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652624

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Young People: Disclosure of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to make anonymised ward level data on post-16 student work, education and training destinations, as reported by local authorities to the National Client Information System, open data and available through the data.gov.uk website.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	56347
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2016 answer text <p>The Department is currently exploring ways to utilise the data it collects on education, training and employment outcomes further, with a view to publishing more comprehensive data on educational outcomes in the future. However, there are currently no plans to publish NCCIS data from local authorities at ward level.</p><p> </p><p>The Department applies data suppression and rounding protocols when publishing data to ensure that individuals cannot be identified. This means that estimates produced for very small sub-groups within the population, such as 16 and 17 year olds in each of more than 7,000 wards in England, are unlikely to lead to meaningful results for comparison between wards or within wards over time.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 13/12/2016 16:01:10 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

755726

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Unpaid Work: Disadvantaged
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to pages 77-78 of the Social Mobility Commission's report, Time for Change: an assessment of government policies on social mobility 1997-2017, published on 28 June 2017, what recent assessment she has made of the effect of (a) internships, (b) unpaid internships and (c) unadvertised internships on the accessibility of some jobs to people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	6883
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>We know that government alone cannot transform social mobility. Employers play an important role by ensuring fair access to the workplace. The best employers are already taking some important steps, including engaging and supporting young people in schools, introducing fairer recruitment practices, removing barriers, opening up alternative routes to entry, and monitoring progress – but there is more to be done to ensure that background is not a barrier to a good career. That is why we support the Social Mobility Employer Index, which celebrates those employers leading the way in opening up access and progression.</p><p> </p><p>The government recognises concerns about exploitation of interns and we are clear that this is unacceptable. We will act where we find that employment law has been broken and someone who is entitled to the minimum wage has not been paid it.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 12/09/2017 15:35:03 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

755723

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to page 48 of the Social Mobility Commission's report, Time for Change: an assessment of government policies on social mobility 1997-2017, published on 28 June 2017, what assessment she has made of that report's recommendation to introduce effective incentives to attract and retain good quality teachers in the schools that need them most.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	6880
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2017 answer text <p>We welcome the Social Mobility Commission’s report, published on 28 June, which considers efforts to improve social mobility over the last twenty years. The Commission rightly concludes that too often life chances can be determined not by effort and talent but by background. The Department will set out further details on policy to tackle this in due course.</p><p> </p><p>We are spending £1.3bn up to 2020 to attract new teachers into the profession, but we know that some schools face significant challenges in teacher supply. We have undertaken extensive research and most recently published analysis of sub-national variation in teacher supply and the factors that can be used to explain this. This includes the Supply Index that allows us to identify, for the first time, schools facing significant recruitment and retention challenges. The report is available at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/teachers-analysis-compendium-2" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/teachers-analysis-compendium-2</a>.</p><p> </p><p>We will use this evidence to provide targeted support to ensure schools are able to recruit and retain the teachers they need, and provide the best possible educational opportunities to their pupils. We will announce further details in due course.</p><p> </p><p>To improve the quality of teaching and leadership in the schools and areas that need it most, we have also launched the new Teaching and Leadership Innovation Fund. This £75 million investment seeks to improve the provision of teachers’ continuing professional development and leadership development.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 21/09/2017 09:42:36 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1017301

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Qualifications
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what percentage of (a) religious education and (b) history lessons in state secondary schools are taught by teachers with no post A-level qualification in the subject.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	197426
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2018 answer text <p>In 2017, there were 118,200 hours of religious education taught in state funded secondary schools. Of these, 24.2% of hours were taught by a teacher with no relevant post A level qualification in religious education or a related subject such as philosophy. A ‘relevant post A level qualification’ is defined as a first degree or higher, Bachelor of education (BEd) degree, Postgraduate certificate of education (PGCE), Certificate of Education or another qualification at level 4 or above, which is in a discipline deemed relevant to that subject based on Joint Academic Coding System (JACS) codes.</p><p>These figures relate to all qualified teachers in state funded secondary schools</p><p> </p><p>In 2017, there were 185,700 hours of history taught in state funded secondary schools. Of these, 8.8% of hours were taught by a teacher with no relevant post A level qualification in history or a related subject such as archaeology.</p><p>These figures relate to all qualified teachers in state funded secondary schools.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 07/12/2018 12:37:29 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1035110

	registered interest
	date	04/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Qualifications
	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 7 December 2018 to Question 197426 on Teachers: Qualifications, what steps he is taking to ensure that more teachers of religious education have a relevant post A-level qualification in that subject.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	205237
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting schools in recruiting well qualified teachers in religious education (RE), although the responsibility for making recruitment decisions rightly rests with schools, including what specialist qualifications and experience individual teachers are expected to hold.</p><p><br> To support recruitment efforts for postgraduate initial teacher training (ITT) courses the Department is offering a £9,000 bursary for all RE trainees with at least a 2:2 degree classification, starting in 2019/20.</p><p><br> RE ITT applicants are also now eligible for one to one support from our expert Teacher Training Advisers, to guide them through their journey into teaching. They can access this support by registering with Get into Teaching.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 11/01/2019 16:41:46 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

732613

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to page 125 of the report, UK Poverty: Causes and Solutions, published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on 6 September 2016; if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of the recommendation to pilot a teacher pay premium to incentivise high-performing teachers to move to challenging schools.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	1078
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>Teachers’ pay and conditions in local authority maintained schools are determined on the basis of recommendations made by the independent body, the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB), who consider a wide range of factors. In academies, we know that the majority also choose to mirror these national arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>The reforms to teachers’ pay introduced in September 2013 give schools the flexibility to exercise their judgement as to how they reward their staff and to more closely align pay and performance. Pay flexibilities, including the use of recruitment and retention allowances, have given schools greater freedom to develop local offers which enable them to attract and retain the good teachers they need, and reflect local circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>We know that while we are recruiting the teachers we need at the national level, despite the challenges caused by an improving economy and rising pupil numbers, some schools are facing significant challenges. We are working with key stakeholders to ensure greater support for pupils in deprived areas, which will include supporting schools to ensure teacher recruitment and retention challenges are addressed.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are continuing to allocate additional funding to schools through the pupil premium to help them improve the progress and attainment of their disadvantaged pupils. Schools have flexibility over how they use the funding to benefit those pupils for whom it is intended – and this can include putting financial incentives in place to attract and retain high-performing teachers.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 03/07/2017 15:37:32 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

755745

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Social Mobility Commission Report, Time for Change: an assessment of government policies on social mobility 1997-2017, what steps she is taking to improve teacher retention and continuing professional development.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	7212
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>The 2016 School Workforce Census shows teacher retention rates have remained stable for teachers over the first five years of their careers. The vast majority of teachers are not considering leaving teaching (NFER Engaging Teachers 2016). We recognise that workload remains a concern for schools and teachers.</p><p>Removing unnecessary workload for teachers is a priority for the Government, to support the retention of high-quality teachers and free up teachers to do what they do best, which is to teach.</p><p>We recognised the problem of unnecessary workload when we launched the Workload Challenge in 2014. On 24 February 2017 we published the results of our workload survey and a clear action plan setting out the steps we will take to help tackle this issue, including targeted support for schools.</p><p>We believe that high quality professional development for teachers and leaders is crucial so that they can continue to improve their practice throughout their careers. As part of our commitment to create a strong culture of professional development, we introduced a new Standard for Teachers’ Professional Development in July 2016. This helps teachers and leaders identify and participate in the most effective development activities. It also encourages providers of professional development to ensure that they offer truly meet the needs of schools.</p><p> </p><p>We are supporting the development of the new Chartered College of Teaching, a new professional body that will focus on helping teachers to access high quality professional development.</p><p> </p><p>We have also announced a £75 million Teaching and Leadership Innovation fund, which will enable schools and providers in the most challenging areas to bid for funding for bespoke professional development opportunities. The fund will enable us to build and share our knowledge of what works.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 13/09/2017 16:45:11 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

852664

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2018
	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 progress has been made on providing a sharia-compliant alternative student finance system.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	130660
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text <p>We understand the concern that some prospective students may be deterred from pursuing higher education because they are unable to use loans that bear interest.</p><p> </p><p>We are therefore continuing to work on an alternative student finance product that would avoid using interest. We have appointed specialist advisors from the Islamic Finance Council to help design a new system that can make maintenance and tuition fee payments and collect repayment contributions in a way that is both equivalent to the current system and compliant with the requirements of Islamic finance.</p><p> </p><p>This a complex area requiring careful consideration of a range of technical issues, including the nature of the accounting for the new arrangements, the degree of legal separation required for any fund, the treatment of cashflows, the nature of the commitments that a student will make under the new system, and the method for establishing equivalence of outcome, amongst others.</p><p>This work is being undertaken at pace and we will be in a good place to provide an update in the summer. I will set out our planned timetable at that time. I note that it typically takes two years to introduce a new student finance product, which would rule out launching for academic year 2018/19.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 130663 question first answered 06/03/2018 15:53:11 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

852667

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2018
	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, whether a sharia-compliant alternative student finance system will be available for people beginning university courses in September 2018.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	130663
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text <p>We understand the concern that some prospective students may be deterred from pursuing higher education because they are unable to use loans that bear interest.</p><p> </p><p>We are therefore continuing to work on an alternative student finance product that would avoid using interest. We have appointed specialist advisors from the Islamic Finance Council to help design a new system that can make maintenance and tuition fee payments and collect repayment contributions in a way that is both equivalent to the current system and compliant with the requirements of Islamic finance.</p><p> </p><p>This a complex area requiring careful consideration of a range of technical issues, including the nature of the accounting for the new arrangements, the degree of legal separation required for any fund, the treatment of cashflows, the nature of the commitments that a student will make under the new system, and the method for establishing equivalence of outcome, amongst others.</p><p>This work is being undertaken at pace and we will be in a good place to provide an update in the summer. I will set out our planned timetable at that time. I note that it typically takes two years to introduce a new student finance product, which would rule out launching for academic year 2018/19.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 130660 question first answered 06/03/2018 15:53:11 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

982695

	registered interest
	date	08/10/2018
	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, what progress the Government has made on providing a sharia-compliant alternative student finance system.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	176149
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. member for West Ham, to the letter I sent to Lord Sharkey on 24 July 2018, updating him on the progress we have made and the current position on Alternative Student Finance (ASF), a copy of which in available in the Libraries of both Houses.</p><p> </p><p>As set out in that letter, the government intends to provide further details on the implementation of ASF following the publication of the final report of the Review of Post-18 Education and Funding in early 2019.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 176150 question first answered 16/10/2018 10:50:54 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown