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1546372

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Financial Services: Primary Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of the addition of financial education to the primary school national curriculum.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	98718
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2022 answer text <p>Education on financial matters helps to ensure that young people are prepared to manage their money well, make sound financial decisions and know where to seek further information when needed.</p><p>The primary school curriculum includes financial education within mathematics, which provides young people with the knowledge to make important financial decisions. A strong grasp of mathematics will underpin pupils’ ability to manage budgets and money, including, for example, using percentages. The mathematics curriculum also includes specific content on financial education, such as calculations with money.</p><p>Primary schools can teach financial education through citizenship. Although this is not part of the National Curriculum until Key Stage 3, the Department has published a non-statutory citizenship curriculum for Key Stages 1 and 2, to support schools to ensure that pupils are taught how to look after their money and realise that future wants and needs may be met through saving. There is also a wide range of resources available for schools, including the Money and Pension Service’s (MaPS) financial education guidance for primary and secondary schools in England. This can be found here: <a href="https://maps.org.uk/2021/11/11/financial-education-guidance-for-primary-and-secondary-schools-in-england/" target="_blank">https://maps.org.uk/2021/11/11/financial-education-guidance-for-primary-and-secondary-schools-in-england/</a>.</p><p>The Department does not monitor financial education in primary schools but continues to work with MaPS and HM Treasury to consider the evidence and explore opportunities to promote the importance of financial education to schools.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 98719 question first answered 02/12/2022 12:38:11 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1546373

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Financial Services: Primary Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential disparities in (a) access to and (b) quality of financial education in primary schools.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	98719
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2022 answer text <p>Education on financial matters helps to ensure that young people are prepared to manage their money well, make sound financial decisions and know where to seek further information when needed.</p><p>The primary school curriculum includes financial education within mathematics, which provides young people with the knowledge to make important financial decisions. A strong grasp of mathematics will underpin pupils’ ability to manage budgets and money, including, for example, using percentages. The mathematics curriculum also includes specific content on financial education, such as calculations with money.</p><p>Primary schools can teach financial education through citizenship. Although this is not part of the National Curriculum until Key Stage 3, the Department has published a non-statutory citizenship curriculum for Key Stages 1 and 2, to support schools to ensure that pupils are taught how to look after their money and realise that future wants and needs may be met through saving. There is also a wide range of resources available for schools, including the Money and Pension Service’s (MaPS) financial education guidance for primary and secondary schools in England. This can be found here: <a href="https://maps.org.uk/2021/11/11/financial-education-guidance-for-primary-and-secondary-schools-in-england/" target="_blank">https://maps.org.uk/2021/11/11/financial-education-guidance-for-primary-and-secondary-schools-in-england/</a>.</p><p>The Department does not monitor financial education in primary schools but continues to work with MaPS and HM Treasury to consider the evidence and explore opportunities to promote the importance of financial education to schools.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 98718 question first answered 02/12/2022 12:38:11 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1546369

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Financial Services: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is taking steps to provide young people with education on credit products.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	98715
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2022 answer text <p>Education on financial matters helps to ensure that young people are prepared to manage their money well, make sound financial decisions and know where to seek further information where needed.</p><p>Financial education is included in the National Curriculum at Key Stages 3 and 4 but can be taught by all schools at all Key Stages. Pupils should be taught the functions and uses of money, the importance of personal budgeting, money management, and managing financial risk. At secondary school, pupils should be educated on income and expenditure, credit and debt, insurance, savings and pensions, financial products and services, and the need to understand financial risk, including any emerging financial trends. Further information can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/national-curriculum" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/national-curriculum</a>.</p><p>The mathematics curriculum includes a strong emphasis on the essential arithmetic that primary pupils should be taught. A strong grasp of mathematics will underpin pupils’ ability to manage budgets and money.</p><p>The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) published financial education guidance for primary and secondary schools in England in November 2021, to support school leaders to enhance their financial education provision. The guidance is available at: <a href="https://maps.org.uk/2021/11/11/financial-education-guidance-for-primary-and-secondary-schools-in-england/" target="_blank">https://maps.org.uk/2021/11/11/financial-education-guidance-for-primary-and-secondary-schools-in-england/</a>. This guidance includes links to quality assured resources for schools, including content and activities on cryptocurrencies and buy now, pay later schemes. It also sets out the knowledge pupils need to protect their personal data, critically evaluate online content and identify scams.</p><p>The Department is working with MaPS on a series of joint financial education webinars during the 2022/23 academic year to help both primary and secondary schools, to improve pupils’ knowledge and build teachers’ confidence in this area.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 98716 question first answered 02/12/2022 12:25:35 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1546370

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Financial Services: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is taking steps to provide young people with education on buy-now-pay-later schemes.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	98716
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2022 answer text <p>Education on financial matters helps to ensure that young people are prepared to manage their money well, make sound financial decisions and know where to seek further information where needed.</p><p>Financial education is included in the National Curriculum at Key Stages 3 and 4 but can be taught by all schools at all Key Stages. Pupils should be taught the functions and uses of money, the importance of personal budgeting, money management, and managing financial risk. At secondary school, pupils should be educated on income and expenditure, credit and debt, insurance, savings and pensions, financial products and services, and the need to understand financial risk, including any emerging financial trends. Further information can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/national-curriculum" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/national-curriculum</a>.</p><p>The mathematics curriculum includes a strong emphasis on the essential arithmetic that primary pupils should be taught. A strong grasp of mathematics will underpin pupils’ ability to manage budgets and money.</p><p>The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) published financial education guidance for primary and secondary schools in England in November 2021, to support school leaders to enhance their financial education provision. The guidance is available at: <a href="https://maps.org.uk/2021/11/11/financial-education-guidance-for-primary-and-secondary-schools-in-england/" target="_blank">https://maps.org.uk/2021/11/11/financial-education-guidance-for-primary-and-secondary-schools-in-england/</a>. This guidance includes links to quality assured resources for schools, including content and activities on cryptocurrencies and buy now, pay later schemes. It also sets out the knowledge pupils need to protect their personal data, critically evaluate online content and identify scams.</p><p>The Department is working with MaPS on a series of joint financial education webinars during the 2022/23 academic year to help both primary and secondary schools, to improve pupils’ knowledge and build teachers’ confidence in this area.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 98715 question first answered 02/12/2022 12:25:36 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1174332

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Holiday Activities and Food Programme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Holiday Activities and Food scheme will operate in each year of the 2019 Parliament.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	9670
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2020 answer text <p>This government has announced a programme of research and pilots to explore ways of supporting disadvantaged families during school holidays. Following the success of our previous programmes, we now understand more about how best to support disadvantaged families. We are targeting this support where it is needed during the 6-week summer holidays.</p><p> </p><p>We awarded £2 million of funding to 7 organisations to deliver free healthy food and activities to children and families in some of the most disadvantaged areas in the country during the 2018 summer holidays. The organisations informed us that with this money they were able to support around 280 clubs and reach around 18,000 children.</p><p>In summer 2019 we invested £9 million in 11 local authority areas reaching around 50,000 children. The assessment process for bids for the 2020 summer programme remains ongoing and we will announce the outcome of the process shortly, alongside the areas that we will be working in and the number of children that we expect to benefit.</p><p>We have also commissioned an independent evaluation of the 2019 programme, which will report on the number of disadvantaged eligible children who accessed the clubs across the country, including our work in the North East, and which will be published in 2020.</p><p>Further funding of this programme after 2020 will be considered as part of the three-year Spending Review and we will set out our plans in due course.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 9669 9671 9672 9673 question first answered 07/02/2020 14:43:24 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1174328

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Holiday Activities and Food Programme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his Department's news story of 4 January 2020, Free meals and summer holiday activities for children, whether the Holiday Activities and Food scheme remains in a pilot phase.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	9669
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2020 answer text <p>This government has announced a programme of research and pilots to explore ways of supporting disadvantaged families during school holidays. Following the success of our previous programmes, we now understand more about how best to support disadvantaged families. We are targeting this support where it is needed during the 6-week summer holidays.</p><p> </p><p>We awarded £2 million of funding to 7 organisations to deliver free healthy food and activities to children and families in some of the most disadvantaged areas in the country during the 2018 summer holidays. The organisations informed us that with this money they were able to support around 280 clubs and reach around 18,000 children.</p><p>In summer 2019 we invested £9 million in 11 local authority areas reaching around 50,000 children. The assessment process for bids for the 2020 summer programme remains ongoing and we will announce the outcome of the process shortly, alongside the areas that we will be working in and the number of children that we expect to benefit.</p><p>We have also commissioned an independent evaluation of the 2019 programme, which will report on the number of disadvantaged eligible children who accessed the clubs across the country, including our work in the North East, and which will be published in 2020.</p><p>Further funding of this programme after 2020 will be considered as part of the three-year Spending Review and we will set out our plans in due course.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 9670 9671 9672 9673 question first answered 07/02/2020 14:43:24 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1174333

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Holiday Activities and Food Programme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his Department's news story of 4 January 2020, Free meals and summer holiday activities for children, what estimate he has made of the number of children that will benefit from that funding.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	9671
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2020 answer text <p>This government has announced a programme of research and pilots to explore ways of supporting disadvantaged families during school holidays. Following the success of our previous programmes, we now understand more about how best to support disadvantaged families. We are targeting this support where it is needed during the 6-week summer holidays.</p><p> </p><p>We awarded £2 million of funding to 7 organisations to deliver free healthy food and activities to children and families in some of the most disadvantaged areas in the country during the 2018 summer holidays. The organisations informed us that with this money they were able to support around 280 clubs and reach around 18,000 children.</p><p>In summer 2019 we invested £9 million in 11 local authority areas reaching around 50,000 children. The assessment process for bids for the 2020 summer programme remains ongoing and we will announce the outcome of the process shortly, alongside the areas that we will be working in and the number of children that we expect to benefit.</p><p>We have also commissioned an independent evaluation of the 2019 programme, which will report on the number of disadvantaged eligible children who accessed the clubs across the country, including our work in the North East, and which will be published in 2020.</p><p>Further funding of this programme after 2020 will be considered as part of the three-year Spending Review and we will set out our plans in due course.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 9669 9670 9672 9673 question first answered 07/02/2020 14:43:24 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1174334

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Holiday Activities and Food Programme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his Department's news story of 4 January 2020, Free meals and summer holiday activities for children, what plans his Department has to extend the provision of free school holiday activities and meals to all school holidays.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	9672
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2020 answer text <p>This government has announced a programme of research and pilots to explore ways of supporting disadvantaged families during school holidays. Following the success of our previous programmes, we now understand more about how best to support disadvantaged families. We are targeting this support where it is needed during the 6-week summer holidays.</p><p> </p><p>We awarded £2 million of funding to 7 organisations to deliver free healthy food and activities to children and families in some of the most disadvantaged areas in the country during the 2018 summer holidays. The organisations informed us that with this money they were able to support around 280 clubs and reach around 18,000 children.</p><p>In summer 2019 we invested £9 million in 11 local authority areas reaching around 50,000 children. The assessment process for bids for the 2020 summer programme remains ongoing and we will announce the outcome of the process shortly, alongside the areas that we will be working in and the number of children that we expect to benefit.</p><p>We have also commissioned an independent evaluation of the 2019 programme, which will report on the number of disadvantaged eligible children who accessed the clubs across the country, including our work in the North East, and which will be published in 2020.</p><p>Further funding of this programme after 2020 will be considered as part of the three-year Spending Review and we will set out our plans in due course.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 9669 9670 9671 9673 question first answered 07/02/2020 14:43:24 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1174335

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Holiday Activities and Food Programme: Stockton on Tees
	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 number of children living in poverty in Stockton-on-Tees who are unable to access the provision of free school holiday activities and food.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	9673
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2020 answer text <p>This government has announced a programme of research and pilots to explore ways of supporting disadvantaged families during school holidays. Following the success of our previous programmes, we now understand more about how best to support disadvantaged families. We are targeting this support where it is needed during the 6-week summer holidays.</p><p> </p><p>We awarded £2 million of funding to 7 organisations to deliver free healthy food and activities to children and families in some of the most disadvantaged areas in the country during the 2018 summer holidays. The organisations informed us that with this money they were able to support around 280 clubs and reach around 18,000 children.</p><p>In summer 2019 we invested £9 million in 11 local authority areas reaching around 50,000 children. The assessment process for bids for the 2020 summer programme remains ongoing and we will announce the outcome of the process shortly, alongside the areas that we will be working in and the number of children that we expect to benefit.</p><p>We have also commissioned an independent evaluation of the 2019 programme, which will report on the number of disadvantaged eligible children who accessed the clubs across the country, including our work in the North East, and which will be published in 2020.</p><p>Further funding of this programme after 2020 will be considered as part of the three-year Spending Review and we will set out our plans in due course.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 9669 9670 9671 9672 question first answered 07/02/2020 14:43:25 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1381444

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Non-teaching Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) teaching assistants and (b) other educational focused support staff employed in schools in England in the latest period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	80300
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2021 answer text <p>Information on the number of staff, including teaching assistants and other support staff, employed in state-funded schools in England is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication at: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england</a>.</p><p>In 2020/21, the full-time equivalent of 271,370 people were working as teaching assistants in state-funded schools in England. This figure is 49,889 (equivalent to 22.5%) higher than in 2011/12.</p><p>'Teaching Assistants' comprises those support staff based in the classroom for learning and pupil support, for example higher level teaching assistants, teaching assistants, special needs support staff, nursery officers/assistants, minority ethnic pupils support staff and bilingual support assistants.</p><p>Special support assistants are included in the teaching assistant totals and special educational needs coordinator assistants are included in the administrative staff totals.</p><p>Information on the number of school-based support staff trained to aid children with special educational needs and disabilities is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 80301 question first answered 26/11/2021 14:23:43 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham