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938572

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Vocational Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department has taken to put technical courses on parity with academic courses.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	163059
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2018 answer text <p>The government is transforming technical education to create a high quality system that meets the skills needs of businesses and is held in the same high esteem as our academic option. 15 prestigious technical routes will set a clear path to skilled employment through reformed apprenticeships and the new flagship T Level programmes. T Levels are a central part of the greatest shake-up of technical education for 70 years and builds on the recommendations made by the Independent Panel on Technical Education, chaired by Lord Sainsbury. They will provide a distinctive and rigorous technical alternative to A levels.</p><p>They are, however, just one strand of our ambitious new technical education offer. We also intend to undertake a review of qualifications at Level 3 and below so that those we fund serve a genuine and useful purpose, are of high quality and enable students to progress to meaningful outcomes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 17/07/2018 16:32:01 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

938570

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	University Technical Colleges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department has taken to promote University Technical Colleges.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	163057
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>The University Technical Colleges (UTC) programme has an important role to play in our reforms to technical education, with strong UTCs succeeding in equipping young people with the skills businesses need, getting them into employment and supporting social mobility.</p><p>There are regulations in place that require local authorities to write to parents of pupils in Year 9 to notify them of schools with atypical ages of admission within reasonable travelling distance, which includes UTCs, to make sure they are aware of the choices available to them. Early indications suggest that these letters have had a positive impact on awareness of UTCs and supported their recruitment.</p><p> </p><p>Recent changes to the Careers Guidance legislation also requires maintained schools and academies to provide opportunities for providers of technical education, such as UTCs, to visit schools to talk to students in Years 8-13, to inform them of their offer.</p><p> </p><p>UTCs are sponsored by employers and they are essential to marketing efforts by UTCs to promote their offer. Employers can demonstrate to pupils how attending the UTC can lead to a successful career. Employers taking a sustained and embedded role in supporting the UTC programme is crucial to their success.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 19/07/2018 13:23:34 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

938571

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	ICT and STEM Subjects: Higher Education
	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 trends in the number of pupils taking up STEM and ICT higher education courses in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	163058
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2018 answer text <p>The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service publishes data on the number of applicants accepted to full-time undergraduate courses at UK higher education providers by subject group.</p><p>The number of UK domiciled 18 and 19 year olds accepted to full-time undergraduate courses in each science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subject group is shown in the attached Table 1. It shows that total acceptances to STEM subjects for UK 18 and 19 year olds had increased by 24% between 2012 and 2017. This compares to an increase of 14% for all subjects over the same period.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 20/07/2018 13:51:35 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah attachment 1 file name 163058_UK_domiciled_18_and_19_year_old_acceptances_by_STEM_subject.pdf title 18_and_19_year_old_acceptances_by_STEM_subject
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

938716

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupil Exclusions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish the number of permanent exclusions from school as a proportion of the overall school population in each local authority area in each of the last five years where figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	162978
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>The National Statistics release ‘Permanent and fixed-period exclusions in England: 2015 to 2016’ includes numbers and rates of exclusions. The full release is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england-2015-to-2016</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Table 15 of the ‘Local Authority tables: SFR35/2017’ includes a breakdown of exclusion rates for each local authority in England in the 2015/16 academic year. Historic information (from the 2006/07 academic year onwards) is also available in the release’s Underlying data: SFR35/2017 section, in file ‘SFR35_2017_national_region_la_school_data.csv’. The figures can be filtered by the ‘la_name’ column.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 16/07/2018 16:27:53 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

938496

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Social Mobility Commission: Public Appointments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he telephoned Dame Martina Milburn to encourage her to apply to be Chair the Social Mobility Commission; how many other people he so encouraged; and what the names are of those people.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
	tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
	uin	163112
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>The Governance Code on Public Appointments permits ministers and departments to contact potential applicants to encourage them to apply when advertising appointments, provided this is done fairly, openly and transparently. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and officials agreed a shortlist of 11 potential candidate to make aware of the opportunity available to be Chair of the Social Mobility Commission. Four people from this shortlist were telephoned by the Secretary of State, one of whom was Martina Milburn who was called on 16 March 2018.</p><p> </p><p>It would not be appropriate to publicly share the names of the other individuals contacted by the Secretary of State as this is personal sensitive information that would identify those individuals without their consent.</p><p> </p><p>The process to appoint a Chair of the Social Mobility Commission was run in accordance of advice from the Cabinet Office and the Department for Education’s Public Appointments team, and fully in line with the Governance Code on Public Appointments.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 16/07/2018 16:01:09 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

938499

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Social Mobility Commission: Public Appointments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on what dates the original application process opened and closed for the Chair of the Social Mobility Commission; how many people applied for that position before the closure of the original application process; whether the application process was then extended; how many people applied for that position after any such extension; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
	tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
	uin	163113
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2018 answer text <p>The application process to recruit a Chair of the Social Mobility Commission opened on 5 February 2018 with an original closing date of 25 February 2018. The closing date was subsequently extended to 30 March 2018 to ensure applications from a strong field of candidates. Six applications for the role were received before the closure of the original application process and fifteen were received after the extension to the deadline was made. The process to appoint a Chair of the Social Mobility Commission was run in accordance of advice from the Cabinet Office and the Department for Education’s Public Appointments team, and fully in line with the Governance Code on Public Appointments.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 18/07/2018 13:54:46 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi previous answer version 69830 answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

938501

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Social Mobility Commission: Public Appointments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many applicants were (a) long-listed, (b) shortlisted and (c) interviewed for the position of Chair of the Social Mobility Commission; how many people and who were on the panels to decide on the (i) long-list, (ii) shortlist and (iii) list of interviewees for that position; how many stages of interview took place for that position; and who interviewed the applicants in those interviews.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
	tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
	uin	163114
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>The department received 21 applications for the role of Chair of the Social Mobility Commission. Four of these applicants were shortlisted and three of the shortlisted applicant were interviewed after one applicant withdrew.</p><p>The shortlisting and interviews were undertaken by Emran Mian (Director of Social Mobility and Strategy at the Department for Education), Nick Markham (lead non-executive director at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government) and Ruby McGregor Smith (non-executive board member at the Department for Education). Both the shortlisting and interview process were carried out in line with guidance from the Centre of Public Appointments.</p><p>One stage of interviews took place for the position and the panel recommended Martina Milburn as an appointable candidate. The government was pleased to announce her as their preferred candidate. The process to appoint a Chair of the Social Mobility Commission was run in accordance with advice from the Cabinet Office and the Department for Education’s Public Appointments team and it was fully in line with the Governance Code on Public Appointments.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 16/07/2018 15:52:49 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

938529

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Social Mobility Commission: Public Appointments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the original application process (a) opened and (b) closed for the position of Chair of the Social Mobility Commission; how many people applied for that position before the closure of the original application process; and whether that application process was extended.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
	tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
	uin	163115
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>The application process to recruit a Chair of the Social Mobility Commission opened on 5 February 2018 with an original closing date of 25 February 2018. The closing date was subsequently extended to 30 March 2018 to ensure that applications were received from a strong field of candidates. Six applications for the role were received before the closure of the original application process and fifteen were received after the extension to the deadline was made.</p><p>The process to appoint a Chair of the Social Mobility Commission was run in accordance of advice from the Cabinet Office and the Department for Education’s Public Appointments team, and it was fully in line with the Governance Code on Public Appointments.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 16/07/2018 15:51:09 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

938704

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of (a) maintained nursery schools, (b) local authority maintained primary schools, (c) maintained secondary schools, (d) primary academies and (e) secondary academy schools were in budget deficit in (i) the last and (ii) each of the preceding three financial years.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
	tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
	uin	163116
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>The Department trusts schools to manage their own budgets. The vast majority of schools are operating with a cumulative surplus, with only a small percentage in cumulative deficit. An academy trust may contain a mixture of primary and secondary academies. Trusts are the legal entities responsible for academies, including their finances and are accountable at trust level.</p><p>The most recent figures show that 9% of maintained schools are in cumulative deficit, compared to 6% of academy trusts. The proportion of all schools in cumulative deficit or in trusts with a cumulative deficit was lower in 2017 than it was in 2010 (7.6% versus 9.1%). Published data for 2010 covers local authority maintained schools only, reflecting the fact that almost all schools were local authority maintained at this point.</p><p>The table shows the proportion of maintained schools and academy trusts with a cumulative deficit each year from 2014/15 to 2016/17, the latest year for which data is available:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Percentage of maintained schools and trusts in cumulative deficit</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>All maintained schools </strong>(including special and PRU schools)</p></td><td><p>5.4%</p></td><td><p>6.0%</p></td><td><p><strong>9.1%</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nursery maintained schools</p></td><td><p>10.6%</p></td><td><p>12.7%</p></td><td><p>18.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Primary maintained schools</p></td><td><p>4.2%</p></td><td><p>4.5%</p></td><td><p>7.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Secondary maintained schools</p></td><td><p>15.0%</p></td><td><p>17.8%</p></td><td><p>26.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Academy trusts</strong></p></td><td><p>4.0%</p></td><td><p>5.5%</p></td><td><p><strong>6.1%</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Percentage of schools in cumulative deficit or in trusts with a cumulative deficit</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All schools</p></td><td><p>9.1%</p></td><td><p>7.6%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 24/07/2018 15:21:42 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb previous answer version 69316 answering member constituency Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough answering member printed Gill Furniss answering member 4571
	tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

938476

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices: Coventry
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding his Department has allocated to businesses in Coventry to support the recruitment of apprentices in each of the last eight years.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	162984
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>The Education and Skills Funding Agency has published allocations to training providers, colleges, local authorities and academies over the past eight years. This can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/16-to-19-education-funding-allocations#published-allocations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/16-to-19-education-funding-allocations#published-allocations</a>.</p><p>Information is not published or held for Coventry businesses. Funding is allocated to support the delivery of the apprenticeship programme rather than specifically for the recruitment of apprentices.</p><p>Additionally in Coventry, in this academic year, the Apprenticeships Support and Knowledge in schools programme has delivered in:</p><ul><li>16 schools/colleges,</li><li>with 43 activities,</li><li>reaching 458 students and 18 teachers.</li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 16/07/2018 12:40:42 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham