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1052332

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date	31/01/2019
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 recent estimate he has made of the proportion of students repaying student loan as a result of earning a salary above the threshold for non-payment.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	215112
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>Estimates of the proportion of students repaying student loans, earning a salary above the threshold for non-payment are available in Table 6 of the Student loan forecasts, England: 2017 to 2018, which can be accessed here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/student-loan-forecasts-england-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/student-loan-forecasts-england-2017-to-2018</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 05/02/2019 14:35:05 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1052335

registered interest
date	31/01/2019
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 recent estimate he has made of the cost of abolishing interest rates on student loans.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	215113
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>Departmental estimates of changes to the interest rates on student loans are available in Table 7 of the Student loan forecasts, England: 2017 to 2018, which can be accessed here:</p><p><a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistics%2Fstudent-loan-forecasts-england-2017-to-2018&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cmpst.skidmore%40beis.gov.uk%7C0741d2ef8b724d8dba0f08d68b7bd5d0%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C636849761314800895&amp;sdata=mtf4VyWkeSLsozqDRtwTUNQkK4DyXCjFUPJUx5dcpdA%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/student-loan-forecasts-england-2017-to-2018</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The government is conducting a major review of Post-18 Education and Funding which aims to ensure we have a joined up system that is accessible to all and provides value for money for both students and taxpayers. It will consider how students and graduates contribute to the cost of their studies including the level, terms and duration of their contribution, while maintaining the link that those who benefit from post-18 education contribute to its costs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 215114 question first answered 05/02/2019 17:48:02 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1042383

registered interest
date	16/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) students and (b) students eligible for free school meals studied GCSE computer science in each year since 2012.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	209333
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <p>The number of pupils[1], in state-funded schools, at the end of Key Stage 4, who entered into GCSE (or equivalent) computer science[2], between 2011/12 – 2016/17[3] are provided in the table below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Pupils[1] in state-funded schools, at the end of Key Stage 4, entered into GCSE (or equivalent) computer science[2], between 2011/12 – 2016/17[3]</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Academic year</p></td><td><p>Total pupils<br> entering <br>computer science</p></td><td><p>Percentage of all pupils[4], <br>at the end of Key Stage 4, <br>entering computer science</p></td><td><p>Entrants who <br>were eligible<br> for free <br>school meals <br>(FSM)</p></td><td><p>Percentage of <br>entrants that <br>were eligible <br>for FSM</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12[5]</p></td><td><p>1,549</p></td><td><p>0.3</p></td><td><p>75</p></td><td><p>4.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>3,835</p></td><td><p>0.7</p></td><td><p>331</p></td><td><p>8.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14[6]</p></td><td><p>15,213</p></td><td><p>2.7</p></td><td><p>1,509</p></td><td><p>9.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15[7]</p></td><td><p>32,258</p></td><td><p>5.8</p></td><td><p>2,961</p></td><td><p>9.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>60,410</p></td><td><p>11.2</p></td><td><p>6,191</p></td><td><p>10.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>67,175</p></td><td><p>12.7</p></td><td><p>6,713</p></td><td><p>10.0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] Includes state funded pupils.Total number of entries include pupils who were absent, whose results are pending and results which are ungraded or unclassified.</p><p>[2] Discounting has been applied where pupils have taken the same subject more than once and only one entry is counted in these circumstances. Prior to 2014, best entry discounting, where the pupil’s best result is used was in place in performance tables. From 2014 onwards, first entry rules were introduced, where a pupil’s first entry in that subject is used in performance tables. For more information on discounting and early entry, see: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/key-stage-4-qualifications-discount-codes-and-point-scores" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/key-stage-4-qualifications-discount-codes-and-point-scores</a>.</p><p>[3] All figures are based on final data so will deviate from total entries figures published in the Department's statistical release.</p><p>[4] In state funded schools.</p><p>[5] Figures for 2011/12 are based on GCSE entries only and does not include equivalents. Caution should be used when comparing these figures to later years.</p><p>[6] In 2013/14, two major reforms were implemented which affect the calculation of Key Stage 4 performance measures data: 1) Professor Alison Wolf’s Review of Vocational Education recommendations which; restrict the qualifications counted; prevent any qualification from counting as larger than one GCSE; and cap the number of non GCSEs included in performance measures at two per pupil, and 2) an early entry policy to only count a pupil’s first attempt at a qualification, in subjects counted in the English Baccalaureate.</p><p>[7] From 2014/15, early entry policy, under which only a pupil’s first attempt at a qualification is counted in performance measures, is extended to all subjects.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 21/01/2019 14:53:53 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1042384

registered interest
date	16/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) students and (b) students eligible for free school meals studied A Level computer science in each year since 2012.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	209334
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department has published the number of students entering A level computer studies or computing, split by free school meal (FSM) eligibility, from 2011/12 – 2016/17.[1] Figures for 2011/12 – 2015/16 were based on exam results achieved in the report year. In addition, for 2015/16 figures only include students who were included in the ‘best 3 A levels’ measure. From 2016/17, figures cover exam results achieved in all years of 16-18 studies (up to 3 years) and inclusion in the best 3 A level measure was no longer used in the methodology, resulting in more students being included and correspondingly higher rates of entry. Due to the changes in methodology, neither 2015/16 nor 2016/17 are comparable with other years.</p><p> </p><p>The total number and percentage of students entering A level computer studies or computing in each year is provided in the attached tables, as well as the percentage of entrants into each subject who were eligible for FSM.</p><p> </p><p>Figures for 2017/18 will be published in the revised publication, at this link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-attainment-at-19-years" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-attainment-at-19-years</a> on 24 January 2019.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] For 2010/11 – 2015/16 - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/a-level-attainment-by-pupil-characteristics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/a-level-attainment-by-pupil-characteristics</a>. For 2016/17 - <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> (open the ‘A level exam results and A level and vocational participation csv’ and then the ‘A level subjects by characteristics’ file).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 21/01/2019 14:56:00 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 209334_entrants_A_level_computer_studies_by_fsm_2011_12_to_2016_17.pdf title 209334_entrants_A_level_computer_studies_by_fsm_20
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1029493

registered interest
date	20/12/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Infant Mortality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to increase support for families who have suffered baby loss.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	204429
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government is working to improve the care and support received by families who experience baby loss. The Department has provided funding to Sands, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity, to work with other baby loss charities and Royal Colleges to produce the National Bereavement Care Pathway (NBCP) to reduce the variation in the quality of bereavement care provided by the National Health Service.</p><p> </p><p>The NBCP helps professionals to support families in their bereavement after any pregnancy or baby loss, be that miscarriage (including ectopic and molar pregnancy), termination of pregnancy for fetal anomaly, stillbirth, neonatal death or sudden unexpected death in infancy. In October 2018, all of the NBCP guidance materials and tools were published online.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, NHS England’s Perinatal Mental Health Team has been working with Sands to ensure that the NBCP guidelines effectively signpost universal mental health screening and referral to evidence-based interventions and support.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, the Pregnancy Loss Review which the Department commissioned earlier this year, has been considering the question of whether legislation should provide new rights to bereaved parents to register pregnancy loss occurring before 24 weeks gestation, as well as investigating the impact of such losses on families and how care can be improved for parents who experience this. The review has been widely consulting with parents, charities and medical professionals and is currently scheduled to be completed in early 2019.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 07/01/2019 15:16:42 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1022959

registered interest
date	10/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2018 to Question 196129 on Overseas Visitors: Visas, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of providing a substantive answer to that question.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	200582
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>As advised in my answer to Question 198741, the government publishes the threshold which would need to be crossed in order for a written question to be responded to with a disproportionate cost response.</p><p>This is currently set at £850. Whilst we are not able to provide the exact amount it would cost to answer your question in full, we estimate it would be over this amount as it would require a manual search of a large number of individual records.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 13/12/2018 14:33:37 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1022960

registered interest
date	10/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2018 to Question 196130 on Overseas Visitors: Visas, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of providing a substantive answer to that question.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	200583
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>As advised in my answer to Question 198741, the government publishes the threshold which would need to be crossed in order for a written question to be responded to with a disproportionate cost response.</p><p>This is currently set at £850. Whilst we are not able to provide the exact amount it would cost to answer your question in full, we estimate it would be over this amount as it would require a manual search of a large number of individual records.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 13/12/2018 14:35:08 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1022997

registered interest
date	10/12/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Music: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent support he has given to music conservatoires.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	200591
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>The Arts Council England (ACE) invests substantially in supporting the music education landscape. The Arts Council’s £75m investment in music education hubs reflects the government’s belief that all students should have access to an excellent, well-rounded education which includes the arts and music. ACE has also recently provided funding to Leeds College of Music for a festival of cutting edge music, sound art and visual installations; and the Royal Northern College of Music for the 2018 RNCM Brass Band Festival.</p><p> </p><p>In particular, ACE supports the orchestral sector’s engagement with conservatoires by working with Conservatoires UK to encourage collaboration between conservatories and the ACE National Youth Music Organisations, National Portfolio Organisations and Music Education Hubs.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 13/12/2018 12:49:02 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1023004

registered interest
date	10/12/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Writers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the ability of UK writers to travel to the EU for (a) writing trips, (b) residencies and (c) poetry performances after the UK has left the EU; and what assessment he has made of the ability of UK writers to undertake such activities in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	200592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>We have a long history of collaborating with European partners through multilateral and bilateral initiatives across education, civil society, sport and our creative and cultural industries. We want a positive future relationship that reflects our shared values and history, and will support the growth of culture, arts, sports and creative industries, in both the UK and the EU. This government recognises the importance of mobility and the Political Declaration contains a specific reference to the importance of mobility in enabling cooperation in the cultural and education sectors.</p><p> </p><p>In the unlikely event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal, we welcome the EU Commission’s proposal to grant UK citizens visa-free travel (for short stays of up to 90 days in any 180-day period) to the EU after the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 13/12/2018 13:01:04 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1023006

registered interest
date	10/12/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Writers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the UK leaving the EU on the reciprocal relationships the UK has with the EU that enable UK authors to claim public lending right payments when their books are borrowed in other EU countries.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	200593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>A number of EU Member States operate their own public lending rights schemes which enable payments to be made to eligible rights holders for the lending of their work. However, these are not directly reciprocal to the UK’s Public Lending Right (PLR) Scheme, and decisions on whether UK-resident authors qualify for these will be for each Member State to make.</p><p> </p><p>The Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS), which represents UK authors in registering and claiming payments from lending rights schemes in Europe and elsewhere, has indicated that it supports the UK's PLR scheme remaining open to residents of EEA states. ALCS believes that this will help it to encourage relevant organisations responsible for lending rights schemes in EEA states to allow UK-resident authors to benefit from such schemes after the UK leaves the EU.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 13/12/2018 13:02:15 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan