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1141088

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices: Travel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he has taken to introduce discounted bus and train travel for apprentices since June 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
	tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
	uin	280469
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>In January 2019, the government announced the 16-17 Railcard, which will offer half price rail fares to 16 and 17 year-olds from September 2019. This will benefit apprentices and those in further education. Further details about the 16-17 Railcard will be announced later this year.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education and the Department for Transport are currently preparing a joint proposal for discounted public transport, including bus and train travel, for apprentices. They are keen to work with stakeholders to address how we can best ensure that young people are not deterred from taking up apprenticeship opportunities due to travel costs and will continue to work together to support other forms of discounted travel for apprentices.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Mrs Kemi Badenoch question first answered 02/08/2019 12:09:15 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch previous answer version 131205 answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1141005

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Institutes of Technology and Specialist Maths Schools: Location
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the locations are of (a) specialist maths schools and (b) Institutes of Technology; and whether it is his policy to ensure that every major city in England has each of those institutions.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
	tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
	uin	280435
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2019 answer text <p>There are two open maths schools located in London and Exeter. Four more schools are in the pre-opening stage and will be located in Cambridge, Liverpool, Surrey and Lancashire. The Department is developing a network of new maths schools across England, working with leading universities and building on the success of the two open schools. The Government is committed to opening more maths schools.</p><p> </p><p>Details on the 12 Institutes of Technology that the Department has announced can be found at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/institutes-of-technology--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/institutes-of-technology--2</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has acknowledged that there might be some areas of the country where there were no proposals that met our quality standard in this competition. The Department will review the extent of geographical ‘cold spots’ in Institutes of Technology provision to determine whether a future competition should be considered.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 31/07/2019 13:04:21 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb previous answer version 131195 answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1141058

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Lifelong Education: Digital Technology
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he has taken to introduce (a) a right to lifelong learning in digital skills and (b) a right for all employees to request leave for training.
	tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
	tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
	uin	280308
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>The government recognises the importance of digital skills to employability and participation in society. To help tackle digital exclusion, from 2020, we will fully fund adults with no or low digital skills to undertake new improved digital qualifications free of charge. These will be based on new national standards which set out the digital skills people need to get on in life and work.</p><p>In the interim, we will continue to support the provision of basic digital skills training for adults in colleges and community learning settings through the Adult Education Budget and other programmes.</p><p>With regard to requesting leave for training or study, an employee can request time off if they have worked for their employer for at least 26 weeks, if the training will support them in their job role, and if the organisation they work for has at least 250 staff.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Mrs Kemi Badenoch question first answered 02/08/2019 12:06:03 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch previous answer version 131203 answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1141010

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Overseas Students: Eastern Europe
	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 secure continued access to UK universities for eastern European students after 2020; and what steps his Department has taken to ensure that UK universities are affordable for European students after 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Tooting
	tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
	uin	280439
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/08/2019 answer text <p>International students make a vital contribution to UK higher education, both economically and culturally, diversifying campuses and enriching UK student experiences. The UK government recognises the value of international students. In the International Education Strategy, published in March 2019, we set an ambition to increase the number of international students choosing to study in the UK to 600,000 by 2030, an increase of over 30%. A link to the International Education Strategy can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/international-education-strategy-global-potential-global-growth/international-education-strategy-global-potential-global-growth" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/international-education-strategy-global-potential-global-growth/international-education-strategy-global-potential-global-growth</a>.</p><p> </p><p>On 28 May 2019, the government announced guarantees on student finance for EU nationals to help provide certainty. EU nationals (and their family members) who start a course in England in the 2020/21 academic year or before will continue to be eligible for ‘home fee’ status and student finance support from Student Finance England for the duration of their course, provided they meet the residency requirement.</p><p> </p><p>Applications for courses starting in academic year 2021/22 do not open until September 2020. We will provide sufficient notice for prospective EU students on fee arrangements ahead of the 2021/22 academic year and subsequent years in future.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 08/08/2019 12:26:49 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone previous answer version 131334 answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

1141040

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupil Premium
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government is taking to encourage schools to consult parents on how Pupil Premium Plus funding should be spent.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	280299
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>There are 2 types of pupil premium plus funding. Pupil premium plus for looked-after children is managed by the local authority’s Virtual School Head, and is separate from wider pupil premium plus funding for previously looked-after children. Pupil premium plus for previously looked-after children is paid directly to schools, and it is for them to decide how it should be used to raise the attainment of all eligible pupils.</p><p>Guidance for schools on the use of pupil premium plus can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/designated-teacher-for-looked-after-children" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/designated-teacher-for-looked-after-children</a>. The guidance states that, for previously looked-after children,<em> ‘</em>the designated teacher should work closely with their parents and guardians as they will understand their child’s needs better than anyone else. The designated teacher should make themselves known to parents as someone they can talk to about issues affecting their child’s education’. The guidance is clear that parents and guardians ‘should be encouraged to participate in discussions about their child’s support needs and strategies to meet identified needs, including how pupil premium plus should be used to support their child’.</p><p> </p><p>School Information Regulations and Funding Agreements require schools to publish their strategy for using the pupil premium. The requirements include identifying barriers to learning and setting out how these will be addressed. As individual needs will differ, the strategy that should cover both the pupil premium for economically disadvantaged pupils and pupil premium plus for looked-after and previously looked-after pupils needs to be flexible and responsive, and can allow funding to be combined to increase its effectiveness.</p><p> </p><p>Owing to the low numbers of looked-after and previously looked-after pupils in schools, it would not be appropriate, nor permitted under data protection law, to publish separate strategy details that could identify them.</p><p> </p><p>We have given a commitment in our concluding publication on the Children in Need review to work in conjunction with the What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care and the Education Endowment Foundation to support schools in making best use of pupil premium, including pupil premium plus, to identify and bring together best practice for the education of the most disadvantaged children.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Mrs Kemi Badenoch grouped question UIN 280300 280301 280302 question first answered 02/08/2019 12:07:08 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch previous answer version 131370 answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1141041

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupil Premium
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring schools to provide on request to parents (a) a general outline of spending of Pupil Premium Plus funding and (b) information on where that funding has been pooled for the benefit of a cohort.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	280300
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>There are 2 types of pupil premium plus funding. Pupil premium plus for looked-after children is managed by the local authority’s Virtual School Head, and is separate from wider pupil premium plus funding for previously looked-after children. Pupil premium plus for previously looked-after children is paid directly to schools, and it is for them to decide how it should be used to raise the attainment of all eligible pupils.</p><p>Guidance for schools on the use of pupil premium plus can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/designated-teacher-for-looked-after-children" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/designated-teacher-for-looked-after-children</a>. The guidance states that, for previously looked-after children,<em> ‘</em>the designated teacher should work closely with their parents and guardians as they will understand their child’s needs better than anyone else. The designated teacher should make themselves known to parents as someone they can talk to about issues affecting their child’s education’. The guidance is clear that parents and guardians ‘should be encouraged to participate in discussions about their child’s support needs and strategies to meet identified needs, including how pupil premium plus should be used to support their child’.</p><p> </p><p>School Information Regulations and Funding Agreements require schools to publish their strategy for using the pupil premium. The requirements include identifying barriers to learning and setting out how these will be addressed. As individual needs will differ, the strategy that should cover both the pupil premium for economically disadvantaged pupils and pupil premium plus for looked-after and previously looked-after pupils needs to be flexible and responsive, and can allow funding to be combined to increase its effectiveness.</p><p> </p><p>Owing to the low numbers of looked-after and previously looked-after pupils in schools, it would not be appropriate, nor permitted under data protection law, to publish separate strategy details that could identify them.</p><p> </p><p>We have given a commitment in our concluding publication on the Children in Need review to work in conjunction with the What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care and the Education Endowment Foundation to support schools in making best use of pupil premium, including pupil premium plus, to identify and bring together best practice for the education of the most disadvantaged children.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Mrs Kemi Badenoch grouped question UIN 280299 280301 280302 question first answered 02/08/2019 12:07:08 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch previous answer version 131368 answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1141042

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupil Premium
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring schools to develop separate policies for Pupil Premium funding and Pupil Premium Plus funding to recognise the differing needs of children and young people who are eligible for each.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	280301
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>There are 2 types of pupil premium plus funding. Pupil premium plus for looked-after children is managed by the local authority’s Virtual School Head, and is separate from wider pupil premium plus funding for previously looked-after children. Pupil premium plus for previously looked-after children is paid directly to schools, and it is for them to decide how it should be used to raise the attainment of all eligible pupils.</p><p>Guidance for schools on the use of pupil premium plus can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/designated-teacher-for-looked-after-children" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/designated-teacher-for-looked-after-children</a>. The guidance states that, for previously looked-after children,<em> ‘</em>the designated teacher should work closely with their parents and guardians as they will understand their child’s needs better than anyone else. The designated teacher should make themselves known to parents as someone they can talk to about issues affecting their child’s education’. The guidance is clear that parents and guardians ‘should be encouraged to participate in discussions about their child’s support needs and strategies to meet identified needs, including how pupil premium plus should be used to support their child’.</p><p> </p><p>School Information Regulations and Funding Agreements require schools to publish their strategy for using the pupil premium. The requirements include identifying barriers to learning and setting out how these will be addressed. As individual needs will differ, the strategy that should cover both the pupil premium for economically disadvantaged pupils and pupil premium plus for looked-after and previously looked-after pupils needs to be flexible and responsive, and can allow funding to be combined to increase its effectiveness.</p><p> </p><p>Owing to the low numbers of looked-after and previously looked-after pupils in schools, it would not be appropriate, nor permitted under data protection law, to publish separate strategy details that could identify them.</p><p> </p><p>We have given a commitment in our concluding publication on the Children in Need review to work in conjunction with the What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care and the Education Endowment Foundation to support schools in making best use of pupil premium, including pupil premium plus, to identify and bring together best practice for the education of the most disadvantaged children.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Mrs Kemi Badenoch grouped question UIN 280299 280300 280302 question first answered 02/08/2019 12:07:08 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch previous answer version 131316 answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1141043

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupil Premium
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of commissioning research to establish best practice on spending of Pupil Premium Plus funding in schools.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	280302
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>There are 2 types of pupil premium plus funding. Pupil premium plus for looked-after children is managed by the local authority’s Virtual School Head, and is separate from wider pupil premium plus funding for previously looked-after children. Pupil premium plus for previously looked-after children is paid directly to schools, and it is for them to decide how it should be used to raise the attainment of all eligible pupils.</p><p>Guidance for schools on the use of pupil premium plus can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/designated-teacher-for-looked-after-children" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/designated-teacher-for-looked-after-children</a>. The guidance states that, for previously looked-after children,<em> ‘</em>the designated teacher should work closely with their parents and guardians as they will understand their child’s needs better than anyone else. The designated teacher should make themselves known to parents as someone they can talk to about issues affecting their child’s education’. The guidance is clear that parents and guardians ‘should be encouraged to participate in discussions about their child’s support needs and strategies to meet identified needs, including how pupil premium plus should be used to support their child’.</p><p> </p><p>School Information Regulations and Funding Agreements require schools to publish their strategy for using the pupil premium. The requirements include identifying barriers to learning and setting out how these will be addressed. As individual needs will differ, the strategy that should cover both the pupil premium for economically disadvantaged pupils and pupil premium plus for looked-after and previously looked-after pupils needs to be flexible and responsive, and can allow funding to be combined to increase its effectiveness.</p><p> </p><p>Owing to the low numbers of looked-after and previously looked-after pupils in schools, it would not be appropriate, nor permitted under data protection law, to publish separate strategy details that could identify them.</p><p> </p><p>We have given a commitment in our concluding publication on the Children in Need review to work in conjunction with the What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care and the Education Endowment Foundation to support schools in making best use of pupil premium, including pupil premium plus, to identify and bring together best practice for the education of the most disadvantaged children.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Mrs Kemi Badenoch grouped question UIN 280299 280300 280301 question first answered 02/08/2019 12:07:08 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch previous answer version 131369 answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1140918

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: Sanitary Products
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress is being made on the commitment to offer free sanitary products to schools by the start of the 2019-20 school year.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	280133
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>The former Chancellor of the Exchequer (Philip Hammond), my right hon. Friend, the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge, announced in his Spring Statement on 13 March 2019 that the Department for Education will lead a scheme to provide access to free sanitary products in all secondary schools and colleges across England. On 16 April 2019, the former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children and Families (Nadhim Zahawi). my hon. Friend, the Member for Stratford-upon-Avon, announced that funding would be extended to cover need in primary schools and that national roll-out would take place in early 2020.</p><p>The invitation to tender for the period products scheme closed on 15 July 2019. The department is also working with stakeholders to develop guidance that will support institutions in embedding this scheme.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Mrs Kemi Badenoch question first answered 02/08/2019 13:59:23 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch previous answer version 131000 answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1141014

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many new schools other than free schools have been (a) opened in each academic year since 2015-16 and (b) approved for opening in future years.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
	tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
	uin	280443
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2019 answer text <p>The Department expects that the free schools route will be the main route for establishing new schools in England. Where local authorities identify the need for a new school, section 6A of the Education and Inspections Act 2006 requires them to seek proposals to establish a free school.</p><p>However, it remains possible for proposers to publish proposals for a new local authority maintained school at any time in a limited set of circumstances.</p><p>The table attached sets out the number of new provision local authority maintained schools established compared to the number of free schools, since the 2015/16 academic year[1].</p><p>There is one foundation school proposed to open in 2019/20 and 284 pipeline free schools.</p><p>On 29 May 2019, the Department announced the outcome of the first round of the Voluntary Aided Capital Scheme, which gave in-principle agreement for the Department to fund the establishment of a new voluntary aided school. The Department also placed two further bids on hold whilst we work with the proposers to identify a suitable site for their proposed school. The successful proposer will now need to follow the statutory process for establishing a new maintained school. The local authority will be responsible for making the final decision as to whether to approve the school.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] This data is taken from Get Information about Schools (GIAS). Responsibility for updating GIAS is shared between the Department, local authorities and schools and is continuously updated. Therefore, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of the data. This data includes schools whose reason for opening is listed as ‘new provision’ on GIAS. The Ofsted definition of a mainstream maintained state school does not include nursery provision, special schools or alternative provision.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 31/07/2019 16:47:01 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 280443_New_LA_maintained_school_provision_established_2015-16.docx title 280443_Table previous answer version 130987 answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock