representatives and providers to understand the risks and issues facing the sector and to discuss the overall climate for HE provider financial sustainability.</p><p> </p><p>The department is looking forward to speaking with providers in the coming weeks, months and years on a variety of matters, including financial sustainability.</p> answering member constituency Lewisham East answering member printed Janet Daby question first answered 31/07/2024 15:04:52 answering member 4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1722960

registered interest
date	23/07/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Absenteeism
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 estimate of the number and proportion of (a) children and (b) young people not in school; and if she will commission a review into the reasons behind such absences.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	1289
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2024 answer text <p>The government is committed to taking steps to better understand how many children of compulsory school age in England are not in school. Beginning October 2022, aggregate data on children in elective home education (EHE) and children missing education (CME) was collected from local authorities for the first time.</p><p> </p><p>Recent data shows on census day in autumn 2023, local authorities reported an estimated 33,000 CME that are not registered at school or otherwise receiving suitable education. This is an increase of approximately 4,900 children from the summer 2023 census day. In the autumn 2023 term, where known by the local authority, primary reasons given for CME included the child having moved out of the country, the child having moved out of the local authority and the child is awaiting a school application outcome.</p><p> </p><p>As at the census date in autumn 2023, an estimated 92,000 children were in EHE. This includes adjustments made for non-response and is based on a figure of 87,700 reported by 95% of local authorities. This is an increase from an estimated 80,900 in the previous autumn term. The leading reasons provided for deciding to home educate were philosophical, mental health, lifestyle and school dissatisfaction.</p><p> </p><p>The government is committed to making it a statutory duty for local authorities to maintain children not in school registers and submit data returns to the department when requested to do so. Additionally, from autumn this year, the department is mandating the collection of aggregate data on EHE and CME from local authorities in the 2023/24 academic year. This will increase the amount and detail of information available to local authorities and government on local and national levels, allowing the department to identify outlying local data and improve understanding of the drivers.</p><p> </p><p>Alongside better data, the government will help to tackle drivers of children not being in school including via a requirement for school to cooperate with their local authority on school admissions, special educational needs and disabilities inclusion and place planning.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth South answering member printed Stephen Morgan question first answered 26/07/2024 10:19:05 answering member 4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell