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1226607

registered interest
date	20/07/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Higher Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the annual cost to the public purse of the higher education student finance system by 2030 in the absence of policy changes.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	76892
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/07/2020 answer text <p>The department publishes forecasts of higher education student numbers, student loan outlay and student loan repayments in England. The most recent publication (June 2019) is available at:<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/student-loan-forecasts-england-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/student-loan-forecasts-england-2018-to-2019</a>.</p><p>These forecasts assume policies as set in June 2019 and the forecast of economic conditions at that point by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). The forecasts of student loan outlay in 2020-21 and 2030-31 are also repeated in the attached table.</p><p>The long-term cost to the government of the student finance system depends on the proportion of the student loan outlay which is expected to be repaid. We do not routinely publish forecasts of the cost of student loans to the public purse to 2030 due to the high level of uncertainty inherent in such longer-term forecasts of income-contingent loans.</p><p>Updates to this forecast will be published in ‘Student loan forecasts, England: 2019 to 2020’, which is pre-announced for publication in September 2020.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 28/07/2020 16:15:22 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan attachment 1 file name 76892_forecasts_student_loan_outlay.xls title 76892_table
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1226610

registered interest
date	20/07/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Arts: Higher Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 16 July 2020 to Question 70489 on higher education: finance, what the cost to the public purse has been of support for media studies courses in higher education in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	76893
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/07/2020 answer text <p>Reliable estimates of the historic cost to the public purse of degree subjects at this level of disaggregation are not available.</p><p>Recent research published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies looked at how financial returns to higher education, for both students and the taxpayer, differ by subject studied. They estimate that, on average, the taxpayer gains £110,000 per male graduate and £30,000 per female graduate through extra tax and National Insurance contributions less unpaid student loans, with economics and medicine seeing the greatest returns and creative arts seeing the lowest returns. The publication is available here:<br> <a href="https://www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/R167-The-impact-of-undergraduate-degrees-on-lifetime-earnings.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/R167-The-impact-of-undergraduate-degrees-on-lifetime-earnings.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 76894 question first answered 28/07/2020 16:18:59 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1226611

registered interest
date	20/07/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Higher Education: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 16 July 2020 to question 70489 on higher education, what the cost was to the public purse of support for higher education in each of the last 10 years, by degree subject area.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	76894
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/07/2020 answer text <p>Reliable estimates of the historic cost to the public purse of degree subjects at this level of disaggregation are not available.</p><p>Recent research published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies looked at how financial returns to higher education, for both students and the taxpayer, differ by subject studied. They estimate that, on average, the taxpayer gains £110,000 per male graduate and £30,000 per female graduate through extra tax and National Insurance contributions less unpaid student loans, with economics and medicine seeing the greatest returns and creative arts seeing the lowest returns. The publication is available here:<br> <a href="https://www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/R167-The-impact-of-undergraduate-degrees-on-lifetime-earnings.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/R167-The-impact-of-undergraduate-degrees-on-lifetime-earnings.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 76893 question first answered 28/07/2020 16:18:59 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1226780

registered interest
date	20/07/2020
answering body	Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office
answering dept id	209
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name	Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff in his Department have undertaken unconscious bias training in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	77798
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2020 answer text <p>The data available indicates that over the last 5 years up to 22 July 2020, 4,615 Cabinet Office staff completed Civil Service unconscious bias e-Learning training.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 01/09/2020 12:07:57 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1225196

registered interest
date	15/07/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much the cost of student finance is forecast to increase in the absence of further policy changes in the next three years.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	74726
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/07/2020 answer text <p>The department publishes forecasts of higher education student numbers, student loan outlay and student loan repayments in England. The most recent publication, published in June 2019, covers financial years up to 2023-24 and academic years for the same period. These figures are available in the ‘Student loan forecasts, England: 2018 to 2019’, which is available at:<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/student-loan-forecasts-england-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/student-loan-forecasts-england-2018-to-2019</a>.</p><p>The figures can be used to derive the forecast cost of student finance, as set out in Table A in the attached tables under the policies and economic conditions of June 2019.</p><p>The Resource Accounting and Budgeting (RAB) charge is the proportion of loan outlay that is expected to not be repaid when future repayments are valued in present terms. This takes into account the effect of inflation and the estimated cost of government borrowing over time.</p><p>The RAB cost is the product of student loan outlay and the RAB charge and represents the long-term monetary cost to government of providing student loan funding</p><p>Updates to this forecast will be published in 'Student loan forecasts, England: 2019 to 2020'<em>, </em>which is pre-announced for publication in September 2020.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan attachment 1 file name 74726_table_A.pdf title 74726_table_A 2 file name 74726_table_B.pdf title 74726_table_B question first answered 28/07/2020 17:04:10 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1224082

registered interest
date	13/07/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	GCE A-level: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average total A-level point score was for (a) White British, (b) Indian, (c) Bangladeshi, (d) Pakistani, (e) Black African, (f) Black Caribbean, (g) mixed ethnicity and (h) all pupils in each of the last 20 years.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	73080
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2020 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested.</p><p>The most equivalent A level attainment statistic is the Average Point Score (APS) per entry, data for 2018/19 is available from the file ‘2019_REVISED_Performance_measures_by_characteristics’ in the ‘Underlying data: 2019 revised 16 to 18 results csv’ link below:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2018-to-2019-revised" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2018-to-2019-revised</a>.</p><p>Similarly, data is available from the underlying data produced for the equivalent publications in 2016/17 and 2017/18 as set out below:</p><p>‘2018_REVISED_Performance_measures_by_characteristics’ from the underlying data available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2017-to-2018-revised" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2017-to-2018-revised</a>.</p><p>‘SFR03_2018_Performance_measurse_by_characteristics’ from the underlying data available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2016-to-2017-revised" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2016-to-2017-revised</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 21/07/2020 16:03:45 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1224083

registered interest
date	13/07/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	GCE A-level: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of (a) White British, (b) Indian, (c) Bangladeshi, (d) Pakistani, (e) Black African, (f) Black Caribbean, (g) mixed ethnicity and (h) all pupils achieved AAB or better at A level in each of the last 20 years.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	73081
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2020 answer text <p>The proportion of students that achieved AAB or better at A level, broken down by ethnicity, is available for 2018/19 from the file ‘2019_REVISED_Performance_measures_by_characteristics’ on the ‘Underlying data: 2019 revised 16 to 18 results csv’ link below:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2018-to-2019-revised" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2018-to-2019-revised</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Similarly, data is available from the underlying data produced for the equivalent publications in 2016/17 and 2017/18 as set out below:</p><p>‘2018_REVISED_Performance_measures_by_characteristics’ from the underlying data available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2017-to-2018-revised" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2017-to-2018-revised</a>.</p><p>‘SFR03_2018_Performance_measurse_by_characteristics’ from the underlying data available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2016-to-2017-revised" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2016-to-2017-revised</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 21/07/2020 16:05:27 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1222830

registered interest
date	10/07/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils in (a) state and (b) independent schools achieved the equivalent of AAA or better in each English region in each year since 2005.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	72279
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2020 answer text <p>The information requested is not available in the format requested.</p><p>I refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave on 9 July 2020 to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2020-07-06/69679/" target="_blank">69679</a>, which covered the percentage of pupils achieving 3 A*-A grades or better at A level by region between 2009-10 and 2018-19.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 15/07/2020 17:01:01 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1222831

registered interest
date	10/07/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Secondary Education: Pupils
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils there were in (a) year 11 and (b) year 13 in (i) state and (ii) independent schools in each English region in each year since 2003.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	72259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2020 answer text <p>The number of pupils by year group is available in the National statistics publication ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers</a>.</p><p>This includes the number of pupils by national curriculum year group for state-funded schools. National curriculum year group is not collected for independent schools, however the same publication contains the number of pupils by age at school, local authority, region and national level.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 15/07/2020 17:01:42 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1221455

registered interest
date	07/07/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Higher Education: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, after accounting for changes to the classification of student loans, how much (a) was spent on higher education in each of the last 10 years and (b) has been allocated in each year of the forecast period.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	70489
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2020 answer text <p>Higher education spending is reflected in the national accounts in different ways. Net spending by government on higher education over the year contributes to Public Sector Net Borrowing (PSNB), also known as the deficit.</p><p>Grants to students and providers are government spending and increase the deficit. The recent classification decision by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) changed the way that student loans contribute to the deficit. Under the reclassification, the part of the maintenance and tuition loan which is not expected to be repaid is considered spending and increases the deficit. Any accruing interest which is expected to be repaid is considered as income, decreasing the deficit. The difference between spending on loans which are not expected to be repaid and expected interest income represents the net spending by the government on student loans over the year.</p><p>More detail on the reclassification by the ONS is at: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxes/publicsectorfinance/methodologies/studentloansinthepublicsectorfinancesamethodologicalguide" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxes/publicsectorfinance/methodologies/studentloansinthepublicsectorfinancesamethodologicalguide</a>.</p><p>A table summarising the total deficit cost of higher education is attached. Figures are not yet available for the 2019/20 academic year.</p><p>Historic information on student loans is published by the Student Loans Company and available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/student-loans-company/about/statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/student-loans-company/about/statistics</a>.</p><p>The Office for Students (OfS) is responsible for distributing funding to the sector on behalf of the department. Details of future teaching grant allocation budgets from the department to the OfS are published at <a href="https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/regulation/guidance-from-government/" target="_blank">https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/regulation/guidance-from-government/</a>.</p><p>The Office for Budget Responsibility publishes the forecast impact of student loans on PSNB. This is available in table 3.24 of the ‘March 2020 Economic and Fiscal Outlook’: <a href="https://cdn.obr.uk/EFO_March-2020_Accessible.pdf" target="_blank">https://cdn.obr.uk/EFO_March-2020_Accessible.pdf</a>. These figures include student loans funded by the devolved administrations and the department.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 16/07/2020 14:14:53 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan attachment 1 file name 70489-table-showing-higher-education-spending-from-2009-to-2019.pdf title 70489_table
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien