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1423130

	registered interest
	date	18/02/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Science and Technology: Vocational Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to promote the uptake of science and technology subjects to students in vocational education.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	125019
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2022 answer text <p>The department recognises that the demand for skills in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) is growing, and we are proud to be encouraging more pupils into STEM at all key stages. We have put employers at the heart of the technical education system, asking them to set out the skills and knowledge that they need now and in the future. This has formed the basis of new occupational standards. So far, STEM employers, including those in construction, digital, engineering and manufacturing, and health and science sectors have developed 343 apprenticeships based on these standards.</p><p>We are introducing T Levels, boosting access to high quality technical education for thousands of young people, which are also based on the same occupational standards. T Levels in Digital, Construction and Health and Science are now being taught and T Levels in Engineering and Manufacturing will launch this September. A new campaign, ‘Get the Jump’, has been launched to help young people aged 14 to 19 to understand their education and training choices. More information on this can be found here: <a href="https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/explore-your-education-and-training-choices" target="_blank">https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/explore-your-education-and-training-choices</a>. T Levels are featured heavily in the campaign as an exciting new option for young people alongside apprenticeships, traineeships and Higher Technical Qualifications</p><p>Alongside this, we are investing up to £290 million to establish a comprehensive network of Institutes of Technology across England. These are unique collaborations between further education colleges, universities and employers specialising in delivering higher technical education and training in key STEM subjects such as cyber security, artificial intelligence, robotics, precision farming and health and life sciences. A key objective of the programme is to increase participation from under-represented groups to support the long-term STEM skills pipeline.</p><p>For those earlier on in their education, we are proud to have made substantial spending commitments to improve the teaching and uptake of STEM subjects in schools. We are offering a bursary worth £24,000 tax-free or a prestigious scholarship worth £26,000 tax-free to train to teach the highest priority subjects of chemistry, computing, mathematics and physics and a £15,000 tax-free bursary for design and technology. In line with the Gatsby Benchmarks for good career guidance, all schools are expected to provide at least one meaningful encounter with employers per pupil per year, with an emphasis on STEM employers.</p><p>We have improved the quality of technical awards. These non-GCSE qualifications are intended to equip 14-16 year olds with applied knowledge not usually acquired in general qualifications. They are intended to focus on a sector or occupational group and enable the development of knowledge as well as associated practical skills where appropriate.</p><p>Schools have access to the STEM Careers toolkit which provides ideas and practical suggestions on how STEM specific content might be used to meet the Gatsby Benchmarks. This includes useful resources, examples of good practice and sharing STEM careers resources, such as job profile examples, further study route information and labour market information with teachers.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 28/02/2022 15:16:09 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1433798

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Institutes of Technology: Havering
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department plans to establish an Institute of Technology in the London Borough of Havering.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	126582
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2022 answer text <p>The government has established a comprehensive network of 21 Institutes of Technology (IoTs) across England. They are geographically spread across the country and target areas where they are most needed, including Barking and Dagenham, Blackpool, Sunderland, and Dudley. There are no plans at this stage to develop more.</p><p>In total, 3 of the IoTs serve London, including the East London IoT based at Barking and Dagenham College’s Rush Green campus in the neighbouring Rainham and Dagenham constituency. The London City IoT is situated in the nearby East Ham, and Bethnal Green and Bow constituencies. All London IoTs have good public transport links and we envisage that their catchment areas will include learners in the London Borough of Havering.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 01/03/2022 11:48:49 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1437079

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that young people are aware of the availability of apprenticeships in a range of sectors in the context of the finding from the Association of Accounting Technicians that 34 per cent of 18 to 24 year olds believe that apprenticeships are only available for manual labour.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	132189
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2022 answer text <p>Apprenticeships provide people with the opportunity to earn and learn the skills needed to start an exciting career in a wide range of industries, everything from artificial intelligence, archaeology, data science, business management and banking. We want more young people to benefit from high-quality apprenticeships.</p><p>To encourage more young people to consider apprenticeships, we are promoting apprenticeships in schools and colleges through our Apprenticeship Support &amp; Knowledge programme. This free service provides resources and interventions to help better educate young people about apprenticeships and has reached over 2 million students across England since its introduction in the 2016/17 academic year.</p><p>In January 2021, we announced the introduction of a three-point plan to enforce provider access legislation. This requires that all maintained schools and academies provide opportunities for providers of technical education and apprenticeships to visit schools for the purpose of informing year 8-13 pupils about approved technical education qualifications or apprenticeships. This plan includes creating clear minimum legal requirements, specifying who is to be given access to which pupils and when. This is an important step towards real choice for every pupil.</p><p>The National Careers Service, a free, government-funded careers information, advice and guidance service draws on a range of labour market information to support and guide individuals. The National Careers Service is impartial, and careers guidance is tailored to individual needs. Young people aged 13 to 18 can access ongoing in-depth information, advice and guidance from the service via a helpline, webchat or the National Careers Service website.</p><p>In February during National Apprenticeship Week, I wrote to all year 11, 12 and 13 pupils and their parents to tell them about the great opportunities offered through apprenticeships.</p><p>We offer guidance and support to young people who are considering applying for apprenticeships through our apprenticeship website: <a href="https://www.apprenticeships.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.apprenticeships.gov.uk/</a>, which explains the application stages in a step-by-step process. Students can search for new apprenticeship opportunities on our Find an Apprenticeship (FAA) service, over 19,000 apprenticeship vacancies were advertised on the FAA service in November 2021, details of which can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship</a>.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 08/03/2022 11:55:40 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1437080

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices and Graduates: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what comparative assessment he has made of the average salary of a person who has completed (a) an apprenticeship and (b) a university degree; and what steps his Department is taking to ensure parity between those average salaries.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	132190
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2022 answer text <p>High quality apprenticeships are available at all levels, from GCSE equivalent at level 2 to undergraduate and master’s degree equivalent at levels 6 and 7. Apprenticeships are undertaken by people of all ages, aged 16 and over, from young people taking the first steps in their careers to older workers looking to retrain or upskill.</p><p>Apprenticeships are jobs with training, created by employers, designed to support an apprentice to achieve occupational competence in that occupation. Apprentices earn while they learn, do not incur tuition fees, and we know that upon completion apprenticeships offer good wage returns. Some apprenticeships may include a mandatory qualification, such as a degree or a professional accreditation.</p><p>Our latest published data, for the tax year 2019/20, shows that five years after study, median annualised earnings for learners who achieved an intermediate (level 2) apprenticeship in the 2013/14 academic year were £20,530. For advanced (level 3) apprenticeships this rose to £21,990, and median annualised earnings five years after study for level 4 higher apprenticeships were £29,180.</p><p>Level 5-7 apprenticeships compare well to the earnings of first-degree graduates five years on, although it is important to note that these apprenticeships span the equivalent of a foundation degree (level 5) to a master’s degree (level 7) and that at this time, level 5+ apprenticeships were a much smaller part of the programme. Our latest comparable data, for tax year 2018/19, show that median first degree graduate annual earnings five years after graduation in the 2012/13 academic year were £27,400, compared to £29,030 for level 5+ apprentices.</p><p>We caution against direct comparison between post-apprenticeship earnings and post-degree earnings due to the range of levels at which an individual can undertake an apprenticeship.</p><p>We are committed to supporting more people to benefit from high quality apprenticeships. We are promoting apprenticeships through our ‘Get the Jump’ and ‘Skills for Life’ campaigns, and we continue to support employers to develop apprenticeships to meet their skills needs and to train apprentices in the ways that work best for them.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 08/03/2022 12:15:19 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1644659

	registered interest
	date	14/06/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	King Charles III: Anniversaries
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans his Department has made for the celebrations of His Majesty the King’s 75th birthday in November 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	189513
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2023 answer text <p>It is not customary for the Cabinet Office to make plans to celebrate the 75th birthday of a Monarch, as seen with the late HM Queen Elizabeth II’s 75th birthday celebrations.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>However, the Sovereign's birthday was officially celebrated by the ceremony of Trooping the Colour (King's Birthday Parade) on Saturday 17th June 2023.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Ministry of Defence also fires gun salutes every year for The King's birthday on 14th November.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Equally, I am sure that, like me, he welcomed the wonderful weekend of celebrations for His Majesty the King’s Coronation last month, which were a triumph of pomp, pageantry and pride in Britain.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 23/06/2023 09:32:20 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1660108

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Queen Elizabeth Memorial Committee has been allotted a budget for the future memorial of Queen Elizabeth II.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	199016
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2023 answer text <p>It is right that as a country we honour Her Late Majesty’s legacy. For more than 70 years, she was our greatest public servant, an anchor of stability in an ever-changing and often uncertain world. The Government welcomes the work of the Queen Elizabeth Memorial Committee and will consider funding options as proposals develop.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 20/09/2023 14:38:06 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1666864

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: Monuments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government plans to erect a permanent memorial to the late Duke of Edinburgh.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	204001
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>The Government and Royal Household announced on 3 September the creation of The Queen Elizabeth Memorial Committee and appointed its Chair, Lord Janvrin. The Committee will develop proposals for both a permanent memorial, and a national legacy programme that will allow everyone in the UK to commemorate Queen Elizabeth’s life of service.</p><p>The Government and Royal Household are still actively considering the most appropriate way to commemorate Prince Philip, the Late Duke of Edinburgh, as part of this process.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 26/10/2023 09:39:25 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1669057

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	King Charles III: Art Works
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether an official portrait has been commissioned following the Coronation of His Majesty The King.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	1061
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2023 answer text <p>As is usual practice, an Official Portrait has been taken of His Majesty The King to mark the start of the new Reign, for use in public buildings and for other official purposes. The portrait has been commissioned by the Royal Household and will be published by them in due course. His Majesty’s Government will provide this portrait for the Official Portrait Scheme, announced by the Deputy Prime Minister in April this year. The scheme opened earlier this month and enables certain Public Authorities across the UK to obtain a free, framed official portrait of His Majesty The King for display in their buildings.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 17/11/2023 12:17:29 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1674436

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	House of Lords Reform Act 2014
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy to amend the House of Lords Reform Act 1999 to restore the position of hereditary peers.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	4657
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2023 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to amend the House of Lords Reform Act 1999.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 08/12/2023 17:27:06 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1683001

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2024
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Honours: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 21 November 2023 to Question 1832 on Honours: Northern Ireland, if he will (a) make it his policy to (i) update the statues of the Most Illustrious Order of Saint Patrick and (ii) make the Order available to residents of the whole island of Ireland and (b) make an assessment of the potential impact of that policy on the state of the Union.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	10049
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2024 answer text <p>There are no plans to update the statutes of the Most Illustrious Order of Saint Patrick.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>As my Right Honourable Friend stated on 21st November (UIN 1832), nominations for existing honours are open to all citizens within the four nations of the United Kingdom.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 29/01/2024 18:05:19 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart previous answer version 13879 answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell