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1133341

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Academies Enterprise Trust: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	T o ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria the Education and Skills Funding Agency used to assess the amount of funding required to support the Academies Enterprise Trust.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
	tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
	uin	266827
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>A new Chair and CEO were appointed to the Academies Enterprise Trust during 2016-17 and they presented a comprehensive improvement plan to the department in early 2017. This plan was assessed by the Education and Skills Funding Agency to put in place a recovery process that underpinned education provision with strong financial management and oversight. This included improving governance of the trust, restructuring of central service teams, stronger financial and budgeting controls, reshaping school improvement structures and impact on educational outcomes. As a result of this assessment and supported by the National Schools Commissioner, additional funding was provided to the Trust<strong>.</strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 24/06/2019 15:49:54 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1141311

	registered interest
	date	23/07/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Exploitation
	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 15 July 2019 to Question 273801 on Child Exploitation, how many children-in-need assessments were undertaken in which criminal exploitation through county lines was identified as a potential risk to the child’s life in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
	uin	281047
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>Regarding the number of children in need assessments undertaken in which criminal exploitation through county lines was identified as a potential risk to the child’s life, the information requested is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the Children in Need census, we collect factors identified at the end of the assessment. These factors include trafficking, gangs and child sexual exploitation. However, this information gives no specific indication of county lines involvement or a risk to the child’s life. The information in fact indicates that the child has been referred and assessed by the local authority and that these issues were a factor at the end of assessment.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of factors identified at the end of assessment, including trafficking, gangs and child sexual exploitation, is published in table C3 of the ‘Characteristics of children in need’ statistical release, which can be viewed at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-children-in-need" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-children-in-need</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Mrs Kemi Badenoch question first answered 02/08/2019 13:03:36 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch previous answer version 131235 answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Mrs Kemi Badenoch answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1140026

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children in Care: Foreign Nationals
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) looked after children, and (2) care leavers, who are from the European Economic Area or Switzerland are currently supported in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland, and (d) Northern Ireland.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
	uin	HL17261
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2019 answer text <p>The information requested on looked after children and care leavers in England is not held centrally by the department. The devolved administrations are responsible for collecting and publishing information on looked after children and care leavers in their constituent countries.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL17262 question first answered 29/07/2019 15:47:09 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
	tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

1140027

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children in Care: Foreign Nationals
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) looked after children, and (2) care leavers, who are from the European Economic Area or Switzerland are currently supported in England, broken down by region.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
	uin	HL17262
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2019 answer text <p>The information requested on looked after children and care leavers in England is not held centrally by the department. The devolved administrations are responsible for collecting and publishing information on looked after children and care leavers in their constituent countries.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL17261 question first answered 29/07/2019 15:47:09 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
	tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

1130629

	registered interest
	date	06/06/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Music: Education
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) music teachers, (2) GCSE music students, (3) A-level music students, and (4) degree level music students, there were in each of the last five years; and how many universities have ceased to offer music as a degree.
	tabling member printed	Lord Storey
	uin	HL16173
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2019 answer text <p>The School Workforce Census contains the majority of information about teacher numbers and the subjects taught by teachers in state funded secondary schools. Information up to 2017 has been provided in table 1, attached. Updated information is due to be published on 27 June 2019.</p><p>Pupil entries into GCSE music are published each year and have been provided in table 2, attached. These figures are also available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-gcses-key-stage-4" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-gcses-key-stage-4</a>.</p><p>Entries into A level music have been provided in table 3, attached. These figures are also available at: <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>The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes data on students enrolled in higher education. Information on students entering first degrees in music at English higher education institutions has been provided in table 4, attached.</p><p>The information requested is not held centrally about the number of higher education institutions that have ceased to offer music as a degree. However, the number of institutions who reported one or more entrants to first degrees in music subjects to HESA in the latest five years available has been provided in table 5, attached.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 20/06/2019 15:13:34 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton attachment 1 file name HL16173_music_teachers_GCSE_A-level_degree_music_students.pdf title HL16173_PDF
	tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

1134340

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupil Premium: Adoption
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many adopted children currently receive pupil premium plus.
	tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
	uin	HL16625
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities receive funding for post-looked after children (post-LAC) pupils through the pupil premium plus grant. This covers pupils that are no longer in the local authorities’ care having been adopted or placed through a special guardianship order, a child arrangements order or a residence order. In 2019-20 funding was allocated to local authorities for 52,492 such pupils. This information is provided in the document titled Pupil premium allocations 2019 to 2020: national, local authority, parliamentary constituency level (attached), which can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2019-to-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2019-to-2020</a>.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 03/07/2019 12:44:46 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton attachment 1 file name HL16625_Pupil_premium_allocations_2019_to_2020_national_local authority_parliamentary_constituency_level.xls title HL16625_Table
	tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie

1141528

	registered interest
	date	23/07/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices: Tourism
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many apprenticeships were created in the tourism sector in (1) 2014–15, (2) 2016–17, and (3) 2017–18.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Doocey
	uin	HL17396
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2019 answer text <p>The table below shows the number of apprenticeship starts in the travel and tourism sector subject area for each full academic year since 2014/15.<a href="https://educationgovuk.sharepoint.com/sites/cd/c/WorkplaceDocuments/Written%20PQ%20Team/Written%20PQ%20-%202017-19%20drafts/HL17396%20QC%20240719.docx#_ftn1" target="_blank"><strong><strong>[1]</strong></strong></a><strong>,<a href="https://educationgovuk.sharepoint.com/sites/cd/c/WorkplaceDocuments/Written%20PQ%20Team/Written%20PQ%20-%202017-19%20drafts/HL17396%20QC%20240719.docx#_ftn2" target="_blank"><strong>[2]</strong></a></strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Academic year</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Travel and tourism apprenticeship starts</p></td><td><p>580</p></td><td><p>610</p></td><td><p>650</p></td><td><p>780</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes</p><p>1. Volumes are rounded to the nearest 10.</p><p>2. The data source is the individualised learner record (ILR). Apprenticeship starts include all funded and unfunded learners reported on the ILR.</p><p>3. Numbers are a count of the number of starts at any point during the period. Learners starting more than one apprenticeship will appear more than once.</p><p>4. Numbers are counted for the full, final academic year (August – July).</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://educationgovuk.sharepoint.com/sites/cd/c/WorkplaceDocuments/Written%20PQ%20Team/Written%20PQ%20-%202017-19%20drafts/HL17396%20QC%20240719.docx#_ftnref1" target="_blank">[1]</a> Figures for 2017/18 are available here (which also includes provisional figures for the first three quarters of 2018/19): <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/814997/Apprenticeship-starts-ach-framework-standard-tool_201718_Q3-201819_July2019.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/814997/Apprenticeship-starts-ach-framework-standard-tool_201718_Q3-201819_July2019.xlsx</a>.</p><p><a href="https://educationgovuk.sharepoint.com/sites/cd/c/WorkplaceDocuments/Written%20PQ%20Team/Written%20PQ%20-%202017-19%20drafts/HL17396%20QC%20240719.docx#_ftnref2" target="_blank">[2]</a> Figures for 2014/15 to 2016/17 are available here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/694622/201415_201617_sector-subject-area-T2_age_level_demography.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/694622/201415_201617_sector-subject-area-T2_age_level_demography.xlsx</a>.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 29/07/2019 16:00:28 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
	tabling member	4197 label Biography information for Baroness Doocey

1135730

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2019
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many children with working parents qualify for free school meals.
	tabling member printed	Lord Lennie
	uin	HL16823
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally. Free school meals (FSM) are aimed at families who are out of work, and those in work with low earnings.</p><p>To be eligible to receive FSM, a pupil or their parent must be in receipt of one of the following listed benefits, and must make a claim to the school for FSM. The benefits include:</p><blockquote><p>Income Support,</p><p>income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance,</p><p>income-related Employment and Support Allowance,</p><p>support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999,</p><p>the guaranteed element of Pension Credit,</p><p>Child Tax Credit (provided they are not also entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross income of no more than £16,190),</p><p>Working Tax Credit run-on, paid for 4 weeks after they stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit,</p><p>Universal Credit - if they apply on or after 1 April 2018 their household income must be less than £7,400 a year (after tax and not including any benefits they get).</p></blockquote> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 10/07/2019 14:27:12 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
	tabling member	4338 label Biography information for Lord Lennie

1128146

	registered interest
	date	23/05/2019
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many new-style apprenticeships have started since the introduction of the apprenticeship levy.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	uin	HL15960
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2019 answer text <p>There have been 305,200 starts on apprenticeship standards since May 2017 following the introduction of the apprenticeship levy, reported to date as at January 2019.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 05/06/2019 15:59:30 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
	tabling member	4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe

1132617

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Overseas Students
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many overseas students they estimate will attend UK universities between 2019–20 and 2024–25.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bassam of Brighton
	uin	HL16395
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2019 answer text <p>Almost 460,000 international students chose to study at a UK higher education institution (HEI) in 2017/18. We have made no estimate of the number of overseas students that will attend UK HEIs between 2019-20 and 2024-25, or their contribution to the UK economy.</p><p> </p><p>In the International Education Strategy, published in March 2019, the government set out its ambition to both increase the value of education exports to £35 billion per year and to increase the total number of international students hosted by UK universities to 600,000 by 2030, an increase of over 30%.</p><p> </p><p>We fully recognise the important contribution that international students make to the UK’s higher education sector, both economically and culturally. They bring greater diversity to university and college campuses, an international dimension to the experience of all students, stimulate demand for courses, and add to the UK’s impressive research capacity. They are also an important source of income for our education sector. International students at UK HEIs contributed an estimated £11.9 billion to the UK economy in 2016 through tuition fees and living expenditure.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie grouped question UIN HL16394 question first answered 26/06/2019 13:13:12 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
	tabling member	3504 label Biography information for Lord Bassam of Brighton