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1243937

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Integrated Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy Review
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	104165
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2020 answer text <p>I have been working very closely across Government on my Department's contribution to the Integrated Review, including with the Prime Minister and my colleagues in the National Security Council.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 23/10/2020 12:55:39 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1387896

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Design and Technology: Teachers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the potential effect of the shortage of teachers in Design and Technology on the availability of that subject in all schools and at all ages.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	93027
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2021 answer text <p>The 2020/21 academic year saw an increase of more than 5,000 in the full time equivalent of teachers in state-funded secondary schools in England. This equates to a 2.5% growth on the year before, the largest observed in the last 10 years, and has resulted in the largest qualified teacher workforce since 2015/16.</p><p>Added to this, one of the department’s top priorities is to ensure that we continue to attract and retain high-quality teachers across all subjects. In October this year our new digital service, Apply for Teacher Training, was also rolled out. This is a key milestone in the delivery of a more streamlined, user-friendly application route for candidates across the country and the world.</p><p>To combat shortages of design and technology teachers, the department is offering a £15,000 tax-free bursary for design &amp; technology trainee teachers in 2022/23 academic year. All design and technology trainees on tuition fee-funded initial teacher training routes are also able to apply for a tuition fee loan and maintenance loan to support their living costs. Additional student finance is also available depending on individual circumstances, such as the Childcare Grant.</p><p>The department has also now launched our early career framework (ECF) reforms, as part of the department’s teacher recruitment and retention strategy. These reforms provide a funded entitlement for all early career teachers in England to access high quality professional development at the start of their career.</p><p>To support international recruitment across all subjects including design and technology, the department are also piloting a new Support Overseas Teachers acclimatisation service in 2022. This is designed to provide newly recruited overseas trained teachers moving to England with pre-arrival training and support during the first term, to ensure they make a successful transition to teaching in England, with the intention of improving retention.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 93028 question first answered 17/12/2021 17:15:23 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1387897

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Design and Technology: Teachers
	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 encourage the recruitment of more teachers in Design and Technology.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	93028
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2021 answer text <p>The 2020/21 academic year saw an increase of more than 5,000 in the full time equivalent of teachers in state-funded secondary schools in England. This equates to a 2.5% growth on the year before, the largest observed in the last 10 years, and has resulted in the largest qualified teacher workforce since 2015/16.</p><p>Added to this, one of the department’s top priorities is to ensure that we continue to attract and retain high-quality teachers across all subjects. In October this year our new digital service, Apply for Teacher Training, was also rolled out. This is a key milestone in the delivery of a more streamlined, user-friendly application route for candidates across the country and the world.</p><p>To combat shortages of design and technology teachers, the department is offering a £15,000 tax-free bursary for design &amp; technology trainee teachers in 2022/23 academic year. All design and technology trainees on tuition fee-funded initial teacher training routes are also able to apply for a tuition fee loan and maintenance loan to support their living costs. Additional student finance is also available depending on individual circumstances, such as the Childcare Grant.</p><p>The department has also now launched our early career framework (ECF) reforms, as part of the department’s teacher recruitment and retention strategy. These reforms provide a funded entitlement for all early career teachers in England to access high quality professional development at the start of their career.</p><p>To support international recruitment across all subjects including design and technology, the department are also piloting a new Support Overseas Teachers acclimatisation service in 2022. This is designed to provide newly recruited overseas trained teachers moving to England with pre-arrival training and support during the first term, to ensure they make a successful transition to teaching in England, with the intention of improving retention.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 93027 question first answered 17/12/2021 17:15:23 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1403067

	registered interest
	date	14/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Education: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the validity of the scientific guidance on the risks of transmission of covid-19 during face-to-face teaching.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	104390
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2022 answer text <p>The department regularly considers advice from a number of different sources, including the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), to ensure our policies are guided by the most up to date scientific evidence. The current COVID-19 operational guidance for schools balances the government’s priority to deliver high quality face-to-face education to all pupils with the need to retain measures to reduce the risk of transmission of COVID-19. The evidence is clear that being out of education causes significant harm to educational attainment, life chances, mental and physical health.</p><p>The department has published its own evidence summaries at three points during the COVID-19 outbreak, bringing together high quality evidence from government commissioned research as well as research published in academic journals. The evidence summary can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/evidence-summary-covid-19-children-young-people-and-education-settings" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/evidence-summary-covid-19-children-young-people-and-education-settings</a>.</p><p>Public Health England (now the UKHSA) previously published a rapid review of available evidence relevant to interventions to reduce transmission in schools, which remains relevant, although precedes the full rollout of vaccinations since April 2021 until now: <a href="https://ukhsa.koha-ptfs.co.uk/cgi-bin/koha/opac-retrieve-file.pl?id=9adedb17d5622f9cd7e42febcadb19ad" target="_blank">https://ukhsa.koha-ptfs.co.uk/cgi-bin/koha/opac-retrieve-file.pl?id=9adedb17d5622f9cd7e42febcadb19ad</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 24/01/2022 12:12:47 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1387890

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Initial Teacher Training Market Review
	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 Initial teacher training (ITT) market review, published on 5 July 2021, how many providers responding to that consultation did not support the proposed reforms.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	93021
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2021 answer text <p>The majority of the 823 respondents did not express universal opposition to, or universal support for the proposals, but indicated positive views towards some of the recommendations, while raising points about the potential impact of others.</p><p>The government response to the consultation is published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/initial-teacher-training-itt-market-review" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/initial-teacher-training-itt-market-review</a>. The response includes detailed analysis of the consultation responses. This analysis describes the main themes found across the responses to each question of the consultation and sets out how the feedback informed the government’s response to the recommendations from the Initial Teacher Training (ITT) market review.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 17/12/2021 17:21:42 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1387894

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Languages: Teachers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the potential effect of the shortage of teachers in modern foreign languages on the availability of modern foreign languages at schools.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	93025
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2021 answer text <p>The 2020/21 academic year saw an increase of more than 5,000 in the full-time equivalent of teachers in state-funded secondary schools in England. This equates to a 2.5% growth on the year before, the largest observed in the last 10 years, and has resulted in the largest qualified teacher workforce since the 2015/16 academic year.</p><p>Added to this, one of the department’s top priorities is to ensure that we continue to attract and retain high-quality teachers across all subjects. In October this year, our new digital service, Apply for teacher training, was rolled out. This is a key milestone in the delivery of a more streamlined, user-friendly application route for candidates across the country and the world.</p><p>In order to combat shortages in modern foreign languages teachers, the department has increased the languages bursary to £15,000 for the 2022/23 academic year to incentivise candidates to train in modern foreign languages. All modern foreign language trainee teachers on tuition fee-funded Initial Teacher Training routes are also able to apply for a tuition fee loan and maintenance loan to support their living costs. Additional student finance is also available depending on individual circumstances, such as the Childcare Grant.</p><p>The department has also now launched its early career framework reforms, as part of the Teacher Recruitment and Retention Strategy. These reforms provide a funded entitlement for all early career teachers in England to access high quality professional development at the start of their career.</p><p>To support international recruitment across all subjects including modern foreign languages, the department is also piloting a new Support Overseas Teachers acclimatisation service in 2022. It is designed to provide newly recruited overseas trained teachers moving to England with pre-arrival training and support during the first term, to ensure they make a successful transition to teaching in England, with the intention of improving retention.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 93026 question first answered 17/12/2021 17:08:34 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1387895

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Languages: Teachers
	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 encourage the recruitment of more teachers in modern foreign language subjects.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	93026
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2021 answer text <p>The 2020/21 academic year saw an increase of more than 5,000 in the full-time equivalent of teachers in state-funded secondary schools in England. This equates to a 2.5% growth on the year before, the largest observed in the last 10 years, and has resulted in the largest qualified teacher workforce since the 2015/16 academic year.</p><p>Added to this, one of the department’s top priorities is to ensure that we continue to attract and retain high-quality teachers across all subjects. In October this year, our new digital service, Apply for teacher training, was rolled out. This is a key milestone in the delivery of a more streamlined, user-friendly application route for candidates across the country and the world.</p><p>In order to combat shortages in modern foreign languages teachers, the department has increased the languages bursary to £15,000 for the 2022/23 academic year to incentivise candidates to train in modern foreign languages. All modern foreign language trainee teachers on tuition fee-funded Initial Teacher Training routes are also able to apply for a tuition fee loan and maintenance loan to support their living costs. Additional student finance is also available depending on individual circumstances, such as the Childcare Grant.</p><p>The department has also now launched its early career framework reforms, as part of the Teacher Recruitment and Retention Strategy. These reforms provide a funded entitlement for all early career teachers in England to access high quality professional development at the start of their career.</p><p>To support international recruitment across all subjects including modern foreign languages, the department is also piloting a new Support Overseas Teachers acclimatisation service in 2022. It is designed to provide newly recruited overseas trained teachers moving to England with pre-arrival training and support during the first term, to ensure they make a successful transition to teaching in England, with the intention of improving retention.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 93025 question first answered 17/12/2021 17:08:34 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1418211

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Absenteeism
	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 absences of (a) staff and (b) pupils in English schools in (i) October 2021, (ii) November 2021, (iii) December 2021 and (iv) January 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	114881
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2022 answer text <p>The daily Education Setting survey asks schools and colleges to report data such as on-site attendance and COVID-19 absence.</p><p>The most recent published data for staff and pupil absences at national level is 20 January 2022 and can be found here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/attendance-in-education-and-early-years-settings-during-the-coronavirus-covid-19-outbreak" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/attendance-in-education-and-early-years-settings-during-the-coronavirus-covid-19-outbreak</a>.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 07/02/2022 15:51:57 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1418212

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Absenteeism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions officials in his Department have had with representatives of Ofsted on the viability of inspections during a period of acute staff and pupil absence.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	114882
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2022 answer text <p>The department engages regularly with Ofsted on a range of matters, including inspection arrangements in the changing context of the COVID-19 outbreak.</p><p>Ofsted inspection continues to play an important role in providing independent assurance as providers respond to the COVID-19 outbreak. It is right though that these arrangements are kept under review, and adjustments made where appropriate.</p><p>At the start of this term Ofsted temporarily halted use of part time inspectors who are also front-line leaders. Since 31 January Ofsted has been inviting those who are able to inspect again to do so. Ofsted’s deferral policy has provided reassurance to schools, colleges and early years providers that have been significantly impacted by staff absence in recent weeks. That policy remains in place and Ofsted will continue to remind providers about it for the remainder of this half term.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 07/02/2022 16:21:34 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1403060

	registered interest
	date	14/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Languages
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the potential effect of the £15,000 tax-free bursary on the number of new modern foreign language teachers.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	104383
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2022 answer text <p>The bursaries the department offers for initial teacher training (ITT) are intended to incentivise applications to ITT courses. The department reviews the bursaries on offer each year to take account of several factors, including historic recruitment, forecast economic conditions and teacher supply need in each subject. This provides flexibility to respond to the need to attract new teachers, and means the department is spending money where it is needed most.</p><p>To support the recruitment of modern-foreign language (MFL) teachers, the department has increased the languages bursary to £15,000 for the 2022/23 academic year. This is to incentivise candidates to train to teach MFL as the department recognises that recruiting languages trainees will remain challenging. The department will review the need for financial incentives across all subjects before announcing the bursaries for the 2023/24 academic year.</p><p>All MFL trainee teachers on tuition fee-funded ITT routes are also able to apply for a tuition fee loan and maintenance loan to support their living costs. Additional student finance is also available depending on individual circumstances, such as the Childcare Grant.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 24/01/2022 15:51:25 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western