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1551754

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to (a) tackle staff shortages in primary schools and (b) improve recruitment in all areas of schooling after the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
	tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
	uin	110651
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2022 answer text <p>The number of teachers remains high, with over 465,500 full time equivalent (FTE) working in state funded schools across the country. This is over 24,000 more than in 2010.</p><p>2021 saw an increase of more than 4,400 in FTE teachers in state funded schools in England. This has resulted in the largest qualified number of teachers since the school workforce census began in the 2010/11 academic year.</p><p>One of the Department’s priorities is to ensure that it continues to attract, retain and develop highly skilled teachers. The Department launched its new digital service, ‘Apply for teacher training’ last year, enabling a more streamlined, user-friendly application route, to make it easier for people to become teachers. The Department remains committed to delivering £30,000 starting salaries to attract and retain the best teachers.</p><p>The Department is also taking action to enable teachers to succeed through transforming its training and support. The Department will deliver 500,000 teacher training and development opportunities by the end of 2024, giving all teachers and head teachers access to evidence based training and professional development at every stage of their career.</p><p>The Department’s reforms are aimed not only at increasing teacher recruitment across all areas, but also at ensuring teachers stay and succeed in the profession. The Department has published a range of resources to help address teacher workload and wellbeing, and support all schools to introduce flexible working practices. These resources include the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter, which the Department is encouraging schools to sign up to as a shared commitment to promote staff wellbeing, and the school workload reduction toolkit, developed alongside head teachers. The Charter is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/education-staff-wellbeing-charter" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/education-staff-wellbeing-charter</a>, and the toolkit is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/school-workload-reduction-toolkit" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/school-workload-reduction-toolkit</a>.</p><p>This year, the number of new postgraduate entrants to primary teaching was below target by 7%. Despite this, the Department has seen strong recruitment in primary in recent years, achieving 131% of the postgraduate teacher training target in the 2021/22 academic year, and 125% in the 2020/21 academic year.</p><p>The Department recognises there is further to go in key secondary subjects. For those starting initial teacher training in the 2023/24 academic year, the Department is offering bursaries worth up to £27,000 and scholarships worth up to £29,000 to encourage talented trainees to apply to train in key secondary subjects. The Department has increased bursaries and scholarships for trainees in key subjects and has expanded the offer to international trainees in languages and physics.</p><p>The Department also offers a Levelling Up Premium worth up to £3,000 annually for mathematics, physics, chemistry and computing teachers in the first five years of their careers who choose to work in disadvantaged schools.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 21/12/2022 16:18:53 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

1348416

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	National Tutoring Programme: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his Department's policy to continue to fund the core salary of academic mentors beyond 31 July 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
	tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
	uin	35587
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2021 answer text <p>The National Tutoring Programme (NTP) was developed at speed to respond to a very immediate need to support pupils to catch up on education lost because of restrictions to schools and colleges. The programme has deployed academic mentors to provide tailored support to schools, including subject specific work, revision lessons, and additional support available outside of schools. Since October 2020, academic mentors have provided significant support to young people to catch up on lost education. The programme has reached over 60,000 pupils in the most disadvantaged schools through placement of academic mentors.</p><p>In year one of the programme, schools received funding to cover the core salary of academic mentors between October 2020 and 31 July 2021. Where mentors had made agreements with schools to continue delivery over the summer holidays, arrangements were made for them also to receive a payment to cover August 2021.</p><p>Next academic year, mentor contracts will run until the end of August as standard to bring consistency between mentors and others in the school community.</p><p>Applications are now open for individuals interested in becoming an academic mentor in the academic year 2021/22. Further information is available here: <a href="https://nationaltutoring.org.uk/ntp-academic-mentors/application-process" target="_blank">https://nationaltutoring.org.uk/ntp-academic-mentors/application-process</a> and here <a href="https://tuitionhub.nationaltutoring.org.uk/NTP/s/ntp-academic-mentor-registration" target="_blank">https://tuitionhub.nationaltutoring.org.uk/NTP/s/ntp-academic-mentor-registration</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 27/07/2021 14:37:04 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

1330631

	registered interest
	date	08/06/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: Shropshire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the level of funding was per pupil in Shropshire in (a) 2018, (b) 2019 and (c) 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
	tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
	uin	12090
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2021 answer text <p>The Department is increasing core schools funding nationally by £2.6 billion this year, £4.8 billion and £7.1 billion by the 2021-22 and 2022-23 financial years respectively, compared to 2019-20.</p><p>The national funding formula continues to distribute funding fairly to schools, based on the needs of the schools and their pupil cohorts, levelling up school funding and delivering resources where they are needed most. This year, every primary school will receive at least £4,000 per pupil, and every secondary school at least £5,150 per pupil, delivering on the Government’s pledge to level up the lowest funded schools. On top of that, all schools will receive additional funds to cover additional teachers’ pay and pension costs. This adds a further £180 and £265 respectively to the minimum per pupil amounts.</p><p> </p><p>The table below sets out the per pupil levels of funding for 5-16 schools in Shropshire local authority over the past four financial years.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Per pupil funding</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021-22</p></td><td><p>£5,036</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>£4,652</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>£4,467</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>£4,454*</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>*This includes funding for growth (ie, to support schools facing significant growth in their number of pupils), which is not included in figures from 2019-20 because from that point, growth funding was allocated separately.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 16/06/2021 13:52:41 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

1287954

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Travel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what specific support is available for the school travel sector during the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
	tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
	uin	156310
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2021 answer text <p>Since September 2020, the Department has allocated more than £98 million to local transport authorities (LTA) to procure additional dedicated home to school and college transport, enabling children and young people to use alternatives to public transport while social distancing remains in place. LTAs have flexibility in how they use this funding to meet the needs of local families, including hiring extra coaches. The Department is reviewing funding arrangements for the summer term.</p><p>The main central government contribution to the costs of providing school transport (special educational needs and mainstream) is currently met from the Local Government Finance Settlement, administered by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 02/03/2021 17:18:04 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

1284728

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Educational Visits: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to lift the ban on residential trips so that the (a) School Travel Sector Stakeholder Group and (b) other organisations can plan for reopening.
	tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
	tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
	uin	150731
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/02/2021 answer text <p>Schools are advised against all educational visits at this time. This advice will be reviewed in February 2021. Due to the uncertainty of when and how COVID-19 national restrictions will be lifted, at this time providing a specific date for the resumption of educational visits would be inappropriate. Further guidance for schools can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/actions-for-schools-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/actions-for-schools-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak</a>.</p><p>Officials will continue to work across Government, with industry bodies and sector representatives to address the issues arising from the COVID-19 outbreak and will help them plan for the safe reintroduction of educational visits, including residential educational visits, when it is safe to do so.</p><p>There are no plans for underwriting of school deposits for residential trips.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 150732 question first answered 16/02/2021 11:53:59 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

1284729

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Educational Visits: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of underwriting school deposits for residential trips to provide that sector with a cashflow and help ensure it is ready to reopen as soon as conditions allow.
	tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
	tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
	uin	150732
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/02/2021 answer text <p>Schools are advised against all educational visits at this time. This advice will be reviewed in February 2021. Due to the uncertainty of when and how COVID-19 national restrictions will be lifted, at this time providing a specific date for the resumption of educational visits would be inappropriate. Further guidance for schools can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/actions-for-schools-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/actions-for-schools-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak</a>.</p><p>Officials will continue to work across Government, with industry bodies and sector representatives to address the issues arising from the COVID-19 outbreak and will help them plan for the safe reintroduction of educational visits, including residential educational visits, when it is safe to do so.</p><p>There are no plans for underwriting of school deposits for residential trips.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 150731 question first answered 16/02/2021 11:53:59 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

1276755

	registered interest
	date	14/01/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Home Education: Assessments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans are being put in place for pupils who are home schooled and do not have access to a teacher-assessed exam grade.
	tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
	tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
	uin	137896
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2021 answer text <p>In light of the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, the Department has decided that exams cannot be held in a way which is fair. We have therefore announced that GCSE, AS and A level exams will not go ahead this summer as planned.</p><p>My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, has asked the interim Chief Regulator of Ofqual, Simon Lebus, to find a clear and accessible route for private candidates, and those not in school this year, to be assessed and receive a grade. The Department and Ofqual have launched a two-week consultation on how to fairly award all pupils a grade that supports them to progress to the next stage of their lives, including consulting specifically on four different approaches for private candidates to receive a grade.</p><p>The consultation can be accessed from the Ofqual website and will be open until 29 January 2021. The Department and Ofqual strongly encourage all our stakeholders, including private candidates and their parents, to respond. We will continue to engage with a range of relevant stakeholders when developing plans for our policy on GCSE, AS and A level assessments in 2021, as will the exams regulator Ofqual.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 22/01/2021 12:51:01 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

1276418

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: Per Capita Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of per pupil funding in primary schools.
	tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
	tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
	uin	137168
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2021 answer text <p>The Department is increasing core schools funding by £2.6 billion this year, and £4.8 billion and £7.1 billion by 2021-22 and 2022-23 respectively, compared to 2019-20. This investment has enabled us to increase funding for primary schools by 3.2% more per pupil through the schools national funding formula (NFF) next year, 2021-22, compared to this year.</p><p>Every primary school will receive at least £4,000 per pupil next year, up from at least £3,750 per pupil this year. On top of that, all schools, will receive additional funds to cover additional teachers’ pay and pension costs, adding a further £180 to the minimum per pupil amount.</p><p>We are also increasing the extra support the NFF provides to small, rural primary schools by increasing the maximum amount they can attract through the sparsity factor to £45,000, a significant increase from £26,000 this year. This has contributed to small and remote primary schools attracting 5.1% more per pupil through the NFF next year compared to this. This is the first step towards further expanding the support the NFF offers small and remote schools from 2022-23.</p><p>We keep school funding under review on an ongoing basis and the NFF is designed to respond to changes in need, in order for us to target funding where evidence indicates it is most needed.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 22/01/2021 14:18:07 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

1230263

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Department for Education: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure that all civil servants are back at work at his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
	tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
	uin	83714
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2020 answer text <p>Staff in the Department have been working remotely since the middle of March and have been focused on dealing with the challenges posed by COVID-19.</p><p>In recent months, the Department has been working to ensure all our buildings are COVID-secure and putting in place plans to welcome staff safely back to the office.</p><p>Phase 1 saw a small number of volunteer staff return to the larger offices in August. Phase 2 started on 1 September, opening up to 20% capacity across our seven largest offices. Phase 3 is being planned and will enable 30-40% of capacity to be opened up, including at the Department’s smaller sites.</p><p>For the week commencing 14 September, approximately 13.5% of staff attended one of our offices. Since the Prime Minister announced a new series of measurements on Tuesday 22 September, the Department has advised staff to work from home where they can. Offices will remain open to support those colleagues without easy access to high quality home working facilities such as those in shared accommodation, and for new starters and colleagues earlier in their careers in need of more support. This is alongside a number of our colleagues who have continued to operate in their usual workplace throughout the COVID-19 outbreak, delivering vital public services.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 83715 question first answered 30/09/2020 08:43:03 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

1230264

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Department for Education: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of his civil service staff are back at work at his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
	tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
	uin	83715
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2020 answer text <p>Staff in the Department have been working remotely since the middle of March and have been focused on dealing with the challenges posed by COVID-19.</p><p>In recent months, the Department has been working to ensure all our buildings are COVID-secure and putting in place plans to welcome staff safely back to the office.</p><p>Phase 1 saw a small number of volunteer staff return to the larger offices in August. Phase 2 started on 1 September, opening up to 20% capacity across our seven largest offices. Phase 3 is being planned and will enable 30-40% of capacity to be opened up, including at the Department’s smaller sites.</p><p>For the week commencing 14 September, approximately 13.5% of staff attended one of our offices. Since the Prime Minister announced a new series of measurements on Tuesday 22 September, the Department has advised staff to work from home where they can. Offices will remain open to support those colleagues without easy access to high quality home working facilities such as those in shared accommodation, and for new starters and colleagues earlier in their careers in need of more support. This is alongside a number of our colleagues who have continued to operate in their usual workplace throughout the COVID-19 outbreak, delivering vital public services.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 83714 question first answered 30/09/2020 08:43:03 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski