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1012535

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Religious Hatred
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what further support they will give to Nissar Hussain and his family, and others, who have left the Islamic faith and if facing persecution in the UK.
	tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
	uin	HL11727
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>Everyone in Britain has the right to feel safe and at ease in the place where they live. Any individual or group is free to express views and beliefs, but have a duty to behave responsibly and to respect other people’s rights as defined by the law. Freedom of speech, freedom of worship, democracy, the rule of law, and equal rights define us as a society, and the Government is determined to promote these values. Britain has a strong legal framework in place to deal with hate crimes, and these must be reported to the police.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 05/12/2018 15:47:58 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch

1012373

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Opportunity North East
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his announcement of 8 October 2018 that the North East will receive £24 million in funding through Opportunity North East, whether that funding is additional funding or is planned to come from existing budgets.
	tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
	tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
	uin	194656
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2018 answer text <p>The £24 million investment announced for Opportunity North East is funded in two different ways. £12 million is allocated for the Early Careers Support Programme which is part of an existing, funded programme of work. The North East will benefit a year in advance of other regions from this early support for new teachers and will be a major part of the test and learn phase, ahead of the roll-out of the national programme. The wider investment of a further £12 million will be funded from within the department’s budgets, including underspends in 2018-19. This funding is included in the department’s business plans. The department has prioritised the £12 million for Opportunity North East whilst remaining within the department’s allocations from Her Majesty’s Treasury, which we will continue to do over the lifetime of the programme as part of our normal business planning process.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 27/11/2018 17:37:06 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1012475

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Social Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which 20 local authorities will benefit from the £84 million in additional funding for children's social care services announced in Budget 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	194687
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2018 answer text <p>We are pleased to be investing £84 million to support up to 20 local authorities to improve their social work practice and decision-making.</p><p>We will be working closely with the sector between now and April 2019 to determine how best to allocate funding; looking at those authorities who are struggling to meet challenges caused by rising pressures and who would benefit most from this support. Building on lessons learned from promising innovation programmes in Hertfordshire, Leeds and North Yorkshire, this support will enable target councils to work more effectively with vulnerable children and their families.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 27/11/2018 17:23:36 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1012406

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Alternative Education: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether providers of alternative education will benefit from the £400 million capital bonus for schools, announced in Budget 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	194753
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2018 answer text <p>The Department is allocating an additional £400 million of capital funding to schools in 2018–19. This funding is in addition to the £1.4 billion of condition allocations already provided this year to those responsible for maintaining school buildings. This will ensure that the school estate is well maintained.</p><p>As with Devolved Formula Capital, pupil referral units, alternative-provision academies, alternative-provision free schools, and general hospital schools will benefit from the funding, along with maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools, academies and free schools, special schools, non-maintained special schools and sixth-form colleges. It will also be allocated to those specialist post-16 institutions that have eligible state-funded pupils.</p><p>In December, the Department plans to publish a ready reckoner, which is a self-service calculation tool that will allow schools to estimate their allocations. The final allocations are expected to be published in the new year.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 27/11/2018 16:08:34 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1012299

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to allocate new moneys to fund in full the pay award for teaching staff in Catholic sixth-form colleges; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	194581
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2018 answer text <p>Further education (FE) providers, including Catholic sixth-form colleges, are independent institutions responsible for setting their own staff salaries, and the government has no current plans to allocate money to assist with any increases in their teachers’ pay.</p><p>However, we know that FE faces cost pressures, and we are working with the sector to look closely at funding, to see what more we can do and to inform Spending Review planning.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 30/11/2018 11:30:05 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1012314

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2018
	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, when he plans to publish the eligibility criteria for maintenance loans in relation to students taking part-time distance learning courses.
	tabling member constituency	Hove
	tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
	uin	194710
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2018 answer text <p>The Student Loans Company (SLC) publish statistics annually on student support payments by academic year: <a href="https://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/financial-support-awarded/england-higher-education.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/financial-support-awarded/england-higher-education.aspx</a>. Early statistics for the academic year 2018/19 show that as at 31 October 2018, 1,500 English domiciled students had been paid a part-time maintenance loan. Information on the total number of part-time students in the academic year 2018/19 is not yet available.</p><p> </p><p>As stated in the government response to the recent consultation on part-time maintenance loans, we would like to extend these new loans to distance learning courses, but we must maintain confidence in the student finance system and ensure that adequate controls are in place to prevent the misuse of public funds.</p><p> </p><p>In light of this, ministers would only extend these loans to distance learners if robust controls are put in place to manage the risks associated with that mode of study. The department is currently considering those controls, and a final decision regarding whether it is feasible to extend maintenance loans to distance learners will be made once this scrutiny is completed.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 194709 194711 question first answered 27/11/2018 17:25:52 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1012383

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2018
	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, what steps he is taking with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to support the delivery of Education and Health Care Plans for children with special educational needs and disabilities.
	tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
	tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
	uin	194746
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2018 answer text <p>We have given £252 million to local authorities to support implementation of the new duties under the Children and Families Act (2014). We have also funded a consortium of partners, including the Council for Disabled Children, to work with health and social care services, including producing guidance on improving education, health and care (EHC) plans; and funded a special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) leadership programme and legal training for all local authorities and their health partners to ensure they are clear on their statutory responsibilities.</p><p> </p><p>We have strengthened the National Health Service (NHS) Provider Contract for NHS Trusts to include a requirement to report on meeting the six-week deadline for health input into EHC plans; established a national network for Designated Medical Officers and Designated Clinical Officers, funded a local authority led regional network and developed resources to support joint self-assessment and peer review.</p><p> </p><p>We monitor implementation on the ground, for example, looking at the time it takes for local authorities to issue EHC plans. The Ofsted/Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspections of SEND services we introduced in 2016 have also shone a light on strengths and weaknesses in the delivery of EHC plans and have proved a catalyst for local change. Where significant concerns have been identified, written statements of action (WSOA), setting out the actions the local area will take to improve services, are supporting local areas to improve their services. Ofsted and the CQC will re-visit each area with a WSOA to assess the progress they are making; and where sufficient progress is not being made, we will take appropriate action.</p><p> </p><p>64.9% of new EHC plans (excluding exception cases) were issued within 20 weeks in 2017, up from 58.6% in 2016.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 27/11/2018 17:29:33 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

1012370

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Higher Education: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure that the Teaching Excellence Framework measures the quality of teaching at a higher education provider.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
	tabling member printed	Layla Moran
	uin	194740
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2018 answer text <p>The purpose of the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF) is to drive up standards of teaching quality in higher education, as well as to offer prospective students information about where to find high quality teaching and the most positive graduate outcomes.</p><p>We are assessing and evaluating the development of the TEF on an ongoing basis. Since 2016, we have published consultation reports, research reports and evaluation findings on the development of the TEF. The Office for Students also published its findings from the first year of the subject-level pilots on 22 October.</p><p>We intend to publish further research on the initial impact of the TEF, based on the provider-level evaluation 2016/17, in the New Year. That research report will include evidence, drawing on the views of providers and students, about the effect of the TEF on the choices made by students. It will also report on the perceptions of changes to institutional reputation that providers and students, both home and international, attribute to the TEF.</p><p>On 19 November, we announced the appointment of Dame Shirley Pearce as the independent reviewer of TEF. Dame Shirley Pearce will report on the operation of the TEF, in line with the remit set out for her in section 26 of the Higher Education and Research Act 2017. We expect her to report to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State in Summer 2019.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 194738 194739 194741 question first answered 30/11/2018 11:27:41 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1012322

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free School Meals: Gateshead
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of (a) children and (b) children eligible for free school meals reached a Good Level of Development at age five in the Gateshead constituency in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Gateshead
	tabling member printed	Ian Mearns
	uin	194646
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2018 answer text <p>The requested data is shown in the attached table<strong>.</strong></p><p> </p><p>Results at local authority level for academic year 2017/18 are due to be published on Thursday 29 November.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 30/11/2018 12:44:20 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 194646_Percentage_of_children_achieving_a_good_level_of_development_in_early_years_foundation_stage_profile_teacher_assessments.pdf title Achievement_in_early_years_foundation_stage
	tabling member	4000 label Biography information for Ian Mearns

1012313

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2018
	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, what progress the Government has made on its plans to extend maintenance loans to students taking part-time distance learning courses from the 2019-20 academic year.
	tabling member constituency	Hove
	tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
	uin	194709
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2018 answer text <p>The Student Loans Company (SLC) publish statistics annually on student support payments by academic year: <a href="https://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/financial-support-awarded/england-higher-education.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/financial-support-awarded/england-higher-education.aspx</a>. Early statistics for the academic year 2018/19 show that as at 31 October 2018, 1,500 English domiciled students had been paid a part-time maintenance loan. Information on the total number of part-time students in the academic year 2018/19 is not yet available.</p><p> </p><p>As stated in the government response to the recent consultation on part-time maintenance loans, we would like to extend these new loans to distance learning courses, but we must maintain confidence in the student finance system and ensure that adequate controls are in place to prevent the misuse of public funds.</p><p> </p><p>In light of this, ministers would only extend these loans to distance learners if robust controls are put in place to manage the risks associated with that mode of study. The department is currently considering those controls, and a final decision regarding whether it is feasible to extend maintenance loans to distance learners will be made once this scrutiny is completed.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 194710 194711 question first answered 27/11/2018 17:25:52 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle