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1315619

registered interest
date	18/05/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what amount of apprenticeship levy funding has remained unspent after a period of 24 months in each month since January 2018.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
uin	2947
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2021 answer text <p>The funds in apprenticeship service accounts are available for levy paying employers to use for 24 months before they begin to expire on a rolling, month by month basis. Employers began to pay the apprenticeship levy in April 2017 and unused levy funds began to expire in May 2019.</p><p>The attached table shows the figures for monthly levy expiry from May 2019 to date.</p><p>The levy is an important part of our reforms to apprenticeships which are vital for driving our economic recovery. It supports employers of all sizes to invest in high quality apprenticeship training. In the 2021-22 financial year, funding available for investment in apprenticeships in England will remain around £2.5 billion – double that spent in the 2010-11 financial year in cash terms.</p><p>We do not anticipate that all employers who pay the levy will need or want to use all the funds available to them, but they are able to if they wish. As well as funding new apprenticeships in levy paying employers, income from the levy is used to fund new apprenticeships in employers that do not pay the levy, as well as existing apprentices that started in previous years.</p><p>The funds available to levy paying employers through their apprenticeship service accounts are not the same as the Department for Education’s annual apprenticeships budget. The annual apprenticeship budget is set by Her Majesty's Treasury, and although closely linked, is distinct from the total levy income collected by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.</p><p>Details of apprenticeship budget spend for the 2020-21 financial year will be included in the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s Annual Report and Accounts which is due to be published in November 2021.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan grouped question UIN 2948 question first answered 24/05/2021 12:33:56 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan attachment 1 file name 2947_2948_monthly_levy_expiry_from_May_2019_to_date.xls title 2947_2948_table_monthly_levy_expiry_from_May_2019
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1315620

registered interest
date	18/05/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to announce the amount of the total apprenticeship levy underspend for the financial year 2020-21; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
uin	2948
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2021 answer text <p>The funds in apprenticeship service accounts are available for levy paying employers to use for 24 months before they begin to expire on a rolling, month by month basis. Employers began to pay the apprenticeship levy in April 2017 and unused levy funds began to expire in May 2019.</p><p>The attached table shows the figures for monthly levy expiry from May 2019 to date.</p><p>The levy is an important part of our reforms to apprenticeships which are vital for driving our economic recovery. It supports employers of all sizes to invest in high quality apprenticeship training. In the 2021-22 financial year, funding available for investment in apprenticeships in England will remain around £2.5 billion – double that spent in the 2010-11 financial year in cash terms.</p><p>We do not anticipate that all employers who pay the levy will need or want to use all the funds available to them, but they are able to if they wish. As well as funding new apprenticeships in levy paying employers, income from the levy is used to fund new apprenticeships in employers that do not pay the levy, as well as existing apprentices that started in previous years.</p><p>The funds available to levy paying employers through their apprenticeship service accounts are not the same as the Department for Education’s annual apprenticeships budget. The annual apprenticeship budget is set by Her Majesty's Treasury, and although closely linked, is distinct from the total levy income collected by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.</p><p>Details of apprenticeship budget spend for the 2020-21 financial year will be included in the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s Annual Report and Accounts which is due to be published in November 2021.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan grouped question UIN 2947 question first answered 24/05/2021 12:33:56 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan attachment 1 file name 2947_2948_monthly_levy_expiry_from_May_2019_to_date.xls title 2947_2948_table_monthly_levy_expiry_from_May_2019
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1315247

registered interest
date	17/05/2021
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Photographs: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reason photography studios are no longer in the leisure services category for covid-19 support grants.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
uin	2260
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2021 answer text <p>The Restart Grants announced by my Rt. Hon. Friend Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer on 3 March 2021 are one-off grants to businesses in the non-essential retail, hospitality, leisure, personal care and accommodation sectors, to support businesses to reopen as Covid-19 restrictions are relaxed.</p><p> </p><p>Strand One of the Restart Grants aims to support non-essential retail with grants of up to £6,000. Stand Two is to support hospitality, accommodation, leisure, personal care and gym businesses, with grants of up to £18,000. The higher amount is in recognition that these sectors will have been allowed to open at a later date and are likely to be more severely impacted by remaining restrictions.</p><p> </p><p>The main service principle will determine which threshold of funding a business receives. Businesses will need to declare which is their main service. Local Authorities will need to exercise their reasonable judgement to determine whether or not a business is eligible for grants, and under which funding threshold, and be satisfied that they have taken reasonable and practicable steps to pay eligible businesses, and to pay them the correct amount.</p><p> </p><p>Local Authorities in England have also been allocated £2bn in additional funding via the Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG), to provide essential support that best suits their area. The latest FAQs issued to Local Authorities on 6 May explain that ARG funding can be used as a top-up for businesses that are in receipt of grants under other schemes.</p><p> </p><p>Further guidance can be found here: <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Flocal-restrictions-support-grants-lrsg-and-additional-restrictions-grant-arg-guidance-for-local-authorities&amp;data=04%7C01%7CAmanda.Thomas%40beis.gov.uk%7Cec30cd39689c45ce2db008d91a2481c1%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C637569566353712440%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=ajgAUjID8d31lZ5irWjul61jpg4YE3pj%2F6J8U7vGpeE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-restrictions-support-grants-lrsg-and-additional-restrictions-grant-arg-guidance-for-local-authorities</a>.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully grouped question UIN 2261 2262 question first answered 25/05/2021 16:40:25 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1314590

registered interest
date	13/05/2021
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Kickstart Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people aged (a) 16 to 18, (b) 19 to 24 and (c) over 25 started a new position under the Kickstart scheme in each month since July 2020.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
uin	1040
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2021 answer text <p>Since the Department for Work and Pensions launched the Kickstart Scheme in September 2020, over 20,000 young people on Universal Credit between the ages of 16 and 24 have started a Kickstart job. These funded, meaningful six-month jobs also provide support to improve the longer-term employability of the young people. We are not currently able to provide the age of participants on the Kickstart Scheme.</p><p> </p><p>The table below lists the total number of starts to the scheme from October 2020 until January 2021 and by month since then. Almost 1,000 non-grant funded Kickstart jobs are included in the totals and statistics have been rounded to the nearest 10 job starts as per standard DWP statistical practice, except for October 2020 where there were only 5 starts recorded.</p><p> </p><p>Although care is taken when processing and analysing Kickstart applications, referrals and starts, the data collected might be subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system which has been developed quickly. The management information presented here has not been subjected to the usual standard of quality assurance associated with official statistics, but is provided in the interests of transparency. Work is ongoing to improve the quality of information available for the programme.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Time Period</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Number of Starts </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 20</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 20</p></td><td><p>280</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 20</p></td><td><p>1,390</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 21</p></td><td><p>440*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 21</p></td><td><p>1,660</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 21</p></td><td><p>5,990</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 21</p></td><td><p>9,480</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 21 up to and including 06/05/21</p></td><td><p>1,570</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>20,700</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>*Figures shown are rounded to nearest 10. The UK entered a national lockdown on January 21 which is reflected in the figures.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 21/05/2021 13:21:57 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies previous answer version 819 answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1313023

registered interest
date	11/05/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Complaints
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many complaints against police officers have been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct for investigation, by each police force in England and Wales in each year from 2015 to date.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
uin	203
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2021 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold data on IOPC investigations. The Independent Office of Police Conduct will write to my hon. Friend and I will place a copy of the letter in the Library of the House.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 17/05/2021 16:59:08 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1313024

registered interest
date	11/05/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Complaints
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many investigations into police officers conducted by the Independent Office for Police Conduct have taken longer than 12 months from initial complaint to completion, by each police force area in each year from 2015 to date.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
uin	204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2021 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold data on IOPC investigations. The Independent Office of Police Conduct will write to my hon. Friend and I will place a copy of the letter in the Library of the House.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 17/05/2021 14:47:20 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1308504

registered interest
date	13/04/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Adult Education: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what equality impact assessment he has made of the decision to claw back adult education funding from 2020-21 Adult Education Budget grant-funded providers.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
uin	180463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2021 answer text <p>We are lowering the reconciliation threshold of the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) grant funded Adult Education Budget (AEB) (AEB adult skills including non-formula funded community learning and 19-24 traineeships) for 2020 to 2021, from 97% to 90%. This will mean that colleges that have under-delivered on this provision will be able to retain more funding than they normally would.</p><p>The allocations for the COVID-19 skills offer, including funding for the new level 3 adult offer, are ringfenced and the reconciliation threshold for under-delivery of this provision will remain at 97%.</p><p>Our primary aim is to support providers to continue to deliver as much quality provision as possible, including above the 90% threshold, whether that be face-to-face where permitted, online, or otherwise remotely. This includes sub-contracting (for AEB-funded provision only) where that is in line with our subcontracting conditions set out in the rules and contracts.</p><p>Our latest data shows that a threshold of 90% is a fair representation of the providers’ average forecasted delivery for the 2020/21 academic year.</p><p>We acknowledge the situation is still difficult for providers. Equally, we know that many providers have been able to deliver successfully remotely during lockdown. The return to face-to-face learning should further enhance providers’ ability to deliver.</p><p>For colleges who are eligible and are at risk of insolvency, they would be supported by the Insolvency Regime or the Emergency funding process.</p><p>This 90% threshold is the final position for the 2020/2021 academic year and will not be subject to change. There will not be a business case process. In areas where the AEB has been devolved, Mayoral Combined Authorities and Greater London Authority are responsible for considering any provider flexibilities in their areas.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan grouped question UIN 180464 180465 question first answered 20/04/2021 16:55:33 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1308511

registered interest
date	13/04/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Adult Education: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on what evidence he based his decision to set the 2020-21 Adult Education Budget reconciliation threshold for grant funded providers at 90 per cent.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
uin	180464
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2021 answer text <p>We are lowering the reconciliation threshold of the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) grant funded Adult Education Budget (AEB) (AEB adult skills including non-formula funded community learning and 19-24 traineeships) for 2020 to 2021, from 97% to 90%. This will mean that colleges that have under-delivered on this provision will be able to retain more funding than they normally would.</p><p>The allocations for the COVID-19 skills offer, including funding for the new level 3 adult offer, are ringfenced and the reconciliation threshold for under-delivery of this provision will remain at 97%.</p><p>Our primary aim is to support providers to continue to deliver as much quality provision as possible, including above the 90% threshold, whether that be face-to-face where permitted, online, or otherwise remotely. This includes sub-contracting (for AEB-funded provision only) where that is in line with our subcontracting conditions set out in the rules and contracts.</p><p>Our latest data shows that a threshold of 90% is a fair representation of the providers’ average forecasted delivery for the 2020/21 academic year.</p><p>We acknowledge the situation is still difficult for providers. Equally, we know that many providers have been able to deliver successfully remotely during lockdown. The return to face-to-face learning should further enhance providers’ ability to deliver.</p><p>For colleges who are eligible and are at risk of insolvency, they would be supported by the Insolvency Regime or the Emergency funding process.</p><p>This 90% threshold is the final position for the 2020/2021 academic year and will not be subject to change. There will not be a business case process. In areas where the AEB has been devolved, Mayoral Combined Authorities and Greater London Authority are responsible for considering any provider flexibilities in their areas.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan grouped question UIN 180463 180465 question first answered 20/04/2021 16:55:33 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1308514

registered interest
date	13/04/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Adult Education: Finance
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 minimise reductions in adult education opportunities by providers that are facing claw-back from their 2020-21 Adult Education Budgets as a result of his Department's decision to set the reconciliation threshold for grant-funded providers at 90 per cent.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
uin	180465
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2021 answer text <p>We are lowering the reconciliation threshold of the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) grant funded Adult Education Budget (AEB) (AEB adult skills including non-formula funded community learning and 19-24 traineeships) for 2020 to 2021, from 97% to 90%. This will mean that colleges that have under-delivered on this provision will be able to retain more funding than they normally would.</p><p>The allocations for the COVID-19 skills offer, including funding for the new level 3 adult offer, are ringfenced and the reconciliation threshold for under-delivery of this provision will remain at 97%.</p><p>Our primary aim is to support providers to continue to deliver as much quality provision as possible, including above the 90% threshold, whether that be face-to-face where permitted, online, or otherwise remotely. This includes sub-contracting (for AEB-funded provision only) where that is in line with our subcontracting conditions set out in the rules and contracts.</p><p>Our latest data shows that a threshold of 90% is a fair representation of the providers’ average forecasted delivery for the 2020/21 academic year.</p><p>We acknowledge the situation is still difficult for providers. Equally, we know that many providers have been able to deliver successfully remotely during lockdown. The return to face-to-face learning should further enhance providers’ ability to deliver.</p><p>For colleges who are eligible and are at risk of insolvency, they would be supported by the Insolvency Regime or the Emergency funding process.</p><p>This 90% threshold is the final position for the 2020/2021 academic year and will not be subject to change. There will not be a business case process. In areas where the AEB has been devolved, Mayoral Combined Authorities and Greater London Authority are responsible for considering any provider flexibilities in their areas.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan grouped question UIN 180463 180464 question first answered 20/04/2021 16:55:33 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1307263

registered interest
date	12/04/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Further Education and Vocational Education: Assessments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans his Department has to integrate increased levels of modular assessment in Further and Technical Education at (a) Level 3 and (b) lower levels.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
uin	179013
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2021 answer text <p>The department is reviewing post-16 qualifications at level 3 and below to ensure that every qualification approved for public funding has a distinct purpose, is high quality, and supports progression to positive outcomes.</p><p>Our second stage consultation on level 3 advanced technical qualifications (<a href="https://consult.education.gov.uk/post-16-qualifications-review-team/review-of-post-16-qualifications-at-level-3/" target="_blank">https://consult.education.gov.uk/post-16-qualifications-review-team/review-of-post-16-qualifications-at-level-3/</a>) closed on 31 January 2021, and our call for evidence (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/post-16-study-at-level-2-and-below-call-for-evidence" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/post-16-study-at-level-2-and-below-call-for-evidence</a>) on level 2 and below qualifications closed on 14 February 2021.</p><p>In the level 3 consultation, we proposed that assessing a student’s competence at the end of a course (summative assessment) becomes a key feature of technical education.</p><p>Summative assessment allows modular delivery of content but gives greater assurance that competence is achieved by assessing knowledge, skills, and behaviours once all learning has been completed. We are considering the circumstances under which it would appropriate for qualifications to diverge from this model.</p><p>We are carefully reviewing the responses to the level 3 consultation and plan to publish the government response later in the spring. We are developing proposals for consultation on level 2 and below and are considering which design principles might best meet students’ needs.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 16/04/2021 15:52:22 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins